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Aileen Kilgore Henderson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0661
Overview
Drafts and final manuscripts of the works of this award-winning Alabama children's author, and correspondence with her editor and with her fans. Also a United States Army Women's Corps uniform [not AKH's actual uniform; the attached insignia may or may not be hers either]: jacket, blouse, skirt and garrison cap, circa 1944-1951 and other military recognitions.
Dates:
1938 - 2008
A. S. Williams III Americana Collection's Alabama authors collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0064
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, signed book pages, publication announcements, catalogs, and newspaper clippings related to the careers of several Alabama authors as well as the Alabama Writers Conclave and the Birmingham Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.
Dates:
1868-1989
Alabama Writers Hall of Fame Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4111
Overview
Programs, as well as other memorabilia, for the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame induction ceremony
Dates:
2015 June 8
Album of quotations
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0058
Overview
Album containing handwritten quotations from the Bible, classical authors, and sources, as well as two handwritten copies of notices from the "Times" and "Tuscaloosa Gazette" (1881).
Dates:
[187?]-1881
Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Alison Johansen papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0058
Overview
Correspondence, research notes, typescripts, and galley proofs of sisters and Alabama authors Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Allison Johnson.
Dates:
1917-1959
Al Andrews Amateur Journalism Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0016
Abstract
A very large collection of individually-produced fan magazines (fanzines or ‘zines), circular letters, and related materials, principally of science fiction fantasy subjects, named in honor of Birmingham native and science fiction artist, Al Andrews. See the finding aid for a detailed inventory of the contents of the collection.
Dates:
1961-[2009]
Ethel Marie Armes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0087
Overview
Personal letters written by Ethel Armes, a Birmingham journalist and author, primarily to Alice Wiggin of Franklin, Massachusetts.
Dates:
between 1890 and 2002
Augusta Evans Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1563
Abstract
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a bound manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1859-1909
Belle R. Harrison letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0645
Overview
Letters to Harrison, a member of the Tuscaloosa women's literary society, the Kettledrum, relating to her book of poetry. Correspondents include Martha Young and Augusta Evans Wilson.
Dates:
1895-1903
Bill and Doris Leapard Collection of Nelle Harper Lee Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4210
Overview
The collection consists of two notecards from Nelle Harper Lee, the book John Singer Sargent by Carter Ratcliff, and a pair of Airoldi earrings in the shape of leopard heads with the original Brighton jewelry bag in which they were sent. The materials were gifts to the Leapards from Nelle Harper Lee.
Dates:
circa 1980s
Billie Jean Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3417
Overview
The collection contains materials related to Billie Jean Young's one-woman show Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light… and other materials produced and gathered by Young.
Dates:
1983 - 2002
Black Warrior Review materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2394
Overview
Materials and correspondence of the Black Warrior Review.
Dates:
1974-2001
George H. Blelock letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0173
Abstract
A letter dated 21 June 1865 to Capt. J. M. Cary of Chunnenuggee, Alabama. Blelock, a publisher in New York, offered "the most liberal terms" for the future literary productions of Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson) (1835-1909), an immensely popular sentimental novelist.
Dates:
1865 June 21
George E. Brewer letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0207
Overview
Two typescript copies of a 1919 letter describing Bird H. Young who was the model for nineteenth century author Johnson J. Hooper's (1815-62) character Simon Suggs.
Dates:
1919 October 15
William Edmund Butterworth manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0245
Overview
Manuscript of Butterworth's book "Stock Car Racer," which was published by W.W. Norton and Company, 1966
Dates:
1966
Truman Capote papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0273
Abstract
Marie Rudisill cookbook galleys, recipes with Capote comments, John Morris account book, James Johnson account book and the manuscript for the Yellow Drum, a play adapted from a Capote novel.
Dates:
1839-1989
Carl Lamson Carmer letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0277
Overview
Letter written by this acclaimed author of Stars Fell on Alabama to Mrs. Raymond McClain, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, discussing Mrs. McLain's association with Ruby Pickens Tartt, who Carmer praises for her value to the state of Alabama and her work to raise awareness of the folk traditions of Alabama.
Dates:
1972 August 9
Emmett Bryan Carmichael collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0278
Overview
Approximately 300 letters sent to Emmett Carmichael by "renowned Americans," primarily from prominent physicians and university administrators from Alabama.
Dates:
unknown
Aubrey Toulmin Carney contract
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0281
Overview
A contract dated 20 April 1950, with Charles Scribners Sons for her book, No Odds - No Victory.
Dates:
1950 April 20
Mary Tarver Carroll papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0283
Overview
Contains two undated letters written from this Alabama resident to Peter Brannon, most likely the director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History; two hand-written verses; and three printed cards with Christmas illustrations and poems written by Carroll.
Dates:
circa 1930s
Hatchett Chandler correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0295
Overview
Letters written to other members of the Fort Morgan Historical Commission concerning the fort and Chandler's "Little Gems" project.
Dates:
1960-1963
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II : typescript
Collection
Identifier: W-0120
Overview
Unbound typescript of China Marine, written by Eugene Bondurant Sledge. The manuscript is 107 pages long and contains typed publisher's notations about formatting.
Dates:
2002
Daniel Pinkney Christenberry commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0299
Overview
A list of citations, evidently documenting Christenberry's reading, on various topics, mostly historical and literary
Dates:
1883-1911
Cleophus Thomas Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3887
Overview
Cleophus (Cleo) Thomas Jr. is an Alabama attorney and was the first African American president of the Student Government Association at The University of Alabama. The collection contains letters sent to Thomas by noted authors and artists, materials related to special events on The University of Alabama campus, and a map and photographs presented to politician Nicholas Katzenbach.
Dates:
1966-2015
Zitella Cocke papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0329
Abstract
The collection contains photocopies of photographs and poems, perhaps written by Cocke.
Dates:
circa 1950
Elizabeth Tyler Coleman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0335
Abstract
A miscellany of materials including genealogy, correspondence, the diary of Priscilla Cooper Tyler, daughter-in-law of President John Tyler, a journal, and Coleman's manuscript of "Priscilla Cooper Tyler and the American Scene: 1816-1889." Includes three letters from President Tyler to his son Robert.
Dates:
1776-1955
John Smartt Coley manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0342
Overview
Uncorrected manuscript of Coley's translation of Le Roman de Thebes, published in 1986 as part of the Garland Library of Medieval Literature.
Dates:
before 1986
Mary Elizabeth Counselman collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0361
Abstract
A collection of manuscripts and publications from Alabama sci-fi/horror writer Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Dates:
1940 - 1980
Ethel Creighton poem and watercolor
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0365
Overview
A poem and a watercolor by Ethel Creighton featuring the Old Spanish Tower in Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
between 1880-1953
Babs and Borden Deal papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3597
Overview
Articles, newspaper sections, and copies of stories.
Dates:
20th c.
Jennie Kendall Dean papers
Collection — Box: 3312
Identifier: MSS-0417
Abstract
Manuscripts of two articles/stories: "Memories that Bless and Burn" and "The Mills of the Gods," with emendations.
Dates:
after 1900
Michael Dorman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0445
Abstract
This collection consists principally of research material used in the writing of "The George Wallace Myth." Correspondence, proposals, and the book manuscript are among them. Galley proofs of two other books, "The Second Man," an overview of the changing role of the Vice Presidency and "Stockcar Butterworth," a book about stock car racing, are also part of the collection, as are poems, most of them unpublished, and copies of several published articles.
Dates:
1968-1976
Dreams and nightmares Fifty-one, manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3716
Overview
Manuscript copy of the 51st issue of the Dreams and Nightmares magazines.
Dates:
1998 October
E. A. Poe Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1152
Abstract
Clippings, photographs, programs, and letters from the life and career of reporter Edgar A Poe from the New Orleans Times-Picayune
Dates:
1940 - 1992
Elise Ayers Sanguinetti Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0098
Abstract
This collection consists of the correspondence, manuscripts, and galley proofs, as well as reviews and notices of Elise Ayers Sanguinetti, the Alabama author of The Last of the Whitfields (1962), The New Girl (1964), The Dowager (1968), and McBee's Station (1972).
Dates:
1929 - 2003
Elizabeth Chandler Hendrix Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4279
Overview
This collection contains an unsigned, handwritten diary with details matching the life of magazine writer Elizabeth Chandler Hendrix, of Texas, who associated with key players in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). The diary covers her activities in Texas, Mexico, and New York during 1914-1915, including work on her novel My Brother's Keeper (1915). There is also a typed transcript of the diary.
Dates:
1914-04-23 - 1915-03-29
Emory Peebles Hildreth Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0669
Overview
Newspaper clippings and a manuscript written by Hildreth
Dates:
unknown
Ethel Armes letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0146
Overview
Letter to Robert Jemison Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama, about uncredited copying of material from her book, The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama, and a letter to her brother about a promotion.
Dates:
1921 - 1944
Albert John Farrah manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0505
Overview
Typescript manuscripts of two textbooks (two copies of each) created by Albert John Farrah, Dean of the University of Alabama Law School from 1912 until shortly before his death in June of 1944.
Dates:
1934
Fifth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3607
Overview
Papers from the fifth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature
Dates:
after 1930
Margaret Gillis Figh papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0513
Abstract
This collection consists mainly of folklore and tales contributed by students in Figh's folklore and English classes at Huntingdon College, plus miscellaneous contributions from family and friends.
Dates:
1940-1975
Frank Finnerty papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0516
Overview
Papers and radio scripts written by this University of Alabama graduate.
Dates:
1940-1970
Francois Ludger Diard poetry notebook and Mobile scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: W-0025
Overview
Notebook of this Mobile, Alabama, native's poetry and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and letters relating to his work.
Dates:
1917-1929
George Lang Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0840
Abstract
A collection containing correspondence, clippings, and, materials relative to clubs and organizations to which this University of Alabama Ph.D. graduate and president of the Alabama Writers Conclave belonged.
Dates:
1923 - 1957
Will Glickman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0573
Overview
Copies of Glickman's plays, musicals, and television scripts, as well as clippings.
Dates:
1951-1980
Frank L. Grove reminiscence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0600
Overview
Typescript reminiscences of the years when he was a "paying guest" at Mrs. Ellen Peter Bryce's house.
Dates:
after 1917
Guild of Professional Writers for Children records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0601
Overview
Materials related to the organization's activities, including its statement of purpose, membership applications and rolls, correspondence, newspaper clippings, works of members, announcements, calendars, newsletters, minutes, and financial records.
Dates:
1977-1999; Majority of material found within 1992 - 1994
Guy Ward Hubbs Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0711
Abstract
Includes the manuscripts of two books by Guy Ward Hubbs, who received his doctorate from the University of Alabama. The works include Tuscaloosa County, Alabama: An Illustrated History and Rowdy Tales From Early Alabama
Dates:
1981 - 1987
Ruth Hannas letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0621
Overview
Letters from Frieda Lawrence and Angelino Ravagli to Hannas from 1924 through 1958.
Dates:
1924-1958
George G. Hardin poems and song
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0627
Overview
Religious poems and hymn written by Hardin when he was in his 80s and 90s
Dates:
1981-1986
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