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About the Literary Manuscripts Collection

If you have reference questions relating to this collection or questions for the curator, please e-mail us at maggie_kopp@byu.edu or dainan_skeem@byu.edu

Special Collections owns a variety of literary manuscripts by American and British authors, including Mormon authors. Major collections include the papers of Zane Grey, Orson Scott Card, and Orson F. Whitney, and the Magee Collection of Victorian and Edwardian Manuscripts, which contains the manuscripts of novelist Mary St. Leger Harrison (Lucas Malet) and correspondence by such 19th-century luminaries as Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Anthony Trollope, Florence Nightingale, and Lord Byron. Special Collections also possesses complete and partial literary manuscripts of works by Louisa May Alcott, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Burke, Henry James, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The literary collections also include correspondence by a number of American and British authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Letters of Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and Ida M. Tarbell can all be found among the library’s manuscript collections, as can letters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, W. Somerset Maugham, and Robert Graves.

More recently, the Library has acquired the papers of author and general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Gerald N. Lund.

Curator

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Maggie Kopp
Contact:
1130 HBLL
(801) 422-6276

Curator of 21st Century Mormon & Western Manuscripts

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Dainan Skeem
Contact:
1105 Harold B. Lee Library
801-422-6230

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