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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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God's Grandeur: The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Introduction. McLean: The Trinity Forum, 2016
Manuscripts
Materials related to Dana Gioia's work as a poet, essayist, and editor as well as his roles as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Poet Laureate of California. The Writings series is divided into Poetry, Other Writings, and Publications, and includes drafts, galleys, published versions, and reprints of Gioia's poems, essays, and other writings, as well as notes, correspondence, reviews, and other related documents. The Professional series includes materials related to Gioia's work with the NEA, including documentation of his NEA nomination and confirmation; his congressional testimony; reports; publicity; and working documents and correspondence related to NEA programs such as The Big Read, Poetry Out Loud, NEA Jazz Masters, and others. There is also correspondence, press coverage, a scrapbook, and other documentation of Gioia's tenure as California Poet Laureate; and materials related to his 2007 Stanford University commencement address, including drafts of the speech, responses, and reprints. The Correspondence series is comprised primarily of Gioia's letter and email correspondence with other poets, publishers, and scholars, and also includes some biographical and other material related to each correspondent. The Broadsides and posters series includes poetry broadsides authored by Dana Gioia and others, and a few posters related to Gioia's poetry.
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Manley Ebenezer Rice papers
Manuscripts
The largest part of the collection is the letters that Manley E. Rice wrote to his wife Elizabeth Jane Day Rice from Camp Randall, Madison, Wisconsin, New Orleans, Brownsville and Fort Brown, Texas, Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines, Alabama. The letters posted at Camp Randall describe the training and drills, or rather the lack thereof, veterans of the Vicksburg campaign returning from the battlefield, and former enslaved persons working at the camp. Rice also registered his unhappiness with the state legislators who had failed to appropriate more funds for medical help. The letters then follow Rice's journey from Wisconsin to Texas and Alabama, providing detailed accounts of camp life, his concerns for his family struggling to survive back home, eager anticipations of the "end of this Fratricidal Strife," description of the occupied country, war news, including the evacuation of Fort Brown, John Salmon Ford's operations at Fort Brownsville in the summer of 1864 and other operations in southern Texas, the battle for Mobile, Alabama, the peace negotiations, the Fourth of July, the first anniversary of the fall of Vicksburg celebration at Brownsville, and the hospital at Fort Gaines, including former enslaved persons employed there. Rice vividly describes the shock of the news of Lincoln's assassination that found him in New Orleans, noting that there were "several shot for rejoicing over the death of the President" and the shooting was "mostly done by Colored Troops." He also cited very tangible threats made against Confederate prisoners held at Fort Gaines. Also included are letters that George W. Day wrote to his sister describing the stay at Benton Barracks, the march to Springfield, Missouri, an expedition to Cross Hollows over Boston Mountains, the siege of Vicksburg, and duty at Navy Cove, near Fort Morgan, Alabama. Day recounted war news and rumors, his combat experience and camp life, including his courtship of "a negro girl" in Mississippi whom he intended to marry. Also included are letters by Frank Rice from Monticello, Iowa, San Francisco, Placerville, Carson City, and a few letters by Elizabeth Jane Day Rice, her sisters and in-laws, and other family members. The letters of William Sinks, Rice's brother-in-law, describe his farm in Wellington, Monroe County, Wisconsin. Also in the collection are miscellaneous manuscripts, including sundry recipes, a resolution of the Temple of Honor and Temperance, Boscobel, Wisconsin, on the passing of George M. Rice (1878), a "War Song of the 18th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers," by Emma Day, and a copy of the New Testament presented to M.E. Rice by David Black of Belltown, Wisconsin, February 27, 1864.
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