Manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
D. H. Lawrence Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 6
Scope and Contents
The D.H. Lawrence Collection consists four series: correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts, and periodicals. The letters are grouped by correspondent and arranged chronologically. Almost all of Lawrence’s letters are fully dated and occasional transcriptions accompany them. The manuscripts donated by Dr. Butler are in chronological order by the date of publication. Two additional manuscripts, “The Crown” and “Democracy,” both donated by the Friends of the Library, are included in the Butler...
Dates:
1919-1979
George Bernard Shaw Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 70
Scope and Contents
The George Bernard Shaw Collection reflects the many sides of Shaw’s versatile personality. In his letters he emerges as a merciless critic, a careful businessman, a fond uncle, an artist struggling to work among various distractions, a political organizer, a kind benefactor, and finally as an aged man wearied by the demanding public role he played well into his final years. The collection documents the structure of his work and the daily routines he followed. Shaw’s correspondence to others...
Dates:
1893-1958
George Moore Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 54
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two series: manuscripts and correspondence, dated from 1884 to 1931. The manuscripts include corrected proofs of two manuscripts; the author’s holographic revisions appear on the correct proofs of Memoirs of My Dead Life and Ulick and Soracha.The corrected proofs are followed by the letters ordered alphabetically by correspondent, thereafter chronologically. Fifteen letters were written by...
Dates:
1884-1931
Janet and Sigfried Weis Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 88
Scope and Contents
The theatre programs of the Janet and Sigfried Weis Collection are arranged alphabetically by program title and range from 1950 to 1990. The programs include performances for plays and musicals. Also included in the collection are announcements for performances, Playbill magazine, and program for a kabuki performance at Kabukiza in Japan.Additional items in the collection are unprocessed. Separated Materials Photographs may be...
Dates:
1960-2010
Mrs. George Edgecumbe Collection of Theatre Programs
Collection
Identifier: MS 90
Scope and Contents
The programs of the Mrs. George Edgecumbe Collection are arranged alphabetically by performance title and range from 1925 to 1966. Included in the collection are also announcements for upcoming performances.
Dates:
1925-1966
Found in:
SCUA Manuscript Collections
Norman Douglas Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 50
Scope and Contents
The letters, manuscripts, and business papers that make up the collection offer valuable insights into Norman Douglas as an author and a friend. They chronicle the last years of his writing career, discussing his business dealings, research, travels and thoughts on other authors. His sense of humor, love of life, and attention to detail are apparent in many of the letters contained in the collection. However, several sections of his letters are bitter, as he complains about the pains of...
Dates:
1921-1970
Oliver St. John Gogarty Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 1
Scope and Contents
The Oliver St. John Gogarty consists of 13 series: (1) Notebooks, (2) Major Prose Works and Collections, (3) Essays and Individual Prose Pieces, (4) Plays, Scenarios, Scripts, (5) Poems in the Collected Poems, the Unselected Poems, and the Unpublished Penultimate Poems, (6) Individual Manuscript Poems, Mostly Unpublished,(7) Manuscripts of Others, (8) Gogarty Fragments and Notes, (9) Correspondence, (10) Gogarty Memorabilia, (11) Miscellaneous Publications [Preserved by, or related to Oliver...
Dates:
1903-1955
William Butler Yeats Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 43
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four series dating from 1894 to 1936 and includes correspondence by William Butler Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, Elizabeth Yeats, and Lily Yeats; catalogs of Cuala Industries and Dun Emer Industries; announcements and receipts of Cuala Press; draft prospectus and photograph of Dun Emer Press; as well as clippings of published articles by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory, announcements, works on paper, a program, a photograph, and a postcard. The...
Dates:
1894-1936