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MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/MS
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Guenther Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms052
Scope and Contents

The Charles Guenther Papers includes correspondence, 1964-1970, principally between Guenther and Washington University library officials concerning the placing of Guenther's literary materials. Also included are original poems and poetry translation from the French and German and reprints or copies of selected published articles on E.E. Cummings, Pierre Francois Regnier, an address on poetry given at St. Louis University, and miscellany.

Richard Hazelton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms131
Scope and Contents

The Richard Hazelton Papers consists materials relating to William Gaddis including correspondence, lecture notes, clippings, print material, and an interview with Hazelton.

Herbert Howarth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms057
Scope and Contents

The Herbert Howarth Papers consists of material relating to Howarth's book, Notes on Some Figures Behind T. S. Eliot (1964) and includes his letters to and from T.S. Eliot. Howarth submitted drafts of his text to Eliot for comment and several drafts of the book with marginal corrections by Eliot are housed in the collection. The collection offers a unique opportunity to view the response of the subject of a critical biography to the views of a biographer.

Robert Kohn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms125
Scope and Contents The Robert Kohn Papers consists of correspondence, notes, source materials, print materials, drafts, galley proofs, and offprints toward his essays including: "Robin Moore's Unfinished Masterpiece," "Buddhist Duality in William Gaddis’s Carpenter’s Gothic," "The Fivesquare "Amsterdam" of Ian McEwan," “Berio's Sinfonia: From Modernism to Hypermodernism,” “Freudian Daydreams in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex,” "The...

Albert and Naomi Lebowitz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms067
Scope and Contents The Albert and Naomi Lebowitz Papers consists of correspondence from Harold Brodkey, Stanley Elkin, George P. Elliott, William H. Gass, Irving Howe, William L. Hungate, Adrian H. Jaffe, Beverly Jarrett, Jane Lago, Iris Murdoch, Howard Nemerov, Michael Pinkston, J.F. Powers, Egon Schwarz, Mona Van Duyn, Helen Vendler, and Miller Williams. Also included are materials toward Albert Lebowitz's novels Laban's Will (1966) and The Man Who...

Walter Lowenfels Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms074
Scope and Contents The Walter Lowenfels collection includes letters primarily to Walter Lowenfels or Marjorie Elizabeth (Nan) Braymer, arranged alphabetically by sender, concerning contributions to Where is Vietnam?, payments, editorial policy, criticism, little magazines, sales of worksheets, reactions to book's publication, and including biographical and bibliographic sketches of many correspondents. Principal correspondents include: George Abbe, Robert Bly, Nan Braymer,...

David Meltzer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms081
Scope and Contents The David Meltzer Papers consists of correspondence to and from Robert Hawley which provide an interesting insight into Oyez Press and its production of some of Meltzer's books as well as a number of letter to American bookseller Henry Wenning.In addition to writing numerous collections of poetry, Meltzer has edited a number of anthologies and the significant collection of interviews including, The San Francisco Poets (1971). The book consists of...

Josephine Miles Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms084
Scope and Contents The Josephine Miles Papers consists of correspondence (1960-1968) to Miles from Donald Hammonds, editor, Little, Brown and Co. writing about publication of Classic Essays in English [anthology] and Style and Proportion [language study], other editors concerning copyright permissions, production arrangements, etc.; friends, colleagues writing with suggestions, comments on Style and Proportion;...

John N. Morris Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms086
Scope and Contents The John N. Morris Papers consists of correspondence to and from Morris to Harry Ford regarding the development and publications of Morris’s books. Other correspondents include Lionel Trilling, John Bayley, Howard Moss, Jay Parini, J.D. McClatchy, Kate McCune, and Reed Whittemore. The collection also includes poetry drafts, essays, reviews, and material toward Green Business, The Life Beside This One, ...

George Marion O'Donnell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms091
Scope and Contents The George Marion O'Donnell Papers includes occasional manuscripts and correspondence either to or from Rae Beamish, Richard Croom Beatty, John Berryman, John Malcolm Brinnin, Nelson Del Bittner, Harry Brown, Basil Bunting, Truman Capote, Hubert Creekmore, Robert Woodham Daniel, Donald Davidson, Edward Donahoe, Charles Henri Ford, Theodore C. Hoepfner, Merle Hoyleman, Robert Hillyer, William Inge, Marian Ives, James Laughlin, Leroy Leatherman, R.W.B. Lewis, Jim Lord, Willard Maas, Edward...