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Box VMF 15

 Container

Contains 28 Results:

Edward Upjohn Letter

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 25
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf172
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from Upjohn to Helen Allingham, wife of William Allingham, concerning errors in her husband's recently published autobiography. Thanks her for the volume and explains his ill-health, expressing his interest since he was apparently a friend of Allingham, 4 pages

Katharine Tynan Collection

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 24
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf171
Scope and Contents

1900 June 3. Autograph letter signed from Tynan to [Elkin Mathews], publisher and antiquarian book dealer returning several books she had borrowed a few years earlier and announcing a return move to Ealing, 1 page

1928 June 16. Autograph letter signed from Tynan to John Betjeman inviting him to visit, 1 page

1898 July 16. A Lover's Breast-Knot, autograph commentary on a collection of love lyrics by Tynan, 1 page

Charles Tomlinson Letters

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 23
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf170
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Tomlinson largely to Peter Russell disucssing the British printing of "Versions from Fyodor Tyutchev, 1803-1873."

Thibaut Manuscript

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 22
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf168
Scope and Contents Fragment of the Roman de la Poire, a medieval French romance written by Thibaut, an imitator of Guillaume de Lorris, in the 13th century. It is influenced by the Roman de la Rose in describing the onset of love in terms of allegory and in its frequent use of the first person. The title is derived from a central scene where the damsel shares with her lover a pear that she has peeled with her teeth. The main text is preserved in BnF Ms. fr. 2186, an illuminated manuscript dated to the...

Frank William Taussig Collection

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 21
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf167
Scope and Contents 1936 December 29. Typed letter signed from Taussig to Chester Wright thanking him for his letter, 1 page1937 January 16. Autograph letter signed from Taussig to Chester Wright commending him on his book, a "masterly sketch," which Wright has sent to him to inscribed by the author, 2 pagesPhotocopy of title page of Explorations in Economics: Notes and Essays Contributed in Honor of F.W. Taussig, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New...

Allen Tate Letters

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 20
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf166
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Tate to Henry Wenning and Fred Millett

James Tower Sweringen Collection

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 19
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf165
Scope and Contents

Collection contains loose receipts, checks, bills for business and personal accounts, primarily in St. Louis, for J.T. Sweringen and others, including Arthur Buckner Barret, Edwin Harrison and J. Freeman. Also 2 letters and miscellaneous legal documents

Richard Swartz Letters

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 18
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf164
Scope and Contents

Nine letters concerning invitations to give readings at Washington University

Gladys Storey Letters

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 17
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf163
Scope and Contents

Typed letter signed from F.J. Warburg of Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd., publishers, to Storey enclosing a copy of Edmund Wilson's The Wound and the Bow [literary criticism]; verso, autograph draft of Storey's reply, May 22, 1942, 2 pages

Consider Sterry Letters

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 16
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf162
Scope and Contents

1807 February 23. Autograph letter signed from Sterry to Thomas Jefferson, proposing a new method of determinding longitude at sea, presented with his compliments to Mr. Jefferson, 2 pages

1807 March 13. Draft of autograph letter attributed to Thomas Jefferson to Sterry thanking him for informing him of the new method of determining longitude, 1 page