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Charles Johnson Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms171

Scope and Contents

The Charles Johnson Papers hold both published and unpublished work from the author spanning nearly six decades. The collection brings together manuscripts, drafts, correspondence, artwork, and ephemera and serves as a testament to Johnson’s wide-ranging career as a public intellectual.

Found in: Manuscripts

William Krasner Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms065

Scope and Contents The William Krasner Papers consists of manuscripts and editorial matter relating to novels by William Krasner. Included are heavily revised typescripts, a typescript setting copy with printer's notations, sample pages, and a mock-up of the front matter for Walk the Dark Streets, 6 items; typescripts with heavy revision, a typescript synopsis, and a typescript setting copy with notations of The Gambler, 4 items; autograph...

Found in: Manuscripts

Albert and Naomi Lebowitz Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms067

Scope and Contents The Albert and Naomi Lebowitz Papers consists of correspondence from Harold Brodkey, Stanley Elkin, George P. Elliott, William H. Gass, Irving Howe, William L. Hungate, Adrian H. Jaffe, Beverly Jarrett, Jane Lago, Iris Murdoch, Howard Nemerov, Michael Pinkston, J.F. Powers, Egon Schwarz, Mona Van Duyn, Helen Vendler, and Miller Williams. Also included are materials toward Albert Lebowitz's novels Laban's Will (1966) and The Man Who...

Found in: Manuscripts

Lawrence Levy Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 20, Folder: 12

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf245

Scope and Contents The Lawrence Levy Collection of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass consists of photocopies of correspondence between William H. Gass, Lawrence Levy, and Charles Newman related to the publication of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife as well as10 photocopied drafts and newspaper clippings. Also included are photocopied letters and memos from Levy related to the sale of an archive of Willie Master's Lonesome Wife materials and resulting dispute over ownership with Northwestern...

Found in: Manuscripts

Leo E. Litwak Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms073

Scope and Contents The Leo E. Litwak Papers consists of typescripts, manuscripts, and other editorial matter toward College Days in Earthquake Country, Home for Sale, The Medic, Nobody's Baby and Other Stories, To the Hanging Garden, and Waiting for the News. Also includes are several essays by Litwak and correspondence between Litwak and his...

Found in: Manuscripts

Haniel Long Notebook

Collection — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 8

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf100

Scope and Contents

Notebook of Long poems. Notebook is a small tan binder, with Long's bookplate and a sticker annotated, "Poems at work on 1942 (copy left with [Heari] Haniel." Contains 11 pages in typescript, corrected; 6 pages in manuscript (3 are fragments pasted in); 20 pages uncorrected carbon typescript, 37 pages. Laid in are 1 page typescript and 1 page typescript carbon. Enclosed is a 5x7" black and white photograph of Long, circa age 70

Found in: Manuscripts

Lord John Press Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms155

Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence files and other publication materials between Lord John Press and John Ashbery, Clive Barker, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Thomas Berger, Joseph Brodsky, Ramsey Campbell, Raymond Carver, John Casey, Tom Clark, Robert Coover, Jack Dann, Stanley Elkin, George P. Elliott, Clayton Eshleman, Richard Ford, John Fowles, Bruce Francis, Stan Freberg, William Gaddis, John Gardner, William H. Gass, William Gibson, Ellen Gilchrist, Allen Ginsberg,...

Found in: Manuscripts

Walter Lowenfels Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms074

Scope and Contents The Walter Lowenfels collection includes letters primarily to Walter Lowenfels or Marjorie Elizabeth (Nan) Braymer, arranged alphabetically by sender, concerning contributions to Where is Vietnam?, payments, editorial policy, criticism, little magazines, sales of worksheets, reactions to book's publication, and including biographical and bibliographic sketches of many correspondents. Principal correspondents include: George Abbe, Robert Bly, Nan Braymer,...

Found in: Manuscripts

Charles Mathes Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms143

Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence and materials toward The Girl With the Phony Name, The Girl Who Remembered Snow, The Girl at the End of the Line, and The Girl in the Face of the Clock.

Found in: Manuscripts

Shepherd Mead Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms079

Scope and Contents The Shepherd Mead Papers consist of typescripts, variant drafts, and several thousand pages of notes toward many of his books, including The Four Window Girl (1958), Dudley, There is No Tomorrow (1963), The Carefully Considered Rape of the World (1966), How to Live Like a Lord Without Really Trying (1965), and Free the Male Man!...

Found in: Manuscripts

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