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Amiri Baraka papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0699
Abstract

Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), known early in his career as LeRoi Jones, was a widely published African American writer who produced poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. Much of Baraka’s work addressed the subjects of Black liberation and white racism. The Amiri Baraka papers comprise the author’s writings, sketchbooks, and artwork, as well as correspondence and ephemera related to his involvement in theatrical and film productions.

Dates: circa 1965-2006

Harold Brayman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0261
Abstract Harold Brayman (1900-1988), a political journalist and former director of the Public Relations Department of Du Pont Company for 21 years, helped establish a concept of public relations which was widely emulated throughout the United States. The Harold Brayman papers, spanning from 1900-1991, document the successful dual career of one man in the fields of journalism and public relations. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings and...
Dates: 1900-1991; Majority of material found within 1928-1978

Donald Callender papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0588
Abstract This collection documents the for-profit and nonprofit work of Donald W. Callender, Jr., an industrial archaeologist whose career in the greater Delaware-Pennsylvania-New Jersey area has involved maintenance and restoration of railroads and rail cars. In addition, Callender was involved in the establishment of a regional living history museum, the leadership of historic preservation organizations, and efforts to restore the Wilmington Waterfront and increase tourism to the city. The...
Dates: 1968-2008; Majority of material found within 1974-1999

Collection of uncorrected poetry proofs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0869
Abstract Originally compiled by bookseller Chloe's Books, this collection contains uncorrected proofs of poetry collections written by various authors between 1984 and 1998, arranged alphabetically by the last name of the author or editor. These advance proofs allowed authors to make corrections to the books before the final versions were printed and released. Publicity materials that were originally laid into the proofs, including newsletters, press releases, publishers’ letters to reviewers, and...
Dates: 1984-1998

Delaware Miscellany collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0598
Abstract

The Delaware Miscellany collection includes three large, green buckram-bound volumes compiled by William Ditto Lewis, which contain various documents pertaining to the history of Delaware and the surrounding region, and the University of Delaware.

Dates: 1825-1958; Majority of material found within 1920-1958

Rita Katz Farrell collection related to dance

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0430
Abstract

Reference and research files that Rita Katz Farrell compiled during her career as a critic, freelance writer, and teacher.

Dates: 1920-1993; Majority of material found within 1950-1993

Peter Owen publishing records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0571
Abstract

Peter Owen publishing records is the publisher’s archive (1950s-1995) of an independent British firm renowned for its international list of major authors and avant garde works. The bulk of the collection consists of the production files of selected works, primarily from the 1980s and 1990s, including edited typescripts, proofs, and other materials documenting the process of turning an author’s manuscript into a finished book.

Dates: 1951-1995

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

C.P. Snow letters to Arthur Mizener

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0967
Abstract

Consists of seventeen letters written by British novelist C.P. Snow to American author Arthur Mizener between 1956 and 1961, as well as three letters written by Snow's wife, British author Pamela Johnson Hansford to Rosemary Mizener, and a press release.

Dates: 1956-1961

Week of the angry arts against the war in Vietnam ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0962
Abstract

Week of the Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam ephemera collection consists of posters, schedules, correspondence, newspapers proofs, press releases, information sheets, and other ephemera related to the events held during the Week of the Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam in 1967.

Dates: 1967

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Administrators 1
Advertisements 1
African American authors--20th century 1
African American authors--21st century 1
African American dramatists--20th century 1
African American poets--20th century 1
African American poets--21st century 1
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Albany (N.Y.) 1
Albany Evening News 1
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Dance--United States--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--Politics and government 1
Depressions--1929--United States 1
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English poetry--Irish authors--21st century 1
Essays 1
Faxes 1
Feasibility studies 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
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Historic preservation--United States--History--20th century 1
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Industrial archaeologists 1
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Literature publishing--Ireland--History--21st century 1
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Mailing lists 1
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Maps (documents) 1
Middleburgh News 1
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Motion pictures--Production and direction 1
New Deal, 1933-1939 1
New York post 1
New York post-standard 1
Newark (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Newark (Del.)--History--20th century 1
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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 2
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993 2
Adams, Phelps 1
Algarín, Miguel 1
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-2014 1
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Barratt’s Chapel (Kent County, Del.) 1
Bernard, Oliver 1
Bishop's Mill Historic Institute 1
Bode, Charles Gustav, 1901- 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Brayman, Harold, 1900-1988 1
Brown, Harry Fletcher, 1867-1944 1
Bullins, Ed 1
Callender, Donald W., Jr. 1
Callender, Donald W., Jr.--Archives 1
Carpenter, Walter Samuel, 1888-1976 1
Cassian, Nina 1
Chloe's Books (Firm) 1
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 1
Committee for the Re-election of the President 1
Cornell University 1
Crosland, Margaret, 1920- 1
Cumming, Anne 1
Delaware (Ship) 1
Digges, Deborah 1
Dorfman, Ariel 1
Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 1
Faldbakken, Knut 1
Farr, Evelyn 1
Fischer, Wolfgang Georg, 1933- 1
Four States Railway Services 1
Gibson, H. B. (Hamilton Bertie) 1
Glass, N. M. (Norman M.), 1894-1976 1
Greater Wilmington Convention and Visitors Bureau 1
Gregor, Arthur, 1923- 1
Gridiron Club (Washington, D.C.) 1
Hagley Museum 1
Halegua, Lillian 1
Hargreaves, Gloria 1
Harris, Theodore A. 1
Haylock, John 1
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 1
Herbert, David 1
Historic Red Clay Valley, Inc. (Del.) 1
Home, Stewart, 1962- 1
Hullihen, Walter 1
Inoue, Yasushi, 1907-1991 1
International House 1
Johnson, Pamela Hansford, 1912-1981 1
Kalmar Nyckel (Ship : Replica)--Design and construction--20th century 1
Kalmar Nyckel Foundation 1
Kihlman, Christer, 1930- 1
Knickerbocker Press 1
Le Vay, David 1
League of Nations 1
Legislative Correspondents' Association of the State of New York 1
Lendennie, Jessie 1
Lewis, William Ditto 1
Lincoln Club of Delaware 1
Logan, William, 1950 November 16- 1
Long, David J. 1
Lympany, Moura, 1916-2005 1
Maraini, Dacia 1
Messick, Charles P. 1
Metten, John F. (John Farrell), 1873-1968 1
Minco, Marga 1
Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 1
Mizener, Arthur 1
Moorepark, Howard 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
Morrison, C. M. (Charles Munro) 1
Murch, A. E. (Alma Elizabeth) 1
Muske-Dukes, Carol, 1945- 1
National Press Club (U.S.) 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
No, Kum-Sok 1
Parland, Oscar, 1912-1997 1
Perkins, John A. (John Alanson), 1914-1982 1
Peter Owen (Firm) 1
Piaf, Edith, 1915-1963 1
Piercy, Marge 1
Pitt-Kethley, Fiona, 1954- 1
Ponsot, Marie 1
Public Relations Society of America 1
Pulsifer, Gary 1
Purnell, William Henry, 1826-1902 1
Railway Management Services 1
Reed, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1899-1972 1
Reed, Jeremy 1
Rickards, J. E. (John Ezra), 1848-1927 1
Ritsos, Giannēs, 1909-1990 1
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800 1
Rootes, Nina 1
Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939 1
Rubinstein, Stanley J. (Stanley Jack) 1
Russell Taylor, Elisabeth, 1930- 1
Rutsala, Vern 1
Ruyslinck, Ward, 1929-2014 1
Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814 1
Salmon Poetry Ltd. 1
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