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Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a political and social activist who came into prominence in the 1960s when he co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the “Chicago Eight,” the group that was tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The collection includes typed and photocopied drafts for the publications Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (Putnam, 1980) and Square Dancing In the Ice Age (South End Press, 1982) (some under the working title “Free: a Radical American Romance”), with manuscript notes by Hoffman and his editors; published articles considered for books, correspondence with editors and publishing companies, and manuscript notes for speeches (1970s-early 1980s). less

Comprises typescript, manuscript, email and post-card correspondence between author Annie Proulx and Joel Connaroe, author of books and essays about American poetry and fiction, editor of Six American Poets, and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1985 to 2002 ; with 143 color photographs. less

Organized into 8 Series: 1. Works by Naomi Replansky; 2. Watercolors by Naomi Replansky; 3. Correspondence; 4. Documents, clippings, and papers about Naomi Replansky; 5. Clippings; 6. Photographs; 7. Original Folders; 8. Correspondence by and to others, and writing by others. less

For almost 30 years, John Updike maintained a professional and personal relationship with Herb Yellin (1935-2014), proprietor and founder, in 1976, of the Lord John Press. Yellin published fine press editions of many of Updike’s stories and poems. Their professional relationship soon developed into a warm friendship, and Updike even asked Yellin, who was familiar with Los Angeles and Hollywood, to supply and clarify details about the city’s neighborhoods and their socio-economic characteristics and sub-cultures for a fictional work that Updike was writing. Updike’s letters combine the personal, literary, and professional, and reveal his appreciation of Yellin’s careful attention to typographic excellence and book design. Even Updike’s postcards are replete with substantive content, as are the letters. The galleys and proofs, as well as several typescripts, show Updike reworking his material and becoming deeply engaged in typographic and design decisions, as well as the commercial aspects of marketing fine press editions. less

Periodicals from the United Sates, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, and Morocco, the great majority of which contain contributions by Burroughs; several containing interviews of him, and several are edited by him; a few with which he had no connection, in the copies present. less

In 1995, Philip Levine received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (for The Simple Truth) ; over the course of his career he has also won three National Endowment for the Arts grants in poetry, two Guggenheim fellowships in poetry, the Award of Merit from the National Society of Arts and Letters, the American Book Award, the Frank O'Hara Memorial Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He has taught at Fresno State University, New York University, Tufts University, and Vanderbilt University. He has been a visiting writer at the University of Cincinnati, Princeton University, Columbia University, Vassar College, Brown University, the University of Alabama, and the University of California, Berkeley, and also served as writer in residence at the National University of Australia at Canberra. In 2011, he was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. less

Autograph letter signed "your loving Virginia" by British author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) at Athens, Greece, September 19, 1906, to family friend Susan Lushington (1870-1953) at Kingsley, Alton, Hampshire. Woolf (then Virginia Stephen) was traveling in Greece at the time with her siblings Vanessa, Thoby, and Adrian Stephen. The letter conveys their shock and sorrow on learning of the death of Susan's sister, Margaret Massingberd of Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire. Woolf mentions Margaret's kindness to her family at the death of their half-sister Stella Duckworth (1869-1897), and expresses sympathy to Susan and her sister Kitty Maxse. Susan Lushington, a musician and patron of musical arts, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1943 less

The M. B. Goffstein papers document the life and work of award winning American author and artist Marilyn Brooke Goffstein (1942-2017). The collection consists of original illustrations, artist's proofs, notebooks, photographs, paintings, print books, miniatures, and realia. The papers provide insight to Goffstein's penchant for knowledge and life, while offering a glimpse of the artist's process and rich thematic exploration. less

Arthur Miller (October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. The collection consists of Miller's collection of his published plays, books, translations, anthologies, and other publications containing or referencing his work in various editions, comprising 692 volumes in total. less

The Howard Griffin papers document the life and work of American journalist and author John Howard Griffin (1920-1980), noted for his writing on racial equality. The collection consists of extensive correspondence, journals, manuscripts, typescripts, essays,scrapbooks, and photographs. The papers provide insight into Griffin's social observation,while offering a glimpse of his life as an activist during the civil rights movement in America. less

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American Beat novelist, essayist, and poet. The collection consists of an autograph manuscript (1 leaf) containing Jack Kerouac's notes or journal entry entitled "Áu Revoir a l'Art .... Period 394," dated Nov. 16, 1944. The entry begins "I wrote close to half a million words since 1939, when I first began to write." It goes on to describe his recent literary output, and his thoughts on art and the quest for "self-ultimacy." On the other side of the lined sheet, printed as graph paper, Kerouac has charted a numerical grid for "Periods of My Life," Mar. 12, 1922 - Dec. 31, 1946, noting "Death" as period 432, and "Now" as period 394 less

Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was a graduate of Harvard University (B.A. 1915, M.A. 1916). Le Baron Russell Briggs (1855-1934) was a professor, dean, and college president at Harvard University. E.E. Cummings submitted this unpublished academic essay, "Remarks Occassioned [sic] by Poetry" for a course he took at Harvard with Le Baron Russell Briggs, History and Principles of English Versification ("English 16"). Cummings places his literary analysis in the context of an entertaining conversation with a spirit, the discussion ranging from Beowulf to the modernists of his own time. Aside from the notation of a spelling error in the title, emendations appear to be made by Cummings. The designation "1G" after Cummings's name identifies him as a first-year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences less

Joseph Conrad was a British novelist, essayist, short-story writer, playwright, and translator. Elbridge L. Adams (1866-1934), an American lawyer and publisher, was a friend of Conrad and one of his early biographers. The collection comprises Joseph Conrad's typescript letter signed to Elbridge L. Adams, 1923 January 22 (with concluding paragraph, postscript, and corrections written in ink, 2 pages), and a fragment of Elbridge L. Adams's typescript draft of his magazine article "Joseph Conrad - The Man" (pages 1-10 only, each page glued to a sheet of paper). The draft contains Conrad's revisions and marginal comments in pencil. The letter, written at Oswalds to "My dear Adams," discusses his appreciation of the article, the reasoning behind his suggested alterations, his work and health, and other matters. The article was published in The Outlook, April 18, 1923, 708-712; the fragment covers approximately the first half, with Conrad's revisions incorporated into the text less

Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) was an American poet, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer. Kenneth Koch letters, 1961 and 1967, comprise his typed letter signed (2 pages) to "Don," dated [1961] February 10 at 69 Perry Street, New York City, and his typed letter signed (1 page) to poet James Schuyler ("Jimmy"), dated Thursday at 278 West 4th Street, with envelope postmarked 1967 June 1. The letter to Schuyler at Southampton, Long Island, encloses their collaborative poem "Titian Welds a Sculpture" (typescript with pencilled comment, 1 page), and a "mystery item," not present. The names James Schuyler & Kenneth Koch are typed below the poem's text. Koch's letter to Don discusses his work translating Haitian poetry and mentions his review of Frank O'Hara's poem "Second Avenue," appearing in the Partisan Review in 1961. Based on Koch's remarks regarding payment for his poems in The New American Poetry 1945-1960, it is likely that the recipient was Donald M. Allen, editor of the anthology less

Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) was an Irish painter and illustrator. He was the younger brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. John Quinn (1870-1924) was a corporation lawyer in New York City, and a noted private collector and patron of the arts. The collection comprises a letter (1 page) from [Jack B. Yeats] to "My Well Beloved John Quinn," written in the person of King Edward VII at Windsor, 1903 August 24, with an enclosed mock patent of nobility (1 page, folio). Both items are executed entirely in black ink, with the signatures "Edward" written upside down. Drawn at the top of the letter is a mock coat of arms, showing a unicorn and a lion with a straight razor shaving a pint, and the motto "Shave qui peut." The writer advises Quinn where "the artist fellah with whom you passed through my Western Empires" (Yeats himself) can obtain a patent similar to the one enclosed. The mock patent, made from a legal indenture form printed in Dublin by Hely's, Limited, is partially covered with pasted paper bearing Yeats's humorous bestowal of a knighthood on John Quinn of Broadway. A red wax seal attached to a green ribbon is affixed to the document less

Michael J. Dolan (1884-1954) was an Irish actor and theatrical stage manager, manager, and producer. He was associated with the Abbey Theatre of Dublin, Ireland, for most of his career. The collection (14 items) consists of letters written to Michael J. Dolan and by him as manager of the Abbey Theatre, 1923-1925 and undated; and six receipts, 1930-1934 [sic, 1935], for royalty and other payments made by the Theatre or its parent company the Irish National Theatre Society, Ltd. Also included are a black-and-white photograph of actors F.J. McCormick and Eileen Crowe as characters in "The Rugged Path," 1940; and a blank sheet of stationary for The Irish Academy of Letters at the Abbey Theatre. Correspondence comprises Dolan's typed letter, signed, to Frank J. Hugh O'Donnell about the hiring of a theater, 1925 March 4; three autograph letters signed by Lady Augusta Gregory to Dolan regarding the scheduling of play productions, 1925 February 11, August 17 and November 11 (no years); an autograph letter signed by Irish architect and theater historian Joseph Holloway, congratulating Dolan on his appointment as manager, 1923 [November] 29; and a typed letter, signed, from dramatist George Shiels to Dolan requesting a minor change to his play "Peter Duat," 1924 April 14. Receipts in chronological order are signed by actors, dramatists, and others; all receipts except one are initialled by Lady Gregory less

William Targ (1907-1999) was an American author and editor, and the publisher of Targ Editions. His wife Roslyn Targ (died 2017) was a literary agent whose clients included American novelist Henry Roth (1906-1995), known for his autobiographical works Call It Sleep and the multi-volume Mercy of a Rude Stream. The William Targ papers concerning Henry Roth, 1971-1983, contain Roth's correspondence with the Targs (13 items), and Roth's typescript early drafts of portions of Mercy of a Rude Stream, sent to William Targ for his input as editor and friend. It appears that much of the narrative corresponds to episodes in Requiem for Harlem, the fourth volume of Mercy of a Rude Stream. Roth's letters, postcards, and notes, written from Albuquerque, New Mexico chiefly to William Targ, discuss his writing and health, with mention of family news. There is one note from William Targ to Roth dated 1979 December 26. The collection also includes a cancelled check in payment for the typescript final draft of Call It Sleep, and two typed notes signed by William Targ, one identifying the Call It Sleep typescript, the other listing Henry Roth materials owned by Targ and his wife. less

James Joyce was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Richard William Wallace (1872-1927) was an American commercial artist and advertising executive who resided in Paris for a number of years. The collection (3 items in 1 slipcase) comprises two autograph letters signed by James Joyce, 1922 April 24 and 1926 December 22, and one autograph letter signed by his son George (Giorgio) Joyce, 1922 June 17, all written to James Joyce's friend, Richard Wallace. James Joyce's letter of 1922 April 24 (one page) encloses a letter for Wallace's perusal (not present) and mentions an invitation to lunch and other matters. The letter bears a pencilled note signed "W." Joyce's letter of 1926 December 22 (one page) extends holiday greetings and best wishes for Wallace's health. At Ezra Pound's request he asks Wallace to obtain information from Dr. [Joseph] Collins about a New York collector. Both letters are written in ink and addressed "Dear Wallace." George Joyce's letter (two pages on one leaf, in ink), is written at Paris and addressed "Dear Mr. Wallace." Writing on his father's behalf, he asks Wallace to convey Joyce's thanks to Collins for his article in the New York Times, and supplies several corrections regarding his father's life and the novel Ulysses less

Autograph letter signed "Sean" (2 pages), from Irish playwright and theater critic Sean O'Casey to "Johnnie," 1926 November 18. After giving an amusing account of the burglary of his London apartment building and its aftermath, O'Casey attends to business matters regarding amateur productions of his work, and difficulties with J. B. Fagan. He ends the letter with the expectation that it will be a long time before he returns to Dublin. The letter is written on stationery addressed 32, Clareville Street, Kensington, S.W. 7. The recipient is likely J. H. (John H.) Perrin, Secretary of the Irish National Theatre Society and business manager of the Abbey Theatre less

Lady Isabella Augusta (Persse) Gregory was an Irish playwright, director, producer, poet, folklorist, translator and historian, co-founder of the Irish National Theater Society at the Abbey Theater, and patron of the Irish Literary Renaissance. Grace Gifford Plunkett (1888-1955) was an Irish artist and political activist. The collection consists of one autograph letter signed (two pages) from Lady Gregory to Grace Plunkett, 1929 December 30, thanking her for her letter and her gift depicting plays and players of the Abbey Theatre. The letter, written on stationery of the Standard Hotel, Dublin, is addressed to Mrs. Plunkett, and signed A. Gregory less

John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, and essayist. The collection comprises two autograph letters and one autograph postcard, all signed J. M. Synge: an autograph letter signed (one page) to his publisher [Joseph M.] Hone, 1907 March 11, sending the remaining copy and proof of an unidentified work, and advising Hone that he is feeling better; an autograph letter signed (two pages) at Glendalough House, Kingstown, Dublin to [Sir Hugh] Lane, 1907 December 29, asking for details regarding the opening of Lane's new art gallery, a reference to Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art; and an autograph postcard signed, at Glendalough House, Kingstown, Dublin, to A. Francis Steuart at Edinburgh, Scotland, 1907 November 21, sending his regrets that he will not be traveling to Edinburgh "with the others," referring to an upcoming Abbey Theatre tour less

Philip Levine (1928-2015) was an American poet who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his work The Simple Truth (1994). He served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2012. Rick Campbell (1952-) is an American poet and former director of the poetry publishing firm Anhinga Press. The collection comprises nine items written by Philip Levine to Rick Campbell: three computer-generated typed letters signed and two autograph letters signed, dated 2001 May 24 to 2011 April 11; three autograph postcards signed, dated or postmarked 2000 to 2005; and an undated autograph letter signed, written on two unstamped postcards; also, a four-page document capturing email exchanges between Levine and Campbell, 2014 May 27 to 2015 February 7, regarding the publication of a poem by Levine in the journal Kestrel. A re-typed printout of the letter dated 2011 April 11, returned from an unidentified recipient with a note thanking Campbell for it, is included. The collection charts the epistolary friendship of the two poets, originating in Anhinga Press's publication of work by winners of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, sponsored by California State University at Fresno. Levine's letters and postcards discuss the Prize and thank Campbell for sending him Anhinga Press imprints and volumes of Campbell's own poetry. Levine makes positive remarks about their work and that of other poets, while sharing brief reminiscences of his time in Iowa, Florida and California less