Manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:
Patrick James Nicholson research for Mr. Jim: The Biography of James Smither Abercrombie
Collection
Identifier: MS 0391
Overview
This collection is composed of research materials and manuscripts of Patrick J. Nicholson for his book Mr. Jim: The Biography of James Smither Abercrombie. Included are photocopies of various articles about J.S. Abercrombie, correspondence concerning Nicholson’s research, notes, and typed copies of the manuscript.
Dates:
1846 - 1982
Ray Watkin Strange Research Materials for "William Ward Watkin and the Rice Institute"
Collection
Identifier: MS 0465
Overview
This material covers the architectural career of the Ms. Strange's father, William Ward Watkin, including his private architecture practice and well as his relationship with Rice Institute as Supervising Architect, touching briefly on his personal life. The material was gathered by Ms. Strange and much of it served as research for the book: William Ward Watkin and The Rice Institute by Patrick James Nicholson (published 1991 by Gulf Pub. Co.).
Dates:
1917-1985
"Reflections on Santayana’s Esthetics" manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MS 0467
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
Rice Institute Dramatic Club records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0035
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 0013
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
Rice University Association of Retired Rice University Faculty records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0430
Scope and Contents
This collection currently holds the Academic Memoirs Project, created by the Association of Retired Rice University Faculty, with one memoir created in 2020 by David McStravick, Mechanical Engineering.
Dates:
2020
Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures, manuscripts and publishing records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0319
Overview
Committee records, manuscript drafts, print and digital images, and reviews document the process undertaken by the Rice Historical Society to organize and have published: Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures.
Dates:
2009 - 2014
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
Robert F. Curl academic papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0483
Overview
The collection holds the chemistry research materials during a portion of Dr. Robert Curl's tenure at Rice University through 2012. The materials, arranged chronologically, include typescript copies, proofs, notes, charts, correspondence and reprints regarding published and unfinished research. Also contains information relating to Curl's positions on non-Rice boards and committees.
Dates:
1953 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1981 - 1995
Robert L. Patten: George Cruikshank research materials
Collection
Identifier: MS 0493
Abstract:
Typescripts, correspondence, sketches, autographs, articles, notes and other research material relating to George Cruikshank's career as an illustrator as well as his personal and family life. Robert L. Patten's two volume work, George Cruikshank’s Life, Times, and Art> is a comprehensive study of the life and art of George Cruikshank.
Dates:
1792-2002