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Tage La Cour collection of popular fiction
Collection
Identifier: 1979-016
Content Description
In 1979 the Special Collections acquired the "Tage La Cour Collection of Detective Fiction and Entertainments." This, the personal library of Crime Fiction Author Tage La Cour, library is comprised of detective novels, western novels, science fiction, and other works which would be classified as entertainments. The authors represented range from P. G. Wodehouse, Robert Coover, and Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie, Dashiel Hammett, and Ian Fleming; from Zane Grey, O. Henry, and Mark...
Dates:
1842 - 1986
Timothy O'Keeffe papers, 1948-1982
Collection
Identifier: 1983-017
Scope and Contents
London publisher of Irish (and other) authors. Mainly correspondence between O'Keefe and the writers with whom he worked as director of MacGibbon & Kee Publishers (London) and later as partner in Martin, Brian, & O'Keefe; authors include Brian O'Nolan, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Patrick Kavanaugh.The Timothy O'Keeffe papers consists of correspondence between O'Keeffe and the writers and poets (Brian O'Nolan, Hugh MacDiarmid, John Montague, Patrick Kavanaugh, e.e. cummings, and...
Dates:
1948 - 1982
Vernon Scannell papers, 1948-1971
Collection
Identifier: 1980-005
Scope and Contents
Consists of 9 handwritten letters from Scannell (written while incarcerated in Brixton Prison, London) to Jo Scannell (his wife) dating from March to April, 1967. Also included are handwritten poems, radio scripts and plays, and an autobiographical piece, A Proper Gentlemen written in 11 notebooks and writing tablets, and individual sheets.
Dates:
1948 - 1971
William Trevor corrected typescripts, 2000-2009
Collection
Identifier: 2009-017
Scope and Contents
Original ribbon typescripts on blue paper, heavily re-worked and/or revised in ink and pencil, and signed by the author; including, in some cases, photocopies of the ribbon typescript and/or word processed typescripts, either lightly or heavily revised. Typescripts include: the dramatisation, Sacred Stories; short stories, The Crippled Man, The Children, Cheating at Canasta, Men of Ireland, Faith, An Afternoon, A Perfect Relationship, The Dressmaker's Child, Folie a Deux,...
Dates:
2000 - 2009
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
Wystan Hugh Auden manuscripts, 1936-1960
Collection
Identifier: 1982-003
Scope and Contents
The W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden papers include a production copy of the script for The Ascent of F6 used for the 26 Feb 1937 production at the Mercury Theatre; a portion of the script written in the hand of actor Evan John who portrayed the Abbot to be used as a director's prompt copy, together with Stuart Latham's explanation of the above; a musical score for voices; a letter from Auden to Latham, press cuttings and other material relating to the play. Also included in the collection is a...
Dates:
1936 - 1960