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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

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

Anthony Burgess Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms021

Scope and Contents The Anthony Burgess Papers consists of typescripts, manuscripts, and other editorial matter toward Devil of a State, The Wanting Seed, Language Made Plain, and Nothing Like the Sun. The collection consists of other miscellaneous materials by Burgess, including a review of John Barth's Giles Goat-boy, a readers report of ...

Found in: Manuscripts

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...

Found in: Manuscripts

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...

Found in: Manuscripts

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,...

Found in: Manuscripts

Elyane Dezon-Jones Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms128

Scope and Contents

The Elyane Dezon-Jones Papers consits of correspondence, drafts of Murder Chez Proust and Meurtre chez Tante Leonie, clippings, and a photograph.

Found in: Manuscripts

Stanley Elkin Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms039

Scope and Contents The Elkin Papers consist primarily of Elkin's own manuscripts, including his plays, filmscripts, essays, and stories, with the bulk of the material being manuscripts and editorial matter toward his novels. Elkin's manuscripts include all stages of his drafts, from autograph notes written on university exam books to diskettes containing word proccessor files. Also included in the Papers are an extensive general and professional correspondence, manuscripts by other authors, teaching materials,...

Found in: Manuscripts

George P. Elliott Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms040

Scope and Contents

The George P. Elliott Papers consist primarily of his own manuscripts and editorial material toward his published work. Also included is the manuscript of an unpublished play, Michael the God, and his correspondence with other literary figures.

Found in: Manuscripts

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Samuel Beckett Ephemera

Samuel Beckett Papers

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Anthony Burgess Papers

Tom Clark Papers

Ivy Compton-Burnett Papers

Robert Creeley Papers

Elyane Dezon-Jones Papers

Stanley Elkin Papers

George P. Elliott Papers