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SarahSiddonsPlaybill Celia and Delia Austrian Study Collection of Drama
The Celia and Delia Austrian Study Collection of Drama consists of English-language theater published before 1900, including extensive holdings of British drama and related publications from between 1600 and 1800.
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Books & Journals
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English Literature
Special Collections
The Whale Helen and Ruth Regenstein Collection of Rare Books
In 1965 Helen and Ruth Regenstein established the Helen and Ruth Regenstein Collection of Rare Books in order to secure for the University of Chicago Library excellent copies of important works of literature and the humanities in first or early editions.
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English Literature
Special Collections
The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: With Illustrations from His Own Pictures and Designs.original Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century English Poetry
The Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century English Poetry consists of approximately 600 books of nineteenth-century English poetry, including many special copies, collected by Dr. Gerald N. Wachs and donated to the Library by his family.
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Books & Journals
Subjects
English Literature
Special Collections
Cover of manuscript Whitman, Walt, "The Bible as Poetry." Manuscript, 1883
Original manuscript of Whitman's essay, first published in The Critic in 1883. Included with the manuscript are two portraits of Whitman, a copy of the published essay and Whitman's cover letter to the publishers Jeannette Leonard Gilder and Joseph B. Gilder. Codex MS 263.
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Digital
Archives & Manuscripts
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English Literature