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MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/MS
Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:

Clark Mills McBurney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms078
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts, scrapbooks, and clippings of work by Clark Mills McBurney. Also included are excerpts from work by William Jay Smith and Tennessee Williams concerning their youth in St. Louis, where they were both friends with McBurney.

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...

James Merrill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms083
Scope and Contents

The collection holds a wide variety of materials that document James Ingram Merrill's entire life.

The extensive correspondence is between Merrill and his family, friends, business associates, and others. Thousands of pages of heavily annotated notebooks, typescripts, worksheets, and galleys show Merrill's work towards poems, fiction, and drama. The audiovisual and personal material document other aspects of Merrill's life.

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Collection of James Merrill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms165
Scope and Contents Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Collection of James Merrill Papers includes correspondence, inscribed publications, photographs and other materials from or related to James Merrill.Marilyn Aronberg Lavin was born in 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1947 and earned a M.A. from Harvard in 1949. Her Ph.D. was awarded in 1973 from New York University with a dissertation on Piero Della Francesca. She was a visiting professor of art history...

Marianne Moore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms085
Scope and Contents

The Marianne Moore Papers consists of correspondence principally between Mona Van Duyn, Charles Guenther, Chancellor and Mrs. Thomas H. Eliot and William Matheson, a typescript [carbon] manuscript of critical review of Louise Bogan's Selected Criticism and Kenneth Burke's Book of Moments, a typescript draft of Quoting an also private thought [poem], and a clippings.

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, ...

Howard Nemerov Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms089
Scope and Contents The Howard Nemerov Papers are a large group of materials which help document the career of this important American poet. The collection includes a great number of worksheets, drafts, and notes towards poems, essays, lectures, stories, collections, and novels. Nemerov corresponded with numerous important literary figures and their letters are housed in the Nemerov Papers. Kenneth Burke, Maxine Kumin, Kay Boyle, and Reed Whittemore, in particular, have been long-time correspondents with...

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...

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...

Pearl Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms166
Scope and Contents Pearl Archive largely consists of editorial materials toward the complete run of Pearl magazine from 1975-1993 including correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, camera-ready copies, galleys, paste-ups, and more. The collection also includes additional literary correspondence between Gregory Stephenson and writers including Kay Boyle, Andrei Codrescu, Ira Cohen, Cid Corman, Guy Davenport, Larry Eigner, Clayton Eshleman, Kimon Friar, David Gascoyne, Maurice Girodias, Donald Hall, Mark...