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J (Jackson) - K (Kokones)
 
[Jackson, Charles Tenney.
The buffalo wallow, a prairie boyhood]
various paging.
Typed ms. with extensive ms. revisions.
Published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1953.
Box 31 (2 folders)
[Jeffers, Robinson]
Told to a dead woman [poem]
2 l.
Autograph ms., with revisions.
Box 31
[Jenkins, Sara Lucille]
Years at paradise.
Approximately 158 leaves. 28 cm.
Typescript with author's corrections.
Published as Years in paradise by Crowell, New York, 1952.
Box 31
[Justice, Donald Rodney.
The summer anniversaries] 1960.
12 l. 28 cm.
Autograph ms. and galley fragments.
Published by Weslyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 1960.
Box 31.
Kastle, Herbert D.
Ellie.
2 parts: Part 1 -Typescript, with manuscript revisions, 334 l. Part 2 - Typescript (photocopy) with  ms. revisions, 500 l.
Original title: Little love.
Published by Delacorte Press, New York, 1973.
Box 32 (4 folders)
Kastle, Herbert D.
The movie maker. 1968.
752 l. 28 cm.
Typescript (setting copy) with manuscript revisions.
Published by B. Geis Associates; distributed by Grove Press, New York, 1968.
Box 33(2 folders)
Kendrick, Baynard.
The flames of times.
516 l. 28 cm.
Typescript with author's correction.
Original title, The golden link, marked through.
Published by C. Scribner's Sones, 1948.
Box 33 (folder 1)
Box 34 (folder 2)
Kenner, Hugh, ed.
The art of poetry. [1959]
4 parts.
Contents: Part 1 - Typescript, author's 2nd draft with corrections, printers marks, and holograph insertions (2 folders). Part 2 - First author's proof with corrections and proofmarks. Part 3: Second author's proofs with occasional proof marks.
Published by Rinehart, New York, 1959.
Box 34 (parts 1-2)
Box 35 (part 3)
Kenner, Hugh.
Gnomon; essays on contemporary literature.
226 l. 28 cm.
Typescript of author's second draft with corrections and printer's marks.
Published by McDowell, Obolensky, New York, 1958.
Box 35
Kenner, Hugh.
Invisible poet, T. S. Eliot. [1959]
2 parts. 
Contents: Part 1 - Final typescript with author's additions and printer's proofmarks and layout material. Part 2 - Galley proofs marked by the author and the printer.
Published by McDowell, Obolensky, New York, 1959.
Box 35 (2 folders)
Kerr, Jessica.
Shakespeare's flowers.
46 l.
Typescript. Final draft with revisions by author and printer's marks.
Published by Crowell, New York, 1969.
Box 36
Key, Alexander.
Island light.
[370] l. 28 cm.
Typescript, with ms. revisions and printer's marks.
Published by Bobbs-Merrill, 1950.
Box 36
Keyes, Ken.
How to develop your thinking ability. Drawings by Ted Key.
273 l. 4 original illus. 28 cm.
Typescript with ms. revisions and printer's marks.
Published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950.
Box 36
Box 60 (Illustrations shelved separately in Creative Writing oversize).
[Kirkbride, Ronald de Levington.
Fragments from the Saga of David Jordan]
13 l. 28 cm.
Typescript, with numerous ms. revisions.  "Sample - first writing" and seven reworks.
A letter supposed to be attached was not found, August 31, 2000.
Box 36
Kokenes, Violeta Constantine.
On wings of faith. 1958-1959.
9 parts.
Contents: Pt. 1: 1st outline, Good-bye my eagles, typed ms.Agent's carbon copy. Part 2: Good-bye My Eagles, by Violeta Kolenes, with Booton Herndon. 2nd outline and two draft chapters. Typed carbon ms., agent's copy. Part 3 - Autograph and typed notes by Booton Herndon. Part 4 - Miscellaneous research material, correspondence. Part 5 - Translation of Violeta Kokenes's diary, typed ms. Part 6 - Miscellaneous correspondence. Part 7 - 1st "rough draft." Typed ms. with numerous ms. revisions. Part 8 - Farewell my eagles, 1st submitted draft. Typed ms. (carbon) with notebook containing autograph insert. Part 9 - Autograph and typed fragments.
All parts, except 9, are identified from captions supplied by Booton Herndon, who collaborated in the writing of the book.
Published by Random House, New York, 1960.
Box 36 (Parts 1-3)
Box 37 (Parts 4-9)

L (Lawrence) - N (Nolan)
 
 
[Lawrence, Mildred.
Tallie]
229 l. 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon) with ms. revisions and printer's marks.
Published by Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1951.
Box 38
Leigh, Michael.
Rogue errant, an historical novel.
300 l. 28cm.
Typescript (carbon) with ms. revisions.
Published by T.Y. Crowell, New York, 1951.
Box 38
[L'Engle. Madeleine.
Camilla Dickinson, a novel]
281 l. 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon) with a. revisions and extensive insert leaves.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1951.
Box 38
Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall). 
Manuscripts. 1887 .
7 pieces (incl. 2 notebooks) ; 19-26 cm. 
Manuscript and manuscript notes of some of the authors early (unpublished?) poems and essays. 
Contents: [1] Rhymes and verses, written at odd times, in odd places, on various
subjects. West Brighton, 1887. 163 p. - [2] Verrallana by E.V.S. 1888. 156 p. -
[3] Notes to more Verrallana (70) p. - [4] London; idylls of the street, by E.V.S.
West Brighton, 1888. 67 p. - [5] Some random thoughts on Sunday. 1887. (30)
p. - [6] Green sounds in a green shade. (n.d.) 25 l. - [7] Bozzy's staircase (n.d.) 21 l. 
Box 38
[Lytle, Andrew Nelson
At the moon's end]
406 l. 28 cm.
Typescript with a. revisions and printer's marks.
Published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1953.
Box 39
Lytle, Andrew Nelson.
The enchanted forest.
126 l. 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon)
Box 39
Lytle, Andrew Nelson.
A name for evil. 
140 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. with a. revisions and instructions to the printer.
Published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1947.
Box 39
[Lytle, Andrew Nelson.
The velvet horn]
[376] l. 28 cm.
Typescript with autograph revisions.
Published by McDowell, Obolensky, New York, 1957.
Box 39 ( 2 folders)
MacDonald, John D.
The turquoise lament.
Proof copies.
(Box 61) 4 folders in CW Oversize.
Maclachlan, Emily.
The floating island.
10 l. 28 cm.
Published as "Adventure of a floating island" in Jack and Jill, March, 1951. Copy included.
Box 40.
[Masters, Kelly R.]
Joe Panther, by Zachary Ball.
200 l. 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon). Author's note with signature on page [1]
Published by Holiday House, New Yor, 1950.
Box 40.
McCord, David.
Gloss [autograph poem, written on the cover of a program for spring meeting of Boston Sherlock Holmes Club] May 10, 1974.
Inscribed to Alison & John [Woodman]
Box 40.
McCoy, Marie Bell.
Journey out of darkness. [1963]
3 parts: Part 1 - Typescript (carbon) with a. revisions, 218 l. Part 2 - Typescript (carbon) with author's revisions and printer's marks, 218 l. Part 3 - Galley proofs, with revisions. 
Published by McKay, New York, 1963.
Box 40.
McElderry, Em.
The Blue sun: the record of a Southern Folkzinger by Em McElderry.
Gainesville, Florida: Richard H. Hofmeyer, 1974.
112, [2] p. illus. 28 cm.
Added September 11, 2002
Box 58
McElderry, Em
Emerica: a quixotic chronicle by EmMcElderry.
Chicago, 1993.
455, [3] p. of plates, ill. 22 x 38 cm.
Inscribed to [Jack and Anne] Rudloe, "Mack," December, 1994.
Added September 11, 2002
Box 58
[Merrill, James.
Poems]
[62] leaves.
Autograph and typed notes and poems.
Box 41
Miles, Josephine.
Three poems for New York.
[1] l. 20 cm.
A. ms., with signed note by the author: Sent to University of Florida, October '52.
Published in Poetry, March, 1951.
Box 41
Miller, Clyde.
The gentle season: a novella.
72 l. 28 cm.
Typescript, with a. revisions.
Thesis, M.A., 1952, University of Florida. Published in New short novels, Ballantine, New York, 1954.
Box 41.
Mills, Neene.
Dreams and scars. 1951.
2 parts.
Conetens: Part 1: Master galleys, 1st proof, July 23, 1951. Part 2. Master page proofs, August 31, 1951, with a. revisions.
Published by Exposition Press, New York, 1951.
Box 41 (2 folders)
Milner, Florence Thiot.
Sea love, a Pensacola pamphlet. [poems]
[37] l. 29 cm.
Typed manuscript. Loaned to the University of Florida, March 30, 1950.
Box 41.
Moore, Jackie A.
County clippings of Jackie A.Moore, 1962-1980.
82 l. port. 30 cm.
Xerox copies of new clippings and other memorabilia.
Box 42
Moore, Jackie A.
The night moon cats. 1968.
83 l. 28 cm.
Typescript of 2nd draft with few revisions.
Published in Cat fancy, v. 11, Nov./Dec. 1968.
Box 42
Moore, Jackie A.
Night moon companions; a romantic adventure novel. 1984.
123 l. 28 cm.
Typescript with autograph revisions.
Presentation note: "Original manuscript for University of Florida Libraries. Presented June 1985.
Box 58.
Moore, Jackie A.
Trouble in Pine County. 1968.
84 l. 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon) with few revisions.
Box 42
Moore, Jackie A.
The whiskey room.
82 l. 28 cm.
Typescript with ms. additions and revisions.
Published by William-Frederick Press, New York, 1964.
Box 42.
Morley, Chrisopher.
Where the blues begin, a divine comedy.
[157] l. 29 cm.
Typescript with a. stage directions.
Inscribed by the author to "Arthur," Honolulu, March 8-23, 1933.
Published by Heinemann, London, and Doubleday, Page, New York, 1922.
Box 42.
Moss, Howard.
[Poems]
[5] l. 28 cm.
Typescripts, with a. additions and revisions, signed by the author.
Includes: "Revised last stanza of poem published in Kenyon review 1950."
Box 42.
[Moss, Howard.
Poems]
50 l. 28 cm.
Typescripts, with a. additions and revisions.
Box 42
Moss, Howard.
Poems and songs.
1 notebook and 36 l.
A. manuscripts
Box 42
Neubauer, William Arthur.
Watch for romance.
180 l. 28 cm.
Typescript, with autograph revisions.
Original title, The old watchmaker's shop, marked through.
Published by Arcadia House, New York, 1951.
Box 42
Nolan, Jeannette Covert.
Andrew Jackson.
185 l. 28 cm.
Typescript, with a. revisions and printer's marks.
Published by J. Messner, New York, 1949.
Box 42
Nolan, Jeannette Covert.
John Brown.
156 l. 28 cm.
Typescript, with a. revisions and printer's marks.
Published by J. Messner, New York, 1950.
Box 42

O (O"Neill, Eugene) - R(Rush, Willliam)
 
O'Neill, Eugene.
A touch of the poet.
1 volume (various pagination) 29 cm.
Mimeographed.
Published by the Yale University Press, 1957.
Box 59
Owen, Guy.
Season of fear.
2 parts.
Contents: Pt. 1: Marked galley proofs. Pt. 2: Page proofs.
Published by Random House, New York, 1960.
Box 43
Palmer, Florence Glass.
Long shadows.
103 l. 28 cm.
Autograph ms.
Published as Life and Miss Celeste by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1937.
Box 43
Palmer, Florence Glass.
Long shadows.
274 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms.with a. revisions.
Published as Life and Miss Celeste by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1937.
Box 43
[Peare, Catherine Owens.
Mary McLeod Bethune]
194, [6] l. 29 cm.
Typescript with a. revisions.
Published by Vanguard, New York, 1951.
Box 43
Pratt, Theodore.
An author looks at himself.
17 l. 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon) with ms. revisions. Signed by the author.
Box 44
Pratt, Theodore.
The big bubble; a novel of the Florida boom.
322 l. 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon). "Author's copy of the original manuscript," with a. revisions.
Inscribed presentation to the University of Florida, Nov. 3, 1951.
Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951.
Box 44
Prokosch, Frederic.
The idols of the caves.
3 parts. 
Contents: Part 1: Typescript with a. revisions, 436 l. Part 2: Galley proof, August 1, with extensive revisions. Part 3: Revised galley proof.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, 1946.
Box 44 (4 folders)
Purtscher, Nora (von Wydenbruck)
[My two worlds, an autobiography]
314, 385, 245.
Typescripts, 3 versions, with autograph revisions.
Copy 2, titled There is no shortcut. Copy 3, printer's copy.
Box 45 (3 copies)
Rackowe, Alec.
Dance, little flame.
18 l. 28 cm.
Typescript with autograph revisions.
Published in American magazine, Oct., 1950.
Box 46
Rackowe, Alec.
My lord America.
597 l. 28 cm.
Typescript with autograph revisions.
Published by Farrar, Straus, New York, 1950.
Box 46 (2 folders)
Rackowe, Alec.
The people on the hill. 1951.
Approximately 312 l.  28 cm.
Typescript of two drafts, with autograph revisions, and extensive correspondence between the author and editor and documentation of the writing of the story. Draft fragments are on the verso of some leaves.
May have been published in Redbook.
Box 46 (2 folders)
Rackowe, Alec.
Sad angel.
20 l. 28 cm.
Typescript.
Published in American magazine, March 1951.
Box 46
Richard, John Charles.
Notes and observations upon the present condition of Florida. Play.
Tallahassee, 1939.
84 l. 28 cm.
Typescript. Copy prepared by Statewide Rare Book Project. Works Project Administration, State Library. The original owned by Doris Averett of Jacksonville.
This manuscript, written about 1848, from Middleburg Florida, contains notes and observations on Florida while the author was taking a travel survey on horseback through the Everglades shortly after the conclusion of the Seminole Indian War.
Box 47
Rilke, Ranier Maria.
The letters of Ranier Maria Rilke and Princess Maria von Thurn and Taxis. Translated, edited and introduced by Nora Wydenbruck.
396 l. 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon) with author's corrections and revision notes.
Published by Hogarth Press, London, 1958.
Box 45
Robert, Kenneth Lewis.
Trail of the lonesome trout.
7 l. 36 cm.
A.ms., first rough draft.
Published in the Saturday Evening Post, 199 (Nov. 6, 1926)
Oversize Box 60
Robins, Elizabeth.
Way stations. 1912.
First galley proofs, with revisons.
Published by Dodd, Mead, New York, 1913.
Box 47
Rosborough, Mary Freels.
Anchor to windward.
16 l. 28 cm.
Typescript, with manuscript revisions.
Box 47
Rush, William Marshall.
Red Fox of the Kinapoo, a tale of the Nez Perce Indians.
3 parts
Contents: Part 1 - Typed ms., with revisions and printer's marks. Part 2 - Galley proof, master set, containing proof-reader's marks and queries. Part 3 - Page proofs, master set, containing proof-reader's marks and queries.
Published by Longman's, New York, 1949.
Box 47 (3 folders)

S (Sarett -) Y (Young)
 
Sarett, Lew.
The Cinderella of the Arts and Lew Sarett in a lecture-recital based on his "Collected poems."
2 parts.
Contents: Part 1 - [69] typed leaves. in looseleaf notebook.
Box 48
Sarett, Lew
Ode to Illinois, Kinsmen, Cloud at timber-line, Bird's eye, Cliff-dwellers, Swamp owl and [Almanack]
[28] l.
Typed mss., with revisions.
First leaf of Almanack missing.
Includes pamphlet with Ode to Illinois in University of Illinois Memorial Stadium.
Published in Covenant with earth, University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 1956.
Box 48
Shapiro, Karl.
Poems, 1940-1952.
156 l. 28 cm.
Typescript with ms. revisions and printers layout.
Published as Poems, 1940-1953, by Random House, New York, 1953.
Box 48
Shapiro, Karl.
Six religious lyrics.
[3] l. 25 cm.
Typed ms.
Published in Person, place and thing by Reynal and Hitchcock, New York, 1942.
Box 48
Sharp, Alan.
The bloodshot rainbow: a Travis McGee adventure, starring Sam Elliott. Based on the books of John McDonald [sic]. Screenplay by Alan Sharp.
Revised first draft, November 10, 1981 [Xerox copy]
Burbank, Calif.: Warner Bros. Television.
Gift of Mike White, April 10, 2000.
Box 58.
Shields, William Bayard.
The cross of Constantine, a novel concerning the life and times of Constantine.
3 binders (625 l). 29 cm.
Typescripts with author's corrections and revisions.
Published by Vantage Press, New York, 1954.
Box 48 (binders 1 and 1)
Box 49 (binder 3)
Slaughter, Frank G.
The Galileans, a novel of Mary Magdalene.
Jacksonville, Fl., 1952.
3 parts. 
Contents: Part 1 - Typed ms., with extensive autograph revisions, 402 l. Part 2 - Typed ms., with ms. revisions and printer's marks. Part 3. Galley proofs (author's copy)
Original title, The road to Emmaus, marked through on first manuscript.
Box 49 (Parts 1 and 2)
Box 50 (Part 3)
Slaughter, Frank G.
The road to Bithyia, a novel of Luke, the beloved physician.
Jacksonville, Fl., 1951.
2 parts.
Contents: Part 1: Part 1 - Typed ms., with extensive autograph revisions, 474 l. Part 2 - Typed ms., with ms. revisions and printer's marks.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, 1951.
Box 50 (4 folders)
Slaughter, Frank G.
Sangaree.
Uncorrected galley proof.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, 1948.
Box 51
Slaughter, Frank G.
The thorn of Arimathea.
360 l. 28 cm.
Typed manuscript, with revisions and printer's layout.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, 1959.
Box 51
Starr, Nathan Comfort.
The dynamics of literature. 1945.
140 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. with revisions and with proofs of introductory pages
Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1945.
Box 51
Starr, Nathan Comfort.
The English sea-novel; a study of nautical fiction in English and America.
248 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms.
"Written as a doctoral dissertation [Harvard, 1928] Last two chapter added 1929."
Box 51
Starr, Nathan Comfort.
King Arthur today; the Arthurian legend in English and American literature, 1901-1953.
208 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. (carbon). 
Published by the University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 1954.
Box 52.
Starr, Nathan Comfort.
The sailor on horseback.
12 l. 2 illus. 28 cm.
Typed ms., with minor revisions.
Published in Blue Peter, London, November 1930.
Box 52
[Stuart, Jesse]
The business.
13 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. with extensive a. revisions.
Published in Clearing in the sky, and other stories by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950.
Box 52.
[Stuart, Jesse]
Coming down the mountain.
12 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. with a. revisions.
Published in Clearing in the sky, and other stories by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950.
Box 52.
[Stuart, Jesse]
Flight: no. 25.
14 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. with a. revisions.
Published in Clearing in the sky, and other stories by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950.
Box 52.
Sugrue, Thomas.
Wait for the morning.
2 parts
Contents: Part 1 - Typed ms., with a. revisions, 318 l. Part 2 - Typed ms., with a. revisions and printer's marks and layout, 287 l. 
Published by Harper, New York, 1950.
Box 52

T (Tate) - Y (Young)
 
Tate, Allen.
Reason in madness; critical essays.
Princeton, 1941.
240 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms., with a. revisions and printer's marks.
Original title, Get the glass eye, marked through.
Published by G.P. Putnam's sons, 1941.
Box 53
[Tinsley, Jim Bob.
The sailfish, swashbuckler of the open sea]
247 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms., with author's revisions and printer's marks.
Published by the University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 1964.
Box 53
Titus, John Henry.
The face on the bar room floor (original 1872).
1 l. 36 cm.
Mimeographed from typed copy, signed John Henry Titus.
Box 53
Turney, Robert
Philip, a play in three acts. 1940.
various paging 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon)
Box 53
Vidal, Gore
The judgment of Paris.
650 l. 31 cm.
A.ms.Signed
Published by Dutton, New York, 1952.
Box 53 (folder 1)
Box 54 (folder 2)
Vidal, Gore.
A three act play based on the television play called "Honor."
[100] l. 28 cm.
Typed ms., with autograph revisions.
Box 54
Weaver, William Fense.
The private eye, a novel.
2 parts.
Contents: Part 1 - Typed ms., with autograph notes and revisions. Part 2 - Typed ms., 211 l.
Box 54
West, Ray Benedict.
The rise of short fiction in America, 1900-1950.
148, 17, 15 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms., with revisions and printer's marks.
Published as The short story in America, 1900-1950, by H. Regnery, Chicago, 1950.
Box 54
Westcott, Joan C.
Bits of chaff.
38 l. 28 cm.
Typescript with additions and revisions.
Published by Dorrance, Philadelphia, 1967.
Box 55
Westcott, Joan C.
Fragments of stained glass.
[40] l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. with a. revisions.
Published by Dorrance, Philadelphia, 1965.
Box 55
Westcott, Joan C.
More fragments of stained glass.
[62] l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. with a. revisions.
Published by Dorrance, Philadelphia, 1966.
Box 55
Westcott, Joan C.
[Working Papers]
Typed mss., submitted dated March 2002 and later.
Box 55
Whitson, Denton.
Savage heart.
384 l. 28 cm.
Typescript (carbon copy) signed by the author.
Published by Chilton, Philadelphia, 1959.
Box 55
Wilder, Robert.
Autumn thunder.
437 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. with author's revisions and printer's marks.
Published by Putnam, New York, 1952.
Box 55
[Williams, William Carlos.
Poems]
Approximately 38 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. 
Photocopies included in folder 2. Microfilm copy in Library West.
Box 55 (2 folders)
Wilson, William.
Beyond darkness.
Bloomington, IN, Jan. 10, 1952.
30 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. signed.
Published in Woman's Home Companion.
Box 55
[Witherspoon, Mary Elizabeth]
Somebody speak for Katy.
354 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms. with revisions and printer's marks.
Box 56
Woodward, Comer Vann.
Tom Watson, agrarian rebel. April 15, 1938.
Approximately 500 l. 28 cm.
Typed ms., with autograph revisions.
Published by Macmillan, New York, 1938.
Box 56 (2 folders)
Worcester, Donald Emmet.
The growth and culture of Latin America. November 3, 1955.
various paging. 28 cm.
Typed ms. with a. revision's and printer's marks.
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1956.
Box 57 (5 folders)
Young, Stark
The pavilion: of people and times remembered, of stories and places.
2 parts.
Contents: Part 1 - Typed ms., with revisions. Part 2 - Galley proofs.
Published by Scribner, New York, 1951.
Box 58



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