The papers of Truman Capote, author and dramatist, are chiefly comprised of literary manuscripts including drafts and manuscripts of prose fiction, dramas, and screenplays as well as journals, notebooks, and other writings.

Among the Division's Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection holdings is one letter penned by Edward Carpenter, author and early gay rights activist.

Many of Russel Wheeler Davenport's letters go beyond recording the events of his life; they delve into his personal relationships,
feelings, philosophies, goals, and methods. The correspondence includes letters between other family members and close
family associates as well as with Davenport. Letters that involve Russell Davenport either as a writer or recipient are filed under his
name. Of particular interest is correspondence regarding his brother's sexuality.

The papers of A. E. Housman, English poet, are chiefly notebooks containing drafts, fair copies, and fragments of Housman's poetry, in addition to a few letters and miscellaneous items.

Author, columnist, editor, literary critic, and educator. Mallon's personal diaries detail his daily life along with his thoughts on friends, romances, personal triumphs and failures, colleagues, workplaces, academia, the magazine industry, politics, and national events. Of particular interest are his diaries kept in the mid to late 1980s while living in New York City at the height of the AIDS crisis, with a focus on gay culture.

A collection of correspondence, poetry, plays, family papers, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Edna St. Vincent Millay's life and literary career.

The papers of Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet and author, contain correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary drafts, reports, family papers, legal and financial records, scrapbooks, theatrical playbills, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Millay's life and literary career. Of particular interest is correspondence and diary entries concerning Ella Lynette Somerville and her time at Vassar College.