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Manuscript and Archival Collections at the University of Delaware Library are managed in collection Call Number Series as listed below. An alphabetical list (by title of collection) is also available.

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  1. MSS 0093
  2. MSS 0095
  3. MSS 0096
  4. MSS 0097
  5. MSS 0098
  6. MSS 0099
  7. MSS 100 >



0099 Miscellaneous Literary & Historical Manuscripts

More than 800 single manuscripts, letters, or small collections of documents of broad literary or historical significance are housed in this collection series. Additional titles are available, so please ask for assistance.

As an interim access tool, please consult the attached Word document, which is an item-level inventory of MSS 099. Researchers may use "find in page" searches on this Word document file.


  1. F032 Barnes, Robert, collection of Curtis & James River paper samples
  2. F042 Colum, Padraic, "The County Mayo" poem
  3. F091 Gogarty, Oliver St. John, letter to Ernest Augustus Boyd
  4. F093 Gregory, Lady, letter to Dorothy Radcliffe
  5. F094 Gregory, Lady, letter to Grosvenor
  6. F095 Guinan, John, "Black Oliver" playscript
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  1. F106 Hickey, Emily Henrietta, letter to Lord Archbishop
  2. F112 Hunt, Leigh, letter to Charles Ollier
  3. F131 Lawless, Emily, letter to Smith
  4. F167 O'Casey, Sean, "Purple Dust" essay
  5. F168 O'Casey, Sean, "Young Cassidy" manuscript
  6. F169 O'Casey, Sean, "The Silver Tassie" playscript
  7. F170 O'Casey, Sean, letters to Bumpus and Company
  8. F171 O'Casey, Sean, letter to Harold Waller
  9. F173 O'Grady, Standish, letter to Morris
  10. F177 O'Sullivan, Seumas, letter to Barker
  11. F180 Orpen, William, Sir, "Stories of Old Ireland, and Myself" manuscript
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  1. F205 Robinson, Lennox, letters
  2. F209 Russell, George William [AE], letters to James Stephens
  3. F210 Russell, George William [AE], letters
  4. F220 Shaw, George Bernard, card to Fred Terry and Miriam Michelson playscript "The Duchess Barbara [of Leeds]"
  5. F229 Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), letters
  6. F232 Spiller, Robert E., collection
  7. F247 Synge, John Millington, letter to Fay
  8. F252 Teasdale, Sara, letters to Orrick Johns
  9. F260 Tynan, Katharine, letters to Langbridge
  10. F292 Yeats, Jack Butler, letter to Lady Gregory
  11. F293 Yeats, John Butler, letters
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  1. F301 Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, letter
  2. F303 O'Brien, Edna, "Virginia" playscript
  3. F313 Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), "The Preacher's Practice" short story
  4. F314 Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letters to Arthur St. John Adcock
  5. F325 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), letter to George MacDonald
  6. F348 Yeats, Jack Butler, letters to Elkin Mathews
  7. F349 O'Flaherty, Liam, "A Night Attack" short story
  8. F350 O'Flaherty, Liam, "The Seduction" short story
  9. F352 Gogarty, Oliver St. John, letter to Ted Robinson
  10. F353 Shorter, Dora, letter
  11. F354 Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, "A Tale of Revenge" short story
  12. F355 Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, "A Matter of Law" short story

  13. F364 O'Casey, Sean, letter to Angela Barry
  14. F366 O'Flaherty, Liam, letter to Gerald William Bullett
  15. F368 Ollier, Charles, letters to Leigh Hunt
  16. F373 Maxwell, John, letter to Samuel Lover
  17. F374 Lover, Samuel, letter to Edward Wolford
  18. F375 Lover, Samuel, letter to Mrs. Edmund Grundy
  19. F376 Tynan, Katharine, letters to Miss Gosset
  20. F377 Tynan, Katharine, letter to Elkin Mathews
  21. F381 O'Casey, Sean, letter to Bonar Thompson
  22. F385 Clarke, Austin, letters to [Michael] Begnal
  23. F388 O'Casey, Sean, Sean O'Casey letter to the editor of The Irish Statesman
  24. F390 Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letter to Dinner and Morum
  25. F391 Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letters to Rubinstein and Lawson
  26. F392 Lover, Samuel, letter to Le Chevalier Chatelain
  27. F393 Lover, Samuel, "Paddy's Portfolio" programme
  28. F395 Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letters to William Armstrong
  29. F396 O'Connor, Frank, postcard to Nancy McCarthy
  30. F399 MacDonogh, Patrick, letter to Seumas O'Sullivan
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  1. F401 Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letter to Miss Gwen John
  2. F402 Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letters to Sir Gerald Reid Barry
  3. F403 Shorter, Clement King, letter to Gadric Gregory
  4. F406 Russell, George William [AE], letter to [Summers]
  5. F418 Montague, John, postcard to "William"
  6. F425 Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), letter to Mrs. Allhusen
  7. F426 Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), letter to Mrs. Butler
  8. F427 Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), letter to Butler
  9. F428 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), letter to Henry Colburn
  10. F429 O'Brien, Kate, letter to Mary O'Neill
  11. F430 Lavin, Mary, letter to "Charlotte"
  12. F431 Tynan, Katharine, letters to Aliston [?] Mathews
  13. F432 Tynan, Katharine, letters to Egan Mew
  14. F438 O'Casey, Sean, letter to Basil Smeed
  15. F442 O'Faoláin, Seán and Brian Friel, letters to Joel Wells
  16. F448 Meynell, Alice, letters to Ethel Rolt Wheeler

  17. F451 Colum, Padraic, letter to Mary Ethel McAuley
  18. F452 O'Brien, Kate, letter to Douglas Glass
  19. F453 Colum, Padraic, letters to Edward Frank Allen
  20. F456 Evans, Abbie Huston, letters to Odell Shepard
  21. F458 Russell, George William [AE], letters and poems
  22. F461 MacGill, Patrick, letter, notes, and poem
  23. F466 Russell, George William [AE], letter
  24. F467 Clifford, Lucy, letters
  25. F469 Gogarty, Oliver St. John, poems and documents
  26. F471 Gregory, Lady, letters to Ethel Rolt Wheeler
  27. F472 Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), letters to Eric N. Simons
  28. F491 Gregory, Lady, letters to Mrs. Henry LaBarre Jayne
  29. F494 Gibbon, Monk, "Being But Men" poem
  30. F495 Williams, Patrick, letter
  31. F496 O'Casey, Sean, "Purple Dust" playscript
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  1. F500 Colum, Padraic, letter to Mr. Gourley
  2. F501 Colum, Padraic, "The Miracle of the Corn" playscript and theater program
  3. F509 Holland, Thomas Agar, letters to George Reid
  4. F514 Joyce, James, "In the dark pinewood" poem
  5. F531 Loos, Anita, letters to Ray Pierre Corsini
  6. F536 O'Flaherty, Liam, "Martinique: An Original Screenplay" (ribbon copy)
  7. F536 O'Flaherty, Liam, "Martinique: An Original Screenplay" (carbon copy)
  8. F539 Lover, Samuel, letters

  9. F550 Lover, Samuel, letter to Deane
  10. F551 Sprague, William Buell, letters from
  11. F555 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, letter to William Longman
  12. F571 Ferber, Edna, letters to Flora May Holly
  13. F575 Lover, Samuel, letter to William Pickering
  14. F576 Lover, Samuel, letter to Andrew T. Thorp
  15. F577 Griggs, Mary B., compositions
  16. F580 Cunard, Nancy, and Hugh Ford, letters to David Garnett
  17. F586 Shorter, Clement King, letter to Dr. George Williamson
  18. F588 Waddell, Helen, letter to Stanley Nott
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  1. F613 Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, letter to Katherine Marie Cornelia Brégy
  2. F623 O'Faoláin, Seán, letters to John and Mary Marshall
  3. F624 Society of the Cincinnati, toasts of the New Jersey
  4. F633 Nichols, Dudley, "The Informer" screenplay
  5. F643 Colum, Padraic, "Timbuktu" playscript and letter
  6. F646 MacNamara, Brinsley, manuscripts
  7. F648 Manners, J. Hartley, letters to Philip Troup
  8. F649 Moore, George, letters to Lady Leonie Leslie
  9. F651 Davenport, Guy, letters
  10. F671 Shaw, George Bernard, postcard to Daphne Harwood
  11. F680 Moore, George, letters
  12. F689 Gogarty, Oliver St. John, letter to Richard Barry
  13. F699 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), letter to Madame Thayer
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  1. F700 Bolger, Dermot, discussion with Tim Murray and Rebecca Johnson Melvin
  2. F737 Colum, Padraic, letter to Harry [Salzberg]
  3. F746 Carter, John, papers
  4. F747 Reid, Christina, "My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name?" playscript and theater program
  5. F748 Corso, Gregory, letters and poems
  6. F751 Whalen, Philip, Three Mornings
  7. F755 Carroll, Jim, poems
  8. F756 McClure, Michael, correspondence with Arthur and Kit Knight
  9. F757 Miller, Henry, collection of Reflections on the Life of Mishima
  10. F758 Bukowski, Charles, poems and letter
  11. F760 Bemerkungen über Abdrucken: Rembrandt
  12. F763 Gogarty, Oliver St. John, American lecture tour publicity collection
  13. F771 Empson, William, letters
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  1. F803 Kean, Charles John, letter to J. Webster
  2. F804 Boland, Eavan, "March 1 1847. By The First Post" poem
  3. F805 D'Arcy, Margaretta, postcard to Bernard McKenna
  4. F806 O'Casey, Sean, letter to Bethel Solomons
  5. F807 Campbell, Thomas, letter to Frederick De George
  6. F808 Richardson, David Lester, "The shades of evening veil the lofty spires …" sonnet
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  1. F810 Cornford, Frances Darwin, letters and poems
  2. F813 Simon, Neil, Broadway Bound : a new comedy playscript and program
  3. F814 Morris, Henry, Swine Print : serial and letter to Anne
  4. F815 Hancock, Winfield Scott, papers
  5. F816 Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), letters to Reed Whittemore
  6. F817 Spender, Stephen, letter to Reed Whittemore
  7. F818 Howells, William Dean, letter to Mr. Underwood
  8. F819 Traubel, Horace, collection of Walt Whitman papers
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  1. F820 Hichens, Robert Smythe, letter to Mrs. Fitzgerald Mann
  2. F821 Colum, Padraic, letter to Bruce Kellner
  3. F822 Meynell, Wilfrid, letter to Margaret Zogbaum
  4. F823 Dorn, Edward, letters and poems
  5. F824 Eigner, Larry, letters and poems
  6. F825 Sherry, James, "In Case" : manuscript
  7. F826 Schneeman, George, calendars
  8. F828 Phoebus, Mia, collection of Tennessee Williams papers
  9. F829 MacMahon, Bryan, "The Gap of Life" : play
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  1. F830 Russell, George William [AE], letter to Ogden Heath
  2. F831 Gregory, Lady, letter and cards to Talbot Press
  3. F832 Bogosian, Eric, The Revolutionary Aesthetic of Beauty : essay
  4. F833 Rukeyser, Muriel, letters to David Posner
  5. F836 Kelley, Robert, "The Common Shore" : uncorrected proofs and letter
  6. F838 Bowles, Paul, letter to Pud Gadiot
  7. F839 Wolfe, Richard J., Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop : galley proofs
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  1. F840 Jong, Erica, How to Save Your Own Life : a novel : manuscript
  2. F841 Goodloe, Daniel R. (Daniel Reaves), letter
  3. F842 Metcalf, Paul C., letters to Ted Wilentz
  4. F843 Dukore, Bernard Frank, collection of Barrie Stavis papers
  5. F845 Simon, Neil, Chapter Two : screenplay and letter
  6. F846 Simon, Neil, Last of the Red Hot Lovers : screenplay
  7. F847 Simon, Neil, I Ought to Be in Pictures : screenplay
  8. F848 Simon, Neil, Seems Like Old Times : screenplay and shooting call
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  2. MSS 0095
  3. MSS 0096
  4. MSS 0097
  5. MSS 0098
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