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Barker (Elsa) papers

Formal title:: Elsa Barker papers
Extent:: 2.5 linear feet (2 records center boxes and 1 document-size Hollinger documents case)
Date range:: 1900-1954 (bulk 1905-1948)
Abstract:: The collection consists of approximately 1000 items and includes typescripts, shorthand notes, letters, personal and financial papers, and other material relating to her poetry, detective stories and 'automatic writing' series by The Living Dead Man. The correspondence includes three letters from the dancer, Ted Shawn, and one directed to H.L. Koopman, then director of the Brown University Library.
Repository:: John Hay Library, Special Collections
Collection call no:: Ms. 2009.007

Formal title:: Morris Abner Barr papers
Extent:: 1.0 linear foot
Date range:: 1939-1968
Abstract:: Morris Abner Barr was an author, lyricist, and poet whose poems tended towards nature, love, God, friendship, and Barr's own life. A craftsman, Barr wrote about his experience creating stools, gavels, and letter openers from the wood of the Sentry Tree in "Immortalizing the Sentry Tree of George Washington." The collection contains his writings, a scrapbook related to the George Washington Sentry Tree, and correspondence with friends and mentors.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.97.1

Formal title:: Michael Lowenthal papers relating to the anthology From Now On
Extent:: 1.42 Linear feet
Date range:: 1990-1994
Abstract:: Correspondence and manuscripts relating to Lowenthal's unpublished anthology
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2012.032

Perelman (S. J.) Papers

Formal title:: S. J. Perelman Papers
Extent:: Approximately 400 item(s)
Date range:: 1914-1987
Abstract:: S.J. Perelman was a humorist, screenwriter, and dramatist, noted for his adept word play and wild imagination. Perelman wrote many humorous short pieces for
Repository:: Brown University Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 87.2

Preston (John) Papers

Formal title:: John Preston papers
Extent:: 52.5 Linear Feet
Date range:: circa 1973-1995
Abstract:: Personal and professional correspondence; includes letters from friends, other writers, and groups whose focus is gay life and rights; also includes his outgoing letters on computer disk. Original typescripts of his writings; photographs; magazines with articles he authored; clippings; books written by Preston and others; and proofs.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2011.032

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