General Literary Manuscripts collection, 1677-1991

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Summary

Creators:
Allmond, Marcus Blakey, Andros, R. S. S. (Richard Salter Storrs), Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), Brett, Brian, Burgess, Gelett, Cooper, James Fenimore, Davie, Donald, Gioia, Dana, Gosse, Edmund, Herford, Oliver, Howard, Robert, Sir, Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, Lindsay, Vachel, Lofting, Hugh, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Mabie, Hamilton Wright, Maeterlinck, Maurice, Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957, Norris, Frank, 1870-1902, Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922, Perkoff, Stuart Z., Porter, Cole, Read, Thomas Buchanan, Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, Runyon, Damon, Ruskin, John, Saltus, Edgar, Sherman, Frank Dempster, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Vale, Eugene, Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933, Weismiller, Edward Ronald, and Wells, Carolyn
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.
Extent:
0.42 Linear Feet 1 legal-size document box
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder# or item name], General Literary Manuscripts collection, Collection no. 375, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Background

Scope and content:

The manuscripts in the General Literary Manuscripts collection represent a wide variety of American and English writers, as well as a range of written materials. Some items of note include a signed bank check from James Fenimore Cooper to "Daughters," some hand-written receipts with sealing wax of Sir Robert Howard dated 1677, several manuscripts by Christopher Darlington Morley, and an original 1940s radio script by Damon Runyon called, "That Ever-Loving Wife of Hymie's."

Arrangement:

The one-box collection is arranged alphabetically by author.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Advance notice is required for access.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Box/folder# or item name], General Literary Manuscripts collection, Collection no. 375, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Location of this collection:
Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189, US
Contact:
(213) 740-5900
specol@usc.edu
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