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Casey, John, 1939-. Papers of John Casey [manuscript], 1969-1993.

Title: Papers of John Casey [manuscript], 1969-1993.

Papers of John Casey contain a typescripts of "Spartina", "Lapses," and two short stories; page proof of "Testimony and Demeanor"; articles and book reviews; course evaluations; interviews including one by Nancy Bunge; works submitted to the Henry Hoyns Fellowship committee; short stories by students; typescripts of Ann Beattie's "Leaving Home" and Marianne Wiggins's "Do you need a sandwich?"; clippings and miscellaneous items including a photograph of the 1993 American Academy of Arts and Letters ceremonial. Correspondence contains letters from other authors and family members. Topics include "Creative Righters" at the Staunton (Va.) prison; a phrase spoken by an admirer of "the sotweed factor"; a biography of John Cheever; the current literary work of friends and former students; the National Book Award and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living, Sewanee and other writing conferences; and family news. Other authors mentioned, generally briefly, include Rebecca Brown, Pearl Buck, James A. McPherson, Tod A. Marder, Breece D'J Pancake, Mary Ryan, Mary Lee Settle, and Eudora Welty. Correspondents include John Barth, Vance N. Bourjaily, Frederic Bradlee, Rita Mae Brown, Susan Brownell, Mary Carter, Amy Cunningham, Scott Donaldson, Maureen Howard, David Huddle, Richard Jones, Alexandra Kuczynski, Janet Lembke, Eugene McCarthy, Brenda K. Marshall, Lawrence C. Melton, Reid Mitchell, Jeff Pearson, Jonathan Penner, Wyatt Prunty, Mary Ryan, Jan C. Shapin, Jonathan R. Smith, Alexander Stille, Alexander Theroux, Amanda Vaill, Marianne Wiggins, Tobias Wolff, and Lewis J. Zeldman.

ArchivalResource: 210 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647844488 View

Titanic : a new musical / music & lyrics by Maury Yeston ; story & book by Peter Stone, 1997.

Title: Titanic : a new musical / music & lyrics by Maury Yeston ; story & book by Peter Stone, 1997.

Typescript, dated Apr. 23, 1997.

ArchivalResource: [10], 108 leaves ; 28 cm.

https://www.nypl.org/research/research-catalog/bib/b18888996 View

Casey, John, 1939-. Papers of John Casey [manuscript], 1977-1994.

Title: Papers of John Casey [manuscript], 1977-1994.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence pertaining to literary matters and the writing career of Casey. Topics in the correspondence include publishing advice, a libel suit against Michael Mewshaw, news of former students and their literary accomplishments, royalties on "Stories of Breece D'J Pancake," and other writers including Cormac McCarthy, David Malouf, Michael O'Rourke, Mary Lee Settle, Peter Taylor, and Paul Watkins. The collection also contains a photograph of woodcut of Breece D'J Pancake, transcripts of his letters, a photograph of Casey in a wherry, and clippings. Correspondents include Danny J. Boggs, Carl D. Brandt, Rebecca Brown, Hilary Masters, Michael Mewshaw,

ArchivalResource: 36 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647847877 View

Jones, Richard. Richard Jones daybook, 1921-1929.

Title: Richard Jones daybook, 1921-1929.

Summary: Collection consists of one daybook containing entries from rent collections for different properties in Albuquerque, New Mexico, grocery store inventories and expenses, and construction expenses for development of "Mesa Tract 1" and "Mesa Tract 2."

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51198942 View

Jones, Jane Bruce, fl. 1796. Jane Bruce Jones papers, 1784-1831.

Title: Jane Bruce Jones papers, 1784-1831.

Family correspondence, 1784-1797, re secretive courtship and marriage of Jane Bruce and Samuel P. Jones including letter, 1 Oct. 1786, Orangeburg, S.C., from Jane Bruce to Samuel P. Jones, re securing approval of Jane's father for their marriage and traveling; letter, 18 Jan. 1812, from Seth Lathrop to Samuel P. Jones, re business affairs and conditions. Letter, 22 Jan. 1823, Hartford, Conn., from William Jones to Samuel P. Jones, re family affairs and attempted slave insurrection of Denmark Vesey; and letter, 15 June 1831, Gallia County, Ohio, from Richard Jones, to Samuel P. Jones, Orangeburg, S.C., re settlement in Ohio and family affairs.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41963031 View

Bouldin, James Wood, 1792-1854,. Richard J. Reid papers [manuscript] 1770-1910.

Title: Richard J. Reid papers [manuscript] 1770-1910.

Correspondence, accounts, receipts, ledgers, other business records, family records, legal papers, a weather calendar (1860-63), and other papers and records of various persons, firms, and institutions of Southside Virginia, particularly of Pittsylvania, Franklin, and Halifax counties, concerning hotels, land, railroads, schools, churches including the trial of Deacon John Dowdy for immorality, slavery, tobacco, politics, the Civil War including action at Staunton River Bridge, miscellaneous letters, an 1861 map of the Charleston, S. C. harbor, an undated map of the proposed map of the Saltville & Lebanon Railroad, and other aspects of economic and social life. Includes records (2 v., 1790-1832) of the County Line Baptist Church in Pittsylvania County; letters and circulars (1790-1830) of the Pittsylvania County Clerk; Confederate post office accounts in Halifax County; records of the Barksdale (1780-1860), Holland (1830-80), Hubbard (1813-80), Martin, Overstreet (1783-1843), Spraggin (1810-50), and Watlington (1812-1814) families. Also correspondence, business records, and other papers of James W. Bouldin, Preston Bowker (1819-55), J.H. Carrington (1854-55), Henry Eaton Coleman, Dabney Cosby (1830-50), John W. Daniel, Joseph Dickinson & Pleasant (1817-60), Easley and Hurt, W.O.J. Finney (1850-90), John W. Guerrant (1845-60), Levi and William Harris (1830-70), Benjamin Harrison, Peter D. Holland, Frederick W.M. Holliday, John Hook (1774-1810), H.H. Hurt, Richard Jones, Fitzugh Lee, Robert E. Lee (copies re the battle of Staunton River Bridge), Thomas Staples Martin (routine patronage), W.P. Maxey, John Peter Mettauer, James Mitchell, R.H. Moody, Beverley B. Munford, D.C. Ragsdale & Co. and Ragsdale, Carrington & Co. (1770-1858), Richard Randolph, G.S.S. Reid, E. W. Saunders, Langhorne Scruggs (1840-1900), Ann D. Thompson, George Tucker, William Tunstall (1780-1850), George H. West & Co., West and Hurt, and James M. Whittle (1835-80).

ArchivalResource: 2500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972117 View

Jones, Richard. Kingville, South Carolina: A railroad town, population zero, 1979 Apr.

Title: Kingville, South Carolina: A railroad town, population zero, 1979 Apr.

Essay re railroads in or near vicinity of lower Richland County, S.C.; during antebellum and Reconstruction eras, chiefly a site known as Kingville, a town founded 1840 where "the Louisville, Cincinnati, and Charleston Railroad crossed the Congaree River" en route from Branchville to Columbia, S.C. Kingville thrived as a center of logging and timber production and as a railroad town until the 1920s, when paved roads provided farmers with improved access to city markets. Illustrated with images of antebellum and Confederate currency, and a ticket in use during depression of 1873.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (6 sheets) : ill. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70556331 View

Casey, John, 1939-. Papers of John Casey [manuscript], 1939-1990.

Title: Papers of John Casey [manuscript], 1939-1990.

The collection contains personal papers including autobiographical materials, college essays, teaching notes and evaluations and students' stories; correspondence with family, friends and other authors; manuscripts of reviews, aritcles, short stories and novels; and sound recordings of readings and interviews, including one about Breece D'J. Pancake.

ArchivalResource: 1700 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647833718 View

Biography -- Jones, Richard.

Title: Biography -- Jones, Richard.

ArchivalResource: 1 file folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310382279 View

Speer, Joseph Smith. Description of the Bay of Honduras and the Mosquito Shore &c. : ms., 1765.

Title: Description of the Bay of Honduras and the Mosquito Shore &c. : ms., 1765.

Report by Joseph Smith Speer describing the territory, its history, the English settlement, and projects for its future development, 1765. Account of Richard Jones of his negotiations with the Mosquito king, 1769; remarks by Robert Hodgson on the Bay of Honduras, with report on flora and fauna, particularly the trees of the area, 1753; and various other documents relating to British rights to cut wood in the Bay of Honduras region. At end of volume a description of the Island of Mauritius by Capt. John Blake, 1738.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26598276 View

Price, Walter W. Lawd, when I die / words and music, Walter W. Price ; piano accompaniment, Richard H. Jones.

Title: Lawd, when I die / words and music, Walter W. Price ; piano accompaniment, Richard H. Jones. [1953]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (6 p.) ; 28 cm. + 1 ms. part ([2] p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63552210 View

Jones, Richard. Papers, 1797-1878.

Title: Papers, 1797-1878.

Correspondence, daybooks, records of fees and cases, expense accounts, receipts for the purchase and sale of slaves, Confederate forms for tax in kind, receipts, and bank shares, family wills, deeds, a land grant (1797), and a pardon and amnesty document issued to Jones after the Civil War. Includes information on plantation maintenance and on Jones' position as coroner of Pittslyvania Co., Va.

ArchivalResource: 161 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19933067 View

Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859. Lady Sydney Morgan letters, 1806-1843.

Title: Lady Sydney Morgan letters, 1806-1843.

The collection contains five letters. She writes to Richard Jones of Dublin, a collaborator on her early farces, 20 February [ca. 1806-1811], about a farce she is working on and the success of her novel, and in an undated letter, about a Spanish farce she is writing and ends with a six verse humorous song called "Shoe black." She writes to Benjamin Chapman, n.d. [after 1812], humorously ribbing his ignorance of how to prepare and cook a wild duck; to publisher R[ichard] Bentley, n.d. [after 1835], hurrying publication of her novel and reporting on Belgian reviews of her 1835 book, The princess; to Archdeacon [William Allport] Leighton, n.d. [ca. 1843], accepting an invitation to a party and offering the musical talents of her two nieces.

ArchivalResource: 5 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37824534 View

Bannerman, Hedley,. Redgranite History Project interviews [sound recording], 1965-1966.

Title: Redgranite History Project interviews [sound recording], 1965-1966.

Interviews by Robert W. Sherman with Redgranite, Wisconsin, residents about their community's history and the quarries located there.

ArchivalResource: 15 tape recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145776279 View

Jones, Richard. Brackett, Leigh, Sci. Fi. / Richard Jones ; interviewed by Donna DeBlasio.

Title: Brackett, Leigh, Sci. Fi. / Richard Jones ; interviewed by Donna DeBlasio. 1983.

ArchivalResource: 20 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37883190 View