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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poems, book reviews, essays, introductions and translations, as well as editorial material toward her published and unpublished books.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

Kay Boyle Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 20, Folder: 8

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf241

Scope and Contents

Includes 6-page transcript from Kay Boyle's Senate loyalty hearings during the McCarthy era; manuscript draft of a letter from Boyle to Samuel Beckett (2 sheets); two letters from Kenneth Burke to Boyle (including one with photocopied letter from Mona Van Duyn to Burke on verso); one letter from Evan Connell to Boyle; and one letter from Alexandra Pringle at Virago Press in London to Boyle (with Boyle's manuscript annotations).

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

Katherine Arnstein Heinemann Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms054

Scope and Contents

The Katherine Arnstein Heinemann Papers consist mainly of autograph and typescript drafts of her poems, as well as manuscript and editorial material relating to her collections Brandings (1988) and Some Inhuman Familiars (1983). A small group of correspondence is also present.

Found in: Manuscripts

Fannie Hurst Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms058

Scope and Contents

The Hurst Papers consist of a small quantity of correspondence (most of it between Hurst and her school friend Lois Toensfeldt), the manuscript for her novel Quiet Street, some diary material, and a group of clippings and memorabilia. Special Collections also holds Hurst's personal collection of her published work which includes a complete set of first and variant editions, translations, and other copies of her books.

Found in: Manuscripts

Laura Riding Jackson Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 17, Folder: 28

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf220

Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Jackson to Marie Syrkin and poem drafts by Jackson

Found in: Manuscripts

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 3

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf094

Scope and Contents

Bound volume of Fugitive Poems and clipping of review by Landon and clipping concerning Landon's death

Found in: Manuscripts

Olivia Manning Letter

Collection — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 16

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf108

Scope and Contents

Autograph note signed from Manning to Louis Golding thanking him for his letter and his comments on her writing and other news. 2 pages

Found in: Manuscripts

Marianne Moore Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms085

Scope and Contents

The Marianne Moore Papers consists of correspondence principally between Mona Van Duyn, Charles Guenther, Chancellor and Mrs. Thomas H. Eliot and William Matheson, a typescript [carbon] manuscript of critical review of Louise Bogan's Selected Criticism and Kenneth Burke's Book of Moments, a typescript draft of Quoting an also private thought [poem], and a clippings.

Found in: Manuscripts

Shirley Seifert Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-MS-ms101

Scope and Contents

The Shirley Seifert Papers consists of one setting copy of Let My Name Stand Fair by Seifert, correspondence concerning its purchase, and one program.

Found in: Manuscripts

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