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MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/VMF
Found in 248 Collections and/or Records:

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

Howard Phillips Lovecraft Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 9
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf101
Scope and Contents

1960 April 18. Typed letter signed from Leslie N. Daniels to Henry Wenning, book dealer, providing publishing history of 14 Lovecraft titles. Includes dates of first book, 1928, to 1952. Letter is apparently in response to bibliographic inquiries from Wenning. 4 pages

Robert Lowell Manuscript

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 10
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf102
Scope and Contents Autograph poem, signed, For Marshall Bean (first two stanzas of a poem which was revised and published as "Soft wood" for Harriet Winslow in 1964). Inscribed to Marshall Bean "hoping your days will be as healing and painless as possible." 1 page. Accompanied by typed letter, signed, from Lowell to "Mr. Wheeler" (Burton Wheeler of Washington University) declining an invitation to speak in St. Louis and mentioning Peter Taylor, a college roommate and a “half Saint Louis and half Memphis...

Edward Lucie-Smith Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 11
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf103
Scope and Contents

Two introductions to Bertram Rota catalogues, six poem typescripts, one typed letter signed, and an autograph notebook collection of poems by Lucie-Smith

Noah Miller Ludlow Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 12
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf104
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from Ludlow to Solomon Smith concerning his travels in the East and discussing prospective jobs, and the formation of a new acting company. 4 pages

Frits Lugt Letters

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 13
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf105
Scope and Contents

1918 August 12. Autograph letter signed from Lugt to Dr. Max Goldstein commenting on the difference between their respective books on collector's marks and expressing doubt that a joint supplement could be written. 2 pages

1922 April 11. Autograph postcard signed from Lugt to Dr. Max Goldstein thanking him for his letter of praise after the publication of Lugt's book, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins and d'Estampes. 1 page

Bernard Malamud Collection

 Collection — Box VMF General Oversize, Folder: 9
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf206
Scope and Contents

Poster advertising a reading by Malamud on October 5th at 8 p.m. in Steinberg Auditorium at Washington University

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

Aldo Pio Manuzio Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 17
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf109
Scope and Contents 1959 January - February. Typescript review of the book 'Aldus Manutius and his thesaurus cornucopiae of 1496,' by an unknown author. The book's prologue was translated by Antiji Lemke, and the introduction written by Donald P. Bean (Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 1958). Includes 'An Aldus prologue-book,' (typescript with manuscript revisions), and 'Aldus as an editor,' (typescript with manuscript revisions), which appear to be earlier drafts of the final review. In all the drafts the...

John Masefield Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 18
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf110
Scope and Contents

Typed letter signed from Masefield to Denise Levertov expressing his regrets that he had not had time to speak to her on Friday, and offering to read her manuscript. Stationery has telephone "Clifton Hampden 77 Burcote Brook Abingdon." Undated. 1 page