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Manuscript Division

INTRODUCTION

USING THE COLLECTIONS

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Women's Suffrage
Reform
Education
Health and Medicine
Science
Papers of Presidents and First Ladies
Congressional Collections
Legal Collections
Military and Diplomatic Affairs
arrow graphicLiterature and Journalism
Novelists
Playwrights
Poets
Federal and Private Literary Patrons
White House Journalists
New York Herald-Tribune
Washington Post
Foreign Correspondents
Editors, Publishers, and Others
Artists, Architects, and Designers
Actresses and Actors

CONCLUSION

MANUSCRIPT EXTERNAL SITES

VISIT/CONTACT

Literature and Journalism

All areas of American studies, including our country's rich cultural and literary legacy, are reflected in the Library's manuscript holdings. Numerous collections document women's contributions to American literature and journalism. These include collections of papers that women generated as well as the papers of their male colleagues, editors, critics, and publishers. Most of these collections include drafts of literary manuscripts, research notes, transcripts of interviews, and other artifacts of the trade that illustrate the evolution of literary styles, genres, and themes. In addition, the best collections also contain rich correspondence files that reveal aspects of the writer's personality and reflect the cultural and political world in which she lived.

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