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MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

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

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...

Paul A. Bennett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms010
Scope and Contents

The Paul A. Bennett Papers contain correspondence from Jan Van Krimpen and Hermann Zapf, announcements including a pamphlet celebrating the work of Jan Van Krimpen in honor of his sixtieth birthday, clippings, and a photograph of the Bennett with John Dreyfus.

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...

Elizabeth Bishop Papers

 Collection
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...

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...

Harold Brodkey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms016
Scope and Contents

Consists of a typed letter from Brodkey to Stephen Berg, four typescript poems by Brodkey, galley sheets of the poem "Play," an uncorrected page proof of Women and Angels, and various books and periodicals containing Brodkey's work. The majority of the print material has been transferred to Rare Books

Jocelyn Brooke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms017
Scope and Contents

The Jocelyn Brooke Papers consists of Brooke's manuscripts for an unpublished book, two essays, and a set of page proofs for Marcel Proust: A Biography, Volume 2, by George D. Painter, which Brooke annotated. The typescript carbon manuscript for the as-yet-unpublished book is entitled Furious and Deadly: Experiment in Exorcism.

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.