Overview of Literary Manuscript Holdings |
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Literary Manuscript holdings at the University of Maryland consist of over fifty processed collections and approximately forty partially processed collections. Types of materials include correspondence, papers relating to published and unpublished literary works, publications, photographs, and memorabilia.
Brief descriptions of the most frequently consulted collections appear below, along with links to collection guides, related material, and other resources. |
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Katherine Anne PorterLiterary Manuscripts include the primary archive for Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980). Porter is known for her short fiction and only full-length novel, Ship of Fools. In 1966, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. She also published nonfiction and poetry. |
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Djuna BarnesThe University of Maryland Libraries hold the personal papers of Djuna Barnes (1892-1982), whose career encompassed illustration, journalism, as well as creative writing -- fiction, plays, and poetry.
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Elsa von Freytag-LoringhovenElsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927) was an unconventional avant-garde artist and poet associated with Djuna Barnes and the Dada movement. |
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Maryland LiteratureThe Literary Manuscripts unit holds the papers of many Maryland authors and poets. These materials document the lives and works of the individual writers, as well as Maryland's literary heritage. Some are partially processed or have limited guides available online; please contact the curator for more information. Collections include the papers of several Maryland poets, including three Maryland Poets Laureate, journalists, novelists, Maryland-based literary small presses, and the Maryland folklore archives. List of some Maryland literature collectionsFor program details of three Maryland Poets Laureate reading their work in Spring 2008, see Maryland Center for the Book. |
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University of Maryland Faculty
Papers of professors of English, American studies, and foreign languages, including Carl Bode, Jackson Bryer, Morris Freedman, Susan Harman, W. Milne Holton, Lewis Lawson, William S. Peterson, and Reed Whittemore. List of some University of Maryland faculty collections |
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American LiteratureIncludes the papers of Laura Riding Jackson, Ferdinand Reyher, Karl Shapiro, and Gertrude Stein and Her Circle, and materials for six literary figures in the Albert H. Gross Collection. The Authors and Poets Collection also contains material by or relating to Conrad Aiken, Louis Auchincloss, Amiri Baraka, Saul Bellow, James M. Cain, Malcolm Cowley, Hart Crane, Robert Creeley, John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, William Goyen, Ernest Hemingway, H. L. Mencken, Marianne Moore, Ogden Nash, the North American Review , Karl Shapiro, Louis Simpson, John Updike, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, and Edmund Wilson. The largest of the partially processed collections are the papers of John Pauker and miscellaneous Ernest Hemingway materials. In addition, there are small unprocessed collections for Louis Auchincloss, Robert Carlton Brown, John Dos Passos, O. B. Emerson (correspondence with various American literary figures), William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Audre Hanneman, and John Steinbeck. Other materials include addenda to the papers of Ferdinand Reyher as well as individual items for Richard Aldington, Robert Creeley, Hilda Doolittle, T. S. Eliot, Amiri Baraka, James M. Cain, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. List of some American literature collections |
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British LiteratureIncludes the papers of Thom Gunn, Edward Lucie-Smith, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Hope Mirrlees, the Poetry Book Society, and the Turret Books Collection. The Authors and Poets Collection contains material by or relating to Kingsley Amis, George Granville Barker, John Betjeman, Thomas Blackburn, Charles Causley, V. C. Clinton-Baddeley, Donald Davie, Dennis Joseph Enright, Roy Fuller, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Lauri Lee, Christopher Logue, Henry Reed, W. R. Rogers, Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacherverell Sitwell, Derek Stanford, and John Wain. There are also a small number of William Morris materials related to the William Morris Collection in the Marylandia and Rare Books Department. Partially processed collections include papers of George Barker and Jupiter Recordings, Ltd., Records. There are additional materials for the Turret Books Collection as well as individual items for A. E. Housman, Edward Lucie-Smith, Osbert Sitwell, and W. B. Yeats. List of some British literature collections |
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International LiteratureIncludes the papers of John Fuegi, Clara and Robert Vambery, Georges Margolies, George Barker, and the International Brecht Society. There are also holdings relating to the German Expressionism Collection in the Marylandia and Rare Books Department that include materials by writers and artists including Georg Grosz, Oskar Kokoscha, and Ernst Toller. List of some international literature collections |
