Scope and Contents Collection contains thousands of manuscripts of lyrics and music dictated by Fanny Crosby, poetess and hymnwriter. Most of the manuscripts are numbered and dated. This collection is also available on microfilm. The manuscripts in this collection are all of poems composed by Crosby after 1861. Most of these poems are dated and the majority are numbered in sequence. A description of these manuscripts can be found in the foreword of Fanny Crosby Still Speaks. For most of the poems the...

Scope and Contents The Vachel Lindsay collection is organized into seven series: Biographical, Publications (with Books, Article and Poetry sub-series), Correspondence, Manuscript Material (with Poems sub-series), Lectures, Secondary, and Photographs. The bulk of the collection is located in the published and manuscript poetry series. Several clippings in Secondary also highlight Lindsay's activities.  Many items carry inscriptions from Lindsay to Sarah K. Smith, a friend and fellow School of the Art Institute...