Literature and Writing

Correspondence, printed material, photographs, and audiotape relating to Kavounas' time as a student at Vassar College as well as her work as a poet.

Papers consist of her manuscripts of two poems as well as letters to John Lane and James Carlton Young.

The collection consists of a draft of Alison (Murphy) Conner's book , published in 1930, concerning her experiences in Ireland accompanying her father on a naturalist expedition.

A collection of handwritten letters,
formal notes, autographs, poetry, short writings, and lithograph portraits of
prominent nineteenth-century women authors, including Maria Edgeworth, Caroline L.
Herschel, Hannah More, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and Lady Emmeline Stuart
Wortley.

Miscellaneous collection of radical, leftist, feminist and other alternative periodicals from the 1960s and 1970s.

Poems and manuscripts from the life and career of Amy Bartlett.

The collection contains fifty-one letters from Amy Lowell to Elisabeth B. Cutting, two letters to Thomas Boyd, and two letters to other editors of the . There are also three letters from Lowell's lover, Ada Russell, to Cutting, one letter from Mary Cornelia Lee to Lowell, and two letters from W.W. Kean and Barbara Swain about Amy Lowell.

Correspondence, manuscripts, research material, as well as audio-visual material relating to the life and work of Ann Cornelisen, writer and photographer.

Materials relating to Imbrie's work as a writer and professor of English. There is some additional material relating to her personal life. Of particular note are Imbrie's letters home from Smith College and the University of North Carolina, letters from her friend John M. Randall while he was serving in Vietnam, and Imbrie's research material and drafts for .

Three manuscripts: one from the book she edited on her maternal grandparents, , published in 1884; one undated manuscript article on Lydia Maria Child; and one address read before the Medford Women's Club on James and Lucretia Mott.

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, printed material, scrapbook documenting Anne Gardner's friendship with Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Collection includes correspondence,
subject files, research notes and associated correspondence. Files hold typescripts,
manuscripts and drafts. Journals and diaries include poetry and sketches. Press
clippings document reviews of Márquez’s writings. Collection also includes some
photographic documentation relating to Márquez’s personal and professional life.
Personal papers contain some correspondence, academic administrative papers, as well
as family genealogy documentation.

The Bannon McHenry-James Merrill Collection contains materials pertaining to poet James Merrill, collected by his friend and neighbor, Bannon McHenry (Vassar Class of 1952). The collection contains correspondence, ephemera, photographs, printed material, and writings of James Merrill.

Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, journals, business and legal documents and photographic prints relating the Benét Family’s personal, professional, and creative activity. A significant volume of the collection contains correspondence between family members, including letters to and from Stephen Vincent Benét and William Rose Benét. The collection includes manuscript drafts by Laura Benét, as well as some ephemera and printed material collected by the family.

Collection includes manuscripts, professional and personal correspondence, subject files, teaching files, publicity and press clippings. Files hold typescripts, handwritten notes and drafts, as well as academic notebooks. Family papers in the collection include correspondence, press clippings, photographs and family history files, including some genealogy documentation. Press clippings include reviews of Coyle's writings, as well as clippings regarding selected family members. Collection contains photographic prints, CDs, DVDs, as well as audio and video cassettes.

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, a scrapbook and other material relating to the life and work of the poet, Bliss Carman.

This collection comprises the research material Carol Gelderman compiled for use in her biography of Mary McCarthy, entitled . The bulk of the collection is interview material, including audio cassettes. Several of the interviews were with Mary McCarthy but most were with others who knew or worked with McCarthy. There is also correspondence as well as articles and portions of books either by or about Mary McCarthy and her work.

Papers include manuscripts, galley
proofs, correspondence, speeches, chronological files, and subject files relating to
her publications. There are also subject files on women's issues such as affirmative
action, the Equal Rights Amendment, business opportunities, marriage, minority
women, women in education, employment, women in the Army, and health.

Undated manuscripts of her stories and other writings including text and sketches for THE JOY FAMILY; and clippings, correspondence, and pamphlets concerning her writing, her art, her anti-war poetry, peace demonstrations and letter writing campaigns, and other pacifist concerns, 1932-1963.

The collection contains drafts of a manuscript by Christabel Fiske entitled . Also included is an essay on Henry James's and a letter to a potential publisher.