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Julian Edison Department of Special Collections

MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

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

Charles Mathes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms143
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence and materials toward The Girl With the Phony Name, The Girl Who Remembered Snow, The Girl at the End of the Line, and The Girl in the Face of the Clock.

Found in: Manuscripts / Charles Mathes Papers

Clark Mills McBurney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms078
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts, scrapbooks, and clippings of work by Clark Mills McBurney. Also included are excerpts from work by William Jay Smith and Tennessee Williams concerning their youth in St. Louis, where they were both friends with McBurney.

Found in: Manuscripts / Clark Mills McBurney Papers

Shepherd Mead Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms079
Scope and Contents The Shepherd Mead Papers consist of typescripts, variant drafts, and several thousand pages of notes toward many of his books, including The Four Window Girl (1958), Dudley, There is No Tomorrow (1963), The Carefully Considered Rape of the World (1966), How to Live Like a Lord Without Really Trying (1965), and Free the Male Man!...
Found in: Manuscripts / Shepherd Mead Papers

George N. Meissner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms080
Scope and Contents The George N. Meissner Collection is composed of individual, or in some cases multiple, items of figures of historical or literary significance. Included are autograph signatures, letters, official documents, literary manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts, engravings, and a few printed items.The subject areas included in the Collection are widely varied. Each of the Presidents of the United States through Wilson is represented, Washington and Lincoln by several items. Of particular...
Found in: Manuscripts / George N. Meissner Collection

David Meltzer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms081
Scope and Contents The David Meltzer Papers consists of correspondence to and from Robert Hawley which provide an interesting insight into Oyez Press and its production of some of Meltzer's books as well as a number of letter to American bookseller Henry Wenning.In addition to writing numerous collections of poetry, Meltzer has edited a number of anthologies and the significant collection of interviews including, The San Francisco Poets (1971). The book consists of...
Found in: Manuscripts / David Meltzer Papers

Isador Mendle Collection on the History of Printing

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms082
Scope and Contents The Mendle Collection has seven main groupings. The first of these is the collection of James Moran Papers. Moran, a British author and historian of printing, wrote several books relating to printing, including a biography of British scholar and typographer Stanley Morison. Moran's papers consist primarily of material toward his books. The Ellic Howe Papers are another important part of the collection. These consist of Howe's (a British printer) notes on the history of the printing trade,...
Found in: Manuscripts / Isador Mendle Collection on the History of Printing

James Merrill Papers

 Collection
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.

Found in: Manuscripts / James Merrill Papers

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.

Found in: Manuscripts / Claude Fredericks Collection of James Merrill Papers

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Collection of James Merrill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms165
Scope and Contents Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Collection of James Merrill Papers includes correspondence, inscribed publications, photographs and other materials from or related to James Merrill.Marilyn Aronberg Lavin was born in 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1947 and earned a M.A. from Harvard in 1949. Her Ph.D. was awarded in 1973 from New York University with a dissertation on Piero Della Francesca. She was a visiting professor of art history...
Found in: Manuscripts / Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Collection of James Merrill Papers

Mary Boatwright Collection of James Merrill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms133
Scope and Contents

Mary Boatwright Collection of James Merrill Papers consists of correspondence, manuscripts, ephemera, and realia.

Found in: Manuscripts / Mary Boatwright Collection of James Merrill Papers