mss0099_0855.xml Larry Eigner stories : eight manuscriptscirca 1968 University of Delaware Library, Special Collections University of Delaware Library
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2009 September 30 Finding aid encoded 2009 September 30 English Larry Eigner stories : eight manuscriptscirca 1968 Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Phone: 302-831-2229 Fax: 302-831-6003 URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
 Eigner, Larry 1927- Larry Eigner stories : eight manuscriptscirca 1968 MSS 099, F855 .1 linear ft. (8 items) This small collection comprises the typescript manuscripts of eight short stories by the American poet Larry Eigner. Materials entirely in English. University of Delaware Library - Special Collections Source

Purchase, 2009.

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 Citation

MSS 099, F855, Larry Eigner stories : eight manuscripts, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

 Shelving Summary Box 59, F855: Shelved in SPEC MSS 099 manuscript boxes Processing

Processed and encoded by Christopher La Casse, September 2009.

 Biographical Note

American poet Larry Eigner (Laurence Joel Eigner) was born August 7, 1927, in Lynn, Massachusetts. Although an injury at birth left Eigner palsied, the poet and writer spent his life describing the world around him, first from his glassed-in porch in a small town in Massachusetts and later from his home in Berkeley, California. Although most of his published work is poetry, he has also written a play, short stories, and prose.

"Larry Eigner." Contemporary Poets, 6th ed. (reproduced in Biography Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed June 2008).Biographical information also derived from the collection.

 Scope and Content Note

This small collection comprises the typescript manuscripts of eight short stories by the American poet Larry Eigner.

Four of the eight stories were published in Eigner's book of selected prose, Country Harbor Quiet Act Around, and a fifth story, "Driving," was published in Things Stirring Together or Far Away. Three stories within the collection are apparently unpublished. Each typescript bears varying degrees of typeovers, notes, and holograph corrections. The undated manuscripts (circa 1968) include Eigner's typed address (23 Bates Road, Swampscott, Mass.) on the first page of each story.

 Arrangement

The manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by title.

 Selected Search Terms Personal Names Eigner, Larry, 1927- Topical Terms Authors, American--History--20th century. Fiction--United States--History--20th century--Sources. Form/Genre Terms Manuscripts (document genre) Related Materials in this Repository

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 Detailed Contents List Larry Eigner stories : eight manuscriptscirca 1968 8 items

Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." Two typeovers, and one interlinear note about punctuation.

 Carnivalcirca 1968 3 pp.

Unpublished typescript on onion skin paper. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." Minimal holograph corrections, some typeover corrections.

 Come Round circa 1968 4 pp.

Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With marginal notes (typed), frequent typeovers.

 The Country circa 1968 21 pp.

Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With typeovers and autograph corrections.

 Drivingcirca 1968 2 pp.

Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With type-overs and lightly penciled marginal notes.

 The Restcirca 1968 12 pp.

Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With significant typeovers and holograph corrections in pen.

 The Resortcirca 1968 4 pp.

Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." with significant typeovers and mss corrections.

Washcirca 1968 4 pp.

Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With significant typeovers and line omissions.

 The Windowcirca 1968 2 pp.

Unpublished typescript of prose poem. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With significant typeovers and parenthetical note: "I'm in doubt as to just how to punctuate in much of this but I think the indentations are rather all right, arbitrary though they are."