MSS 0099. Miscellaneous Literary & Historical Manuscripts

American essayist and novelist William H. Gass wrote to Jonathan Carroll to accept an invitation to visit Carroll's English class at St. Louis Country Day School in St. Louis, Missouri.

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.

Howard University history professor Rayford W. Logan wrote this letter of thanks to enclose with a copy of his book, Haiti and The Dominican Republic, which he presented to Pauline Young, an African-American librarian and civil rights activist in Wilmington, Delaware.

This original mimeographed typescript is Herbert D. Greggs's copy of his playscript for Green Bags/White Linen: a one-act play.

This 11-page manuscript is a mechanically reproduced typescript of Ed Bullins's play, It Bees Dat Way (a Confrontational Ritual)..

This original mimeographed quarto sheet of music is a hymn by Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford, "Shine On, Eternal Light," circa 1925-1930.

These four typed letters from Irish poet Brian Coffey to American academic Mark Axelrod consist of three written in 1978 and one in 1990. Coffey wrote to Axelrod about literature and philosophy.

American poet and editor William Claire inscribed this card, on which is printed his poem, "Thinking of Anais Nin," to University of Delaware Librarian Timothy Murray.

Norman Nicholson - Recent Poems is a mimeographed typescript of the script for a reading by British poet Norman Nicholson.

American poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns submitted this poem, "At Three," for a class taught by Marvin Bell at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

American poet Sonia Sanchez wrote this letter to Jim to accompany an inscribed copy of her new book, We A BaddDDD People.

American novelist and poet Gayl Jones wrote this poem, "For Clarence Major," after meeting Major at Connecticut College in 1970.

American poet Tram Combs exchanged these letters with his friend, American landscape artist Agnes Selkirk Clark, during 1958.

Nineteenth-century English critic William Hazlitt wrote this request for a subscription to Mr. Saunder's circulating library from his home in Piccadilly, London.

This collection consists of seventeen letters written by members of the Matlack family in Philadelphia to Samuel J. Matlack while he was serving in the Union Navy aboard the USSWissahickon, a gunboat in the blockading squadron off the coast of South Carolina, during the American Civil War, from 1862-1865.

In April of 1991, American playwright Barrie Stavis wrote this letter to the Höhnes to accompany the enclosed issue of Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, which contains Stavis's Lamp at Midnight: a Play about Galileo.

This collection of letters and postcards, written by author and playwright James Leo Herlihy (1927-1993) to his friend Edward P. Mitchell, contains updates on his life in New York City, including his writing and his financial difficulties; and is accompanied by a life mask of Herlihy and a sculpture created by Herlihy.

Gustave Percival Wiksell (1863-1940) was a Boston dentist who also served as president of the Walt Whitman Fellowship from 1903 until 1919. The Gustave Percival Wiksell miscellaneous material related to Bliss Carman, F. B. Sanborn, and R. W. Trine contains letters, photographs, and clippings that were originally laid in books that were part of Wiksell's collection.

In 1954, British labor activist and Communist organizer George Hardy wrote to his American colleague Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to renew their acquaintance, express support for her testimony at her recent trial, and discuss the labor struggles in the United States and Great Britain.

This is an offprint of American author Paul Ramsey's poem, "Scenes for a Dying," which was awarded the Rose Lefcowitz Prize by Poet Lore in 1993/1994.

The autograph signature of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), who was the seventh President of the United States, is affixed to a slip of paper cut from a document.

This small collection of three items documents New York photographer Jayne Mangino's passion for photography.

American novelist James T. Farrell (1904-1979) wrote to William F. Claire (1935- ), the editor and publisher of the literary magazine, Voyager, regarding the publication of an excerpt from his unpublished novel, The Vast Present.

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.

British writer Charles Morgan (1894-1958) wrote to Mademoiselle Engel concerning the French publication rights to some of his work.