WU Libraries Manuscript Collections
Finding-Aids
Washington University's collections of manuscripts contain a broad range of materials dating from the 2nd century BC through the present. The largest group of materials is the Modern Literature Collection with over a quarter of a million items in formats ranging from paper to electronic image. Several hundred papyri, manuscript books and fragments, St. Louis literary manuscripts, and several autograph collections round out the holdings.
Browse Collections by Main Entry ♦ Browse All Finding-Aids by Genre, Format, or Subject ♦Browse All Finding-Aids by Collection Number ♦ Browse an Author Index of the old Guide to the Modern Literature Collection (1985)
Collections
Revised Guide to the Modern Literature Collection (2003) ♦ Washington University Papyri ♦ Michelangelo Document ♦Illuminated Books of Hours ♦ Modern Literature Recorded Multimedia Collection ♦
Projects
James Merrill Memory Project ♦ Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Finding-Aid Project ♦ APIS III, an NEH Project ♦ Missouri State Archives Audio Reformatting Project ♦ Sesquicentennial Oral History of Literature
Research Guides
American Literature ♦ British Literature
Programming
Modern Literature Reading Series ♦ WU Manuscript Working Group ♦ Manuscripts and Archives Reading Group ♦ Events in Special Collections
Local Links
Special Collections Home ♦Manuscripts Home ♦ Manuscripts Forms and Formalities