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J. Whirler Pop-up and Children's Literature Archive

 Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_whirler
Abstract A collection of materials from a Portland, Oregon, bookstore, J. Whirler Books specializing in children's books and pop-up books. Collection includes articles and newsletters, book fair programs, publisher advertisement bookmarks, catalogs, directories, postcard advertisements, assorted issues of children's literature serials, and misc. correspondence to booksellerThis collection also has a large number of books associated with it (the books are cataloged individually and searchable through...
Dates: 1971-1999; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1996-1999; Other: Date acquired: 1999

John Woods Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_woods
Abstract

Personal papers of twentieth century American poet John Woods, including drafts of individual poems and book manuscripts, research materials, academic career files, photographs, cassette tape recordings. Also associated with this collection are 987 books from the poet's personal library, many inscribed by the authors (the books are cataloged separately and searchable through the WMU Libraries online catalog)

Dates: 1948-1996; Majority of material found within Bulk 1950-1992; Other: Date acquired: 07/15/1999

Judith Moffett Literary Correspondence Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 03-01-exws_moffett
Abstract

Collected correspondence between writer, English professor and translator Dr. Judith Moffett (1942-) and other poets and writers. Over 400 letters, notes, postcards, and cards all addressed to Dr. Moffett covering a period from 1963 to 1996. Includes letters from George Abbe, Isaac Asimov, Peter Beagle Marvin Bell, Wendell Berry, David Bromwich, Paul Engle, Seamus Heaney, Donald Justice, Lisel Mueller, Alicia Ostriker, Grace Schulman, Paul Zelinsky and others.

Dates: 1964-1999; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1969-1985; Other: Date acquired: 1998

Katherine M. Briggs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_briggs
Abstract

Papers of British folklorist Katherine M. Briggs (1898-1980). Scholarship on British Isles folklore, Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, children's literature; book, article and play manuscripts and typescripts; correspondence.

Dates: 1805-1980; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1958-1980; Other: Date acquired: 2001

Ladislav R. Hanka Book Arts Archive

 Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_hanka
Abstract

Bound and loose prints and artist's archive, which includes sketches, proofs, exhibition booklets, reviews of shows and correspondence between Hanka and other artists, writers, galleries, publishers, etc. Some of the books associated with this archive have been cataloged separately and are searchable via Western Michigan University Libraries online catalog otherwise they appear in this finding aid.

Dates: 1975-2007; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1981-1999; Other: Date acquired: 2005-01

Lawrence C. Braceland SJ Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01-exws_braceland
Abstract

Papers and research materials, including microfilms, of Father Lawrence C. Braceland, SJ, a Canadian translator and scholar of the fathers of Cistercian monasticism.

Dates: 1974-1985; Other: Date acquired: 1995-03-15

March Street Press Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_marchstreet
Abstract

Editorial office archive of March Street Press including correspondence, typescripts, proofs, copyright documents, photographs, cover art and ephemera. Also contains issues of Parting Gifts magazine and copies of books published by the press.

Dates: 1987-2009; Majority of material found within Bulk 1992-2009; Other: Date acquired: 2012

Seamus Cooney Black Sparrow Press Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_blacksparrow
Abstract Editorial office records of Blacksparrow Press (1966-2003), as well as a collection of nearly every title published by the press in all of their various editions. The books are all cataloged separately and are searchable via Western Michigan Libraries' online catalog. The archival portion of the collection consists primarily of typescripts for books, editors' copies of manuscripts, first proofs, uncorrected page proofs, corrected page proofs, galley proofs, catalogs, screenplays, prospecti...
Dates: 1966-2006; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1966-1996; Other: Date acquired: 2001-2004

Sister Jane Patricia Freeland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: exws-sisterjanepatriciafreeland
Scope and Contents The collection documents the academic work and education of Sister Jane P. Freeland, who was a nun, lover of music, and a medieval scholar recognized worldwide as the translator of medieval religious works never before available in English. The vast majority of the items are drafts of her translations and notebooks full of her jottings. She particularly loved medieval songs and hymns of Abelard.The collections also contains personal material including correspondence with her home...
Dates: approximately 1970s-2010s

Ted Wilentz, Diane di Prima and Barbara Guest Correspondence Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 03-01-exws_wilentz-diprima
Abstract

Correspondence received by bookseller Ted (Theodore) Wilentz from the poets Diane di Prima and Barbara Guest between the late 1960s and late 1990s.

Dates: 1967-1991

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Correspondence 19
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 8
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 7
Letters 5
American poetry -- 20th century 4
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Ephemera 4
Serial publications 4
Typescripts 4
Authors -- 20th century -- Correspondence 3
Poets, American -- 20th century 3
Proofs (Printing) 3
Publishers and publishing 3
Small presses 3
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism 2
Book designers--United States 2
Books -- Reviews 2
Catalogs 2
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 2
Obituaries 2
Poetry 2
Poets -- 20th century -- Correspondence 2
Postcards 2
Scrapbooks 2
articles 2
translations (documents) 2
Academic writing 1
Advertisements 1
American literature -- 20th century 1
American poetry -- 19th century 1
Art portfolios 1
Artists -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 1
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
Authors, South African -- 20th century 1
Beer labels -- Design 1
Bibliographies 1
Book design--United States 1
Book industries and trade--United States--20th century 1
Book jackets 1
Bookbinding 1
Business records 1
Calligraphy 1
Certificates 1
Chapbooks 1
Children's books -- United States 1
Children's literature -- United States 1
Children's literature, English 1
Children's periodicals 1
Cistercians 1
Diaries 1
English poetry -- 20th century 1
English poetry -- History and criticism 1
Etching -- 20th century 1
Etchings 1
Exhibition catalogs 1
Fairies 1
Folklore -- British Isles 1
Graphic arts 1
Graphic design (Typography) 1
Interviews 1
Irish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism 1
Irish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism 1
Ives Street Press -- Records and correspondence 1
Labels 1
Letterpress printing 1
Letterpress works 1
Literature -- 20th century 1
Literature -- History and criticism 1
Monastic and religious life -- Early works to 1800 1
Personal correspondence 1
Photocopies 1
Printmakers -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 1
Prints 1
Private press books -- Specimens 1
Private presses 1
Sermons 1
Short stories 1
Short stories, American 1
Sketches 1
Soldiers -- Germany -- Correspondence 1
South African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism 1
Toy and movable books 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, German 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Poland -- Pictorial works 1
drafts (documents) 1
manuscripts (documents) 1
photograph albums 1
pop-up books 1
scripts (documents) 1
transcripts 1
writings (documents) 1
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Language
English 20
French 1
German 1
Latin 1
 
Names
Callan, Edward (Edward Thomas O'Dwyer), 1917-2011 3
Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Benson, John Howard, 1901-1956 1
Bergé, Carol, 1928-2006 1
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Berlin, Lucia 1
Bixby, Robert, 1952-2012 1
Black Sparrow Press 1
Blackburn, Paul 1
Blake, Trevor 1
Boutilier, Nancy, 1961- 1
Bowles, Jane (Bowles, Jane Auer), 1917-1973 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Braceland, Lawrence C. 1
Briggs, Katherine Mary 1
Brigham, Besmilr 1
Bromige, David 1
Bukowski, Charles T. 1
Cash, Barbara 1
Christensen, Paul, 1943- 1
Clampitt, Amy 1
Clark, Tom (Thomas Willard), 1941- 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- 1
Coleman, Wanda 1
Cooney, Seamus 1
Corman, Cid 1
Cossery, Albert, 1913-2008 1
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
Crews, Judson 1
Dawson, Fielding, 1930-2002 1
Di Prima, Diane 1
Dorn, Edward 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Edwards, Paul, 1950- 1
Eigner, Larry, 1927-1996 1
Enslin, Theodore 1
Episcopal Community of St. John the Baptist (Mendham, N.J.) 1
Eshleman, Clayton 1
Everson, William, 1912-1994 1
Faas, Ekbert, 1938- 1
Fante, John, 1909-1983 1
Field, Edward, 1924- 1
Francis, Lesley Lee, 1931- 1
Frank, Thaisa 1
Freeland, Jane Patricia, 1910-2004 1
Gilbert, of Hoyland 1
Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972 1
Gordimer, Nadine 1
Grossinger, Richard, 1944- 1
Guest, Barbara 1
Hanka, Ladislav 1
Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943 1
Helms, Alan 1
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 1
Hilles, Howard 1
Hohendorn, Paul 1
Inman, Will, 1923-2009 1
Ives Street Press 1
Jaffe, Sherril, 1945- 1
Joel Oppenheimer, 1930-1988 1
Jong, Erica 1
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1
Kelly, Robert, 1935- 1
Koller, James 1
Lally, Michael, 1942- 1
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 1
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997 1
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 1
Lifshin, Lyn 1
Loy, Mina 1
Luthuli, A. J. (Albert John), 1898-1967 1
Malanga, Gerard 1
March Street Press 1
Martin, John 1
Minty, Judith, 1937- 1
Moffett, Judith, 1942- 1
Montale, Eugenio, 1896-1981 1
Morris, Wright, 1910-1998 1
Morrow, Bradford, 1951- 1
Mrabet, Mohammed, 1940- 1
Mudd, Harvey, 1940- 1
Myles, Eileen 1
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- 1
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970 1
Oppen, Mary, 1908-1990 1
Owens, Rochelle 1
Palmer, Michael, 1943- 1
Parker, Tyler 1
Paton, Alan 1
Paton, Anne, 1927- 1
Piercy, Marge 1
Pommer, Paul 1
Pommy-Vega, Janine 1
Pontes, Crimilda, 1926-2000 1
Purdy, James, 1914-2009 1
Rakosi, Carl, 1903-2004 1
Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976 1
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933 1
Roditi, Edouard 1
Sanders, Ed 1
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