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Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Mason Remey papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0375
Overview
Charles Mason Remey was an architect, author, and a religious leader of the Baha'i faith. He was born in Burlington, Iowa, May 15, 1874. The collection consists of 154 bound volumes, spanning 1836-1940. In the volumes are personal reminiscences, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, biographical accounts of Mason and Remey family members, and a historical record of the Baha'i faith.
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Special Collections
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Charles Mason Remey papers
Conrad Aiken letter
Collection — Box 1: [31151030056539], Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-0469
Overview
Conrad Potter Aiken (1889–1973) was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography. The collection consists of one letter from Conrad Aiken to an unidentified correspondent, January 26, 1969.
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Special Collections
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Conrad Aiken letter
Irish Writers collection
Collection — Box 1: [31151030056554]
Identifier: MS-0530
Overview
This collection contains letters by William Butler Yeats from 1899 to 1938; letters with related ephemera from his sister Elizabeth Corbett Yeats from approximately 1916 to 1935; and letters and poems by other writers from approximately 1914 to 1953, including Rachel Annand Taylor, George Moore, George William Russell, Frank O'Connor and Edward Plunkett (Lord Dunsany).
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Special Collections
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Irish Writers collection
James D. McCabe papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0080
Overview
James D. McCabe, Jr. (1842-1883) was a popular writer of more than 30 works including histories, biographies, and plays. The collection consists of letterbooks, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs dating from 1862 to 1881.
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Special Collections
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James D. McCabe papers
James Wilson Poultney papers
Collection — Box 1: [31151030055655]
Identifier: MS-0325
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of literary papers and organizational reports of author and Classics professor, James Wilson Poultney. Included are reprints of Dr. Poultney's writings in the American Journal of Philology, minutes and reports from his position as secretary of the American Philological Association, and the holographic manuscript of his published work, The Bronze Tables of Iguvium. There are no personal papers in the collection or material specific to his teaching career at Hopkins....
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Special Collections
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James Wilson Poultney papers
Johns Hopkins University collection of vintage games and toys
Collection
Identifier: MS-0843
Overview
The Johns Hopkins University collection of vintage games and toys is an artificially assembled collection of materials purchased and selected by the curators of Special Collections. It spans from approximately 1825 to approximately 1956.
Maria Jolas obituary
Collection — Box 1: [31151030056539]
Identifier: MS-0462
Overview
Maria Jolas (1893–1987) was one of the founding members of the international literary journal transition in Paris with her husband Eugene Jolas. The collection consists of an obituary for the writer, Maria Jolas, from 1987.
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Special Collections
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Maria Jolas obituary
Oliver Wendell Holmes collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0025
Overview
Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1809. The collection spans the years between 1852 and 1936, and include 17 letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes; 2 letters to him; recollections of him; recitation questions by him; 3 printed poems; 1 manuscript poem; news clippings; 4 photographs.
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Special Collections
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Oliver Wendell Holmes collection
Richard A. Macksey collection on Henry James
Collection — Box 1: [31151030056554]
Identifier: MS-0529
Overview
Henry James, Jr. (born in New York, New York on April 15, 1843) was an Anglo-American writer who spent the bulk of his career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. This collection consists primarily of 22 letters written by Henry James, Jr. to friends and acquaintances, and the corrected typescript of Max Beerbohm’s short story “The Guerdon,” a 1916 parody of James’ late writing style.
Richard Frary collection of Frank Norris materials
Collection
Identifier: MS-0467
Overview
Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Norris Jr. (1870-1902) was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. The collection consists of photocopies of eight items of published material relating to Frank Norris. Dates of the items in the collection range from 1902 to 1997.