Authors, English -- 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
David Paul papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 820
Overview:
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
Overview:
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
Quiller-Couch family papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 551
Overview:
Writings by J. M. Barrie, postcards, scrapbooks, photographs, and a toy theater version of Peter Pan related to the family of Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. J. M. Barrie writings consist of a photograph album and manuscript storybook by Barrie, "The Pippa and Porthos," telling the story of Bevil Quiller-Couch and Barrie's dog Porthos on a walk in Fowey, Cornwall. Postcards consist of postcard albums and loose postcards, probably collected by Foy Felicia Quiller-Couch. Postcard correspondents...
Dates:
1878-1954
Jeremy Reed papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 678
Scope and Contents:
The Jeremy Reed Papers contain writings--including poetry, prose and translations--along with drafts, notebooks, correspondence, and other papers related to the life and work of Jeremy Reed.
Dates:
1960-2021
Vita Sackville-West papers relating to Violet Trefusis
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 428
Overview:
Collection contains correspondence, writings and additional materials. Correspondence includes letters written by Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West during the 1910's and 1920's concerning their relationship, Trefusis's feelings towards Sackville-West, and the affair's effects on Trefusis's relationship with her husband, Denys Trefusis, her relationship with her mother, Alice Keppel, and Sackville-West's relationship with her husband, Harold Nicolson. Also included are letters by Trefusis...
Dates:
1905-1926
Siegfried Sassoon papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 768
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, a scrapbook, and other papers by or related to Siegfried Sassoon. Spanning from the beginning of the first World War to Sassoon's death in 1967, the papers document his writings, including the novel Sherston's Progress, the poetry collections Satirical Poems and The Heart's Journey, and other works.
Dates:
1914-1967
William Force Stead papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 158
Overview:
The William Force Stead Papers document the literary career and aspects of the personal life of poet, clergyman and scholar William Force Stead. The papers include personal and professional correspondence; writings; notebooks, personal papers and photographs; printed material; and documents relating to Stead's work as Honorary Secretary of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association. The letters document aspects of Stead's literary and religious careers as well as his family relationships. Literary...
Dates:
1859-1968, bulk 1900-1940
Leonard Strong collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1084
Overview:
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
Letters to Herbert Van Thal
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 464
Overview:
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' agent.
Dates:
1921-1980
Herbert F. West collection of A. Hugh Fisher
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 795
Overview:
The Herbert F. West Collection of A. Hugh Fisher consists of correspondence, writings, clippings, tearsheets, and fine art sent to Herbert West by the artist Alfred Hugh Fisher between 1938 and 1945. It includes over 300 letters from Fisher to West, 1938-1945; autobiographical memoirs by Fisher; volumes of travel journals (in the form of letters to his colleague Halford Mackinder) covering Fisher's work with the Visual Instruction Committee of the British Colonial Office and recording his...
Dates:
1860-1945, bulk 1901-1945