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Barker (Elsa) papers

Formal title:: Elsa Barker papers
Extent:: 2.5 linear feet (2 records center boxes and 1 document-size Hollinger documents case)
Date range:: 1900-1954 (bulk 1905-1948)
Abstract:: The collection consists of approximately 1000 items and includes typescripts, shorthand notes, letters, personal and financial papers, and other material relating to her poetry, detective stories and 'automatic writing' series by The Living Dead Man. The correspondence includes three letters from the dancer, Ted Shawn, and one directed to H.L. Koopman, then director of the Brown University Library.
Repository:: John Hay Library, Special Collections
Collection call no:: Ms. 2009.007

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

Buchan (John) papers

Formal title:: John Buchan papers
Extent:: 0.25 Linear feet
Date range:: 1898-1958
Abstract:: The John Buchan Papers contain approximately 150 items covering the years 1898-1958. Most of the collection contains letters written by John Buchan to W.M. Colles and Sir Henry Newbolt. A selection of 5 published works by John Buchan are included as well as photographs.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.Buchan

Formal title:: Artha May McConoughey Papers
Extent:: 1 linear foot
Date range:: 1896-1939 (bulk 1908-1929)
Abstract:: The Artha May McConoughey Papers consist of travel diaries, temperance speeches, law school assignments, photographs, and personal artifacts. All of the written material is from McConoughey's own hand; most of it was composed during the first quarter of the 20th century when she came of age and became active in the temperance and women's suffragist movements in the Chicago area.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2005.2

Perelman (S. J.) Papers

Formal title:: S. J. Perelman Papers
Extent:: Approximately 400 item(s)
Date range:: 1914-1987
Abstract:: S.J. Perelman was a humorist, screenwriter, and dramatist, noted for his adept word play and wild imagination. Perelman wrote many humorous short pieces for
Repository:: Brown University Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 87.2

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