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Ben Hamper papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 391 large
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of newspaper clippings in photo albums, manuscripts, and columns by Ben Hamper, reviews of his book Rivethead, and realia.
Dates:
1972-2005; Majority of material found within 1983-1998
College of Arts and Letters records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-15.9
Scope and Contents
This collection includes interdepartmental correspondence, memos and brochures; publication lists; booklets; various college handbooks; course offerings; individual reports; scholarship lists; and annual reports.This collection includes interdepartmental correspondence, memos and brochures; publication lists; booklets; various college handbooks; course offerings; individual reports; scholarship lists; and annual reports. Student recruitment booklets, new program announcements and...
Dates:
1943 - 2017
Donald Yates collection of Rodolfo Walsh correspondence, writings, and other materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS 595 large
Scope and Contents
The Donald Yates collection of Rodolfo Walsh correspondence, writings, and other materials contain published and typed writings by Walsh, photographs, and other materials primarily sent to Yates by Walsh. The topics of correspondence range from discussing mystery writing to Walsh's first-hand experience with Revolucion Libertadora's coup of 1955 which overthrew Juan Peron's government and the growing violence around him.
Dates:
1953 - 1995
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
Frederic-Moffett papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 116 large
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence collected by Wallace B. Moffett, a professor in the English Department at Michigan State University in the 1940s, for his study of the career of Harold Frederic, an American author. The correspondence of Harold Frederic includes Frederic's letters to Charles Miller (editor of the New York Times) and others including Grover Cleveland. There are also letters addressed to Frederic and Miller by various correspondents. The collection also includes some...
Dates:
1884 - 1970
Gary Gildner papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 210 large
Scope and Contents
The Gary Gildner papers includes manuscript and typescript drafts and final editions of his fiction and poetry both published and unpublished. His correspondence is categorized into three main areas; letters to colleagues and acquaintances within academia, personal letters to family, friends, and colleagues, and letters exchanged with publishers. Also arranged within the series on correspondence are files that include his correspondence with Drake University administrators, his personal...
Dates:
1963 - 2016
Irwin T. and Shirley Holtzman Israeli literature collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 211 large
Scope and Contents
Comprised of works from the earliest days of Statehood in 1948 up to the present, the Irwin T. Holtzman Israeli Literature collection features manuscripts of poetry and drama; posters advertising literary events; political cartoons and other original artwork; and Irwin Holtzman's extensive correspondence with many important Israeli literary figures, including Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, Amalia Kahana-Carmon, and Yoram Kaniuk. It also includes published articles and essays, manuscripts,...
Dates:
1950 - 2011
Jim Harrison letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS 167 oversize
Scope and Contents
The Jim Harrison letters to John Ciardi, Poetry Editor, are fiery letters from 18-year old Harrison expressing his views on poetry. 2 holographic letters and 1 typed letter reply by Ciardi.
6 typed letters signed "Jim Harrison," "Jimmy Harrison," and "Jim" to novelist Thomas Berger dating from December 1972 through July 1974. 7 pages on 6 leaves, 8vo, on Harrison's letterhead with holograph notes by Harrison. Folded for mailing.
Witty, sometimes vulgar, brutally honest correspondence to...
Dates:
1956 - 1974
Judith Minty papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 387 large
Scope and Contents
The Judith Minty papers (1937-2011) contain the bulk of Minty’s handwritten and typed manuscripts of all published and unpublished writing throughout her adult life including the complete manuscripts to Yellow Dog Journal, Dancing the Fault, Letters to My Daughters, The Mad Painter Poems, and Killing the Bear and partial manuscripts for Lake Songs and Other Fears, In the Presence of Mothers, and Walking with the Bear. The collection also contains correspondence with fellow poets, friends,...
Dates:
1937-2011