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Formal title:
Harris Ephemera
Extent:
25.0 Linear feet
Date range:
1902-2013 (bulk 1960-2013)
Abstract:
This collection is an extension of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays. These materials contain various pamphlets, papers, and booklets related to American publishing and press companies.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS.2016.008
Formal title:
Margaret Wise Brown papers
Extent:
24 box(es)
Date range:
1929-1952
Abstract:
The Margaret Wise Brown papers contains correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, poems, songs, stories and essays, books, and many ideas for records, television and radio programs.
Repository:
Westerly Public Library
Collection call no:
MWB01
Formal title:
Geoffrey Clark papers
Extent:
3 linear feet
Date range:
1976-2000 (bulk 1983-1997)
Abstract:
Literary manuscripts (memoir, short stories, novellas, novels).
Repository:
Roger Williams University
Collection call no:
Geoffrey Clark Papers
Formal title:
Larry Eigner papers
Extent:
1 linear ft. (1 legal size clamshell box)
Date range:
1958-1978
Abstract:
Larry Eigner was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain Poets of the 1950s, and his work was included under that heading in the landmark 1960 anthology
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
Ms. 79.10
Formal title:
Morris Abner Barr papers
Extent:
1.0 linear foot
Date range:
1939-1968
Abstract:
Morris Abner Barr was an author, lyricist, and poet whose poems tended towards nature, love, God, friendship, and Barr's own life. A craftsman, Barr wrote about his experience creating stools, gavels, and letter openers from the wood of the Sentry Tree in "Immortalizing the Sentry Tree of George Washington." The collection contains his writings, a scrapbook related to the George Washington Sentry Tree, and correspondence with friends and mentors.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.97.1
Formal title:
Curtis B. Norris papers
Extent:
138 linear feet
Date range:
1885-2002
Abstract:
Curtis Bird Norris and his father Lowell Ames Norris were both prolific producers of detective stories. His mother Helen Curtis Norris was a a children's author. The collection contains correspondence, original drafts, typescripts, diaries, scrapbooks, crime case files, photographs, clippings, memorabilia, and cassettes relating to their writing. Also included is material relating to the public affairs work of Curtis B. Norris at Brown and Stonehill colleges, his Ledger column, and background on the "Phantom P-40" story.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2010.034
Formal title:
John Hay papers
Extent:
28 linear feet
Date range:
1829-1916
Abstract:
The John Hay papers consists of Hay's correspondence with his family and with literary, diplomatic, and political contemporaries; diaries kept by Hay as Lincoln's White House aide and as Secretary of the Legations in Paris, Vienna, and Madrid, 1866-1870; manuscript poems; galley proofs; personal letterpress copy books; photographs of Hay, his family, and various political figures; political cartoons; sound recordings; and a small collection of objects. Subjects include: Civil War; Lincoln and his administration; Reconstruction; court life in Paris; the bi-metal monetary standard; the Canadian boundary settlement; the fur seal question; Japanese naval activity; Chinese-American relations; the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars; British and American politics.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.Hay

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