Skip to Content

Julian Edison Department of Special Collections

Box VMF 15

 Container

Contains 70 Results:

Ruzena Stanley Manuscript

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 13
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf159
Scope and Contents

Autograph comment on the Animals' Arrival [poem] by Elizabeth Jennings. Stanley points out that "this will always be the Moon Poem" because the poem was supposedly written on the day when the first picture of the moon surface appeared in the papers. Verso, picture postcard, 1 page

Found in: Manuscripts / Ruzena Stanley Manuscript

Frederic George Stephens Collection

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 14
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf160
Scope and Contents 1898 January 17. Autograph letter signed from Stephens to Mrs. M. P. Brocklebank, informing her that Christina Rossetti did not sit for the portrait of St. John in Ford Madox Brown's painting "Christ and Peter," [i.e. "Jesus Washing Peter's Feet"], 2 pages1898 January 21. Autograph letter signed from Stephens to Mrs. M. P. Brocklebank, identifying the models for the faces in Ford Madox Brown's painting "Christ and Peter," 2 pages1898 January 26. Autograph letter...
Found in: Manuscripts / Frederic George Stephens Collection

George Santayana Manuscript

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf147
Scope and Contents

Autograph copy of "To a lady" [poem] by Santayana. Copy in unknown hand. Untitled; published as "To a Lady, Who Had Offered Him a Wreath of Laurel" in The Poet's Testament by Santayana. Note at bottom reads "G.S. to N.T. unpublished." In pencil, note in ink, 1 page

Found in: Manuscripts / George Santayana Manuscript

Scrapbook

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 5
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf151
Scope and Contents Scrapbook of newspaper and periodical clippings pasted or laid in a commercially manufactured scrapbook. Subject matter centered in purchase, sales, collecting and care of rare books, stamps, coins, objects of historical interest, antiques, and art objects. Included are articles on collectors of above, obituaries of same, notice of estate sales, accounts of auctions, showings of galleries, museum exhibitions, etc. Compiler probably a St. Louis resident as many clippings are from the ...
Found in: Manuscripts / Scrapbook

Percy Bysshe Shelley Letter

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf154
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from Shelley to Mr. [Richard W.] Hayward, his solicitor, authorizing him to pay "the debt of Mrs. Peacock" [Jane Gryffydh Peacock, mother of Shelley's friend Thomas Love Peacock]. 2 pages

Found in: Manuscripts / Percy Bysshe Shelley Letter

Wilbur Henry Siebert Manuscript

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 10
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf156
Scope and Contents

Inquiry concerning the Underground Railroad, printed questionnaire signed, from Siebert to an unnamed recipient, with manuscript revision, seeking information and specific details about the Underground Railroad during the Civil War. 1 page

Found in: Manuscripts / Wilbur Henry Siebert Manuscript

James Stephens Collection

 Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 15
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf161
Scope and Contents

Consists of seven manuscript poems by Stephens, three autograph letters from Stephens to Dilys Powell, and  two tear sheets.

Found in: Manuscripts / James Stephens Collection

Tomlinson to Peter Russell enclosing the "versions of Tyutchev" for possible publication, 1959 January 20

 Item — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 23
Description

Autograph letter signed, 1 page

Found in: Manuscripts / Charles Tomlinson Letters

Tomlinson to Peter Russell discussing several preliminary details which must be considered before going ahead with the publication of "Tyutchev", 1959 April 30

 Item — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 23
Description

Autograph letter signed, 1 page

Found in: Manuscripts / Charles Tomlinson Letters

Tomlinson to Peter Russell, informing him that his American publishers have agreed to the British printing of the "Tyutchev versions", 1959 June 12

 Item — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 23
Description

Autograph letter signed, 1 page

Found in: Manuscripts / Charles Tomlinson Letters