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Sherwood Anderson Correspondence with Llewellyn Jones

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-044
Abstract

This collection consists of eight letters written by American author Sherwood Anderson to Llewellyn Jones between 1916 and 1924 with three undated (but likely from the same period). Jones was the literary editor for the Chicago Evening Post. The correspondence primarily discusses the reviews of Anderson's works by Jones and other critics.

Dates: 1916-1924, n.d.

John Brick Book Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-098
Abstract

The collection contains a typescript manuscript draft of John Brick's American Civil War novel, Jubilee (published by Doubleday in 1956).

Dates: ca. 1956

Erskine Caldwell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1972-001
Abstract

The collection consists of five typescript short stories and a set of galley proofs written and signed by Erskine Caldwell.

Dates: n.d.

Hayden Carruth Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1978-005
Abstract

The collection contains three letters by poet Hayden Carruth, advising a younger poet named Kevin.

Dates: 1973 - 1975

C. Ernest Cooke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1994-008
Abstract

The collection contains the work of C. Ernest Cooke, a playwright, artist, and professor of English and Art History at Virginia Intermont Institute in Bristol, Virginia, from 1930 to the 1960s. The papers consist of manuscript and typescript plays by Cooke, and two copies of his publication, A Tabulated Biographical History of English Literature Correlated With the History of World Culture.

Dates: ca. 1920s-1960s

Lucy Dickinson Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-014
Abstract

This collection includes three letters addressed to Lucy Dickinson, a student at Vassar College. Two of the letters are from Edward C. Root of New York, New York; the third, from Louise Bass of Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1905 - 1906

James T. Farrell Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-005
Abstract

This collection contains four letters written by American author James T. Farrell to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson between February 1952 and May of 1954.

Dates: 1952, 1954

Joseph Hergesheimer Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1975-004
Abstract

The collection includes an autobiographical letter of Joseph Hergesheimer's youth, written in 1918.

Dates: 1918

Miles C. Horton, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-137
Abstract

Correspondence and printed materials of Miles C. Horton, Jr., a resident of Newport (Giles County), Virginia, includes letters from Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and materials relating to poet Randall Jarrell.

Dates: 1961 - 1988

Jaffe-Lankes Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-014
Abstract

This collection contains two main sets of materials: Correspondence between Louis I. Jaffe and J. J. Lankes from 1930 to 1942 and correspondence between Alice Jaffe (Louis' widow) and J. B. Lankes (J. J.'s son) from 1980 to 1985. In addition, there is a small folder of notes and letter excerpts created by J. B. Lankes in the early 1980s.

Dates: 1930-1942, 1980-1985