RBSC/SPX. Special Collections
Record Group Term
Identifier: RBSC/SPX
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Alan Denson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RBSC-SPX-007
Scope and Contents
Northern Illinois University acquired some 36 books and several envelopes of manuscripts and letters relating to 20th-Century Anglo-Irish writers, especially George Russel (A.E.), from Alan Denson in 1970. Denson was the editor of AE's letters, as well as having published a bibliography on AE. Denson's correspondence with writers and notes are indexed.
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Vincent Starrett Collection
Collection
Identifier: RBSC-SPX-008
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Starrett's novels, bibliographies, essays, poems, correspondence and letters, biographies, autobiographies, and miscellaneous odds and ends such as greeting cards and book plates.
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Patric Dickinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RBSC-SPX-009
Scope and Contents
The Patric Dickinson papers contain poetry manuscripts ranging from his early years as a poet to the manuscripts of poems included in his 1970 book, More Than Time. Much of the poetry is on loose leaf paper, though there are two bound notebooks with handwritten poetry. Also included in the collection are a number of radio play manuscripts, a typescript of his play The Golden Touch, and manuscripts of essays. The radio play manuscripts aired on the BBC Third Programme Radio between 1958 and...
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
James Hanley Collection
Collection
Identifier: RBSC-SPX-011
Scope and Contents
This collection provides extensive documentation of several of Hanley’s typescripts and unpublished works. The manuscripts contain typescripts for plays Hanley wrote for television and radio. The last two sections of the manuscript collection include letters from Hanley to Norman Unger and from Hanley to K. A. Ward. Besides original materials, over 100 published items individually cataloged and listed on the library’s online catalog compliment the manuscripts and are held in the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1932-1978; Other: Date acquired: 03/21/2014
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Socratic Club Archives
Collection
Identifier: RBSC-SPX-010
Abstract
The Oxford University Socratic Club was founded by Stella Adwinckle in 1941 and was an establishment where Iris Murdoch and C.S. Lewis gave talks and developed theories that would later influence their writings. The Socratic Club was created with the purpose of an open discussion of the conceptual ambiguity associated with religion (Christianity in particular). The Socratic Digest was the club's magazine that published talks by various people, such as C.S. Lewis, Iris Murdoch, H.H. Price,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1942-1990
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Lady Cave Papers
Collection
Identifier: RBSC-SPX-013
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Raymond E. Gnat Papers
Collection
Identifier: RBSC-SPX-015
Scope and Contents
The Raymond E. Gnat papers contain printed (paper-based) materials. The collection is broken into series based upon format. Currently, there is only one series: Novels.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2008; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2008
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Wizard of Oz fan club collection
Collection
Identifier: SCA-RBSC-SPX-027
Scope and Contents
This collection maintains materials associated with Oz fan club and collectors' ephemera. The International Wizard of Oz fan club member correspondence and convention ephemera represents the bulk of the collection. The International Wizard of Oz Club, Inc., was founded during 1957 by Justin G. Schiller, a then thirteen-year-old boy. The society's major publication, The Baum Bugle, began with Schiller duplicating issues on his parents' mimeograph machine. (...
Dates:
circa 1962-2011
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
