Archives

With over 25 years of experience, I work diligently to match sellers with the right acquiring institution. In the most successful transactions the seller feels amply compensated both financially and in peace of mind, and the buyer is excited to get to work processing and sharing their new acquisition.

I have placed prominent literary and cultural archives with private and institutional clients across the United States, working soup-to-nuts from description and valuation to buyer identification, contract negotiation, and placement.

While taking pride in all of my archive placements, I am mindful of the historical gender gap in purchase prices and therefore I am especially proud of the sums I have realized for the archives of women.

In Progress

Bruce McCall

Gorge Saunders

Isabel Allende

The James Joyce Collection of Ronald L. Dzierbicki

Urvashi Vaid

Alison Leslie Gold - Anne Frank and Literary Material

Significant Anne Frank Material

Chris Cerf

Ernest Hemingway to Lillian Ross

Peter Benjaminson’s Motown

Placed by Funke Literary

Cormac McCarthy
(juvenilia, late manuscripts, and correspondence)

Free to Be You and Me

John Steinbeck - John Fearnley

Samuel Beckett - Larry Shainberg Correspondence

Tim O'Brien - Correspondence Archive

Typewriters of Lillian
Ross and William Shawn

WS Merwin - The Conservancy Archive

Selected catalogues

Prior to founding Funke Literary, I spent over a decade crafting the catalogues of dozens of remarkable archives in support of their successful placement. I share a selected few of these below.

Processed for Placement

Stuart Rose Library,
Emory University

Alice Walker

Processed for Placement

UT San Marcos ›

Cormac McCarthy

David Foster Wallace

David Mamet

Don DeLillo

Erica Jong

Processed for Placement

Private

Hunter S. Thompson

James Salter

Processed for Placement

The Harry Ransom Center,
UT Austin

Julia Alvarez

Processed for Placement

Beinecke Library,
Yale University ›

Marilynne Robinson

Stella Adler

Processed for Placement

NYPL

Timothy Leary

Processed for Placement

NYPL ›

Tom Wolfe