Special Collections

UCLA Special Collections Library

Nin (Anais) papers

The papers of Anaïs Nin document the life of the noted diarist and novelist. Nin began her diary at the age of 11 in 1914 when she moved to the United States with her family. The diaries chronicle her interest in psychoanalysis, her literary aspirations and her relationships with various writers and artists, including Otto Rank, Henry Miller and Antonin Artaud. The diaries held by UCLA conclude in 1965. The papers also include manuscripts of some of Nin's short stories and erotica, some correspondence, a number of taped interviews and speeches and appearances by Nin in underground films and a documentary by Robert Snyder.

Northwestern University

Anais Nin Collection

The Anaïs Nin Collection contains manuscripts, proofs and galleys for much of Nin's writing from 1925-1964. Included are early unpublished works, short stories, unfinished novels and plays, and various stages of major works, namely, Under a Glass Bell, House of Incest, Winter of Artifice, Children of the Albatross, Ladders to Fire, Spy in the House of Love, Collages and Seduction of the Minotaur. Her first critical book, D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, is also here. Much of the material has been proof-read by Henry Miller and has his notes. 

The New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts

Anais Nin collection of papers 1932-1975

This is a synthetic collection consisting of a typescript and correspondence. The typescript is by Michael Fraenkel, written for "We Moderns," Gotham Book Mart's catalog, no. 42, published in 1940. The correspondence includes letters from Nin, dating from [1936] to [1975], to Howard Griffin, Henry Miller, Frances Steloff, Aaron Traister, and Ruth Witt-Diamant, as well as a group of letters and postcards from Henry Miller to Frank Dobo relating to Nin, written from [1932] through 1972. 

Gleeson Library, Geschke Center

University of San Francisco
The Anais Nin Collection

The Anais Nin Collection contains correspondence between Anais Nin, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, Rosa Culmell, Hugh Guiler, Lila Rosenblum and others. The major portion of the Anais Nin Collection was given to the Gleeson Library by Nin’s brother, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, beginning in October 1992, and continuing up to 1995. Additions to the Collection came in 1997 from Lila Rosenblum (friend of Anais Nin), David Silverberg (friend of Joaquin Nin-Culmell), and John Ferrone (publisher of Anais Nin). 

St. Thomas More College, Univ. of Saskatchewan

The Nin Literary Collection

The Nin Literary Collection contains books, manuscripts, documents, photographs, taped interviews, records and other memorabilia of Dr. Evelyn Hinz and Dr. John Teunissen. Dr. Hinz was engaged by Nin to be Nin’s official biographer, and thus the collection is very extensive and multi-faceted, and includes books, many inscribed, original documents, taped interviews of the literary and social elite of the day, and photographs.   

UC Riverside Special Collections & University Archives

Joaquin Nin-Culmell and Jose Joaquin Nin y Castellanos family papers

This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, scores, reviews and other material pertaining to Joaquín Nin-Culmell, a twentieth century Cuban-Spanish composer, conductor, pianist, and professor, and his father José Joaquín Nin y Castellanos, a twentieth century Cuban pianist and composer. The included materials document both the professional and personal lives of both men with an emphasis on their musical careers. 

The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library

Dept of Special Collections & University Archives
Anais Nin papers, 1969-1992

Consists of correspondence between Nin and colleagues and between her publisher, Peter Owen and others, particularly her literary agent, Gunther Stuhlmann. Also included is Nin's typescript draft of her essay, "On Writing, Writer and Symbols," a transcription of Nin's introduction to Anna Kavan's Ice, as well as draft introductions to Ladders to fire and Children of the albatross and a preface to Cities of the interior, all written by Gunther Stuhlmann. 

Princeton University Library

The Books and Prints of Anais Nin and her Gemor Press

Recently, the Library acquired most of the rare, letterpress editions printed by Anaïs Nin. Together with Gonzalo More, Nin ran a private printing press in Greenwich Village where she taught herself to set type, stood for hours pumping a treadle press, and distributed her books with the help of Frances Steloff at Gotham Book Mart. Many were illustrated with original etchings by her husband, Hugh Parker Guiler, a banker who used the pseudonym Ian Hugo. They called the imprint Gemor Press after Gonzalo, although it was Anaïs who raised the money and did most of the physical work, located first on MacDougal Street, and later at 17 East 13th Street, where the small building she rented still stands.

Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections

Two Cities correspondence, manuscripts and proofs

Two Cities was a literary magazine published in Paris from 1959 to 1964, printing French and English material of interest to the Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell circles. The magazine was founded by Anaïs Nin and Jean Fanchette, who also served as editor. This collection consists of all its extant archives, including proofs, accepted and rejected manuscripts, correspondence with authors and financial records from 1958-1966. A large subsection is devoted to letters and typescripts by Anaïs Nin.