Unless otherwise specified, the links below go to the Ohio University ArchivesSpace Public Interface . For more information about manuscript collections, contact Greta Suiter .
- Appalachian Movement Press (MSS270)
- Ballard Family Papers (MSS23)
- John M. Bennett Papers (MSS116) - Luna Bisonte Productions, poet
- Victor Heine Berstein Papers (MSS12) - writer & editor
- James Bertolino Papers (MSS16) - poet
- Iris Carpenter Typescript (MSS147) - WWII correspondent
- Carpenter Press Collection (MSS30)
- Robert Fox Papers (MSS31) - poet and author
- Warren G. French Papers (MSS105) - author
- Paul Gapp Papers (MSS166) - Pulitzer Prize journalist
- Herbert Gold Papers (MSS1) - author
- John Meade Haines Papers (MSS145) - poet
- Charles Henry Harris Collection (MSS135) - Athens journalist
- Donald M. Hassler Collection (MSS29) - Kent State University professor
- Calvin C. Hernton Collection (MSS14) - poet
- Mary Whitcomb Hess Papers (MSS152) - author and poet
- Agnes Hill Research Notes (MSS92) - Coolville history
- James C. Kilgore Papers (MSS56) - poet
- Charles Lamb Society Collection (MSS262)
- J. R. LeMaster Papers (MSS36) - author
- Derrick Leon Typescript (MSS3) - author
- Carr Liggett Papers (MSS27) - Ohio University student and advertising executive, and author
- Vincent Bliss Linn Papers (MSS169) - author
- Literary Postcards (MSS243)
- James Magner Papers (MSS62) - poet
- James Henry Mangles Diary (MSS134) - friend of Tennyson
- Henry Miller Papers (MSS261)
- James Ragan Papers (MSS32) - poet and author
- Barbara Straus Reed Collection (MSS122) - history of Jewish families in southeastern Ohio
- Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers (MSS20) [pages on our website]
- James Norman (Schmidt) Papers (MSS52) - author
- Irving Shulman Papers (MSS98) - author
- Walter Gaston Shotwell Typescript (MSS131) - biography of Washington Irving
- Dave Smith Collection (MSS163) - author and poet
- Ann Stringer Collection (MSS13) - WWII correspondent
- Jesse Stuart Papers (MSS57) - poet
- Walter S. Tevis Papers (UA00330) - author
- Vance H. Trimble Papers (MSS119) - biography of E. W. Scripps
- Ernest James Wessen Collection (MSS39) - antiquarian book dealer
- James Wright Photograph Album (MSS292) - poet