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Found 20 collections related to American poetry
Nash, Mary, 1885-1976
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 1977-003
8.32 linear feet (15 boxes, 16 volumes)
Mary Nash (1884-1976) was an American stage and film actress most famous for playing Katharine Hepburn's mother in The Philadelphia Story (1940). Her sister Florence Nash (1888-1950) was an American actress, comedienne, and writer. The Mary and...
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Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 6407
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Letters from American editor, poet, and critic Rufus Wilmot Griswold, mainly pertaining to professional matters, including the publication of his anthology Poets and Poetry of America, and of the poetry of Frances Sargent Osgood. The publishing...
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Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn, 1862-1935
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 2022
5.25 linear feet (6 boxes)
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862-1935), American poet and playwright, used the pseudonym John Philip Varley. His best-known plays were Becky Sharp (1899) and The New York Idea (1906). He taught playwriting at the University of Pennsylvania from 1928...
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Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn, 1862-1935
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 1975-003
12.4 linear feet (29 boxes, 1 volume)
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862-1935) was an American playwright, poet and professor of playwriting. The Langdon Mitchell papers consist of drafts of Mitchell's plays, journals and diaries and notes and texts for his lectures.
Eddy, Martha
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 886
1 v
Original and copied poems written by Martha Eddy at Providence, R.I. and at Charlestown, Mass. Also includes drawings for embroidery patterns.
Mag City
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1834
2 linear feet (5 boxes)
Poetry magazine edited and published by Greg Masters, Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. Fourteen issues appeared between 1977-1985; a fifteenth was begun, but was never completed. Prominent...
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Drake, Joseph Rodman, 1795-1820
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 833
.21 linear feet (1 volume)
Poems published in the New York Evening Post, 1819. Copies apparently contemporary. At back of one volume is a copy of a Melologue by Thomas Moore
Romatka, Anton
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 2614
179 p
Contains biographical preface on Romatka by Evers and article entitled Adventure with Poets.
Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1575
13 linear feet (12 boxes; 57 volumes)
The Robert Underwood Johnson papers document Johnson's personal and professional life from 1875 until his death in 1937. Johnson, born in 1853, served on the staff of The Century Magazine until 1913, eventually rising to...
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Bernfeld, Rose Morris
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 271
1 v
Hoit, T. W. (True Worthy), 1815-
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1414
11 p
In manuscript and broadside format, beginning with The Celestial Voyage. Published in St. Louis, 1883.
Woodworth, Samuel, 1784-1842
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3384
.13 linear feet (1 box)
A holograph manuscript of Poetical Effusions by Samuel Woodworth, partially in his hand, not comprised in any print volume of his works. Includes an index of poems by first lines
Porter, Kenneth Wiggins, 1905-1981
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 222
49.4 linear feet (67 boxes)
A professor of history, Kenneth W. Porter conducted research on African-American frontiersmen and cowboys, Black Seminoles, and American folklore and folk history. This collection consists primarily of his manuscripts and research materials...
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Toldridge, Elizabeth
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3003
.21 linear feet (1 volume)
A group of typewritten poems in a folder marked in pencil "Winnings," probably written between 1900-1930. Accompanied by photographs, genealogical notes, and letters.
O'Hara, John Myers, 1870-1944
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 2277
77 p
Published in New York. Inscription: This edition is limited to ten copies printed in ink by the author. No. 3. This is the final draught of Pagan Sonnets, and the revised form in which I wish them preserved for posterity. This edition contains...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1424
1 v
Tisdale, Phebe Alden
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 2998
.25 linear feet (1 box)
Contains miscellaneous writings and correspondence between Tisdale and the Manuscripts Division of the New York Public Library. Also includes photocopies of original manuscripts for "All seasons around the son: a telescopic view of the first...
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Hopkins, Herbert M. (Herbert Müller), 1870-1910
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1431
175 leaves
Menashe, Samuel, 1925-2011
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll MSS 186234
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Samuel Menashe (1925-2011) was an American poet. The collection comprises two autograph letters signed by Samuel Menashe to American author Meredith Hall (1949-), a recent acquaintance, dated April 17 and May 14, 2007. The letter of April 17 (one...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll MSS Emerson
180 items
This is a synthetic collection covering the years 1821 to 1912 (bulk 1837-1882) with some undated material. The collection is particularly strong on poetry, including over twenty poems in manuscript, most from Emerson's earlier period. The...
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