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(1.0 Boxes)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]
(0.56 Cubic Feet)This collection contains selected writings by Welsh novelist and essayist Arthur Machen (1863-1947). Included are articles and book reviews authored by Machen that appeared in various 20th-century English, French, and American periodicals, none of which are complete issues. See [u]Administrative/Biographical History[/u] for more information.
(1.0 Letters)A.L.S to T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus from Dulgald Stewart. Dated August 10, 1820.
(1.0 Items)Provisional record
(1.0 Items)Provisional record
(1.0 Items)Seven letters from John Masefield to Penelope Wheeler, containing remarks on her performance in a production of "The tragedy of Nan" that the author attended; recommendation for a song for a performance of "The tragedy of Nan"; recommendations for a production of "The locked chest"; compliments on another of Wheeler's ...
(21.0 Linear Feet)Seven letters from John Masefield to Penelope Wheeler, containing remarks on her performance in a production of "The tragedy of Nan" that the author attended; recommendation for a song for a performance of "The tragedy of Nan"; recommendations for a production of "The locked chest"; compliments on another of Wheeler's ...
(13.95 Cubic Feet)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 ...
(57.0 Cubic Feet)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 ...
(9.0 Cubic Feet)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 ...
(0.5 Linear Feet; 173 items)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.
(342.0 Cubic Feet)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.
(18.5 Cubic Feet)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), ...
(50.0 Cubic Feet)Collection includes the personal papers of D. H. Melhem, including literary manuscripts, interviews with poets from the Black Arts Movement, and records of her professional associations.
(192.5 Cubic Feet)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 ...
(3.0 Items)Collection of items signed by inventor and businessman, Thomas Edison. Transferred from the Krannert Art Museum's L.A. Meyers Collection. 1) Note from Chief Engineer Hutchinson to Edison and Edison's reply, regarding an article written by Meyers. Former Shelfmark: Meyers 169. 2) Photographs and inscription from Edison to Edison Pioneers. Former Shelfmark: Meyers ...
(4.0 Items)Clippings relating to his political and literary life, photographs, documents, etc. Collected by Wilfred Meynell before, during, and after writing his biography. With manuscripts notes and descriptions by Meynell. Includes 18 a. l. s. of Disraeli, two other autograph letters (one written by Sarah Disraeli and one by Mrs. Gore, the ...
(4.0 Cubic Feet)This collection consists of correspondence, playbills, publications, interviews, photographs, posters, and realia concerning the life and works of Arthur Laurents (1917-2011). Materials were previously from the Library of Gabriel Miller, a modern drama and film scholar at Rutgers University.
(3.0 Cubic Feet)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 ...
(3.0 Cubic Feet)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 ...
(11.0 Items)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]
(42.0 Cubic Feet)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.
(0.2 Cubic Feet)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 ...
(0.62 Cubic Feet)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 ...
(4.3 Cubic Feet)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.
(1.0 Items)Only three of the letters include the year in the date line: 186- (printed), 1874 and 1881. The dates 1869-1881 are those assigned the letters by the former owner, Arthur G.B. Randle. Autographed letters signed.
(1.0 Items)Rubbing of piece of artwork depicting a mother and child.
(321.0 Cubic Feet)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.
(7.5 Cubic Feet)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.
(2.0 Boxes)A series of photographic stills of actors from various early and notable films. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99609448712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99609448712205899[/url]
(0.43 Cubic Feet)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 ...
(1.0 Boxes)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.
(1.0 Items)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]
(30.0 Linear Feet)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 ...
(1.0 Items)Pamphlet of "Freedom of Thought Arraigned: Four Year Persecution of MAN! - 19 Year Persecution of Marcus Graham", letter explaining the pamphlet, and original envelope sent to Professor Richard Murphy.
(6.0 Cubic Feet)Pamphlet of "Freedom of Thought Arraigned: Four Year Persecution of MAN! - 19 Year Persecution of Marcus Graham", letter explaining the pamphlet, and original envelope sent to Professor Richard Murphy.