MS/MS. Manuscript Collections
Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/MS
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Elizabeth Jennings Papers
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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,...
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Elizabeth Jennings Papers
Josephine Johnson Papers
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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...
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James Merrill Papers
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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.
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Howard Nemerov Papers
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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...
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Eric Pankey Papers
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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
Robert Sward Papers
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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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May Swenson Papers
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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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Alexander Trocchi Papers
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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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Mona Van Duyn and Jarvis Thurston Papers
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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
Mona Van Duyn Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms120
Scope and Contents
The Mona Van Duyn Papers contain manuscripts and editorial matter toward her books, including the award-winning Near Changes. In addition, there are numerous drafts of individual poems and correspondence from and manuscripts by numerous literary figures.
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