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Subseries 1.3
Manuscripts, 1939-1997
Boxes Boxes 19-31; OP 1-6
Scope and Content Note
The subseries contains manuscripts published by the Cummington Press, manuscripts that were accepted for publication but never completed, and general manuscript submissions and illustration submissions from 1939-1997. In the first section are materials relating to published works, including correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, illustrations and page proofs. Of note are files relating to the publication of William Carlos Williams' The Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia, &c, the full manuscript of which includes poems removed from the final printing. Also included are files relating to the publication of Incident on the Bark Columbia, a collection of 19th-century whaling letters published for the first time by the Cummington Press.
The subseries also contains files relating to works accepted for publication by the Cummington Press, but not printed for various reasons. Along with correspondence and typescripts, notable materials include Katharine Frazier's unpublished transcriptions of letters from the Goodell family written during the California Gold Rush, as well as poet Robert Peters' lyric memoir of coming to terms with his homosexuality. The third section includes manuscripts submitted to the Cummington Press, but not accepted for publication, including manuscripts by Malcolm Cowley and William Carlos Williams. The final section contains illustration submissions to the Cummington Press.
Arrangement Note
Arranged in alphabetical order by record type.
Manuscripts [published] | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
OP1 | 1 | Unidentified page proof |
19 | 1 | Berg, Stephen, Bearing Weapons, correspondence, undated |
19 | 2 | Berg, Stephen, Bearing Weapons, typescripts [1 of 2] |
19 | 3 | Berg, Stephen, Bearing Weapons, typescripts [2 of 2] |
19 | 4 | Berg, Stephen, Bearing Weapons, page proofs |
19 | 5 | Berg, Stephen, First Song: Bankei, 1653, typescript |
19 | 6 | Berg, Stephen, Sea Ice: Versions of Eskimo Song, correspondence, undated |
19 | 7 | Berg, Stephen, Sea Ice: Versions of Eskimo Song, typescripts |
19 | 8 | Blackmur, R.P., The Good European, typescripts |
19 | 9 | Blackmur, R.P., The Good European, page proofs |
19 | 10 | Blackmur, R.P., The Second World, typescripts |
19 | 11 | Blake, William, Genesis: The Seven Days of the Created World, manuscript, title page only |
19 | 12 | Bolton, Joe, Breckinridge County Suite, correspondence, undated |
19 | 13 | Bolton, Joe, Breckinridge County Suite, page proofs |
19 | 14 | Corn, Alfred, The Pith Helmet, typescript |
19 | 15 | Corn, Alfred, The Pith Helmet, page proofs |
19 | 16 | Cunningham, James Vincent, Doctor Drink: Poems, typescript |
19 | 17 | Cunningham, James Vincent, Doctor Drink: Poems, page proof |
19 | 18 | Davis, Dick, Lares, typescript |
19 | 19 | Davis, Dick, Lares, page proofs |
19 | 20 | Davis, Glover, August Fires, typescript |
20 | 1 | Davis, Glover, Bandaging Bread, typescripts |
20 | 2 | Defoe, Daniel, The Meditations of Daniel Defoe, typescript transcriptions [edited by George Harris Healey] |
20 | 3 | Defoe, Daniel, The Meditations of Daniel Defoe, page proofs [edited by George Harris Healey] |
20 | 4 | Dickens, Charles, Dickens in Italy, correspondence, 1955-1956 |
20 | 5 | Dickens, Charles, Dickens in Italy, manuscript [photocopy] |
20 | 6 | Dickens, Charles, Dickens in Italy, typescript transcriptions |
20 | 7 | Dickens, Charles, Dickens in Italy, page proofs |
20 | 8 | Eberhart, Richard, An Herb Basket, typescript |
20 | 9 | Finlay, John, The Salt of Exposure, typescript [printing plan only] |
20 | 10 | Gibbs, Barbara, Poets Like Oysters, typescript |
20 | 11 | Gibbs, Barbara, Poets Like Oysters, page proofs [includes illustrations by Karen Kunc] |
20 | 12 | Gibbs, Barbara and Tate, Allen, Requiescat in Pace, Paul Wightman Williams, Jr., MCMXX - MCMLVI, typescripts [introduction by Allen Tate, poetry by Barbara Gibbs] |
OP1 | 2 | Gibbs, Barbara and Tate, Allen, Requiescat in Pace, Paul Wightman Williams, Jr., MCMXX - MCMLVI, page proofs [introduction by Allen Tate, poetry by Barbara Gibbs] |
20 | 13 | Goldensohn, Barry, Dance Music, typescript |
20 | 14 | Goldensohn, Barry, Dance Music, page proofs |
20 | 15 | Golffing, Francis, Poems, 1943-1949, correspondence, 1948 |
20 | 16 | Golffing, Francis, Poems, 1943-1949, manuscripts |
20 | 17 | Golffing, Francis, Poems, 1943-1949, typescripts |
20 | 18 | Golffing, Francis, Poems, 1943-1949, page proofs |
20 | 19 | Greer, Jane, Bathsheba on the First Day, page proofs |
20 | 20 | Halsey, Helen, White Christmas Yarn, correspondence, 1941 |
20 | 21 | Halsey, Helen, White Christmas Yarn, typescripts |
20 | 22 | Halsey, Helen, editor, Incident on the Bark Columbia, correspondence |
20 | 23 | Halsey, Helen, editor, Incident on the Bark Columbia, typescript transcriptions |
21 | 1 | Hahn, Robert, One More Time, typescript |
21 | 2 | Howard, Ben, Lenten Anniversaries, typescript |
21 | 3 | The Holy Bible: King James Version, The Book of Job, typescript [introduction only, written by Alfred Young Fisher] |
21 | 4 | Lieberman, Laurence, The St. Kitts Monkey Feuds, typescripts |
21 | 5 | Lincoln, Kenneth, Orpheus Afoot, correspondence, 1990 |
21 | 6 | Lincoln, Kenneth, Orpheus Afoot, typescripts [1 of 2] |
21 | 7 | Lincoln, Kenneth, Orpheus Afoot, typescripts [2 of 2] |
21 | 8 | Lowell, Robert, Land of Unlikeness, typescript |
21 | 9 | Lowell, Robert, Land of Unlikeness, page proofs |
21 | 10 | Lucina, Mary, I Asked Hoping, typescripts |
21 | 11 | Lucina, Mary, I Asked Hoping, page proofs |
21 | 12 | Mezey, Robert, Joe Simpson [1919-1996], typescript |
21 | 13 | Mezey, Robert, The Lovemaker, typescript |
22 | 1 | Mezey, Robert, The Lovemaker, page proofs |
22 | 2 | Mezey, Robert, White Blossoms, typescript, [variant title: Like An Eyelid's Soundless Blink] |
22 | 3 | Mezey, Robert, White Blossoms, page proofs, [variant title: Like An Eyelid's Soundless Blink] |
22 | 4 | Middleton, David, As Far As Light Remains, typescript |
22 | 5 | Middleton, David, As Far As Light Remains, page proofs |
22 | 6 | Morse, Samuel French, Time of Year, correspondence, 1943 |
22 | 7 | Morse, Samuel French, Time of Year, typescripts |
22 | 8 | Morse, Samuel French, Time of Year, page proofs |
22 | 9 | Rilke, Rainer Maria, Four Prose Pieces, typescript, [translations by Carol Niemeyer] |
22 | 10 | Perricone, Christopher, A Summer of Monkey Poems, correspondence, undated [includes illustrations by Eric May] |
22 | 11 | Perricone, Christopher, A Summer of Monkey Poems, typescript |
22 | 12 | Ralegh, Sir Walter, The Ocean to Cynthia, typescript transcriptions [variant name: Sir Walter Raleigh] |
22 | 13 | Radnoti, Miklos, Postcards, typescript [translations by Stephen Berg, Steven Polgar, S.J. Marks] |
22 | 14 | Schreiber, Jan, Wily Apparitions, typescripts |
23 | 1 | Schreiber, Jan, Wily Apparitions, page proofs |
23 | 2 | Schwerner, Armand, The Tablets I-VIII, correspondence, 1968 |
23 | 3 | Schwerner, Armand, The Tablets I-VIII, typescripts |
23 | 4 | Schwerner, Armand, The Tablet I-VIII, page proofs |
23 | 5 | Slesinger, Warren, Field with Figurations, typescript |
23 | 6 | Stevens, Wallace, Esthetique du Mal, page proofs |
23 | 7 | Stevens, Wallace, Three Academic Pieces, typescript |
23 | 8 | Stevens, Wallace, Three Academic Pieces, page proofs |
23 | 9 | Tate, Allen, Christ and the Unicorn, typescripts |
23 | 10 | Tate, Allen, Christ and the Unicorn, page proofs |
23 | 11 | Tate, Allen, The Hovering Fly, typescripts |
OP1 | 5 | Tate, Allen, The Hovering Fly, page proofs |
23 | 12 | Tate, Allen, The Vigil of Venus, correspondence, 1943 [variant titles: Pervigilium Veneris] |
23 | 13 | Tate, Allen, The Vigil of Venus, typescript translations and transcriptions [variant title: Pervigilium Veneris] |
23 | 14 | Tate, Allen, The Winter Sea, typescript |
23 | 15 | Tuckerman, Frederick, The cricket, typescript transcription |
OP1 | 3 | Tuckerman, Frederick, The cricket, photocopied manuscript |
23 | 16 | Van Duyn, Mona, Valentines to the Wide World, page proof |
23 | 17 | Various poets, Homage to Baudelaire, manuscripts |
23 | 18 | Various poets, Homage to Baudelaire, typescripts |
OP1 | 4 | Various poets, Homage to Baudelaire, page proofs |
23 | 19 | Various poets, MESA, page proofs |
24 | 1 | Warren, Robert Penn, Blackberry Winter, typescript |
24 | 2 | Warren, Robert Penn, Blackberry Winter, page proofs |
24 | 3 | Wilborn, William, Rooms, typescripts |
24 | 4 | Wilborn, William, Rooms, page proofs |
24 | 5 | Wilbur, Richard, Lying, page proofs |
24 | 6 | Williams, Tennessee, "I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix," manuscript and typescript, 1951 |
OP2 | - | Williams, Tennessee, "I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix," page proofs, 1951 |
24 | 7 | Williams, William Carlos, The Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia, &c, correspondence, 1948 |
24 | 8 | Williams, William Carlos, The Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia, &c, typescripts |
24 | 9 | Williams, William Carlos, The Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia, &c, unpublished typescripts |
24 | 10 | Williams, William Carlos, The Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia, &c, page proofs |
24 | 11 | Williams, William Carlos, The Wedge, typescript |
Manuscripts [accepted, but not published] | ||
25 | 1 | Albee, John, John Albee literary correspondence, correspondence and typescripts, 1941 |
25 | 2 | Alighieri, Dante, Canto V of the Inferno of Dante's Comedy, typescript [translation by Harry Duncan] |
25 | 3 | Frazier, Katharine, ed., The Goodell Letters, typescript and correspondence, 1941-1942 |
25 | 4 | Morse, Samuel French, The Scattered Causes, correspondence, typescripts and page proofs |
25 | 5 | Peters, Robert, Circumcision After Dark: The G-String Poems, correspondence, 1969-1970 |
25 | 6 | Peters, Robert, Circumcision After Dark: The G-String Poems, typescripts |
25 | 7 | Various poets, From This Hill 1942, typescripts |
25 | 8 | Various poets, untitled collection of Latin American authors, typescripts [edited by the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America, Inc.] |
Manuscripts [submitted, not accepted for publication] | ||
26 | 1 | Unidentified manuscripts |
26 | 2 | Unidentified typescripts |
26 | 3 | Ackerley, J.R. |
26 | 4 | Barth, R.L. |
26 | 5 | Belitt, Ben |
26 | 6 | Berg, Stephen |
26 | 7 | Binns, John |
26 | 8 | Bongs, Rolf [translated by Harry Seelig] |
26 | 9 | Bridgford, Kim |
26 | 10 | Catherwood, Michael |
26 | 11 | Connellan, Leo |
26 | 12 | Cowley, Malcolm |
26 | 13 | Davis, Catherine |
26 | 14 | Eastman, Harold |
26 | 15 | Eberhart, Richard |
27 | 1 | Elliott, William |
27 | 2 | Elon, Florence |
27 | 3 | Goldensohn, Barry |
27 | 4 | Golffing, Francis |
27 | 5 | Gray, Patrick |
27 | 6 | Greene, Jonathan [1 of 2] |
27 | 7 | Greene, Jonathan [2 of 2] |
27 | 8 | Gris, Juan [unidentified translator] |
27 | 9 | Hahn, Robert |
28 | 1 | Hebert, Anne [translated by A. Poulin] |
28 | 2 | Hegarty, Terence |
28 | 3 | Hoeppner, Edward |
28 | 4 | Hope, Warren |
28 | 5 | Johnson, Carol |
28 | 6 | Johnson, Margie |
28 | 7 | Kessler, Jascha |
28 | 8 | Kloefkorn, William [1 of 2] |
28 | 9 | Kloefkorn, William [2 of 2] |
29 | 1 | Kresh, David |
29 | 2 | Kroll, Ernest |
29 | 3 | Levine, Philip |
29 | 4 | Logan, William |
29 | 5 | Marks, S.J. |
29 | 6 | Marsh, Larry |
29 | 7 | Mezey, Naomi |
29 | 8 | Mezey, Robert |
29 | 9 | Michael Angelo [translated by Creighton Gilbert] |
29 | 10 | Minczeski, John |
29 | 11 | Moffitt, John |
29 | 12 | Newman, P.B. |
29 | 13 | O'Connell, George |
30 | 1 | Ogilvie, John |
30 | 2 | Oliver, Raymond |
30 | 3 | Palma, Michael |
30 | 4 | Peck, John |
30 | 5 | Pomeroy, Ralph |
30 | 6 | Radnoti, Miklos [translated by Steven Polgar, Stephen Berg, and S.J. Marks] |
30 | 7 | Ridland, John |
30 | 8 | Slesinger, Warren |
30 | 9 | Stevens, Walter |
30 | 10 | Stoloff, Carolyn |
30 | 11 | Turco, Lewis |
30 | 12 | Tzara, Tristan [translated by William Kulik] |
31 | 1 | Unterecker, John |
31 | 2 | Various poets [translated by Aleksandar Nejgebauer |
31 | 3 | Wiegner, Kathleen |
31 | 4 | Wilbur, Richard |
31 | 5 | Williams, William Carlos |
31 | 6 | Wirtz, Warren |
31 | 7 | Yeh, Max |
Illustration submissions | ||
31 | 8 | Unidentified illustrator |
31 | 9 | Newton, David |
31 | 10 | Page, David |