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arts. Arts and Literature

 Record Group
Identifier: arts
Archival collections related to dance, theater, painting, sculpture, literature, and more.

Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:

Oren Arnold Manuscript and Galleys of "The Golden Chair"

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0023
Abstract: This collection contains the typescript and galley proofs of the book "The Golden Chair", winner of the Southwest Literary Award. It was published by Elsevier Press in 1954. Mr. Arnold is a former student of Rice University where he was editor of the student newspaper the "Thresher" and president of the Writers Club. He was also Rice correspondent for the "Houston Chronicle."
Dates: 1954

Oswald Mueller manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0243
Overview This typewritten manuscript is titled "Seeking the Garden of the World". It is Oswald Mueller’s English translation of Fritz Scheffel’s Deutsche suchen den Garten der Welt. Mueller authors the preface, in which he describes the story as that of the failed German attempt to colonize Texas into a New-Germania.
Dates: 1948

Owen Wister Literary Society (OWLS) Undergraduate and Alumnae records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 059
Overview The collection consists of scrapbooks, minute books, financial records, and other materials relating to the founding and operation of both the Owen Wister Literary Society (OWLS) undergraduate group and the alumnae group, 1927-2002. OWLS was founded in 1924.
Dates: 1927 - 2010

Paul Blouet correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0129
Abstract: This collection consists primarily of letters written by French author and journalist, Paul Blouet (pseudonym, Max O'Rell) between 1885 and 1903. The letters discuss Blouet's lecture tours, the management of his play "John Bull on the Continent", and his affliction with cancer.
Dates: 1885 - 1903

Persian manuscript pages collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0099
Overview 8 framed and unframed Persian illuminated manuscripts from 14-16th centuries.
Dates: 14-16th centuries

"Reflections on Santayana’s Esthetics" manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS 467
Abstract This collection consists of a handwritten manuscript (about 220 pages) by Edmund Clark Sanford. The manuscript contains Sanford’s thoughts on George Santayana’s book "The Sense of Beauty," as well as some of Sanford’s thoughts on aesthetics in general.
Dates: ca. 1905

Rene Boylesve research materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS 589
Overview The material in this collection consists of papers from the files of Andre M.G. Bourgeois, Professor of Romance Languages, at Rice University, concerning the life of Rene Boylseve, with particular reference to poems, written by him to Betty Halperine During the First World War. Rene Boylesve was the pseudonym of Rene-marie-auguste Tardiveau, a French novelist noted for his social histories set in the Touraine region of west-central France. He was elected to the French Academy in 1918. (2...
Dates: 1950-1967

Rice Institute Dramatic Club records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 035
Overview The collection includes scripts from the 1920s as well as programs, ephemera, and photographs. In addition there are newsclippings and a ledger beginning in 1931 and continuing through 1934 containing lists of members, committee assignments, and minutes of meetings.
Dates: 1917 - 1950