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Julian Edison Department of Special Collections

MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/MS
Found in 117 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Found in: Manuscripts / Richard Hazelton Papers

High Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms137
Scope and Contents The High Family Papers include correspondence, business and legal documents, photographs, realia, and miscellaneous items from 1803-1981. The families significantly represented in this collection include the High, Brooks, Denison, and Ringo families. Of particular interest is the correspondence from Thaddeus Ransome Brooks to his family describing his experience at Fort Buchanan, Arizona, including relations with the Pueblo and the Apache and the election of Abraham Lincoln. Also of interest...
Found in: Manuscripts / High Family Papers

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.

Found in: Manuscripts / Herbert Howarth Papers

Ted Hughes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms146
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence from Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes to Olwyn Hughes, Ted's sister. Also, included is correspondence from Hughes to Graham Ackroyd and Ian Hamilton and typescript and manuscript drafts of Adam and the Sacred Nine.

Found in: Manuscripts / Ted Hughes Papers

Fannie Hurst Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms058
Scope and Contents

The Hurst Papers consist of a small quantity of correspondence (most of it between Hurst and her school friend Lois Toensfeldt), the manuscript for her novel Quiet Street, some diary material, and a group of clippings and memorabilia. Special Collections also holds Hurst's personal collection of her published work which includes a complete set of first and variant editions, translations, and other copies of her books.

Found in: Manuscripts / Fannie Hurst Papers

William Inge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms173
Scope and Contents

The William Inge Collection consists of the first edition and production archive for Picnic: A Summer Romance and playbills for various productions of Inge's plays.

Found in: Manuscripts / William Inge Collection

International Writers Center Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms059
Scope and Contents The International Writers Center Archive consist of materials toward IWC conferences and programs presented or co-sponsored by the IWC including The Writer in Politics, The Writer and Religion, and The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, the Artist as Writer; materials towards the production of Literary St. Louis: A Guide; correspondence; journals including Accent, Black Warrior, ...
Found in: Manuscripts / International Writers Center Archive

David Jackson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms060
Scope and Contents

The David Jackson Papers consists of extensive correspondence, photographs of family and friends, and manuscript material towards Jackson’s poems, stories, and plays.

Found in: Manuscripts / David Jackson Papers

Elizabeth Jennings Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms061
Scope and Contents The Elizabeth Jennings Papers consists of correspondence, 1956-1968, bulking 1964-1968, including 100 postal and note cards from Elizabeth Jennings to Rugena Stanley, Oxford, during periods of mental stress, written from Spain and hospitals in England, and letters from Richard Church, Robert Conquest, Helen Lehmann, William Somerset Maugham, William Stanley Merwin, Edwin Muir, Victoria Mary Sckville-West, Edith Sitwell, Constantine Trypanis, John Wain, and Ciceley Veronica Wedgwood,...
Found in: Manuscripts / Elizabeth Jennings Papers

Josephine Johnson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms062
Scope and Contents The Josephine Johnson Papers are a rich group of materials. They contain numerous letters, principally from the 1930's, between Johnson and other literary figures. The balance of the Josephine Johnson Papers consists of manuscripts toward poems, articles, and novels as well as journals and papers from her years at Washington University. Of particular interest are the autograph notes and drafts and typescript drafts of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Now in...
Found in: Manuscripts / Josephine Johnson Papers