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MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/VMF
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf094
Scope and Contents

Bound volume of Fugitive Poems and clipping of review by Landon and clipping concerning Landon's death

Laurie Lee Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 6
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf097
Scope and Contents

1944 June 29. Autograph letter signed from Lee to Wilma [Gregory] promising to send a copy of his book, and describing the London bombardment during World War II. 2 pages

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

Olivia Manning Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 16
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf108
Scope and Contents

Autograph note signed from Manning to Louis Golding thanking him for his letter and his comments on her writing and other news. 2 pages

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)

George Moore and William Butler Yeats Typescript

 Collection — Box VMF 11, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf117
Scope and Contents 1900. Typescript of Diarmuid and Grania: A Play in Three Acts by Moore and Yeats. 106 pages. First performed October 21, 1901 at the Gaiety Theatre, Bullin by the F. R. Benson Company at the request of the Irish Literary Theatre.1951 April-June. Photocopy of first publication, Dublin Magazine, Volume XXVI, Number 2 (New Series). Title page reads `Diarmuid and Grania. A play in three acts, by George Moore and W.B....

Harris Hatcher Collection on Wallace Stevens

 Collection — Box VMF 20
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf248
Scope and Contents

The Harris Hatcher Collection on Wallace Stevens consists of one piece of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company letterhead and a framed photographic print of Stevens. Also included are limited editon books with letters of provenance, Ideas of Order (1935), Ideas of Order (1936), The Palm at the End of the Mind (1984), and Sur Ma Guzzla Gracile (Poetry, Volume 19, Number 1, 1921).

Robert Penn Warren Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 29
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf221
Scope and Contents

Typed letter signed from Warren at the the American Academy in Rome, to Burton M. Wheeler at the Department of English, Washington University. 1 page with envelope