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Mary Jo Bang Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms154

Scope and Contents The Mary Jo Bang Papers consists largely of her own manuscript materials, including drafts of individual poems, book reviews, essays, introductions and translations, as well as editorial material toward her published and unpublished books. Also included are personal journals, college work, artwork, printed materials and ephemera. A substantial amount of personal and business correspondence is present, primarily with friends, family, editors, students, and...

Found in: Manuscripts

Carol Bergé Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms011

Scope and Contents The Carol Bergé Papers consist almost entirely of her professional and literary papers from 1970 to 2006. They include an extensive collection of correspondence with contemporary literary figures which includes carbons of many of Berge's letters to her correspondents. The Bergé Papers also contain correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, proofs, and promotional material toward nearly all of her post-1970 books, notably Acts of Love, An American Romance, A Couple Called...

Found in: Manuscripts

Jan Garden Castro Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms136

Scope and Contents The Jan Garden Castro papers consist primarily of research materials, writings, and correspondence related to Castro's extensive career as a literary and art critic and her roles as a civic arts activist and co-founder/former Executive Director of River Styx literary magazine in Saint Louis, Missouri. Included are numerous original transcripts of Castro's interviews with notable artists and literary figures, as well as typescript drafts, photocopies and clippings of published book and art...

Found in: Manuscripts

Michael Castro Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms151

Scope and Contents The Michael Castro Papers consists of books (estimated 170 volumes) by mostly St. Louis area authors, journals and little magazines, cassette tapes and CD's (estimated 400 items) largely of poetry readings, often by their authors. Also includes are materials from Castro's editorial work and own literary career, ephemeral items including advertisements and posters for local literary events, correspondence including Ira Cohen, John Brandi, Maurice Kenney, Phil Sultz, and Madeline Morningstar...

Found in: Manuscripts

The Center for the Humanities Comics Collection

Collection

Identifier: MGHL-00016

Collection Description The Center for the Humanities Comics Collection is comprised of comic books, periodicals, pulp magazines, graphic novels, manga, foreign-language comics, self-published magazines and comics, LPs, and miscellaneous materials. Comic books make up the bulk of the collection, with a particular emphasis on superhero comics published by Marvel and DC during the second half of the twentieth century. Many other genres are represented as well, including war comics, erotic...

Found in: Dowd Illustration Research Archive

Cid Corman Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-MS-ms030

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence of Cid Corman and Henry Wenning, 1962-1964, with 31 letters written by Corman, and 5 by Wenning [carbon only]. The letters discuss prospective business arrangements for distribution in the United States of Origin Press materials and other books, as well as personal affairs and observations of life in Kyoto, Japan. Arrangements center largely around possible purchase by Wenning and James Lowell of 50 bound volumes of Origin, second...

Found in: Manuscripts

Delmar Magazine Archive

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms033

Scope and Contents The Delmar Magazine Archive consists of correspondence to and from contributors, subscribers and patrons, editorial correspondence regarding various manuscripts, and business/operational letters; manuscripts, editorial matter, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials relating to individual issues of Delmar; and printing and expense receipts, meeting notes, advertising materials, legal papers, local clippings, floppy disks, inventory notebooks and...

Found in: Manuscripts

Gerald Early Collection

Collection

Identifier: MGHL-00036

Scope and Contents

This collection includes published materials in various formats collected by Gerald Early mainly dating between 1940 and 2015.

Found in: Dowd Illustration Research Archive

Fashion Advertising Collection

Collection

Identifier: MGHL-00006

Scope and Contents

Issues from Dressvertising, Volume Dressvertising, Knitwear Fashions, Bagvertising Weekly, Coatvertising Weekly, Footwear Fashions, Hatvertising Weekly, Lingerie Ad Clip Review, Sportswear on Parade, Tot n Teen Fashions, A Digest Dresses, Dresses in Review, and Volume Dresses in Review

Found in: Dowd Illustration Research Archive

Raymond Federman Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms044

Scope and Contents The Raymond Federman Collection includes extensive draft and proof materials toward Federman's books including Double or Nothing, Amer Eldorado, Aunt Rachel's Fur, and Shhh. Also, materials relating to his critical work on Samuel Beckett, short stories, poems, essays, extensive correspondence, unpublished works, reel-to-reel audio recordings, student...

Found in: Manuscripts

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