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Charles Allmond papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0673
Abstract

The papers of Delaware artist Charles Allmond (1931-2019) document over three decades (1981-2013) of his prolific career. The collection comprises 3 linear feet and oversize removals that include drawings, designs, slides, sculptures, as well as files of correspondence and documentation for exhibitions in which his work was included.

Dates: 1982-2013

Gérard Charrière papers

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Identifier: MSS 0785
Abstract

Gérard Charrière (1935- ) is a Swiss book artist and painter. The Gérard Charrière papers consist of correspondence, artists' books, catalogs, brochures, periodicals, postcards, artworks, sketches, and printed ephemera collected and created by Charrière. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence and materials from Charrière’s artist friends and colleagues.

Dates: 1960-2016; Majority of material found within 1980-2000

Mary Bartlett Cowdrey papers

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Identifier: MSS 0556
Abstract The papers of American art historian Mary Bartlett Cowdrey comprise nine linear feet of notes; correspondence; manuscripts of published and unpublished books and articles; engravings and lithographs from published sources; photographs of paintings and engravings; postcards; clippings from books, exhibition catalogs, magazines, and newspapers, for approximately 1,600 American artists active during the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. The collection is arranged in five series that...
Dates: 1834-1963; Majority of material found within 1930-1954

John Furnival papers

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Identifier: MSS 0746
Abstract John Furnival (1933-2020) was a British visual artist whose work is associated with the Concrete Poetry, Mail Art, and Fluxus movements, as well as with the American Beats. In 1964, Furnival, along with Dom Sylvester Houédard, founded Openings Press, a small Gloucestershire press dedicated to publishing concrete poetry and similar work. The John Furnival papers encompass nearly fifty years of the artist’s personal and professional activity and document his involvement with the International...
Dates: 1941-2016; Majority of material found within 1970-2016

Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material

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Identifier: MSS 0646
Abstract The Bruce Garland collection of Thomas Wise material comprises approximately 1.6 linear feet of material pertaining to English bibliographer, book collector, and forger Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937). Much of the collection's material was compiled by English bibliographer and book collector John Carter (1905-1975), who co-authored with Graham Pollard (1903-1976) An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (1934), which effectively outed Wise as a...
Dates: 1897-2007, undated; Majority of material found within 1934-1975

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

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

Sydney Goodsir Smith papers

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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

Frank W. Tober collection on literary forgery

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Identifier: MSS 0601
Abstract

The Frank W. Tober collection on literary forgery comprises letters, books, pamphlets, journals and journal articles, newspaper clippings, auction and exhibition catalogs, and other ephemera related to literary forgery. While Tober collected specimens of a variety of manuscript and printed forgeries, he was most interested in the literary forgeries of Thomas J. Wise and H. Buxton Forman.

Dates: 1801-1994; Majority of material found within 1920-1990

Michael von Uchtrup collection of Jonathan Williams correspondence and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0752
Abstract American poet and publisher Jonathan Williams (1929-2008), often associated with the Beat poets and the Black Mountain School, is known as a founder of The Jargon Society, a publishing firm that popularized the poetry of the post-World War II American avant-garde. The Michael von Uchtrup collection of Jonathan Williams correspondence and ephemera details the relationship that developed between Williams and von Uchtrup in the 1990s and provides insight into Williams’s publishing career,...
Dates: 1969-2003

Zephyrus Image records

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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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American Academy of the Fine Arts 1
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Berlin, Lucia 1
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Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Brakhage, Stan 1
Burke, Clifford 1
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 1
Carter, John, 1905-1975 1
Charrière, Gérard, 1935- 1
Clark, Laurie 1
Clark, Thomas A. 1
Clay, Steven, 1951- 1
Cohen, Ryosuke, 1948- 1
Conz, Francesco, 1935- 1
Coron, Béatrice 1
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett, 1910-1974 1
Cranium Press 1
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
Cronin, Ted (Edward T.), 1954-1992 1
Cudworth, Nick 1
Di Prima, Diane 1
Dickens Fellowship (London, England) 1
Dickens Fellowship (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Dickens, Cedric Charles 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Adaptations 1
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mystery of Edwin Drood 1
Dorn, Edward 1
Durrie, George Henry, 1820-1863 1
Fleck, Robert D., 1947- 1
Fuller, Ron 1
Furnival, Astrid, 1940- 1
Furnival, John, 1933-2020 1
Galántai, György 1
Garland, Bruce 1
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 1
Haber, Ira Joel 1
Haynes, Ric, 1945- 1
Hermes Free Press 1
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 1
Howell, Douglass Morse 1
Hutchins, Edward H. 1
Keller, Ronald 1
Kyger, Joanne 1
Lavater, Warja, 1913-2007 1
London, Rick 1
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 1
McClure, Michael 1
Miller, Brenda, 1941- 1
Mitchell, Adrian, 1932-2008 1
Morrison, Lois 1
Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868 1
Mrabet, Mohammed, 1936- 1
Myers, Michael, 1948-1982 1
National Academy of Design (U.S.) 1
Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir, 1851-1923 1
Oak Knoll Books (Firm) 1
Oliver, William Albert, 1926-2005 1
Openings Press 1
Openings-Closings Press 1
Oppenheimer, Joel, 1930-1988 1
Palmer, F. (Fanny), 1812-1876 1
Pelosi, Louis 1
Pénard, Rémy 1
Poltroon Press 1
Prokosch, Frederic, 1908-1989 1
Raworth, Tom 1
Rees, Darrel 1
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program 1
Rubovits, Norma 1
Rusk, Robert 1
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry 1
Sackner, Marvin A., 1932- 1
Sackner, Ruth 1
Skuber, Berty 1
Sky, Gino 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, 1915-1975 1
Snyder, Gary, 1930- 1
Spring Creek Typesetting Service 1
Stettner, Irving, 1922- 1
Stettner, Irving, 1922- --Correspondence 1
Teter, Holbrook 1
Tober, Frank W., 1919-1995 1
Turtle Island Foundation 1
Volta, Ornella 1
Walters, John Cuming 1
Welch, Lew 1
Wiley, William T., 1937- 1
Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008 1
Wise, Louise 1
Wolfe, Michael, 1945- 1
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