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TU-SCLIT. Special Collections literature based collections

 Record Group
Identifier: TU-SCLIT
An attempt to bring the literature based collections under a single classification, regardless of subject headings used.

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

19th Century Women's Literature Collection, 1793-1932

 Collection
Identifier: 1978-011
Content Description

English; published in U.S. & U.K. in the 19th Century; includes 19th Century woman authors, mainly novelists; supports women's literature studies, a program established by Germaine Greer.

To view the catalog, click on the "External Documents" link below, which will take you to the McFarlin book catalog for a list of all the included volumes.

Please note that this is a group of BOOKS and not manuscript materials.

Dates: 1793 - 1932

Andre Deutsch archive, 1952-1995

 Collection
Identifier: 1988-013
Scope and Contents

Consists of editorial, production and publicity files for approximately 2000 books published by this London firm. Includes correspondence with Jean Rhys, Stevie Smith, and V.S. Naipaul, among many others. Also represents a great deal of the work of Deutsch editor Diana Athill who influenced women's writing in Britain.

Dates: 1952 - 1995

Bill and Annie Bakewell Davis collection of Cyril Connolly papers, 1948-1974

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-037
Scope and Contents The Bill and Annie Bakewell Davis collection of Cyril Connolly papers relate to Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), English literary critic and author. Included are letters; telegrams; book reviews; more than forty photographs of Connolly and his friends; miscellaneous clippings; and miscellaneous articles and correspondence; all relating to Connolly and the literary life. Also included is the original signed contract between Connolly and publisher George Weidenfeld, agreeing that Connolly will...
Dates: 1948 - 1974

Charles King library, 1870-1900

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-006
Content Description

Originally 144 books by General Charles King containing examples of all of his works, mostly in several editions. Novels of Army life in teh Civil War and in the Old West, and Indian Wars.

Dates: 1870 - 1900

Cyril Vernon Connolly papers, 1912-1974

 Collection
Identifier: 1976-002
Scope and Contents

This artificial collection was begun in 1976 with the acquisition of Connolly's library, which contained some manuscript materials. Gradually, further manuscripts and Connolly specific books were added. Literary critic, editor of Horizon magazine, and writer, these papers document Connolly's life and career

Dates: 1912 - 1974

Edmund Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1976-014
Scope and Contents Consists of 74 handwritten, typed and carbon copy typed letters, postcards and telegrams between Wilson and various editors at Doubleday & Company (including brief correspondence between Jason Epstein and Leonard Baskin concerning a proposed portrait of Wilson for a dust jacket), as well as correspondence with friends and colleagues such as Leon Edel, Helen Gould, Sidney Hook, Elizabeth Huling and Henry Miller. Also included are handwritten, typed, and carbon copy typed drafts of book...
Dates: 1911 - 1972

Ellsworth Mason collection of Robert Graves, 1917-1975

 Collection
Identifier: 1976-009
Scope and Contents Series 1: Correspondence: Robert Graves: arranged alphabetically by surname, consists of 491 autograph, typescript, and carbon copy typescript letters and cards from Graves to friends and colleagues, including Dereck Boothby (retired British major and, at the time of the correspondence, the head of an organization of covens in the British Witch Cult); Aemelia Laracuen (long time friend and intimate of Graves and illustrator of Love Respelt); Larry Wallrich (friend and bookseller who handled...
Dates: 1917 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1969

Erskine Caldwell manuscripts, 1930-1959

 Collection
Identifier: 1971-001
Scope and Contents

The Erskine Caldwell material is an artificial collection composed primarily of printed editions of his work, including such items as God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road, and American Earth. The collection also includes manuscript material for Erskine Caldwell's Gulf Coast Stories and original pen and ink drawings for by Louis Macouillard for Caldwell's When You Think Of Me.

Dates: 1930 - 1959; Record Keeping: Accession

Graham Greene papers, 1948-1962

 Collection
Identifier: 1985-003
Scope and Contents The Graham Greene papers, housed in a half-sized legal document box, consists of 24 (11 autograph, 12 typescript, and 1 carbon copy typescript) letters between Graham Greene and Vivien Greene; between Vivien Greene and her solicitors, Dorothy Glover (Craigie), Marion Greene (ex mother-in-law), Maud Greene (Graham Greene's aunt), and others; and dates from 1948-1962. Included with the papers are a photograph album containing snaps of the Greene's honeymoon and other travels; a signed...
Dates: 1948 - 1962