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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

Lee Anderson Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms004

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

Philip Mills Arnold Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms006

Scope and Contents The Philip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection, perhaps the most diverse and comprehensive of all the Washington University Libraries Special Collections, brings together a broad range of materials dealing with or exemplifying the nature and characteristics of communication. Placing particular emphasis on early printed materials that appeared at early stages of the development of interest in topics relevant to semeiology, the Arnold Collection had especially strong holdings in the fields of...

Found in: Manuscripts

Jennifer Atkinson Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms007

Scope and Contents

The Jennifer Atkinson Papers consists of correspondence circa 1985-1995, drafts towards published works including The Dogwood Tree, Dares, and Jepthaw's Vows. Also included are numerous drafts of indiviual works of poetry and prose.

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 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

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...

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

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