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MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files

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

Muriel Nezhnie Watercolors

 Collection — Box VMF Nezhnie
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf127
Scope and Contents

28 oversized watercolors illustrating Constance Urgang's "Imaginary Poems"

Florence Nightingale Letter

 Collection — Box VMF General Oversize, Folder: 10
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf222
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from Nightingale to Mr. W. Clark, a civil engineer, concerning the installation of sanitary works in India. Nightingale also refers to Mr. Edwin Chadwick, a noted sanitarian. 3 pages

Includes a framed original and a framed copy of the letter

Ned O'Gorman Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 11, Folder: 11
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf128
Scope and Contents

Typed letter signed from O'Gorman to Ella Logan announcing his pleasure in meeting her and arranging for a dinner meeting. Pencil and pen scribbles, presumably by Ella Logan. Bottom half of letter apparently torn away. 1 page

Charles Olson Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf129
Scope and Contents 1965 September 3. Galley proof for O'Ryan 12345678910 [collection of poems]. Note in ink at the bottom of page 2 concerning the spacing and referring to an earlier edition [White Rabbit Press, 1958] is in the hand of Charles Olson. White Rabbit Press version, 1965, keeps all revisions indicated on the galley proof. The title in the 1965 printed edition was changed from upper case Roman letters, found in the galley, to lower case italics. 2...

John Palen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf130
Scope and Contents

Typescript drafts and worksheets for poetry and translations by Palen, 1954-1964

Miriam Patchen Letters

 Collection — Box VMF 11, Folder: 14
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf131
Scope and Contents

1965 August 8. Autograph letter signed from Patchen to William Matheson offering her husband's manuscript material for permanent housing in Olin Library. 2 pages

1965 August 16. Typscript letter [carbon] from William Matheson to Patchen expressing his regret at not being able to purchase the Patchen manuscript material. 1 page

Coventry Patmore Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 11, Folder: 15
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf132
Scope and Contents

Undated. Autograph letter signed from Patmore to unidentified person. 1 page

1890 February 18. Autograph letter signed from H. Buxton Forman to Mr. [Walter Brindley] Slater. 1 page

Original illuminated title page by Bertha Patmore for Henry Patmore's Poems, 1 item

Leo Planiscig Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 23
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf215
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed, on Wien, I. Opernring 21 stationery, from Planiscig to Giorgio Nicodemi, 2 pages

Peter S. Prescott Note

 Collection — Box VMF 11, Folder: 16
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf133
Scope and Contents

Autograph note from Prescott of E.P. Dutton and Co., publisher regarding The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop. 1 page

Margaret Randall Note

 Collection — Box VMF 11, Folder: 18
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf135
Scope and Contents

Typed note signed from Randall to Jacob Herman, editor of The San Francisco Earthquake, complimenting him on the summer/fall 1968 issue and asking him to consider an unidentified story. 1 page