Walter Havighurst Special Collections Library
King Library, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Named in honor of the distinguished Midwestern writer and long-time
Miami
faculty member Walter Havighurst, Miami University's special collections
library includes a rich assortment of print resources in a number of
subject areas.
The special collections library is open to students, faculty, and other
users; faculty are encouraged to schedule visits for their classes;
frequent exhibits display the library's holdings.
Hours: 8-5, Monday-Friday, and 1-5, Sunday.
Curator: C. Martin Miller, 529-3324
Special Collections Librarian: Gayle Ball, 529-3323
Special Collections Assistants: Suzanne Haag and Barbara Schutte, 529-3323
Literature Collections
- E. W. and Faith King Collection of Juvenile Literature
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- Spiro Peterson Center for Defoe Studies
- In addition to significant editions of Daniel Defoe's works, includes
Professor Spiro Peterson's personal collection and files documenting 250
years of Defoe scholarship.
- Sinclair Collection
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- Bogan Collection
- The personal library of Louise Bogan, American poet and long-time
poetry editor of The New Yorker.
- Graphic Arts Collection
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- Howells Collection
- A nearly complete collection of William Dean Howells first editions,
including variant
bindings, special issues, and a number of signed or inscribed copies.
- Significant Holdings in Literature
- Whitman, Cather, Farrell, Ibsen, O'Neill, and
others.
Shakespeare first folios, Restoration and 18th-Century plays, Defoe,
Burns, Orwell, and others.
Return to the English and American Literature
Resources page.
February 1996 | William A. Wortman
| Wortman_William@msmail.mohio.edu