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American Literature audio collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6236
Abstract

Spoken word recordings by Archibald MacLeish, T.S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg.

Dates: circa 1930s-1970s

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 ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 6045
Abstract

Collection consists of various literature publications, journals, posters and broadsides, articles, and other publications, related to 20th century American writers.

Dates: Majority of material found within c.1910s-1990s

American Literature pamphlets and printed ephemera

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6053
Abstract

This collection consists of 20th century American Literature pamphlets, catalogs, and printed ephemera.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1920s-1980s

Robert (Douglas) Hardy Andrews typescripts

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0079
Abstract

Typescripts of Andrews's (1903 - 1976) novels, Legend of a Lady (Coward-McCann, 1949), and Great Day in the Morning (Coward-McCann, 1950).

Dates: 1949 - 1950

R. L. Barth papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0161
Abstract The R. L. Barth papers consist of manuscripts, paste-ups, chapbooks, and file copies of small press poetry published by the Robert L. Barth Press from the time of its founding in 1981 until the press ceased in the early 2000s. The collection also includes Barth's correspondence with poets Turner Cassity, Dick Davis, John Finlay, Charles Gullans, X. J. Kennedy, Janet Lewis, Timothy Steele, and Wesley Trimpi. Notable among the correspondence is a file of letters from Barth to Timothy Steele,...
Dates: 1981 - 2022

William T. Bates papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5046
Abstract

This small collection appears to have been the class notes of USC alumnus William T. ("Terry") Bates who attended the university between 1974 and 1977. Seven three-ring binders contain his handwritten notes, exam "blue books, and class syllabi for courses in English and American literature, drama, theatre, social psychology, and mathematics. Course instructors include Nina Foch, Richard Toscan, and R.S. Ross, among others.

Dates: 1974-1977

Charles Bonner Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0023
Abstract

Typescripts of Bonner's (1896-1965) novels Legacy (Knopf, 1940), Angel Casey (Knopf, 1941), and Ambition (Coward-McCann, 1946). Charles Bonner was born in 1896 in Brooklyn, NY. He was a newspaper reporter, and became a publicist in 1923. His first novel, The Fanatics, was published in 1932. Bonner moved to California in 1935 and became a full time writer of stories, novels, and screenplays. His novel Legacy was made into a film Adam Had Four Sons in 1941. He died in 1965.

Dates: circa 1940

Paul Bowles papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0132
Abstract

Correspondence, periodical appearances, tape recordings; typed draft and galleys for Bowles's autobiography, Without Stopping (Putnam, 1972). Also includes 1 large folder of scores, autographed programs, and manuscripts of Paul Bowles materials, donated by pianist Hannetta Clarke, who performed with Bowles on occasion. Some of those performances are documented in the papers.

Dates: 1950 - 1979

Malcolm Stuart Boylan typescript

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0029
Abstract

Typescript of Boylan's novel The Tin Sword (Little, Brown, 1950). This American writer was born in Chicago, Illinois Apr. 13, 1897, and died Apr. 3, 1967.

Dates: 1950 - 1950

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USC Libraries Special Collections 47
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American literature -- 20th century -- Archival resources 23
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American poetry -- 20th century -- Archival resources 7
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American literature -- 19th century -- Archival resources 6
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Archival resources 6
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American literature -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 3
Audiotapes 3
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Scrapbooks 3
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English 45
Spanish; Castilian 3
 
Names
Morse, Willard S. (Willard Samuel), 1856-1935 7
University of Southern California 7
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 3
Dorn, Edward 2
Eshleman, Clayton 2
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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Abshear, Jeff 1
Alberti, Rafael, 1902-1999 1
Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001 1
Barth, R. L. (Robert L.) 1
Bates, William T. 1
Bieler Press 1
Bierce, Ambrose 1
Black Mesa Press 1
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) 1
Black Sparrow Press 1
Bloom, Harold 1
Bogart, Guy 1
Bond, Genevieve Farnell 1
Boyle, T. Coraghessan 1
Bright, Verne 1
Buckner Press 1
Bukowski, Charles 1
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 1
Bush, Grace E. 1
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1
Cadmus Editions 1
Cardenal, Ernesto 1
Chevaillier, Alzire A. (Alzire Adrienne) 1
Cheyney, Ralph 1
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 1
Clark, Tom 1
Cortázar, Julio 1
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
D'Ambrosio 1
Darío, Rubén, 1867-1916 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) 1
Diebenkorn, Richard, 1922-1993 1
Dine, Jim, 1935- 1
Dobb, Edwin, 1950- 1
Downing, Holly, 1948- 1
Duensing, Paul Hayden, 1929- 1
Dukes, David 1
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 1
Díaz Colodrero, José Luis 1
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 1
Feldman, Walter, 1925- 1
Foch, Nina, 1924-2008 1
Forché, Carolyn 1
Galeano, Eduardo, 1940-2015 1
Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951 1
Gaw, Ethelean Tyson 1
Gilgun, John 1
Gioia, Dana 1
Hamilton, Florence 1
Hassler, Jon 1
Hermetic Press 1
Hirshfield, Jane, 1953- 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Hughes, Rupert 1
Jacquet, Alain 1
Jozami, Eduardo 1
Keenan, Deborah 1
King, Linda 1
Kwan, Moon 1
Lennon, Nigey, 1954- 1
Levis, Larry 1
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
Lipton, Lawrence, 1898-1975 1
Lowry, Robert 1
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982 1
MacManus, Seumas 1
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940 1
Marquand, John P. (John Phillips) 1
Martin, John 1
Masters, Edgar Lee 1
Mayne, Eric 1
McCurdy, Michael 1
Meltzer, David 1
Menhart, Oldřich, 1897-1962 1
Mercer, Bernice B. 1
Midnight Paper Sales Press 1
Miller, Bill, 1920-1961 1
Miller, Juanita Joaquina 1
Miller, Wade 1
Morgan, Angela 1
Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 1
Muir, John 1
Muske-Dukes, Carol 1
Nawakum Press 1
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 1
Nervo, Amado, 1870-1919 1
Norris, Gordon W. 1
O'Donnol, Dion 1
Ortiz, Juan L. 1
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 1
Piquet, Julio 1
Pomegranate Press 1
Price, Ruth Clay 1
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