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Manuscript draft copy "A Few Figs From Thistles, Poems and Sonnets" (Addition ViU-2017-0157) 0.03 Cubic Feet Letter size folder (may have to go in legal folder because the existing box is legal) Folder 1

Proof copy of Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles". Typescript in cover of Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles, Poems and Sonnets (New York: Frank Shay, 1921). 25 pp. Rare example of a pre-publication item from Frank Shay, a little-known publisher in Greenwich Village, New York who published small-run books, a magazine, and a newspaper from Frank Shay's Bookshop, 4 Christopher Street.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Edna St. Vincent Millay papers

Medieval manuscript leaf 0.03 Cubic Feet 1 folder

The medieval manuscript leaf (circa1300-1500; 0.03 cubic feet) the text is not identified. It may be from a martyrology. Contains a chapter concerning Pope Callixtus I. Later used in a bookbinding perhaps. The margins have been trimmed, dampstained. It is on vellum and is rubricated in red.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

"Nota Sobre La Paz" Box 1, Folder 20

Holograph manuscript "A Note on Peace" titled, signed, and dated "Jorges Luis Borges, 1945". With deletions and interpolations. The original manuscript was published in Sur no. 129 (May 1945)about the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. It extols Britain's role and demonstrates what was, unusually for Borges, a strong commitment to liberalism and Western civilization.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Jorge Luis Borges papers
  3. Manuscripts

Oversize "Prose Poems for I. J." Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox) 1, Folder 4

Holograph manuscript signed by Jorge Luis Borges, in black ink on 2 large paper leaves. They are two linked poems of 29 and 27 lines respectively desgnated "I" and "II". They were written in 1934 and dedicated to "I. J" which were false initials concealing the true identity of dedicatee Pipina Diehl de Moreno Hueyo. They were published in 1943, in the first compilation of Borge's poems [Poemas (1922-1943)]. They were republished under the title Two English Poems, this time dedicated to Beatriz Bibiloni Webster de Bullrich. These are the only poems Borges is known to have written in English [sic].

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. Jorge Luis Borges papers
  3. Manuscripts

Ruth and Lowell Toliver Collection of Newman Family Papers 3.8 cubic feet in 3 boxes and 12 tri-folds

Toliver, Ruth M.
The Ruth and Lowell Toliver Collection of Newman Family Papers, circa 1875-2005, comprises a manuscript, writings, personal papers, facsimile photographs, church records, and correspondence related to George A. Newman (1855-1944), his daughter Ruby Newman Temple (1898-1983), his grandsons Austin Gerald Harris (1941-2005) and Wendell Temple (1923-2005), and Harrisonburg's Northeast Neighborhood and Newtown.
  1. James Madison University

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