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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.
William Augustus Brewer bookplate collection
The William Augustus Brewer bookplate collection comprises 12,870 printed bookplates dating primarily from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, many of which were from the libraries of famous individuals or produced by significant artists. The collection also contains additional material relating to Brewer's collection, including Mrs. Augusta LaMotte Brewer's address book and printing plates and blocks, as well as reference material relating to bookplates.
Bright family papers
John Briley's screenplay of Arthur Miller's The Crucible
A screenplay believed to be the first draft of Arthur Miller's The Crucible written by John Briley. Produced by Richard Maynard Productions in white card binder (two pinch brads) imprinted on the front, "Inter-Talent Agency, Inc. 9200 Sunset Boulevard Penthouse 25 Los Angeles, California 90060, dated February 27, 1989. Signed by Arthur Miller on the title page.
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.
John C. Brinck autobiographical sketch
This volume contains an autobiographical sketch of John C. Brinck’s childhood in upstate New York, mercantile career in New York City, and travels to the Midwest, covering the period between 1811 and the early 1890s.
Bringhurst & Co., receipt to Reynell Coates
A note of exchange between Reynell Coats and John Bringhurst and Co., stating that thirty pounds sterling should be paid to Reynell Coates thirty dates after the date of the note.
John Malcolm Brinnin collection related to Mitchell Wolfson, Jr.
Consists of the John Malcolm Brinnin collection related to Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., which includes letters written by Brinnin to the publishers, a letter from the publisher declining the article, and a photocopy of the manuscript.
Collection of John Malcolm Brinnin - Kimon Friar correspondence and Brinnin literary manuscripts
Papers and literary manuscripts relating to poet John Malcolm Brinnin (1916–1998). The material was collected by Brinnin's friend, Greek-American poet and scholar, Kimon Friar.
John Malcolm Brinnin papers
The John Malcolm Brinnin Papers consist of 15.5 linear feet of material related to the writing, speaking and teaching career of Brinnin. The collection includes correspondence; photographs; books; drafts of poetry, essays, speeches, biographies, and other forms of writing by Brinnin. Additionally manuscripts by other writers, travel ephemera, and material related to the New York Poetry Center are available in the collection.
John Malcolm Brinnin papers supplement
Signatures archive
Co-edited by John Hinsdale Thompson and John Malcolm Brinnin and based in Detroit, Signatures was a literary magazine of "works-to-be-published-later" written by contemporary American and international writers. Subtitled "Work in Progress," Signatures was first published in the Spring of 1936 and continued for a total of three issues, ceasing publication in 1938.
Brinton family papers
The Brinton family papers document several generations of the Brinton, Steinmetz, and Ward families, who flourished between 1760-1930 in Pennsylvania and New York. Several members of the family played prominent roles in their communities and included landholders, real estate developers, merchants, Civil War surgeons, medical doctors and professors, missionaries, a minister, an art critic, an anthropologist, lawyers, a judge, an engineer, and several authors.
British late-Victorian album with "Ally Sloper" characters and other scraps
This late Victorian-era scrap album, likely made by a young British boy, bears a black lacquered board cover adorned with a hand-painted bouquet of flowers, ferns, and foliage. Contents include die-cut color scraps of animals, flowers, and a color set of characters from "Ally Sloper," the popular Victorian comic strip. A set of colored transfer prints depict fables and nursery rhymes and a set of color-printed square cards depicts the Stations of the Cross.
British scrapbook of the late Regency-early Victorian period
This early nineteenth-century British scrapbook features both copied and original riddles and poems. Images included in this collection are political cartoons, fashionable ladies and gentlemen, architecture, animals, birds, flowers and fruit. Thematic arrangements of scraps include virtue, marriage, courtship, mourning and the loss of family members.
John Charles Brooke scrapbook of architectural prints, original drawings, and maps of Yorkshire, England
Collection of prints, printed sheets, manuscripts, original drawings, and maps, removed from a scrapbook compiled by John Charles Brooke and bequeathed to the College of Arms, London, whose bookplate and release stamp is present on one of the boards.
Shirley Brooks letters
Writer Charles William Shirley Brooks (1816-1874) was born and educated in London, England and pursued a career as a journalist, novelist, and dramatist. The correspondence of C.W. Shirley Brooks consists of 37 letters from Brooks to various friends and acquaintances. The collection dates from 1854 to February 8, 1874, just two weeks before his death. Brooks's correspondence discusses literary matters, his health, social engagements, and editorial work.
Biography of my campaign in the Phillippines
This diary was kept by soldier Edward E. Brown of Company B, 35th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, during the Philippine-American war, for the period 1899-1901.
Fleda Brown papers
Fleda Brown (born 1944) is an American poet, scholar, and educator, and was poet laureate for the state of Delaware from 2001-2007. The Fleda Brown papers, spanning circa 1950-2014 (bulk 1963-2014), comprise early works, poem drafts and notes, journals, correspondence, and materials related to Brown’s professional life as a poet and professor of English at the University of Delaware.
Harry Fletcher Brown collection
The Harry Fletcher Brown collection, spanning the years 1881-1960 (bulk dates 1910-1952), contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches, business cards, legal documents, printed material, ephemera, a photograph, World War I medal, programs, and blueprints of his Wilmington, Delaware, residence.
Patricia D. Brown collection of Grace Lloyd Collins Walsh commemorative butter pat dishes
This collection consists of seventy-four commemorative butter pat dishes sold by Wilmington, Delaware, businesswoman Grace Lloyd Collins Walsh at her gift shop between the 1930s and the 1950s.
Colonel Patricia D. Brown papers related to service in Vietnam
Colonel Patricia D. Brown (1929- ) is a retired United States Air Force officer who served as a nurse during a tour of duty in South Vietnam from August 1966 to August 1967. The papers ofColonel Patricia D. Brownrelated toservice in Vietnam provide a visual record of Colonel Brown’s tour of duty as an Air Force nurse stationed at Cam Ranh Bay in 1966-1967.
Sterling A. Brown letter to Dolores Sutton
One autograph letter written and signed by poet Sterling A. Brown to Dolores Sutton, dated May 24, 1965, and a program for an evening honoring Brown and his poetry.
N. B. Browne papers
The N. B. Browne papers, 1845-1873, document the professional and personal affairs of nineteenth-century Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, businessman and public servant Nathaniel Borradaile Browne.
Armistead W. Browning, Jr. papers
Born in 1938, Armistead Willis Browning, Jr., was a landscape architect, environmentalist and teacher who dedicated his life to environmental preservation and education. The papers chronicle Browning's experience at three architectural firms, two main centers of education, and with numerous independent projects, symposia, and workshops.