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Personal correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

D. H. Lawrence Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 6
Scope and Contents The D.H. Lawrence Collection consists of 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...
Dates: 1919-1979

Earl L. Kohler Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS 102
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 32 letters written during the American involvement in World War I, 1917-1918. The bulk of these letters were written by Earl L. Kohler, serving in the 469th Aero Squadron, to his brother E. LaRue Kohler, who was a student at Bucknell University.

The remaining letters were written to other family members or by friends or relatives.

Dates: 1917-1918

Edward Burne-Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 82
Scope and Contents

The Burne-Jones Collection consists of two series: Correspondence and Drawings. Correspondence includes letters written by Edward Burne-Jones and by Georgianna Burne-Jones between 1878 and 1907. Ten of the eighteen letters are undated. The collection also contains six original humorous pen and ink sketches by Edward Burne-Jones.

Dates: 1873-1907

George Bernard Shaw Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 70
Scope and Contents Items in this collection range in date from 1882 to 1971. Shaw’s manuscripts, proofs and published works appear first in the collection, followed by his correspondence, which comprises the bulk of the material. Two separately collected albums of correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous items appear next, followed by theatrical business documents. Next are a series of correspondence to Shaw; papers of others concerning Shaw; and miscellaneous items of general interest, including...
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.

See full Scope and Contents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zyptj54-IpZs6G3UPrnqb3DXSccT3cOe/view?usp=sharing

Dates: 1884-1931

H.G. Wells Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 12
Scope and Contents This collection consists of one series entitled Correspondence. The letters in this collection are mainly from Wells to Reginald Turner, and generally concern Wells’ travel plans. Some of the letters refer to visits to Turner in Italy with Wells’ mistress, Rebecca West. Some refer to Wells’ travel plans with a later mistress, Odette Keun. Others refer to family plans with his sons Gip and Frank. A few letters discuss literary matters, such as articles or stories to be published. One letter...
Dates: 1911-1937

Norman Douglas Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 50
Scope and Contents The letters, manuscripts, and business papers that make up the collection chronicle the last years of the writing career of Norman Douglas, discussing his business dealings, research, travels and thoughts on other authors. The collection is made up of 6 series: Manuscripts, Correspondence to Albert Parsons Sachs, Correspondence to Others, Business Papers, Correspondence Concerning Norman Douglas, and Items about the Collection. The collection consists of 102 items dating from 1921 to 1970....
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

Oscar Wilde Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 13
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one series: Correspondence. The material in the collection consists of four holograph letters to figures in the literary and theatrical worlds.

Dates: 1887-1894

Rossetti Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS 11
Scope and Contents

The Rossetti collection consists of three series: Dante Gabriel Rossetti letters, William Michael Rossetti letters, and miscellaneous materials. The entire collection contains approximately 80 items dating from 1865 to 1900, including letters written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti between 1865 and 1868. See full Scope and Contents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pf8bUNMGQM_AAFEBtyaea3T7QktxK5zj/view?usp=sharing

Dates: 1865-1900