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Edward Killoran Brown collection of Willa Cather

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 490
Overview: The collection documents Edward Killoran Brown's research and writing of Willa Cather, Willa Cather: A Critical Biography. The collection contains correspondence, writings, and research notes.
Dates: 1874-1953, bulk 1944-1953

Thomas Caldecot Chubb Papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 441
Overview: The Thomas Caldecot Chubb Papers consist almost entirely of manuscripts, typescripts and galley proofs of Chubb's published works, including Aretino, Scourge of Princes; Letters of Pietro Aretino; and Dante and His World.
Dates: 1920-1972, bulk 1950-1970

Cyril Clemens papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 5
Overview: The papers contain writings, correspondence, and printed materials about Mark Twain.
Dates: 1864-1979 (inclusive)

Robert Davies papers on Hanson Baldwin

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Call Number: MS 1984
Overview: The Robert Davies papers on Hanson Baldwin contain correspondence, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files, interview transcripts and audiocassettes relating to Davies's book: Baldwin of the Times: Hanson W. Baldwin, a Military Journalist's Life, 1903-1991 .
Dates: 1936-2005

Keith Fleming Papers Relating to Edmund White

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 887
Scope and Contents: The Keith Fleming Papers Relating to Edmund White contain manuscripts, research files, biographical material, photographs, sound recordings of interviews, and electronic media created and collected by Fleming while working on the biography Original Youth: The Real Story of Edmund White's Boyhood.
Dates: 1993-1999, undated

Gibbs-Van Name papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 83
Overview: The papers contain correspondence and other materials documenting the efforts of Ralph gibbs Van Name to publish technical and biographical work on Josiah Willard Gibbs, the scientist who developed the theory of thermodynamics.
Dates: 1843-1959, bulk 1929-1957

Gilbert A. Harrison papers relating to Thornton Wilder

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 372
Overview: The collection contains research files, interviews, correspondence, writings, and other materials relating to Gilbert A. Harrison's biography of Thornton Wilder, The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder (New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1983). Harrison's research files, which include notes, photocopies of correspondence and writings, and clippings, make up the bulk of the collection. In addition to the research files, the collection includes: sound recordings of interviews with members of the...
Dates: 1939-1975

Matthew Josephson papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 26
Overview: 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)

Cynthia Earl Kerman Papers Relating to The Lives of Jean Toomer

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 116
Overview: Research files, including notes, manuscripts, printed material, photographs, and audio tapes compiled by Cynthia Earl Kerman in the process of writing The Lives of Jean Toomer.
Dates: 1959-1982

David Leeming Collection of James Baldwin Research

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 172
Scope and Contents: The papers contain audiocassettes, videocassettes, photographs, correspondence, and printed material related to David Leeming's biography of James Baldwin, James Baldwin: A Biography. The audiocassettes contain interviews with various family, friends, and colleagues of James Baldwin and his close friend and mentor, Beauford Delaney. The videocassettes contain television programs and an anthology of films on Baldwin. The photographs depict portraits of Baldwin and...
Dates: 1950-2002

James R. Mellow papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 297
Overview: The collection consists of research material, writings, correspondence, audiocassettes, printed material, personal papers, financial papers, photographs, and other papers, documenting the work of James R. Mellow as an art critic, a book reviewer, and a literary biographer, shedding particular light on his biographies of Gertrude Stein, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Walker Evans.
Dates: 1940-1999

David Pryce-Jones papers

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Call Number: OSB MSS 198
Scope and Contents: The David Pryce-Jones papers, which span from 1863 to 2015, contain writings including drafts of novels and non-fiction works. The papers also contain correspondence, research materials, notebooks, ephemera, and audiovisual materials related to Pryce-Jones's life and work.
Dates: 1863-2015

Sandburg-Page papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 19
Overview: The papers consist of letters, poems, writings, and memorabilia from Sandburg to Helen Hope Page and other Page papers, mostly concerning composer Henry Cowell.
Dates: 1924-1947 (inclusive)

William Peterfield Trent Daniel Defoe Research Collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 859
Overview: Notes, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, typescripts, and printed material related to William Peterfield Trent's unpublished biography and bibliography of Daniel Defoe; and correspondence, notes, and printed material related to William Clinton Hutchins's editorial work on Trent's manuscripts.
Dates: 1830-1962, bulk 1912-1950