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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

Padraic Colum papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0147
Abstract

The papers of Padraic Colum, Irish poet, playwright, and author, are comprised of book reviews, letters to author and theatrical producer Basil Burwell, and original manuscripts of Colum's work.

Dates: 1927-1970

John Drinkwater letter to Theodore Watts-Dunton

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0735
Abstract

An autograph letter signed from John Drinkwater to Theodore Watts-Dunton, dated April 5, 1913.

Dates: 1913 April 5

Frankenstein : a play for children in six scenes : typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0734
Abstract

Typescript photocopy of Edward Field's play, Frankenstein: a play for children in six scenes, which was sent to Jack Gottlieb, as well as photocopies of two letters from Field to Gottlieb and one letter from Gottlieb to Field.

Dates: 1976

Tambourines to glory : playscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0705
Abstract

Mimeographed typescript of the playscript, Tambourines to Glory, wriitten by Langston Hughes. The title page identifies the playscript as: "Revised version. September 1962."

Dates: 1962 September

Ulick O'Connor papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0137
Abstract

This collection consists of material accumulated over a 25-year period by Ulick O’Connor: biographer, poet, playwright and journalist. O’Connor’s biographies of Brendan Behan and Oliver St. John Gogarty have been recognized internationally as definitive works. A large portion of the collection deals with materials for these books.

Dates: 1904-1976; Majority of material found within 1960-1974

Sydney Goodsir Smith papers

 Collection
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

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

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Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-2014 1
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 1
Behan, Brendan 1
Bullins, Ed 1