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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

Kenneth Burke Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf021

Found in: Manuscripts

Emma P. Burr Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 3, Folder: 2

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf022

Scope and Contents

Album inscribed on the fly leaf 'Emma,' containing autograph poems and tributes to Emma from her friends. 6 1/4 x 7 3/4" Red leather cover boards, designed and titled, Flowers of Loveliness, in gold leaf. Corner designs colored green. Illustrations of flower-figures bound in. 42 pages.

Found in: Manuscripts

Burr-Purkitt Family Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-MS-ms022

Scope and Contents Correspondence, 1784-1852, among members of the Aaron Burr and Henry Purkitt families, including Theodosia Bartow Burr Alston, Theodosia Bartow Prevost Burr, John Duval, Anne Louisa Prevost, Augustine James Frederic Prevost, Augustine J. Frederic Prevost, Jr., Charlotte Prevost, John Bartow Prevost, Mary E. Prevost, Prudence Lockwood Prevost, Caleb S. Purkitt, Henry Purkitt, and E. Stickney. Correspondents discuss social and family affairs, political events of the period, including the Aaron...

Found in: Manuscripts

John Burroughs Manuscript

Collection — Box: VMF 3, Folder: 3

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf023

Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript poem "Early Spring Gladness" signed and dated. 8" x 5", 5 leaves, bound in blue morocco.

Found in: Manuscripts

Ted Morgan Collection of William S. Burroughs Research

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms150

Scope and Contents The Ted Morgan Collection of William S. Burroughs consists of research material collected by the author, Ted Morgan, who wrote the definitive biography of Burroughs, Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs. This research material includes first editions, primary sources, secondary material relating to Burroughs and his circle of friends and associates. In addition, there is original correspondence, printed...

Found in: Manuscripts

William S. Burroughs Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 20, Folder: 1

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf234

Scope and Contents A pair of Burroughs’ “automatic drawings” from the cycle of Surrealistic experiments he created in Paris while his 1959 novel Naked Lunch was being prepared for publication. Inspired to try his hand at visual pieces by the artist Brion Gysin—who was assisting Burroughs in the organization of the book, and would later become a long-time collaborator—the drawings arrange loose circular spirals and diagonal scrawls, respectively, in rows and columns over the...

Found in: Manuscripts

Emile Cammaerts Manuscript

Collection — Box: VMF 3, Folder: 4

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf024

Scope and Contents

Typescript of "To G.K.C. June 17, 1936" [poem] with no corrections. Presumed to be a copy from text, not original typescript. In French. 1 page.

Found in: Manuscripts

Roy Campbell Letter

Collection — Box: VMF 3, Folder: 5

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf025

Scope and Contents

Autograph card signed from Campbell to "My dear Marshall" promising to write soon. A photograph of Campbell is on the reverse side. 1 page.

Found in: Manuscripts

William G.B. Carson Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms023

Scope and Contents The William G. B. Carson Papers consists of four accruals:Accrual 1 includes materials relating to United States theatre history; materials relating to Carson's teaching at Washington University in St. Louis; theatre playbills, programs, magazines, and newspaper articles; correspondence and autograph collection of famous actors, actresses, and writers.Accrual 2 relates primarily to preparation of Dear Josephine, Professor Carson's...

Found in: Manuscripts

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