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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

W.H. Auden Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 06

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf006

Scope and Contents

Sapphic ode with scansion in Auden's hand and awards program.

Found in: Manuscripts

Mary Jo Bang Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms154

Scope and Contents The Mary Jo Bang Papers consists largely of her own manuscript materials, including drafts of individual poems, book reviews, essays, introductions and translations, as well as editorial material toward her published and unpublished books. Also included are personal journals, college work, artwork, printed materials and ephemera. A substantial amount of personal and business correspondence is present, primarily with friends, family, editors, students, and...

Found in: Manuscripts

Samuel Beckett Ephemera

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf014

Scope and Contents

Nine playbills and one poster relating to productions of Samuel Beckett's plays

Found in: Manuscripts

Samuel Beckett Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms008

Scope and Contents This collection's strengths are in manuscripts of works Beckett wrote during the 1960's. Among the highlights are the set of 16 drafts for the story "Bing," as well as extensive groups of drafts for short pose pieces such as "Assez," "Le Depeupler," and "Imagination morte imaginez;" the heavily revised galley proof of the Olympia Press edition of the novel Watt; and the successive drafts for ...

Found in: Manuscripts

Samuel Beckett Posters

Collection — Box: VMF General Oversize, Folder: 13

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf233

Scope and Contents

11 posters relating to productions of Samuel Beckett's plays or celebrations.

Found in: Manuscripts

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...

Found in: Manuscripts

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....

Found in: Manuscripts

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...

Found in: Manuscripts

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