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Frank O'Connor was born Michael Francis O'Donovan on September 17, 1903 in Cork city to Mary "Minnie" O'Donovan (née O'Connor) and Michael O'Donovan. Active on the Republican side in the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War, O'Connor was interned in Gormanston. After this experience, he turned against republicanism and political violence generally. Following his release from Gormanston, O'Connor worked as a librarian in Sligo, Cork, and Dublin until 1938. Beginning in the mid-1920s, O'Connor published numerous short stories and translations of poems from Irish, as well as dramatic works, memoirs, journalistic columns and features on aspects of Irish culture and history, criticism, novels, biography, and travel books. His work focused on Irish culture and language, with a particular eye to the relationship between modern Ireland and traditional Gaelic culture. In the 1930s, he became a member and later director of the board of the Abbey Theatre on the initiative of W.B. Yeats. During the early 1940s, he also served as poetry editor of and contributor to the literary, cultural, and political review The Bell, founded and edited by Sean O'Faolain. He spent much of the 1950s teaching in the United States.
O'Connor married Esther Evelyn Bowen Speaight, a divorced Welsh actress, in 1939, and they had two sons and one daughter. The two separated in 1949 and divorced in 1953. He also had one other son, born outside marriage to Joan Knape during this period of separation. O'Connor married Harriet Randolph Rich, in 1953, and they had one daughter together.
Frank O'Connor had a stroke while teaching at Stanford University in 1961, and he later died from a heart attack in Dublin on March 10, 1966.
John P. O'Reilly incoming correspondence, 1944-1974.
O'Reilly, John P. John P. O'Reilly incoming correspondence, 1944-1974.
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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.
Recordings of poetry readings by American and English poets given at Harvard University sponsored by the Morris Gray Fund, the Corliss Lamont Poetry Reading Series, the Ellen Sitgreaves Vail Motter Fund of Radcliffe College, the Kurt Brown Audio Preservation Project, the John Lincoln Sweeney Memorial Fund, the Harvard Vocarium, and the Poetry Room itself.
Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Reading Library, 1707-1961.
Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Reading Library, 1707-1961.
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Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Reading Library, 1707-1961.
The Robert Sterling Clark reading library is comprised of ca. 800 titles that document a broad range of interests. Fiction and history predominate, though there is significant subject development in cookery and horses. The collection includes multiple volumes by a number of authors, including substantive first edition holdings of Pearl S. Buck, John Galsworthy, Sinclair Lewis, and P.G. Wodehouse. Many of the volumes include minor penciled annotations by RSC which record reading dates and brief thoughts on the volume in hand.
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113.5 linear ft. : (ca. 1012 v.)
Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Reading Library, 1707-1961.
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Hopwood Awards Collection, 1930-
Hopwood Awards Collection, 1930-
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Hopwood Awards Collection, 1930-
Consists of correspondence relating to the annual University of Michigan student contests in creative literature for the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Prizes funded by income from the Avery Hopwood bequest.
Records. : Series I., General Correspondence, 1922-1977 (bulk 1946-1966).
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. : Series I., General Correspondence, 1922-1977 (bulk 1946-1966).
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Records. : Series I., General Correspondence, 1922-1977 (bulk 1946-1966).
This series consists of the central editorial files of the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Company. It contains the correspondence for the day-to-day operations of the firm, including letters from foreign publishers seeking publication and translation rights, contacts with young writers, inquiries from aspiring authors, correspondence on legal matters such as copyright, letters from literary agents, and requests for information about writers. The General Correspondence series also contains correspondence between editors and Knopf authors, many files of which follow the creation of a book from the original idea to its final publication. Taken as a whole, this series offers a comprehensive overview of the activities of the editorial offices. The main strength of the series derives from the individual files devoted to writers published by Knopf. These files typically reveal the writer's first connection with the company, which might have occurred when the firm contacted the writer expressing their interest in her or his work, or when the author submitted a manuscript. Files follow the correspondence between the editor and writer, revealing the relationship between the two as the manuscript progresses, continues once the book is published, and shows how the book is received and how well it sells. Especially interesting is the way the files reveal how an editor would guide the creative process, as she or he suggests changes, additions, or deletions. While the vast majority of files contain correspondence only, some files relate to the inner workings of the firm. These are labelled by department or, more often, by employee name; the most significant are for Blanche and Alfred A. Knopf, and can be found in most years. The files rely on the use of documentation in the form of internal memoranda that were sent from editors and employees of other departments to update the Knopfs on current activities. Folders titled with the name of a trip taken by Alfred or Blanche Knopf in a specific year often include narrative descriptions of the visit, including detailed lists of publishers, scouts, literary agents, and writers with whom they met. Further, information about writers is also available in these folders. For example, internal memos about the rejection of John Knowles' A Separate Peace are in one of Blanche Knopf's European trip folders. Other employee named files, like those of Secretary and later President William A. Koshland, give an overview of the firm's administrative history.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. : Series I., General Correspondence, 1922-1977 (bulk 1946-1966).
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Robert H. Elias papers, 1933-1983.
Robert H. Elias papers, 1933-1983.
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Robert H. Elias papers, 1933-1983.
Includes correspondence, memoranda, conference agendas, notes, news releases, and reports of Robert Henry Elias, with particular reference to the American Studies Society, the American Historical Association, and the American Civilization Graduate Club.
Correspondence pertaining to the Rushton Seminar [manuscript], 1953-1954.
Arnold, Sidney,. Correspondence pertaining to the Rushton Seminar [manuscript], 1953-1954.
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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.
Arnold, Sidney,. Correspondence pertaining to the Rushton Seminar [manuscript], 1953-1954.
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Records. Series VI., Editorial Department Files, 1915-1984 (bulk 1948-1978).
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. Series VI., Editorial Department Files, 1915-1984 (bulk 1948-1978).
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Records. Series VI., Editorial Department Files, 1915-1984 (bulk 1948-1978).
This series consists of selected files maintained by the editorial offices of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Containing internal forms and correspondence, it highlights numerous aspects of the publishing process. Subseries A.: Contract Data Sheets. This subseries contains the internal forms, called contract data sheets, that consolidated an author's contract and sales records, highlighting rights, contract options, translations, and royalties. While these single sheets make up the bulk of the subseries, occasionally other forms such as reprint contract sheets, contract proposals, and internal memoranda have been attached for reference. Subseries B.: Foreign Rights. These files contain correspondence and internal forms relating to the publication of Knopf books in other countries. Most of these files consist of correspondence from foreign publishers asking Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for the right to publish a particular title in their country. While some folders contain letters from many different publishers, others follow the lengthy negotiation process for foreign rights between Knopf and a particular publisher. Subseries C.: Manuscript Records. This subseries is made up of the internal forms called "white sheets" by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and pertains only to manuscripts accepted by the firm. These manuscript record forms were attached to every incoming manuscript, to document how the manuscript arrived, its original title, and the date of its initial submission. The standard form included such information as the author's name, manuscript title and form (whether typescript, proofs, or sheets), name of the person submitting it, contract information, a list of the manuscript's readers, and space for remarks by those readers. In a few cases the white sheets were attached to internal memoranda, correspondence, contract proposals, or publishing summaries. Subseries D.: Reject Files. This largest subseries contains correspondence with rejected authors and/or their agents. Most consist of single contacts with aspiring authors who were never published. This correspondence generally contains an introductory letter from the author (or sometimes an agent) describing the manuscript, with a carbon negative reply from the firm. While most of the correspondence is routine, the subseries' chief importance derives from the known authors that Knopf rejected and the early appearance of authors who would later go on to prominence. Of particular interest is the appearance in this subseries of established Knopf authors such as Mildred Cram, Erna Fergusson, Yukio Mishima, and Elizabeth Taylor, showing that Knopf was reluctant to publish inferior works from even the best known of its list. Subseries E.: Rejection Sheets. This subseries consists of the manuscript "white sheet" forms for books rejected by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. These white sheets complement subseries D, though they represent only manuscripts actually submitted. The reject sheets are particularly interesting because a substantial minority of submitted manuscripts that were rejected by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. went on to be published elsewhere. As in the manuscript records in Subseries C, frank narrative reports of these rejected works by the manuscript readers and editors are present. Subseries F.: [Translations]. This small subseries contains a loose assortment of files pertaining mainly to translations of Spanish and Portuguese writers. The subseries documents the firm's growing interest in the publication of Latin American writers in the 1960s. Most of the files contain correspondence or internal documentation relating to writers and translators in which the company was interested. The subseries is strengthened by a number of annotated lists of current writers and translators working in the area, offering an overview of Latin American scholarship in the 1960s.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. Series VI., Editorial Department Files, 1915-1984 (bulk 1948-1978).
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I knew a phoenix in my youth [1953].
O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966. I knew a phoenix in my youth [1953].
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I knew a phoenix in my youth [1953].
Typescript, with ms. corrections, and galleys, of a review of The Collected plays of W.B. Yeats (New York : Macmillan, 1953), published in the New York Times, 31 May 1953, together with 2 letters to Francis Brown, relating to the review.
O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966. Frank O'Connor Collection, 1936-1967.
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O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966
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J. Walter Thompson Company. Biographical Information, 1916-1998 (bulk 1960s-1980s)
J. Walter Thompson Company. Biographical Information, 1916-1998 (bulk 1960s-1980s)
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J. Walter Thompson Company. Biographical Information, 1916-1998 (bulk 1960s-1980s)
The J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT), founded in 1864, is one of the oldest and largest enduring advertising agencies in the United States. The J. Walter Thompson Company Biographical Information collection includes articles, clippings, press releases, internal memoranda and other printed materials that pertain to the lives and careers of over 3,000 managers, executives and staff members of JWT. Extensive files exist for some notable JWT executives, including Don Johnston, Helen and Stanley Resor, Norman Strouse, James Walter Thompson, and James Webb Young.
Cohn, Alan M., 1926-. [Collection from the library of Robert L. Kellogg of articles on James Joyce, published 1965-1969.].
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O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966
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New Yorker records
New Yorker records
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New Yorker records
Weekly magazine founded in New York City in 1925 by Harold W. Ross, Jane Grant, Alexander Woollcott and Raoul Fleischman. The records consist of correspondence, interoffice memoranda, edited and corrected manuscripts and typescripts, drawings, statistical reports, lists of story and art ideas, photographs, and sound recordings and printed materials created during the foundation and day-to-day operations of the magazine from 1924-1984. This material documents the production of every issue of the magazine and provides insight on the careers of its staff and contributors.
Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001
Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001
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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001
The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time the paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century. However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement. The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequences between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the People's World. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked with the CPUSA or Left politics.
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227 Linear Feet in 226 record cartons and 2 oversized boxes
Holograph journals and notebooks, corrected and uncorrected typescripts, carbon copies, tearsheets, galleys, and occasional correspondence related to the publication of Frank O'Connor's literary works.
Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q.
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O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966
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Records. Series V., Editor Files, 1873-1984 (bulk 1960-1980).
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. Series V., Editor Files, 1873-1984 (bulk 1960-1980).
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Records. Series V., Editor Files, 1873-1984 (bulk 1960-1980).
This series contains the working files of seventeen Knopf editors. The files consist largely of correspondence, with both incoming correspondence and carbon copy responses from the editor, but they also contain internal forms and memoranda that follow both the internal and external processes of book publication. Long-term strengths of the firm such as the expertise and interests of the editors, and the relationship between author and editor, are clearly revealed in this series. The files of William Koshland differ markedly from other editors' files, reflecting his role as administrator more than hands-on editor.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. Series V., Editor Files, 1873-1984 (bulk 1960-1980).
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O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966
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Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Moving Images Collection, 1920-1969
Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Moving Images Collection, 1920-1969
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Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Moving Images Collection, 1920-1969
The Tamiment/Wagner Moving Images Collection represents the core motion picture film collection of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. It includes the film archives of the Transport Workers Union of America, a labor union founded in 1934 to organize subway workers and bus drivers in the New York City area that later included taxi drivers, railway employees, airline workers and utility workers in locals across the country; films and film footage from District 65/UAW , another labor union formed in New York City (in 1933) that organized warehouse workers, later expanding to include workers from the retail and manufacturing sectors, clerical personnel, salesclerks, writers, editors, technicians, and lawyers, include large numbers of women; a complete film, Nos Maisons d'Enfants, from the Jewish Labor Committee, a New York-based umbrella group of Jewish or Jewish-led trade unions and fraternal organizations, founded in 1934 to organize anti-Nazi and anti-fascist activity and to provide assistance to European Jews and others persecuted by these movements; footage shot by still photographer John Albok (1894-1982), known for his images of children and New York City street life during the Depression, who also documented organized labor and left-radical political life in New York City; and early footage of Camp Tamiment, a summer resort for socialists, in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, that opened in 1921. The remainder of the materials in the Collection come from various other labor and radical organizations. Together, they comprise approximately 40 hours of black and white and color 16mm motion picture film (and one 35mm film) which have been transferred to video for research use. They document activities and history of the labor movement and radical left or progressive organizations, mostly in New York City (although Philadelphia, Barcelona, Geneva, and a few locations in France are also represented. Most were produced by or for labor, left or progressive organizations and associated individuals in the United States. The Collection includes a dozen documentary films and a similar number each of television programs and filmed press conferences, but the largest proportion of materials by far consists of outtakes and edited sequences from these productions; a small amount of stock footage shot, acquired for, or associated with, these productions and unedited footage not associated with them.
O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966. Guests of the nation : manuscript, [ca. 1930?]
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O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966
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Papers, 1942-[196-].
O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966. Papers, 1942-[196-].
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Papers, 1942-[196-].
Consists of a memo booklet with entries of Michael O'Donovan's nightly dreams from 1942-1951; also three dozen postcards and letters, dated 1949 through the mid 1960's, written by Michael and Harriet O'Donovan to Myles, their son and step-son.
Monro, Alida Klemantaski. Correspondence of Alida Klemantaski Monro, 1933.
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Correspondence of Alida Klemantaski Monro, 1933.
Correspondence with some of the poets in Mrs. Monro's anthology Recent Poetry, 1923-1933, mostly relating to selection, literary rights, and payment. Correspondents include Cecil Day-Lewis, Alec Desmond Hawkins, Frederick Robert Higgins, Michael O'Donovan, Ruth Pitter, William Charles Franklin Plomer, John Pudney, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Laura Riding, Michael Roberts. Stephen Spender, Pamela L. Travers, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Humbert Wolfe.
Monro, Alida Klemantaski. Correspondence of Alida Klemantaski Monro, 1933.
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O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966
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James A. Healy Irish ephemera, ca. 1902-1966.
Healy, James Augustine, 1891-1975,. James A. Healy Irish ephemera, ca. 1902-1966.
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James A. Healy Irish ephemera, ca. 1902-1966.
Clippings, newspapers, typewritten manuscripts, letters, and photographs concerning Ireland and individual Irish people or Irish-Americans. Includes photocopies of letters from President Theodore Roosevelt and other U.S. government officials to James B. Connolly, ranging in date from 1902-1948; essays and notes by Kathleen O'Loughlin; reports and clippings concerning the United Empire Loyalists; issues of Irish newspapers such as the Irish Independent and Irish Times concerning the 50th anniversary of the Easter Uprising of 1916; and clippings about W.B. Yeats, Maud Gonne, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce, Roger Casement, Sean O'Casey, John F. Kennedy, and Walter Macken, as well as clippings of articles by Frank O'Connor. Also included are issues of Eire/Ireland, the weekly bulletin of Ireland's Department of External Affairs.
Healy, James Augustine, 1891-1975,. James A. Healy Irish ephemera, ca. 1902-1966.
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O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966
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Records. Series IV., Author and Book Designer Files, 1911-1979 (bulk 1920-1960).
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. Series IV., Author and Book Designer Files, 1911-1979 (bulk 1920-1960).
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Records. Series IV., Author and Book Designer Files, 1911-1979 (bulk 1920-1960).
This series is one of the highlights of the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. archive and one of the few that documents the early history of the firm. The Author Files, which make up the bulk of this series, contain a broad assortment of files relating to authors, most of whom were published by Knopf. The subseries contains early editorial correspondence, manuscripts, and artwork, pertaining generally to firm business. While the files typically contain correspondence with Alfred A. Knopf, other employees whose letters are present in this subseries are Blanche Knopf, William A. Koshland, Raymond Preston, and Harold Strauss. The Author Files are most complete for the 1920s and 1930s. Most files contain correspondence with an author pertaining to a book published by the firm. Covering Knopf's "golden age" of publishing, authors of note include W. J. Cash, A. E. Coppard, Warwick Deeping, Havelock Ellis, Erna Fergusson, Emma Goldman, Dashiell Hammett, William Alexander Percy, and Angela Thirkell. Besides fiction, the subseries documents Knopf's commitment to publishing historical, medical, and sociological texts. While most correspondents are represented by a single file, some long-term Knopf authors, such as James M. Cain, Joseph Hergesheimer, John Hersey, and Carl Van Vechten, has two or more. These multiple files reveal the personal relationship that often developed between an editor and author. The Book Designer Files contain correspondence with four renowned book designers. The files of Elmer Adler, Claude Bragdon, and Bruce Rogers contain correspondence, generally about books they designed for Knopf. However, the bulk of the subseries consists of William A. Dwiggins' correspondence and book designs. Eleven folders cover the years 1927-1954, and include Dwiggins' correspondence with Alfred Knopf and Sidney Jacobs. Another eleven folders of artwork contain notes, sample designs, binding samples, and mock-ups and sketches for books and dust jackets that Dwiggins designed for the firm.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. Series IV., Author and Book Designer Files, 1911-1979 (bulk 1920-1960).
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O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966
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Frank O'Connor Papers 1927-1972
Frank O'Connor Papers, 1927-1972
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Frank O'Connor Papers 1927-1972
Journals and notebooks, corrected and uncorrected typescripts, carbon copies, tearsheets, galleys, and occasional correspondence related to the publication of Frank O'Connor's literary works. The major part of the collection is the short story material, O'Connor's chief genre, but this is supplemented by non-fiction including literary criticism, lecture notes, scripts of radio broadcasts, autobiographical material, with reminiscences of his work with the Abbey Theatre, and some sixty-three articles for newspapers and magazines.
Frank O'Connor papers dealing with autobiography, circa 1961.
O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966. Frank O'Connor papers dealing with autobiography, circa 1961.
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Frank O'Connor papers dealing with autobiography, circa 1961.
Box 1 -- Typescript with manuscript corrections, galleys with annotations, and annotated page proofs of his autobiography, entitled, AN ONLY CHILD. Box 2 -- a second set of galleys, a bound set of galleys, and lecture notes from his course on the twentieth century novel, taught at Stanford University (accession 1987-008).
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.75 linear feet (2 manuscript boxes)
O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1957.
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O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966
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Michael O'Donovan collection. [ca1932-1965].
O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966. Michael O'Donovan collection. [ca1932-1965].
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Michael O'Donovan collection. [ca1932-1965].
The collection consists of manuscripts and typescripts (some with holograph corrections) of "Scholar and artist", "The beauty", "Fish for Friday", "The others", The weeping children", and "Oration at W.B. Yeats' graveside by Frank O'Connor"; plus a notebook including drafts of "Modern Irish Literature" and "The lament for Art O'Leary".
Horseman, pass by! the story of a poet [moving images] / told by Frank O'Connor and Brendan Kennelly.
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O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966
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Frank O'Connor letters to Robert Greacen, circa 1946.
O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966. Frank O'Connor letters to Robert Greacen, circa 1946.
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Frank O'Connor letters to Robert Greacen, circa 1946.
The collection consists of four letters from O'Connor to Greacen, circa 1946, business letters in an informal tone on the subject of short stories by O'Connor that Greacen may have been interested in publishing, possibly for the anthology Irish Harvest, published 1946.
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