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American literature broadsides collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6134
Abstract

This collection includes some of the broadsides and examples of fine press and letterpress printing collected by USC Libraries Special Collections for its American Literature Collection.

Dates: 1923 - 2018

American Literature photograph collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6222
Scope and Contents

This small collection consists primarily of mounted (on 16 x 20" boards) photographs of late 19th and early 20th century American authors, literary scholars, and persons of note, including Walt Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Louise Chandler Moulton, Joaquin Miller, Lyman Abbott, George Wharton James, and William Jennings Bryan, to name a few.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th centuries

T. Coraghessan Boyle student papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5260
Abstract

Collection consists of short stories written by students in T. Coraghessan Boyle’s creative writing classes at USC.

Dates: 1978 - 2012

Ray Bradbury papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0160
Abstract

Collection contains signed typescripts of Ray Bradbury's short stories "The Everlasting Clock," "The Man Upstairs," "Powerhouse," and "Skeleton." Also included in the collection are his introduction to Jules Verne's Mysterious Island and six letters from Bradbury to Dorothy Faulkner, dated 1950-1962.

Dates: 1952 - 1960

Cadmus Editions records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0131
Abstract Publisher's archives for the following Cadmus titles: A Short Guide to the High Places (Tom Clark, 1981) The Great Naropa Poetry Wars (Tom Clark, 1980) Nights We Put the Rock Together (Clayton Eshleman, 1980) Vision of the Fathers of Lescaux (Clayton Eshleman, 1983) Yellow Lola (Ed Dorn, 1981) Pillow Book of Carol Tinker (Carol Tinker, 1980) Tennessee Williams in Tangiers (Mohamed Choukri, 1979)* Disasters of War (Leighton Rollins, 1981) Early Routines (William Burroughs, 1981)...
Dates: 1979 - 1981

Tom Clark papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0151
Abstract

Drafts and galleys of Writer: A Life of Jack Kerouac and The Exile of Celine; Kerouac chronology; notes for the 1986 Olson Lectures; holograph notebooks; typescript poems and articles by Clark (b.1941).

Dates: 1986 - 1991

Elizabeth Corbett papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0148
Abstract

Correspondence between novelist Elizabeth Corbett (b. 1887, Aurora, Ill., d. 1981, New York, NY) and Laura Burmeister; includes typescript poems.

Dates: 1952 - 1969

Correspondence collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6196
Abstract This artificial collection was created by former USC librarians. It contains letters and related ephemeral material created by a wide variety of primarily American men and women of letters. Many of these are addressed to various University librarians--including Lloyd Arvidsen, Lewis Steig, Charlotte Brown and Christian Dick--and former USC President Rufus von KleinSmid. In addition to this set of letters, which make up the bulk of the collection and were seemingly saved for their autograph...
Dates: 1851-1979

General Literary Manuscripts collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0375
Abstract

The General Literary Manuscripts collection is an artificially created collection comprised chiefly of literary works and manuscript fragments of well-known writers and other public figures. The time covered is late 17th century to the first half of the 20th century.

Dates: 1677 - 2016

Jack Hirschman papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0158
Abstract

Manuscripts of Hirschman's (b.1933) Requiem and Hunger; typescript translations of Russian writer Alexander Kohan; Bukowski ephemera.

Dates: 1962 - 1982

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Names
Morse, Willard S. (Willard Samuel), 1856-1935 8
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 3
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 3
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 3
Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 3
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Boyle, T. Coraghessan 2
Dorn, Edward 2
Eshleman, Clayton 2
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 2
Forché, Carolyn 2
Gioia, Dana 2
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 2
Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 2
Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 2
Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974 2
Stevenson, Robert Louis 2
Tinker, Carol 2
University of Southern California 2
Abshear, Jeff 1
Acker, Kathy 1
Acosta, Mercedes de, 1893-1968 1
Adam, Helen 1
Allmond, Marcus Blakey 1
Anderson, Marta 1
Andros, R. S. S. (Richard Salter Storrs) 1
Argüelles, Ivan 1
Artaud, Antonin 1
Atchity, Kenneth John 1
Atsumi, Ikuko 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) 1
Axelrod, Joseph 1
Benedict, Nannette 1
Berry, Wendell 1
Bieler Press 1
Bierce, Ambrose 1
Black Mesa Press 1
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) 1
Bloom, Harold 1
Boaz, Martha, 1911-1995 1
Bradbury, Ray 1
Braverman, Kate 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956. 1
Buckner Press 1
Bukowski, Charles 1
Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones), 1844-1914 1
Burgess, Gelett 1
Burmeister, Laura E. 1
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 1
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 1
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1
Cadmus Editions 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 1
Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) 1
Chaucer, Geoffrey 1
Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 1
Ciani Forza, Daniela M. 1
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 1
Clark, Tom 1
Cooney, Rian 1
Cooper, James Fenimore 1
Copper Canyon Press 1
Copperhead (Press) 1
Corbett, Elizabeth Frances 1
Corman, Cid 1
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
D'Ambrosio 1
Dana, Robert 1
Davie, Donald 1
Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945 1
Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922-1993 1
Dine, Jim, 1935- 1
Dobb, Edwin, 1950- 1
Douglass House Foundation 1
Douskey, Franz 1
Downing, Holly, 1948- 1
Duensing, Paul Hayden, 1929- 1
Dukes, David 1
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 1
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 1
Everson, William 1
Faulkner, Dorothy 1
Feldman, Walter, 1925- 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Gardner, Geoffrey 1
Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951 1
Gibson, Morgan 1
Gidlow, Elsa 1
Gilgun, John 1
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 1
Gosse, Edmund 1
Gray, Janet 1
Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata 1
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
Hamalian, Leo 1
Hamill, Sam 1
Handler, Esther 1
Harlow, Jean 1
Hassler, Jon 1
Havighurst, Walter, 1901-1994 1
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