MSS 0099. Miscellaneous Literary & Historical Manuscripts

An undated autograph letter written and signed by American society portraitist, Cecilia Beaux, to fellow artist and illustrator, Thornton Oakley.

British art critic and writer Clive Bell (1881-1964) wrote several letters to American theater and pop-culture critic and writer Gilbert Vivian Seldes (1893-1970) between 1921 to 1957, detailing personal matters, mutual friends, travels, and professional events. Also included are autographed notes, written by Seldes and dated 1966, about a meeting between Bell and Seldes and his impressions of Bell.

"Bemerkungen über Abdrucken: Rembrandt" [Remarks on prints: Rembrandt] is an eight-page manuscript of research notes by an unidentified nineteenth-century individual discussing selected Rembrandt prints.

Handmade book containing autograph poems handwritten by poet Carol Berge. The book is titled, Poems for Beckman.

Daniel Berrigan wrote these letters to Elizabeth Bartelme, his editor at Macmillan Company, to accompany enclosed poems, such as the Hanoi poems found in this collection, or to discuss his books which were in the works.

Letter from Marguerite, Countess of Blessington to publisher William Longman.

American actor and writer Eric Bogosian's two-page critical essay, "The Revolutionary Aesthetic of Beauty," denounces modernist art of the twentieth century and calls for appreciation of paintings in gallery exhibitions by three "soulful artists."

Clipping of a poem by female Irish poet, Eavan Boland, as printed in The Independent (London).

A discussion with Dermot Bolger by Tim Murray and Rebecca Johnson Melvin.

This cloth-bound carbon typescript, titled Bookbinding notes, was written by an unidentified individual and bears occasional handwritten additions, deletions, and notes.

Guy Newell Boothby's undated notebook with typescript cut-outs of poems pasted into it, as well as five loose pages.

Photocopy of a Paul Bowles handwritten letter to Bob Fukayama, dated March 23, 1991. In the letter, Bowles acknowledges receipt of a compact disk containing the score for Sheltering Sky.

American author and composer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) sent this brief letter to Michael Fordyce informing him that Brion Gysin's apartment in Tangier was available for rent.

One handwritten and signed letter written by Paul Bowles to Pud Gadiot.

While sailing on the S. S. Ryndam, Paul Bowles wrote this "thank you" letter to Mrs. Ruth Baron Honsberger Poole, who provided financial support for this, his first trip to Europe.

Five letters and one postcard written by Paul Bowles to Anthony Weller, dating 1986-1990.

Three typed letters written and signed by Paul Bowles to Art Gibney.

One postcard and three letters from American expatriate author Paul Bowles (1910-1999) to American author Frank Lauria (born 1935) with literary and personal news from Morocco.

In these typed letters, American novelist Paul Bowles (1910-1999) thanked American poet and author Irving Stettner (1922-2004), who published writings by Moroccan artist and author Mohammed Mrabet and Paul Bowles in Stroker, for sending a publication and for his recent visit to Tangier.

In these eighteen letters, written between 1957 and 1991, American novelist Paul Bowles (1910-1999) corresponded with his longtime friend American novelist, poet, and painter John B. L. Goodwin (1912-1994).

In these twenty letters to Nathalie Blondel, written between 1987 and 1990, American author Paul Bowles provided recommendations for editorial and publication decisions concerning three of Jane Bowles’s unpublished short stories.

Three page autograph manuscript written by Paul Bowles and sent to Edwin Gilcher in 1928.

An autograph letter written and signed by Ernest Augustus Boyd to Edwin Bjorkman, thanking him for convincing Mitchell Kennerley to publish an article by Boyd that Kennerley had been holding for a year. Boyd adds, "Now the only thing I ask myself is will the article & its predecessor be paid for, or are they to be taken from me without a word of explaination or compensation!" dated January 29, 1915.

On May 23, 1974, Hilary Boyle wrote this thank-you letter to Priontios D. Ó Scannlain while she was hospitalized at St. Vincent's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.