Manuscripts, American
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:
Small adventures series manuscripts, approximately 1942-1957
File — Box 11: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239134205], Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS 9064 Series 3
Dates:
approximately 1942-1957
Madeleine B. Stern papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1486
Abstract
The collection consists of Stern’s research and manuscript files including correspondence, photographs and photocopies, research notes, drafts and proofs, periodicals, etc., documenting her career between 1944 and 1998 as a biographer of assorted figures and aspects of 19th century American life and literature, most notably Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, feminists, Sherlock Holmes, phrenology and its founders, etc. It contains original manuscripts and printer’s proofs of such works as...
Dates:
1944-1998
Madeleine B. Stern papers on Louisa May Alcott
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3953
Scope and Contents
Contains 1) Manuscript of A Double Life: Unknown Thrillers by Louisa May Alcott, with an introduction by Madeline B. Stern, with editing comments. The Double Life reprints five stories written by Louisa May Alcott and published anonymously in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines. The stories are A Pair of Eyes; or, Modern Magic; The Fate of the Forrests; A Double Tragedy; Ariel; and Taming a Tartar. Taming a Tartar is not in manuscript format--it has been photocopied and attached to...
Dates:
approximately 1987
Stolen beauty : original screen story / by Richard Connell and John Held, Jr., approximately 1910-1949
File — Box 11: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239134205], Folder: 9
Identifier: MSS 9064 Series 3
Dates:
approximately 1910-1949
Suicide or murder? / by John Held, Jr., approximately 1950-1957
Item — Box 11: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239134205], Folder: 13
Identifier: MSS 9064 Series 3
Dates:
approximately 1950-1957
Teeth / by John Held, Jr., approximately 1950-1957
Item — Box 11: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239134205], Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 9064 Series 3
Dates:
approximately 1950-1957
Douglas H. Thayer papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3178
Abstract
The collections consists primarily of manuscripts of Thayer's works, including personal notes, publisher/editor corrections and correspondence, and some public response. Also included are various newspaper and magazine articles featuring the author.
Dates:
approximately 1950-2009
The Africanization of America, 1855
Item — Box 13: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232550753], Folder: 4
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Item 1
Scope and Contents
Draft of a book written alternately in Thomas L. Kane's and Elizabeth Wood Kane's handwriting, dated 1855. Contains opinions by Kane on African Americans.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1855
The Africanization to America, 1855
Item — Box 13: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232550753], Folder: 5
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Item 1
Scope and Contents
Finished manuscript of book written in Elizabeth Wood Kane's handwriting, dated 1855. Contains opinions by Thomas L. Kane on African Americans.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1855
The comer / by John Held, Jr., approximately 1910-1957
Item — Box 11: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239134205], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 9064 Series 3
Dates:
approximately 1910-1957