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Bessie Dean travel diary and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 74 small

Donald Yates collection on Jorge Luis Borges

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 678
Scope and Contents The Donald Yates collection on Jorge Luis Borges consists of correspondence, publicity, clippings, photographs, and other ephemera relating to Borges' life and work. Of note are announcements, invitations, and poetry relating to Borges' visits to Michigan State University for his honorary doctorate in 1972 and other occasions. Other topics reflected in this collection are annotated manuscripts and correspondence with other Argentinian mystery authors, documentation on the detective genre...
Dates: 1881 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1990

Julia A. Moore collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 419 large
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one box of materials about the poetry of Julia A. Moore, who in her heyday was called the Sweet Singer in Michigan. The collective consists of family pictures, correspondence to and clippings about Ms. Moore, correspondence by H. A. Greenly, copies of published works not individually catalogued in MSU Libraries, and photocopies of three of her works.

Dates: 1847-1920

Munguia-Cisneros Family History collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 629
Scope and Contents

The 2-folder collection consists of facsimiles of correspondence to, from and about Romulo, news print and online articles and obituaries from various newspapers, advertisements for Munguia's print shop, programs for events honoring Munguia and family members, state proclamations, Texas-Mexico history. A second folder includes documents that highlight the Munguia Cisneros Family history of civic outreach and political activism.

Dates: 1954 - 2018