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Barbara Henning papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1303
Content Description:

The collection consists of writings, correspondence, personal papers, audio and video recordings, digital files, and other papers by and relating to American poet and writer Barbara Henning. Materials including notes, drafts, and manuscripts document Henning’s career as a poet, writer, and editor, and provide insight into her creative process. Correspondents include Charles Alexander, Charles Baxter, E. M. Broner, Bill Kushner, Harry Mathews, Harryette Mullen, and Maureen Owen.

Dates: 1970-2017

Maurice Hewlett collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 60
Abstract:

Collection contains letters by Maurice Hewlett to various recipients, including Sir John Collings Squire, and some third party correspondence. Also in the collection are holograph and typescript writings by Hewlett including his Song of the Plow, an obituary of Hewlett and a collotype of Hewlett by Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Dates: 1892-1930

William Heyen papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 352
Abstract:

The collection consists of material created and accumulated by William Heyen in the course of his activities as a poet and editor, and primarily documents Heyen's literary career from 1995 to 2009. Material includes correspondence with poets and writers, writings by Heyen and others, bound copies of Heyen's journals dating from 1965 to 1994, original journals dating from 1994 to 2006, notebooks, printed material, and other papers.

Dates: 1915-2022

Gordon Hislop Papers Relating to William Shenstone

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 334
Abstract:

Notebooks, loose notes, index cards, and printed materials kept by Gordon Hislop and relating to English poet and landscape gardener William Shenstone, circa 1909-1929. Materials--seemingly the result of an unpublished manuscript--include analyses of poems and correspondence (from Shenstone and other poets), as well as bibliographies on ballads and gardening in the 18th century.

Dates: circa 1909-1929

Ralph Hodgson papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 245
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, artwork, photographs, and printed material documenting the life of Ralph Hodgson. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence, which occupies 38 boxes. Principal correspondents include Enid Bagnold, Silvia Baker, Edmund Blunden, Bryher, T.S. Eliot, Vivienne Eliot, Norman Holmes Pearson, I. A. Richards, Siegfried Sassoon, Dorothy Hall Smith, and W. Bevan Whitney. Topics in the correspondence include the work and personal lives of other poets and authors...
Dates: 1695-1976, bulk 1914-1970

James Hogg collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 61
Abstract:

Letters by James Hogg to various persons; one letter by Margaret Phillips Hogg and one by William Hogg; manuscripts of writings by James Hogg, including "Memoir of Burns," and "Tales of Fathers and Daughters by the Ettrick Shepherd"; one drawing of James Hogg.

Dates: 1803-1836

John Hollander papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 837
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of material created and accumulated by John Hollander in the course of his literary and teaching activities. Material includes correspondence with poets, authors, critics, academics, and composers; drafts and manuscripts of poems and essays; typescripts of writings by others and related correspondence; files relating to classes taught; music material; and other papers. The collection documents Hollander's prolific career as a poet and literary critic, as well as his...
Dates: 1949-2006

Anselm Hollo papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1701
Abstract: The Anselm Hollo Papers contains correspondence, subject files, writings, teaching files, personal and professional papers, artwork, printed materials, computer media, and audiovisual media by or relating to Anselm Hollo. Notable correspondents include John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ted Berrigan, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Grenier, Langston Hughes, Gerrit Lansing, Ron Padgett, and John Taggart. Writings contain Hollo's translations of works by Ginsberg, Pentti Saarikoski, Dylan...
Dates: circa 1907-2013, circa 1907-2013

Susan Howe papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 338
Abstract: The collection consists of material created and accumulated by Susan Howe in the course of her activities as a poet, author, and teacher, and primarily documents Howe's literary career from 1998 to 2008. Material includes correspondence with poets, authors, artists, and musicians; drafts and manuscripts of published poetry collections, including The Midnight, Kidnapped, and Pierce-Arrow, and other writings; notebooks and diaries; teaching and research material; artwork; and family and...
Dates: 1894-2008, bulk 1956-2008

Barbara Howes papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 59
Abstract: The Barbara Howes papers contain writings, correspondence, personal and financial papers, and photographs documenting the life and literary career of American poet and editor Barbara Howes. The collection includes extensive files on all of Howes's book-length publications and many manuscripts and typescripts of individual poems, short stories and articles; her correspondence with her family, particularly with her mother and her husband, the poet William Jay Smith; and letters from a wide...
Dates: 1914-1995

Langston Hughes collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 28
Abstract: The Langston Hughes Collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, sound recordings, video recordings, electronic files, and other material documenting the life, work, and remembrance of Langston Hughes.Series I, Josephine DeWitt Rhodehamel Gift, is organized into three subseries: Letters from Langston Hughes, Writings of Langston Hughes and Writings of Others. There are letters to Rhodehamel and holograph and typescript versions of poems for Dear Lovely Death.Series...
Dates: 1924-1969

Langston Hughes papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 26
Abstract:

The Langston Hughes Papers contain letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects that document the life of the well-known African-American poet.

Dates: 1862-1980

George Ivask papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 93
Abstract:

The papers document George Ivask's work as a literary editor, and in particular, his publication of émigré poetry in Na zapade; antologiia russkoi zarubezhnoi (an anthology) and Opyty (a literary journal). The letters of Russian émigré poets and writers document their life in the United States and the papers also contain their literary manuscripts. Photographs consists of pictures of Ivask's friends and colleagues.

Dates: 1913-1963, bulk 1940-1960

James S. Jaffe collection of Jonathan Williams and The Jargon Society

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 332
Abstract: This collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, galley proofs, and artwork that documents a varied sample of projects undertaken by Jonathan Williams and The Jargon Society, 1949-1990. Correspondence documents associations Williams had with collaborators for projects for The Jargon Society and with other publishers. Correspondents include Dana Winslow Atchley, Thomas A. Clark, Ian Gardner, Michael Loeb, Tom Phillips, U. Grant Roman, David Ruff, Henry Holmes Smith, Jon Edgar Webb,...
Dates: 1949-1990, bulk 1968-1980

Robinson Jeffers collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 284
Abstract:

The collection consists of manuscripts of Robinson Jeffers's poetry and a small amount of correspondence and other papers related to Jeffers.

Dates: 1920-1951, bulk 1920-1933

Ruth Jespersen papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 708
Abstract: The Ruth Jespersen Papers consist of correspondence, writings, audiocassettes, and printed material regarding the professional life of the American writer Ruth Jespersen. Correspondence includes letters between Jespersen and Stephen Baily and Steven Milhauser and a letter from Jespersen to Phil Lyman. Writings contain typescript drafts, typescript photocopies, printed versions, and photocopies of printed versions of Jespersen's poetry, prose, a teleplay, and a screenplay. Two audiocassettes...
Dates: 1976-1990

James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 49
Abstract: The James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers provide evidence of the personal and professional lives of James Weldon Johnson, Grace Nail Johnson, and to a lesser degree, the Johnson and Nail families, spanning the years 1850 to 2005, with the bulk of material dating between 1900 and 1976. The papers chronicle Johnson’s writing career and involvement in education, politics, and cultural affairs and consist of a variety of documents, including correspondence, writings, personal...
Dates: circa 1850-2005, bulk 1900-1976

James Weldon Johnson collection files

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 114
Abstract: The James Weldon Johnson Collection Files contain manuscript correspondence, literary works and other documents relating to African Americans, dating from 1809 to 1979. The collection contains several letters to James Weldon Johnson from aspiring poets asking for feedback on their writing. Correspondence sent to Langston Hughes, Harold Jackman, Grace Nail Johnson, and Carl Van Vechten is also prominent in the collection. The collection includes broadway actress Rose McClendon's scripts used...
Dates: 1809-1979

Viola Baxter Jordan papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 175
Abstract: The collection contains letters to Jordan from Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D. and Bryher, as well as manuscripts of poems by Pound and Williams and a small quantity of personal papers. Subjects of the Pound letters include personal and family news; his writing and the literary world in general; his political and economic opinions; and his confinement at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letters from Williams discuss relationships between men and women; poetry; and arrangements for social...
Dates: 1905-1951

Matthew Josephson papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 26
Abstract:

The papers contain correspondence, journals, subject files, and writings that document Josephson's life and provide information on the subjects of his research.

Dates: 1917-1979 (inclusive)