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Kenneth Hopkins library of 19th century poetry
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1981-025
Content Description
For almost 40 years the British poet, novelist, and scholar Kenneth Hopkins (1914-1988) collected eighteenth and nineteenth century English poetry, often searching rural bookshops with such bookish companions as Edmund Blunden and Sir Rupert Hart-Davis. The result of his dedication is found in the collection of 5,000 volumes of English poetry from the past two centuries. The collection was formed not so much with an eye towards rarity as with attention to the more obscure figures as well as...
Dates:
1587 - 1980
Muriel Spark papers, 1957-1988
Collection
Identifier: 1983-003
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, dead material, press cuttings and business correspondence of British writer and author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.Masterfile note: The Muriel Spark papers consist of handwritten and typed manuscripts, dead material, and press cutting of reviews of Muriel Spark's major works dating from 1957-1988, as well as collected short stories and poetry. Business correspondence dating from 1942-1988 includes letters to and from Muriel Spark, her publishers, editors, and...
Dates:
1957 - 1988
Paul and Lucie Léon collection of James Joyce, 1920-1971
Collection
Identifier: 1984-005
Scope and Contents
Consists of correspondence between Paul and/or Lucie Léon and James Joyce and other friends, colleagues, and fellow Joyceans; page proofs for Finnegan’s Wake and page proofs for James Joyce and Paul Léon (listed separately in the McFarlin bibliographic catalog), the Story of a Friendship by Lucie Léon Noël; over 60 photographs and photo-negatives of James Joyce, the Léons, colleagues and friends, and Joyce family members; and a blue/white striped tie once belonging to James Joyce, a...
Dates:
1920 - 1971
Simon Watson Taylor 'Pataphysical' & Surrealist collection, 1935-1965
Collection
Identifier: 1974-002
Scope and Contents
Consists of publications, posters, manuscripts, correspondence, documents , photographs, and memorabilia by or relating to the College de Pataphysique; texts by and about Alfred Jarry; books and documents by and about Andre Breton and the surrealists; books by and about Jacques Herold; and materials by and about Marcel Duchamp. (Refer also to the inventory from Bertram Rota which accompanied the collection).Administrative/Biographical History: Books and periodicals have been...
Dates:
1934 - 1975
WWI posters, 1914-1920
Series
Identifier: 1992-004-5
Scope and Contents
Series 5 of an artificial WWI umbrella collection, contains posters from America, Britain, Canada, and France.
Dates:
1914 - 1920