Typescript photocopy mock-up with autograph corrections and annotations. The notes describe text sources and other information about the poems, and instructions for typesetting the manuscript. Also includes a front cover and additional pages of front ...
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Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), American poet. He was married to the American poet Alice Notley (1945-).
The collection contains typescripts of four undated novels by Aleta B. Baker: Captive Amid the Astral: A Romance (355 pages); The Double Bridal (366 pages); The Mysterious Opal Globe: A Mystical Romance (67 pages); and Rathbone, Son of the Sun: A Roma...
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Aleta Blanche Baker, American author, was born in Maine in 1880, and died in Miami, Florida, on January 19, 1943. Baker was the founding director of the Order of the Portal, a Christian occultist group headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1924 s...
Contains correspondence, writings, six diaries, and one notebook. Correspondents (box 1) are Donald Brien, Charles Demuth, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Fania Marinoff, George Middletown, and Carl Van Vechten. Included among the correspondence is a 1954 letter t...
Contains correspondence, writings, six diaries, and one notebook. Correspondents (box 1) are Donald Brien, Charles Demuth, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Fania Marinoff, George Middletown, and Carl Van Vechten. Included among the correspondence is a 1954 letter t...
Collection consists of approximately 120 letters and cards from James Purdy to his assistant and friend Elaine Benton, dating from 1983 to 1999, writings, and other materials. Benton served as Purdy's typist, and the writings include typescript drafts...
Collection consists of approximately 120 letters and cards from James Purdy to his assistant and friend Elaine Benton, dating from 1983 to 1999, writings, and other materials. Benton served as Purdy's typist, and the writings include typescript drafts...
The collection includes letters, manuscripts and photographs related to Emily Dickinson. There are original letters from Dickinson to family and friends, holograph manuscripts by Dickinson, galley proofs for work by Charles Roberts Anderson and Millic...
Description:
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), poet.
Subject (Geographic):
Amherst (Mass.)
Subject (Name):
Anderson, Charles Roberts, 1902-1999., Bingham, Millicent Todd, 1880-1968., Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886., and Roche, Thomas P.
The papers document Emily Farnham's research and writing of the biography Charles Demuth: Behind a Laughing Mask. The collection contains correspondence; questionnaires for interviewees; lists of Demuth collectors and collections; photographs of pain...
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Emily Farnham is the author of Charles Demuth: Behind a Laughing Mask (Tulsa: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971).
Subject (Name):
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935., Ebberts, Carolyn May., and Farnham, Emily, 1912-
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Artists, American, and Authors, American
Collection of photographs of, relating to, or once owned by Ezra Pound. Subjects include Pound himself; Olga Rudge; sketches, paintings and sculptures of Pound; and a series of photographs of factories and manufacturing processes collected by Pound in...
Description:
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet.
Subject (Name):
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. and Rudge, Olga, 1895-1996.
Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of...
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The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994., Curtwright, Wesley., Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974., Ellison, Ralph., Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979., Handy, W. C. 1873-1958. (William Christopher),, Hill, Abram, 1910-1986., Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938., McKay, Claude, 1890-1948., Moon, Henry Lee, 1901-1985., Poston, Ted, 1906-1974., Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976., and United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American authors, African Americans, Social life and customs, Antislavery movements, Authors, American, Harlem Renaissance, and Underground Railroad
Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of...
Description:
The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994., Curtwright, Wesley., Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974., Ellison, Ralph., Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979., Handy, W. C. 1873-1958. (William Christopher),, Hill, Abram, 1910-1986., Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938., McKay, Claude, 1890-1948., Moon, Henry Lee, 1901-1985., Poston, Ted, 1906-1974., Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976., and United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American authors, African Americans, Social life and customs, Antislavery movements, Authors, American, Harlem Renaissance, and Underground Railroad
Letters to Havelock Ellis from H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Bryher, and Jessie Capper. There is one letter from Françoise Delisle to Meum Stewart. The letters regard their work and friendships, mutual friends, and books read. The letters date from 1922 t...
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Havelock Ellis, essayist, editor, physician, and psychologist.
Subject (Name):
Bryher, 1894-1983., Capper, Jessie., Delisle, Françoise Roussel., Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939., H. D (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961., and Stewart, Meum.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, Editors, American, and Psychologists, American
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, from Helen Hunt Jackson. The letters are written to a group of friends and are addressed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, dated 1868 November 15 to 1869 September 28. Also included is an autograph note, signed, explain...
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Helen Hunt Jackson, American writer and activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. and Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
Collection contains approximately 30 pieces of correspondence between Miller and French publisher Maurice Girodias, dating from the mid to late 1970s, and drafts, corrected, of several pieces of writing, including a fragment from Nexus and four essays...
Description:
Henry Miller (1891-1980), author and painter.
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France)
Subject (Name):
Fraenkel, Michael, 1896-1957., Girodias, Maurice., Man Ray, 1890-1976., and Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, and Intellectual life
Draft (483 pages) of "Nexus I" and "Nexus II," typescript carbon, with minor corrections and annotations, and draft (112 pages) of "Nexus: Vol.2," typescript carbon, dated "Nov. 30, 1961," accompanied by autograph letter, signed, from Miller to Emil W...
Draft (483 pages) of "Nexus I" and "Nexus II," typescript carbon, with minor corrections and annotations, and draft (112 pages) of "Nexus: Vol.2," typescript carbon, dated "Nov. 30, 1961," accompanied by autograph letter, signed, from Miller to Emil W...
Collection of sixteen pieces of correspondence from Miller to Sister Magdalen Mary of Immaculate Heart College, dating from the mid 1960s, along with photographs, clippings, and printed ephemera relating chiefly to publications and exhibitions of work...
Description:
Henry Miller (1891-1980), author and painter.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. and Immaculate Heart College (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Artists, and Authors, American
Papers feature material relating to Sikorsky's The Invisible Encounter (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947), including: drafts, autograph manuscript (incomplete) and typescript, corrected; a printed version, annotated, of the 1947 Scribner's edit...
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Igor Ivan Sikorsky (1889-1972), aviator, engineer, and industrialist, was born in Kiev, Russia (now Ukraine) and emigrated to the United States in 1919.
Subject (Name):
Brasol, Boris, 1885-1963., Golokhvastov, G. (Georgiĭ), Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972., Charles Scribner's Sons., and Poushkin Society in America.
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, an address book, a newspaper clipping, and a bookmark relating to Natalie Barney collected by Joan Schenkar
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Joan Schenkar is an American playwright and biographer.
