Department of Special Collections and University Archives
McFarlin Library. University of Tulsa.  2933 E. 6th St.  Tulsa, OK.  74104-3123 (OKT - OkTU)

Elizabeth Jennings manuscripts

Collection 1986-001

Dates:  1973-1992.

Extent:  (4 boxes).

Level of Description:   Item level.

Name of creator(s):  Elizabeth Jennings.

Date of creation:  Undetermined.

Scope and Content:   Consists of 39 notebooks and loose sheets of handwritten working drafts of approximately 2,225 poems, many with handwritten revisions, written between 1973 and 1992.

Administrative/Biographical History:  The poems were said to be unpublished at the time of acquisition and cover a wide range of topics including artists, composers, and writers.  They are arranged chronologically by the date provided by Elizabeth Jennings. They are also indexed alphabetically by title.

Access and Copyright:

Language and Scripts:  English.

Finding aid/Inventory:  Finding aid is available online.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition:   Purchased from Bertram Rota in October 1986; material dated after 1983 was purchased from Bertram Rota, Oct 1992.

Date(s) of description:   Milissa Burkart, Jun 1993.

Access Points:

Subject Headings 

 
Personal names 

Corporate names

Places
 

Index of poems by title:

• A - B

• C - E

• F - H

• I - M

• N - P

• Q - S

• T - Z

• Writings