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Collection: William R. Leigh Manuscript Collection

1035 Items

April 26, 1885 | ink on paper

Letter and envelope from Leigh to his mother regarding account of trip to Innsbruck and Brenner Pass

August 30, 1885 | ink on paper

Letter and envelope from Leigh to his mother regarding difficulty sketching, painting, and swimming in Chiemsee weather

February 2, 1886 | ink on paper

Letter and envelope from Leigh to his mother regarding money issues

July 31, 1886 | ink on paper

Letter and envelope from Leigh to his mother questioning how long he will be able to stay in Munich and expressing a desire to stay two winters in Loefflz's school

January 17, 1887 | ink on paper

Letter and envelope from Leigh to his mother regarding current work and hopes that mother will inform Uncle Chapman that Leigh wants to stay another year

June 14, 1887 | ink on paper

Letter and envelope from Leigh to his mother regarding operettas, Loefftz hasn’t looked at his start on "Little Boy", difficulty of last week's assignment, desire to stay another two years

February 14, 1889 | ink on paper

Letter from Leigh to his uncle discussing a Baltimore art dealer General Shryock and the lack of sales

1938 | ink on paper

Unpublished typescripts of chapters not used in the book

early 20th century | ink on paper

"The Manly Art"

early 20th century | pencil on paper

"Will Occidental Civilization survive?"

early 20th century | pencil on paper

Notes on word definitions

early 20th century | pencil on paper

Ideas for stories

early 20th century | ink on paper

"Dead World - Earth's pallid satellite"

December 21, 1965 | ink on paper

Letter from Gordon T. Hicks to John C. Traphagan regretting latter's decision not to join Board of Gilcrease Institute

January 13, 1932 | ink on paper

Letter from Blazer to Leigh with notes on Mescalero customs and commentary on Billy the Kid

April 20, 1934 | ink on paper

Letter and envelope from Blazer to Leigh congratulating Leigh on completion of his 200,000 word book

April 30, 1928 | ink on paper

Letter from C. H. Grandgent to Henry Gallup regarding use of "thou" and "you" in Elizabethan English

November 13, 1931 | ink on paper

Unsigned copy of letter to H.W. Wack from Leigh giving account of voyage from New York to California via Panama and return overland via Southwest and South

June 4, 1930 | ink on paper

A letter to the editor of New York Evening Post from anonymous reader regretting that Leigh's play, "Clipt Wings" claims that Queen Elizabeth had illegitimate sons

December 3, 1920 | ink on paper

Letter from Richard, Sculptor-Taxidermist, Cody, Wyoming Museum, to Leigh inviting him to bear hunt in Bear Tooth Mountains and a hunting trip in Alaska