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MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/MS
Found in 172 Collections and/or Records:

Frederick William Lehmann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms068
Scope and Contents The Frederick William Lehmann Papers consists of letters and documents of notable Americans (1756-1909), particularly 19th century political figures including John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Bayard, Thomas Hart Benton, Zachariah Chandler, Roscoe Conkling, Stephen A. Douglas, John Brown Gordon, Wade Hampton, Oliver Perry Morton, James G. Blaine, Benjamin...

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...

Theodore C. Link Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms069
Scope and Contents The Theodore C. Link family papers consist of correspondence, business and legal documents and miscellaneous items. The earliest papers relate to the activities of Robert Wash (1790-1856), a St. Louis judge and landowner, particularly in his efforts to establish his right to land through New Madrid Claims. A middle group includes items concerning Robert's son-in-law, George William Goode (1815-1863; married to Robert's daughter Frances Wash Goode), and George's son Robert W. Goode (born...

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 ...

Isaac H. Lionberger Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms072
Scope and Contents The Isaac H. Lionberger Papers consist of Tutt family correspondence, 1821-1836, principally Robert Tutt to his family, written from Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Also includes a land grant, May, 10, 1826, Kentucky, signed by John Quincy Adams; Proclamation, condemnation for treason by German forces, 1915, including Edith Cavell. Also includes a land grant, May 10, 1826 (Kentucky), signed by John Quincy Adams, and a proclamation of death for treason and conspiracy, issued by by German...

Leo E. Litwak Papers

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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,...

Erica Marx Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms075
Scope and Contents The Erica Marx Papers consists of a professional and personal correspondence, 1926-1963, concerning the Hand and Flower Press, in particular discussion with Eric White about publishing his compilation of English Farce Jigs. Other correspondents, many letters unconnected to press business, include Sir Kenneth Clark, Muriel Spark, J.R. Ackerly, Jocelyn Brooke, and John Masefield. Also included are the organization and operation records of the London-based...