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Alexandre Dumas handwritten note to François Buloz

 Collection — Box: BW-7
Identifier: MS-0733
Abstract Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895) was a French writer and dramatist, best known for Camille (a.k.a. The Lady of the...
Dates: undated, 1894

Charles Southward Singleton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0192
Abstract

Charles Southward Singleton (1909-1985) was professor of Hispanic and Italian studies at The Johns Hopkins University. Collection is largely research notes dealing with Singleton's later work with some correspondence, family photographs, and awards.

Dates: 1919-1985

Don Cameron Allen author letter collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0008
Abstract

Don Cameron Allen was a writer and professor at Johns Hopkins University. The collection spans the years 1948-1972 and consists of approximately 85 letters, mostly from well known writers.

Dates: 1949-1972

Ernst Feise papers

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Identifier: MS-0144
Scope and Contents The collection consists of research and/or lecture notes in Feise's handwriting concerning approximately 300 major German literary figures of the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The notes are filed alphabetically by author, and for most of them Feise provides biographical details and and analysis of the works of each author. The papers have no dates with the exception of a few pages which are dated in the early 1940s, but Feise probably compiled the material between the mid-1930s and...
Dates: 1884-1996

Fontane-Pietsch collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0077
Abstract

Ludwig Pietsch (1824–1911), a German critic, and Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), a German writer, maintained a long friendship. The Fontane-Pietsch collection consist of photographs, newspaper clippings and letters from 1845-approximately 1898. There is also an article describing the Fontane-Pietsch correspondence dated 1977. The collection is in German, though some English translations have been made.

Dates: 1845-approximately 1898, 1977

H.L. Mencken letters to Robert Loveman

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0527
Abstract

A collection of 16 letters written from H. L. Mencken to Robert Loveman. Mencken touches on issues such as Germany and World War I, beer, lyric poetry, and the Mexican revolution.

Dates: 1911-1920

J. M. Lalley papers

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Identifier: MS-0199
Abstract

Joseph Michael Lalley (1896-1980) was a literary critic and conservative author.

Dates: 1895-1981

Kemp Malone papers

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Identifier: MS-0129
Abstract

Kemp Malone was a medievalist, philologist, etymologist, authority on Chaucer, and Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University for over 30 years. The papers span the period 1913-1975 and contain drafts, typescripts, proofs, research notes, notebooks, lectures, reprints and news clippings.

Dates: 1913-1975

Larzer Ziff papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0639
Abstract

Professor Larzer Ziff became the Caroline Donovan Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University in 1981. He served as chair of the Department of English from 1991 to 1995. This collection consists of the professional and teaching files of Larzer Ziff from the 1960s to 2008. The collection primarily includes course materials, conference papers, and his writings, both published and unpublished.

Dates: 1960s-2008

Richard Frary collection of Stephen Crane materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0421
Abstract

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer, who in 1895 wrote "The Red Badge of Courage", which earned him international acclaim. This collection of materials relating to Crane, compiled by Johns Hopkins University alumnus Richard Frary, includes letters (many by Crane), events ephemera, photographs, articles of literary criticism, and sheet music (inspired by his fiction). The materials date from the 1890s to the early 2000s.

Dates: 1890s-early 2000s

Richard Macksey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0907
Abstract This collection is made up of the papers, letters, photographs, manuscripts, and other ephemera collected by Professor Richard Macksey (1931-2019), who worked in what is now the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University from 1958 until his formal retirement in 2010. Because of Macksey’s personal interests and his professional work, the time range of the documents is quite wide. The range goes from 1653 to 2009, with most of the dates clustering...
Dates: 1652 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1953 - 2009

William Churchill papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0225
Abstract William Churchill, philologist, ethnologist, and writer, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1859. He was appointed United States consul-general to Samoa (1896-1899) where he pursued his interest in philology and ethnology. Churchill also studied African languages and culture but less seriously than those of Polynesia. This collection contains two scrapbooks which Churchill compiled on Africa and the South Pacific, respectively, as well as a written draft of his 1892 book, ...
Dates: 1908-1911

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Abercrombie, Lascelles, 1881-1938 1
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Appleby, John T. (John Tate), 1907-1974 1
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Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965 1
Blount, Allen T. 1
Blumenthal, Oscar, 1852-1917 1
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Bonnefoy, Yves, 1923-2016 1
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Braden, Spruille, 1894-1978 1
Bradford, M. E. (Melvin Eustace), 1934-1993 1
Brownfeld, Allan C., 1939- 1
Buloz, Francois, 1803-1877 1
Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977 1
Cairns, Huntington, 1904-1985 1
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 1
Chamberlin, William Henry, 1897-1969 1
Chambers, R. W. (Raymond Wilson), 1874-1942 1
Chambers, William L. 1
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Coleman, Elliott, 1906-1980 1
Collier, David, 1942- 1
Conybeare, J. J. (John Josias), 1779-1824 1
Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-1988 1
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1
Craven, Avery, 1886-1980 1
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Feise, Ernst, 1884-1966 1
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Gianturco, Elio, 1900- 1
Gingras, Angele de T. 1
Glaser, Kurt, 1914- 1
Gouzenko, Igor, 1919-1982 1
Gow, Haven Bradford 1
Graham, Katharine, 1917-2001 1
Graham, Philip L., 1915-1963 1
Green & Van Sant Co. 1
Greenlaw, Edwin, 1874-1931 1
Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863 1
Grímur Jónsson Thorkelín, 1752-1829 1
Hambleton & Co. 1
Hamilton, Edith, 1867-1963 1
Hammond-Harwood House (Annapolis, Md.) 1
Hart, Scott 1
Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992 1
Hennessy, David 1
Hewes, Thomas, 1888- 1
Heyse, Paul, 1830-1914 1
Hibben, Carmela 1
Hoffman, Daniel, 1923-2013 1
Holmes, John, 1943- 1
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Hoskins, Katherine de M. 1
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Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 1
Kubek, Anthony, 1920- 1
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