LIT. Literature
Found in 183 Collections and/or Records:
P. G. Wodehouse Collection
Bob Williams Papers
This collection contains notes, drafts, and research, including reprints from various literary journals, created and collected by Bob Williams. Williams wrote about Donald Davidson and John Tyree Fain, among other authors.
Robert Penn Warren Letter
This collection contains a letter dated November 23, 1984 from Robert Penn Warren to E. Lowell Robbins about a manuscript by Robbins.
O'Grady/Dwyer Pennyroyal Press Collection
This collection contains a series of printed pieces designed by Barry Moser and catalogs for the Pennyroyal Press.
Nash Buckingham Collection
The Nash Buckingham Collection contains correspondence (1963-1967), clippings (1910s), and the short story "Uncle Willis, Skimpy, and the Cotton Bale" by Nash Buckingham (1900).
Theresa S. Davidson Collection
This collection contains seven original engravings by Theresa Sherrer Davidson for her husband Donald Davidson's The Long Street; Poems, published in 1961.
Athena Book Club Collection
This collection contains cassette tapes of Athena Book Club programs from the 1990s. Speakers are recorded talking about various literary subjects and figures. The Athena Book Club was based in Nashville.
Commonplace Book
The Commonplace Book Collection contains a bound volume of various published poems and songs handwritten onto the pages of the journal. Written in two separate hands, the journal appears to have been exchanged among two friends who alternately scribed favorite poems.
Zora Neale Hurston Letter
This collection contains a single handwritten letter from Zora Neale Hurston to Dorothy Dockstader.
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
This collection contains 8 publications by Edna St. Vincent Millay and several newspaper clippings about her life and work.
All the King's Men Screenplay Collection
This collection contains the original 3rd revised final draft of the screenplay All the King's Men by Robert Rossen dated March 1, 1949
Lillian Hellman Collection
This collection contains playbills, scores, and books by playwright and writer Lillian Hellman.
Experimental Theatre Collection
The Experimental Theatre Collection, 1951, consists of the program from the inaugural season of the New York City Living Theatre, which contains the first published poetry by John Cage.
Proxima Vera Visual Poetry by Monica Ong
This collection contains Ong's Lunar Volvelle and Star Gazer.
Nettie Hale Rand Collection
The Nettie Hale Rand Collection, 1480-1941, consists of early printings and rare editions collected by philanthropist Nettie Hale Rand, 1881-1942, and the diary she kept while traveling in Europe in the 1934.
Literary Portrait Collection
The Literary Portrait Collection, c. 1960-1980, contains two framed oil paintings of Vanderbilt literary figures: scholar Richard Croom Beatty, 1905-1961, and poet James Dickey, 1923-1997.
About this Site
This site contains collection guides, or finding aids, to the archival collections held by Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives, the History of Medicine Collection, and the Scarritt Bennett Center. Finding aids describe the context, arrangement, and structure of archival materials, allowing users to identify and request materials relevant to their research.
Requesting Materials
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