Manuscripts
Silvanus P. Thompson letters to Henry Currie Marillier
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Henry Yates Thompson letter to George Watson Cole
Manuscripts
Also included with the letter are newspaper clipings about Thompson's collection of manuscripts and a photocopy of title page from: Illustrations of one hundred manuscripts in the library of Henry Yates Thompson, v. 1
mssHM 63170
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Letter to Jill (Thompson) Perkins
Manuscripts
The collection contains original James Joyce material with additional material concerning James Joyce scholarship and John Hinsdale Thompson's collecting of the James Joyce material. The first series of the collection contains 73 original items (1901-1938, mssHM 41118-41190), either written by or about James Joyce and include: Joyce's translation of Gerhart Hauptmann's Before sunrise; a corrected typescript of a portion of Penelope; and various poems. Also included are autograph letters by Joyce to various recipients, and the correspondence of Donald S. Friede concerning his publication and the copyright of Joyce's Work in progress. The second series includes 169 items of supporting material (1939-1973) which consists chiefly of correspondence between John Hinsdale Thompson, booksellers, and other Joyce scholars; the majority of these letters are addressed to Thompson. Also contains manuscripts, printer's material, printed material, and ephemera concerning Joyce scholarship.
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Harriet Shaw Weaver letter and photocopy with J. H. Thompson's note
Manuscripts
The collection contains original James Joyce material with additional material concerning James Joyce scholarship and John Hinsdale Thompson's collecting of the James Joyce material. The first series of the collection contains 73 original items (1901-1938, mssHM 41118-41190), either written by or about James Joyce and include: Joyce's translation of Gerhart Hauptmann's Before sunrise; a corrected typescript of a portion of Penelope; and various poems. Also included are autograph letters by Joyce to various recipients, and the correspondence of Donald S. Friede concerning his publication and the copyright of Joyce's Work in progress. The second series includes 169 items of supporting material (1939-1973) which consists chiefly of correspondence between John Hinsdale Thompson, booksellers, and other Joyce scholars; the majority of these letters are addressed to Thompson. Also contains manuscripts, printer's material, printed material, and ephemera concerning Joyce scholarship.
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Dunstan Thompson papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts by Dunstan Thompson, including book reviews, diaries, essays, plays, poems, and short stories, and correspondence (both to and from Thompson), photographs, drawings and ephemera. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Harry Brown, Cyril Connolly, Paul Dehn, T.S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Philip Trower, Howard R. Turner, and Oscar Williams. Business correspondents include: William Abrahams, Margot Johnson, John Lehmann, Simon and Schuster and William Morris Agency. The papers consist of the following series: 1. Manuscripts (Boxes 1-4) are arranged alphabetically by author and title. The manuscripts include book reviews, diaries, essays, plays, and short stories by Dunstan Thompson; his poems, both published and unpublished, are cataloged separately, beginning in Box 3. This series also includes manuscripts by other authors, most notably: Harry Brown, Paul Dehn, Coman Leavenworth, Stephen Spender, Ruthven Todd, and Philip Trower. 2. Correspondence (Boxes 5-8) is arranged alphabetically by author. This series includes personal letters, letters related to Dunstan Thompson's Catholic faith and his writing. There is a large group of letters between Thompson and his mother, Virginia Leita Thompson, beginning in 1945. Thompson's business correspondence has been cataloged separately in Box 8; these are letters to and from literary agents, editors, publishers and literary publications, including William Abrahams, Margot Johnson, John Lehmann, Atlantic Monthly Press, David Higham Associates, Simon and Schuster, William Morris Agency, Horizon, and the New Yorker. This series also includes letters written to Philip Trower, beginning in 1975, with the death of Dunstan Thompson, and then later, in response to Trower's request for information and remembrances of Thompson for the memoir Trower was writing. Also included in this series are letters from notable people including Harry Brown, Cyril Connolly, Paul Dehn, T.S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Philip Trower, Howard R. Turner, and Oscar Williams. 3. Photographs & Prints (Box 9) are arranged alphabetically by subject then sub-arranged chronologically. These include family photographs, a small number of photographs of friends, as well as photographs of various homes, and locations important to Thompson. There are also photographs and negatives from his trip to the Middle East in 1946-1947, and from his trip to Rome in 1950. 4. Drawings & Prints (Box 10) are arranged alphabetically by artist. Included in this series are original pencil drawings and sketches by Dunstan Thompson, but the majority are photographs or prints of paintings and drawings, by the artists Gene Derwood, John Hurst, Alfonso Ossorio, and Philip Trower. 5. Ephemera; Addenda (Boxes 10-12) is arranged by subject, then alphabetically by author and title. This series includes personal and family material for the Thompson family, printed material related to Dunstan Thompson's writing, and articles about him and others. The addenda includes a sketch by Thompson; biographical notes about Thompson by Philip Trower; photographs related to the life and work of Thompson.
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Thomas W. Thompson journal
Manuscripts
The diary that Thompson began upon his graduation from Harvard in July 1786 and kept throughout the year. Detailed, candid entries record the busy social life of the young Harvard graduate in Byfield and Franklin. Included are records of frequent trips to Newburyport, Wrentham, Boston, and Providence, R.I. The latter accompanied by a sketch of Brown University. In his diary Thompson recaps sermons and public lectures by Nathanael Emmons, David Sanford, Samuel Spring, and others, including Noah Webster's lectures on the English language and education; a "Lafayette evening," and other social and political events. The journal contains lively records of his encounters and conversations with Theophilus Bradbury, Theophilus Parsons, Nathanael Emmons, Samuel Spring, and other notables; many entries contain snippets of dialogue such as lively exchange on the "the manners of Virginians" including George Washington. The diary also reflects Thompson's thoughts on his reading and studies, his religious views, reflections on the nature of religion, Deism, and "natural philosophy," political opinions, and his considerable anxiety about his future.
mssHM 39721