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David Paul papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 820
Abstract:

The David Paul Papers contain his writings, correspondence, printed material, and notebooks.

Dates: circa 1945-1986

David Plante papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 308
Abstract:

The collection contains correspondence, writings, artwork, and other papers by or relating to the writer David Plante. The bulk of the collection consists of letters to Plante from authors, artists, critics, editors, and film directors, as well as correspondence with Plante's partner, Nikos Stangos, and family members.

Dates: 1927-2014

John Cowper Powys collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 136
Abstract:

The collection consists of miscellaneous letters by John Cowper Powys.

Dates: [ca. 1930-1963]

Vita Sackville-West papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 925
Abstract: The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, business and estate records, writings, lectures, and gardening papers. Correspondents include family members such as Lionel Edward Sackville-West, Victoria Sackville, Harold Nicolson, and Nigel Nicolson, and friends and lovers including Rosamund Grosvenor, Hilda Matheson, Gwen St. Aubyn, and Christopher St. John. Writings include typescripts and manuscripts for works including the novels ...
Dates: 1866-2003, bulk 1900-1960

George Augustus Sala collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 952
Abstract: The George Augustus Sala Collection consists of papers accumulated by Ralph Straus in writing his biography of Sala; and autograph manuscript correspondence and writings by Sala acquired from other sources. Papers of Straus consist of autograph letters, signed, to and from Sala, members of his family, and others; autograph manuscript writings and notes by Sala; clippings of articles by and about Sala; photographs, engraved portraits, and printed caricatures of Sala; and autograph manuscript...
Dates: 1828-1942, bulk 1860-1895

Leonard Strong collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1084
Abstract:

The Leonard Strong Collection consists of autograph manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, short stories, and monographs; correspondence; and drawings by Strong which were acquired by the library over several decades. A group of materials acquired from James T. Babb include his correspondence with Strong and the book and manuscript dealer Bertram Rota.

Dates: 1923-1961

Angela Mackail Thirkell collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 283
Abstract:

Collection contains: holograph manuscript drafts of Thirkell's novels Private Enterprise and What Did it Mean?; correspondence between Thirkell and James Tinkham Babb, Barbara Waite Davidson, Gordon and Mary Haight, and others; third-party correspondence by Lance Thirkell, Laura Roberts Collins, C. A. Lejuene, and others; clippings and printed ephemera relating to Thirkell and her work; and computer media.

Dates: 1944-2003

Letters to Herbert Van Thal

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 464
Abstract: Letters to Herbert Van Thal from various writers, critics, readers, and actors, including James Agate, Alan Dent, Adrian Conan Doyle, Roger Fulford, Elspeth Huxley, Noel Langley, James Pope-Hennessey, Leonard Russell and Paul Scott. Many letters concern projects proposed by Van Thal, such as memoirs by famous persons, or are in response to queries placed by Van Thal soliciting information or leads for compilations of letters he was preparing. Other letters concern his work as a writers'...
Dates: 1921-1980

Rebecca West collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 239
Abstract:

The collection contains letters to and from West, including extensive correspondences with Emanie Sachs Arling and Doris Stevens, as well as letters from Norman Mackenzie, Sara Tugander Melville, Jonathan Mitchell, Harold F. Rubinstein, and Reginald Turner; miscellaneous writings by West; and correspondence and memorabilia of West assembled by Gordon S. Haight.

Dates: 1913-[ongoing]