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Julian Edison Department of Special Collections

MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files

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

Edmund White Typescript

 Collection — Box VMF 16, Folder: 10
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf185
Scope and Contents

Typescript [photocopy] of Something Valentine [novel] by White. Published as Forgetting Elena. 155 pages

Found in: Manuscripts / Edmund White Typescript

Lawrence Grant White Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 4, Folder: 14
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf047
Scope and Contents

Typed letter signed, 1 page from Lawrence Grant White to Herbert Diekmann (1948 July 15). White comments on Diekmann's review of his translation of The Divine Comedy for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1948 July 4). Includes a photocopy of the article in question

Found in: Manuscripts / Lawrence Grant White Letter

Thomas Jefferson Whitman Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 16, Folder: 11
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf186
Scope and Contents

Materials concerning subscriptions for the Whitman Memorial Library by The Engineers' Club of St. Louis and document concerning the appointment of Whitman as the Water Commissioner of the City of St. Louis

Found in: Manuscripts / Thomas Jefferson Whitman Collection

Walt Whitman Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 16, Folder: 12
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf187
Scope and Contents

Engraved portrait of Whitman 1871 by William Linton. Framed with an original frontispiece to 3rd edition of Leaves of Grass

Engraved portrait of Whitman

Found in: Manuscripts / Walt Whitman Collection

Reed Whittemore Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf188
Scope and Contents

Typescript [photocopy] of Whittemore's notes to his lecture entitled "Little Magazines and Professionalism," Hurst Lounge, Washington University, 6 pages

A tape of this lecture is located within the Modering Literature Multimedia Collection (MS124),  Recording #149

Found in: Manuscripts / Reed Whittemore Collection

John Greenleaf Whittier Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf189
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from Whittier to Mrs. Stafford enclosing a book by his friend and neighbor Dr. James R. Nichols (1819-1888) which has comforted him and he hopes will comfort her, 1 page. Written from Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1889 January 14

Photograph of Whittier mounted on card, signed by Whittier, circa 1863-1870. Photographer: J.W. Black and Co. Address: 163 Washington St., Boston, Massachusetts

Found in: Manuscripts / John Greenleaf Whittier Collection

Richard Wilbur Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf190
Scope and Contents

1964 June. Autograph speech for the commencement exercises of Washington University. Pencil with moderate manuscript revision, 8 pages

1985 July 9. Typed letter signed from Wilbur to Barbara Rea, Washington University Libraries BookMark Society, declining an invitation to read in St. Louis, 1 page

Found in: Manuscripts / Richard Wilbur Collection

Thornton Niven Wilder Letters

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 4
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf191
Scope and Contents 1935 March 5. Autograph letter signed from Wilder to Max Kahn asking him to send books with he wishes inscribed to Wilder's New Haven address, 2 pages with envelope1935 August 8. Autograph postcard signed from Wilder to Max Kahn informing him of his sailing to Europe hoping that he will return with a book "worth autographing," 1 page1940 September 13. Autograph letter signed from Wilder to Max Kahn explaining the incorrect inscription on a book Kahn has sent him to...
Found in: Manuscripts / Thornton Niven Wilder Letters

Jonathan Williams Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 5
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf192
Scope and Contents

Typed letter signed from Williams to Henry Wenning commenting on recent Jargon imprints, his "mountain" books, Blues and Roots, James Lowell and author Reynolds Price, 1 page

Found in: Manuscripts / Jonathan Williams Letter

William Carlos Williams Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 6
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf193
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence from Williams to John Israel Smith and Ellen Stevenson and the text of Williams' lecture at the 1955 Oreon E. Scott Symposium on "The Writer and His Public"

Found in: Manuscripts / William Carlos Williams Collection