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Walter Abish Collection

Collection — Box: VMF General Oversize, Folder: 5

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf201

Scope and Contents

Poster, "Walter Abish. Author of How Germanists, Alphabetical Africa and other fictions." Poster for a reading by Walter Abish at Washington University in January Hall, Room 110. The event was sponsored by Philosophy 236: Philosophy and Literature. 30 inches x 16 inches. Located in oversize.

Found in: Manuscripts

Jane Addams Letter

Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 01

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf001

Scope and Contents

Jane Addams to Mrs. Sonja Lawrence, thanking her for her recent gifts to Hull House and expressing appreciation for her interest in the work. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.

Found in: Manuscripts

Ija Adler Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms002

Scope and Contents The Ija Adler Papers consists of correspondence, 1932-1967, and associated manuscripts and miscellany.Series 1, Adler correspondence and that of bookmen Isaac Levine and Leroy Goble, 1919-1967, 57 items.Series 2, Correspondence and autographs associated with Adler's interests, including the following subseries: 2/1, autographs and letters of Charles Dexter Allen, Arnold Bennett, Calvin Coolidge, Mary Mapes Dodge, Louise Imogene Guiney, Ella Higginson, E.A. Robinson,...

Found in: Manuscripts

Conrad Aiken Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms003

Scope and Contents The Conrad Aiken Papers consist entirely of material from his long-standing correspondence with Robert Linscott, an editor with Houghton-Mifflin and later senior editor for Random House. Aiken and Linscott began their long friendship in 1917 and Linscott helped Aiken publish several of his works. Aiken's letters to Linscott document the progress of his work and often reflect Aiken's extreme frustration at his lack of popular success. In them, Aiken describes his personal situation,...

Found in: Manuscripts

Fernando Alegria Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 18, Folder: 6

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf228

Scope and Contents

Typescript corrected drafts of early chapters of Alegria's novel, La Rebelion de los Placeres. 77 pages

Found in: Manuscripts

Louis E. Alewel Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 02

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf002

Scope and Contents

Poetry drafts by Alewel.

Found in: Manuscripts

James Lane Allen Letter

Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 03

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf003

Scope and Contents

Autograph letter, signed from James Lane Allen to Mr. McGee, thanking him for his interest and "data" which Allen intended to use in a story still in progress [The Sword of Youth]. Allen refers to an editorial in Sunday's Times which discussed the story, apparently then appearing in serial form. 3 pages.

Found in: Manuscripts

Lee Anderson Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms004

Found in: Manuscripts

Lewis P. Andrews Kodak No. 2 Bulls-Eye Camera

Collection — Box: VFM 19

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf232

Scope and Contents

Consists of one Kodak Model D No. 2 Bulls-Eye camera, one print of image taken by the camera, 2 photocopies of images taken by the camera, photocopy of list of images taken by the camera with notes by Andrews, and directions by Andrews on how to open the camera

Found in: Manuscripts

Eugene Angert Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-MS-ms005

Scope and Contents

The Eugene Angert Papers include correspondence from the First National Bank of St Louis to Vera Angert, Eugene’s wife, concerning a memorial tribute to her husband. Also included is a 149-page typescript of The Perpetual Student, and The Flag Hunters, or Tell It to the Danes, two musical comedies written by Eugene Agert. Also included is a typed catalogue of Angert’s personal library.

Found in: Manuscripts

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