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Max Freund "Houston Journal" and related editorial papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0325

Abstract This collection contains the correspondence, photos, newsclippings, proofs, and manuscripts of Max Freund, Professor Emeritus of Rice University. The papers relate for the most part to Freund's works, especially Gustav Dresel's Houston Journal, which he edited and translated. Also included are lecture notes on Ireland and Anglo-Irish Literature, a translation of George Moor's "The Wild Goose" as well as translations of other Moore materials, and the published version of his Ph.D. thesis "Die...

Dates: 1904 - 1975

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Owen Wister Literary Society (OWLS) Undergraduate and Alumnae records

Collection

Identifier: UA 0059

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

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Pallas Athene Literary Society records

Collection

Identifier: UA 0212

Overview The Pallas Athene Literary Society (PALS) was formed in 1919 when the Elizabeth Baldwin Literary Society (EBLS) split and was an active organization at Rice until 1966 when it disbanded. The records consist of a ledger book containing minutes of the society’s meetings (September 23, 1924 – May 14, 1929), newspaper clippings pertaining to various members and alumnae, and several programs and pamphlets of the society’s activities.

Dates: 1919 - 1968

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Rene Boylesve research materials

Collection

Identifier: MS 0589

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

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Rice University Soundings records

Collection

Identifier: UA 0027

Overview The collection consists of correspondence, lists of authors and subscribers and financial records relating to the publication of Soundings (1953).

Dates: 1952 - 1953

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Richard and Sandra Lauderdale Graham Brazilian Chapbook and Slides Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0650

Overview The collection consists of fifty-seven inexpensively produced booklets of verse with woodblock print or photo image covers. The booklets are quarto size, 4-3/4” by 6-3/8”, and range in length from eight to forty-eight pages. The content is in verse in stanzas of six, seven, eight, or ten lines. The booklets are examples of a folk art known as literature de cordel, or “string literature,” because of being attached to strings as a means of displaying them for sale. The...

Dates: circa 1960-1990

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Richardson Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0279

Overview This collection contains letters and literary drafts of Samuel Richardson; letters of his daughter, Anne Richardson, to her sister Martha Richardson Bridgen, and parents, and Sally Crowther Moodie. The collection also includes letters by Elizabeth (Leake) Richardson, Sally Crowther Moodie, and Jane Berthon regarding the Lisbon earthquake (1755); and correspondence from O.B. Kaiser to Samuel Richardson.

Dates: 1714 - 1802

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Robert L. Patten academic papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0410

Overview Course materials, notes, correspondence and administrative papers of Dr. Robert L. Patten, Lynette S. Autrey Professor in Humanities at Rice University, Houston, Texas. Dr. Patten's research areas include Nineteenth-century British literature and art, and history of the book.

Dates: 1963-2015

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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Max Freund "Houston Journal" and related editorial papers

Oren Arnold Manuscript and Galleys of "The Golden Chair"

Owen Wister Literary Society (OWLS) Undergraduate and Alumnae records

Pallas Athene Literary Society records

Paul Blouet correspondence

Rene Boylesve research materials

Rice University Soundings records

Richard and Sandra Lauderdale Graham Brazilian Chapbook and Slides Collection

Richardson Family papers

Robert L. Patten academic papers

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