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Category Archives: Guide to Literary and Related Materials
The Joyce Bell Witt Collection of California Fine Printing
The cornerstone of this collection is an extensive holding of the publications from the Book Club of California, from its beginning in 1913 to 1986, with a few as late as 1993. There are nearly 400 books that reflect not … Continue reading →
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Proletarian Collections
The Department of Special Collections and University Archives is home to two separate collections of radical socialist and communist related materials. These are the Harold Leventhal proletarian archive (coll. no. 2006.003) and the Peter Howard proletarian library. There are other … Continue reading →
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Manuscripts and Correspondence
Literary correspondence often illuminates the world surrounding the writer and reveals how that world impinges upon the writer’s work. Such significance is clearly evident in the letters that came with the Cyril Connolly library, which includes correspondence with Logan Pearsall … Continue reading →
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The Harriet Shaw Weaver Joyce Collection
In 1977, The University of Tulsa acquired the Harriet Shaw Weaver Joyce collection from the National Book League in England. Through her editorial connections with the magazine The Egoist, Weaver was associated with such figures as Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, … Continue reading →
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The ‘Pataphysical and Surrealist Collection
In 1974 The University of Tulsa acquired the ‘Pataphysical and Surrealist collection of Simon Watson Taylor. An editor, anthologist, translator, and authority on the avant-garde in modern French literature, Taylor was a distinguished member of the College de ‘Pataphysique founded … Continue reading →
The Great War / World War I collections
One of the principle areas of concentration for our collecting is the First World War. The war years marked a rude introduction into the twentieth century and caused a tremendous outpouring of literature, social comment, and practical pamphlets on subjects … Continue reading →
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The Martin Secker Collection
Martin Secker began publishing before the First World War and gathered a distinguished group of writers, including D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Norman Douglas, and Henry James, under the imprint of his publishing house. In 1936 his firm was absorbed … Continue reading →
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The Edmund Wilson Library
Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson One of the most influential man of letters in the twentieth century, Edmund Wilson commands a central position in the study of modern literature. Best known as a book reviewer and literary critic, Wilson did not … Continue reading →
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The Cyril Connolly Library
Three Reliques of AncientWestern Poetry Inscribedby Edmund Wilson forCyril Connolly Acquired in January of 1976, Cyril Connolly’s library numbers over 8,000 books, 1,100 issues of literary periodicals, and numerous letters from such major literary figures as Stephen Spender, T. S. Eliot, … Continue reading →
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A Guide to Literary and Related Materials
About 1982, then Director of Rare Books and Special Collections, David Farmer, oversaw the creation of A Guide to Literary and Related Materials, Rare Books and Special Collections, McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa – a 28-page booklet discussing the … Continue reading →
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