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Collection
Identifier: 0200
Abstract
The Hamlin Garland papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, and memorabilia, by and about the American realist writer. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who once held the title of "Dean of American Letters" and counted many of the prominent literary figures of his time as friends. This collection holds close to 10,000 of Garland's letters, which are now digitized and available via the USC Digital Library. Garland's literary notebooks...
Dates:
1850 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1940
Collection
Identifier: 6004
Abstract
This artificially created collection consists of notes, letters, documents, and photographs created by and for important historical figures, mostly American, from 1605, 1790 to 1928, and undated. Of particular historical interest are the letters written by Thomas Jefferson, William Smith, and Eugene Debs, and the 1850 Los Angeles Justice of the Peace election results document.
Dates:
1605-1928, undated
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
Collection
Identifier: 0312
Abstract
This collection comprises the business and private archives of literary agent and Pazifische Presse co-founder Felix Guggenheim (1904-1976).
The collection includes private and business correspondence, and contracts with publishers, authors and other business associates between 1925 and 1986 (bulk 1940-1976). The collection also includes manuscripts, some photographs and book reviews of works by many of the authors Guggenheim represented. Authors of the German-speaking Exile community in...
Dates:
1941 - 1976
Collection
Identifier: 0184
Abstract
The William Torrey Harris papers, 1857-1909, consists of letters, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and leaflets collected and created by noted 19th century educator, philosopher and lexicographer William Torrey Harris. In addition to letters from major philosophers of the period, including John Dewey, Josiah Royce, William James, and George H. Howison, the collection also contains manuscripts and notes penned by Harris and material related to the Philosophical Union of the University of...
Dates:
1857 - 1909
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6211
Abstract
The Alfred Hayes papers consist of 15 boxes of papers collected and/or created by Alfred Hayes and one box of papers belonging to Marietta Elliott, who was married to Alfred Hayes. Alfred Hayes worked as a screen and television writer, novelist, and poet. Hayes is known for his existential noir writing and for his poem, "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night," which was adapted into a song by Earl Robinson and later performed by Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and many others. Hayes' papers consist of...
Dates:
1940 - 1990
Collection
Identifier: 0015
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Antonio Heras, who was a professor of Spanish and Spanish Literature at USC from 1925-1950. Heras’s papers include manuscripts and typescripts of his articles and stories, research notes, clippings, correspondence and diaries.
Dates:
1923 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1965
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
Collection
Identifier: 0009
Abstract
Extended essays by various authors, in English or Hungarian, on the modern political history of Hungary, especially during World War II. The essays were gathered by Dr. Frank de Balogh, ca. 1965, as part of USC's "Living History" project.
Dates:
circa 1965
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0189
Abstract
Books, audio and video tapes, and a 1981 screenplay ("A Major Motion Picture") connected with the life of radical leader Abbie Hoffman.
Dates:
circa 1960s-1980s