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Collection Title:

Eric Wilson Barker Papers

Creator:

Barker, Eric Wilson.

Inclusive Dates:

1930-1968

Abstract:

Papers of the American poet (1905-1973). Correspondence, manuscripts, and published material.

Type of Material:

Correspondence.

Subject:

Poets, American -- 20th century.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

Literature -- American Poetry

Collection Title:

Carl Sandburg Collection

Creator:

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.

Inclusive Dates:

1924-1954

Abstract:

Three items of outgoing correspondence and a manuscript of the American author and poet.

Type of Material:

Correspondence.

Manuscripts for publication.

Subject:

Authors, American -- 20th century.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

Biography

Literature -- American Poetry

Collection Title:

John Ciardi Papers

Creator:

Ciardi, John, 1916-1986.

Inclusive Dates:

1957-1957

Abstract:

American poet and author. Collection contains correspondence, subject files and published material.

Type of Material:

Clippings (information artifacts)

Correspondence.

Subject:

Authors, American -- 20th century.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Translators.

Subject Strengths:

Literature -- American Fiction

Literature -- American Poetry

Collection Title:

Langston Hughes Collection

Creator:

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Inclusive Dates:

1937-1937

Abstract:

A group of typescript and mimeographed poems by the well-known African American poet and writer, with a two-page autobiography and bibliography.

Type of Material:

Bibliographies.

Poems.

Typescripts.

Subject:

African American poets.

American poetry -- African American authors.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

Literature -- American Poetry

African Americans

Radicalism

Literature -- Children's

Literature -- American Fiction

Collection Title:

Edwin Thomas Whiffen Papers

Creator:

Whiffen, Edwin Thomas, b. 1874.

Inclusive Dates:

1957-1957

Abstract:

Papers of the American author. Collection consists of manuscripts of plays, poems, and a translation of a Greek play.

Type of Material:

Manuscripts (document genre)

Subject:

Authors, American -- 20th century.

Dramatists, American.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

Literature -- American Fiction

Literature -- American Poetry

Collection Title:

Flora J. Arnstein Papers

Creator:

Arnstein, Flora J.

Inclusive Dates:

1930-1964

Abstract:

Papers of the American poet, teacher. Born 1885.

Type of Material:

Poems.

Subject:

Poets, American -- 20th century.

American poetry -- Women authors.

Women poets, American -- 20th century.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

Literature -- American Poetry

Women Authors

Collection Title:

Ted Berrigan Papers

Creator:

Berrigan, Ted

Inclusive Dates:

1963-1964

Abstract:

Papers of the American poet and editor, 1934-1983. Correspondence, manuscript submissions, and production records relating to C, a poetry journal which Berrigan edited. Incoming correspondence and/or manuscripts of John Ashbery, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Michael Benedikt, Jim Brodey, Joseph Ceravolo, Robert Dash, Edwin Denby, Ted Greenwald, Barbara Guest, Ruth Krauss, Gerard Malanga, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Frank O'Hara, Ron Padgett, Peter Schjeldahl, James Schuyler, Lorenzo Thomas, Sotère Torregian, Tony Towle, and John Wieners.

Type of Material:

Correspondence.

Manuscripts for publication.

Subject:

American literature -- 20th century.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Periodical editors -- United States.

Periodicals -- Publishing.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

Radicalism

Literature -- American Poetry

Literature -- American Fiction

Collection Title:

Margaret McGorman Berry Papers

Creator:

Berry, Margaret McGorman.

Inclusive Dates:

1936-1966

Abstract:

Papers of the American poet. Collection includes correspondence, typescript and holograph poems, the text of a lecture, published poems, and newspaper clippings about Berry.

Type of Material:

Clippings (information artifacts)

Correspondence.

Poems.

Subject:

Poets, American -- 20th century.

American poetry -- Women authors.

Women poets, American -- 20th century.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

Literature -- American Poetry

Women Authors

Collection Title:

Leonard Nathan Papers

Creator:

Nathan, Leonard, 1924-2007.

Inclusive Dates:

1961-2007

Abstract:

Correspondence, writings, printed material, etc. of the American poet.

Type of Material:

Correspondence.

Photographs.

Typescripts.

Subject:

American poetry -- 20th century.

Chinese poetry -- Translations into English.

College teachers -- Poetry.

Italian poetry -- Translations into English.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

Literature -- American Fiction

Literature -- American Poetry

10.

Collection Title:

Susie B. Skelding Letters

Creator:

Skelding, Susie Barstow.

Inclusive Dates:

1883-1888

Abstract:

Letters to the American botanical author/illustrator, from poets Frances Mace and Mary Bradley.

Type of Material:

Correspondence.

Subject:

Illustrators -- United States -- 20th century.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Women illustrators -- United States.

Women poets.

Subject Strengths:

Art -- Illustrators

Literature -- American Poetry

Women Authors

11.

Collection Title:

Herb Yellin Papers Relating to Joyce Carol Oates

Creator:

Yellin, Herb.

Inclusive Dates:

1976-2000

Abstract:

Correspondence, memorabilia and printed material relating to Yellin's Lord John Press and to author Joyce Carol Oates, several of whose short works were printed by Yellin

Type of Material:

Broadsides (notices)

Correspondence.

Galley proofs.

Newsletters.

Photographs.

Subject:

Novelists, American -- 20th century.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Private presses -- California.

Women authors -- 20th century.

Women poets, American.

Subject Strengths:

Publishing, printing and book arts

Literature -- American Poetry

Literature -- American Fiction

Women Authors

12.

Collection Title:

William Stanley Braithwaite Papers

Creator:

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.

Inclusive Dates:

1916-1962

Abstract:

Papers of the African-American poet, author, critic. Correspondence, and manuscripts by Braithwaite and others. Notable correspondents include Arna Bontemps, Louis Bromfield, Sterling Brown, Marie Bullock, Witter Bynner, Cass Canfield, Bliss Carman, Bennet Cerf, Katherine Chapin, James Cozzens, Countee Cullen, Gustav Davidson, W.E.B. DuBois, Kimball Flaccus, Robert Frost, Claire and Nina Gerbaulet, Louis Ginsberg, Hermann Hagedorn, Leigh Hanes, Robert Hillyer, John Holmes, Langston Hughes, Georgia Johnson, MacKinlay Kantor, Joseph Joel Keith, Florence Lennon, Benjamin Mays, David McCord, Marianne Moore, Maurice Peloubet, Bliss Perry, Minerva Perry, Helen Channing Pollock, Ruby Altizer Roberts, Paul Robeson, Angelo Schmuller, Lulu Schultz, George S. Schuyler, Delmore Schwartz, Eli Siegel, Jules Siegel, Noble Sissle, Chard Powers Smith, Vladimir Sokoloff, Arthur Spingarn, Jesse Stuart, A.M. Sullivan, May Swenson, Ridgely Torrence, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Harold Vinal, Booker T. Washington, Robert C. Weaver, John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer, William Carlos Williams, and Roscoe Wright.

Type of Material:

Correspondence.

Manuscripts for publication.

Subject:

African American poets.

African Americans -- Biography.

American literature -- 20th century.

American literature -- African American authors.

American poetry -- 20th century.

American poetry -- African American authors.

Authors, American.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

African Americans

Literature -- American Poetry

13.

Collection Title:

Jean Burden Papers

Creator:

Burden, Jean.

Inclusive Dates:

1931-1993

Abstract:

Papers of the American poet, author, poetry editor for Yankee magazine. Born 1914. Correspondence, manuscript and published articles, poems, and memoirs; and memorabilia, including photographs.

Type of Material:

16mm (photographic film size)

Audiocassettes.

Audiotapes.

Autobiographies (literary works)

Clippings (information artifacts)

Correspondence.

Diaries.

Photographs.

Scrapbooks.

Sound recordings.

VHS.

Video recordings (physical artifacts)

Subject:

American poetry -- 20th century.

American poetry -- Women authors.

Authors, American.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Pet food industry -- Public relations.

Women authors, American.

Women poets, American.

Subject Strengths:

Literature -- American Poetry

Women Authors

14.

Collection Title:

Manfred A. Carter Papers

Creator:

Carter, Manfred Amos.

Inclusive Dates:

1905-1965

Abstract:

Papers of the American clergyman, author, poet. Biographical and family material, correspondence, memorabilia, including cartoons, church bulletins, financial documents, original drawings, photographs, school and seminary papers, and scrapbooks. Writings include an inventory of prose works, a reviews scrapbook, articles, editorials, fiction, lyrics, and manuscript poems arranged chronologically in notebooks, dated pre-1940-1961. Also included are a large collection of chronologically arranged sermons as well as children's sermons. There are also a number of essays arranged in titled notebooks.

Type of Material:

Correspondence.

Editorials.

Notebooks.

Photographs.

Poems.

Scrapbooks.

Sermons.

Subject:

American poetry -- 20th century.

Clergy -- United States.

Clergy as authors.

Clergy, Writings of.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Sermons, American.

Subject Strengths:

Literature -- American Poetry

Church and clergy

15.

Collection Title:

Robert S. Fraser Manuscript

Creator:

Fraser, Robert Scott.

Inclusive Dates:

1968-1968

Abstract:

Thesis for Master of English degree, on letters between the sculptors James Earle Fraser and Laura Gardin Fraser and poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Type of Material:

Manuscripts for publication.

Subject:

American poetry -- 20th century.

Art, American -- 20th century.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century.

Women artists -- United States.

Women sculptors -- United States.

Subject Strengths:

Art -- Sculptors

Literature -- American Poetry

16.

Collection Title:

Horace Gregory Papers

Creator:

Gregory, Horace, 1898-1982

Inclusive Dates:

1920-1973

Abstract:

Papers of the American poet, literary critic, scholar. Correspondence which is of greatest depth and duration includes letters from William Rose Benet, Winifred Bryher, Eleanor Clark, Malcolm Cowley, E.E. Cummings, Hilda Doolittle, Richard Eberhart, James Farrell, Dudley Fitts, John Gould Fletcher, Joseph Freeman, Robert Hillyer, Raymond E. F. Larsson, Norman Holmes Pearson,James Putnam, Muriel Rukeyser, Evelyn Scott, Winfield Townley Scott, John Sweeney, Allen Tate, M.B. Thornton, Louis Untermeyer, T.C. Wilson, and Morton Zabel.

Type of Material:

Correspondence.

Manuscripts for publication.

Subject:

American literature -- 20th century.

American poetry -- Women authors.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Literature -- History and criticism.

Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

Radicalism

Literature -- American Poetry

Literature -- American Fiction

17.

Collection Title:

Robert Hillyer Papers

Creator:

Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961.

Inclusive Dates:

1906-1962

Abstract:

Papers of the American author, poet, educator. General, literary, and family correspondence; writings (essays, poems, poetry, reviews, speeches, manuscripts, galley proofs); memorabilia (photographs, clippings, genealogies, daguerreotypes. family Bibles, miniatures, hymnals). Notable correspondents include William Rose Benét, Millicent Todd Bingham, Ben Lucien Burman, Frederick Chamberlin, James Gould Cozzens, Max Eastman, Kimball Flaccus, Horace Gregory, Ralph Hodgson, Robert Huff, Amy Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, James B. Munn, Robert Nathan, John Neihardt, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Bliss Perry, Lizette Reese, Lennox Robinson, Paul Rosenfeld, Mark Schorer, Walter Magnes Teller, Mark Van Doren, and Edward Weeks.

Type of Material:

Book reviews.

Clippings (information artifacts)

Drafts (documents)

Essays.

Genealogies (histories)

Lectures.

Manuscripts for publication.

Musical scores.

Photographs.

Poems.

Songs (document genre)

Subject:

American literature -- 20th century.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Authors, American -- 20th century.

Criticism -- 20th century.

Critics -- United States.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

Literature -- American Fiction

Literature -- American Poetry

18.

Collection Title:

Elias Lieberman Papers

Creator:

Lieberman, Elias, 1883-1969.

Inclusive Dates:

1916-1966

Abstract:

Papers of the American poet, educator. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Winner of the James Joyce Award, 1966. Biographical material, correspondence (1918-1963), memorabilia, and writings, which includes poems (1916-1966) both by Lieberman and by others. Also included is a manuscript by James Huneker that may be a book review. Correspondents include William S. Braithwaite, the Century Company, Charles Scribner's Sons, Maria Catarina Lombard, James H. McCormick, Piney Woods Country Life School, Karl Schmidt, Samuel Shipman, James S. Taylor, University of Buffalo's Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Kentucky's Margaret I. King Library, and Stephen S. Wise.

Type of Material:

Advertising fliers.

Clippings (information artifacts)

Correspondence.

Manuscripts (document genre)

Poems.

Programs (documents)

Subject:

American literature -- 20th century.

American literature -- Jewish authors.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Educators -- United States.

Jews, American.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Russian Americans.

Subject Strengths:

Literature -- American Poetry

19.

Collection Title:

Ardis M. Walker Papers

Creator:

Walker, Ardis Manly, 1901-

Inclusive Dates:

1928-1971

Abstract:

Papers of the American engineer, writer. Collection includes correspondence, 1928-63; typescript, holograph, and carbon copy manuscripts of articles; publicity materials including photographs; and published works. Works primarily concern local California history, especially for Kern County, California.

Type of Material:

Articles.

Clippings (information artifacts)

Correspondence.

Essays.

Manuscripts for publication.

Newspapers.

Photographs.

Sonnets.

Typescripts.

Subject:

Local history.

Historians -- United States.

Death Valley '49ers.

Ecology in literature.

Nature in literature.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Subject Strengths:

20.

Collection Title:

Sylvia Carewe Papers

Creator:

Carewe, Sylvia, 1914-

Inclusive Dates:

1941-1972

Abstract:

Papers of the American painter, poet. Correspondence, exhibition catalogs and invitations, prints, negatives, slides, and transparencies, poems, sketches, stories, a scrapbook containing memorabilia, and published material, including articles, clippings, and reviews.

Type of Material:

Articles.

Clippings (information artifacts)

Correspondence.

Exhibition catalogs.

Negatives (photographs)

Photographs.

Poems.

Reviews (documents)

Scrapbooks.

Sketches.

Slides (photographs)

Transparencies.

Subject:

American poetry.

Artists -- United States -- 20th century.

Commercial art.

Painters -- United States -- 20th century.

Painting, American.

Poets, American -- 20th century.

Tapestry -- Design.

Women artists.

Women painters.

Women poets.

Subject Strengths:

Art -- Painters

Literature -- American Poetry

Women Authors

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