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MS/MS. Manuscript Collections

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

Elizabeth Jennings Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms061
Scope and Contents The Elizabeth Jennings Papers consists of correspondence, 1956-1968, bulking 1964-1968, including 100 postal and note cards from Elizabeth Jennings to Rugena Stanley, Oxford, during periods of mental stress, written from Spain and hospitals in England, and letters from Richard Church, Robert Conquest, Helen Lehmann, William Somerset Maugham, William Stanley Merwin, Edwin Muir, Victoria Mary Sckville-West, Edith Sitwell, Constantine Trypanis, John Wain, and Ciceley Veronica Wedgwood,...

Josephine Johnson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms062
Scope and Contents The Josephine Johnson Papers are a rich group of materials. They contain numerous letters, principally from the 1930's, between Johnson and other literary figures. The balance of the Josephine Johnson Papers consists of manuscripts toward poems, articles, and novels as well as journals and papers from her years at Washington University. Of particular interest are the autograph notes and drafts and typescript drafts of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Now in...

Charles Johnson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms171
Scope and Contents

The Charles Johnson Papers hold both published and unpublished work from the author spanning nearly six decades. The collection brings together manuscripts, drafts, correspondence, artwork, and ephemera and serves as a testament to Johnson’s wide-ranging career as a public intellectual.

Jordan Davies Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms063
Scope and Contents The Jordan Davies Archive includes professional correspondence relating to that press’ projects, manuscript material, paste-ups, galleys, broadsides, engraving blocks, in addition to off-prints and samples of the finished work. The archive contains materials toward the books of many important authors including Charles Bernstein, Weldon Kees, Stephen Yenser, Thom Gunn, Joel Oppenheimer, John Yau, Jonathan Williams, Michael Lally, Ted Enslin, William Bronk, Harold Brodkey, John Hollander,...

Max Kahn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms064
Scope and Contents

Consists of collages and photographs by Max Kahn, one record, a print from the Heffer book dealers, and a collection of clippings maintained by Kahn concerning the Bloomsbury Group, the Bronte family, etc.

Lee Kissman Alternative Theater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms162
Scope and Contents The Lee Kissman Alternative Theater Collection consists of a range of material, including handbills and playbills, programs, scripts, posters, correspondence, and photographs collected by Kissman related not only to the productions he appeared in, but also to events and shows produced by friends and colleagues. Highlights include the only known typescript extant of Sam Shepard’s first play, Cowboys, along with the original printed program for the production;...

Robert Kohn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms125
Scope and Contents The Robert Kohn Papers consists of correspondence, notes, source materials, print materials, drafts, galley proofs, and offprints toward his essays including: "Robin Moore's Unfinished Masterpiece," "Buddhist Duality in William Gaddis’s Carpenter’s Gothic," "The Fivesquare "Amsterdam" of Ian McEwan," “Berio's Sinfonia: From Modernism to Hypermodernism,” “Freudian Daydreams in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex,” "The...

William Krasner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms065
Scope and Contents The William Krasner Papers consists of manuscripts and editorial matter relating to novels by William Krasner. Included are heavily revised typescripts, a typescript setting copy with printer's notations, sample pages, and a mock-up of the front matter for Walk the Dark Streets, 6 items; typescripts with heavy revision, a typescript synopsis, and a typescript setting copy with notations of The Gambler, 4 items; autograph...

Timothy Leach Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms066
Scope and Contents

The Timothy Leach Papers includes correspondence to Leach from Robert Creeley, Edward Dahlberg, Richard Eberhart, George P. Elliott, Richmond Lattimore, William Stafford, Robert Sward, May Swenson, and Jonathan Williams, primarily concerned with poetry readings at Washington University.

Albert and Naomi Lebowitz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms067
Scope and Contents The Albert and Naomi Lebowitz Papers consists of correspondence from Harold Brodkey, Stanley Elkin, George P. Elliott, William H. Gass, Irving Howe, William L. Hungate, Adrian H. Jaffe, Beverly Jarrett, Jane Lago, Iris Murdoch, Howard Nemerov, Michael Pinkston, J.F. Powers, Egon Schwarz, Mona Van Duyn, Helen Vendler, and Miller Williams. Also included are materials toward Albert Lebowitz's novels Laban's Will (1966) and The Man Who...