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Box VMF 1

 Container

Contains 14 Results:

Jane Addams Letter

 Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 01
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf001
Scope and Contents

Jane Addams to Mrs. Sonja Lawrence, thanking her for her recent gifts to Hull House and expressing appreciation for her interest in the work. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.

Louis E. Alewel Collection

 Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 02
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf002
Scope and Contents

Poetry drafts by Alewel.

James Lane Allen Letter

 Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 03
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf003
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter, signed from James Lane Allen to Mr. McGee, thanking him for his interest and "data" which Allen intended to use in a story still in progress [The Sword of Youth]. Allen refers to an editorial in Sunday's Times which discussed the story, apparently then appearing in serial form. 3 pages.

Leslie Thomas John Arlott Collection

 Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 04
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf004
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Arlott to John Betjeman proposing an anthology of topographical verse.  The proposed book, Landmarks: A Book of Topographical Verse for England and Wales, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1943 by Arlott and Sir George Rostrevor Hamilton.  Also includes a program of worship services for St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Louis S. Auchincloss Letter

 Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 05
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf005
Scope and Contents

Typed letter, signed from Auchincloss to Barbara Turner, editor of Artists' and Writers' Cookbook, enclosing an unidentified favorite recipe and commenting on Turner's statement that food is a means of ethnic communication.  Auchincloss explains the universality of preparing foods. 1 page.

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.

Nettie H. Beauregard Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf007
Scope and Contents

Indexs to historical records, Kaskaskia, Illinois complied by Nettie H. Beauregard

Saul Bellow Collection

 Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 09
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf008
Scope and Contents 1961 August 7. Autograph letter, signed from Bellow to Graham Ackroyd in reply to a query on Dangling Man.  Discusses distaste for work of Paul Bowles, the public image of Hemingway - referring to a recent New Yorker magazine article he has disliked. Expresses sympathy for his editorial efforts of Sinbad Vail, in Paints, and mentions Faulkner.  Thanks Ackroyd for his letter. 3...

Giacomo Costantino Beltrami Letter

 Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf009
Scope and Contents Autograph letter, signed.  Beltrami thanks the members of the New York athenaeum for the honor of being admitted to the academy and presents in return a section of his book Le Mixique; he hopes he is worthy of the honor given by the body. In French. 2 pages.Originally laid in La découverte des sources du Mississippi. ...

W. Mineard Bennett Manuscript

 Collection — Box: VMF 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf010
Scope and Contents

Love and Music, or The Masqueraders: A Farce in Two Acts.  Unpublished manuscript by Bennett. London. 8 1/2 inches x 5 3/4 inches.  Bound in calf, front cover detached. 70 leaves.