Manuscripts
Velina Hasu Houston papers
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J.B. Houston papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains manuscripts, agreements, and correspondence, most of which are related to J.B. (James) Houston, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and the Southern Pacific Company. Items include an agreement between Collis Huntington, Sidney Dillon, Russell Sage, and J.B. Houston regarding the buying and selling of Pacific Mail Steamship Company stock; extracts from the minutes of a board meeting; and two statements regarding Thomas Reddington, J.W. Throckmorton, Joseph E. Johnston, railroad legislation, and the Congressional Committee on Pacific Railroads. Other authors include Senator Roscoe Conkling, Ulysses S. Grant (autograph letter signed to Mrs. J.B. Houston, 1884 October 25, HM 68476), and William T. Sherman. Also included are two letters to J.B. Houston's daughter (her first name unknown) from soldiers, one stationed in Cuba and involved in the Spanish-American War, the other participating in the South African War. The collection also includes poems and clippings.
mssHM 68473-68482
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Houston Press. 1 letter (n.d.), To Ted Rall
Manuscripts
The collection consists of original cartoons, book proposals, and manuscripts. The correspondence deals with Rall's personal and business matters, including letters to and from his fans.
RL 535
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Published Cartoons: Houston Press (1995, Mar. 16-June 21). 14 items
Manuscripts
The collection consists of original cartoons, book proposals, and manuscripts. The correspondence deals with Rall's personal and business matters, including letters to and from his fans.
mssRL 1-1382
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Published Cartoons: Houston Press (1995, June 22-Sep. 20). 13 items
Manuscripts
The collection consists of original cartoons, book proposals, and manuscripts. The correspondence deals with Rall's personal and business matters, including letters to and from his fans.
mssRL 1-1382
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Published Cartoons: Houston Press (1994, Dec. 8-1995, Mar. 15). 14 items
Manuscripts
The collection consists of original cartoons, book proposals, and manuscripts. The correspondence deals with Rall's personal and business matters, including letters to and from his fans.
mssRL 1-1382
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Kingsley Amis papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of English author Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) and is arranged in four parts based on date of acquisition. In the contents list below, Parts II-IV (Boxes 38-77) are only listed at the box level. Manuscripts: The bulk and the strength of the collection consist of drafts of novels, short stories, poems, essays and television and radio scripts by Kingsley Amis, many heavily corrected. Also included are individual manuscript pieces by Martin Amis, Sir John Betjeman, Elizabeth Jane Howard, and George Melly. Manuscripts by Amis of particular interest include: Difficulties with Girls: unfinished novel (not the novel of the same title published in 1988): notes, corrected draft, additional draft pages, summary of unwritten ending, and statement of reasons for not publishing the novel. AMS 19-22. Notebook: contains random notes for characters, dialogue, etc., ca.1969-1981. AMS 76. Poems: the earliest literary manuscripts in the collection, 1941-1944. AMS 95. Who Else Is Rank: early, unpublished novel co-written with E. Frank Coles, 1944-1945. AMS 180-181. Also 3 letters from Amis to Coles discussing the novel, AMS 185-187. Correspondence: Letters deal with personal and literary matters, including Amis' reactions to the work of other authors and their reactions to his writings. Correspondence of special interest includes: Amis, Kingsley. Letter to Andor Foldes, discussing his reference to Mozart in Lucky Jim, 1964, May 26, London. AMS 457. Betjeman, Sir John, 1906-. Letter to Kingsley Amis relating Betjeman's enthusiastic reaction to Lucky Jim, 1954. AMS 192. Conquest, Robert. 114 letters and notes to Kingsley Amis. A fine series of lively, witty letters which reveals the close friendship of the two authors. Personal and literary matters are discussed, and scores of limericks are exchanged between the two. 1976-1986. AMS 238-351. Dick, Philip K. Letter to Kingsley Amis discussing Dick's reasons for using the title The Man in the High Castle for his novel. 1979, September 10. AMS 201. Larkin, Philip. 76 letters to Kingsley Amis. A remarkable series of revealing, poignant letters. 1967-1985. AMS 353-428. Powell, Anthony, 1905-. Letter to Kingsley Amis, reacting to Amis' radio broadcast on Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, 1980, January 30. AMS 213.
mssAMS 1-1362