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MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/MS
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

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,...

Claude Fredericks Collection of James Merrill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms157
Scope and Contents

Collection of James Merrill manuscripts, inscribed books, photographs, ephemera, publications and realia. All materials belonged to Merrill's close friend, Claude Fredericks, an American poet, playwright, printer, writer, and a professor of literature at Bennington College.

Marianne Moore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms085
Scope and Contents

The Marianne Moore Papers consists of correspondence principally between Mona Van Duyn, Charles Guenther, Chancellor and Mrs. Thomas H. Eliot and William Matheson, a typescript [carbon] manuscript of critical review of Louise Bogan's Selected Criticism and Kenneth Burke's Book of Moments, a typescript draft of Quoting an also private thought [poem], and a clippings.

Stratford Lee Morton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms087
Scope and Contents Consists of personal papers including correspondence (1915-1969) with book dealers, librarians, and public figures including Joseph Tumulty, Secretary to President Wilson; Herbert Hoover; and others. Other personal papers include materials relating to the Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1943; photographs of Morton and his collection of early American furniture, etc.; miscellaneous articles by or about Morton; miscellaneous clippings relating to Morton and to book collecting; and lists...

Howard Nemerov Papers

 Collection
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...

George Marion O'Donnell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms091
Scope and Contents The George Marion O'Donnell Papers includes occasional manuscripts and correspondence either to or from Rae Beamish, Richard Croom Beatty, John Berryman, John Malcolm Brinnin, Nelson Del Bittner, Harry Brown, Basil Bunting, Truman Capote, Hubert Creekmore, Robert Woodham Daniel, Donald Davidson, Edward Donahoe, Charles Henri Ford, Theodore C. Hoepfner, Merle Hoyleman, Robert Hillyer, William Inge, Marian Ives, James Laughlin, Leroy Leatherman, R.W.B. Lewis, Jim Lord, Willard Maas, Edward...

Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O’Neill

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms160
Scope and Contents The Harley Hammerman Collection of Eugene O’Neill consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and other materials related to the life and work of playwright Eugene O’Neill. Along with first editions of the playwright’s works located in Rare Books (many inscribed), the collection features autograph and typed letters written by O’Neill to significant cultural figures, handwritten manuscripts and typescripts, photographs of O’Neill and his immediate family and friends, and rare...

Arthur W. Proetz Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms096
Scope and Contents

Typescripts by Fannie Hurst and Zoe Akins and a collection of New York Theater programs

Cedric "Ted" Reynolds Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms099
Scope and Contents

The Cedric "Ted" Reynolds Papers consists of one letter from Mona Van Duyn, drafts of Reynolds poems, various miscellany, and two issues of Reflections.

George Bernard Shaw Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms001
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts and memorabilia relating to George Bernard Shaw. Correspondence, 1901 - 1928, includes 30 letters and cards to John Drinkwater. Also, autograph manuscript of speech, portraits of Shaw, and various personal artifacts.