mss048 Miscellaneous Manuscripts-II Archives staff University of Minnesota Libraries 1970s

University of Minnesota Libraries Minneapolis, MN 55455

EAD encoding by Leslie Czechowski March 2005 English Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958 Miscellaneous Manuscripts-II 1696-1951 University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collections, Manuscripts Division [mss] .5 cubic feet The collection comprises five different collections and includes samples of Noyes’ poetry, 2 holograph letters, and the original ms. of "Dead Man’s Morrice"; seven drawings by Wilfrid Huggins; four holograph letters by Ruth Draper; a collection of correspondence (holograph or typewritten) by many authors on a variety of subjects generally from the 19th century; and a second collection of holograph or typewritten correspondence and other items, mainly from the first half of the 20th century. Mss 48 English, French, and German Mezzanine Administrative Information Restrictions on Access

Available for use in Manuscripts Division reading room.

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Preferred Citation

Miscellaneous Manuscripts-II (Mss 48), Literary Manuscripts Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.

Arrangement

The collection is organized in five separate collections:

Alfred Noyes Papers Wilfrid Huggins Cartoons Ruth Draper Correspondence University of Minnesota Collection Miscellaneous Correspondence Scope and Content Note

This collection was created by the curator from a number of small groups of material for which the provenance is unknown. The collection comprises five separate, small collections.

The first collection includes samples of Alfred Noyes’ poetry, two holograph letters, and the original manuscript of "Dead Man’s Morrice."

There are seven (pencil or pen & ink) drawings by Wilfrid Huggins and four holograph letters (1945-1951) by Ruth Draper.

The University of Minnesota collection contains correspondence (holograph or typewritten) by many authors on a variety of subjects, 1696-1960 (bulk 19th century).

The Miscellaneous Correspondence collection also contains holograph or typewritten correspondence and other items, 1760-1948 (bulk 1905-1948).

Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958. Alfred Noyes papers Huggins, Wilfrid. Wilfrid Huggins cartoons Draper, Ruth, 1884-1956. Ruth Draper correspondence Detailed Contents

The following section contains a detailed list of the materials in the collection. A list with additional details is available in the Archives.

Alfred Noyes Papers, undated, 1933-1939 Poetry "The Butterfly Garden" (2 typescript pages)

Includes handwritten letter, July 27, 1939.

"Escape" (3 holograph pages, corrected) "Invisible Garden" (2 typescript pages, corrected) "An Easter Garden" (2 holograph pages) "An Obscure Planet" (2 holograph pages) "Temple of Aphrodite" (3 holograph pages, corrected) Correspondence

2 holograph letters from Noyes to Mr. Winchester (1933, 1939) from St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight

"Dead Man's Morrice" (4 pages)

Original holograph manuscript in a brown leather binder

Wilfrid Huggins Cartoons, undated, 1903, 1922 A hand-drawn New Year's card from the Jack Kinneys, 1922

Pen and ink

"A Union Harp to the Muse," 1903

Original, in pencil

3 sequential pen & ink sketches, undated

Theme of three jokers and a large dish

Ruth Draper Correspondence, 1945-1952

Includes four holograph letters from Draper to Mrs. Mattilde Elliot (1945, 1947, 1951, 1952). They were written from Waco, Texas; London, Ontario; Dark Harbor, Maine; London.

University of Minnesota Collection, 1696-1960 (bulk 19th century)

This collection generally contains letters from a variety of people living in the United States, England, and Europe. Notable are hospital letters (typewritten copies) from Walt Whitman to Dr. Bucke, 1883-1885.

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1760-1948 (bulk 1905-1948)

This collection contains correspondence and other written materials by Roy Campbell, Stephen Graham, Gustav Frensson, A.E. Johnson, Monica Bridges, Edward J. Poynter, Anne Douglas Sedgewick, Thomas Simon, Loan Pearsall Smith, and Robert Cole.

Of special note is a group of papers from Reverend Michael Scott and the Committee for African Students in North America. The letters and mimeographed pieces are dated from 1947 to 1948 and are written from Johannesburg and New York state.