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Last Songs from Vagabondia: a collection of 51 poems with title page and table of contents
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Image of an advertisement for Songs from Vagabondia by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey featuring the faces of three men in the dark portion of a crescent moon.
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Bliss Carman Collection
Manuscripts
This collection contains papers of Canadian-American poet Bliss Carman (1861-1929). There are 65 items in the collection, which consists of correspondence and ephemera. There are 24 letters written by Bliss Carman to Irving Way. In addition, there is one letter from Mitchell Kennerley, from Kennerly Mitchell Publisher written in 1911. The letters written by Bliss Carman are in between 1905 and 1928. The subject matter within Carman's letters relates to his travels, with general remarks about the weather. Other matters mentioned are Carman's personal life, professional life, and trifling advice to his friend Irving Way. There are 40 various pieces of ephemera found in two separate folders. The items include printed items from Bliss Carman, which include his verses and poems. Additional ephemera consist of newspaper and magazine clippings, greeting cards, and note cards. In addition, there are some printed materials with marginal notes and are signed by Bliss Carman.
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5. Cheerful Companions: ms. title page and table of contents, with printed copies of several essays attached to ms. pages 9 p
Manuscripts
This collection of papers of James Thomas Fields and Annie Adams Fields consists of notebooks and loose papers containing their poetry, essays, notes for speeches, a few scattered diary entries, and memoranda. Also included are letters to and from the Fieldses, as well as a group of letters from James Fields to Annie. Complementing the fully-catalogued Fields papers, these personal papers of James and Annie Fields comprising the addenda contain anecdotes and references to some of the literary figures represented in the main body of the Fields papers. Some notable correspondents in this collection are Booker T. Washington and John Greenleaf Whittier. There is also a photograph of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Printed Material: Title page from The History of Nations, and typed paragraph about Theodore Roosevelt, (2 pieces), ([1906]-1920). Note: both pieces are signed by Henry Cabot Lodge
Manuscripts
The collection consists entirely of correspondence and a small amount of printed ephemera. The correspondence includes a small number of letters by other authors, including Anna J. Bird, William Cooper Hunneman, Carl A. Loeffler, Elihu Root and William Howard Taft. The majority of the letters in the collection are by Henry Cabot Lodge; these include a very small number of personal letters but are mainly letters by Lodge to other political letters of the time or to his Massachusetts constituents.
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Brown, Anthony Cave. Bodyguard of Lies: title page, table of contents, and chapter titled Prosper from the book (1975). 1 item
Manuscripts
The following individuals are represented in the collection: R.L. (Robert L.) Barth; Robert Dana (b. 1929); Michael Dana Gioia (b. 1950); Thom Gunn; Donald Rodney Justice (b. 1925); Philip Levine (b. 1928); Robert Mezey; Timothy Reid Steele (b. 1948); Theodore Russell Weiss (b. 1916); and others.
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Table of Contents, various chapters: early drafts
Manuscripts
The collection is comprised primarily of the manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera of Paul Theroux. His works are often semi-autobiographical and are based on his experiences living and traveling around the world. He is noted for his rich, sometimes ironic, description of people and places. The material comprises almost his entire career as a writer and includes multiple drafts of various works from working notebooks to printed galleys. The collection includes novels (1967-2016), short story collections (1972-2014), non-fiction and travel books (1972-2016), and shorter works including reviews, articles, short stories, plays, and lectures (1960-2015); the collection also includes Theroux's working and travel notebooks (1968-2014). The collection also contains professional papers and business correspondence (1963-2015), with publishers, agents, other authors and reader's letters; included in this material are letters from, among others, Eve Auchincloss, Peter De Vries, Margaret Drabble, Nadine Gordimer, Graham Greene, Blanche C. Gregory, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Houghton Mifflin Company, V.S. Naipaul, Jonathan Raban, Oliver Sacks, Muriel Spark, Stephen Spender, William Styron, and Auberon Waugh. There is also a smaller amount of family material and personal correspondence (1939-2015), with family and friends; this correspondence includes Eugene Theroux, Alexander Theroux, Peter Theroux, Marcel Theroux, Louis Theroux, Anne Theroux, and various other family members. The ephemera consists of photographs, printed material and magazines (1941-1915).
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