Kenyon College Special Collections and Archives

The Greenslade Special Collections and Archives consists of two departments housing Kenyon's rare books, literary manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, as well as the College archives. We have developed a broad, general collection of books that includes works ranging from medieval manuscripts to contemporary artists' books, and in all subject areas (from alphabets to women's studies). Among the li...terary manuscripts are personal papers and correspondence with John Crowe Ransom and other editors at the Kenyon Review, including some of twentieth-century's best writers like Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Penn Warren, W.H. Auden, Joyce Carol Oates, and Virginia Woolf.

In addition, our Special Collections is home to The Riker Collection--one of the country's finest accumulation of W.B. Yeats's work--a vast assortment of H.G. Wells's and Vladimir Nabokov's works, and an extensive typography selection.

Finally, our college archives house an array of letters, photographs, and other documentation on some of Kenyon's most famous alum, from Paul Newman to E.L. Doctorow.

Open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, students and professors are encouraged to utilize these resources in both their classes as well as their own research.