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Poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Herbert W. Collingwood papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.82
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of one poem by Collingwood read at the Decennial Reunion of the Iota Chapter of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity at Michigan State University in 1882.

Dates: 1882
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Irma Thompson papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.35
Scope and Contents The Irma Thompson papers consist of correspondence and memorabilia from her time as a college student including dance cards, programs for dances, and programs for events on campus. The events were held by various organizations including Feronian Society, Hesperian Society, Eclectic Society, Olympic Society, MAC Oratorical Association, Union Literary Society, as well as the alumni association. There are also a number of plays, poems and short stories written by Irma and other classmates and...
Dates: 1835 - 1964
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Jere Hutcheson papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.319
Scope and Content The Jere Hutcheson collection contains recordings, music scores, correspondence, programs, photographs and publications. The collection includes recorded and unrecorded music. Material in the recorded music section contains the audio recording of the work as well as supplemental material consisting of correspondence, drafts, performance programs and scores. The materials in the Unrecorded Music section contains the scores for the individual works. Also included are publications that...
Dates: 1962 - 1997
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Jim Daniels papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 215 large
Scope and Contents

The Jim Daniels papers (approximately 1976-2015) contain correspondence, clippings, audiovisual material, reviews, promotional material, drafts and published versions of his poetry, prose, and screenplays and journals he edited and contributed to, documenting his professional and artistic work.

Dates: 1976 - 2015
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Jonathan Fox collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00260
Scope and Contents of the Papers

This collection consists of a ledger kept by Jonathan Fox of Genesee County, New York. The earliest entries record the sale of cloth and costs of tailoring work, which may have been done by Fox. The ledger also records household expenses, some brief genealogical notes, and several poems, perhaps written by Fox's wife.

Dates: 1837 - 1908
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Josephine Wood Lowry papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00296
Scope and Contents This collection consists of letters and poems written by various members of the Wood and Lowry families. Most of the letters were written to Josephine Wood Lowry of Tecumseh, Michigan. The bulk are from her mother, Sally Woods, her husband, S. B. Lowry, and her brother S. C. Woods. The letters pass on family news, describe daily life and social events, express the family's patriotism, and reminisce about pioneer life in Michigan and Minnesota. They also express an awe of the changes in life,...
Dates: 1859-1907, circa 1930
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Journal of South Asian Literature UA 2.9.3.3

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Serial-00873
Dates: 1983, 1988-1990
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

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
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Liberty Hyde Bailey papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.1
Scope and Contents The papers of Liberty Hyde Bailey span the years 1855-1958. The majority of the materials were received from the Liberty Hyde Birthsite Bailey Museum in South Haven, Michigan. The collection contains correspondence, writings by Bailey, newspaper and magazine clippings and photographs. The collection also includes reproductions of botanical drawings. The correspondence includes three Christmas cards from Bailey to his wife; a collection of business letters; a letter from China in...
Dates: 1852 - 1958
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections