The collections contain miscellaneous letters, memorabilia, magazines, and other periodicals given to MU Libraries by various donors.
The collection is not catalogued. The materials are available to all researchers during regular service hours. For more information about the use of the print collections, see Book Use Policies.
UNCATALOGUED (BOX 3): MISCELLANEOUS, 20th c.
1. Letter, to Dr. Thaddeus Harris (1795-1856) of Harvard University Library, from (ink) and reply (pencil) to Abraham Halsey, England. Reply includes 3 pencil drawings of moths.
2. Letters written by Geraldine Farrar and Rosa Ponselle (opera singers) to Frederick Randolf Rosser. Gift of Stephens College Library 1993; from Virginia Rosser, 13 June 1976. Packet of 13 letters, one with signed photo of Rosa Ponselle, and two additional photos.
3. Aldous Huxley, newspaper clippings, 1930s-40s. Includes letter from C. J. Eschelbach to Mr. John J. Reider concerning: Aldous Huxley: a bibliography, 1916-1959, by Claire John Eschelbach and Joyce Lee Shober (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1961).
4. Facsimile, letter to Craven Peyton from Thomas Jefferson, 27 Sept. 1803, printed for advertising by Morris Plan Banks in 1930s.
5. State of the Union Message by the President to a Joint Session of the Congress, The White House, January 4, 1965, signed by Lynden B. Johnson. Presented by Jerry W. Friedheim through Friends of the Library.
6. Newspaper clippings of the State Funeral of John F. Kennedy, from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 26 November 1963.
7. Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 88th Congress, First Session, vol. 109, no. 191, 25 November 1963. Includes eulogies for John F. Kennedy. 3 copies.
8. The Saturday Evening Post December 14, 1963Cover: John F. Kennedy 1917-63 (portrait by Norman Rockwell).
9. Life, vol. 55, no. 23, December 6, 1963.
10. Life, vol. 61, no. 1584, March 6, 1913; vol. 63, no. 1636, March 5, 1914. Gift of Carl Schweitzer.
11. Facsimiles, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, first and final drafts, 1863. Gift of Anna Rebholz
12. Mark Twain memorabilia, includes a few black and white photos, letters to Mrs. Lewis (Faye R.) Kensinger from Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch and Ida Langdon, and two magazines: Newsweek v. 55, no. 18, May 2, 1960 and The Mentor, May 1924. Gift of Faye R. Kensinger.
13. Scribner's Magazine, 50th anniversary edition, vol. 101, no. 1, January 1937. Gift of Mrs. Lewis Kensinger.
14. Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers, 1894-1906. From the Walt Whitman collection of Charles E. Feinberg.
15. World War I pamphlets: Browning for the Trenches (1918), Mare Liberum: Freedom of the Seas by Ramsey Muir (1917), two services at Westminster Abbey (Sept.-Oct. 1918), and The Besanconion, no. 1, April 1919.
16. Les Modes covers and fashion plates, Paris, 1902-03, 1906-07, 1909
17. Silk square (white with orange decoration) with busts of Grover Cleveland for President, and Allen G. Thurman for Vice President.
18. Pen used by President Eisenhower to sign the National Defense
Education Act on September 2, 1958.
Thomas Moore Johnson Collection of Philosophy
Frank Luther Mott Collection of American Best Sellers
William Peden Short Story Collection
University of Missouri Collection
Weinberg Journalists in Fiction Collection
September 11th terrorist attack materials
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007