MS/MS. Manuscript Collections
Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/MS
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Eric Pankey Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms092
Scope and Contents
The Eric Pankey Papers consist of personal and professional correspondence (1984-1995); poetry drafts; materials toward Apocrypha, For the New Year, Heartwood, and This Reliquary World; manuscripts towards essays, readings, reviews, and introductions; manuscripts by others; notebooks and journals; print material; and various ephemera including reading...
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Eric Pankey Papers
Spanish Archive of St. Louis
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms106
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of typescript [carbon] translations of official communications among individuals involved in the government of Louisiana during the Spanish Period, 1763-1804. Two typed letters signed from Joseph Wheless, St. Louis attorney, and two typed letters, one signed, from Pierre Chouteau (1849-1910), St. Louis businessman, to W. B. Douglas, President, Missouri Historical Society, explaining the source, extent, and translation of the Archive, constitute the only...
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Spanish Archive of St. Louis
Robert Sward Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms110
Scope and Contents
The Robert Sward Papers are one of the largest and most diverse manuscript collections among Washington University's holdings. They include an extensive correspondence with literary figures, little magazine editors, small press publishers, family members, and friends. Thousands of pages of Sward's heavily revised worksheets and journals are also present and serve as excellent examples of the poetic process at work. A large collection of little magazines, small press publications, and...
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Robert Sward Papers
May Swenson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms111
Scope and Contents
The May Swenson Papers contain manuscript and editorial material toward most of her books including Another Animal (1954), A Cage of Spines (1958), To Mix with Time: New and Selected Poems (1963), and Half Sun Half Sleep (1967). This material includes drafts of individual poems as well as letters to and from various editors, friends, and readers. Swenson’s correspondents include John Hall Wheelock, and Burroughs Mitchell, but the most fascinating portion of the May Swenson Papers is her...
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May Swenson Papers
Alexander Trocchi Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms116
Scope and Contents
The Alexander Trocchi Papers include manuscripts of his novels, stories, essays and poems, the extant archives of Merlin, most of his manuscripts and correspondence concerning the Sigma Project, material relating to a large number of projects Trocchi was involved with in the 1960’s, and his journals and notebooks. The Trocchi Papers also house an extensive collection of magazines and ephemera, including material relating to the International Situationist movement.
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Alexander Trocchi Papers
Constance Urdang Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms119
Scope and Contents
The Constance Urdang Papers include a nearly complete collection of manuscript and editorial material toward all of her published books. These materials include typescript drafts of entire books as well as drafts of individual poems. A number of Urdang's journals and notebooks are also present. The collection also contains drafts of translations by Urdang and the drafts of two unpublished novels. The Urdang Papers are completed by a small yet significant collection of her business, personal,...
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Constance Urdang Papers
Mona Van Duyn and Jarvis Thurston Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms144
Scope and Contents
The Mona Van Duyn and Jarvis Thurston Papers make up one of the largest groups within the Modern Literature Manuscript Collection. Included are hundreds of letters of correspondence from and to literary figures, publishers, editors, scholars, family, and friends. Also included are manuscripts and editorial matter towards most of Van Duyn’s books, drafts of individual poems, essays and reviews by both Van Duyn and Thurston, and manuscripts by others authors. Finally, the Van Duyn and Thurston...
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Mona Van Duyn and Jarvis Thurston Papers
David Wagoner Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms122
Scope and Contents
The David Wagoner Papers consist of two accruals. The first consists of correspondence (1953-1965), notebooks (1944-1959), individual poem and essay drafts, material toward plays including Everyman for Himself, and material toward books including The Escape Artist (1965) and Rock (1958).The second accrual occurred in 2012, in which nearly 80 additional linear feet was added to the...
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David Wagoner Papers