Scope and Contents The John Carrington Cross Papers consist of typescript plays and short stories created by Cross while a graduate student in the dramatic arts department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A prolific writer who kept a wide circle of friends, Cross wrote regularly to friends and former classmates, some of whom were serving in the military during World War II. The collection contains many letters, from both male and female service members, that discuss work and living...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 82 boxes containing the professional papers of historian John Lukacs. Lukacs’ professional materials include samples from each stage of his writing process, including research files; article, essay, and poetry drafts; proofs; and published pieces in periodicals and clippings. The collection also contains contracts, financial records and lecture notes from his various teaching positions. Also included is Lukacs’ correspondence. Significant topics include 20th...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of Jorge Luis Borges an Argentine writer and poet. It contains ephemera and records related to Borges’ professional career, including newspaper articles, a cigarette holder, interviews, poetry, unpublished manuscripts, and scholarly articles written about Borges and published in various magazines, including the Avant Garde magazine Martín Fierro (1924-1927). Significant topics represented in these files are poetry and Latin American literature and...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of Peruvian manuscripts and imprints collected by José Durand over the course of his professional career. These materials date from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, though the bulk of the material pertains to the nineteenth century. This collection covers a wide range of topics relating primarily to colonial and nineteenth-century Peruvian history. Highlights include theatrical works, land documents, Inquisition documents, accounts of the...

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This collection consists of a number of musical compositions by José Porfirio “Pepe” Gallart Carcasses. Included are fourteen musical compositions in manuscript, one printed set of sheet music, one concert recording of the 130th Birthday of José Porfirio Gallart, one photograph, and various ephemera relating to the commemoration of José Gallart and his works.

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The collection contains paper files from the later decades of Gümpel's career, including correspondence (notably, correspondence with Michel Huglo), transcriptions of medieval treatises, as well as notes, notebooks and index cards on various manuscripts. Near the end of his life, Gümpel was working on an edition of the anonymous 12-13th century treatise Diologus de musica, and there are many items related to this work in progress.

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Lease and Release of lands and buildings in All Saints, Canterbury, to George Legrand by Robert LeGrand for £185.

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Lease and Release (release is MSE/EM 3707-5) of lands and buildings in All Saints, Canterbury, to Jane George by Anne Parker.

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Lease and Release (release MSE/EM 3707-31) of lands and buildings in All Saints, Canterbury, to Charles Lepine by George Legrand.

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Lease and Release (release is MSE/EM 3707-8) of lands and buildings in All-Saints, Canterbury, to James Wallis by Jane George.

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Lease and Release (release MSE/EM 3707-30) of lands and buildings in All Saints, Canterbury, to Benjamin LeGrand by Mary Wallis.

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Lease and Release (release MSE/EM 3707-2) of lands and buildings in All Saints, Canterbury, to Jane George by Priscilla Delarue alias Sheete.

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Lease and Release (release MSE/EM 3737-32) of lands and buildings in All Saints, Canterbury, to William Goulden by William Lepine, Daniel Lepine, and Charles Lepine.

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The correspondence and other papers of the American Lenore Mooney (1859-1941), dating especially from her time as a relief worker in Paris during World War I. There are many letters to Mooney from French soldiers and others victimized by the war, as well as a substantial correspondence with nephew Charles E. Bayly, Jr., an ambulance driver with the American Field Service who subsequently served as sous-lieutenant in the French army.

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Manuscripts and other materials relating to the Confederate army service of the brothers Henry, Martin, Robert, and Joseph Leonard, of Iredell County, North Carolina, including records of Co. C, 48th North Carolina Infantry.

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A letter from Amedeo Tara regarding the new academy in the city.

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Personal letter from Carolo Santus in Ivrea to his brother the Count Sanctus in Torino.

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Letter from Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, granting brothers Giovanni Matteo and Giuliano a part of his feudal lands whose former owner (vassal Alexander Ostero) had recently died.

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Letter from Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, nominating Giovanni Matteo Santo to a position in the recently vacated Abbey of San Ponzo.

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Letter from Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, giving the land of a recently deceased widow with no successors (Antonia Ossella) to D. Giovanni Matteo Santo.

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A letter from Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy, to Signor Conte Maurizio Santi requesting the release of several captured thieves.

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Letter from Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, to Count Maurizio Santus, describing the maltreatment of Giovanni Giacomo Ceva and notifying the count that Ceva has been placed under the duke’s protection and should therefore no longer be troubled.

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Letter from Charles Emanuel III, Duke of Savoy, to Count Santus, current Governor of Mortara and the province of Lumellina, reminding him that later that month he must return to Torino and give his governorship over to the captain of the guards.

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Letter of Charles III, Duke of Savoy, with an attached sheet in a different hand discussing the granting of jurisdiction of lands to Johannes de Siluescho.

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Letter from the secretary of the Magistrate of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus to Count Cesare Vittorio Valperga di Cuorgné, requesting some change in the regulations regarding the uniforms of the various divisions of the Order.

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Letter from Filippo d’Este, Marquis, and General Lieutenant, promoting a certain Ettore Valperga to Capitan and Castellano of the Castle of Cherasco.

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Letter from Minister General of the Franciscans, Fr. Paulus de Soncino, to the Lord Lancino de Lancinis and Lady Marguerite his wife, conferring assistance and spiritual care.

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Letter describing the conditions of the troops after they were sent to a location outside of Pinerolo (Italy).

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Letter of recommendation from Charles Emannuel I (Duke of Savoy) to the canons at the cathedral at Carmagnola that they accept Giulio Cesare Zoello as their new provost

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Letter to Valperga Santus of notification of his appointment to Head of the Fourth (and one half?) Brigade of the National Guard, with the attendant benefits