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William John Locke Collection (Manuscript Collection MS-2528). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
Purchase and transfer, 1966, 1968 (R3533)
Hagan Barber, Betsy Nitsch, and Jack Boettcher, 2012; Richard Workman, 2020
This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.
Prior to 1990 when archival cataloging procedures were adopted at the Ransom Center, all manuscript collections were described in a card catalog.
Manuscripts for each author collection were organized into four categories:
Materials that did not fit into these categories, such as art, photographs, books, and near-print materials such as newspaper clippings, were dispersed to other Ransom Center collections for cataloging and storage.
The symbols below were used in combinations. For example