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MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

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

Lee Kissman Alternative Theater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms162
Scope and Contents The Lee Kissman Alternative Theater Collection consists of a range of material, including handbills and playbills, programs, scripts, posters, correspondence, and photographs collected by Kissman related not only to the productions he appeared in, but also to events and shows produced by friends and colleagues. Highlights include the only known typescript extant of Sam Shepard’s first play, Cowboys, along with the original printed program for the production;...

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...

Timothy Leach Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms066
Scope and Contents

The Timothy Leach Papers includes correspondence to Leach from Robert Creeley, Edward Dahlberg, Richard Eberhart, George P. Elliott, Richmond Lattimore, William Stafford, Robert Sward, May Swenson, and Jonathan Williams, primarily concerned with poetry readings at Washington University.

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...

Denise Levertov Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms070
Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence to Charles Wrey Gardiner, an early London mentor; to Richard Deutch, a young students and poet, giving him critical attention and personal encouragement; to Walter Hamady, printer, concerning Hamady's publication of "Psalm Concerning the Castle" [poem].  Also includes typescripts and proofs of "Psalm Concerning ths Castle" and materials toward Levertov's lecture "Chekhov on Hampstead Heath" at Cornell University and the subsequent publication of the poem "Chekov on...

Robert Newton Linscott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms071
Scope and Contents The Robert Newton Linscott Papers consists of correspondence to Linscott include Truman Capote, writing 1946-1963, discussing Yaddo, Leo Lerman, Richard Plant, his book [Other Voices, Other Rooms], death of Newton Arvin; Carson McCullers, writing [1940]-[1945], discussing her family, father's death, her husband, Reeves McCullers and their divorce, friend Annemarie Clarac-Schwarzenback, Truman Capote, Granville Hicks, her books, including ...

Leo E. Litwak Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms073
Scope and Contents The Leo E. Litwak Papers consists of typescripts, manuscripts, and other editorial matter toward College Days in Earthquake Country, Home for Sale, The Medic, Nobody's Baby and Other Stories, To the Hanging Garden, and Waiting for the News.  Also includes are several essays by Litwak and correspondence between Litwak and his...

Lord John Press Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms155
Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence files and other publication materials between Lord John Press and John Ashbery, Clive Barker, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Thomas Berger, Joseph Brodsky, Ramsey Campbell, Raymond Carver, John Casey, Tom Clark, Robert Coover, Jack Dann, Stanley Elkin, George P. Elliott, Clayton Eshleman, Richard Ford, John Fowles, Bruce Francis, Stan Freberg, William Gaddis, John Gardner, William H. Gass, William Gibson, Ellen Gilchrist, Allen Ginsberg,...

Hunter Low Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms132
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence, clippings, and photographs concerning the filiming of the "Battle of St. Vith" and William Gaddis. Gaddis served as writer and Low served as producer for the "Battle of St. Vith."

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,...