MSS 0099. Miscellaneous Literary & Historical Manuscripts

Mimeograph transcript typescript of George H. Faulkner's Keepsakes, based on books by Carl Sandburg. A "Du Pont Company Presents the Cavalcade of America" radio broadcast with Raymond Massey as Abraham Lincoln, broadcast on January 30, 1951.

Mimeograph typescript of Under My Skin, a screen adaptation by Casey Robinson of Ernest Hemingway's story My Old Man. Dialogue and continuity script for Twentieth Century Fox's film starring John Garfield and Micheline Prelle. Film was directed by Jean Negulesco.

Typed and signed letter written by Edna Ferber to Jules Eckert Goodman on impressive pictorial letterhead of the Hotel Majestic, West Seventy-second Street at Central Park, New York, dated February 7, 1918.

Twenty-three letters written by Edna Ferber to Herbert and Grace Mayes on various letterheads dating from December 26, 1950 through August 11, 1967.

Mimeographed typescript of the playscript, Tambourines to Glory, wriitten by Langston Hughes. The title page identifies the playscript as: "Revised version. September 1962."

Two autographed postcards, and a short typed note, written by Carl Rakosi to Tom Clark in 1984 regarding the release of the author's Collected Prose.

Louis Untermeyer letter on personal letterhead to aspiring author Anthony Gudaitis offering some guidance regarding his novel, dated August 6, 1932.

Computer typescript of Madden's still unpublished playscript in regular form, The Dosshouse Waltz, signed and dated by the author March 6, 2004, on the final page.

Eighteen typed and signed letters from Ron Loewinsohn to Basil King concerning domestic affairs, school, writing, publishing, and financial worries, dated from 1964 to 1970.

Original screenplay by David Mamet of The Untouchables, 125 pages plus 25 rewrite pages. Mamet's holograph additions, deletions, and corrections are evident throughout as he advances the storyline to an interim stage that would be reworked further into the film form.

One typed letter and signed written by Cecil Day Lewis to author G. M. Young, with Day Lewis's embossed letterhead on first leaf, dated approximately 1930.

First edition of the play, The Snugrats, an unrecorded version of BLUE DENIM, Herlihy's first book. One that precedes and is immensely different, textually, from both the Samuel French and Random House editions (1958).

Eleven letters from Kay Boyle to Pat Pomerleau (two of the letters were dictated to an assistant by Boyle), the other nine are written by Boyle, dated 1971 through 1989.

Two typescripts and one autographed manuscript of poems written by Imamu Amiri Baraka, titled I Love Music, Am/Trak, and The Last Revolution.

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

Photocopied typescript of Charles van Ravenswaay's book, These Wonderful Old-Time Apples: The North American Story.

Autograph and signed letter from Chester Holcombe to Mr. David, sent from Newark, Delaware, dated February 8, 1901. On the verso is a letter to a Mr. Southgate from "WY D."

Rawleigh Colston receipt to John Ashmeade, dated February 25, 1782.

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.

Typescript photocopy of Edward Field's play, Frankenstein: a play for children in six scenes, which was sent to Jack Gottlieb, as well as photocopies of two letters from Field to Gottlieb and one letter from Gottlieb to Field.

One-page legal indenture of Samuel Kasley of Harford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, to Frederick Marker as an apprentice tailor on January 21, 1793, for a term of four years.

Two documents which authorized William Palmer to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the first document, Palmer was authorized by the Quarterly Meeting of the Chester Circuit, held at Mount Hope on March 7, 1812, and was signed by J. Potts and James Riddle.

One autograph signed letter from Captain Mayne Reid to Charles Felt, on literary business matters, requesting arrangements for payment and procuring copyright, dated October 29, 1857.

A birth and baptismal certificate for Isaac Hartman, son of John and Catherine (Schroll) Hartman of Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania, dated August 29, 1849. He was baptized by Daniel Ziegler and the certificate was printed by G.S. Peters, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.