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MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/MS
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Lee Anderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms004

Mary Jo Bang Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms154
Scope and Contents The Mary Jo Bang Papers consists largely of her own manuscript materials, including drafts of individual poems, book reviews, essays, introductions and translations, as well as editorial material toward her published and unpublished books. Also included are personal journals, college work, artwork, printed materials and ephemera. A substantial amount of personal and business correspondence is present, primarily with friends, family, editors, students, and...

Elizabeth Bishop Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms012
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of letters and cards from Elizabeth Bishop to Anne Stevenson providing biographical information to be used in writing Elizabeth Bishopas part of Twayne's United States Authors Series. Bishop also discusses her work and comments on literary figures including Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Ernest Hemingway, John Berryman, and many others. Included with the collection are one typed letter signed from Marianne Moore...

Louis Brownlow Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms018
Scope and Contents

Three typescript copies of Brownlow's manuscript, Anatomy of the Anecdote, at various stages of composition and correction.

Ethan Shaskan Bumas Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms020
Scope and Contents

The Ethan Shaskan Bumas papers contains three items of correspondence, five manuscripts, reading announcements and clippings.

Tom Clark Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms026
Scope and Contents The Tom Clark Papers consists of what Clark has termed his “Naropa Archive” - material he gathered together during his two-year investigation of the Naropa Institute including research materials, manuscripts, correspondence, editorial matter and other materials related to this research.  Also included in the Clark Papers are correspondence, manuscripts, and editorial matter toward Clark’s other works including Family Pictures, The...

Cid Corman Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms030
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence of Cid Corman and Henry Wenning, 1962-1964, with 31 letters written by Corman, and 5 by Wenning [carbon only]. The letters discuss prospective business arrangements for distribution in the United States of Origin Press materials and other books, as well as personal affairs and observations of life in Kyoto, Japan. Arrangements center largely around possible purchase by Wenning and James Lowell of 50 bound volumes of Origin, second...

Robert Creeley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms031
Scope and Contents Series I, Correspondence, 1945-1968, bulking 1963-1968, including letters from Charles Olson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, W.S.Merwin, Witter Bynner, Louis Zukofsky, Henry Rago, Fred Eckman, others and correspondence among Creeley, Walter Hamady and Henry Wenning on publication of The Charm, Words, For Joel, letters from Creeley to Dudley Wynn, University of New Mexico, others, c. 200 items;Series 2, Literary manuscripts, inc. those of The Charm, Divisions & other early poems,...

James Dickey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms035
Scope and Contents The James Dickey Papers include a correspondence file, spanning 1954 to 1970, consisting of nearly 1000 letters from literary figures, publishers, editors, and friends. Letters from literary notables are often accompanied by their poetry manuscripts. The bulk of the collection consists of Dickey's own manuscript drafts of poems, essays, reviews, translations and addresses. Proof of Dickey's meticulous craftmanship is found in his heavily revised poetry manuscripts, many of which have...

Robert Duncan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms037
Scope and Contents The highlight of the Robert Duncan Papers is his correspondence with author Leroi Jones, which spans the years 1962-1964. The letters discuss many issues contemporary to that time: Black dada, current publishing, and other authors, such as Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Diane DiPrima. The remainder of the collection consists of material toward several of Duncan's books. Of particular interest is the correspondence and material toward A Book of Resemblances:...