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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms.

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

John T. Ackerson (George Jarrboe) papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16775
Content Description This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1822 - 1961
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Robert Anbian papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16922
Content Description This collection contains the papers of poet, author, publisher, and political activist Robert White Anbian (1949-2022). Anbian graduated from the University of Virginia in 1971, after which he spent three years in Niger with the Peace Corps from 1974 to 1977. He then relocated to San Francisco, where he worked as a writer and poet until his death. From 1985 to 1996, Robert served as the editor of the monthly Film Arts Foundation magazine, Release Print, and the publicist for an independent...
Dates: 1974-2022
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Benjamin Sher poem

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2019-0215
Dates: 1978
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript

 Collection — Box BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589275]
Identifier: MSS 16133
Scope and Contents

Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript (1851-1855; 0.03 cubic feet) includes copies of poetry, and cheerful passages belonging to Sarah Brown.

Dates: 1851-1855
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles Vandersee papers-addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Box ViU-2023-0060_001: [Barcode: X031778958]
Identifier: ViU-2023-0060
Dates: 1976-1993
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles Wright papers-addition

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2021-0134
Dates: c. 1980s - 2010s
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

McDonald Clarke collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7546
Content Description

This collection of McDonald Clarke papers contains one autograph poem titled "Midnight" from 1815, an undated manuscript poem fragment beginning "They tell me we shall never meet" from Clarke's Afara; receipts for the sale of books to William Gowans from Clarke dated October 28, 1837, and from Francis G. Dorr, dated October 25, 1837; and an undated lithograph of the head and upper torso of Clarke.

Dates: 1815-1837
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Joseph Rodman Drake poem Abelard to Eloise--addition 5

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032669535]
Identifier: MSS 7577
Content Description

Joseph Rodman Drake holograph fair copy of his poem, Abelard to Eloise

Dates: circa 1820
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Eleanor Steiner translations of Jorge Luis Borges

 Unprocessed Material — Digital_container ViU2025-0005_001
Identifier: ViU-2025-0005
Dates: 2024
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Flame & Frost poem

 Collection — Box BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16750
Content Description

This collection contains a handwritten poem written by Joan St. C. Crane based on her experiences of compiling the works of poet Robert Frost. It was written at the University of Virginia in the Fall of 1971. Alongside the poem in the collection is a catalogue card outlining the work's title, author, and subject matter.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1971
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

George and Ellen Frost collection of Robert Frost materials

 Unprocessed Material — Box ViU-2025-0103_001: [Barcode: X032762791]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0103
Dates: 1919-1962
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

George Borrow translation

 Unprocessed Material — Box Vault Accessions, Folder: ViU2020-0070_001
Identifier: ViU-2020-0070
Dates: c. 1824
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Hugh McCulloch sonnet

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2021-0002
Dates: 1895
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Jane's album

 Collection — Box BW 25
Identifier: MSS 16538
Dates: 1830's
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Eliza Ellen (Davidson) Johnston commonplace book

 Collection — Box BW 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16513
Content Description This collection contains a bound volume of manuscript poems written and compiled by Eliza Ellen [Davidson] Johnston. The presentation page is inscribed as folllows " A common place book presented to Eliza Ellen Davidson by her Affectionate Mother on the 4th of June 1826, Greenbrier Virginia." A bound volume of unlined pages divided into two sections, hand-paginated with exception of final 30+ pages. This volume contains many poems written by Davidson, with her name and date at the end of...
Dates: 1826 - 1827
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Joy Rebekah Kime Benton scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X032762515]
Identifier: MSS 16843
Content Description This collection contains a scrapbook belonging to Joy Rebekah Kime Benton (1886-1957) of Burlington, North Carolina, an author, poet, painter, and weaver. The contents of scrapbook items are principally documents from 1905 to 1908, although some paste-ins are from the 1930s. There are 128 pages with photographs, clippings, drawings, and ephemera pasted and laid in. The album primarily documents her college days at the Salem Female Academy (later Salem College). It includes her...
Dates: c. 1905-1933
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles Godfrey Leland poetry scrapbook

 File — Box 2
Identifier: MSS 16531
Dates: 1859
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

L.H. Sigourney papers-addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2021-0014
Dates: 1863-12-05
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets extracts

 Item — Ledger 1
Identifier: MSS 16401
Scope and Contents Note

The handwritten copy of extracts (1796; 0.15 cubic feet) from the "Lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works" by Samuel Johnson, originally published in 1783. Copy was transcribed in 1796 and includes a table of contents and index.

Dates: 1796
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Lydia Huntley Sigourney letter--addition 2

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2021-0075
Dates: April 4, 1832
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library