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Essays

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

A series of essays, short stories, poetry and scientific theories : typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0169
Abstract

Typescript (computer printed) copy of "A Series of Essays, Short Stories, Poetry and Scientific Theories" written by Jason Thomas Cerrato.

Dates: 2008
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Essay on slavery in England

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0127
Abstract

This manuscript essay describes the legal history of slavery in England, focusing especially on the precedents for and limitations of the 1772 Somerset vs. Stewart decision.

Dates: approximately 1860-1890
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Musical researches illustrating the influences of music upon mind and morals, religion, the passions, as a medicine, in war, and upon animals; with extracts from the sacred writers and the poets respecting music, and from the historians respecting its practice

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0131
Abstract

This volume contains over 500 pages of essays, research notes, and quotations written by Philip F. Snyder from 1835 to 1893 on the history, structure, and cultural influence of music. The material is evidence of a long-term, comprehensive study of music conducted by Snyder and consists mostly of passages, articles, and extracts copied from a wide variety of works.

Dates: 1835-1893
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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British painter and longtime teacher of perspective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, include both published and unpublished books, poems, plays, fiction, essays, lectures, notes, sketches, inventories, diaries, and other personal writings.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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Louis Untermeyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0111
Abstract

The Louis Untermeyer papers consist of five linear feet of manuscript material abandoned by Untermeyer when he sold his Adirondack home, Stony Water, around 1970. Dating from 1902 through 1972, with the bulk of the papers dating 1912–1935, the collection is composed of correspondence, proofs, lists, scrapbooks, notes, photographs, programs, announcements, lectures, anthologies, poems, reviews, essays, and a bookplate.

Dates: 1902-1972; Majority of material found within 1912-1935
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Zephyrus Image records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0880
Abstract Zephyrus Image, founded by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, was a small Northern California press operating from approximately 1969-1983, notable for its socially- and politically-subversive books and ephemera and its fine works on paper. The Zephyrus Image records document the activities of the California press and its proprietors and the planning and development of roughly 300 printed works of poetry and political and satirical books and ephemera. Zephyrus Image projects were created for...
Dates: 1960-2000; Majority of material found within circa 1969-1983
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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