arts. Arts and Literature
Record Group
Identifier: arts
Archival collections related to dance, theater, painting, sculpture, literature, and more.
Found in 125 Collections and/or Records:
Oswald Mueller manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MS 243
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
Patricia Peckinpaugh Hubbard family papers
Unprocessed
Identifier: 2023.048
Paul Blouet correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MS 129
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 099
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
Rice Institute Pamphlet and Rice University Studies records
Collection
Identifier: UA 013
Abstract
This collection contains working drafts, business correspondence and receipts, and related material from "Rice University Studies," a university publication of scholarly works.
Dates:
1915 - 1981