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Bound and boxed manuscripts Collection 1500-001 Dates: 1700s-1970s. Extent: Level of Description: Item level. Name of creator(s): Various. Date of creation: Unknown. Scope and Content: Consists of both literary and historical manuscripts that are either bound, housed in slipcases, or drop spine drop spine boxes; they are arranged alphabetically by author. Among these items are annotated and illustrated volumes, autograph books, and early manuscript Bible texts. Many of the manuscripts have original letters, documents and photographs laid in. Administrative/Biographical History: Access and Copyright: Language and Scripts: English, Spanish, French, Persian. Finding aid/Inventory: Finding aid is available online. Provenance/Source of Acquisition: Date(s) of description: Milissa Burkart, date unknown. Access Points:
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| Abel, Annie Heloise. The American Indian and Slaveholder and Secessionist. 1915. Typescript draft with revisions, corrections, and editor’s marks; autograph preface; and illustrations. Three drop spine boxes. | ||
| Abbott, Stephen. Autograph mathematical workbook used at Philips Academy, Andover, 1800. (Gift of Harriet Barclay) | ||
| Allen, Marion. “Enoch Arden.” Autograph draft of a play in seven scenes, written in a manuscript notebook with ink and color-washed illustrations. (Gift of Marion Allen (a.k.a. Mrs. J. Gordon), 16 Nov 1984) | ||
| Allison, Sarah [and/or Allie, Lizzie ?] Autograph album containing autographs, poems, etchings, etc. (Gift of Mrs. A. W. Walker) | ||
| Auden, Wystan Hugh and Isherwood, Christopher. The Ascent of F6. A Tragedy in Two Acts. Production copy used for the 26 Feb 1937 production of the play at the Mercury Theatre. Contains additions and revisions, staging notes, cast list and credits, etc. Signed by Rupert Doone, producer. | ||
| Barren, Charles. "Eighty North." Autograph draft novel [?] in a ruled manuscript notebook, 244p. Written between Jun-Jul 1958. "Greenbury Hill." Autograph draft novel [?] in a ruled manuscript notebook, 214p. Written between Jan-Feb 1958. "Too Late to Mend." Autograph draft novel [?], alternately titled “ But for the Grace,” with index and list of place names. Written between Jan-Apr1955. |
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| Beaver, Anna. “Report on the Anna Beaver Property. Miami District, Oklahoma.” Typescript draft report addressed to D. W. Shanks, San Francisco, CA. Includes 47 photographs documenting mining and milling operations of lead and zinc, circa 1915. | ||
| Bee, Hamilton P. “Journal of a Three Months Cruise in the Prairies of Texas in the Summer of 1843.” Autograph manuscript in a leather-bound journal. | ||
| Beynon Manuscript, The. Tsimpshean literature transcribed and translated by William Beynon. Nineteen bound volumes, volume one being the guide and index. | ||
| Brackenbury, J. M. [?] and others. Manuscript notebook of autograph drafts of poems, compiled and/or transcribed by J. S. [?], with 2p tipped in, circa 1815. (Hopkins Collection) | ||
| Butchart, J. Harvey. Grand Canyon Trail Notes. 1957-1969. Photocopied typescript of preliminary draft. Contributed to the Grand Canyon National Park Library, 1970. | ||
| Clift family. Scrapbook containing photographs, souvenir postcards, and memorabilia. (From the estate of Willa I. Shaver) | ||
| Conkling, Roscoe P. and Margaret B. The Butterfield Overland Mail, 1857-1869. Typescript draft with revisions, additions, and editor’s marks; special instructions to compositors and proofreaders; and illustrations. Housed in four drop spine boxes. | ||
| Crabbe, George. Autograph book with entries signed, Inter Alia, George Crabbe. 1883. | ||
| Dobie, J. Frank. On Range and Trail in 1866. Carbon copy typescript draft of an article, with Dobie’s autograph revisions. Autograph note reads: “sent to Quarter Horse Journal Mar 1/54”, 5p. | ||
| Duffy, Peter Parnell. Poems. Typescript and carbon copy typescript drafts of seven poems: “Success,” “Where the Shamrocks Grow,” “The Oklahoma Pioneer,” “Oklahoma, The Queen of the West,” “If I Could Do As I Wanted To,” “All Halloween,” and “McGuinnis and the Union Label.” Included is an autograph cover letter from Olivette H. Duffy to H. N. Nagel soliciting his opinion about the poems, 12 Mar 1935. | ||
| Erhebung des Geistes zu Gott. Calligraphed religious volume with frontice piece, additional autograph notes, and tipped in material. Binding stamped "F.H./1831." (Shleppey Collection) | ||
| Graham, Charles H. Autograph manuscript notebook. Contents include accounts, sketches, notes pertaining to cures for hydrophobia, nose-bleed, etc., and a phrenology chart. Fayetteville, Arkansas [?], circa 1875. (Gift of Dr. Hugh C. Graham) | ||
| Grinnell, George Bird. Two Great Scouts. Typescript draft with autograph revisions and corrections. Includes introduction, maps, and index, 238p. | ||
| Hallenbeck, Cleve and Juanita Williams.
Legends of the Spanish Southwest. Typescript draft with revisions, corrections, and editor’s marks, 241p. (Purchased from Fred White, 17 Nov 1978) Legends of the Spanish Southwest. Typescript and carbon copy typescript bibliography, in two versions, with autograph revisions, 3p each. Legends of the Spanish Southwest. Typescript index, in two versions, with autograph revisions, 15p and 30p. Legends of the Spanish Southwest. “Arizona Legends.” Revised typescript, with autograph revisions, corrections, and editor’s marks, 15p; marked “dead.” Legends of the Spanish Southwest. Unused photographic illustrations. |
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| Halliburton, Amber C. (a.k.a. Hallie-Burton). Collection of typescript drafts of poems and transcriptions of poems and cuttings of poems by other authors, with greeting cards and other memorabilia tipped into a two-ringed binder stamped with the author’s full name. | ||
| Hargett, J. L. “Oklahoma Merchant Trade Tokens.” Photocopied typescript and illustrations of tokens in a spring binder, presentation copy #6 of 16 copies; June 1968. Inscribed by the author: “August 7, 1968/To Bob Shaw/My very good friend/and a top collector/of Oklahoma historical/material.” | ||
| Harlow, Alvin F.
Tomahawk Trails. Typescript and carbon copy typescript drafts of stories for a proposed collection of Indian fighting stories of American pioneer days. Tomahawk Trails. Introduction to the collection, with autograph revisions, 3p. Tomahawk Trails. “Driftwood Episode.” 23p. Tomahawk Trails. “The Battle of the Kettles.” 23p. Tomahawk Trails. “The Two Half-Men.” 31p. Tomahawk Trails. “Too Tough to Kill.” 17p. Tomahawk Trails. “A Night in a Prairie Cabin.” 15p. Tomahawk Trails. “The Battle of the Giants.” 37p. Tomahawk Trails. Discarded text, 76p. |
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| Hebard, Grace Raymond. Washakie. An Account of Indian Resistance of the Covered Wagon and Union Pacific Railroad Invasions of Their Territory. Typescript draft with autograph revisions, corrections, and editor’s marks, and additional text pasted on, 267p. Included are specimen copies of the frontispiece; title page; preliminary pages; table of contents; list of illustrations; illustrations; and bibliography; with further autograph revisions and corrections. | ||
| Heckewelder, John. An Account of the History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations. 1820. Autograph draft (in French) in a manuscript notebook. Second translation from the English by Felix Giraud, Ancien Chancel er du Consulat de France a Boston. Includes a photographic reproduction of a portrait of Johanna Maria Heckewelder, daughter of John Heckwelder, tipped in. | ||
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Hunt, Aurora. Western Frontiersmen Series VIII. Kirby Benedict: Frontier Federal Judge. An account of legal and judicial development in the Southwest, 1853-1874. Typescript draft with revisions, corrections, and editor’s marks and notations, 248p. Includes title page, table of contents, appendix, bibliography, notes, illustrations, proof fragments, earlier versions of table of contents, and instructions to the printer. Major General James Henry Carleton, 1814-1873. Western Frontier Dragoon. Typescript draft with revisions, corrections and editor’s marks and notations, 363p. Includes title page and preface. Box 1. Major General James Henry Carleton, 1814-1873. Table of contents, bibliography, and footnotes. Major General James Henry Carleton, 1814-1873. Mock-ups of page layouts, photographic negatives of illustrations, corrected page proofs of index, dead manuscript material, instructions to the printer, and carbon copy draft and proof copy of a publication announcement. |
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| McKay, John J. The White Tail Deer and the Running Shot. 1964. “This is sort of a manual to unlucky deer hunters and for their special use and guidance in working out the problems of The White Tail Deer.” Hand-made book with original ink and colored pencil illustrations, and photographs and bio-facts pasted in. Marked “First batch of the first edition. Copy No. 14 of 25 copies.” | ||
| Merriam, Henry C., Colonel Autograph drafts of letters, both personal and official correspondence, in a lined manuscript notebook, dating from Apr 1865 to Jun 1877. Topics addressed include: the capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama and the colored troops therein; an Indian skirmish near the Arkansas River; military plan of mobile detachments to fight Indians in preference to establishment of a permanent sub-post; requests for aid of Mexican military in the capture of marauding cattle thieves; matters pertaining to his personal military career; and domestic matters. Press cuttings are also tipped in or pasted in. | ||
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Mexico: Anthropological studies. Gil, Alfonso Rodriquez. “Los Indios Ocuiltecas Actuales. Estudio "Ethnografico.” 1907. Alumno de Etnologia en el Museo Nacional de Mexico. Carbon copy typescript, signed by the author, and includes photographic illustrations tipped in. Bound with the following: "Ethnografico.” “Resumen de la Tesis Profesional No. 2” by Pedro Carrasco Pizana. “Los Otomies. Cultura e historia prehispanica de los pueblos mesoamericanos de habla otomiana.” Escuela Nacional de Antropologia del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia. 1945. |
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Miller, Henry. The World of Lawrence. First draft of the manuscript gathered and hand bound by the author into a notebook. Photocopied typescript. Number one of three volumes in a slipcase. The World of Lawrence. Final unbound draft of the manuscript kept by the author in a marbled letter-box. Photocopied typescript. Number two of three volumes in a slipcase. The World of Lawrence. Individual articles excerpted from the manuscript. Photocopied typescript. Number three of three volumes in a slipcase. |
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| Mining. Lead and zinc milling and mining in Oklahoma. (See Beaver, Anna) | ||
| Moore, Douglas James. Frontier diary kept by a member of the Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, with entries dating from Dec 1863 to Jun 1891. Includes accounts of encounters with the Sioux and Cheyenne, with a brief autograph draft summary of diary entries. | ||
| Patnode, H. Whitman. Source Beds of Petroleum. (See Trask, Parker D.) | ||
| Persian manuscript. 18th century manuscript in a contemporary native binding. | ||
| Pilling, James Constantine. North American Linguistics. Proof sheets of a bibliography of the languages of the North American Indians, bound in one volume, with additions and corrections. One of only three copies of the Pilling proof sheets, this being Wilberforce Eames’ copy, according to W. S. Reese, 12 Nov 1977 | ||
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Richardson, Rupert Norval and Rister, Carl Coke. The Greater Southwest. 1934. Typescript draft with autograph revisions, corrections, and editor’s marks and notations, 324p. Includes title page, table of contents, and list of suggested readings. Box one of two drop spine boxes. The Greater Southwest. p325-524. Includes references for additional readings, footnotes, and index. Box two of two drop spine boxes. |
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| Rister, Carl Coke. The Greater Southwest. (See Richardson, Rupert Norval) | ||
| Rothert, Otto A. The Outlaws of Cave-in Rock. Typescript draft with autograph revisions, corrections, and editor’s marks and notations. Includes preliminary pages, footnotes, bibliography, sectional map, and publication announcement draft and proof. Box one of two drop spine boxes. The Outlaws of Cave-in Rock. Printer’s illustration proofs, and book proofs. Box two of two drop spine boxes. |
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Shannon, Fred Albert. The Organization and Administration of the Union Army. Carbon copy typescript draft with autograph revisions, corrections, and editor’s marks and notations. Includes bibliography, appendices, index, and engraver’s proofs of illustrations. Box one of two drop spine boxes. The Organization and Administration of the Union Army. Two original illustrations in ink wash and opaque white. Box two of two drop spine boxes. |
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| Spring, Agnes Wright. The Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage and Express Routes. Typescript draft with autograph revisions, corrections, editor’s marks and notations, and additional text. Includes appendices, bibliography, footnotes, and index. | ||
| Starr, Sam and Belle. Per diem voucher for travel expenses incurred by witnesses in the case of United States (Western District of Arkansas) vs. Sam Starr and Belle Starr, charged with larceny in Indian Territory, 10 Oct 1882. | ||
| Stepney, Gulston. Autograph inventory of Stepney’s personal library, in a manuscript notebook, taken at her home at 26 Kensington Palace Gardens in London on 14 Dec 1857. The library contained books on English literature and history, the classics, French literature, several volumes of etchings, as well as portraits painted by Stepney. | ||
| Tenney, Dick. (Tulsa, Oklahoma) Autographs book containing the signatures of band leaders, musicians and others, 1950-1951. | ||
| Texas and Louisiana Indians. Autograph manuscript of a report, in French. 1784. | ||
| Thomas, M. Ursula, Sister. “The Catholic Church on the Oklahoma Frontier, 1824-1907.” Carbon copy typescript of a doctoral dissertation, Department of Philosophy, St. Louis University, 1938. 277p. | ||
| Trask, Parker D. and H. Whitman Patnode. Source Beds of Petroleum. Second draft (working copy) of a final report supported by the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Geological Survey (1931-1941), 21 Mar 1941. | ||
| Wagner, Henry R. The Plains and the Rockies. 1921. Wagner-Eberstadt working copy with items tipped in. | ||
| Wistar, Isaac Jones, General. “Autobiographical Notes.” Philadelphia, 1892. Memoirs, much of which is devoted to the opening and development of the far West from 1849 to 1860. | ||
| Wright, Olive L. “Vagabonding Among Publishers.” Typescript draft illustrated with tipped in plates and drawings, and hand-illuminated initials, 262p. 1930. | ||
| Oversize. Letter books in four volumes bearing Evans Hallewell & Co. Manufacturing Stationers Engravers Printers (5 Ave Maria Lan, Ludgate Hill, EC) bookplate on inside covers. Vol. I: Literary. 435 letters; Vol. II: Literary. 128 letters; Vol. III: Political, Nobility Army and Navy. 189 letters; Vol. IV: Religious. 73 letters. Loose items tipped in. c1700s-1890s. | ||
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