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Jules Feiffer papers, 1919-1995
15,000 items. 59 containers plus 4 oversize. 25 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Cartoonist, playwright, author, and illustrator. Family correspondence, appointment calendars, awards and citations, financial records, newspaper clippings of articles about Feiffer, general correspondence, art publication file, and writings relating primarily to Feiffer's novels and stage and screenplays.
John Barth literary manuscripts, 1955-1978
90 items. 11 containers plus 2 oversize. 8.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author. Holograph and annotated typed manuscripts and corrected galley and foundry proofs of several of Barth's early novels, short stories, nonfiction writings, and speeches.
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Eliot Janeway and Elizabeth Janeway papers, 1941-1968
45 items. 11 containers. 4.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Economist Eliot Janeway, and his wife, Elizabeth Janeway, author. Mainly drafts of novels by Elizabeth Janeway, including The Accident, Daisy Kenyon, and The Walsh Girls, and a draft of Eliot Janeway’s The Economics of Crisis: War, Politics, and the Dollar. The Addition contains a 1941 diary and correspondence (1941-1948) of Eliot Janeway relating to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and presidential politics for the 1944 and 1948 elections and the presidential prospects of William O. Douglas.
Truman Capote papers, 1947-1965
70 items. 8 containers. 3.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author and dramatist. Chiefly literary manuscripts, including notebooks, journals, drafts, and manuscripts of prose fiction, dramas and screenplays, and other writings.
Harold Frederic papers, 1891-1897
4,000 items. 4 containers. 1.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Journalist, novelist, and playwright. Correspondence, diaries, accounts, wills, agreements, notes for plays and stories, clippings, and printed matter, chiefly relating to Frederic's fiction writing and including notes for his principal novels, The Damnation of Theron Ware and The Return of the O'Mahony.
William Styron papers, 1951-1968
40 items. 14 containers. 5.0 linear feet. 5 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author and novelist. Correspondence, holograph drafts and corrected galleys of books and articles, research material, clippings, and photographs pertaining to Styron’s life and literary works.
Henry Denker papers, 1929-2009
20,000 items. 164 containers plus 1 oversize. 66 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Novelist, playwright, and screenplay writer. Correspondence; drafts; theater, radio, film and television project papers and proposals; legal files; playbills and printed ephemera; reviews; research files; and miscellaneous papers relating primarily to Denker's writing career.
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Clarence Edward Mulford papers, 1921-1936
16,000 items. 24 containers. 8 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author. Drafts of writings and related card files focused on the American West and Hopalong Cassidy, the fictional cowboy created by Mulford.
Shirley Jackson papers, 1932-1991
7,500 items. 52 containers. 20.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author. Correspondence, diaries, journals, and other papers pertaining primarily to Jackson's writings. Includes manuscripts, notes, and outlines relating chiefly to the development of Jackson's short stories as well as to her supernatural tales and to her stories of contemporary domestic life.
Arch Oboler collection, 1916-1992
161.6 linear feet (364 boxes, 1 negative folder, 11 map case folders, approximately 127,075 items). 107 sound tape reels : . 124 sound cassettes : . 4 sound discs : . 1 microphone. -- Recorded Sound Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Nearly the entirety of the prolific output of radio playwright and independent film maker Arch Oboler (1909-1987) in radio, motion pictures, television, theater, and print is contained in the Arch Oboler Collection. Featured are his radio plays from the 1930s and 1940s and the first three-dimensional feature film, Bwana Devil.
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