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W.H. Auden Collection

Collection — Box VMF 1, Folder: 06

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf006

Scope and Contents

Sapphic ode with scansion in Auden's hand and awards program.

Found in: Manuscripts / W.H. Auden Collection

Samuel Beckett Ephemera

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf014

Scope and Contents

Nine playbills and one poster relating to productions of Samuel Beckett's plays

Found in: Manuscripts / Samuel Beckett Ephemera

Samuel Beckett Posters

Collection — Box VMF General Oversize, Folder: 13

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf233

Scope and Contents

11 posters relating to productions of Samuel Beckett's plays or celebrations.

Found in: Manuscripts / Samuel Beckett Posters

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).

Found in: Manuscripts / Kay Boyle Collection

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...

Found in: Manuscripts / William S. Burroughs Collection

Rick Cluchey Collection of Waiting for Godot Materials

Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 4

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf237

Scope and Contents Consists of three items: Waiting for Godot prompt book used for the landmark 1975 Berlin production at the Schiller-Theater that Beckett himself directed; Waiting for Godot prompt book directly reflecting the significant, Beckett-generated emendations the author made to the 1975 version; and a program for the 1965 production of Waiting for Godot at the...

Found in: Manuscripts / Rick Cluchey Collection of Waiting for Godot Materials

Robert Coover Collection

Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 26

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf218

Scope and Contents

One playbill for "The American Place Theater Presents THE KID by Robert Coover"; One black and white photograph of Coover, circa 1980

Found in: Manuscripts / Robert Coover Collection

Cecil Day Lewis Letters

Collection — Box VMF 4, Folder: 5

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf038

Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Cecil Day Lewis to Alan Hancox, 2 items.

Found in: Manuscripts / Cecil Day Lewis Letters

John Hawkes Collection

Collection — Box VMF 7, Folder: 5

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf073

Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Hawkes to William Matheson and a poster advertising a reading by Hawkes.

Found in: Manuscripts / John Hawkes Collection

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

Found in: Manuscripts / Laura Riding Jackson Collection

MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files