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O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991. Seán O'Faoláin papers : Vive Moi revision, 1983-1986.

Title: Seán O'Faoláin papers : Vive Moi revision, 1983-1986.

Draft manuscript revision of his autobiography, Vive Moi, originally published in 1964.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 2 boxes (.8 linear feet).Copies : 2 microfilm reels : negative (BNEG Box 1582:1-2) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122393020 View

Leonard, Hugh. The Sinners, Television play, 1970.

Title: The Sinners, Television play, 1970.

Xerox camera script of television play. The script is an adaptation of Sean O'Faolain's play, "Dividends," which is based on an Irish short story. The play was presented first on August 26, 1970 and adapted for television by Hugh Leonard.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 archives box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86166213 View

O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991. Seán O'Faoláin letter to Jon Carroll and typescript foreword, 1946-1964.

Title: Seán O'Faoláin letter to Jon Carroll and typescript foreword, 1946-1964.

The collection consists of two items: unpublished typescript foreword by O'Faoláin for Anthony Trollope's The Warden, circa 1946, cut by the publisher for economic reasons; letter to Jon Carroll, 14 Jan. 1964, observing that writers write, and if they are meant to be writers, they continue writing.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69937543 View

O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991. Seán O'Faoláin papers, [ca. 1932-1970].

Title: Seán O'Faoláin papers, [ca. 1932-1970].

Mainly drafts and revisions of his short stories. Included also are manuscripts for an autobiography: Vive moi!, and a novel: The land of dreams.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes, 2 cartons and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215172488 View

O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991. Sean O'Faolain letters to Neil Middleton, and related material : Dublin, 1980-1982.

Title: Sean O'Faolain letters to Neil Middleton, and related material : Dublin, 1980-1982.

Eight letters, mainly related to a collection of O'Faolain's works. Also includes 4 printed pages from the appendix to The Irish, annotated; and 8 typescript (4 carbon) revisions of appendix to The Irish.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86122322 View

O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991. Seán O'Faoláin papers, 1926-1969, undated.

Title: Seán O'Faoláin papers, 1926-1969, undated.

Seán O'Faoláin papers contain letters to and from Seán O'Faoláin, manuscript material for short stories written by O'Faoláin which appeared in published form as Tales and Stories (1966), and clippings about O'Faoláin's autobiography Vive Moi!. Correspondents include Bredan Connolly, Robert Fetridge, Edward Garnett, Julia O'Faoláin, J.F. Powers, George Bernard Shaw and William Butler Yeats. The collection includes a typed and annotated essay about O'Faoláin's Rosebud by his daughter Julia O'Faoláin.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear foot (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33140919 View

O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991. Letter, 1945, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letter, 1945, to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155873992 View

Walsh, Joseph Cyrillus, 1870-1955. Joseph Cyrillus Walsh papers, 1913-1947.

Title: Joseph Cyrillus Walsh papers, 1913-1947.

Collection consists of letters received by Walsh and miscellaneous papers related to Walsh's involvement in Irish affairs.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 linear feet (3 boxes, 1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364026 View

Joyce, James, 1882-1941. James Joyce correspondence, 1921-1940.

Title: James Joyce correspondence, 1921-1940.

This is an artificial collection that houses several separate acquisitions together. There are twenty-two pieces of correspondence including autograph letters, envelopes and calling cards from James Joyce to a variety of people including Léon-Paul Fargue, Mrs. Richard Hughes, Mlle Raymonde Linossier, Sean O'Faolain, Charles Ogden, Armand Petitjean and Niall Sheridan. The correspondence between Joyce and Raymonde Linossier is in French, and transcriptions have been given.

ArchivalResource: 7 folders in 1 half size box (.25 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226996898 View

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941. Papers of the Virginia quarterly review [manuscript] 1925-1942.

Title: Papers of the Virginia quarterly review [manuscript] 1925-1942.

The collection contains editorial correspondence, drafts and galleys of articles & poems published in V.Q.R. Correspondents include: Sherwood Anderson, Charles Austin Bearde, Ben Belitt, Gamaliel Bradford, James Branch Cabell, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Robert Frost, Julian Green, DuBose Heyward, Richard Le Gallienne, Robert Liddle Lowe, Edgar Lee Masters, Lewis Mumford, Sean O'Casey, Sean O'Faoláin, Katherine Anne Porter, Frederic Prokosch, John Crowe Ransom, Bertrand Russell, Allen Tate, Virginia Stephen Woolf and Starke Young.

ArchivalResource: 98 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972779 View

O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991. Christmas card to John and Mary [Marshall] : Richmond, Surrey : DS.

Title: Christmas card to John and Mary [Marshall] : Richmond, Surrey : DS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122291014 View

O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991. Sean O'Faolain letters : to Joseph S. Rippier : TLS and ALS, 1970-1975.

Title: Sean O'Faolain letters : to Joseph S. Rippier : TLS and ALS, 1970-1975.

Correspondence concerns in part Mr. Rippier's dissertation, in which he sought to conclude that O'Faolain introduced minor changes into certain stories between their original appearance and their appearance in the collected edition, Finest stories, published by Bantam. Also dealt with are literary influences on O'Faolain, and some personal matters.

ArchivalResource: 7 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40258794 View

Seán Lucy papers

Title: Seán Lucy papers

These papers document the publishing and teaching career of Irish poet and literary critic Seán Lucy. The collection includes articles, correspondence, ephemera, lecture notes, manuscripts, and photographs. Lucy's works include scholarly articles and books on Irish poetry, poetic technique, and Irish culture. Of particular note are the typescripts of Lucy's unpublished novel, Some Say Love, as well as an unpublished study of Irish verse in English, The Grafted Tongue. Manuscript materials include notes on poetry and prose, some of which may be first drafts. The papers also contain lecture notes for courses he taught on Irish and English poetry, primarily at University College, Cork. In addition to his own works, Lucy collected writings of other authors, frequently manuscripts sent to him by peers for his review. Among the latter are a significant body of poems, conference papers, and scholarly works by David Gardiner.

ArchivalResource: 4.75 Linear Feet (10 containers)

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Boston College Humanities Series director's records

Title: Boston College Humanities Series director's records

These records comprise correspondence, financial records, documents, photographs, publicity items, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and ephemera covering the first forty years of Boston College's Humanities Lecture Series, related lecture series, and events. The materials also documents Director Francis W. Sweeney, SJ's life-long relationship with many prominent writers, theologians, and academics of the twentieth century. The bulk of the records are composed of correspondence. The correspondence in Series I, Subseries A. includes literary agents, lecture circuit organizations, newspapers, and funding sources, as well as general correspondence related to the routine operations of the Humanities Series and related lecture series. Notable correspondents include Elizabeth Kray, from the Poetry Center and the Academy of American Poets (an important source of lecturers for the Humanities), the New England Poetry Circuit (which provided many speakers for the Younger Poets Series) and John Lowell of the Lowell Institution (a nonprofit organization which began funding the Humanities Series in the late 1980s). The subseries also contains significant correspondence relating to funding and operations of the Stylus and David Steinman Visiting Poets Lecture Series prior to the inauguration of the Humanities Series in 1958. Series VI. Lecturers contains Sweeney’s correspondence with individuals who participated in or were approached to participate in the Humanities Series and the related lecture series. This series also includes posters, promotional items, newspaper clippings, and articles written by Sweeney about individual lecturers, and for scholars for whom he managed lecture tours. These include the tours of theologian Hans Küng and Martin Cyril D'Arcy, SJ. Of particular note among this ephemera are two signed copies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's broadside “Populist Manifesto for Poets with Love” and original artwork by Gregory Corso and Andre Girard. These records also contains photographs of lecturers and artists who participated in the events administered by Sweeney. There are both publicity images and images taken on-site during lectures or events. Of particular note are images of poet Robert Frost.

ArchivalResource: 33.75 Linear Feet (66 containers)

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O'Reilly, John P. John P. O'Reilly incoming correspondence, 1944-1974.

Title: John P. O'Reilly incoming correspondence, 1944-1974.

Include letters from San Francisco Chronicle literary editor, Joseph Henry Jackson, and from Irish authors, Frank O'Connor and Seán O'Faoláin. Some refer to book reviews O'Reilly wrote for the Chronicle.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122593199 View

Russell, George William, 1867-1935. George William Russell Collection, [1913?]-1935.

Title: George William Russell Collection, [1913?]-1935.

Composed mainly of correspondence of Russell, including letters to Seán O'Faoláin, Oliver St. John Gogarty and Lloyd Morris. There are also manuscripts of poems and other writings by Russell. Articles concern the works of such literary figures as W.B. Yeats and Seumas O'Sullivan. In addition, there is a copy of the text of a radio broadcast given by Richard Campbell at the time of Russell's death. The collection also includes a painting and a drawing by Russell.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34220536 View

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Letter 15 August 42, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Sean O'Faolain.

Title: Letter 15 August 42, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Sean O'Faolain.

Autograph letter signed from W.B. Yeats to Irish writer Sean O'Faolain discussing permissions to reprint poetry or verse and the origins of a poet. Together with another letter to O'Faolain, no date, concerning P.E.N. membership. In the same folder is an autograph note from Yeats "To dearest Linc" on black-bordered stationary, an autograph letter to Henry Woodd Nevinson, no date, and a drawing of a psalter by Yeats on the back of a dinner party name card.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 29.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226995964 View

Irish manuscripts collection, 1629-1949.

Title: Irish manuscripts collection, 1629-1949.

The Irish Manuscripts Collection consists of papers documenting approximately 190 influential Irish men and women from military, religious, political arenas. The collection also contains several Irish and Irish-American newspapers, primarily from the mid-19th century. Selected letters and documents from prominent persons and governmental bodies include Memoirs of the House of Ormonde (history and family pedigree); Irish Land Commission's 1859 dissolution of the Lamberton Park estate; signature of labor leader Michael Davitt; several autographed, signed letters dated from 1851 to 1918 for the first three Earls of Drogheda; an 1824 letter of John Wilson Croker, 6th Baron De Freyne; an 18-line letter, dated 1905, from Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett; a letter of gratitude from Henry Grattan; an 1833 engraving and a 1932 letter from Viscount Clifden; a 13-line letter and other letters from the Marquis of Sligo; a 32-line letter from Right Honorable Sir George Trevelyan; land documents of Lord Palmerston; a 36-line letter, dated 1859, from George Petrie; and a typescript of a foreword written by Sean O' Faolain for Anthony Trollope's The Warden; and many other notable documents.

ArchivalResource: 5 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191675992 View

Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967. Collection, 1924-1983.

Title: Collection, 1924-1983.

Collection consists of materials by, to, and about J.R. Ackerley from 1924-1983. The first series consists of correspondence to Francis King (88 letters, 1954-67), Rena Clayphan (9 photocopies, 1965-66). and one letter to Lowes Dickinson (1925). Ackerley writes to King about his trip to Japan as well as other personal information including his request for King to be his literary executor. Correspondents to Ackerley include Brigid Brophy (1 item, nd), Edward Carpenter (1, 1924), Lowes Dickinson (8, ca. 1929-32), George Duthuit (1, 1949), Roy Fuller (3, 1954-56), John Gielgud (1, nd), Henry Festing Jones (1, 1927), James Kirkup (16, 1962-66), Rosamond Lehmann, (2, 1965), Desmond MacCarthy (2, 1942), James MacGibbon (1, 1963), Sean O'Faolain (1, nd), Herbert E. Read (2, 1942), Henry Reed (4, 1937-42), and Vita Sackville-West (1, nd). Topics discussed concern works by Ackerley, including My Dog Tulip, and Hindoo Holiday, works and publications of others, and some personal information. James Kirkup talks of his life in Japan, providing specific details of his work situation and sexual encounters. The second series, James Kirkup, (1948-83) was acquired at a later date and is divided in to Correspondence, 1948-1982 and Works, 1983, nd. The correspondence consists of letters from and about Ackerley. There are 32 letters from Ackerley to Kirkup from 1948 to 1966. Topics include impressions of Japan, plans for visiting, writings each was working on or that had been published, Ackerley's sister Nancy, animals, and Ackerley's dog, Queeny. Several of these letters appear in The Letters of J.R. Ackerley, edited by Neville Braybrooke (1975). There is also a typed draft of a review by Kirkup for Rock Face in 1948 with annotations by both Ackerley and Kirkup. Other correspondence includes one letter from Nancy Ackerley West after her brother's death thanking Kirkup for his friendship and support, one letter from Francis King in 1982 asking Kirkup to review My Sister and Myself: The Diaries of J.R. Ackerley, and one letter from E.M. Forster in Ackerley's hand in 1965 with a note at the bottom from Ackerley. There are photocopies of 3 letters Kirkup wrote to Neville Braybrooke in 1972 about the publication of The Letters of J.R. Ackerley. The Works series includes a typed copy and a photocopy of the review for My Sister and Myself which appeared in Gay News, Number 257, January 20-February 2, 1983. Other works include the poem "A Memory of Joe," and 1 typed page about Ackerley winning the W.H. Smith prize in 1962. Other collections at the HRC containing Ackerley materials include W.H. Auden (2 items, 1936), George Barker (1, nd), Author C. Benson (1, 1920), John Betjeman (1, 1969), Edmund C. Blunden (3, 1960), Elizabeth Bowen (4, 1936-1965), Jocelyn Brooke (2, 1965), Richard Church (5, 1936-1944), Norman Douglas (7, 1915-1942), Edward Morgan Forster (793, 1922-1966), Andre Gide (1, 1936), Robert Graves (1, 1942), Mary Huchinson (1, 1950), John Lehmann (8, 1941-1963), Wyndham Lewis (1, 1952), London Magazine (annotated copy of p. 141-154 of My Father Myself), Marie Adelaide Lowndes (1, 1946), Derek Patmore (1, 1930), Forrest Reid (1, 1930), Edith Sitwell (6, 1926-1959), Stephen Spender (3, 1961), Lytton Strachey (2, 1925), and Hugh Walpole (1, 1925). Many of the letters to and from Ackerley discuss his writings and reviews, works of others, and personal information. The extensive correspondence from Forster provides details of their relationship as well as insight into their personal lives.

ArchivalResource: 187 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122640518 View

Miles, Josephine, 1911-. Papers, 1957-1968.

Title: Papers, 1957-1968.

Chiefly mss. toward Miles's essays and non-fiction works, but also includes typescripts for two of her poetry collections, Civil Poems (1967), and Kinds of Affection (1967), as well as mss. of some individual poems. Correspondents include Mark Harris, Sean O'Faolain, Stan Rice, William Stafford, Louis Untermeyer, and William Wimsatt.

ArchivalResource: 199 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26090013 View

Mary Katharine Woodworth papers, 1787-1989

Title: Mary Katharine Woodworth papers 1787-1989

Mary Katharine Woodworth (1900 – 1988) graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1924 with a Greek and English major and a minor in archeology. She received her Ph. D in English from Bryn Mawr in 1933. After her book on British poet and genealogist Samuel Egerton Brydges was published in 1935, she began teaching in the English department at Bryn Mawr, and introduced the college’s first course on 20th century writers. She awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award from Bryn Mawr in 1968 upon her retirement. Her bequest of her entire estate to Bryn Mawr in 1988, which included Van Gogh’s The Violinist, made her the 4th largest contributor to the college at the time. Her papers include personal correspondence, journals, research notes, and financial records. Additionally, the collection includes correspondence between Woodworth and writers – including E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, Dylan Thomas, Eudora Welty, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bowen, D. H. Lawrence, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, and V. S. Pritchett – who she pursued to lecture at Bryn Mawr.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 Linear feet

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_BMC_USPBmBMCM47 View

Hoult, Norah, 1901-1984. Norah Hoult Correspondence, 1934-1954.

Title: Norah Hoult Correspondence, 1934-1954.

Consists of correspondence of Hoult with various Irish literary figures.

ArchivalResource: .1 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34112719 View

Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Letter, 1936 July 7. Paris, France, to Sean O'Faolain, Co. Wicklow, Irelande.

Title: Letter, 1936 July 7. Paris, France, to Sean O'Faolain, Co. Wicklow, Irelande.

Autograph letter, signed, from James Joyce to Sean O'Faolain acknowledging receipt of O'Faolain's book.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet (2 pages : 16.5 x 12.7 cm. with envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226661323 View

O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991. Seán O'Faoláin papers, 1926-1969, undated.

Title: Seán O'Faoláin papers, 1926-1969, undated.

Seán O'Faoláin papers contain letters to and from Seán O'Faoláin, manuscript material for short stories written by O'Faoláin which appeared in published form as Tales and Stories (1966), and clippings about O'Faoláin's autobiography Vive Moi!. Correspondents include Bredan Connolly, Robert Fetridge, Edward Garnett, Julia O'Faoláin, J.F. Powers, George Bernard Shaw and William Butler Yeats. The collection includes a typed and annotated essay about O'Faoláin's Rosebud by his daughter Julia O'Faoláin.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear foot (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33140919 View

Hughes, Herbert, 1882-1937. Guestbook 1924-1970.

Title: Guestbook 1924-1970.

Guest and scrapbook of Herbert and Suzanne Hughes who required their guests who attended their musical parties in Chelsea to sign. The book contains autographs, playbills, invitations, clippings, letters and a manuscript poem written by Herbert Hughes in honor of Fred P. Hughes' 75th birthday. Material present dates from March 1924 to September 1970. The entry for Saint Patrick's Day, 1932, is for a performance of Herbert Hughes' work The Joyce Book. Guest signatures include James, Nora and Lucia Joyce (Aug 5, 1930; May 3 & 17, 1931; and Jun 7, 1931); John McCormack; Sean O'Casey; Myra Hess; Paul Robeson; Cecil Gray; John Ireland; Padraic Colum; C.K. Ogden; Sean O'Faolain and many, many others. Also included are several letters from Alexander Campbell Mackenze and Lilian Baylis, amongst others.

ArchivalResource: Signatures 76 p. 20.5 x 26 cm.Clippings and mementos 23 items.Letters 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226659027 View

James M. Cain Papers, 1901-1978, (bulk 1925-1978)

Title: James M. Cain Papers 1901-1978 (bulk 1925-1978)

Author, journalist, and screenwriter. Correspondence, writings, legal and financial records, family papers, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Cain's work as a journalist and to his career as a novelist and Hollywood screenwriter.

ArchivalResource: 30,000 items; 94 containers; 36 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009011 View

Arnold, Sidney,. Correspondence pertaining to the Rushton Seminar [manuscript], 1953-1954.

Title: Correspondence pertaining to the Rushton Seminar [manuscript], 1953-1954.

Correspondence of Edward C. McAleer relating to the Rushton Seminar panel discussion on modern Irish literature. The collection contains letters from Sidney Arnold, Daniel A. Binchey, Harvey Breit, Padraic Colum, Frances Balmer and M. Frost for Elizabeth Bowen, Nancy [Hale?], Denis Johnston, Oliver St. J. Gogarty, Frank O'Connor, Seán O'Faolain, T. O'Conor Sloane, III, Bill [Weedon?], William H. Wranek, and John Cook Wyllie.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647986549 View

Huebsch, B. W. (Benjamin W.), 1876-1964. B. W. Huebsch records, 1909-1963.

Title: B. W. Huebsch records, 1909-1963.

Letters written to Huebsch, most of which relate to the books presented to him by various authors. There are letters from H.E. Bates, Richard Curle, Edward Garnett, Mitchell Kennerley, Wyndham Lewis, Sean O'Faoláin, Siegfried Sassoon, and Sidney Webb. Also, a box of printed materials by and relating to Huebsch.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes & 400 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496102541 View

O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991. Sean O'Faolain letters to James D. Hart, 1972-1987.

Title: Sean O'Faolain letters to James D. Hart, 1972-1987.

31 letters (ALS, TLS, including some photocopies) to James D. Hart, chiefly concerning O'Faolain correspondence and papers held at The Bancroft Library. Also includes a photocopy of an article by O'Faolain, "The Art of Autobiography," from The Listener, May 19, 1966.

ArchivalResource: 32 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122514575 View

Hagstrum, Jean H., 1913-1995. Jean Hagstrum Papers, 1921-1995.

Title: Jean Hagstrum Papers, 1921-1995.

Arranged in five main subseries: biographical and educational background files, correspondence, graduate files, course materials, and addresses and publications. Hagstrum's personal and professional correspondence with Richard Ellmann, Paul Elmen, and Karl and William Olsson is of special interest. These letters deal with literary contributions and personal matters, and include comments on visits to various countries in Europe. The correspondence with Elmen and Olsson also includes many exchanges on literary criticism and religious matters. The folder titled "Great Men" includes letters to and from Stephen Spender, Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Geoffrey Keynes, and others. Hagstum's activities as a member and officer of the Modern Language Association are well documented by six folders of material. The course materials include primarily notes for lectures and some reading notes, reading lists, exam sheets, syllabi, and student papers. Several folders include copies of Hagstrum's notes to students assigning term or exam grades and explaining, often in some detail, why a particular grade was given.

ArchivalResource: 17.0 cu. ft. (51 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122371935 View

Hench, Atcheson Laughlin, 1891-1974. Papers regarding Padraic Colum's visit to the University of Virginia [manuscript] 1954.

Title: Papers regarding Padraic Colum's visit to the University of Virginia [manuscript] 1954.

Collection contains 4 copies of the program of the seminar on modern Irish literature attended by Colum, 2 letters between Hench and Colum & memorabilia of the seminar and other participants, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean O'Faolain, John Gogarty, & Denis William Johnston.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647946311 View