MS/MS. Manuscript Collections
Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/MS
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Conrad Aiken Papers
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Identifier: MS-MS-ms003
Scope and Contents
The Conrad Aiken Papers consist entirely of material from his long-standing correspondence with Robert Linscott, an editor with Houghton-Mifflin and later senior editor for Random House. Aiken and Linscott began their long friendship in 1917 and Linscott helped Aiken publish several of his works. Aiken's letters to Linscott document the progress of his work and often reflect Aiken's extreme frustration at his lack of popular success. In them, Aiken describes his personal situation,...
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Mary Jo Bang Papers
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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poems, book reviews, essays, introductions and translations, as well as editorial material toward her published and unpublished books.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...
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Mary Jo Bang Papers
Samuel Beckett Papers
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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 ...
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Samuel Beckett Papers
John M. Bennett Papers
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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...
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John M. Bennett Papers
Carol Bergé Papers
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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...
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Carol Bergé Papers
Elizabeth Bishop Papers
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Identifier: MS-MS-ms012
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of letters and cards from Elizabeth Bishop to Anne Stevenson providing biographical information to be used in writing Elizabeth Bishopas part of Twayne's United States Authors Series. Bishop also discusses her work and comments on literary figures including Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Ernest Hemingway, John Berryman, and many others. Included with the collection are one typed letter signed from Marianne Moore...
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Louis Brownlow Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms018
Scope and Contents
Three typescript copies of Brownlow's manuscript, Anatomy of the Anecdote, at various stages of composition and correction.
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Louis Brownlow Papers
Ethan Shaskan Bumas Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms020
Scope and Contents
The Ethan Shaskan Bumas papers contains three items of correspondence, five manuscripts, reading announcements and clippings.
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Anthony Burgess Papers
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Identifier: MS-MS-ms021
Scope and Contents
The Anthony Burgess Papers consists of typescripts, manuscripts, and other editorial matter toward Devil of a State, The Wanting Seed, Language Made Plain, and Nothing Like the Sun. The collection consists of other miscellaneous materials by Burgess, including a review of John Barth's Giles Goat-boy, a readers report of ...
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Anthony Burgess Papers