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George Dowden papers on the Allen Ginsberg bibliography, 1966-1971
2 linear feetCorrespondence, working notes, and drafts used by Dowden (b. ca. 1933) in compiling his work A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY ALLEN GINSBERG. Dowden corresponded with many writers, publishers, editors, and libraries in compiling a comprehensive bibliography of Allen Ginsberg's poetry and prose, published before 1 July 1967. Among the correspondents are Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Robert La Vigne, Gerard Malanga, Fernanda Pivano, and Gary Snyder.
James Gilvarry literary letters and manuscripts, 1885-1927
.5 linear feetLetters and manuscripts of English and American authors collected by Gilvarry. Included are a letter from Arnold Bennett, London, 1923, to Miss Renard; a poem "The Sea Bird to the Wave" by Padraic Colum, 1916; an essay of D.H. Lawrence, 1926?; a letter from Ezra Pound, London, ca. 1914, to Seumas O'Sullivan; a letter from George Santayana, Rome, 1927, to E.W. Titus; and a photograph with signature of Herman Melville, New York, 1885.
Nikolai Gumilev Poems, 1939
148 pagesSamizdat edition of the poems of N.S. Gumilev, said by Rudolf Lowenthal to have been compiled by Russian students in 1939.
Westgate Press records, 1929-1931
1 boxCorrespondence, manuscripts, proofs, and miscellaneous documents relating to the Westgate Signed Editions, a series of signed first editions of American and British authors, published in 1929-1930 by the Westgate Press, San Francisco, under the direction of Oscar Lewis. The collection contains correspondence from Sherwood Anderson, Havelock Ellis, Zona Gale, Lewis Mumford, Bertrand Russell, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Ruth Suckow, Frank Swinnerton, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, as well as carbon copies of Oscar Lewis' replies.
Society of Authors' Representatives records, 1939-1991
6 linear feetCorrespondence, by-laws, memoranda, contracts, permission forms, reports, bank statements and other legal papers, advertising, and printed materials.
William York Tindall papers, 1927-1970
8.5 linear feetThe collection is centered around the writings of Tindall, including notes, correspondence, manuscripts, and typescripts of his studies of Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence.
Larissa Maria Lubov Zaleska Onyshkevych Manuscript, 1973
154 pagesThis doctoral dissertation of Larissa Onyshkevych, "Existentialism in Modern Ukrainian Drama," written for the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, discusses works by the following: Lesi︠a︡ Ukrainka, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Mykola Kulish, I︠U︡riĭ Kosach, Eaghor Kostetzhy, Li︠u︡dmila Kovalenko, and Bohdan Boichuk.
Lucien Price manuscripts, 1951-1958
20 boxesManuscripts of Price, including the notes, manuscripts, typescripts, and galley proofs for HELLAS REGAINED, OCTOBER RHAPSODY, and THE SACRED LEGION, which are parts of his "All Souls" sequence of novels.
Stuart B. Schimmel collection of letters manuscripts and documents, 1735-1986
1 linear feetThree letters of Christopher Isherwood, John Dreyfuss correspondence, and Limited Editions Club correspondence.