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Papers of James Ramsay MacDonald, including two typed letters signed (1921 December 5 and 1925 April 2) to Henry Salt. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569319]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569319[/url]
This collection consists of 58 letters and postcards written by William MacDonald. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572536]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572536[/url]
Papers of Archibald Macleish, including one typed letter signed (1981 January 30) to Archibald Macleish from George Hendrick, and on the same manuscript a reply note to George Hendrick from Archibald Macleish (circa 1981 February). Some individual items in Letters card catalog. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569331]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569331[/url]
Papers of William Macready, including four autographed letters signed. Some individual items cataloged in Letters card catalog. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569344]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569344[/url]
Haki R. Madhubuti (1942-) is an American poet, educator, and publisher who founded Third World Press in 1967 with Carolyn Rodgers and Johari Amini. Birthed in the Black Arts Movement of Chicago, the press focused on publishing work by and about the Black experience across the diaspora. It is currently ...
Full Title: The magic flute, or Harlequin Champion [manuscript] : An entire new splendid serio-comic, pedestrian and equestrian, pantomine. Perform'd with universal applause at the New Royal Circus, on Monday June 24th. 1800. / With entire new picturesque & splendid scenery design'd by Greenwood expressly for the occasion & executed ...
Copy of Mangroves by Nell Koons with inscription "To Carl Sandburg..." signed by the author. 20 Leaves, chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm.
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68044128]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68044128[/url] Title supplied by cataloger. Ms. document. Layout: Written in 43 long lines. Origin: Text begins: "Tydburste Kendalle" -- Line 3: "quinto die ffebruarij anno d[omi]ni 1601" -- Signed by the gentleman John Kettell -- Several persons are named in the text including Thomas Pope Slowutt; William ...
Ms. codex. Layout: Two columns per page; ruled in red; first 12 and last 12 pages are blank. Script: Written in the shorthand system of Jeremiah Rich. Provenance: Bookplate on inside of front cover: "Collegii Di. Joannis Baptistae Bibliotheca" -- Stamp over bookplate on inside of front cover: "Johns College, Oxford. Sold by ...
Full title: Manuscript. Being a very exact copy of the memorable debate att large betweene the House of Lordes, and House of Commons [manuscript]. : Att ye ffree conference held in the painted chamber. In the session att ye convention anno 1688 relateing to the word abdicated and the vacancy ...
Collection of letters, sermons, epigrams, and verse primarily copied in the hand of Ann Weld. Ms. codex. Title from cover, statement of responsibility and date from recto of front fly-leaf: "Ann Weld, January 1st 1793"; table of contents on verso of last leaf and on rear pastedown. A sermon by the Reverend James ...
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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. ...
This collection consists of drafts of two works about French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922), both written by Léon Pierre-Quint (1895-1958). The first volume is a manuscript draft of [i]Marcel Proust: sa vie, son oeuvre[/i] (dated April 1921), the first biography written for Marcel Proust. The second volume is a typescript ...
A 19th century copy of an earlier MS containing poetry in praise of Mary. Ms. leaves. Title from upper left corner of fol. 1r.; A 19th century copy of an earlier MS containing poetry in praise of Mary. Script: In 19th century Kurrentschrift. Consists of unsewn gatherings and single leaves. Origin: Date based on script. ...
Correspondence sent to Alex Hoffmann from Mario Savio. 1) A.L.S. Sent by Mario Savio from Oxford, England to Alex Hoffmann in Oakland, California. December 10. 1965. 2) Postcard, signed. Sent by Mario Savio from Salt Lake City to Alex Hoffmann in Oakland, California. September 4, 1965.
Notarized marriage contract of Michel Proust and Demoiselle Francoise-Charles David, chiefly discussing financial matters; additional note at end, in the notary's hand, reports receipt of money from M. Barr. Ms. document. Title supplied by cataloger. Dated on p. [1]: 25 Juin 1769. Notary seal on p. [1]: Gen d'Orleans, vingt sols. Signed at end: "Le ...
Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Practicall geometry -- Decimall arithmetick -- The extraction of the squar roote -- The use of the table of logarithmes -- The use of the line of numbers -- Trigonometry or The doctrine of straite lined triangles with their aplication in measuring of heights distances and ...
Autographed copy of cartoon which had appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
This collection consists of a bound manuscript score of Igor Stravinsky's one-act opera [i]Mavra [/i](129 pages) and a bound score of the opera's overture (11 pages). The lengthier score includes the text of Boris Kochno's libretto and is dated 9 March 1922; the shorter score is dated 26 May 1922. ...
Folder 1: No. 1: Letter to Miss Frith dated November 3 77. -- No. 2: Letter to Mrs. Tweedie in which Sir Mawson is mentioned. -- No. 3: Letter to Mr. Sala. -- No. 4: Transcription of Wordsworth poem by Braddon. -- No. 5: Letter to Lady Wilde dated October ...
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 contains the papers of William Maxwell (1908-2000), American author and editor of [i]The New Yorker[/i] from 1936-1976. Contents include the manuscripts of published works, reviews, poetry and novels of Maxwell and other writers, as well as newspapers and journal clippings and items from his personal library. Literary and ...
This collection contains the papers of William Maxwell (1908-2000), American author and editor of [i]The New Yorker[/i] from 1936-1976. Contents include the manuscripts of published works, reviews, poetry and novels of Maxwell and other writers, as well as newspapers and journal clippings and items from his personal library. Literary and ...
This collection contains the papers of William Maxwell (1908-2000), American author and editor of [i]The New Yorker[/i] from 1936-1976. Contents include the manuscripts of published works, reviews, poetry and novels of Maxwell and other writers, as well as newspapers and journal clippings and items from his personal library. Literary and ...
Papers of Leon Mazeaud, including 3 autographed letters signed. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569461]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569461[/url]
This collection consists of 173 items, including personal letters by H. G. Wells, letters and records regarding the publication of his works, items related to the film [i]Things to Come[/i], advertisements, drawings, photographs, and books. The items in this collection formed a part of Larry McMurtry's personal collection of H. G. Wells artifacts.
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70138264]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70138264[/url] fol. 1r-9v: [Concerning excrements / Theophilus Protospatharius] fol. 9v-14v: [Concerning tumors / Theophilus Protospatharius] fol. 14v: [On methods of nourishment / Hierophilus Chalcedonius] fol. 15r-v: [Another medical fragment] fol. 15v-37v: [Poem on medicine / Michael Psellus] fol. 37v-38r: [Medical excerpts] fol. 38v: [Table of the signs of the zodiac]. Decoration: ...
Ms. Created by Charles L. Wisseman III during a class taught by Cheryl Porter at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, Tenn.) in 2008. Includes samples of pigments in gum arabic and egg white (earths, verdigris, vermilion, organics, blues, leads, and naturals), gold-leaf, and silver-leaf. Signed by Cheryl Porter on fol. ...
Ms. Created by Charles L. Wisseman III during a class taught by Cheryl Porter at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, Tenn.) in 2008. Includes samples of pigments in gum arabic and egg white (earths, verdigris, vermilion, organics, blues, leads, and naturals), gold-leaf, and silver-leaf. Signed by Cheryl Porter on fol. ...
The Franklin J. Meine Collection contains books, pamphlets, periodicals, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photos, and ephemera that document the work of notable American humorists—particularly Mark Twain—and life on the Mississippi River during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection was accumulated over a thirty-year period by Franklin J. Meine (1896-1968), ...
Former shelfmark: Ms 323 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). Former shelfmark: Q. 864S24 Om (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). Temporary record
Former shelfmark: Ms 323 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). Former shelfmark: Q. 864S24 Om (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). Temporary record
William Stanley Merwin (1927-2019) was an American poet, translator, essayist, activist, playwright, and conservationist. The W.S. Merwin Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts (poetry, prose, verse-plays, translations, and reviews), proofs, photos, clippings, notebooks, published works, ephemera, and financial and legal records documenting Merwin's life and work from 1943 until his death in ...
Meteorological record for Guadalajara, Mexico, with a preface, an introduction, and daily entries for 18 Dec. 1923 through 31 Dec. 1934. Ms. codex. Meteorological record for Guadalajara, Mexico, with a preface, an introduction, and daily entries for 18 Dec. 1923 through 31 Dec. 1934. Title supplied by cataloger. Leaves are foliated with an ink ...
Papers of Thomas Meyer, including one typed letter signed to Anthony Reid. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569489]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569489[/url]
Papers of Alice Christiana (Thompson) Meynell, including one autographed letter signed to a Miss Everett. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569540]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569540[/url]
This collection consists of correspondence, playbills, publications, interviews, photographs, posters, and realia concerning the life and works of Arthur Laurents. Materials were previously from the Library of Gabriel Miller, a modern drama and film scholar at Rutgers University. Books related to this collection can be found by searching "Gabriel Miller ...
A volunteer in the Spanish Civil War from 1937 through most of 1938, serving first as a machine gunner and later an ambulance driver. Not long after the December 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was one of the half dozen American veterans of the Spanish Civil War to be ...
U.S. Infantry uniform worn by social activist, Milton Wolff, during his service in World War II.
U.S. Infantry uniform worn by social activist, Milton Wolff, during his service in World War II.
Ms. codex. Place and date from fol. 2r: "Begun in Dublin Decr. 13th 1743". Binding contains manuscript waste. Signature of W. Charleton on fol. 48r (though likely not in his own hand). Fols. 1r-1v, 32v-40v, 48v, 55r-55v, 64v, 116r-117v, 149v-150r, 155r, 161v-163r and 190v-193r are blank.; Text on fols. 2-48, 56-69, 87-91r, 97v-115v, 127r-129v, ...
This collection consists of five manuscript scores entitled [i]Miscellaneous Collection of Songs from Pope's [u]Eloisa to Abelard[/u][/i]. The scores, bound separately but in the same unidentified hand, are for voice, first violin, second violin, viola, and basso. Each contains works by Thomas Arne, Samuel Arnold, Jackson of Exeter, Henry Purcell, ...
This volume, entitled [i]Miscellany Collections[/i] on its first page, contains copied works of prose and poetry dated 1663-1731. Many entries are extracts from letters patent, legal proceedings, and wills; the book also includes biographical notes, epitaphs, and book lists. Some of the poems are works by Alexander Pope. The final ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70499082]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70499082[/url] fol. 1r-50v: [The miserable estate ... dureing the ... raigne of ... Queene Mary and the happy enterance and prolonged gouverment of ... Queene Elizabeth ... for the full tearme allmost of 37 years ...] fol. 51r-v: [Blank] fol. 52r-53r: [A discourse concerning the conversion ...
Purchased from Dawson, December 11, 1961
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560698]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560698[/url] Ornamental initials. Musical notation. Origin: Written in the first half of the 12th century, with 13th-century interpolations near the end. Provenance: Purchased from Harper, 1955. Faye & Bond. Provisional record based on De Ricci (suppl.)
Papers of John Mitchel, including nine autographed letters signed, one newspaper clipping, and one black and white photograph of Mitchel. Some individual items in Letters card catalog. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569586]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569586[/url]
Titles in this collection have been individually cataloged and can be searched for in the online catalog under "Modern Poetry Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)". The collection is mainly comprised of American and British modern poetry publications, 1930-1980. Former Collection Title: American Poetry Collection.
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560753]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560753[/url] Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1490, by two hands. Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill, 1950. Faye & Bond. Provisional record based on De Ricci (suppl.)
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/248721539]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/248721539[/url] Ms. codex. Title and author from caption title on fol. 1r. Script: In a 17th century English hand. Binding: Contemporary limp vellum with green silk ties (partially extant). Origin: Date and location based on known activity of author. Provenance: Acquired from Stonehill, 13 December 1949. Shelfmark: Urbana, ...
Papers of John Monroe, including one autographed land grant. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572585]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572585[/url]
This collection consists of a selection of letters and messages (sometimes including envelopes) written or received by Robert de Montesquiou, comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1855-1921). Primary correspondents include Charles Meunier, Emile Berr, and Pierre Dauze. It also includes typescripts concerning Montesquiou's life and family, an amateur photograph of the Comte, and ...
This collection contains printed works and broadsides printed at Finial Press in Champaign, Illinois. Select materials were designed by founder Alvin Doyle Moore (1931-2013), a professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois for over thirty years. These materials supplement a collection of bound volumes that ...
Materials relating directly and indirectly to Moore's authoritative study of Daniel Defoe and the Defoe period. Includes reprints of articles by John Robert Moore; reprints of articles presented to Moore; manuscript notes by Moore; reprints, typescripts, and facsimiles of works by Defoe.
Rubbing of piece of artwork depicting a mother and child.
Motley is the corporation name of Sophia and Margaret Harris (sisters) and their friend Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot, who designed sets and costumes from 1932 to 1976 for plays by Shakespeare and modern classics, opera, ballet, and motion pictures. Their designs were used in productions in the West End of London, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the English National Opera, and in the United States on Broadway and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Motley is the corporation name of Sophia and Margaret Harris (sisters) and their friend Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot, who designed sets and costumes from 1932 to 1976 for plays by Shakespeare and modern classics, opera, ballet, and motion pictures. Their designs were used in productions in the West End of London, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the English National Opera, and in the United States on Broadway and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Three sketches dontated by Thom Peterson. Sketches are of costume designs from production done by British theater design team, "Motley." 1) Sketch of Townswomen from production of Martha 2) Footmen: Act 1 Scene 2 from production of Ben Franklin in Paris 3) Sketch of 2 dresses from unknown production Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99692610612205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99692610612205899[/url]
Mountmellick School was a provincial secondary school operated by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Mountmellick, Ireland, from 1786-1920. This exercise book (114 pages), used to instruct the school's students, contains English poetry on topics such as friendship, marriage, and religion. Notable poems include "The Hermit of Warkworth: A ...
A speech addressed to the speaker concerning a proposed addition of Scottish parliament representatives. Ms. codex. Title and author's name from fol. 8v. Date given as "21 March. 1658" on fol. 6r. Possibly actually from 1659 (Lady Day dating) on account of a reference to "the late Protector", presumably Cromwell (d. 3 Sept. ...
From H. G. Wells collection Translation of Mr. Britling Sees it Through. Broeder, Ikes, Translator. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656008512205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656008512205899[/url]
[u]Box 1[/u] 1) The Dictionary: A list in original typescript, apparently initated by Amy Catherine [Jane] Wells, of the works of H. G. Wells. Most dates are prior to 1930 but some additions after that date may be observed. Composed of 103 numbered leaves with 597 numbered entries but with numerious ...
Typed draft of chapter 10 of [u]H. G. Wells and Rebecca West[/u] by Gordon N. Ray. 15 pages. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135112205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656135112205899[/url]
The Charles E. Mudie Papers dates from 1816 to 1897. Correspondence in the Mudie Papers comprises the most voluminous resource, with letters sent to and written by Mudie and family members. A wide array of mixed materials include photographs, broadsides, passports and a travel diary from 1859. Topics from the ...
Arnold Muirhead collected books, pamphlets, and autograph material of the English pamphleteer William Cobbett (1763-1835). Collection also includes correspondence from the Cobbett family. Correspondence is mainly from William Cobbett but also includes letters from Mary, Eleanor, John, James, and William Cobbett Jr. Some individual items cataloged in Letters card catalog.
Correspondence, ephemera, receipts, and newspaper clippings related to the life and career of James E. Murdoch. link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569592]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6569592[/url]
Richard Murphy, Professor of Speech Communication emeritus, retired from the University of Illinois 1971. In 1979, he donated his extensive collection of books on elocution, that part of rhetoric dealing with pronunciation, articulation and rules for reading. The collection contains material from the 18th to 20th centuries, and ...
Richard Murphy, Professor of Speech Communication emeritus, retired from the University of Illinois 1971. In 1979, he donated his extensive collection of books on elocution, that part of rhetoric dealing with pronunciation, articulation and rules for reading. The collection contains material from the 18th to 20th centuries, and ...
Ms. codex. Origin: Probably written in Germany in the 1890s. Former shelf-mark: Uncat. 75 9 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library); German Plays 830.82 G317no.779.