MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files
Kay Boyle Collection
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).
Laura Riding Jackson Collection
Correspondence from Jackson to Marie Syrkin and poem drafts by Jackson
Lawrence Levy Collection
Noel Lawson Lewis Collection
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
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
Jay Wright Manuscript
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.