Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Biographical Note
- Scope and Content Note
- Subject Headings
- Administrative Information
- Access and Use
- Encoding Information
- Series List
- Container List
Collection Summary
Repository: | Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries |
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Creator: | Bergeret, Ida Treat, 1889?-1978 |
Title: | Ida Treat Bergeret Papers, |
Dates: | 1889-1978 |
Quantity: | 4.3 cubic feet (7 boxes) |
Abstract: | Papers reflect her personal and professional life and include travel diaries and notes, manuscripts and published versions of her articles and stories on China, Russia, Tahiti, Abyssinia, Djibouti, and the Red Sea slave trade, 1928-1967; correspondence with her two of her three husbands, Paul Vaillant-Couturier and Andre Bergeret; letters from Wolfgang Wolff written from Tahiti, 1934-1939; correspondence with her literary agent Marie Rodell, 1965-1967, and with the New Yorker and other publishers and editors; 86 letters from her friend Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1926-1952, and correspondence, contracts, and royalty statements, 1968, pertaining to Chardin's book Letters to Two Friends, 1926-1952; notes, clippings, and scrapbooks concerning her experiences in London during World War II, 1943-1945; manuscripts and publications by other authors; letters and articles of Simone and Max Begonen; and family and personal photographs. |
Biographical Note
Ida Treat was born in Joliet, Illinois, in 1899 and attended Western Reserve University. After earning a doctorate in letters at the University of Paris she returned in 1913 to Western Reserve, where she taught romance languages for the next seven years. In the 1920s she went back to France, where she lived as a writer and journalist for more than twenty years. While working as a correspondent for Paris Vu in the 1930s, she traveled throughout Europe, China, and the South Pacific. Her articles and stories appeared in United States periodicals such as The Nation, The New Yorker, Harpers, and The Saturday Evening Post. She was married She was married three times, to Raymond O'Neil, Paul Vaillant-Couturier and André Bergeret. In her writing she used the name Ida Treat.
In 1948 Ida Treat Bergeret came to Vassar as Professor of English. She retired in 1954 after more than five years of teaching writing courses. When she died in 1978, her colleague and friend, Barbara Swain said that "she had freedom and adventure in a way that might make her a choice for a feminist model today. But she wouldn’t like that very much. She was always too independent for playing roles."
TopScope and Content Note
Papers reflect her personal and professional life and include travel diaries and notes, manuscripts and published versions of her articles and stories on China, Russia, Tahiti, Abyssinia, Djibouti, and the Red Sea slave trade, 1928-1967; correspondence with her two of her three husbands, Paul Vaillant-Couturier and Andre Bergeret; letters from Wolfgang Wolff written from Tahiti, 1934-1939; correspondence with her literary agent Marie Rodell, 1965-1967, and with the New Yorker and other publishers and editors; 86 letters from her friend Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1926-1952, and correspondence, contracts, and royalty statements, 1968, pertaining to Chardin's book Letters to Two Friends, 1926-1952; notes, clippings, and scrapbooks concerning her experiences in London during World War II, 1943-1945; manuscripts and publications by other authors; letters and articles of Simone and Max Begonen; and family and personal photographs.
TopAccess and Use
Access
This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.
Restrictions on Use
Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.
Subject Headings
Names:
- Begonen, Max
- Begonen, Simone
- Bergeret family
- Bergeret, Andre
- Rodell, Marie
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
- Vaillant-Couturier, Paul, 1892-1937
- Wolff, Wolfgang
Organizations:
- New Yorker
- Vassar College--Faculty
Subjects:
- Publishers and publishing
- Slavery--Middle East
- Women authors
- Women college teachers
- Women travelers
- Women--Diaries
- World War, 1939-1945--England--London
Places:
- Abyssinia--Description and travel
- China--Description and travel
- Djibouti--Description and travel
- Ethiopia--Description and travel
- London (England)--Description and travel
- Middle East--Description and travel
- Soviet Union--Description and travel
- Tahiti--Description and travel
Document Types:
- Diaries
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks
VCL Categories:
- Literature and Writing
- Slavery and Antislavery
- Travel
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Ida Treat Bergeret Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.
Processing Information
Originial processing date unknown. Last updated February 2013.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Ida Treat Bergeret.
Anchored Heart manuscript in Box 7 was a gift of the Hot Springs County Library, 2013.
Series List
Series I. Correspondence to Bergeret from de Chardin |
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Series II. Correspondence to Bergeret from Paul Vaillant-Couturier |
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Series III. Correspondence to Bergeret from Various Individuals |
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Series IV. Correspondence to Bergeret from Others |
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Series V. Fan Mail |
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Series VI. General Correspondence to Bergeret |
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Series VII. Correspondence from Bergeret to Various Individuals |
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Series VIII. Unpublished Manuscripts by Bergeret |
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Series IX. Other Manuscripts by Bergeret |
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Series X. Published Manuscripts by Bergeret |
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Series XI. Published Articles by Bergeret |
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Series XII. Translations and Reviews by Bergeret |
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Series XIII. Manuscripts by Others |
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Series XIV. Articles by Others |
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Series XV. Poetry by Others |
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Series XVI. Articles By and About Teilhard de Chardin |
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Series XVII. Clippings |
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Series XVIII. Financial Papers |
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Series IXX. World War II |
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Series XX. Printed Material |
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Series XXI. Diaries |
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Series XXII. Biographical: Ida Treat Bergeret |
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Series XXIII. Drawings |
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Series XXIV. Photographs and Scrapbooks |
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Container List
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Details
Papers reflect her personal and
professional life and include travel diaries and notes, manuscripts and published
versions of her articles and stories on China, Russia, Tahiti, Abyssinia, Djibouti,
and the Red Sea slave trade, 1928-1967; correspondence with her two of her three
husbands, Paul Vaillant-Couturier and Andre Bergeret; letters from Wolfgang Wolff
written from Tahiti, 1934-1939; correspondence with her literary agent Marie Rodell,
1965-1967, and with the and other publishers
and editors; 86 letters from her friend Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1926-1952, and
correspondence, contracts