Browse By Collection Title | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(26.0 Volumes)The G.P. Putnam's Sons records document the publishing firm's activities from 1891 to 1937. The collection includes abstracts of publishing agreements, lists of and detailed readers' reports about received manuscripts, and financial records. Internal evidence indicates that the materials originated in the firm's London office.
(1.0 Volumes)Personal notebook of Gabriela Mistral, written in a date book for the year 1947, likely while in Santa Barbara, California. In pencil, intermittently on approximately one third of the 210 leaves. With the signature of "Connie Saleva Rectoria, U. P.R." in ink on title page. Contents include plans and instructions ...
(1.0 Boxes)Papers of Leslie Gadbury, including three manuscripts "Liberation of Guam, 1944, before-during-after," "The battle for Bougainville in the Solomon Islands," and "My Iwo Jima story". Also one manuscript titled "Interview with James L. Gadbury: Father and Grandfather" by Gloria and James Cardoni. Includes a video tape recording.
(1.0 Items)William Gallagher wrote this letter to Robert Ormsby, a lawyer in Dublin, Ireland, on May 30, 1772. Writing from Philadelphia, Gallagher discussed property disputes related to "Talbot's Manor," a large plot of land surrounding Charlestown, Maryland. He also described the surrounding area, listed local crops, and referred to ongoing confusion ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Caption title. Dates supplied by cataloger based on script. Author unknown; sometimes ascribed to Charles II, King of Great Britain. Fol. 1 damaged; text on verso affected. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 162. Former Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Q. 827 G141. Former Shelfmark: MS 305 (from foot of ...
(1.0 Volumes)This volume is a manuscript copy of Nizami Ganjavi's [i]Khamsa[/i], with calligraphy by Mohammed Hossein al Shariff. The volume includes 20 illuminated miniature color illustrations and decorated borders. See [u]Administrative/Biographical History[/u] for more information.
(14.0 Items)Papers of Hamlin Garland, including ten letters and four postcards.
(1.0 Items)Contains genealogical charts and estate information concerning the Scudamore and related families from the late 16th through early 19th century. Ms. codex. Title and location supplied by cataloger; date conjectured from fol. 8r which has an entry for "Two sons living in 1820"; probably written in the same year that Frances Howard ...
(9.0 Items)From H. G. Wells collection. Collection of clippings about the death of George Bernard Shaw. 1) The Evening News, no. 21,441 London, 05-11-1950 (Special edition) 2) Punch, 08-11-1950, p. 445. 3) Illustrated London News, London, 06-11-1950. 4) Daily Express, No. 15,719, 03-11-1950. 5) The Birminham Mail, no. 26,404, 02-11-1950. 6) The Daily Telegraph, London no. 29,749. ...
(2.0 Items)2 Illustrations done by George R. Halkett of H. G. Wells for Pall Mall Magazine. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181612205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656181612205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Typescript list of contents available. Ms. collection. Title supplied by cataloger. Former shelfmark: Uncat. MS Q. 091 M681 no. 2 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
(1.0 Volumes)The [i]Arien Buch fur Sophie Henriette Hopstein[/i] contains the text of a German play (39 pages) and poem (7 pages), in different hands. The cover is dated Berlin, 23 March 1811, and the play is dated 8 March 1812.
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Location conjectured by cataloger; probably written in Leipzig. Leaves 54-62 contain a chronology of philosophers from 640 BCE-1820. Binding: Contemporary pasteboard; contains printed waste. Provenance: Acquired in 1925 from the library of Dr. Ernst Bergmann. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 151. Former shelfmark: 109 W43g (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
(1.2 Cubic Feet)Collection consists primarily of the correspondence of Felix Giovanelli--including, amongst others, correspondence with T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. The collection also includes translations and literary criticisms by Felix and Margaret Giovanelli, newspaper clippings, and publications by various authors. Collection is a gift of the estate of Felix & ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/437430919]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/437430919[/url] A copy of the Gloria Patri hymn, with words and music. Ms. leaf. Title supplied by cataloger. Layout: Horizontal rules for text in lead point; double inner and outer vertical bounding lines in ink. Script: Gothic script (littera gothica textualis rotunda). Decoration: Initials in red. Music: Contains staff notation ...
(1.0 Items)Full Title: The golden farmer; or Harlequin plough-boy [manuscript] : Perform?d at the New Royal Circus for the first time, on Monday, June 20th 1802. / The music, principally new composed, and the remainder selected, with an entire new medley overture by Mr. W. Ware. The scenery designed by Mr. ...
(0.0 )More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70267477]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70267477[/url]
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869376605]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869376605[/url] Purchased from Kraus on October 31, 1957.
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869463763]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869463763[/url] Purchased from Kraus, December 29, 1958.
(1.0 Items)Full Title: Grandes anales de quince dias [manuscript] : historia de muchos siglos que pasaron en un mes: memorias que guarda á los que vendran / D.Fran. de Quebedo y Villegas, caballero del orn. de Santiago á los s[e]ñ[or]es. principes, y reyes que subcederan, y á los que oy son ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857233450]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/857233450[/url]
(45.0 Cubic Feet)Papers of Grant Richards, British publisher and author. Includes correspondence; incomplete typescripts of novels and other personal papers; advertisements; book reviews; photographs; account books; early agreements, 1905-1920; publication ledger, 1897-1902; and author agreements, 1906-1930 relating to routine publishing house business, copyright problems and other legal and literary matters.
(3.0 Boxes)Collection of literary, business, and family papers of writer and publisher, Grant Richards and his wife, Madeleine Richards. Collection consists mostly of correspondence to Grant and Madeleine Richards. Other items in the collection include photographs, clippings, and several manuscript drafts of novels, short stories, and articles written by Grant Richards.
(1.0 Items)Authorized by "Barry Yelverton Esqr. Chief Baron of our Exchequer", the Kingdom of Ireland grants to "Hill Willson Esqre. the custody and farm of the towns and lands of Ballymacredy Craigarushy Ballymartin Ardmillan Moore hall orwise Ballybugagh Rampark Tullymore Southpoint Saint Anns Park and tenements in the town of Killiliagh ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232550671]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232550671[/url] A land grant for Esschecroft in the village of Dodington, Kent(?). Ms. document. Title supplied by cataloger; date from text reads: "quarto nonas Octobri anno regni regis Edwardi iij ... quadragesimo." A land grant for Esschecroft in the village of Dodington, Kent(?). Script: In an English ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436923521]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436923521[/url] Land grant from Peter Baldwine to his second son, John Baldwine, for "one oxgan of land and thre quarterans of an oxgan of land arable, meadow and pasture ... being in the feilds and territorys of Winterton and comonly called or knowne by ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63191219]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63191219[/url] This grant is for the manor of Worlington in the county of Suffolk and describes the extent of the manor, rents from common pastures, the right of advowson for the manor's church, and the right to hold and judge the local customary court ...
(4.0 Cubic Feet)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63191219]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63191219[/url] This grant is for the manor of Worlington in the county of Suffolk and describes the extent of the manor, rents from common pastures, the right of advowson for the manor's church, and the right to hold and judge the local customary court ...
(18.0 Cubic Feet)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63191219]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63191219[/url] This grant is for the manor of Worlington in the county of Suffolk and describes the extent of the manor, rents from common pastures, the right of advowson for the manor's church, and the right to hold and judge the local customary court ...
(0.2 Cubic Feet)A group of 22 items, presumably gathered by the naturalist F.H.H. Guillemard (1852-1933), with several penciled notes in his hand regarding family and Huguenot connections. The majority of the letters are to Frances "Fanny" Griffin (later Majendie), including 2 from Eleanor Anne Porden and 5 from William Porden. Other letters ...
(18.0 Cubic Feet)Gustav Groeber was a world-recognized Romance scholar and a Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Strassburg. His collection's greatest strength was Provencal and Italian literatures and linguistics; however, all Romance languages and dialects were well-represented, and many volumes of classical, English, and Germanic works were included. In addition ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/137283573]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/137283573[/url] Full Title: Gulielmi Tresshami sacrae theologiae professoris et Ecclesiae Cathedralis Christi Oxon. Canonici In quaestionem de non ducenda uxore fratris defuncti sine liberis opusculum Ms. codex. Collation: Paper, fol. 125 (foliated 1-123) + i (paper fly-leaf) ; 1 2-13? 14? (-14?) ; horizontal catchwords in ...
(94.4 Cubic Feet)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 ...