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Authors -- Letters and papers

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

Louis Reed and Mildred Johnston Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2592
Overview Louis Reed (1899-ca. 1985) served in France and Germany during World War I. Collection contains letters he wrote to his future wife, Mildred Johnston. Reed and Johnston married many years later, after the death of Reed's first wife. Reed's letters, written between 1918 and 1920, discuss army life, the front in France, and the occupation of Germany. Collection also contains a 235-page photocopied typescript that Reed wrote about the history of Burning Springs, Wirt County, and its role in the...
Dates: 1918-1920 and undated

Margaret Prescott Montague, Author, Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1348
Scope and Contents

Six letters by Margaret Prescott Montague to a Mr. Paddock concerning her own poems and writings, and the poetry of Angela Morgan.

Dates: 1919-1920

Margaret Prescott Montague, Author, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1110
Scope and Contents Correspondence, manuscripts, notes and notebooks, diaries, press clippings, photographs, and printed material of a West Virginia essayist, short-story writer, poet and novelist, who won the first O. Henry Memorial Prize in 1919 for her short story, "England to America." The papers include correspondence from editors, publishers, agents and critics; readers' correspondence; family letters; manuscripts of short stories and other works; outlines, plots, and drafts; and diaries and notebooks...
Dates: 1893-1958

Melville Davisson Post (1871-1930) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1143
Scope and Contents

These are letters between Post and publishers Edward J. Clode and W. G. Chapman and are concerned with the serial rights to “The Corrector of Destinies.”

Dates: 1909-1926

Melville Davisson Post (1871-1930) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1635
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of writer Melville Davisson Post with Louis E. Schrader, a Wheeling court reporter who edited, typed, and often forwarded Post's manuscripts to the publisher. These letters are primarily instructions for Schrader and concern Post's legal writings as well as his detective stories.

Dates: 1897; 1909-1915

Melville Davisson Post Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0693
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts of short stories and essays of Melville D. Post, some of which were published between 1920 and 1929 in the Review of Reviews, Everybody’s, and the American Magazine. Collection also includes World War I poster texts and articles on various subjects by Melville D. Post; also, two letters. See processing notes for list of titles.

Dates: undated

Minnie Kendall Lowther Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0740
Overview M.K. Lowther (1869-1947) was a journalist and one of the first women newspaper editors in West Virginia. She was the author of the HISTORY OF RITCHIE COUNTY; BLENNERHASSETT ISLAND IN ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY; FRIENDSHIP HILL, HOME OF ALBERT GALLATIN; MARSHALL HALL AND OTHER POTOMAC POINTS IN STORY AND PICTURE; and MT. VERNON: ITS CHILDREN, ITS ROMANCES, ITS ALLIED FAMILIES AND MANSIONS. There are complete and incomplete typescripts, rough drafts, revisions, photographs and plates of her books....
Dates: 1907-1945

Muriel Miller Dressler, Poet, Papers Collected by William Plumley

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Collection Number: A&M 3322
Overview Papers of Muriel Miller Dressler (1918-2000), of Witcher, Kanawha County, West Virginia, noted Appalachian poet and lecturer in the 1970s and 1980s. Collection is chiefly composed of Dressler's poetry and other materials related to her career in the 1970s and early 1980s, though much of the material is undated. Writings include drafts of the poems in her two published collections, Appalachia, My Land (1973) and Appalachia (1977), as well as drafts of unpublished work, materials related to...
Dates: 1969-1992, undated; Majority of material found within 1970-1977, undated

Oren F. Morton (1857-1926) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1191
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, sketch books, published and unpublished manuscripts, literary notes, business records, and printed material of a schoolteacher, newspaper writer, county historian, novelist and essayist from Kingwood, whose fiction and nonfiction writings deal primarily with the Virginia-West Virginia Allegheny highlands. His best known works are WINNING OR LOSING?: A STORY OF THE WEST VIRGINIA HILLS (1901); LAND OF THE LAUREL: A STORY OF THE ALLEGHANIES (1903); UNDER THE...
Dates: ca. 1799-1846, 1875-1926

Paul A. Miller Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3122
Overview Professional papers, correspondence, books, serials, and photographs documenting the professional career of Paul A. Miller, who served as president of West Virginia University, 1962-66. The material also deals with Miller's work as a graduate student, professor, and provost at Michigan State University, 1946-61; his tenure as assistant secretary for education in the Department of Health, Education & Welfare; and his term as president of Rochester Institute of Technology, 1969-79....
Dates: 1946-2010