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MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files

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

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

Henry Watterson Notebook

 Collection — Box VMF 16, Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf178
Scope and Contents 1897 March 20 - [1898]. Notebook, titled on cover, Watterson on Grover Cleveland. Contains two manuscript essays with manuscript revisions, five loose sheets and a galley proof. First essay titled Grover Cleveland, comments on Cleveland's policies on the tariff, the money issue, etc., and his qualities as a statesman and as a man. Signed and dated March 20, 1897, 22 pages. Second essay, Editors and office, discusses and gives examples of the relationships between newspaper editors and...

Theodore Watts-Dunton Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 16, Folder: 4
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf179
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from Watts-Dunton to W. Townley Searle concerning an unidentified book by Watt-Dunton and a meeting of the Gypsy and Folk-Lore Club which was involved with the George Borrow Centenary Celebrations, 1 page

Mark Wavering Print

 Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 5
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf238
Scope and Contents

Print of a Mark Twain portrait by Mark Wavering.

Howard Webb and Robert Emmet Sherwood Letters

 Collection — Box VMF 16, Folder: 5
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf180
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Howard Webb and Robert Sherwood in connection with Webb's dissertation on Ring Lardner

Marilyn Weir Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 2
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf235
Scope and Contents

Consists of a four page typescript [photocopy] memoir of William Gaddis by Marilyn Weir titled "Bill Gaddis;" one autograph letter signed from Gaddis to Marilyn Weir, 2 pages with envelope (1945 November 23); and one typed letter signed [photocopy] from Gaddis to Mrs. Parke, 1 page (1975 June 29).

Edgar H. Wells Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 16, Folder: 6
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf181
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from Wells to Robert Stipes [?] informing him of current auction prices on Christopher Morley books, especially Parnassus on Wheels, 1 page

Glenway Wescott Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 16, Folder: 7
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf182
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from Wescott to "Eleanor" describing his life, apparently during a summer holiday, informing her of his illness and convalescence, and telling her of his courses for the coming school term which he calls "grand ones," 2 pages

1919 June 11. Photograph of Wescott, Maurice Bereman, and Paul Humphrey

Monroe Nichols Wetmore Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 16, Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf183
Scope and Contents

Typescript with autograph corrections in pencil notes toward an after dinner speech. Reviews The Riddles of Symphosius edited by Elizabeth Hickman du Bois, who translated the works from Latin. Address apparently delivered at William College, Massachusetts.

Philip Whalen Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 16, Folder: 9
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf184
Scope and Contents

Consists of three notebooks containing addresses, manuscript notes on Prometheus, and manuscript notes for story by Whalen