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MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files

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

Eugene Field Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 4, Folder: 18
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf051
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Field to Mr. Gay and various Field notes by an unknown hand.

John Gould Fletcher Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 4, Folder: 19
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf052
Scope and Contents

Includes various correspondence from Fletcher, correspondence and reviews concerning The Black Rock, and a photograph of Fletcher and Glen Ward Dresbach

Henry Clay Folger Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 4, Folder: 20
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf053
Scope and Contents

Typed letter signed from Folger to William K. Bixby expressing thanks for privately printed books and accompanying a copy of an article by Folger on the Shakespeare First Folio. 1 page

Jean Follain Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 4, Folder: 21
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf054
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from Madeleine Follain to Heather McHugh. Enclosed is a 4 page manuscript of Jean Follain poems. 2 pages.

8x10 black and white photograph, Le Pont des Arts (Paris) by Andre Kertesz; with a signed permission form permitting use of the photo on the jacket of D'Apres Tout: Poems by Jean Follain, translated by Heather McHugh.

Thomas Fountayne Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 4, Folder: 22
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf055
Scope and Contents Manuscript catalog [bound] of printed books containing the ex-libris of Thomas Fountayne. Cover title reads "Catalogue of books in all classes of literature from an old county library m[] [cont] aining the ex-libris of `Fount [ayne] Montague'" Signed on flyleaf "C.F. Sparks, Alton, Ill." Autograph list of books including author, title and date of publication; entries numbered 1 - 830. Each page bears sub-total of volumes listed, in addition to noting previous pages' cumulative total,...

Paula Fox Typescript

 Collection — Box VMF 5, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf056
Scope and Contents

Typescript with autograph revisions of untitled talk given by Fox while she was a Visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University. The talk, presented on October 10, 1984, to the Writers' Colloquium, related some of her experiences as a writer as well as her views on the function of literature. 6 pages.

Carlos Fuentes Collection

 Collection — Box VMF General Oversize, Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf204
Scope and Contents

Flyers and posters relating to Fuentes appointment as the Lewin Lecturer in Humanities at Washington University and his participation in the conference, Carlos Fuentes - Symposium: Literature and History in 20th Century Latin America

Miriam Fuchs Collection of William Gaddis Photographs

 Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 11
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf244
Scope and Contents

The Miriam Fuchs Collection of William Gaddis Photographs consists of a series of photographs featuring William Gaddis with Miriam Fuchs, Elaine Safer, and Steven Moore taken during Gaddis's visit to the University of Delaware on May 1, 1985. During the visit, Gaddis presented the Caesura Prize and delivered the lecture "Why I Write." The collection includes 8 color photographs (some in multiple copies), a contact sheet, and a photo CD.

Louis Gallo Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 22
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf214
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Gallo in North Arlington, New Jersey, to Richard Kostelanetz. Gallo sends Kostelanetz a copy of his 1966 book, 'Like you're nobody : the letters of Louis Gallo to Saul Bellow, 1961-1962,' to help the latter with background research for an essay on Bellow. Gallo expresses disdain for "the New York literary mob" but expects to "be a prominent literary figure before we're out of this century." He urges Kostelanetz to tune into his radio broadcast on New York's WBAI,...

Charles Wrey Gardiner Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 5, Folder: 2
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf057
Scope and Contents

Typed letter signed from Gardiner to Mr. Simpson thanking him for a subscription to the Poetry Quarterly of the Grey Walls Press and commenting on German bombing in Essex. Written on Grey Walls Press stationery. 1 page.