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MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files

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

John Burroughs Manuscript

 Collection — Box VMF 3, Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf023
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript poem "Early Spring Gladness" signed and dated. 8" x 5", 5 leaves, bound in blue morocco.

William S. Burroughs Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf234
Scope and Contents A pair of Burroughs’ “automatic drawings” from the cycle of Surrealistic experiments he created in Paris while his 1959 novel Naked Lunch was being prepared for publication. Inspired to try his hand at visual pieces by the artist Brion Gysin—who was assisting Burroughs in the organization of the book, and would later become a long-time collaborator—the drawings arrange loose circular spirals and diagonal scrawls, respectively, in rows and columns over the...

Emile Cammaerts Manuscript

 Collection — Box VMF 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf024
Scope and Contents

Typescript of "To G.K.C. June 17, 1936" [poem] with no corrections. Presumed to be a copy from text, not original typescript. In French. 1 page.

Roy Campbell Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf025
Scope and Contents

Autograph card signed from Campbell to "My dear Marshall" promising to write soon.  A photograph of Campbell is on the reverse side. 1 page.

Benjamin Martin Chandler Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 14
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf205
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed to "My dear old Chap" from "BM" on stationery of "Hidcote House, Campden, Gloucestershire, [England]." 1 page. The author, Benjamin Chandler, sends his friend a copy of the book 'I fioretti del glorioso poverello di Cristo S. Francesco di Assisi,' an important example of craft printing from the Ashendene Press, saying "This book is in better company in your library than in mine."

Chinese Imperial Edict Scroll

 Collection — Box VMF Chinese Imperial Edict Scroll
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf116
Scope and Contents Nineteenth century Chinese family tree scroll written in Manchu and Mandarin Chinese. Approximately 480 cm x 36 cm. Painted on silk fabric of 5 colors: yellow, white, black, blue, and red, with white borders decorated with dragons. The Chinese and Manchu texts run from right to left, respectively.The scroll describes the various honors bestowed upon a family by the emperor, starting September 18, 1821, when Emperor Daoguang (sixth emperor of the Chʻing dynasty) awards grandfather...

C.G.W. Chinser Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 3, Folder: 6
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf026
Scope and Contents

Autograph card signed from Chinser [name uncertain, partially illegible] to R.N. Green-Armytage concerning a book published by Daniel Press which Chinser had obtained for Green-Armytage. The copy obtained is "of ordinary issue" but Chinser says the difference between it and other issues are minor, and notes them. 1 page.

Chouteau Family Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf027
Scope and Contents Correspondence, 1903 January 9 - 1913 February 3. Correspondants include members of the Chouteau family, Judge Walter B. Douglas, and novelist Winston Churchill, discussing family and business affairs. Autograph letters signed, 8 items.Miscellany, 1883 September 9 - October 1918. Miscellany includes a receipt signed by Henry Chouteau, wedding invitations and calling cards [12 items], newspaper clippings [42 items] and newspaper and book photographs of the Chouteau, Papin, Cabanne...

R. Walston Chubb Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf028
Scope and Contents

Autograph essay initialed E.B.B., concerning the philosophy of Charles Renouvier, with special reference to the last reflections he dictated to his secretary and follower, L. Prat, in the days just preceding his death. 9 pages.

Benjamin Clapp Diary

 Collection — Box VMF 3, Folder: 9
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf029
Scope and Contents

Diary of Benjamin Clapp concerning his activities as a merchant in Conton, China and the voyage there. 52 pages, bound in morron cloth. Includes facimile portrait of Clapp.