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Jeffrey Bailey collection of James Leo Herlihy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0670
Abstract

The Jeffrey Bailey collection of James Leo Herlihy papers is a combination of correspondence and personal papers originated by American author and actor James Leo Herlihy and literary papers belonging to Herlihy’s long-time friend and literary executor, American author Jeffrey Bailey.

Dates: 1942-2006; Majority of material found within dates 1953-1993

Summer Brenner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0617
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1962-2005

Alice Dunbar-Nelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0113
Abstract The Alice Dunbar-Nelson papers consist of the literary, professional, and personal papers of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. The papers include an extensive collection of her incoming correspondence. Of particular note is her correspondence (1895-1904) with Paul Laurence Dunbar, which also includes her letters to Dunbar. The Alice Dunbar-Nelson Papers also include a comprehensive collection of manuscripts of her writing, including novels, stories, poetry, drama, and essays. Dunbar-Nelson maintained a...
Dates: 1895-1942

The Olio or miscellaneous writings of Isaac S. French, student of medicine

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0152
Abstract

The journal of Dr. Isaac S. French contains original poems, essays, and entries describing his daily activities as a medical student at Dartmouth, New Hampshire, and physician from 1854 to 1861. French also described his relationships with several women and the early years of his marriage.

Dates: 1853-1865; Majority of material found within 1853-1860

Recollections

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0034
Abstract

Margaret Hazlitt's "Recollections" of her father Reverend William Hazlitt (1737-1820), and her brothers essayist and critic William Hazlitt (1778-1830) and artist John Hazlitt (1767-1837) cover the period 1737 to approximately 1812. The diary is of interest for its account of the origins and history of the Hazlitt family and its detailed description of the visit of the Reverend William Hazlitt and his family to North America from 1783 to 1787.

Dates: 1835 April 18-1838 October 27

Journal of Maria Louise Pool

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0060
Abstract

This diary was kept by writer Maria Louise Pool of Brooklyn, New York, for the year 1873. Entries center predominantly around Pool's domestic and social life, the weather, and her ongoing projects involving the writing of fiction.

Dates: 1873 January 1-December 31

Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers

 Collection
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

Emily Shore journals

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0104
Abstract

These three manuscripts are the seventh, tenth, and twelfth of twelve journal volumes created by a young Englishwoman named Emily Shore (1819-1839). Shore wrote these journals between October 1836 and July 1839, while she traveled around southern England, the Channel Islands, and Madeira, before dying of tuberculosis in Funchal, Madeira.

Dates: 1836-1839

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

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Names
Bailey, Jeffrey 1
Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) 1
Blondell, Joan 1
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Bongé, Lyle 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Branson, Caroline M. 1
Brenner, Summer 1
Brenner, Summer--Archives 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
Broughton, James, 1913-1999 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833-1898 1
Chester, Laura 1
Chester, Laura--Correspondence 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- --Correspondence 1
Crumb, R. 1
Crumb, R.--Correspondence 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dietrich, Marlene 1
Dulong, Jean Louis 1
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 1
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935 1
Durrell, Lawrence 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
French, Ann Augusta, approximately 1838- 1
French, Isaac S., 1834- 1
Frym, Gloria 1
Frym, Gloria--Correspondence 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Gambart, Ernest, 1814-1902 1
Gifford, Barry, 1946- 1
Gifford, Barry, 1946- --Correspondence 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Hazlitt, John, 1767-1837 1
Hazlitt, Margaret, 1770-1841 1
Hazlitt, William, 1737-1820 1
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 1
Hazlitt, William, 1811-1893 1
Herlihy, James Leo 1
Heston, Charlton 1
Hodgson, J. E. (John Evan), 1831-1895 1
Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Kirkwood, James, 1924-1989 1
Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 1948- 1
Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 1948- --Correspondence 1
Lambert, Gavin 1
Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921 1
Marks, Henry Stacy, 1829-1898 1
Miss Gladys Storey’s Bovril Fund 1
Mrabet, Mohammed, 1936- 1
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977 1
Pasadena Community Playhouse 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pool, Maria Louise, 1841-1898 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 1
Rodefer, Stephen 1
Rodefer, Stephen--Correspondence 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Shore, Emily, 1819-1839 1
St. John’s Wood Clique 1
Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus), 1834-1919 1
Storey, Mary Gladys, 1886-1978 1
The Figures 1
Walker, Frederick, 1840-1875 1
Weissberger, Arnold, 1898-1984 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Wynfield, David Wilkie, 1837-1887 1
Yeames, William Frederick, 1835-1918 1
Young, Geoffrey, 1944- 1
Young, Geoffrey, 1944- --Correspondence 1
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