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Summer Brenner papers
The Summer Brenner papers offers a comprehensive view of an American poet and novelist's life across four decades beginning in the 1960s. The collection includes extensive personal correspondence and journals, literary manuscripts and drafts documenting all stages of the writing and publishing process, and Brenner's work from magazine contributions, book publications, and community projects.
Alan Brilliant correspondence with Ted Wilentz
This collection contains .7 linear feet of personal letters and postcards from Alan Brilliant of Unicorn Press to his former employer and longtime friend, proprietor of Corinth Books Ted Wilentz. Other materials include press catalogs, newsletters, financial records, clippings, periodicals, poems, and other printed ephemera related to the Unicorn Press.
Samuel R. Delany collection
The Samuel R. Delany collection includes Delany's letters to publisher Bill Bamberger (Bamberger Books), manuscript drafts of novels in progress, comic books, science fiction anthologies, and journals of fantasy and science fiction to which Delany contributed or served as editor.
James Leo Herlihy letters to Edward P. Mitchell
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.
John Clellon Holmes letter to Shirley Allen
American author John Clellon Holmes typed this four-page letter to his future wife, Shirley Allen.
John Clellon Holmes letter to Shirley Holmes
American author John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988) wrote this three-page letter to his wife Shirley, describing his experiences at the West-Central Writers' Conference in June of 1967.
Charles Johnson papers
The Charles Johnson papers consist of the letters and manuscripts written by American novelist and teacher Charles Johnson and sent to his former professor John Gardner. The seven manuscripts are drafts and outlines towards Johnson's publications, The Devil and Jubilee Tuthill, Oxherding Tale, and Faith and the Good Thing.
Alan Kaufman papers
Richard McCann papers
Charles Morgan letter to George
One autograph letter written by Charles Morgan to "George" on printed letterhead of 16 Campden Hill Square, W.8., concerning Morgan's work in progress and his desire to keep references about his play being bought away from speculation, on December 6, 1937.
William A. Oliver, Jr. collection related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood
John Sanford letters to Noel Young
Two letters written by American writer John Sanford to Capra Press publisher Noel Young between 1992 and 1994.
Hubert Selby, Jr., letters to John S. Friedman
The collection comprises eleven letters from Hubert Selby, Jr., to journalist and friend John S. Friedman which include an autobiographical statement by Selby as well as a typed draft of a short story entitled, “A Little Respect.”
Carl Van Vechten photograph portrait of William Demby
Black-and-white photograph portrait of novelist and film translator William Demby (1922-2013) taken by photographer Carl Van Vechten in New York on March 13, 1956.