American literature
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Bangs family papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 47
Overview:
Scrapbooks, manuscripts, diaries. letters, and personal papers documenting the lives and careers of American humorist John Kendrick Bangs and his son, Francis Hyde Bangs.
Dates:
1881-1964
Charles Andrews Fenton papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 206
Overview:
The papers consist almost entirely of bibliographical material, newspaper magazine articles, excerpts from books and news dispatches collected for his proposed work on American literary approaches to the Spanish Civil War. There is also a small amount of correspondence (1954-1960). Important correspondents are Daniel Aaron, Claude G. Bowers, Granville Hicks, Rolfe Humphries, Mark Schorer and F. Jay Taylor.
Dates:
1954-1960
James Weldon Johnson Collection manuscript miscellany
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS MISC
Overview:
Single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts, including literary manuscripts, letters, and other documents. Materials are grouped under headings by author or corporate name.
Dates:
1900-2009
Ved Mehta papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 744
Overview:
The papers document the life and work of Ved Mehta and include writings, correspondence, family archival material, personal papers, academic records, financial records, research and subject files, printed material, photographs, and electronic files. Writings includes drafts of (and for some, extensive research files for) all of Mehta's major works from 1957 to 2004. Drafts of writings and Mehta's outgoing correspondence are typewritten. Subject files and correspondence relate not only to...
Dates:
circa 1924-2005
William Lyon Phelps papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 578
Overview:
The papers include correspondence, writings, lecture notes, student notebooks, research notes, memorabilia, and scrapbooks of clippings documenting William Lyon Phelps's career as a professor of English and popularizer of literature. Phelps's lecture notes and annotated volumes on English literature comprise half of the papers. The papers also include a small quantity of family papers relating to Phelps's father and wife.
Dates:
1826-1944, bulk 1887-1943
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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William Lyon Phelps papers
Kay Ryan papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1330
Overview:
The Kay Ryan papers contains correspondence, writings, artwork, photographs, personal and professional papers, poetry broadsides and other printed material, and audiovisual and computer media documenting the life and career of American poet Kay Ryan. The bulk of the collection consists of individual and collected poems, prose, notes, and journals, as well as correspondence between Ryan and her friends, family, colleagues, publishers, arts organizations such as the Poetry Foundation, and the...
Dates:
1945-2017, bulk 1973-2017
Yale Collection of American Literature Letter Collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 446
Overview:
The Yale Collection of American Literature Letter Collection contains single letters and small groups of letters acquired by the Beinecke Library from various sources and at various times, previously represented in the Beinecke Manuscripts Card Catalog. Letters sometimes include enclosures such as manuscript drafts and clippings. Folders frequently contain additional provenance, descriptive, or other information not reflected in this list.
Dates:
1816-1980
Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Overview:
Single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts, including literary manuscripts, letters, and other documents. Materials are grouped under headings by author or corporate name.
Dates:
[ca. 1800-ongoing]