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Special Collections and Archives
Primary sources are broadly defined as materials left behind by participants
and observers of an event or time period. Researchers use primary sources
to explore, analyze, and draw conclusions about the past. Special
Collections and Archives holds primary source materials useful for
students and scholars conducting research on particular authors or studying
literary theory and criticism, the teaching and study of literature, linguistics,
and literary history. Examples of primary sources include diaries, letters
and personal papers, organization records, company records, newspapers,
oral histories, photographs, artifacts, broadsides and publications.
The collections include:
- Papers of individual writers including African-American leaders and
educators W.E.B.
Du Bois and Horace Mann Bond; poets Robert
Francis, Madeleine DeFrees, and Wallace Stevens; novelist and social
critic Harvey
Swados; expatriate actor, director, musician, and writer Gordon
Heath; arts critic and author of Jazz, a People's Music Sidney Finkelstein;
and reporter and Boston Globe editor Charles Whipple
- Audiotapes from two series produced in 1954 by the University of Massachusetts
Literary Society, featuring New England poets Archibald MacLeish, Wallace
Stevens, Richard Wilbur, John Ciardi, e.e. cummings, Richard Eberhart,
Peter Viereck, Robert Francis, Robert Frost, David Morton, and Robert
Hillyer reading their own poems, and authors and critics Robert Penn
Warren, W.H. Auden, Richard Blackmur, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck,
and William Faulkner
- Papers of scholars and University educators including Thomas Copeland
(editor, papers of Edmund Burke), Morris Golden (professor, scholar
of eighteenth and nineteenth century writers Henry Fielding, Samuel
Richardson, Charles Dickens, and Henry James), Maxwell Goldberg (author,
English professor and founding member of the College English Association),
and Karl Wallace (professor, rhetorician and President of the Speech
Association of America)
- Correspondence of William Carlos Williams (1946-1963). Also, letters
to painter Juan Mauricio Rugendas (1835-1845) from poet Juan Gualberto
Godoy, writer Juan de Espinosa, and Jose Javier y Tomas Bustamente
- Poems and stories (in English and Polish, some unpublished) by Leokadia
Rowinski, a native of Poland who served as an underground courier during
Nazi occupation in World War II and lived in Holyoke, Massachusetts
- Literary works by and about twentieth-century writers (William Morris,
Robert Francis, Archibald MacLeish, William Butler Yeats, Roberta Uno
& the Asian American Women Playwrights' Scripts Collection, William
Manchester), Latin
American authors and locales (in Spanish and English), and African-American
writers of the Broadside
Press
- Student
publications, University of Massachusetts Press publications, publications
and records produced by the English department and other academic
departments, and by individual
faculty and staff
- Interviewers' records and phonological analyses generated during research
and field work for the Linguistic
Atlas of New England (1939-1943)
- The Regional
Community Cookbooks Collection
Individuals wishing to explore further for primary materials of interest
should review listings in Major
Manuscript Materials for Literature and Fine Arts as well as other
repositories and online
exhibits for links that might prove useful. Contact
Special Collections and Archives for detailed collection descriptions
and research assistance.
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