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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

Randall Jarrell Letter

Collection — Box VMF 9, Folder: 10

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf086

Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from Jarrell to Marshall E. Bean, accompanying an inscribed copy of The Bat-Poet and offering sympathy during his hospitalization

Found in: Manuscripts / Randall Jarrell Letter

Richard Jefferies Collection

Collection — Box VMF 9, Folder: 11

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf087

Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous clippings, programs, announcements, and correspondence relating to Jefferies and the celebration surrounding the centenary of his birth.

Found in: Manuscripts / Richard Jefferies Collection

Thomas Jefferson Letter

Collection — Box VMF 18, Folder: 1

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf223

Scope and Contents Autograph letter, signed, from Thomas Jefferson at his Monticello residence to his overseer, Jeremiah A. Goodman, at a second Jefferson plantation, Poplar Forest (Forest, Bedford County, Virginia). 1 page. Jefferson informs Goodman of the arrival of Hercules, an enslaved man who had escaped from Poplar Forest and was recaptured. Jefferson plans to remand Hercules to Goodman's custody; while "the folly he [Hercules] has committed certainly justifies further punishment," Jefferson remarks that...

Found in: Manuscripts / Thomas Jefferson Letter

Andrew Johnson Document

Collection — Box VMF Johnson

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf230

Scope and Contents

Presidential appointment of David H. Vinton to the U.S. Army with rank of Major General. Signed by Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, and Johnson, President of the United States

2/28/19 NOTE: Item is currently with the Preservation and Digitization unit for conservation work.

Found in: Manuscripts / Andrew Johnson Document

Pamela Hansford Johnson Letter

Collection — Box VMF 9, Folder: 12

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf088

Scope and Contents

Typed letter signed 'Pamela Snow' to Thomas H. Eliot, Chancellor of Washington University. Comments on Night and Silence and recent trip to Soviet Union where she and her husband, C.P. Snow, visited M.A. Sholokhov. Mentions Burroughs Mitchell, editor at Scribners'.

Found in: Manuscripts / Pamela Hansford Johnson Letter

JR Memo

Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 9

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf242

Scope and Contents

Interoffice memorandum by Jennings Lang concerning a possible film adaptation by MCA of JR by William Gaddis, October 13, 1975. 4 pages

Found in: Manuscripts / JR Memo

Emma Kafalenos Collection

Collection — Box VMF 9, Folder: 6

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf082

Scope and Contents 1971 March 16. Typed letter signed with envelope from Henri Chopin to Kafalenos, 1 page1971 June 17. Typed letter signed with envelope from Henri Chopin to Kafalenos, 1 page1972 January 23. Typed letter signed with envelope from Henri Chopin to Kafalenos, 1 pageJiří Valoch, Sound Poems, 1969, 7 pages with envelopeJiří Valoch, Ga: (the first and last collection of sound poems). Transferred to Rare Books. PG5039.32.A46 G3 1969. Envelope retained...

Found in: Manuscripts / Emma Kafalenos Collection

Mitchell Kennerley Letter

Collection — Box VMF 9, Folder: 13

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf089

Scope and Contents

Typed letter signed from Kennerley to an unnamed recipient, referring to "Mr. Keynes" and "Mr. W.A. White's library" which Harvard University was in the process of buying. 1 page

Found in: Manuscripts / Mitchell Kennerley Letter

Jacob Klein Collection

Collection — Box VMF 9, Folder: 14

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf090

Scope and Contents

1909 January 4 - 1910 August 18. Letterbook [bound] containing letters [typescript carbon] with little manuscript revision from Jacob Klein to publishers, booksellers, persons and clubs concerned with book collecting [indexed by Klein in front of book]. Brown cloth covered boards, with corner designs. Titled "Letters Jacob Klein Books No. 2" in gold leaf, 9 x 12," 556 pages

Found in: Manuscripts / Jacob Klein Collection

MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files