Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library’s extensive manuscript, archival, and rare book collections include the Emory University Archives, African American Collections, literary and poetry collections, along with collections documenting political, cultural, and social movements. The special collections of the Rose Library span the 15th to the 21st centuries—with particular depth in modern literature, African American history, Emory University history, and the history of Georgia and the South. Holdings include manuscript collections documenting Seamus Heaney, Anthony Hecht, Ted Hughes, Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, and James Dickey.