Literary Microforms at Notre Dame

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I. General Collections

“American Fiction, 1774-1900.” 1396 reels. Microfilm 743.
Over 11,000 works listed in Lyle Wright’s bibliographies. Printed guide is
located in the Microtext Reading Room (M.R.R. Z 1231 .F447 P94).

“American Literary Annuals and Gift Books.” 58 reels. Microfilm 765.
Printed guide is Thompson’s bibliography, M.R.R. Z 1231 .G366 T377a

“American Literary Manuscripts from the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.”
6 reels. Microfilm 3600.
Major and minor writers from 1650 to 1850 including Irving, Poe, Cooper,
Foster, Paine, Fuller, Paulding, among others. Printed guide.

“American Periodicals.” 33 reels. Microfilm 1.
One hundred periodicals (excluding newspapers). Search by title in the Libraries’ catalog or search by series name for a complete list. Printed guide is American Periodicals, 1741-1900 : an Index to the Microfilm Collections--American Periodicals 18th Century, American Periodicals, 1800-1850, American Periodicals, 1850-1900, Civil War and Reconstruction, M.R.R. PN 4877 .H6.

“American Women’s Diaries.” 90 reels. Microfilm 3457, 3505, and 3662.
Manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries, in three parts: New England,
Southern, and Western. Printed guide.

“Colonial Discourses. Series one, Women, Travel, and Empire,1660-1914. Part I: Early Travel Accounts by Women, and Women’s Experiences in India, Africa, Australasia and Canada.” 25 reels. Microfilm 4071.
One hundred twenty-one printed volumes by fifty-one women writers. Printed guide.

“Dictionary of Old English.” [In progress.] Microfiche 4 x 6. Printed guide.

“Early American Imprints.” Microcards 6 X 9.
Over 90,000 works published in North America (excluding Canada) from 1639 to
1819. Printed guides are the bibliographies by Evans (Z 1215 Ev15a) and
Shaw and Shoemaker (Z 1215 S48).

“Early American Newspapers.” 8 reels. Microfilm 2770-1776.
Over 1,000 American newspapers published before 1821. Based on Clarence,
History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1620-1820, Z 6951 B768h.
Search by title in the Libraries’ catalog or search by series name for a complete list.

“Early English Books, 1475-1640.” 1,979 reels. Microfilm 1070.
Selected from Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue. Listed in ESTC (“English Short-Title Catalog”).

“Early English Books, 1641-1700.” 2,164 reels. Microfilm 1071.
Selected from Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue. Listed in ESTC and library catalog.

“Early English Newspapers.” 50 reels. Microfilm 3805. [ Units 2 and 4 are on order.]
Listed in the ESTC. Printed guide is M.R.R. PN 5114 .C69 1983c.

“The Eighteenth Century.” Over 12,000 reels. Twelve cabinets near M.R.R.
Several hundred thousand items selected from the 500,000 titles printed in Great Britain and its colonies or printed in English anywhere else in the world from 1701-1800. Filming is still in progress. Listed in the ESTC. Printed guide is M.R.R. Z 2002 .E444.

“Eighteenth Century English Provincial Newspapers.” 125 reels. Microfilm 3800.
Listed in ESTC. Printed guide.

“Forster and Dyce Collections from the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.” 76 reels. Microfilm 3922.
Papers, correspondence, literary manuscripts of authors of the 16th, 17th, and
18th centuries, including Browning, Burns, Defoe, Dickens, Heywood, Kean,
Macready, Marlow, Massinger, Richardson, Swift, Wordsworth, among others.
Manuscript drafts of sixteen of Dickens’ novels. A catalog of contents appears
on reels 1-3. Printed guide.

“Goldsmiths’–Kress Library of Economic Literature.” 3,798 reels. Microfilm 3968.
Publications on economics and business printed from the 15th to the early 20th
centuries owned by the University of London, Harvard, Columbia, Yale, and the
New York Public Library. Some 60,000 pre-1850 monographs and 466 pre-1906
serials. Listed in ESTC. Printed guide.

“Gothic Fiction: Rare Printed Works from the Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Fiction at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia.” 134+ reels. Microfilm 4311.
Segments include “Matthew Lewis and Gothic Horror,” “Gothic Terror: Radcliffe and her Imitators,” and “Domestic and Sentimental Gothic.” Printed guide is M.R.R. Z 881 .V885 2002.

“Manuscripts of the Irish Literary Renaissance.”
Series I: “The Diaries of Joseph Holloway, 1895-1944, from the National
Library of Ireland, Dublin. 105 reels. Microfilm 3796.
Series II: “The Abbey Theatre and Cultural Life.”
“The W.A. Henderson Scrapbooks, 1899-1911, from the National
Library of Ireland, Dublin.” 5 reels. Microfilm 3744.
Series III: “The J. M. Synge Manuscripts from the Library of Trinity College,
Dublin.” 19 reels. Microfilm 3696.
Printed guide.

“Microfiche Concordance to Old English.” 412 fiches. Microfiche 4 x 6.
Printed guide.

“Popular Literature in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.”
Part 1: “Chapbooks.” 16 reels. Over 1,500 chapbooks. [ordered]
Parts 3 to 10: “The Bloods and Penny Dreadfuls.” 165 reels. Novelettes, short
stories, serial novels featuring gruesome stories, gallows tales, adventures in
foreign lands.

“Selected Americana from Sabin’s Dictionary of Books Relating to America.” Microfiche 3 x 5 and 4 x 6.
Based on Sabin’s bibliography, Ref Z 1201 .Sa13b. Titles are filed
alphabetically.

“Three Centuries of English and American Plays.” Microcards.
Contains 5,350 British and 250 American plays from 1500 to 1800 (1830 for the
United States). Printed guide is M.R.R. Z 2014 .D79 B5.

“Travels in the Confederate States.” Microfiche 3 x 5.
Almost 500 titles filed alphabetically. Based on Coulter’s bibliography,
Z 1251 So6 C8. Guide is M.R.R. Z 1033 .M5 L6.

[Victorian periodicals on microfilm–see separate list.]

“Women and Victorian Values: Advice Books, Manuals, and Journals for Women.”
83 reels. Microfilm 3986.
Printed guide.

“Women’s Autobiographies from Cambridge University Library.”
22 reels. Microfilm 4007.
Fifty-five women’s lives from 1713 to 1889.
Printed guide is HQ 1123 .A2 W66 2004 Guide.

“Women’s Periodicals: 18th Century to the Great Depression.” 150 reels. Call number
varies [search library catalog as a series].
Over 160 American and European periodicals of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Search by title in the Libraries’ catalog or search by series name for a complete list. Printed guide is M.R.R. HQ 1101 .W663 1991.

II. Microfilm indexes

“Belfast Newsletter Index (1738-1800).” 51 microfiches. Microfiche 4 x 6.

National Library of Ireland. “Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation.”
Ed. by Richard J. Hayes. 22 reels. Microfilm 3150.

National Library of Ireland. “Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation:
First Supplement, 1965-1975.” 3 reels. Microfilm 3151.

National Library of Ireland. “Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation[sic]: Articles
in Irish Periodicals.” 18 reels. Microfilm 3152.

 

III. Specific Individuals

Bennett, Gwendolyn. “Gwendolyn Bennett Papers.” 2 reels. Microfilm 3804.

Bowyer, William. “The Bowyer Ledgers, The Printing Accounts of William Bowyer,
Father and Son.” 70 microfiches. Microfiche 4 X 6. Printed guide, M.R.R. Z232.B78B7.

Burke, Edmund. “Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1715-1848.”
Part 1. “The papers of Edmund Burke, 1729-1797, from Sheffield City Libraries
and Northamptonshire Record Office.” 25 reels. Microfilm 3545. Printed guide.

Cullen, Countee. “Countee Cullen Papers.” 7 reels. Microfilm 1933.
A leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His correspondence from 1921 to
1945 and other manuscripts up to 1969. Printed guide is M.R.R. PS 3505 U42 Z573.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. “Paul Laurence Dunbar Papers.” 9 reels. Microfilm 3804.
Printed guide.

Edgeworth, Maria. “Women, Education, and Literature: the Papers of Maria
Edgeworth, 1768-1849.” 43 reels. Microfilm 3677. [Part 3 is forthcoming.]
Printed guide.

Garrick, David. [Papers.] 6 reels. Microfilm 1275.

Holloway, Joseph. See “Manuscripts of the Irish Literary Renaissance” above.

Hughes, Langston. “Langston Hughes Collection.” 4 reels. Microfilm 3804.

Larpent, Anna Margaretta. “A Woman’s View of Drama, 1790-1830. The Diaries of Anna Margaretta Larpent from the Huntington Library.” 9 reels. Microfilm 4235.

Lockhart, John Gibson. “The Correspondence and Papers of John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854).” 18 reels. Microfilm 4312.
Part 4 of the series, “Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts.” Lockhart was
editor of the Quarterly Review. Printed guide is Guides PR 1301 .N56 2000.

Piozzi, Hester Lynch. “Hester Thrale-Piozzi, Samuel Johnson, and Literary Society, 1755-1821: The Thrale-Piozzi and Related Manuscripts from the John
Rylands University Library, Manchester.” 42 reels. Microfilm 3585.

Richardson, Samuel Richardson. [Papers.] 4 reels. Microfilm 1274.

Swift, Jonathan. “The Forster and Dyce Collections from the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum.” 76 reels. Microfilm 3922. [Catalog on Reels 1-3.]
“The Papers of Jonathan Swift.” Reels 18-30.

Synge, John Millington. See “Manuscripts of the Irish Literary Renaissance” above.

Wilde, Oscar. “The Oscar Wilde Collection.” 40 reels. Microfilm 3928.
Literary manuscripts, correspondence, and first and rare editions from the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library of the University of California at Los Angeles. Printed guide.

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Laura Fuderer
Subject Librarian : English and French Language and Literature
Office: 219 Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5629
Mail: 208G Hesburgh Library
Phone : 574-631-5233
FAX : 574-631-6772
E-Mail : lfuderer@nd.edu

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