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(112.0 Items)This collection contains letters and postcards that author Rainer Maria Rilke sent to Berlin banker Karl von der Heydt and his wife Elisabeth in the early 1900s. In his letters, Rilke discusses art and artists, his family, financial matters, travel plans, and other topics.
(2.0 Items)License granted to the Repertory Theatre, Nottingham by the Lord Chamberlain allowing them to perform the play "A Tale of Young Lovers." Also included is the receipt for purchasing the license. Dated November 24, 1921.
(1.0 Items)Ms. document. Date taken from first and second lines of text: "This Indenture made the one and Twentyeth day of Aprill in the ffourteenth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second [...] And in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred sixtye and two". Signed ...
(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 ...
(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.
(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.
(2.0 Items)Two MS poems "Old Tom and I" and "Robert Burns" dated August 1887, and 1870.
(1.0 Boxes)Papers of James Whitcomb Riley, including letters to James Newton Matthews.
(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 ...
(24.0 Linear 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 ...
(3.0 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 ...
(24.0 Cubic Feet)Archival material by and about Edwin Rolfe, an American author and member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.
(1.0 Items)Collection of autographs from European Royalty and other historical figures. Former Shelfmark: uncat 66 460
(8.0 Cubic Feet)Collection of film and television scripts by the screenwriter Arnold Rudnick.
(1.0 Items)Original manuscript by Arnold Wolman. Pages are loose and unnumbered. Given as a gift to the Library by Arnold Wolman.
(31.0 Items)This collection consists primarily of letters that John Ruskin wrote to his cousin, Joan Severn, while traveling in France, Italy, and Switzerland in the fall of 1888.