Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections

Scope and Contents Mostly incoming correspondence, both typed and handwritten, sent to Tom Bezzi from family, friends, and lovers. Includes letters, greeting cards, and postcards; individuals also may have sent recipes, photographs, newspaper clippings, poetry, and other items with the correspondence. Topics include news and updates about the individual's life and about mutual acquaintances; philosophical musings and emotional states; classes friends were attending (particularly in the...

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Includes slides of miscellaneous productions, kabuki performances and actors, and trips to Washington D.C. in 1973 and Tokyo in 1975.

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Includes slides of a winter scene; San Antonio, Texas; San Francisco, California; Japanese play in Monaco; noh masks; and chhau dances.

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Includes a birth certificate for Michael Begole, dinner menus, theater and orchestra programs, a Japanese calisthenics flyer with English and Japanese writing, and a newsletter from New York about relief for Americans in the Philippines.

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Papers from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp include memoranda, notices, newsletters, Elizabeth Begole’s First Aid test and certification, maps of the camp, and recipes. These documents were created by various internee committees to deal with food and textile distribution, safety and sanitation, first aid, schooling, building and correspondence. Some are typed on the backs of student papers from when the compound was a university.

Scope and Contents Elizabeth Schultz's 'Personal Documents' series consists of folders compiled and labelled by Schultz, the contents of which relate to her professional life at KU, her post-retirement work, and her personal life. Professional subjects include Schultz's sabbatical; KU committees; KU Department of English; exhibitions; Schultz's China and Japan Fullbright scholarships; grants; awards; department evaluations; retirement; her work on Moby-Dick essays, books,...