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This collection contains correspondence and clippings brought together by Reverend Nathan Martin Baker (1837-1922) regarding the 1893 lynching of Samuel J. Bush, a Black farmhand, in Decatur, IL. See [u]Administrative/Biographical History[/u] for more information.

This collection contains correspondence and clippings brought together by Reverend Nathan Martin Baker (1837-1922) regarding the 1893 lynching of Samuel J. Bush, a Black farmhand, in Decatur, IL. See [u]Administrative/Biographical History[/u] for more information.

The T.W. Baldwin collection consists of more than 5,800 volumes of 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century texts. Types of materials include works by classical authors, commentaries, Bibles and prayer books, rhetorics, histories, and examples of English literature, particularly of the Elizabethan Period. The catalog groups books by subject, listing author, short title, ...

The Ewing Cannon Baskette papers contain correspondence, writings, and files created and/or collected by American lawyer, librarian, and bibliographer, Ewing Cannon Baskette (1902-1958). Materials broadly concern the topics of civil liberties, censorship, and freedom of expression; formats include letters, manuscripts, pamphlets and periodicals, legal documents, bibliographies, catalogs, photos, and realia, ...

Ewing C. Baskette Collection on Freedom of Expression was purchased in 1959. Baskette, a lawyer and librarian, owned the largest private collection on civil liberties and freedom of expression in the United States. Within the broad limits of freedom of expression, such topics as freedom of the press, censorship, constitutional ...

The H.P. Behrensmeyer collection consists primarily of pen drawings executed by Illinois penman Henry P. Behrensmeyer (1868-1948) over the course of his decades-long career, a majority of which depict various birds. The collection also includes Behrensmeyer's [i]Lessons in Practical Penmanship[/i] (1917) and several periodicals.

The first part of the Saul Bellow collection assembled by Joe W. Kraus came to the Library in 1996. Since then, Dr. Kraus has been steadily adding books and periodicals containing material by and about Saul Bellow. Complementing the collection are looseleaf binders containing photocopies of reviews of Bellow's books, ...

Provenance: Given by Hecht's wife, Rose Caylor, to Robert L. Carringer, 1976 -- Given to the University of Illinois Library for the Ben Hecht Collection by Robert L. Carringer, Dec. 12, 1977 -- Two carbon copies of typescripts given to the University of Illinois Library for the Ben Hecht Collection ...

Provenance: Given by Hecht's wife, Rose Caylor, to Robert L. Carringer, 1976 -- Given to the University of Illinois Library for the Ben Hecht Collection by Robert L. Carringer, Dec. 12, 1977 -- Two carbon copies of typescripts given to the University of Illinois Library for the Ben Hecht Collection ...

Letters from Bentley to Aspinwall regarding Bentley's acquisition of the publishing rights for William H. Prescott's History of the conquest of Mexico. Bentley eventually acquired the rights and the work was published in 3 vols. in October 1843. The letters are all dated from New Burlington Street. Holographs, signed. Title supplied by ...

The Richard Bentley records document Richard Bentley (later Richard Bentley and Son), a London publishing house that operated from 1829-1898. The collection includes literary and business correspondence; ledgers, minutes of company meetings and legal agreements; personal and business diaries; authors' manuscripts; clippings and advertisements relating to literary, legal and business ...

Collection of Theatre Programmes from the United Kingdoms and Canada. Assembled and donated to the Library by Alvan Bergman.

Collection of Theatre Programmes from the United Kingdoms and Canada. Assembled and donated to the Library by Alvan Bergman.

Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, photographs, and assorted serials that document Blanc's connection with the Spanish Civil War. A highlight of the collection is the set of manuscripts for Blanc's [i]Wars I Have Known.[/i]

Letter and photographs from American poet and novelist, Maxwell Bodenheim. 1) A.L.S from Maxwell Bodenheim to New York Columnist, Loui Sobel. 1943 2) 7 photographs of Maxwell Bodenheim selling his poetry in Greenwich Village. 1947

Letter and photographs from American poet and novelist, Maxwell Bodenheim. 1) A.L.S from Maxwell Bodenheim to New York Columnist, Loui Sobel. 1943 2) 7 photographs of Maxwell Bodenheim selling his poetry in Greenwich Village. 1947

This collection consists of examples of materials and tools used in the bookmaking process.

This collection consists of letters from George Borrow's diaries with a transcription.

This collection includes letters, cards, clippings, photographs, and obituary notices of author Mary Elizabeth Braddon and her son, William Babington Maxwell. All correspondence is from M.E. Braddon except where indicated.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was an American poet and educator born in Topeka, Kansas and raised on the South Side of Chicago. In 1950, Brooks was the first Black person to win a Pulitzer Prize in any category, receiving the award in Poetry for [i]Annie Allen[/i] (1949). Brooks was a beloved ...

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was an American poet and educator born in Topeka, Kansas and raised on the South Side of Chicago. In 1950, Brooks was the first Black person to win a Pulitzer Prize in any category, receiving the award in Poetry for Annie Allen (1949). At the core of ...

Includes notes and letters from recent research on some of these manuscripts. A collection formerly at Eton College, and, in part, originally from the Huth Library. The Common-place books and Notes for English history are in 8 v. bound in red morocco. Another copy of the first 320 entries in v. ...

The Mary Lois Bull collection contains clippings from newspaper comics related to the topics of books and libraries.

Correspondence and copies of writing by Richard Douglas Burbank. The majority of the correspondence is between Burbank and composer, Nicolas Slonimsky. Other notable materials include items from Pulitzer-Prize winning composer, Charles Wuorinen, whom Richard Burbank studied under at the Manhattan School of Music.