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Sir Joseph Gold literary manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0658
Abstract

British attorney and author Sir Joseph Gold (1912-2000) was a collector of modern first editions of British and American writers and poets. The Sir Joseph Gold literary manuscript collection comprises correspondence, manuscripts, publishing files, and publications of mid-twentieth century British and American poets, publishers, and scholars.

Dates: 1904-1972; Majority of material found within 1949-1972

Elva de Pue Matthews papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0114
Abstract

The Elva de Pue Matthews Papers consist of two linear feet of correspondence, drafts of novels written by Matthews, poetry and essays by Matthews or others, clippings, and notes. The collection spans the dates 1917-1962, with the bulk of the collection dating between 1917 and 1949.

Dates: 1917-1962; Majority of material found within 1917-1949

Richard McCann papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0616
Abstract The Richard McCann papers document the personal life and professional career of this American author, poet, and educator. The collection includes McCann's early creative writing; teaching materials; reviews, essays, and critical writing; personal and professional correspondence; and extensive drafts of McCann's poetry and fiction. McCann's fiction has autobiographical roots, often drawn from family relationships and personal experiences, as illustrated in photographs and family memorabilia...
Dates: 1920s-2008; Majority of material found within 1978-2005

Brian Phelan papers

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Identifier: MSS 0681
Abstract

The Brian Phelan papers document forty years of the literary career of Irish-born playwright and screenwriter Brian Phelan (born 1934). Phelan's adaptations and docudramas focus on Irish characters, the issues of Irish emigration, socialist and feminist themes, and major world events. The collection, which spans from the 1960s to the 2000s, comprises Phelan's working and project files and include correspondence, screenplays, scripts, contracts, photographs, and research.

Dates: 1958-2005; Majority of material found within 1975-2003

James B. Pond papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0624
Abstract

American lecture manager and memoirist James B. Pond represented American and British explorers, preachers, politicians, scientists, and writers, on the lecture circuit from 1874 to his death in 1903. The majority of the collection is comprised of the incoming and outgoing correspondence of Pond; also included are manuscripts and ephemera relating to Pond's family and business.

Dates: 1878-1944; Majority of material found within 1885-1903

Sydney Goodsir Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0226
Abstract The Sydney Goodsir Smith Papers date primarily from the late 1950s and early 1960s, an especially nationalist phase in Smith’s literary career. The collection contains several drafts and advance proofs of Smith’s play The Wallace and manuscripts of his long dramatic poems, Gowdsmith in Reekie and The Vision of the Prodigal Son. Also present are seventeen pieces of correspondence and the manuscripts of about...
Dates: 1954-1960

George Adolphus Storey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0586
Abstract

The papers of George Adolphus Storey, R.A., prolific British painter and longtime teacher of perspective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, include both published and unpublished books, poems, plays, fiction, essays, lectures, notes, sketches, inventories, diaries, and other personal writings. Also included are several items belonging to his daughter, Mary Gladys Storey, an actress well-known for her charitable work during World Wars I and II.

Dates: 1848-1946; Majority of material found within 1848-1919

Barry Wallenstein - James T. Farrell collection

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Identifier: MSS 0548
Abstract

The Barry Wallenstein - James T. Farrell collection comprises 0.6 linear feet of articles, manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, and notes pertaining to Wallenstein's research on American novelist James T. Farrell and spans the dates between 1929 and 1975.

Dates: 1929-1975

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Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
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Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell), 1834-1928 1
Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell), 1834-1928--Correspondence 1
Dorn, Edward 1
Dulong, Jean Louis 1
Durbridge, Stephen 1
Eastman, Charles A., 1858-1939 1
Eastman, Charles A., 1858-1939--Correspondence 1
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 1
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 1
Gambart, Ernest, 1814-1902 1
Gold, Joseph, 1912- 1
Göteborgs universitet 1
HBO Home Entertainment (Firm) 1
Hodgson, J. E. (John Evan), 1831-1895 1
Hollins College 1
Horovitz, Michael, 1935- 1
Howe, Marie, 1950- 1
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Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921 1
MacBeth, George 1
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 1
MacSweeney, Barry 1
Marks, Henry Stacy, 1829-1898 1
Matthews, E. de P. (Elva de Pue) 1
Maud, Ralph 1
McCann, Richard 1
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Miss Gladys Storey’s Bovril Fund 1
Moraes, Dom, 1938-2004 1
Osborne, Charles 1
Phelan, Brian 1
Poetry Book Society 1
Poets Press (New York, N.Y.) 1
Pond, James B. (James Burton), 1838-1903 1
Pond, James B. (James Burton), 1838-1903--Correspondence 1
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 1
Pound, Omar S. 1
Raidió Teilifís Éireann 1
Ralph, Julian, 1838-1903--Correspondence 1
Ralph, Julian, 1853-1903 1
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 1
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 1
Russell, Peter, 1921-2003 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, 1915-1975 1
St. John’s Wood Clique 1
Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus), 1834-1919 1
Storey, Mary Gladys, 1886-1978 1
University of Iowa 1
Virginia Commonwealth University 1
Walker, Frederick, 1840-1875 1
Wallenstein, Barry 1
Whalen, Philip 1
Wynfield, David Wilkie, 1837-1887 1
Yaddo (Artists' colony) 1
Yeames, William Frederick, 1835-1918 1
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