MSS 0099. Miscellaneous Literary & Historical Manuscripts

Letters written to Lewis Turco, including six letters from W. D. Snodgrass, as well as a publication photograph of Snodgrass, four letters from William Dickey, one letter from Barbara Howes, and one letter from Robert Mezey, spanning 1961-1989.

Correspondence between J. V. (James Vincent) Cunningham and Lewis Turco and Roger Dickinson-Brown, consisting of one letter from Turco, three letters to Turco from Cunningham, and two letters written by Cunningham to Dickinson-Brown.

One typed letter written and signed by W. H. (William Henry) Davies to an unidentified gentleman reflecting "it is curiuos (sic) how the Sea gets such a hold on us that, after making several long voyages, we feel ourselves unfit for any quiet occupation on land," dated May 30, 1924.

One typed letter written and signed by Guy Davenport to "Steven," explaining that "poetry is a music of words," the different types of poetry that exist, and declaring himself a "writer of stories" rather than a poet, on December 3, 1979.

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 1905, African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) responded to an inquiry from Reginald Kauffman (1877-1959), an associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post, who was soliciting Dunbar for poems or stories.

This second draft of the screenplay, Little Murders, was American playwright and cartoonist Jules Feiffer's adaptation of his first play.

British author Charles Morgan wrote in reply to Reverend Robert Barrett’s most recent letter, responding to Barrett's ideas of fiction.

American poet and potter Mary Caroline Richards wrote belatedly to answer a letter from her former Black Mountain College student Wanda Shult.

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

Allen Ginsberg wrote these postcards and letters to Gregory Corso between 1982 and 1985.

Horace Traubel signed this single-sheet galley proof of his poem, "You Are Going to Have a Baby," which appeared in the October 1907 issue of Traubel's magazine, The Conservator(18: 8, p. 116-118).

In this single letter, dated August 8, 1862, British publisher John Murray wrote to Mrs. Tindal regarding the work on the new Biographica Britannica.

Created by Laurence McGillvery, this calendar counts down the last year of Ronald Reagan's presidency, beginning January 20, 1988 to January 20, 1989. Each day includes either a quote from Ronald Readan or marks the anniversary of "an administration event."