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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archival resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

Rupert Hughes papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0173
Abstract

Collection consists of subject files, typescripts, correspondence, published articles and personal memorabilia of American novelist, biographer, screenwriter, and musicologist Rupert Hughes (1872-1956).

Dates: 1895 - 1954

Anne Roller Issler papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275040405061]
Identifier: 0068
Abstract

This collection contains typescripts for Anne Roller Issler’s work on Robert Louis Stevenson’s time spent in San Francisco between December 1879 and May 1880. The work, Happier for His Presence: San Francisco and Robert Louis Stevenson, was published by Stanford University Press in 1949.

Dates: 1949

Arthur Lerner collection on Poetry Therapy

 Collection
Identifier: 0179
Abstract

This collection contains publications pertaining to poetry therapy collected by Arthur Lerner, as well as a small amount of his correspondence. Lerner was one of the pioneers of the use of poetry therapy techniques as a form of psychological therapy.

Dates: 1953 - 1997

Jack London papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0187
Abstract

The Jack London papers consists of correspondence, typescripts and manuscripts, financial records, pamphlets, photographs, and clippings created and collected by American author Jack London. Also included is a bibliographic card file created for a course on bibliography and research at USC in 1942.

Dates: 1876 - 1916

Robert Lowry papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0149
Abstract

Typescripts and galleys of various books by American journalist, editor, and novelist Robert Lowry (1919-1994).

Dates: 1939 - 1976

Norman Mailer papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0120
Abstract

Speeches, correspondence, tape recordings, drafts and galleys connected with Mailer's campaign for mayor of New York City in 1969.

Dates: circa 1969

Bernice B. Mercer collection of Christopher Morley material

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31275049017925]
Identifier: 6210
Abstract 16 items relating to the author Christopher Morley (1890-1957) collected by Bernice B. Mercer (identified in the collection as Mrs. Theodore Mercer). Items in the collection include Alfred P. Lee's Christmas folder [circa 1930] containing Andrew McGill's Idea of Happiness by Christopher Morley; an announcement of an exhibition of first editions of the works of Christopher Morley at Sessler's Bookshop, Philadephia, 1931; a program of Author's Night, sponsored...
Dates: 1931 - 1939

Willard Morse collection on Ambrose Bierce

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0136
Abstract Book reviews, journal and newspaper articles (originals and photostats) by and about Ambrose Bierce, journalist and author of The Devil's Dictionary and Tales of Soldiers & Civilians (1891). Willard S. Morse (1856-1935) was a mining executive in the West and Mexico. He was later made a director and member of the executive committee of the American Smelter Securities Company, Chilean Exploration Company, and Braden Copper Company. After retiring, Morse devoted much of this time to the...
Dates: 1870s-1930s

Willard Morse collection on American literature

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 6195
Scope and Contents

Clippings, articles, letters about various American authors, including but not limited to Edith Tatum, Lafcadio Hearn, F. Scott Fitzgerlad, various Southern writers and poets.

Dates: 1918-1943

Willard Morse collection on Edgar Lee Masters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275040400575]
Identifier: 0139
Abstract Book reviews, journal and newspaper (originals and photostats) by and about Edgar Lee Masters, and an extensive type- and handwritten bibliography of Morse's holdings on on Masters, author of the Spoon River Anthology. Willard S. Morse (1856-1935) was a mining executive in the West and Mexico. He was later made a director and member of the executive committee of the American Smelter Securities Company, Chilean Exploration Company, and Braden Copper Company. After retiring, Morse devoted...
Dates: 1914 - 1935