Facts and fictions of being bilingual in a monolingual culture. An interview with Antonine Maillet, Acadian author and recipient of top honors for her many novels about Acadian life. See also Maine Humanities Collection, Acc. 0800, 3/4-inch.
Dated 1/25/82. Visits with artists and performers from around Maine and New England including Julien Olivier, storyteller, Gilbert Roy, artist, Buck McHenry, wood sculptor, Josee Vachone [sic], singer. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
A letter to Félix Gatineau, from Hugo A. Dubuque, a member of the Massachusetts' House of Representatives. Written on stationery from Boston's Superior Court, Dubuque commended Gatineau on his recent publication "Histoire des Franco-Americains de Southbridge."
A letter to Félix Gatineau, from Charles de Bauffremont. The letter is in regards to Gatineau's recent publishing of his "Histoire des Franco-Americains de Southbridge."
The Achille J. St. Onge (1913-1978) papers include correspondence with authors, printers, and the subjects of some of the 48 miniature books he published.
With book titles in both French and English, the Santerre Collection deals with the wide range of Franco-American experience in New England, touching on topics from literature and the arts to religion, benevolent societies, language, the process of assimilation, biography, and history. The collection includes several uncommon imprints regarding French American communities in Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, and Worcester, Mass., as well as in Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, and it includes publications of associations such as the Ralliement Français en Amérique, the Association Canado-Americain, and the Alliance Française de Lowell.
[List of authors and description of correspondence not yet digitized and available online.] For more information or to obtain the contents of any of these folders please contact the Maine State Library.
Entries include brief biographical information, a newspaper book review clipping with her large photographic portrait image and some conflicting biographical and notated information, a typed letter introducing Warmke to the Maine Author collection, and a typed letter to Warmke at the University of Puerto Rico, Institute of Marine Biology, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, from the Maine State Library on receipt of a copy of Caribbean Seashells inscribed by Warmke and coauthor R. Tucker Abbott for the Maine Author Collection. Date Range: 1963/1964
Entries include brief biographical information, a humorous typed biography, handwritten letters on personal stationery, and a handwritten letter on Molton Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, stationery. Date Range: 1937/1938
Entries include brief biographical information, a typed biography, and typed biographical letters of correspondence with a Portland, Maine, machinist's assistant. Date range: 1937/1942
Entries include letters, a biography, newspaper clippings including photographic images of Hamlin's family from her first marriage, a publisher advertisement, and notes about a new marriage partner. Date range: 1944-1948
Entries include a typed letter of correspondence with some biographical information and an appreciative, typed letter of book presentation on Maine School of Camping, Rangeley, Maine, stationery from Riviere. Date range: 1960/1961
Entries include brief biographical information, a typed biography relating to Reed's impoverished upbringing when after the age of five she was moved to convents in New Brunswick, Canada, and Portland, Maine, and boarded with families other than her own, and handwritten letters of correspondence with the Maine State Library concerning her book of verse written in the French dialect De Leetle Jesus of St. Basil: and other poems. Date range: 1932-01/1932-08
Entries include a typed introductory letter from the Maine State Library requesting poems by Thivierge for the Maine Author Collection, a typed letter from Thivierge with reference to her recent crowning as poet laureate in a Paris, France, competition and hopes finding French Canadian colleagues in the Maine Author Collection, a biographical newspaper clipping detailing Thivierge's French honor, a typed letter from the Maine State Library with names of some French Canadians in the Maine Author Collection in 1935, a typed letter on plain paper from Thivierge presenting materials that were not sent and her plans to write a book set in Canada with an English title, a typed biography on plain paper with a list of Thivierge's pen names used in various French language publications from the United States, France, and Canada, a typed letter of presentation on plain paper, and a typed letter from the Maine State Library upon receipt of French articles (missing) and poems from Thivierge. Date range: 1935-02/1935-05
Entries include a biographical review newspaper clipping with the photographic image of Coté and a child and a handwritten letter of correspondence. Date range: 1953/1954
Entries include the brief biographical information of a New York City based Author born in Quebec, Canada, with Robichaud's typed correspondence on personal stationery concerning his novel Papa Martel set in Maine. Date range: 1961-02/1961-04
Entries include the typed transcription of an introduction to the Maine Author Collection from Maine state librarian Henry Ernest Dunnack to a Limerick, Maine, author, a typed biographical letter on plain paper, typed letters concerning sources for Lamprey's juvenile literature history books and encyclopedia articles written for the Britannica company with illustrations by Arthur Townsend Lougee, a typed letter with some biographical information and a drip of ink, her political translations of a local French newspaper [Le Messager], a hiking song written for the Limerick Camp Fire Girls and an article in The Camp Fire monthly the Guardian, her thoughts on Boston ancestors and their participation in organized animal competitions, geographical pot holes, (a note to the library that it would be helpful to identify Civil War tiles as written by Confederate sources or perspective to prevent "false history," find this quote) a photographic postcard of Lamprey's home, the Woodsome?, a list of books written by Lamprey, a newspaper book review clipping for The Tomahawk Trail with a photographic portrait image of Lamprey, notice of Lamprey's gift of a print of Sugarloaf Mountain inset into the Maine Author Collection copy of The Tomahawk Trail, and typed correspondence concerning her book History of Limerick for the Maine Author Collection.
Entry is a handwritten biographical sketch from the Augusta, Maine, author of Le Club Calumet Incorporated: Semi-Centennial Celebration History, 1922-1972, Fifty Years of Progress and The Franco-Americans.
The papers of an educator, poet, and major figure in the Franco-American revival of the 1970s. The collection includes his poetry, artwork, correspondence, scrapbooks, manuscripts, published works, research materials, and teaching materials. Also included are materials concerning bilingual education, human rights, and the St. John Valley Bilingual Project.
This collection consists of an audio recording of songs and harmonica music, as well as 5 sheets of "histoires et contes" from Cecile Marquis Picard of Madawaska, Maine. All materials submitted for a course at the University of Maine at Fort Kent in Spring 1975.
Three hand written notebooks of manuscript song texts and poems compiles by Madawaska, Maine area resident Albina Cyr (b. 1 March 1920) and by her maternal great aunt Anna Clavette (Mrs. Ernest Fournier) of St-Basile, New Brunswick. The Ablina Cyr song collection was loaned to the Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes for photocopying by Ms. Cyr following a field visit to her home on 21 October 1992.
A collection of French-language manuscripts, correspondence, and clippings by and about Henri d’Arles (1870–1930), the nom de plume of Father Henri Beaudé (né Beaudet) who was a writer and Catholic priest from Québec. Beaudé was initially professed with the Dominican Order in Québec but was later incardinated into the Diocese of Manchester (New Hampshire). In 1924, he became a citizen of the United States. Between 1903 and 1930 Beaudé authored over 25 books and pamphlets in addition to writings in literary and historical journals. He edited and annotated the three volume Acadie: reconstitution d’un chapitre perdu de l’histoire d’Amérique based on Édouard Richard’s manuscript which earned him the Medaille d’or from l’Académie Française in 1922. The collection includes manuscripts for many of his published books, his personal diary (Journal Intime), clippings, and various correspondence of different provenance.
Comprises typescript, manuscript, email and post-card correspondence between author Annie Proulx and Joel Connaroe, author of books and essays about American poetry and fiction, editor of Six American Poets, and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1985 to 2002 ; with 143 color photographs.
This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by the author and an undated notebook. The manuscripts include fragments and excerpts of stories. The correspondence, dating from 1943 through 1969, includes letters from the author to his sister Carolyn Blake, Robert Giroux, Alfred Kazin, Philip Whalen, and others. There are letters to Kerouac from his mother, Gabrielle, dating from [1942] to [1943].
The archive comprises material related to the publication of four short-story collections written and/ or composed by Proulx during this period, as well as uncollected short stories; material related to the composition and publication of four novels published between 1992 and 2002; material related to the composition of nonfiction articles, essays, and books, including freelance magazine work done by Proulx in the 1980’s and several “how-to” gardening and cooking publications; four academic theses completed by Proulx while she was a history student at the University of Vermont and George Williams University; a holograph journal begun by Proulx on 1976, and concluded on March 18, 1977, while she was living in the North Kingdom of Vermont (restricted until after the death of the author); book reviews, public remarks, interviews, book proposals, and a small section of poetry written by Annie Proulx. The archive also includes some born-digital drafts of works and correspondence, and her sketchbooks and watercolors of landscapes and people.\n
Also contains Proulx’s extensive research files, which include maps and guides organized by region, project files with articles organized by subject, and hundreds of research photographs, many organized by place. Other photographs in the archive include portraits of Annie Proulx, photographs of literary events, and photographs from Proulx’s childhood and of family and friends.\n
Also includes a large collection of artwork by Proulx’s mother, painter and amateur naturalist Lois Nellie Gill Proulx, and her estate papers, as well as a collection of genealogical and property records retained by Proulx.\n
The archive is rich in both incoming and outgoing correspondence, and includes letters to and from writers and friends; agents and publishers; translators, and readers. In many cases, Proulx retained copies of her outgoing personal and business letters. Correspondence from fans of “Brokeback Mountain” is restricted for the life of the author, as is Proulx’s Vermont journal.
The Jack Kerouac Archive spans the years 1920 to 1977, with the bulk dated 1935 to 1969. The collection chiefly consists of holograph and typescript drafts of Kerouac's novels, stories, poetry, plays and screenplays, journals, diaries, notebooks, autobiographical and spiritual prose, fantasy horseracing, and fantasy baseball game. Other materials include Jack Kerouac's artwork, incoming and outgoing correspondence, photographs, personal and financial papers (including bank statements and canceled checks), publishing contracts, newspaper cuttings, maps, and realia.
Memoirs of Israel Belanger as dictated to stenographer. Israel Belanger was Margaret Powers' great uncle, brother to her maternal grandfather. In this "little sketch of my life," Israel recounts his roots in Ste. Beatrix, QC, his arrival in Cohoes to begin work in Harmony Mills at the age of eight, his education and family life as a child and later as an adult, and his trials in the political arena. He served in many roles, including Deputy Attorney General.
The fifth in a five-part series in which authors select and discuss a book that impacted their life. Russell Banks discusses Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Also included on the disc are other segments of the show, The Connection, broadcast on Boston NPR station WBUR.
This collection contains material relating to American novelist and poet Russell Banks and his professional activities. The bulk of the collection is a corrected typescript of The Book of Jamaica (1980). Other materials include correspondence with colleagues and a published review Banks wrote of Ha Jin’s War Trash in 2004.
The literary papers of American writer Russell Banks span a fifty-year career from the early 1960s to 2012. The collection includes material for his novels and collected short stories, from notes and drafts of works to publication material and reviews, as well as screenplays written by Banks and by others based on his novels. Also present are shorter works, such as articles and essays, introductions, plays, poems, reviews, and short stories. The papers also contain extensive correspondence, articles about Banks, biographical information, diary notes, contracts, published material, and works by others.
The small Jack Kerouac Collection, 1948-1980, contains galley proofs forThe Dharma Bums, Desolation Angel and Excerpts from Visions of Cody, as well as page proofs of Excerpts, and a typescript of 'Two Space Poems.' Also in the collection is a notebook journal created by Kerouac while preparing to write On the Road. Due to the fragile condition of the notebook, photocopy and digital images are available for research use. Access to the original journal is available only with curatorial permission./n
In addition, the collection contains correspondence from Kerouac to Neal and Carolyn Cassady, Star Huffstickler, and Raman K. Singh. The Singh correspondence includes typed biographical questionnaires completed by Kerouac. Also present are photocopies of letters from Kerouac, Carolyn Cassidy, and Charles Bukowski.
