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MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/VMF
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Kay Boyle Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf241
Scope and Contents

Includes 6-page transcript from Kay Boyle's Senate loyalty hearings during the McCarthy era; manuscript draft of a letter from Boyle to Samuel Beckett (2 sheets); two letters from Kenneth Burke to Boyle (including one with photocopied letter from Mona Van Duyn to Burke on verso); one letter from Evan Connell to Boyle; and one letter from Alexandra Pringle at Virago Press in London to Boyle (with Boyle's manuscript annotations).

William S. Burroughs Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf234
Scope and Contents A pair of Burroughs’ “automatic drawings” from the cycle of Surrealistic experiments he created in Paris while his 1959 novel Naked Lunch was being prepared for publication. Inspired to try his hand at visual pieces by the artist Brion Gysin—who was assisting Burroughs in the organization of the book, and would later become a long-time collaborator—the drawings arrange loose circular spirals and diagonal scrawls, respectively, in rows and columns over the...

Miriam Fuchs Collection of William Gaddis Photographs

 Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 11
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf244
Scope and Contents

The Miriam Fuchs Collection of William Gaddis Photographs consists of a series of photographs featuring William Gaddis with Miriam Fuchs, Elaine Safer, and Steven Moore taken during Gaddis's visit to the University of Delaware on May 1, 1985. During the visit, Gaddis presented the Caesura Prize and delivered the lecture "Why I Write." The collection includes 8 color photographs (some in multiple copies), a contact sheet, and a photo CD.

Laura Riding Jackson Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 28
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf220
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Jackson to Marie Syrkin and poem drafts by Jackson

Lawrence Levy Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 12
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf245
Scope and Contents The Lawrence Levy Collection of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass consists of photocopies of correspondence between William H. Gass, Lawrence Levy, and Charles Newman related to the publication of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife as well as10 photocopied drafts and newspaper clippings. Also included are photocopied letters and memos from Levy related to the sale of an archive of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife materials and resulting dispute over ownership with Northwestern...

Noel Lawson Lewis Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 7
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf098
Scope and Contents

1935 August 19. Autograph letter signed from Lewis to an unnamed recipient, discussing the publishing history of Rudyard Kipling's On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art and noting the increase in value of the Rowfant Club edition in the nine years since it had been published. 2 pages

1936 January 23. Clipping from The New York Times describing the funeral services for Rudyard Kipling in Westminster Abbey

Haniel Long Notebook

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf100
Scope and Contents

Notebook of Long poems. Notebook is a small tan binder, with Long's bookplate and a sticker annotated, "Poems at work on 1942 (copy left with [Heari] Haniel." Contains 11 pages in typescript, corrected; 6 pages in manuscript (3 are fragments pasted in); 20 pages uncorrected carbon typescript, 37 pages. Laid in are 1 page typescript and 1 page typescript carbon. Enclosed is a 5x7" black and white photograph of Long, circa age 70

Paul C. Metcalf Galley Proof

 Collection — Box VMF Metcalf
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf246
Scope and Contents

Uncorrected galley proofs of Patagoni. Penland, North Carolina: Jargon Society, circa 1971. 43 leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-43)

Jay Wright Manuscript

 Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 10
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf243
Scope and Contents

Consists of the original manuscript of The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright. Published on July 29, 2019, The Prime Anniversary is comprised of a sequence of poems and a one-act play.

Donated to Washington University in St. Louis Department of Special Collections by Jay and Lois Wright in honor of their friend, Professor Steven Meyer.