Manuscripts
Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:
Oswald Mueller manuscript
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.
Patrick James Nicholson research for Mr. Jim: The Biography of James Smither Abercrombie
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.
Paul Phillips Collection (Houston Balalaika Society)
This collection includes songbooks, sheet music, recordings, photographs, personal items, and other materials related to Paul Phillips' career as a musician from the 1960s to his death in 2010.
Ray Watkin Strange Research Materials for "William Ward Watkin and the Rice Institute"
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.).
"Reflections on Santayana's Esthetics" manuscript
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.
Rice Institute Dramatic Club records
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.
Rice Institute Pamphlet and Rice University Studies records
This collection contains working drafts, business correspondence and receipts, and related material from "Rice University Studies," a university publication of scholarly works.
Rice University Association of Retired Rice University Faculty records
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.
Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures, manuscripts and publishing records
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.
Rice University Soundings records
The collection consists of correspondence, lists of authors and subscribers and financial records relating to the publication of Soundings (1953).