Showing Collections: 11 - 20 of 36
Collection
Identifier: 1985-002
Scope and Contents
The novels, the first and largest section, are arranged in chronological order by date of publication and include manuscripts, some typescripts, and, in three cases, corrected proof copies. The manuscript versions are, for the most part, the clean copies from which Mrs. Taylor's typist worked and, therefore, reflect the finished product more than the work in progress, though they do contain some additions, deletions, and emendations. In those instances where a manuscript is actually a...
Dates:
1946 - 1973
Collection
Identifier: 1986-001
Scope and Contents
The Elizabeth Jennings manuscripts consist of 39 notebooks and loose sheets of handwritten working drafts of approximately 2,225 poems, many with handwritten revisions, written between 1973 and 1992. The poems were said to be unpublished at the time of acquisition and cover a wide range of topics including artists, composers, and writers. They are arranged chronologically by the date provided by Elizabeth Jennings. They are also indexed alphabetically by title. This collection...
Dates:
1973 - 1992
Collection
Identifier: 1984-009
Scope and Contents
The Ewart Milne papers are arranged in to 2 series, Series 1: Correspondence and Series 2: Writings. Series 1: Correspondence consists primarily of handwrittten and typed letters from Milne to Patrick “Paddy…." Galvin. The remaining Milne correspondence consists of letters from Milne to colleagues, reviewers, and publishers (Barbara Howard, John Montague, Denys Val Baker, Gordon Whar ton, Jon Wynne-Tyson) as well as carbon copy typed letters to various newspaper editors. Other...
Dates:
1949 - 1969
Collection
Identifier: 1982-001
Content Description
In 1982 McFarlin Library added a most unusual collection of nineteenth century fiction. In the early 1820s the merchants and wine-traders from Britain who had settled in Oporto, Portugal, felt the need for a library of English books to serve the increasing number of British families living in and near the city. A small library had existed earlier, but had been destroyed during the Peninsular War and had not been replaced. A librarian was appointed who used an agent in London to supply books...
Dates:
1800 - 1898
Item
Identifier: 1981-025-1
Content Description
A small memory book with 12 bound-in poetry and drawings. A photocopy of the original index sheet is laid in.
Spine title: "Album."
Dates:
1882-1900s
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
Collection
Identifier: 1973-001
Scope and Contents
Consists of 72 autograph letters and 5 Christmas cards (most accompanied by their envelopes) to friends and colleagues including Ian Hamilton, H. A. Rappaport, Alan Ross, and Roger Senhouse; also included is a cablegram to Hartley from Harvey Curtis Webster. The collection also holds editions of Hartley's books, books to which he contributed, and secondary critical appraisals, and an extensive run of Weekend Review, a journal to which Hartley made regular contributions.
Dates:
1952 - 1967
File
Identifier: 1976-005
Scope and Contents
Consists of typescript and carbon typescript drafts, as well as working notes, for three novels and the signed offprint of an essay. Included in the collection is a letter from Samuel Epstein to Margaret Drabble, a letter from Margaret Drabble to Gordon Taylor (English Department, University of Tulsa) with an attached note from Taylor to Sid Huttner (Curator, Special Collections, University of Tulsa).
Dates:
Undated
Item
Identifier: 1987-002
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters and greeting cards to Ignace and Madame Legrand, P. Beaumont Wadsworth, and Marjorie Watts between 1941 and 1979.
Dates:
1941 - 1979
Collection
Identifier: 1979-014
Scope and Contents
Contains office copies of books published by Secker into which a variety of materials were laid in, tipped in, or pasted in to many of them. These materials include handwritten and typed cards, letters and royalty receipts; Richards Press and Martin Secker publication announcements; press cuttings of book reviews and articles; photographs and clipped photographic illustrations; handwritten poems and essays; and fragments of dust jackets and dust jacket blurbs.Items which could...
Dates:
1908 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1941