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C.P. (Charles Percy) Snow letters to John Halperin
Manuscripts
In these 27 letters by Lord Snow to John Halperin, who is the author of C. P. Snow: An oral biography (1983), Snow talks about his new book A Coat of Varnish, and answers some of Halperin's questions regarding his life and career. Snow also talks about letters of his and access to them, particularly at the Humanities Research Centre at Texas. He also talks about his failing health. The last letter was written about a month before his death in July 1980. All of the letters are typewritten.
mssHM 77913-77939
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Isaac Asimov manuscripts: short story and essay
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Two typescripts signed by Asimov. One is a 13-page, undated short story, The Feeling of Power. The other is a 20-page essay, Passing on the Information, concerning DNA and RNA and the work of biochemists Francis Crick and J.D. Watson; the essay is dated 1967.
mssHM 82731-82732
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Eliza Roxey Snow diaries
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Two diary volumes kept by Eliza R. Snow, primarily during her travels from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1846-1847. The first diary begins with Eliza's departure from Nauvoo with the family of Stephen Markham (Eliza lived in the Markhams' attic room for a time) in Heber Kimball's company. It traces their travels through Iowa and their time waiting out the winter weather at Winter Quarters. Eliza writes of the difficulties of the trip, particularly dissent among the traveling companions and their many illnesses and deaths. She thinly masks her intense loneliness ("Altho' so much alone, I feel no despondency," she wrote. "Surely happiness is not altogether the product of circumstances."). She initially tried to find support from Heber Kimball (she writes that she asked to be "number'd among his children...[and] from this time I call him father"), but ultimately found solace in religion and camaraderie with her sister-wives and other women in the company. Eliza also described her experiences driving a wagon, trading with the Pottawatomie tribe, and encounters with hostile Indians (she writes of the shooting of an Omaha Indian chief by a rival tribe in December 1846). The diary also contains a variety of poems and epitaphs, including "The Camp of Israel, A Song for Pioneers" (No.1, No.2, and No.3, also titled "Let Us Go"); "In All Things Rejoice," a song for the Camp of Israel; "A Journeying Song for the Camp of Israel, dedicated to Prest. Young & Lady;" "The Twelve, To Prest. B. Young;" and "To the Saints in Europe." (The pages with entries made between August 17, 1846, and October 28, 1846, are missing). The second diary volume resumes in June 1847, when Eliza left Iowa in the wagon of Robert Peirce, which was part of the Second Fifty headed by Bates Noble. The diary traces the company's travels across the plains and their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in the autumn of 1847. In Utah Eliza initially shared a cabin with Clara Decker Young and made caps to trade for other goods, and the diary recounts her experiences through September 1849. It also includes her poem "A Song of the Desart [sic]." Individuals mentioned in the diaries include Heber Kimball, Stephen Markham, Parley P. Pratt, Lorenzo Snow, Brigham Young, and Mary Ann Angell Young.
mssHM 27522 (1-2)
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Langston Hughes Papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists mainly of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera to, by, and about African-American writer Langston Hughes. The bulk of the material dates between 1932 and 1934, the years that Langston Hughes traveled to and from the Soviet Union and Mexico. There are also correspondence and photographs to and about Hughes's friend African-American lawyer Loren Miller and the Miller family. This collection is arranged in three parts reflecting three different acquisitions. Part I consists of a pocket diary kept while Hughes was in China and Japan in 1933 (HM 64076), manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera to, by, and about Langston Hughes. Part II consists of photograph reproductions and another pocket notebook (HM 68429), kept by Hughes while in the Soviet Union, dating from 1932-1933. Part III consists of letters, ephemera and photographs primarily by Loren Miller and related to the 1932 Soviet Union trip. Langston Hughes was a close friend of Loren and Juanita Miller. Hughes and Miller traveled to the Soviet Union in 1932 with 19 other African-Americans onboard the ship Europa for a film project that never materialized. There are two photographs from onboard the Europa including a group photograph of 20 of the 22 who traveled to the Soviet Union (HM 64100). Correspondence in Part I consists of: 5 letters from Langston Hughes to Loren Miller (HM 64082-64086); 1 letter to Juanita Miller (HM 64081); 2 letters from Si-lan Chen Leyda to Langston Hughes (HM 64088-64089); 5 letters from Maxim Lieber to Langston Hughes about selling some of Hughes' short stories (HM 64090-64094); and 4 letters to Langston Hughes from Josephine De Witt (HM 64070), L.B. (Lidiì'a Borisovna) Filatova (HM 64071), Jozsef Rem'enyi (HM 64097), and Agnes Smedley (HM 64097). There are 3 letters to Loren Miller from Bill Jordan (HM 64087); Helen O. (HM 64095); and Kenneth P. O'Donnell (HM 64096) inviting Miller to a civil rights meeting with President Kennedy in 1963. There is also 1 letter to Maxim Lieber from Elsie Weil about a Hughes' short story (HM 64099). Correspondence in Part III is primarily from Loren Miller to Juanita Miller and Nora Miller, with a few letters to and from other friends and family. Manuscripts (in Part I) consist of Mother and Child [one-act play] (HM 64072); The Need for Heroes [essay] (HM 64073); "Once again..." (HM 64074); Oyster's Son [short story] (HM 64075); Professor [short story] (HM 64077); Reno Possess Only Negro Weather Man [essay] (HM 64078); The Sailor and the Steward [short story] (HM 64079); and "Wise Men" [poem] (HM 64080).
mssHM 64070-64101
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McIntyre, Vonda N. and Offutt, Andrew J. Sex King's of Mars: short story: phot. copy
Manuscripts
The collection consists of five series: Manuscripts, Correspondence, Photographs, Subject Files and Research Materials, and Ephemera. Manuscripts are subdivided into manuscripts by Octavia E. Butler, notecards, diaries, commonplace books, and manuscripts by others. They are arranged alphabetically by author, then title or chronologically within each subseries. These manuscripts consist primarily of drafts of short stories and novels, and related notes. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the author's last name, then chronologically. This series includes correspondence to and from Octavia E. Butler by friends, editors, family members, and other authors. Photographs are arranged chronologically in several groups: loose photos (small), loose photos (large), album pages, and photo album. This series includes images from Octavia's travels and speaking engagements.The subject files represent Octavia's arrangement of clippings by topic. The research materials are other clippings and subject materials that have been arranged by the cataloger, using Octavia's schema where possible. The ephemera are arranged in 19 subseries, alphabetically. In addition there are oversize materials, housed separately, for all the above series. Researchers should be sure to search the oversize series for additional materials.
OEB 3398
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[King, Frank M. (Frank Marion), b. 1863.]. "No Man's Land. 1892:" [short story] [undated]. Includes notes by King. 1 item
Manuscripts
Drafts of King's book, Long horn trail drivers, make up the majority of the manuscript material. There is a copy of the manuscript that King sent to the publisher in 1940 and one incomplete draft of the book. In addition, there are a variety of manuscripts written by King relating his memories and stories about the American West and cattle drives, some of which were used in his books or printed in his column "Mavericks." Many of these items are untitled short stories, folklore, and biographies. Other book materials include King's handwritten inscriptions, an incomplete set of chapter drafts from Pioneer western empire builders, and the image proofs. Other items in the manuscript series are short stories, memoirs, and nonfiction writings of King's cowboy friends and associates, which King often quoted for use in his books and articles. There are also nine sketches by R. S. Carroll. The majority of the correspondence expresses interest in King's life in the West, requests, praise, and questions about King's books, praise for his writing and activism on American Indian welfare issues in his "Mavericks" column for the Western Livestock Journal, and submissions of personal stories about life in the American West. The correspondence also includes Kings letters responding to requests for information on his book and the Western Livestock Journal. Prominent correspondents include many of the individuals who King included in his books and articles such as E. A. Brininstool, Chuck Martin, Jeff Milton,Tex Moore and Loraine M. Reynolds. Much of the correspondence provides insight into King's work regarding American Indian rights and welfare issues. In particular, the Loraine M. Reynolds letters highlight her work with the Navajo Indians on the Alamo Indian Reservation and her critique of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Some of the correspondence includes drawings and illustrations of cowboy and trail herding images.
mssKing papers