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MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

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

Guy Patterson Chapman Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms025
Scope and Contents The Guy Patterson Chapman Papers consists chiefly of letters from C.K. Scott Moncrieff to Guy Patterson Chapman, 1923-25 and 1929, 19 autograph letters signed, 31 typed letters signed, 3 autograph postcards, 1 typed postcard and 2 typed letters signed [carbon] from Chapman and 2 letters from Lloyd's Bank. Many letters deal with Moncrieff's translation of The Letters of Abelard and Heloise for Chapman. Moncrieff discusses the difficulties of translation, of...

Tom Clark Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms026
Scope and Contents The Tom Clark Papers consists of what Clark has termed his “Naropa Archive” - material he gathered together during his two-year investigation of the Naropa Institute including research materials, manuscripts, correspondence, editorial matter and other materials related to this research.  Also included in the Clark Papers are correspondence, manuscripts, and editorial matter toward Clark’s other works including Family Pictures, The...

Robert David Cohen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms027
Scope and Contents

The Robert David Cohen Papers include correspondence from Robert Sward and Ann Quin to Cohen, written while Cohen lived in Mexico in 1968-1969, as well as poetry manuscripts written by Cohen alone and by the three authors together. The collection also contains a notebook by Cohen which held notes about Sward and notes toward The Play, a collaborative work by Sward and Cohen.

Ruby Cohn Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms028
Scope and Contents

The Ruby Cohn Papers consists largely of manuscripts toward published and unpublished essays and lectures on Samuel Beckett. In addition, the collection includes correspondence and manuscripts toward published and unpublished essay and lectures on modern theater and analyses of playwrights.

Aaron Coleman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms172
Scope and Contents The Aaron Coleman Papers consists of original typescripts toward Coleman’s first two books, Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018) and St. Trigger (Button, 2016), as well as numerous other draft copies of individual poems used in writing the books. Also included are literary ephemera from various readings, conferences, and other events in which Coleman participated. Other materials include posters, artwork, correspondence, class and teaching notes and other documents related to Coleman’s...

Ivy Compton-Burnett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms029
Scope and Contents The Ivy Compton-Burnett Papers consists primarily of letters and post cards from Compton-Burnett to Kay Dick (98 items) and Kathleen Farrell (29 items), some items addressed to both, all written between 1947 and 1969. Included is one letter from Margaret Jourdain to Kay Dick dated December 16, 1947. The content is largely personal in nature, offering or accepting invitations, conveying information about travel plans, etc. Frequent reference is made to Compton-Burnett's domestic situation and...

Cid Corman Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms030
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence of Cid Corman and Henry Wenning, 1962-1964, with 31 letters written by Corman, and 5 by Wenning [carbon only]. The letters discuss prospective business arrangements for distribution in the United States of Origin Press materials and other books, as well as personal affairs and observations of life in Kyoto, Japan. Arrangements center largely around possible purchase by Wenning and James Lowell of 50 bound volumes of Origin, second...

Robert Creeley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms031
Scope and Contents Series I, Correspondence, 1945-1968, bulking 1963-1968, including letters from Charles Olson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, W.S.Merwin, Witter Bynner, Louis Zukofsky, Henry Rago, Fred Eckman, others and correspondence among Creeley, Walter Hamady and Henry Wenning on publication of The Charm, Words, For Joel, letters from Creeley to Dudley Wynn, University of New Mexico, others, c. 200 items;Series 2, Literary manuscripts, inc. those of The Charm, Divisions & other early poems,...

Lorin Cuoco Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms152
Scope and Contents Consists of materials relating to Lorin Cuoco's literary activities including interviews, work with the St. Louis Poetry Center, the International Writers' Center, River Styx, Arts in Transit, Literary Bus Tour, William Gass's The Tunnel, etc. Also includes correspondence with various writers including Brian Taylor, Howard Nemerov, Glenn Savan, Ethan Bumas, Eddy Harris, Michael Hoffmann, Carl Phillips, Red Watson, Sally Ball, Matt Freeman, William Gass, Stephen Schenkenberg,...

Edward Dahlberg Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms032
Scope and Contents The Edward Dahlberg Papers consists of correspondence from Dahlberg to Charles Winston and Ed Sanders. Also, correspondence from Michael Blankfort, Anthony Burgess, William O’Rourke, Gilbert Sorrentino, and Jonathan Williams to Dahlberg. The collection also contains galley proofs of Reasons of the Heart, tear sheets of a published poem by Stanley Burnshaw, two printed cards from Daniel Haberman, a pamphlet announcing an exhibit at Grippi Gallery, and invoices...