Authors

Seven letters from Lady Gregory to Mrs. Henry LaBarre Jayne, including one envelope.

This collection of letters and postcards, written by author and playwright James Leo Herlihy (1927-1993) to his friend Edward P. Mitchell, contains updates on his life in New York City, including his writing and his financial difficulties; and is accompanied by a life mask of Herlihy and a sculpture created by Herlihy.

Letter from Irish author Emily Henrietta Hickey to Lord Archbishop originally laid in a copy of Hickey's Verse-tales, Lyrics and Translations (1889).

American author John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988) wrote this three-page letter to his wife Shirley, describing his experiences at the West-Central Writers' Conference in June of 1967.

Irish literary critic and biographer Joseph M. Hone (1882-1959) wrote ten letters to Lady Hylda Henrietta Wrench (1879-1955) in 1906, discussing current literature and Irish theatre. A poem titled "Mars," mentioned in the letters and written in Hone's hand, is also included.

Programs and advertising materials for personal appearances of American author Langston Hughes and for dramatic productions of his works.

American poet John Giorno (born 1936) wrote nine letters to poet and editor William Levy (born 1939), many in poetic form, that discussed his poetic work, travels, and drug experiences. Also included is an advertisement for one of Giorno's 1965 poetry readings in Toronto in conjunction with the release of Les Levine's film adaptation of Giorno's The American Book of the Dead(1964).

John Wieners publisher's files for The Hotel Wentley Poems consists of .3 linear feet of materials comprising manuscripts, proofs, artwork, page layouts, and correspondence created and revised by American poet John Wieners (1934-2002), publisher David Haselwood, and artist Robert Lavigne (1928-) relating to the publication of Wieners’s The Hotel Wentley Poems: Original Version (1965).

The Everett C. & Louise Stanton Johnson papers concern the personal affairs of prominent Delaware publisher and politician Everett C. Johnson (1877-1926) and his wife Louise Staton Johnson (1882-1977). In addition, the collection contains material from their Newark publishing house, the Press of Kells, which brought the Arts and Crafts Movement to the community from 1916 to 1918.

James Joyce manuscript of the poem "In the dark pinewood," eventually published as "Poem XX" in Chamber Music (1907).

This collection comprises material related to the American actor and playwright Robert B. Kegerreis's 1909 dramatic adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and his involvement in the New York theater scene of the early twentieth century.

Letter from Mary Lavin to Charlotte.

Letter from Irish author Emily Lawless to "Mr. Smith" originally laid in a copy of Lawless' book Atlantic Rhymes and Rhythm (1898).

This prepublication typed manuscript of American screen writer and author Anita Loos's (1893-1981) autobiography A Girl Like I (1966) bears typed and handwritten editorial markings. Some of the pencil notations are in Loos's hand.

Letter from Irish author Samuel Lover to Deane.

Letter from Samuel Lover to Edward Wolford.

Letter from Samuel Lover to Le Chevalier Chatelain.

Letter from Samuel Lover to Mrs. Edmund Grundy.

Letters from Samuel Lover to various individuals.

Programme for Samuel Lover's "Paddy's Portfolio."

Manterials related to the publication and promtion of Scottish author Hugh MacDiarmid's manuscript First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems, published in Dublin by the Unicorn Press in 1931.

Letter from Patrick MacDonogh to Seumas O'Sullivan, which was originally laid in a copy of MacDonogh's Over The Water and Other Poems.

Letter from publisher John Maxwell to Samuel Lover.

The Bernard McKenna Richard Blanco papers comprises .3 linear feet of typescripts, printed emails, programs, notes, and photographs pertaining to the literary output of Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco (born 1968). The collection was compiled by University of Delaware English professor Bernard McKenna in the course of his longtime friendship with Blanco.