FINDING AIDS AND HANDLISTS BY SUBJECT

AUTHORS, AMERICAN

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~AUTHORS, AMERICAN ~

• Kenneth Burke Letters to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987 [RB&M]
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  Friend, mentor, and colleague, Burke wrote to Rueckert, a knowledgeable Burke scholar, in Burke's late productive period when Burke was developing and extending his earlier thought.
  
  
• Harold Chapin Letters, 1910-1934 (bulk 1915) [RB&M]
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  Letters from playwright Harold Chapin to his wife Calypso before and during World War I and letters to Calypso expressing condolences upon his death.
  
  
• New Jazz Poets Collection, 1962-1970 [RB&M]
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  Correspondence files of Walter Lowenfels and his wife Lillian with poets, publishers, and the Broadside record label for New Jazz Poets; manuscript poems, contracts, and biographical materials; setting copy, galleys, page mock-ups, and page proofs; and the album New Jazz Poets.
  
  
• Edward J. Nichols Papers, 1932-1965 [RB&M]
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  Proofs, typescripts, notes, and related correspondence for his doctoral dissertation and books he wrote while an English literature professor at Penn State, as well as other correspondence with friends, colleagues, and publishers.
  
  
• John O'Hara Papers, 1923-1995 [RB&M]
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  Personal and professional papers of Pennsylvania author.
  
  
• John O'Hara Letters to H.N. Swanson, 1955-1970 [RB&M]
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  Letters and contract documents between the author and his Hollywood, California, literary agent, H.N. Swanson.
  
  
• Random House Files of John O'Hara, 1927-1977 [RB&M]
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  Correspondence files; manuscripts of his lectures, speeches, novellas, novels, plays, and short stories (published and unpublished); clippings, culled from his publisher's files.
  
  
• Fred Lewis Pattee Papers, 1821-1954 [RB&M]
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  Correspondence, family papers, diaries, travel journals, original works, publications, newspaper clippings, lecture notes, lectures, research, scrapbooks, and photographs of the first professor of American literature, Penn State.
  
  
• H. Beam Piper Science Fiction Manuscripts, 1955-1984 [RB&M]
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  Setting copies and typescripts of the Pennsylvania science fiction writer's short story collection books and his novels.
  
  
• Conrad Richter Papers, 1849-1995 (bulk 1903-1968) [RB&M]
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  Pennsylvania author's book manuscripts and some correspondence.
  
  
• Philip Young Papers, 1930-2000 [RB&M]
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  Working papers, chiefly his notes, drafts, research notes, reviews, and other items connected with the Penn State professor of American literature's books and essays on Ernest Hemingway, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and other figures in American literature and history.
  

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