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MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/MS
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Eugene Angert Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-MS-ms005
Scope and Contents

The Eugene Angert Papers include correspondence from the First National Bank of St Louis to Vera Angert, Eugene’s wife, concerning a memorial tribute to her husband. Also included is a 149-page typescript of The Perpetual Student, and The Flag Hunters, or Tell It to the Danes, two musical comedies written by Eugene Agert. Also included is a typed catalogue of Angert’s personal library.

Mary Jo Bang Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms154
Scope and Contents The Mary Jo Bang Papers consists largely of her own manuscript materials, including drafts of individual poems, book reviews, essays, introductions and translations, as well as editorial material toward her published and unpublished books. Also included are personal journals, college work, artwork, printed materials and ephemera. A substantial amount of personal and business correspondence is present, primarily with friends, family, editors, students, and...

Samuel Beckett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms008
Scope and Contents This collection's strengths are in manuscripts of works Beckett wrote during the 1960's. Among the highlights are the set of 16 drafts for the story "Bing," as well as extensive groups of drafts for short pose pieces such as "Assez," "Le Depeupler," and "Imagination morte imaginez;" the heavily revised galley proof of the Olympia Press edition of the novel Watt; and the successive drafts for ...

John M. Bennett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms009
Scope and Contents A large portion of the Bennett Papers consists of mail or correspondence art, a unique blend of painting, drawing, stickers, rubber stamp work, found objects, poetry, clippings, collage, etc., which are then sent through the postal system. Like all mail artists, Bennett is also a recipient of mail art, and his Papers include hundreds of examples of the work of many of the leading correspondence artists working today. The Bennett Papers also include his own manuscripts and poetry journals, as...

Carol Bergé Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms011
Scope and Contents The Carol Bergé Papers consist almost entirely of her professional and literary papers from 1970 to 2006. They include an extensive collection of correspondence with contemporary literary figures which includes carbons of many of Berge's letters to her correspondents. The Bergé Papers also contain correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, proofs, and promotional material toward nearly all of her post-1970 books, notably Acts of Love, An American Romance, A Couple Called...

William K. Bixby Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms013
Scope and Contents The William K. Bixby Collection includes a variety of materials, ranging from Bixby's personal correspondence relating to his collecting interests, through his connection with Washington University and the St. Louis Burns Club, and including many items from his manuscript collection. This collection includes enslavement documents dating from the 1830s to the 1850s.The correspondence in each series is arranged chronologically. Items in other subseries are arranged alphabetically....

Paul Blackburn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms014
Scope and Contents The Paul Blackburn Papers consists mostly of letters from Blackburn to Walter Hamady, owner of Perishable Press, Ltd., Madison, Wisconsin, concerning publication of Reardon [Stompout] poems, collection commemorating the death of poet Robert Reardon, 10 items. Typescript [photocopy] of [six] poems included; proofs of pages 8 and 9 of the book; two proofs of poem It might as well be spring, separately printed by Hamady as a broadside, one on white paper, revised by Blackburn, the other on...

Louise Bogan Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-MS-ms015
Scope and Contents The Louise Bogan Papers includes correspondence and editorial matter. Correspondence includes a letter from Louise Bogan to William Matheson. Editorial material includes four sets of preliminary pages for volume one of the Works of Goethe; galley proofs of the sections translated by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Mayer, Jane Bannard Greene and Heinz Norden, and Alice Raphael - Werther, Elective affinities, German Refugees, and Parable- and the introduction by...

Bryan Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms019
Scope and Contents The Bryan Family Papers consists of correspondence between members of the Bryan, Lamme, and Sterigere families, business associates, and friends, including one letter books of Charles W. Bryan, Sr. (1863-1927); business papers, including legal papers of David Sterigere, Sr., steam boating papers, and engineering papers of C.W. Bryan, Sr.; historical research materials, including published articles of C.W. Bryan, Sr.; clippings and photographs related to stream boating, politics, family...

Tom Clark Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms026
Scope and Contents The Tom Clark Papers consists of what Clark has termed his “Naropa Archive” - material he gathered together during his two-year investigation of the Naropa Institute including research materials, manuscripts, correspondence, editorial matter and other materials related to this research.  Also included in the Clark Papers are correspondence, manuscripts, and editorial matter toward Clark’s other works including Family Pictures, The...