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Alec Waugh papers, 1957-1964
0.5 linear feetLetters and manuscripts. The letters are addressed to Miss Rubinstein, an accountant for Waugh's literary agent, A. D. Peters, who also did private typing for him on the side. These letters are concerned with manuscripts he was sending her for that purpose. Also included are the manuscripts for two of Waugh's essays
Annie Laurie Williams records, 1922-1971
91 linear feetCorrespondence files and financial papers. The files include correspondence, contracts, clippings and programs, ledgers and financial accounts, submission books, and calendars and memorandum books. Authors for whom there are extensive files include the following: Truman Capote; Patrick Dennis; John Dos Passos; Lloyd C. Douglas; John Hersey; Alice Tisdale Hobart; Paul Horgan; William Humphrey; Frances Parkinson Keyes; Margaret Mitchell; Alan Paton; Kenneth Roberts; Lillian Smith; John Steinbeck; George R. Stewart; Ben Ames Williams; and Kathleen Winsor
Arthur and Rhoda Symons Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1884-1973
11 linear feetEric Sherman Research Files on Benson and Kipling, 1965-1995
0.42 Linear FeetResearch Materials related to Gift of Eric Sherman (Dec. 2014 and Oct. 2015) of books related to A.C. and E.F. Benson and to Rudyard Kipling Books included 218 volumes related to Bensons and 200 volumes related to Kipling, and were cataloged into the main Library of Congress rare book sequence in 2019-2020.
Georges Borchardt Inc. records, 1949-2024
664.5 linear feetJulian Symons papers, 1980-1985
1 boxCorrespondence, manuscripts and illustrations concerned with Symons' two most important historical works on the detective story, The Great Detectives, 1981, and the 1985 revised edition of Bloody Murder, which received the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award for the 1972 first edition. Most of the correspondence is concerned with The Great Detectives, including 2 letters from Frederic Dannay, 2 letters from Lady Gregory Bromet (daughter of A. Conan Doyle), and 1 letter from Tom Adams with drafts of his illustrations for this book. There is also a letter from Canadian author Derrick Murdoch, founder of Crime Writers of Canada.
William Morris Colles papers, 1888-1928
2.5 linear feetFiles dealing with publishers, the editing of manuscripts, serial rights, copyright, translation rights, financial accounts, and the like. Among the correspondents are A.P. Graves, Thomas Hardy, Frederick T. Jane, W.E. Norris, Alfred Ollivant, John Pendleton, William H. Rideing, Hall Caine, Prince Peter Kropotkin, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, Douglas Sladden, and Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward).
William York Tindall papers, 1927-1970
8.5 linear feetThe collection is centered around the writings of Tindall, including notes, correspondence, manuscripts, and typescripts of his studies of Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence.