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Alan Kaufman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0599
Abstract The papers of Alan Kaufman--an American Jewish author, editor, performer, artist, and impresario--include drafts of his memoir Jew Boy, his novel Matches, editorial material related to volumes in his Outlaw Bible series, and the magazine Davka: Jewish Cultural Revolution. There are numerous notebooks with notes, observations, lists, and drafts of poetry and writing, as well as original...
Dates: circa 19th century, 1952-2007; Majority of material found within 1952-2007

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

Michael Millgate-C.P. Snow collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0458
Abstract

The Michael Millgate-C.P. Snow collection spans the dates 1958-1964 and includes 42 items of correspondence, typescripts, periodicals, and news clippings related to British literary scholar Millgate’s 1962 interview with British writer, scientist, and public official C. P. (Charles Percy) Snow. Snow’s letters to Millgate are related to the latter’s work on Snow and other literary matters.

Dates: 1958-1964

Mohammed Mrabet correspondence, reviews, and other material

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0674
Abstract

Moroccan author and artist Mohammed Mrabet (born 1940) worked closely with American expatriate writer and musician Paul Bowles (1910-1999). This collection contains letters from several of Mrabet's friends and acquaintances, most notably from American writers and editors Irving Stettner (1922-2004) and Michael Wolfe (born 1945). Also included are reviews of Mrabet's works and photocopied dust jackets from his books.

Dates: 1968-1989

Beverley Nichols papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0620
Abstract

The Beverley Nichols papers document the personal and professional activities of prolific twentieth-century English novelist, playwright, journalist, composer, and political activist Beverley Nichols. The collection comprises correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, musical compositions, and photographs primarily dating between 1911 and 1991.

Dates: 1698, 1911-1991, undated; Majority of material found within 1911-1991

William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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Identifier: MSS 0638
Abstract The William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood comprises 10.5 linear feet of material plus oversize items dating from 1844 to 2005 and includes extensive bibliographic information relating to the works of Charles Dickens and specifically to the author's final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), which was unfinished at the time of his death. The collection, which illuminates Oliver's activities as a...
Dates: 1844-2005

Helen Ann Raiber papers

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Identifier: MSS 0981
Abstract

Helen Ann Raiber (1926-1971) was a writer born and raised in Pennsylvania. Throughout her life, she wrote letters to writers and other artists whose work she admired. The Helen Ann Raiber papers consist of an album of letters she received from authors and artists, a journal with a story she wrote as a child, and a scrapbook containing her published poems and articles.

Dates: 1937-1970; Majority of material found within 1937-1943

Raven Arts Press archive

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Identifier: MSS 0467
Abstract

The Archive of the Raven Arts Press forms a comprehensive record of the history and activities of the Dublin-based press, founded by Irish writer and publisher Dermot Bolger. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, galleys, publicity material, and financial records.

Dates: 1971-1993

Muriel Rukeyser letters to David Posner

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0833
Abstract

This small collection of letters and miscellaneous items from American poet Muriel Rukeyser to David Posner reflects their shared interests in poetry and spans the dates of 1942 to 1944.

Dates: 1942-1944

Salmon Poetry Ltd. records supplement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0438s
Abstract

The Salmon Poetry Ltd. records supplement contains administrative files and the press's publishing files for books produced between 2000 and 2011. Founded and directed by the American-Irish poet, Jessie Lendennie, Salmon Poetry Ltd. is noted particularly for its publication of poetry and its promotion of women writers. This supplement complements the core archival records of Salmon Publishing, Ltd., which was acquired by the University of Delaware Library in 1998.

Dates: 1996-2011; Majority of material found within 2000-2011

Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers

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Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates: 1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975

Doug Smith collection of Mark Harris correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera

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Identifier: MSS 0757
Abstract

American author Mark Harris (1922-2007) wrote approximately 34 letters to close friend sportswriter Doug Smith between 1996 and 2007, in which he included details about his daily life and reflections on his own writing.

Dates: 1996-2007

W.D. Snodgrass letters to Lila Jean Hank

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Identifier: MSS 0723
Abstract Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet W.D. (William De Witt) Snodgrass (1926-2009) wrote 58 letters between 1944 and 1946 to his then-fiancée Lila Jean Hank after being drafted into the United States Navy and stationed in Saipan. The letters described life on the naval base at the end of World War II and a long, anxious period of demobilization in the Pacific. Snodgrass was one of the early practitioners of the confessional style in American poetry with his first volume ...
Dates: 1944-1946

William G. Thompson Briarwood Writers' Alliance correspondence and publicity records

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Identifier: MSS 0671
Abstract

William G. Thompson as President of the Briarwood Writers' Alliance, Inc., represented more than 150 writers, poets, and performers by booking lectures and readings at educational institutions, literary gatherings, and community events.

Dates: 1964-2007

Louis Untermeyer correspondence with John D. Weaver

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Identifier: MSS 0441
Abstract

Leters, together with clippings, manuscripts and letters with other correspondents exchanged by American author, anthologist, and editor Louis Untermeyer and American writer John D. Weaver.

Dates: 1938-1995; Majority of material found within 1939-1977

Gustave Percival Wiksell miscellaneous material related to Bliss Carman, F. B. Sanborn, and R. W. Trine

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0921
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1887-1939

Tennessee Williams collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0112
Abstract

The Tennessee Williams collection, spanning the dates 1939-2013, consists of an extensive collection of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, printed material, and ephemera related to American playwright Tennessee Williams.

Dates: 1939-2013

Robert A. Wilson collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0481
Abstract

The Robert A. Wilson collection comprises 9 linear feet of material related to 36 prominent literary figures, previously in the private collection of Robert A. Wilson, the final owner of the Phoenix Book Shop, in New York City (1962-1988).

Dates: 1906-2011

Robert A. Wilson John Wieners collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0555
Abstract The Robert A. Wilson John Wieners collection comprises one linear foot of materials, spanning the dates between 1958-1988, relating to the literary career of and publication of works by Boston-born poet John Wieners (1934-2002). The collection includes manuscripts, page and galley proofs, mock-ups of some of Wieners's shorter publications, postcards, correspondence to Robert Wilson from Wieners, sheet music, flyers for Wieners's New York readings, reviews of Wieners's work, and...
Dates: 1958-1988

Robert A. Wilson W. H. Auden collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0982
Abstract W. H. Auden (1907-1973) was an English and American poet, translator, librettist, playwright, and essayist. The Robert A. Wilson W. H. Auden collection comprises Wilson’s collected materials created by and related to W. H. Auden. The collection includes manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs, and published versions of Auden’s poetry, translations, prose, and dramatic works; programs and promotional ephemera for Auden’s readings and events as well as other performances related to the...
Dates: circa 1930-2007, undated; Majority of material found within 1950-2000

Ben Yagoda papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0672
Abstract

American author, editor, critic and blogger Ben Yagoda (born 1954) retired from teaching journalism and writing at the University of Delaware in 2016. The collection includes research material, drafts and notes, and interviews toward Yagoda's various articles and book-length projects.

Dates: 1975-2015

Pauline A. Young collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0256
Abstract

Pauline A. Young was an educator, librarian, and activist primarily based in Wilmington, Delaware. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and ephemera. The majority of the material relates to Young’s efforts to bring attention to and preserve information about the life and works of her aunt, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, as well as her aunt's first husband, Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Dates: 1924-1988

Zephyrus Image records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0880
Abstract Zephyrus Image, founded by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, was a small Northern California press operating from approximately 1969-1983, notable for its socially- and politically-subversive books and ephemera and its fine works on paper. The Zephyrus Image records document the activities of the California press and its proprietors and the planning and development of roughly 300 printed works of poetry and political and satirical books and ephemera. Zephyrus Image projects were created for...
Dates: 1960-2000; Majority of material found within circa 1969-1983

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Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 4
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AE, 1867-1935 1
Abbey Theatre 1
Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911 1
Adam, Helen, 1909-1993 1
Advent Books (Firm) 1
Albee, Edward, 1928- 1
Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 1
Alden, John 1
Amnesty International 1
Andre, Michael 1
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918 1
Auchincloss, W. S. (William Stuart), 1842-1928 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Bailey, Jeffrey 1
Bamberger, Bill 1
Bamberger, Bill--Correspondence 1
Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968 1
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-2014 1
Bauer, Charlotte Andrews 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Beam, Jeffery, 1953- 1
Beer, Nele Löw 1
Bergé, Carol, 1928-2006 1
Berlin, Lucia 1
Berrigan, Daniel 1
Berrigan, Ted 1
Berry, Wendell, 1934- 1
Berryman, John, 1914-1972 1
Beston, Henry, 1888-1968 1
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) 1
Blondell, Joan 1
Bly, Robert 1
Boland, Eavan 1
Bolger, Dermot, 1959- 1
Bongé, Lyle 1
Bonheur, Gaston 1
Booth, Philip, 1925-2007 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--Correspondence 1
Brakhage, Stan 1
Brenner, Summer 1
Brenner, Summer--Archives 1
Briarwood Writers' Alliance, Inc. 1
Brilliant, Alan 1
Brilliant, Alan--Correspondence 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 1
Bringhurst, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Bryant, Dorothy, 1930- 1
Bullins, Ed 1
Bumbershoot (Festival) (Seattle, Wash.) 1
Burke, Clifford 1
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 1
Burwell, Basil Beckett, 1911- 1
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 1
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Chester, Laura--Correspondence 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clark, Tom, 1941-2018 1
Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955 1
Coatsworth, Elizabeth, 1893-1986 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- --Correspondence 1
Coffey, Brian, 1905-1995 1
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Coffey, Denis J. 1
Cohen, Ira 1
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 1
Congdon, Kirby 1
Connon, Bryan. Beverley Nichols: a life 1
Corso, Gregory 1
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