Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922- Robert A. Wilson collection1906-2011
MSS
481 11 linear
feet and 8 oversize boxes, 8 oversize folders, and 2 oversize galleys (29 boxes) The Robert A. Wilson collection comprises 9 linear feet of material related to 36 prominent literary figures previously in the private collection of Robert A. Wilson, the final owner of the Phoenix Book Shop in New York City (1962-1988). Materials entirely in
English.
University of Delaware Library - Special Collections
Source Purchases and gifts from Robert A. Wilson, 2000-2011.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Terms Governing Use and
Reproduction Use of materials from this collection beyond the
exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S.
Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is
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Citation MSS 481, Robert A. Wilson collection, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark,
Delaware.
Shelving Summary
- Boxes 1-11, 13-21: Shelved in SPEC MSS manuscript boxes
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Boxes 12, 22-25: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (17 inches)
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Boxes 26-27: Shelved in SPEC VAULT MSS
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Box 28-30: Shelved in SPEC MSS record center cartons
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Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
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Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches)
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Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (32 inches)
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F21, F67, F145: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize galleys
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Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases
Processing
Processed by Gerald Cloud, November 2003 and revised by Maureen Cech, May 2007, Anita Wellner, 2012. Encoded by Lora J. Davis, September 2010, and revised by Jaime Margalotti, November 2012.
Biographical Note The American bibliographer, bookseller, and collector Robert A. Wilson was born in 1922. For many struggling writers and poets of the latter half of the twentieth century, Wilson was a familiar presence. As the third proprietor of the Phoenix Book Shop in New York City, Wilson provided both encouragement and financial support to many writers. Wilson bought the Phoenix Book Shop in March 1962, which he maintained at 18 Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village until 1975, when he moved the shop around the corner to 22 Jones Street, finally closing its doors in mid-October 1988.
The Phoenix Book Shop was known for its selection of books by the avant-garde and contemporary writers of the 1950s and 1960s, stocking works by Edward Albee, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Michael McClure. Wilson's shop also specialized in modern first editions and literary manuscripts of writers such as W.H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Laura Riding, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Dylan Thomas.
Through the bookshop, Wilson published the work of many notable writers, including Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Bishop, and Richard Wilbur. During his twenty-six year tenure as the proprietor of the Phoenix, Wilson oversaw the publication of no less than forty-three volumes. Wilson himself was the author of bibliographies of Gregory Corso (1966), Denise Levertov (1972), and Gertrude Stein (1974, revised 1994), and works on the book trade and book collecting, such as
Faulkner on Fire Island (1979) and Modern Book Collecting (1980), The Phoenix Book Shop: a Nest of Memories (1997), and Seeing Shelley Plain (2001).Biographical information about the authors represented in this collection was obtained from the following sources:Carol Bergé. Biography Resource Center. http://galenet.galegroup.com (accessed 15 March 2007).[Individual author entries]. Contemporary Authors Online reproduced in Literature Resource Center. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC.Reed, Kenneth T. "Capote, Truman." American National Biography Online. February 2000. http://www.anb.org (accessed March, 23 2007)Wilson, Robert A. Seeing Shelley Plain. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 2001.Additional information derived from the collection.
Scope and Content Note The Robert A. Wilson collection comprises approximately 9 linear feet of correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, galleys, reviews, newspaper clippings, artwork, printed works, posters, flyers, catalogs, and other ephemera related to 36 prominent literary figures previously in the private collection of Robert A. Wilson (1922- ), the final owner of the Phoenix Book Shop in New York City (1962-1988).
Wilson's large personal library of published works by these authors is cataloged separately and housed with the printed holdings in Special Collections.
The Wilson collection is organized alphabetically by author. The correspondence for each author is organized chronologically and the manuscript and published materials are organized alphabetically by title. The best represented authors in the collection are Edward Albee, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ezra Pound, and Laura Riding. The materials related to Ginsberg, McClure, and Riding reveal that Wilson developed personal friendships with many of the writers in his collection, and the collection contains many items inscribed by these authors to Wilson.
Nearly all the materials in the Albee series are inscribed by the author to Robert Wilson and include many play scripts, theatre programs, and publicity photographs of Albee and his plays. Items of particular interest include director Alan Schneider's heavily annotated play script of
The Ballad of the Sad Café, and cast member Irene Worth's play script of Listening with her autograph notes and underlining throughout. Additionally, the series contains a large number of periodicals with articles by or about Albee and his plays. The majority of the periodicals cover Albee's earlier works, such as Zoo Story (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962), Tiny Alice (1965), A Delicate Balance (1966), and his adaptation of Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Café (1963).The Bergé series consists of correspondence dating from 1992-2000, photographs, manuscripts, and ephemera related to Bergé's body of work.
Included in the Capote series is a variety of materials related to some of his best known works, most prominently
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Beat the Devil, and In Cold Blood. Of particular note are the items related to In Cold Blood in its many forms from serial to film, which include several items from Capote's editor at The New Yorker, Sandy Campbell, such as an archive of letters kept by Campbell, the New Yorker galley proofs, and rough copies of the issues in which the four installments of Capote's novel appeared in 1965. A variety of scripts and screenplays are contained in this series, both original works by Capote, copies of scripts from the filming of Breakfast at Tiffany's and Beat the Devil, as well as adaptations of his works by others. Other items related to the author's life and career are also featured, including news clippings covering Capote's 1966 Black and White Ball, photographs, a collection of printed blurbs by Capote, and other ephemera.Among the items of note in the Ginsberg series are Richard Eberhart's transcription of a 1956 Ginsberg letter concerning "Howl" and other poems, Ginsberg's autograph manuscript for
Scrap Leaves (1968), and a group of photographs both of and by Ginsberg, many with Ginsberg's autograph captions, and a clipping of Ginsberg's beard. Also, the series contains several oversized posters and ephemeral items related to readings and events. The manuscript items are noted with the entry number in Bill Morgan's The Works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994: a Descriptive Bibliography (1995), when available.The McClure series includes typescripts of several plays, the manuscript and artwork for
Little Odes (1961, 1968), a galley for Josephine (New Directions, 1980), several photographs, and a large group of correspondence, 1965-2002. Additionally, the series contains a number of posters and other ephemeral items for readings and performances, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, by McClure, many of which are inscribed by McClure to Wilson.The Ezra Pound series includes correspondence, photographs, periodicals and other publications, and ephemera. There are two publishing contracts for early works by Pound,
Exultations of Ezra Pound (1909) and Provença (1910). The correspondence includes letters from Pound to Elkin Mathews, Caresse Crosby, and René Taupin, as well as letters to Robert A. Wilson from Dorothy Pound, Olga Rudge, and Mary de Rachewiltz. Additionally, the series contains materials related to New Directions publisher James Laughlin's publication of Pound's rare Cantos 72-73 (1973).The Laura Riding series primarily comprises correspondence dating from the last ten years of her life, 1981-1991. A few typescripts and autograph manuscripts are also included.
The Corso series includes a letter from Corso to William S. Burroughs (1985 March 14) concerning a misunderstanding between the two writers, the typescript manuscript of "Events Not of the Ordinary," with Corso's autograph corrections, and a long unpublished manuscript of poems,
The Golden Dot.The Lanford Wilson series contains several autograph and typescript manuscripts with Lanford Wilson's autograph notes, and a number of inscribed scripts and early drafts of his work.
Other items in the collection include early photographs of Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg, three Orlovsky notebooks, and the typescript for
Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs, from 1957 to 1977 [1978] with Orlovsky's autograph corrections; galleys for Louise Bogan's translation of The Journal of Jules Renard (1964), which includes an autograph note in Glenway Westcott's hand; a series of photographs of Charles Olson and his family; and four long letters from Diane Wakoski.A number of the items are accompanied by Post-it notes bearing brief descriptions in Wilson's hand.
Arrangement
- I. Authors and Artists
- A. Adam, Helen (1909-1993)
- B. Albee, Edward (1928- )
- C. Andre, Michael
- D. Beam, Jeffrey (1953- )
- E. Bergé, Carol (1928- )
- F. Berrigan, Daniel (1921- )
- G. Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983)
- H. Berry, Wendell (1934- )
- I. Berryman, John (1914-1972)
- J. Bogan, Louise (1897-1970)
- K. Booth, Philip (1925- )
- L. Bowles, Jane (1917-1973) and Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
- M. Boyle, Kay (1902-1992)
- N. Broughton, James (1913-1999)
- O. Capote, Truman (1924-1984)
- P. Congdon, Kirby
- Q. Corso, Gregory (1930-2001)
- R. Di Prima, Diane
- S. Everson, William (1912-1994)
- T. Gallup, Donald (1913-2000)
- U. Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)
- V. Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986)
- W. Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965)
- X. Jess (1923-2004)
- Y. Joyce, James (1882-1941)
- Z. Koch, Kenneth (1925-2002)
- AA. Laughlin, James (1914-1997)
- BB. LaVigne, Robert (1928- )
- CC. Levertov, Denise (1923-1997)
- DD. McClure, Michael (1932- )
- EE. Malanga, Gerard
- FF. Mead, Taylor
- GG. Micheline, Jack (1929-1998)
- HH. Olson, Charles (1910-1970)
- II. Oppenheimer, Joel (1930-1988)
- JJ. Orlovsky, Peter (1933- )
- KK. Patchen, Kenneth (1911-1972)
- LL. Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
- MM. Purdy, James (1923- )
- NN. Reynolds, Tim (1936- )
- OO. Riding, Laura (Laura Jackson) (1901-1991)
- PP. Sandy, Stephen
- QQ. Simpson, Louis (1923- )
- RR. Smith, Patti (1946- )
- SS. Smith, William Jay (1918- )
- TT. Steloff, Frances (b. 1887)
- UU. Swenson, May (1919-1989)
- VV. Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964)
- WW. Wakoski, Diane (1937- )
- XX. Whalen, Philip (1923-2002)
- YY. Wilson, Lanford (1937- )
- ZZ. Windham, Donald (1920-2010)
- II. Literary Miscellany
- A. Photographs
- B. Organizations
- C. Exhibitions, concerts, ceremonies, and readings
- D. Small presses and bookstores
- E. Literary periodicals
- F. Clippings and photocopies
- G. Miscellaneous material
Selected Search Terms
Personal Names
Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922-
Corporate Names
Phoenix Book Shop.
Topical Terms
Dramatists, American--20th century.
Poets, American--20th century.Authors, American--20th century.
Form/Genre Terms Correspondence. Manuscripts (document genre)Typescripts.Photographs.Galley proofs.Reviews (document genre)Clippings (information artifacts)Works of art.Publications.Posters.Pressbooks (theatre manuals)Fliers (printed matter)Catalogs.Ephemera.
Occupation Booksellers. Collectors.
Personal Contributors
Adam, Helen, 1909-1993.Albee, Edward, 1928-Andre, Michael.Beam, Jeffery, 1953-Bergé́, Carol, 1928-Berrigan, Daniel.Berrigan, Ted.Berry, Wendell, 1934- Berryman, John, 1914-1972.Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970.Booth, Philip, 1925-2007.Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973.Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992.Broughton, James, 1913-1999.Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.Congdon, Kirby.Corso, Gregory.Di Prima, Diane. Everson, William, 1912-1994.Gallup, Donald Clifford, 1913-2000.Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986.Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.Jess, 1923-2004.Joyce, James, 1882-1941.Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997.LaVigne, Robert, 1928-Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997.McClure, Michael.Malanga, Gerard.Mead, Taylor.Micheline, Jack, 1929-1998. Olson, Charles, 1910-1970.Oppenheimer, Joel.Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010.Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972.Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.Purdy, James.Reynolds, Tim.Riding, Laura, 1901-1991.Sandy, Stephen.Simpson, Louis, 1923-Smith, Patti.Smith, William Jay, 1918-Steloff, Frances, b. 1887.Swenson, May.Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.Wakoski, Diane.Whalen, Philip.Wilson, Lanford, 1937-Windham, Donald, 1920-2010.
Related Materials in this
Repository MSS 369 Robert A. Wilson
collection related to
James Purdy
Materials Cataloged SeparatelyWilson's large personal library of published works by these authors is cataloged separately and housed with the printed holdings in Special Collections. These works can be found in our online public access catalog, DELCAT, by searching for the phrase, "Robert A. Wilson Collection."
Detailed Contents List
Series I.
Authors and Artists
Subseries I.A.
Adam, Helen (1909-1993)
circa 1970s
Helen Adam was born December 2, 1909, in Glasgow, Scotland; died September 19, 1993, in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the University of Edinburgh for two years and came to the United States in 1939. Adam wrote poems, stories, and drama, including
The Elfin Pedlar, and Tales Told by Pixy Pool (1923),
Ballads (1961), and the play
San Francisco's Burning (1966).
File I.A.1.
Correspondence and Ephemera
circa 1970s
1
F1
Autograph card signed
1979 December 17
1 card with envelope
1
F1
Ephemera
undated
Photographs; flyers; book jacket for Adam's
Selected Poems & Ballads (1975).
Subseries I.B.
Albee, Edward (1928-)
The American playwright Edward Albee was born March 12, 1928. He attended Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1946-1947. Albee's plays, which have won numerous awards and three Pulitzer Prizes, include
The Zoo Story (1959), for
The Death of Bessie Smith (1959),
The American Dream (1961),
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1964),
Tiny Alice (1965),
A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize),
Seascape (1975, Pulitzer Prize),
Three Tall Women (1994, Pulitzer Prize),
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002). Additionally, he received a D.Litt., from Emerson College, 1967, and Trinity College, 1974.
File I.B.1.
Correspondence - Edward Albee to Howard Moss
circa 1959-1987
Howard Moss was poetry editor at the
New Yorker, 1950-1987.
The collection includes the following description: "All the letters in this file were written by Edward Albee to Howard Moss. They met when they lived in the same apt building on West 10th Street. The closeness of the relationship is underscored by the continuing spoofs in the letters with the many pseudonyms used to [sic] Albee to jest with Moss."
12
F123
Autograph card
undated
Invitation to a Christmas party on Edward Albee's stationery.
12
F123
Autograph card
undated
"Cool Yule..."
12
F123
Autograph card signed
undated
"This likeness of you | struck me..."
12
F123
Autograph card signed
undated
"Jonathan and I thought that..."
12
F123
Autograph letter signed
undated
1 p.
"I think it's possible..."
12
F123
Autograph card signed
undated
"Dear Robert Wilson..." from Paul Hardy, Edward Albee's secretary.
12
F123
Typed card signed
Wednesday
Signed "D.H. Lawrence."
12
F123
Typed letter
Thursday
1 p.
12
F123
Autograph card signed
[no year] January 16
Posted from Bangkok.
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1959 March 27
1 p.
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1964 August 17
"La Bretagne en Couleurs" postcard.
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1965 June 18
"Nissan-Enserune" postcard.
12
F123
Typed letter signed
[1965]
1 p.
Autograph note dates this letter "End of 1965."
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1966 January 21
1 p.
Includes two typescript poems, mentioned in the letter.
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1966 January 25
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1966 March 26
2 pp.
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1966 July 2
1 p.
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1966 July 9
1 p.
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1966 July 23
1 p.
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1966 July 24
1 p.
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1966 August 13
2 pp.
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1966 August 20
1 p.
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1967 January 17
2 pp.
12
F123
Autograph letter signed
1967 September 5
2 pp. with envelope
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1967 October 2
2 pp. with envelope
12
F123
Autograph letter signed
1968 June 21
3 pp. with envelope
12
F123
Autograph letter signed
1969 January 16
3 pp. with envelope
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1969 June 3
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1969 August 4
12
F123
Autograph letter signed
1970 January 17
2 pp. with envelope
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1972 February 5
12
F123
Typed letter signed
1973 July 29
1 p.
12
F123
Typed letter
1973 August 6
2 pp.
12
F123
Autograph letter signed
1974 June 8
2 pp.
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1974 June 14
12
F123
Typed letter
1974 August 7
1 p.
12
F123
Autograph letter signed
1975 February 7
2 pp. with envelope
12
F123
Autograph card signed
[1975] February 21
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1975 December 10
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1975 December 18
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1977 July 4
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1978 January 4
12
F123
Autograph card signed
1987 November 15
File I.B.2.
Correspondence - Letters from Edward Albee
circa 1962-1988
All letters are from Edward Albee.
12
F124
Autograph letter signed to Dorothy Parker
undated
1 p.
12
F124
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
undated
"Bob: | I'll drop by..."
12
F124
Typed letter signed to Robert A. Wilson
1962 January 10
1 p. with envelope
12
F124
Typed letter signed to Robert A. Wilson
1962 December 5
1 p. with envelope
12
F124
Typed letter signed to LeRoi Jones
1963 August 26
1 p. with envelope
Letter discussing "a playwrights unit at the Cherry Lane Theatre," signed by Edward Albee, Richard Barr, and Clinton Wilder.
12
F124
Typed letter signed to Robert A. Wilson
1965 February 18
1 p.
12
F124
Typed letter signed to Lilla Van Saher
1965 March 5
1 p.
12
F124
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1967 December 19
with envelope
12
F124
Typed letter signed to David Giannini
1968 April 9
1 p.
12
F124
Typed card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1970 October 23
"Books are ready..."
12
F124
Autograph letter signed to Robert A. Wilson
1984 April 8
1 p. with envelope
12
F124
Typed card to Robert A. Wilson
1988 April 8
From Edward Albee's secretary, Carl Capotorto.
File I.B.3.
Manuscripts by and about Edward Albee
1965-1978
12
F125
"The Adaptable Mr. Albee," by John Lahr
1968
Typescript with autograph corrections and printer's notes, originally published in the
Evergreen Review, May 1968.
12
F125
"Edward Albee: Hot Writer in a Cold Spell," by Thomas B. Morgan
[1967]
24 pp.
Typescript with autograph corrections in an unknown hand. Article eventually published under the title "Angry Playwright in a Soft Spell,"
Life Magazine, May 26, 1967.
12
F125
"In Honor of Edward Albee"
1978 March 7
Menu for a dinner honoring Edward Albee, signed by Marisol, Howard Moss, Louise Nevelson, Anne Sexton, and others.
12
F125
"Is the American Theatre in a Vacuum?"
1965 November 28
12 pp.
Typescript transcript of a WNBC forum on American theatre featuring Edward Albee, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
12
F125
"One," by Edward Albee
[196?]
6 pp.
Typescript of a short story signed by Edward Albee. Includes bookseller's description.
12
F126
Contemporary Playwrights: Edward Albee, by Ronald Hayman
1971
131 pp.
London: Heinemann. Typescript with autograph corrections.
File I.B.4.
Printed works by and about Edward Albee
[1961]-1975
12
F127
Bartleby
[1961]
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Sheet music for an Opera in four scenes and prologue, based on the story by Herman Melville, music by William Flanagan. Signed by Edward Albee. Includes mailing envelope from Flanagan to Robert A. Wilson.
12
F128
"The Film Buff's Calendar"
1975
Calendar, the month of August features
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
12
F129
Showcase, by Roy Newquist
1966
New York: William Morrow and Company. Advanced uncorrected proofs, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson. Includes Newquist's interview with Edward Albee and a typescript copy of Brooks Atkinson's introduction.
File I.B.5.
Playscripts
1963-1979
13
F130
All Over
1970
79 pp.
Play. Typescript copy inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson on the title page, and signed by cast member Jessica Tandy.
13
F131
American Dream (TV Play)
1963
Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee and cast member George Maharis.
13
F132
Ballad of the Sad Café
1963
137 pp.
Play. Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson, heavily annotated with multiple interleaved revisions, stage directions, and other notes by director Alan Schneider(?). Also signed by cast member Colleen Dewhurst.
14
F133
Box and
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
1968
61 pp.
Two plays. Typescript copy inscribed by Edward Albee, "This copy is a first draft of these 2 interrelated | plays. The final version will have a greater | fragmentation and contrapuntalization of the | present material. | Donated to the library auction for peace | April 23, 1968. | Edward Albee | April 19, 1968. | NYC."
14
F134
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1966
Act I (bound in paper wrapper), 73 pp.; Act II, (unbound), 51 pp.
Play, adapted from Truman Capote's novel. Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Counting the Ways
1976
14
F135
Counting the Ways
1976
50 pp.
Play. Typescript, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson on the title page. Includes 1 p Typed letter signed, from Edward Albee's assistant William Martin to Howard Moss, dated March 8, 1976.
14
F135
Counting the Ways copy 2
1976
54 pp.
Copy 2: typescript copy of an earlier draft.
14
F136
A Delicate Balance
1966
132 pp.
Play. Carbon typescript with Edward Albee autograph note on the final page, "This carbon looks to be a rehearsal | copy of the script. | Edward Albee."
15
F137
A Delicate Balance
1966
178 pp.
Play. Typescript copy with revisions and autograph corrections in an unknown hand. Inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson, and signed by cast members Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn.
15
F138
Everything in the Garden
1967
199 pp.
Play. Typescript, signed by Edward Albee on the title page.
15
F139
The Lady from Dubuque
1977
134 pp.
Play. Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson on the title page.
16
F140
Listening
1975
87 pp.
Play. Typescript copy previously belonging to cast member Irene Worth with her autograph notes and underlining throughout. Includes mailing envelope addressed to Irene Worth from Edward Albee.
16
F141
Lolita
1979
141 pp.
Play, based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson on the title page.
16
F142
Malcolm
1966
190 pp.
Play, adapted from the novel by James Purdy. Typescript copy signed and dated "May 10, 1966" by Edward Albee, with a handbill from original production laid in.
16
F143
Seascape
1975
104 pp.
Play. Typescript copy inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson, and signed by cast member Frank Langella. Includes interleaved revisions and autograph corrections in an unknown hand.
17
F144
Tiny Alice
1965
Play. Typescript copy inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson with autograph corrections in an unknown hand.
17
F145
Tiny Alice
1965
SPEC MSS oversize galleys
New York: Atheneum. Play. Long galleys inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
17
F146
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1962
209 pp.
Filmscript photocopy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
18
F147
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966
248 pp.
Play. Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
File I.B.6.
Theatre Programs
1960-2004
18
F148
Albee Directs Albee
1979
Wollman Auditorium, Columbia University, New York, February 1979. Program, signed by Edward Albee.
18
F149
All Over
1971
Playbill, Martin Beck Theatre, New York, April 1971. Program, signed by Edward Albee and cast members Colleen Dewhurst, Madeleine Sherwood, Jessica Tandy, and George Voskovec.
18
F150
The Ballad of the Sad Café
1963
Playbill, Martin Beck Theatre, New York, 1963. Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson and two flyers, one of which is inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
18
F151
The Belle of Amherst
1976
Playbill, Longacre Theatre, New York, 1976. Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
18
F152
Box and
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
1968
Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, New York, 1968. Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Counting the Ways and
Listening
1977-1993
18
F153
Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, Connecticut
1977
Program, signed by Edward Albee.
18
F153
Signature Theatre Company, Kampo Cultural Center, New York
1993
Program, includes news clippings from the New York
Times.
The Death of Bessie Smith and
The American Dream
1961-1962
18
F154
Showbill, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York
1961 June
Program, signed by Edward Albee.
18
F154
Cherry Lane Theatre, New York
1962
Program, signed by Edward Albee. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Happy Days.
18
F154
The American Dream,
American One Act Plays, Quinto Festival Dei Due Mondi, Teatro Tenda, Italy
undated
A Delicate Balance
1966-1996
18
F155
Playbill, Martin Beck Theatre, New York
1966 September
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson and signed by cast members Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. Includes flyer for the same production also inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
18
F155
Playbill, Aldwych Theatre, London
1969
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
18
F155
Cinebill, American Film Theatre, New York
1973 October
Program, a film from the play, signed by Edward Albee.
18
F155
Playbill, Plymouth Theatre, New York
1996 April
Program.
18
F156
Everything in the Garden
1967 November
Playbill, Plymouth Theatre, New York. Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
18
F157A
Fragments
1994 April
Signature Theatre Company, New York.
18
F157B
The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
2004
London: Apollo Theatre.
18
F158
The Lady from Dubuque
1980 February
Playbill, Morosco Theatre, New York. Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson and signed by cast member Irene Worth on the cover.
19
F159
Lolita
1981 March
Playbill, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York. Program, signed by Edward Albee.
19
F160
Malcolm
1966 January
Playbill, Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New York. Program, signed by Edward Albee.
The Man Who Had Three Arms
1982-1983
19
F161
Players State Theatre, Miami
1982 June
Program, signed by Edward Albee.
19
F161
Playbill, Lyceum Theatre, New York
1983 March
Program, signed by Edward Albee on the cover.
19
F161
Playbill, Lyceum Theatre, New York
1983 April
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
19
F162
Marriage Play
1992
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey. Program.
19
F163
Sand, three plays by Edward Albee,
Box,
The Sandbox,
Finding the Sun
1994
Signature Theatre Company, Kampo Cultural Center, New York. Program.
19
F164
Seascape
1975
Playbill, Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New York. Program, signed by Edward Albee and cast member Frank Langella.
19
F165
Three Tall Women
1994 May
Playbill, Promenade Theatre, New York. Program, signed by cast members Jordan Baker, Myra Carter, Marian Seldes.
Tiny Alice
1964-1970
19
F166
Playbill, Billy Rose Theatre, New York
1964 December
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
19
F166
Playbill, Billy Rose Theatre, New York
1965 March
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson and inscribed on the front cover by Irene Worth, who starred in the production. Includes a review by Max Lerner, "Who's Afraid of Edward Albee,"
New York Post, February 3, 1965, laid in.
19
F166
Playbill, Anta Theatre, New York
1969 October
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson. Presented with
A Flea in Her Ear by George Feydeau and
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.
19
F166
Playbill, Aldwych Theatre, London
1970
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
19
F166
Promotional flyer, Fireside Theatre
undated
19
F166
A.C.T. 2 Backstage Newsletter, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco
1967 February
Contains two reviews, "The Truth About Alice" and "The Games Alice Plays: a Transactional Analysis."
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1962
19
F167
Playbill, Billy Rose Theatre, New York
1962 October 15
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
19
F167
Playbill, Billy Rose Theatre, New York
1962 October 22
Program, signed by Edward Albee.
19
F167
Piccadilly Theatre, London
undated
Program, signed by Edward Albee on the cover.
19
F167
Garrick Theatre, London
undated
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
19
F167
Billy Rose Theatre, New York
undated
Flyer and ticket order form.
Zoo Story
1960-1968
19
F168
Schiller Theatre, Berlin
1960
Program for the premier, signed by Edward Albee on insert and again next to his photograph. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Krapp's Last Tape.
19
F168
Playgram, Cricket Theatre, New York
1960 December
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson. Dated "Dec. 6, 1960" on the front cover. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Krapp's Last Tape.
19
F168
Playgram, Cricket Theatre, New York
1960
Program. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Krapp's Last Tape.
19
F168
Provincetown Playhouse
1960
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Krapp's Last Tape.
19
F168
Playbill, Billy Rose Theatre
1968 September
Program, signed by Edward Albee on the front cover. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Krapp's Last Tape and
Box and
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.
File I.B.7.
Theatre programs and publications related to Albee
19
F169
Festival of the Arts Program
1967
Festival program, featuring a lecture by Edward Albee March 22, 1967.
19
F169
Gaslight Revue Program Guide, WPAT Radio
1961-1966
Edward Albee number, June 1961;
Tiny Alice feature, April 1965;
Malcolm feature, February 1966.
19
F169
Foxy playbill
1964 February
Ziegfield Theatre, New York. Article on Edward Albee "Stars of the Future," inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
19
F169
Golden Boy playbill
1965 May
Majestic Theatre, New York. "Ad Libs on Theatre," by Edward Albee, signed by Edward Albee.
19
F169
Hamlet playbill
1964
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York. "Playwright at Work" interview with Edward Albee, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
19
F169
M. Butterfly playbill
1989 March
Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York.
File I.B.8.
Journals and reviews - Albee
20
F170
American Book Collector
1983 March-1983 April
20
F170
Antaeus
1991 Spring
20
F170
Commentary
1963 April
20
F170
Beverwyck
1965 Winter
20
F170
Bonniers Litterara Magasin
1961 November
20
F170
Cahier Renaud Barrault, No. 63
1967 October
20
F170
The Choate Literary Magazine, 1915–1965
1965 Summer
20
F170
Current Biography
1963 February
Signed by Edward Albee, with mailing envelope form Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
20
F171
Dramatists Guild Quarterly
1972 Winter, 1976 Autumn, 1985 Summer
20
F171
Encore
1963 January-1963 February
20
F171
Evergreen Review
1960 March-1960 April, 1968 May
21
F172
Horizon
1961 September
21
F173
Les Lettres Nouvelles
1960 June
Inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson and signed by Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso.
21
F173
The Literary Review
1963 Autumn
21
F173
The Marquis, Lafayette College
1964
21
F173
The Paris Review, No. 39
1966 Fall
Inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson. Includes a pamphlet with the Dutch translation of the interview as published in
Streven magazine, June 1967.
21
F173
Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1980 May 21
21
F173
La Revue de Poche
1965 March
21
F173
Off Broadway
[no year] April
21
F173
Southern Humanities Review
1982 Winter
Tear sheets, interview with Edward Albee, inscribed by the interviewer Matthew Roudané.
21
F173
Transatlantic Review
1963 Summer
21
F173
Wagner Literary Magazine, No. 3
1962
Signed by Edward Albee.
21
F173
Where, New York
1965 January 30
21
F173
The Windhover
[1963]
File I.B.9.
Periodicals - related to Edward Albee
22
F174
The Choate News
1945-1946
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Choate Academy newspaper including Edward Albee's earliest published writing. Includes hand list of Edward Albee's articles.
22
F175
The New Yorker
1957 November 30
Talk of the Town: "Unintimidated."
22
F175
Village Voice
1960 January 20
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Zoo Story reviewed.
22
F175
Theatre
1960 June
"In Praise of Short Plays," by Edward Albee.
22
F176
Harper's Bazaar
1960 September
"Fam and Yam: An Imaginary Interview."
22
F176
The Second Coming
1960 October
"Off-Broadway as a Theatre Movement; Some Documents and Explorations."
22
F177
Mademoiselle
1960 November
The American Dream: A Comedy.
22
F177
Theatre
1961 March
"My Favorite Grandmother," by Edward Albee.
22
F177
Theatre Arts
1961 March
"Albee and Schneider Observe: 'Something's Stirring.'"
22
F177
The New Yorker
1961 March 25
Talk of the Town: "Albee."
22
F178
Village Voice
1961 November 9
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
"Albee Makes the English Scene."
22
F178
Plays and Players
1961 December
Reviews of
The Death of Bessie Smith and The American Dream.
22
F178
New York Times Magazine
1962 February 25
"Which Theatre is the Absurd One?" by Edward Albee.
22
F178
Village Voice
1962 March 8
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
"Theatre: the Absurd (5, 6)."
22
F178
Time
1962 March 16
Letter to the editor.
22
F178
Harper's Bazaar
1962 August
"Some Notes on Nonconformity."
22
F179
Newsweek
1962 October 29
"Game of Truth"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? reviewed.
22
F179
Vogue
1962 December
"Edward Albee."
22
F179
Life
1962 December 14
"'Coward, flop, pig' Marital Sweet Talk on Broadway."
22
F179
Harper's Bazaar
1963 January
"Carson McCullers and Edward Albee"
23
F180
Newsweek
1963 February 4
Cover story.
23
F180
Mademoiselle
1963 March
"Five Playwrights Talk about How They Got There."
23
F180
Esquire
1963 July
"A Novel Beginning," except from Edward Albee's first novel.
23
F180
Village Voice
1963 July 11
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
"Albee on Lillian Ross," by Edward Albee.
23
F180
Rogue
October 1963
"Who's Afraid of Edward Albee."
23
F180
Cue
1963 October 26
"Playwright and Play: the ballad of Edward Albee."
23
F181
New York, the Sunday Herald Tribune
1963 October 27
Theatre: "Albee in the Village," by William Flanagan.
23
F181
New York, the Sunday Herald Tribune
1963 November 17
"The Barrier of the Sad Café."
23
F181
The Reporter
1964 January 2
"What's the Matter with Edward Albee."
23
F181
The Saturday Evening Post
1964 January 18
"Broadway's Hottest Playwright: Edward Albee."
23
F181
The Sunday Times Magazine
1964 February 2
"Who's Afraid of Edward Albee."
23
F181
Look
1964 February 11
"New York is a Stage:
The Ballad of the Sad Café."
23
F182
Plays and Players
1964 March
"Edward Albee in Conversation with Michael Smith."
23
F182
Cue
1964 May 9
"Three for the Play."
23
F182
Literary Times
1964 October
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
"Albee: Anger between the Acts."
23
F182
Literary Times
1964 December
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Edward Albee interviewed.
23
F182
New York, the Sunday Herald Tribune
1964 December 27
"Where the Action is, or, Notes on the Future," by Edward Albee.
23
F182
Backlist No. 6
1965
23
F182
Newsweek
1965 January 4
Theatre: "Who's Afraid of Success."
23
F182
Time
1965 January 8
The Theatre,
Tiny Alice reviewed.
23
F182
New York, the Sunday Herald Tribune Magazine
1965 January 17
"Edward Albee's World of Chance."
23
F183
The Reporter
1965 January 28
"The Trouble with Alice,"
Tiny Alice reviewed.
23
F183
The Saturday Review
1965 January 30
Cover story,
Tiny Alice.
23
F183
Where, New York
1965 January 30
Cover story,
Tiny Alice.
23
F183
New York, the Sunday Herald Tribune Magazine
1965 January 31
"What Means Tiny Alice?"
23
F183
Esquire
1965 February
"Françoise Sagan's France for Edward Albee."
23
F183
American Dialog
1965 February-1965 March
"Norman Mailer and Edward Albee."
23
F183
Show
1965 March
"Horrible Hamilton and Artless Albee."
24
F184
Atlantic
1965 April
"Talk about the Theatre," John Gielgud and Edward Albee.
24
F184
New York, the Sunday Herald Tribune Magazine
1965 October 3
"Albee and Barr Dissect Plays, Playwrights, Critics."
24
F184
Village Voice
1965 November 25
Edward Albee's review of
Icarus's Mother, by Sam Shepard.
24
F184
Intermission, Hull House Theatre
1965 December 26
"Edward Albee on
Tiny Alice" and a review of the play.
24
F184
The New Republic
1966 January 1
Group letter on Soviet writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, signed by Edward Albee.
24
F184
New York, the Sunday Herald Tribune Magazine
1966 January 30
"Albee vs. Albee."
24
F184
Look
1966 February 8
"The Night of the Brawl," Elizabeth Taylor cover story.
24
F184
The Saturday Review
1966 June 4
"Creativity and Commitment."
24
F185
Diplomat
1966 October
"Edward Albee Confronts Broadway, 1966."
24
F185
Life
1966 October 28
"Theater:
A Delicate Balance."
24
F185
Motive
1966 November
"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Time and Place for Critical Engagement?"
24
F185
Life
1967 May 26
"Angry Playwright in a Soft Spell."
24
F185
The Saturday Review
1967 June 10
Cover story.
24
F185
House and Garden
1967 December
"House in the Life of a Playwright."
24
F185
The New Republic
1967 December 16
24
F186
New York Times Magazine
1968 February 25
"Triple Threat On, Off, and Off-Off Broadway."
24
F186
Life
1969 December 26
Excerpt from
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
24
F186
The Saturday Review
1970 January 24
"The Decade of Engagement," by Edward Albee.
24
F186
Cinebill
1975 January
"Very Nice for us All."
24
F186
The New Yorker
1975 February 3
The Theatre: "Among the Dunes."
24
F186
New York Arts Journal
1975 September-1975 November
Interview with Edward Albee.
24
F186
New York Review of Books
1978 August 17
Letter to the editor.
25
F187
The New Yorker
1980 March 3
Talk of the Town: "Revisited."
25
F187
The Saturday Review
1981 February
"Should Edward Albee Call it Quits?"
25
F187
New York Review of Books
1986 August 14
Letter to the editor.
25
F187
Bomb
1992 Winter
Edward Albee profile.
25
F187
Theatre Week
1994 February 7
"Albee Eats Manhattan."
File I.B.10.
Albee - Photographs and Ephemera
25
F188
Photographs
Five photographs
One 3x5 and four 5x7 color photographs by Robert A. Wilson.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
Malcolm, and
Everything in the Garden.
8x10 black and white publicity photographs
25
F189
Edward Albee
Four photographs
Four 8x10 black and white publicity photographs of Edward Albee, two of which are inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
25
F190
Ballad of the Sad Café
Six photographs
25
F191
A Delicate Balance
Four photographs
25
F192
Everything in the Garden
Five photographs
25
F193
Marriage Play
Two photographs
Two photographs from the McCarter Theatre production. Includes autograph letter signed from Dan Bauer to Robert A. Wilson on McCarter Theatre stationery.
25
F194
Tiny Alice
Four photographs
25
F195
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Fourteen photographs
Thirteen photographs, including stills from both the Broadway production and the Warner Brothers film production. Also includes one 8x10 photograph of six foreign editions of
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
File I.B.11.
Ephemera - Albee
25
F196
Auction Sales Catalog, Parke-Bernet Galleries
1967 November 29
Alix Jeffry Photographic Archive of the Off-Broadway Theatre, 1952-1967. Illustrated with plates from the collection, including two Edward Albee plays.
25
F196
Caffe Cino Theatre Benefit
1965 March 15
Includes "A Tribute by Edward Albee."
25
F196
A Concert in Memory of William Flanagan (1926-1969) concert program
undated
Flanagan was a close friend of Edward Albee and the two collaborated on Edward Albee's
The Sandbox and the opera
Bartelby.
25
F196
"Eight Enchanted Evenings"
circa 1969
American Film Theatre promotional materials for a film series, including Edward Albee's
A Delicate Balance, starring Katherine Hepburn.
25
F196
Exhibition Catalog from the National Institute of Arts and Letters
1966 May
Edward Albee mentioned as newly elected member.
25
F196
So Who's Afraid of Edward Albee?
[1963]
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Program and poster for the Caffe Cino production of David Starkweather's play.
25
F196
UC Speaker Series, 30th Anniversary Pictorial History
[1999]
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Promotional brochure for William Plumley's speaker series, featuring Edward Albee.
25
F196
UND Writer's Conference: Epitomes, Bombast & Climaxes
1979
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Poster. Writer's Conference at University of North Dakota, March 19-23, 1979.
25
F196
Miscellaneous flyers, programs, and newsletters mentioning Edward Albee
undated
Posters
11 items
25
F197
American Dream and
The Death of Bessie Smith, York Playhouse
25
F197
A Delicate Balance, Hirshfeld drawing of the cast
25
F197
A Delicate Balance, Martin Beck Theatre
25
F197
A Delicate Balance, Martin Beck Theatre (Brook Atkinson quote)
25
F197
Everything in the Garden, Plymouth Theatre
25
F197
Malcolm, Shubert Theatre
25
F197
The Ballad of the Sad Café, Martin Beck Theatre
25
F197
Tiny Alice, Billy Rose Theatre
25
F197
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Billy Rose Theatre
25
F197
"Kuka Pelkää Virginia Woolfia?" (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Tampereen Työväen Teatteri (Tampere Workers' Theater), Tampere, Finland
undated
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
25
F198
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Movie Poster.
25
F198
Pressbook
20 pp.
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Promotional material from Warner Brothers.
25
F199A
News clippings
circa 1960-1970
Various new clippings, mostly from the New York
Times and other New York City news papers, by or about Edward Albee.
File I.B.12.
Sound Recordings
25
F199B1
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1963
4 records and booklet
SPEC Media
Columbia Records, 1963.
25
F199B2
The Zoo Story
undated
SPEC Media
NY: Spoken Arts, Inc.
25
F199B3
Charles Ives's
Washington's Birthday and
Hallowe'en;
The Pond;
Central Park in the Dark, and William Flanagan's operatic rendition of Albee's poem
The Lady of Tearful Regret
1963
SPEC Media
New York, NY: Composers Recordings, Inc., [1963].
Subseries I.C.
Andre, Michael
American editor and poet Michael Andre was born August 31, 1946, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and immigrated to the United States in 1968. Andre is the editor of
Unmuzzled OX, an occasional magazine of poetry, art and politics which began in 1971. Andre interviewed such literary figures as W. H. Auden, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, James Wright, Allen Ginsberg, James Dickey, and Gregory Corso. "Michael Andre." The Writers Directory. Detroit: St. James Press, 2011. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2011.
File I.C.1.
Correspondence
1978-2001
29
F288
Postcard
1978 April
1 p.
29
F288
Autograph letter signed
1996 April 9
1 p. with envelope
29
F288
Autograph letter signed
1996 May 7
1 p. with envelope
29
F288
Typed letter signed
1997 June20
1 p. with envelope
29
F288
Autograph note signed
[1999]
1 p. with envelope
The note is written at the end of a photocopy of an article, "Last Twentieth Century Ox."
29
F288
Autograph letter signed
undated
1 p.
29
F288
Autograph letter signed
undated
1 p.
File I.C.2.
Essay
2001
29
F288
G.C. for R. W.
2001 May 5
2 p.
This is a piece regarding Gregory Corso who had died January 17, 2001.
Subseries I.D.
Beam, Jeffery (1953- )
American poet Jeffrey Beam was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina. In addition to writing poetry, Beam serves as poetry editor for
Oyster Boy Review. Information derived from the Jeffrey Beam webpage (http://www.unc.edu/~jeffbeam/about.html).
File I.D.1.
Essays and reviews
2001-2004
29
F289
Oyster Boy Review
2001-2002 Winter
1 item
29
F289
Oyster Boy Review
2002 Winter
1 item
29
F289
Oyster Boy Review
2003 Fall
1 item
29
F289
Oyster Boy Review special supplement
2003 Fall
1 item
29
F289
Printouts of essays by Beam
2004 April 1
10 p.
Subseries I.E.
Berge, Carol (1928- )
The poet, novelist, and editor Carol Bergé was born in 1928 in New York, New York; died 2006. Bergé attended New York University and the New School for Social Research. Bergé is associated with the Beat writers and the Black Mountain school; her first collection of poetry,
The Vulnerable Island, was published in 1964, and her novel,
Acts of Love: An American Novel (1973) was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction in 1980. Bergé also held professorships at Grand Valley State College; Goddard College; University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; and Wright State University.
File I.E.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1992-2007
28
F224
Typed card
undated
1 postcard
28
F224
Typed letter signed
undated
1 p.
28
F224
Typed letter
undated
2 pp.
28
F224
Autograph letter signed
undated
1 p.
28
F224
Typed letter
undated
2 pp.
Form letter regarding Bergé's proposed Deux Megots anthology of 1960s New York coffeehouse poets (referred to as "Light Years") and a list of participants/contributors to the volume.
28
F224
Envelope
1992 September
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1992 September 29
3 pp.
Includes enclosed photocopies of CV, reviews and list of Bergé's books for sale.
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1992 December 29
1 p.
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1993 March 20
2 pp. with envelope
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1993 December 2
3 pp. with envelope
28
F224
Check from Bergé to Wilson
1993 December 20
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1994 February 13
1 p. with envelope
Includes enclosed list of Deux Megots poets.
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1994 March 26
1 p. with envelope
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1994 October 14
3 pp.
Includes enclosed Deux Megots list and photocopy of Bergé's entry in the 1991
Jazz Poetry Anthology, Indiana University Press, pp. 250-251.
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1994 November 11
2 pp.
Includes enclosed list of Bergé's books and Deux Mergots list.
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1994 December 12
2 pp. with envelope
Includes enclosed list of Bergé's works.
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1995 January 31
2 pp. with envelope
Includes enclosed list of Bergé's books.
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1995 April 6
3 pp.
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1995 June 17
1 p. with envelope
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1995 August 6
2 pp.
Includes enclosed photocopies of reviews.
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1995 October 13
2 pp. with envelope
Includes enclosed photocopy of article.
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1995 October 20
1 p. with envelope
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1995 November 11
2 pp. with envelope
28
F224
Typed letter signed
1995 November 25
2 pp. with envelope
Includes enclosed letter regarding proposed manuscript for book on Deux Megots and a list of participating/contributing writers.
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1996 January 10
2 pp.
Includes a photocopy of "Who's Who in the World" article for Bergé.
28
F225
Autograph letter signed
1996 January 22
1 p. with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1996 March 12
1 p. with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1996 March 20
1 p.
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1996 April 18
2 pp. with envelope
28
F225
Envelope
1996 April 19
28
F225
Envelope
1996 June 17
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1996 June 25
3 pp.
Includes enclosed Deux Megots list.
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1996 July 18
1 p.
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1996 July 29
1 p. with envelope
28
F225
Autograph card signed
1996 July 31
1 p.
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1996 August 16
1 p.
Includes a two-page carbon typescript of an incomplete Wilson article.
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1996 August 25
1 p. with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1996 September 18
1 p.
28
F225
Autograph card signed
1996 [October 10]
1 p.
28
F225
Typed letter signed
[1996]
1 p.
Includes Wilson's twelve-page article re: "The Phoenix" plus 3 pages of biographical and bibliographic information for "Light Years Anthology."
28
F225
Typed letter signed
[1996]
1 p.
Includes enclosed Deux Megots list.
28
F225
Envelope
1997 June 20
28
F225
Typed card signed
1997 June 26
1 card with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1997 July 6
3 p with envelope
28
F225
Autograph letter signed
1997 July 10
1 p.
Includes enclosed photocopy of letter from Carol Bergé to Rodney Phillips of the New York Public Library, list of Bergé's works and CV.
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1997 July 19
1 p. with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter
1997 August 30
1 p.
Carbon copy of typed letter from Robert A. Wilson to Peter Gizzi.
28
F225
Autograph letter signed
1997 September 8
1 p.
Includes inscribed notecard.
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1999 April 10
1 p. with envelope
Includes enclosed typescript of preface to "Light Years."
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1999 May
1 p.
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1999 July 2
1 p.
Includes typescript and a photocopy of the introduction to "Light Years." This draft of the introduction varies substantially from the final printed introduction which was written in 2006.
28
F225
Typed card signed
1999 August
1 postcard
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1999 August 11
2 pp. with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1999 September 18
2 pp.
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1999 October 7
1 p. with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter signed
1999 October 19
1 p. with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter signed
2000 May 15
2 pp. with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter signed
2000 May 27
2 pp. with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter signed
2000 December 6
1 p. with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter signed
2000 December 20
1 p. with envelope
28
F225
Typed letter signed
2001 January
1 p. with envelope
Includes a photocopy of Bergé's letter to Bob Fleck regarding her proposed book, "Light Years."
28
F225
Typed card
2007 March 21
1 card
Publication announcement for Berge's book
Antics: Passionate Stories About Folks in the Antiques Trade
File I.E.2.
Manuscripts
1961-1962
28
F226
Manuscripts
1961-1962
Four fair copy holograph manuscripts by Carol Bergé, signed and dated: "A Grey Song" (1961); "Of Roots and Sources" (1961); "The Cup" (1962); "The Shirt" (1962).
File I.E.3.
Photographs and ephemera
undated
28
F227
Photographs and ephemera
undated
Four photographs of Carol Bergé, three with inscriptions on verso; ephemera includes a paste-up of a page/cover from Carol Bergé's
Center Magazine, material related to Deux Megots project, and Carol Bergé's CV, critics' blurbs, and list of Carol Bergé's books for sale.
Subseries I.F.
Berrigan, Daniel (1921- )
The American writer and Roman Catholic priest Daniel Berrigan was born May 9, 1921, in Virginia, Minnesota. Berrigan was educated at St. Andrew on Hudson, B.A., 1946 and Woodstock College, Baltimore, Maryland, M.A., 1952. An active professor of theology and social activist, Berrigan has written many non-fiction works on theology and social issues. His poetry has been nominated for various awards, and includes
Time without Number (1957),
No One Walks Waters (1967),
No Bars to Manhood (1970), and
And the Risen Bread: Selected Poems, 1957-1997 (1999). He also published a play,
Trial of the Cantonsville Nine (1970), and a prison memoir,
Lights on in the House of the Dead (1974).
File I.F.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1964-1965
1
F3
Autograph note signed
undated
1 p.
1
F3
Autograph letter signed
[no year] June 1
2 pp.
Letter and printed poem, "I draw a fish that stands..."
1
F3
Autograph letter signed
[no year] May 25
1 p.
1
F3
Typed letter signed
1968 April 2
1 p. with envelope
1
F3
Autograph card signed
1975 February 11
1 card
1
F3
Autograph note signed
[1977]
1 p. with envelope
Includes typescript copy and pages photocopied from Daniel Berrigan's
False Gods, Real Men (1969) with Daniel Berrigan's note.
1
F3
Three prayer cards by Daniel Berrigan
1977 October 31
with envelope
1
F3
Autograph card signed
1977 December 10
card with envelope
1
F3
Autograph letter signed
1978 December 17
1 p.
Self folding envelope with typed poem and illustration by Daniel Berrigan.
1
F3
Autograph card signed
1986 September 20
1 card
1
F3
Autograph card signed
1988 February 19
1 card
1
F3
Autograph letter signed
1992 [October]
2 pp.
Written on a form letter signed by Daniel Berrigan.
1
F3
Autograph card signed
1992 October 22
1 card
File I.F.2.
Photographs and ephemera
1988
1
F4
Photographs and ephemera
1988
One publicity photo inscribed to Robert A. Wilson; ephemera includes newsletters, flyers, and form letters from Daniel Berrigan, several items concerning
Plowshares 8 Support Committee concerning an anti-nuclear weapons protest that Daniel Berrigan was involved in.
Subseries I.G.
Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983)
undated
The American poet and publisher Ted Berrigan was born November 15, 1934, in Providence, Rhode Island; he died July 4, 1983, in New York City. He was educated at University of Tulsa, B.A., 1959, M.A., 1962. He was the author of over twenty books of poems, including
The Sonnets (1964) and
So Going around Cities: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1979 (1980).
11
F120
Envelope and checklist
undated
Autograph envelope in Ted Berrigan's hand, addressed to Margaret Berrigan and a copy of "Ted Berrigan: An Annotated Checklist" draft by Aaron Fischer which includes a typed letter signed to Wilson (1996 January 27).
Subseries I.H.
Berry, Wendell (1934- )
1968-1992
The American writer, poet, and English professor Wendell Berry was born August 5, 1934, in Henry County, Kentucky; and was educated at the University of Kentucky, A.B., 1956, M.A., 1957. Berry has received many honors and awards for his work, which frequently discusses environmental issues. His works include
Collected Poems, 1957-1982 (1985),
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (1977), and a series of fictional works on seven generations of farm families, including
Nathan Coulter: A Novel (1960) and
A Place on Earth (1967).
File I.H.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1968-1992
1
F5
Autograph letter signed
1968 March 13
1 card
1
F5
Autograph letter signed
1968 November 12
1 p. with envelope
1
F5
Autograph card signed
1972 August 4
1 card
1
F5
Autograph letter signed
1973 December 15
1 p. with envelope
1
F5
Autograph letter signed
1984 February 28
1 p. with envelope
1
F5
Autograph letter signed from Billie Mullins Berry
1992 September 21
1 p. with envelope
1
F5
Autograph card signed
1992 November 7
1 card
1
F5
Cancelled check written by Robert A. Wilson to Berry
Subseries I.I.
Berryman, John (1914-1972)
1967-2000
American poet John Berryman, who was born October 25, 1914 in McAlester, Oklahoma, won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, for
77 Dream Songs. Berryman died on January 07, 1972, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "John Berryman." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2011.
File I.I.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1967-2000
1
F6
Autograph letter signed from Ann Berryman to Wilson
2000 March 28
1 card with envelope
1
F6
Academy of American Poets poster
1967 April 27
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches)
Academy of American Poets poster announcing a reading by Berryman on April 27, 1967, at the Guggenheim Museum.
Subseries I.J.
Bogan, Louise (1897-1970)
1964-1970
The American critic, poet, and writer Louise Bogan was born August 11, 1897 in Livermore Falls, Maine; died February 4, 1970, in New York City. She attended Boston University for one year (1915-1916). Bogan began contributing to the
New Republic and the
Liberator in 1917, then began writing poems in the 1920s, publishing
Body of This Death (1923) and
Dark Summer (1929). She was a longtime reviewer for the
New Yorker, 1931 – 1969, served as the Library of Congress Chair in Poetry, 1945 – 1946, and received many awards for her writing, including the Bollingen Prize for her
Collected Poems, 1923-1953 in 1954.
File I.J.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1964-1970
1
F7
Autograph note signed
undated
1 p.
"The elevator is not working..." A note Louise Bogan posted in her lobby for Robert A. Wilson.
1
F7
Autograph card signed
1964
1 card
1
F7
Autograph letter signed
1964 December 13
1 p. with envelope
1
F7
Autograph card signed
1964 December 22
card with envelope
1
F7
Autograph card signed
1965 December 23
card with envelope
1
F7
Invitation to Bogan's memorial service
1970 March 3
From William Jay Smith, Library of Congress, with New York
Times obituary.
File I.J.2.
Photographs and ephemera
undated
1
F7
Photographs and ephemera - Louise Bogan
undated
Three photographs of Bogan, sheet music for "To be Sung on the Water" (1969), news clippings, flyers, memorial service announcement, and other ephemera related to Bogan. Also, autograph notes in Bogan's hand concerning various reviews and literary works, 8 pp.
File I.J.3.
Manuscripts
undated
1
F8
The Journal of Jules Renard
1964
Spiral bound galleys
New York: George Braziller. Translated and edited by Bogan and Elizabeth H. Roget. Includes autograph note in Glenway Westcott's hand on the front and back covers and corrections to the text.
1
F9
What the Woman Lived: adapted from letters, journals, and poems of Louis Bogan
undated
42 pp.
Typescript manuscript by Janet Sternburg and Corinne Jacker. Includes Autograph letter signed to "Howard" from "Franklin" introducing the manuscript.
Subseries I.K.
Booth, Philip (1925- )
1961-1922
The American poet Philip Booth was born October 8, 1925, in Hanover, New Hampshire, and was educated at Dartmouth College, A.B., 1948, and Columbia University, A.M., 1949. Since 1955, when his first published poem appeared in
Poetry, Booth has published 10 volumes of poetry.
File I.K.1.
Correspondence
1961-1992
1
F10
Autograph letter signed
1961 January 6
1 p.
1
F10
Autograph card signed
1962 January 25
1 card
1
F10
Typed letter signed
1962 April 12
1 p. with envelope
1
F10
Typed letter signed
1962 April 19
1 p. with envelope
1
F10
Typed letter signed
1962 April 30
1 p.
1
F10
Autograph card signed
196[2] May 18
1 card
1
F10
Typed letter signed
1962 October 11
1 p. with envelope
1
F10
Typed letter signed
1962 October 13
1 p.
1
F10
Typed letter signed
1963 January 13
1 p. with envelope
1
F10
Typed letter signed
1963 March 26
1 p. with envelope
1
F10
Autograph card signed
1972 January 18
1 card
1
F10
Autograph card signed
1976 May 18
1 card
1
F10
Autograph card signed
1992 August 19
1 card
Includes autograph manuscript fragment, 1 p.
Subseries I.L.
Bowles, Jane (1917-1973) and Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
The American author Jane Bowles (nee Auer) was born February 22, 1917, in New York City; she died May 4, 1973, in Malaga, Spain. She was the author of the novel
Two Serious Ladies (1943),
In the Summer House (1953), and
The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (1966), which includes her short fiction.
The American writer and composer Paul Bowles was born December 30, 1910, in New York, NY; died November 18, 1999 in Tangier, Morocco. Bowles's writing includes the novels
The Sheltering Sky (1949),
Let It Come Down (1952),
The Spider's House (1955); he also wrote numerous short stories, collected in
The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950), and the well-received
Collected Stories of Paul Bowles, 1939-1976 (1980). Bowles became one of the preeminent composers of American theater music, producing works for William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, and others. In the last decade of his life, a resurgence of interest in Bowles's music has culminated in a number of major concerts and performances in the United States and Europe.
File I.L.1.
Ephemera
1
F11
News clippings
1973-1999
Includes obituaries for Paul and Jane Bowles and an article discussing the film and re-release of Paul Bowles's
The Sheltering Sky.
Subseries I.M.
Boyle, Kay (1902-1992)
The American writer Kay Boyle was born February 19, 1902, in St. Paul, Minnesota; died December 27, 1992, in Mill Valley, California. The author of novels, short stories, and poems, Boyle received two O. Henry awards for best short story of the year (1934, 1941) as well as other prizes for her lifetime contribution to American Literature. Boyle lived and wrote in Paris during the late 1920s. Her works include
Short Stories, (1929); the novels
Plagued by the Nightingale (1931),
Year Before Last (1932), and
My Next Bride (1934); a collection of poems,
Testament for My Students and Other Poems (1970); and a number of translations from French.
File I.M.1.
Correspondence
1965
1
F12
Autograph letter signed
1965 March 24
1 p. with envelope
Boyle's reply written at the foot of a typed letter signed from Robert A. Wilson, includes Boyle's form letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson protesting the Vietnam War.
Subseries I.N.
Broughton, James (1913-1999)
American poet, playwright, and filmmaker was born November 10, 1913, in Modesto, California; died May 17, 1999, in Port Townsend, Washington. Before his studies at the New School for Social Research, 1945-46, Broughton was educated at Stanford University, B.A., 1936. Between 1944 and 1999 Broughton wrote nine plays, published over twenty volumes of poetry, and made as many films. In 1997 Black Sparrow Press published
Collected Poems, and he received lifetime achievement awards from the American film Institute (1989) and the National Poetry Association (1992).
File I.N.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1961-1994
2
F13
Autograph card signed
undated
1 card
"Robert | Did you notice..."
2
F13
Autograph card signed
undated
1 card
"Dear Robert Wilson: I thank you for..."
2
F13
Autograph letter signed
1961 January 6
2 pp.
2
F13
Autograph card signed
1961 [February 14]
1 card
2
F13
Typed letter signed
1961 February 16
1 p. with envelope
2
F13
Autograph letter signed
1961 June 8
1 p. with envelope
2
F13
Typed letter signed
1964 March 12
1 p. with envelope
2
F13
Birth announcement
1964 April 22
Birth announcement for James Broughton's daughter Serena Felicity Broughton.
2
F13
Typed letter signed
1966 November 17
1 p.
2
F13
Typed letter signed
1969 November 7
1 p. with envelope
2
F13
Typed letter signed
1973 November 5
1 p.
James Broughton's reply typed at the bottom of a typed letter signed from Robert A. Wilson.
2
F13
Typed letter signed
1983 August 26
1 p. with envelope
2
F13
Autograph card signed
1986 February 22
1 card
2
F13
Autograph card signed
1991 March 6
1 card
2
F13
Typed letter signed
1991 March 22
1 p.
2
F13
Typed letter signed
1991 April 8
1 p.
2
F13
Typed note signed and greeting card with envelope
1991 April 29
2
F13
Typed letter signed
1992 September 25
1 p.
2
F13
Autograph card signed
1994 July 6
1 card
2
F13
Autograph card signed
1994 December 30
card with envelope
2
F13
Card
1999 May 26
card with envelope
Invitation to James Broughton's memorial service from Joel Singer.
2
F13
Three empty envelopes
1973 November 24, 1978, 1983 September 28
File I.N.2.
Photographs
undated
2
F14
Photographs
undated
Two photographs
Two photographs of James Broughton and one of James Broughton and Joel Singer, and an inscribed photo-postcard.
File I.N.3.
Manuscripts
circa 1963-1975
2
F15
Manuscripts
circa 1963-1975
1 p.
Photocopy of autograph journal entry, Apr 9-11, 1975, 11 pp. Typed bibliography of James Broughton's works [circa. 1963]; two small drawings,
What Have We Here, undated, small chapbook designed by James Broughton; "Only When I," poem with illustration by Lee Katzenbach.
File I.N.4.
Ephemera
2
F16
Ephemera
Flyers, postcards, news clippings, and other ephemera related to James Broughton.
Subseries I.O.
Capote, Truman (1924-1984)
The American writer Truman Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons on September 30, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana; died August 25, 1984 in Los Angeles, California. After his mother Lillie Mae "Nina" Faulk remarried, Capote was legally adopted by his stepfather, Cuban-American textile broker Joseph Capote, in 1935. Capote's childhood spent in Monroeville, Alabama, figured largely in his later writing, having allowed him to pursue his growing literary interests and fostering close relationships with his guardian Sook Faulk and the young Harper Lee, who would later author of
To Kill a Mockingbird, and who aided Capote in the research of his most well-known work,
In Cold Blood. Prior to his first novel,
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), which features a now-famous photograph of the author, Capote published many critically acclaimed and award-winning short stories. Capote also penned several plays and a screenplay in the early 1950s.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) helped to bring Capote's career into a new phase, and the novel later produced a successful film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn. With the publication of
In Cold Blood, Capote popularized a "new" style of writing, the non-fiction novel. Capote's six years spent researching the 1959 murders of the Cutter family in Holcombe, Kansas, caused the author much stress, and the infamous Black and White Ball, held on November 28, 1966 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, has been said to have been an attempt to relieve some of the mental and emotional stress caused by
In Cold Blood. Capote published
Music for Chameleons in 1980. His unfinished work
Answered Prayers, a scandalous work for many of Capote's celebrity-friends and –acquaintances, remained a source of debate after his death.
File I.O.1.
Correspondence, clippings, galleys, posters, and other ephemera
1954-1968
Organized by play.
28
F230
House of Flowers programs and sheet music
1954-1968
Deluxe souvenir program from the first production [1954], sheet music, "Vocal Selections from
House of Flowers" [1963], and "Vocal Selections from the off Broadway Musical
House of Flowers [1968]. New edition for the revival production with photographs of the case and scenes.
Beat the Devil
1953-1962
28
F231
Correspondence
1961 June-1962
Correspondence between Wilson and Romulus Films concerning Wilson's request for a script of
Beat the Devil for a Capote bibliography. Also includes the customs slip with which Romulus Films shipped the script from London. The final letter of this group is addressed to Universal-International Pictures from Wilson requesting a copy of a script of
The Innocents for the bibliography, citing his successful transaction with Romulus Films.
28
F232
Post-production script
[1954]
This very detailed release script was compiled after the completion of the film, as there never was a complete script for it, due to Capote and director John Huston's heavy improvisation during filming. The script details scenes, number of frames per scene, number of feet of film used per scene, action, dialogue, sound effects, and includes some camera directions. Inscribed on title page "for Robert Wilson/Truman Capote."
28
F233
Pressbooks
1954, 1964
Two pressbooks for the film, distributed by United Artists and Royal Films International.
28
F234
Beat the Devil movie poster
circa 1953
SPEC MSS oversize boxes
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961-1966
28
F235
Release dialogue script
1961
Mimeographed script made for the technical crew who assembles rough footage into final version of the movie. Very detailed descriptions of camera shots, action, sound and music, dialogue, locations of scenes that appear on each film reel and the length of footage used for each scene. Includes some corrections. Also accompanied by folder in which the script was housed, which bears penciled note in unknown hand, "Ira Wolf left this for you."
28
F236
Pressbook and program
circa 1961-1966
Includes pressbook and merchandising manual distributed by Paramount for the film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Also includes program for the musical adaptation by Edward Albee starring Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain.
28
F237
News clippings
1961, 1966
Articles related to the film
Breakfast at Tiffany's and the musical adaptation starring Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain.
In Cold Blood
28
F238
Sandy Campbell correspondence archive
1964-1965
This collection of letters, cards and other materials related to Garden City, Kansas, come from the archive of Capote's editor at
The New Yorker, Sandy Campbell, who, in checking facts for the serialization of the novel that ran in four installments in September-October 1965, corresponded with several citizens of Garden City. Items include postcards, flyers and other information related to Garden City; two original telegrams from Capote inviting Campbell to a New York party given in honor of the Deweys; letters from various legal officials with specific information about the case; letters answering editorial questions. Also included are letters and cards from Marie Dewey, wife of Alvin Dewey, the detective who broke the case; several cards from Violet Tate, whose husband Judge Roland Tate presided over Perry and Hickock's trial. Also included are several items from the postmistress of Garden City. Finally, an empty envelope from Capote's father, Arch Persons, and a photocopy of a four-page 1964 letter to Capote from Richard Hickock. Some of the items are undated or the date is unclear.
The New Yorker galley proofs
1964, 1965
Complete set of galley proofs for the serialization of
In Cold Blood that appeared in four consecutive issues of
The New Yorker; includes numerous editorial marks in pencil. Included with the final set of proofs is the envelope in which the magazines were housed.
28
F239
Galleys for "The Last to See Them Alive," 3rd revise
1964 September 15
28
F240
Galleys for "Persons Unknown," 3rd revise
[no year] September 15
28
F241
Galleys for "Answer," 2nd revise
1964 September 15
28
F242
Galleys for "The Corner"
1965 June 21
The New Yorker rough copies
1965
Complete set of the rough copies of the four issues of
The New Yorker which contained the serialization of
In Cold Blood that ran late September to early October 1965. Each issue stamped "rough copy" on the cover. Each issue is complete and bound, run for a final check before public release. Included with the final issue is the envelope in which the magazines were housed.
28
F243
Pages 57-166
1965 September 25
28
F244
Pages 57-175
1965 October 2
28
F245
Pages 58-183
1965 October 9
28
F246
Pages 62-193
1965 October 16
28
F247
News clippings
1966-1968
Various news clippings related to the sensation surrounding Capote's most well-known work, including several articles concerning the debate between Capote and critic Kenneth Tynan.
28
F248
"Cold Facts" publicity pamphlet
[1966]
Publicity pamphlet titled "Cold Facts" released for the 1967 film. Capote sent this pamphlet to
New Yorker editor Sandy Campbell. Includes accompanying envelope addressed to Campbell by Capote, with his signature in the return address.
28
F249
Theater lobby photo cards
[1967]
Set of 8 11x13" photo cards showing scenes from the 1967 film
In Cold Blood starring Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.
28
F250
Sound recordings
1966
SPEC Media
Library of Congress Talking Book Solely for the Use of the Blind series. Set of 9 records. Produced by the American Foundation for the Blind, 1966. Read by Alan Hewitt.
28
F251
The Thanksgiving Visitor
circa 1967-1968
Uncorrected advance proofs. Cover label bears publication date of November 21, 1968, which conflicts with inside copyright information of 1967.
File I.O.2.
Scripts
1961-1980
28
F252
The Innocents
1961
Signed, mimeographed typescript of Capote's adaptation of Henry James's
The Turn of the Screw. Signed on the title page by Capote. Marked "Last File Copy" on title page in unknown hand.
28
F253
A Christmas Memory
1966
Mimeographed script for ABC Television production. On the title page, Capote has written "No/TC," in response to Robert Wilson's query as to whether the autograph corrections that appear in pencil throughout the script were his.
28
F254
Among the Paths to Eden
1967
Screenplay adapted for television by Eleanor Perry from Capote's short story of the same name. Revised pages dated May 10, 1967; autograph corrections in unknown hand.
28
F255
Laura
1967
Teleplay by Capote and Thomas W. Phipps from the novel by Vera Caspary. A detailed camera script that shows time tables for shooting, color coded sections for each shooting day. The script lists speaking and non speaking actors and descriptions of scenes, artists, directions for cameras to be used and accompanying sound effects.
28
F256
Dead Loss
1973
Original screenplay by Capote and Robert MacBride. Unproduced and otherwise unpublished.
29
F257
Music for Chameleons
1980
Photocopied typescript of Capote's final manuscript. Shows autograph corrections.
29
F258
Miriam
undated
Acting script for a television performance which shows dialogue and stage directions. No notice of who adapted this piece or when is given on the script itself. Based on Capote's short story of the same name.
29
F259
Yellow Drum, A Musical Play
undated
Typescript of an earlier version of
The Grass Harp, whose original title Capote restored before the opening of the show. Script by Kenward Elmsie. The script is inscribed on the title page to "Kenward—with Love from Chuck & Bruce" and is signed by Elmsie. Heavily corrected throughout.
29
F260
Handcarved Coffins: A Nonfiction Account of an American Crime
undated
Mimeographed typescript of an original script by Capote for a never produced performance.
File I.O.3.
News clippings
1952-1992
29
F261
Life and career
1955-1968, 1984-1985, 1992
29
F262
Other Works
1952-1968
Includes articles related to
The Grass Harp,
The Innocents,
Laura,
House of Flowers, and
Unanswered Prayers.
29
F263
Black and White Ball
1966
Numerous clippings about Capote's Black and White Ball, given November 28, 1966.
29
F264
Reviews
1980, 1986, 1987
Several reviews of Capote's works, one by author John Fowles.
File I.O.4.
Photographs and ephemera
undated
29
F265
Photographs
1961-1979
Ten photographs of Capote and scenes from film adaptations of his works. Includes photograph of a young Capote by Karl Bissinger, in which Capote is posed on the Columbus Circle subway stop stairs. The photographs include a still from Neil Simon's 1976 film
Murder by Death, in which Capote played a leading role. The photograph included here has Capote's back to the camera. A publicity photograph of Capote taken to accompany the release of
Music for Chameleons is autographed. Also included are several small images of Capote mounted on cardstock.
29
F266
Ephemera
1998, undated
Press releases, envelopes, several of which bear Capote's own handwriting, reading announcements, one of which is autographed by Capote. One envelope is addressed to Sandy Campbell and bears Capote's signature in the return address; another, larger envelope bears Capote's writing "From Capote and Donald Windham" above a scratched-out address to his editor. On the back of envelope, Capote has printed an alternate title for
Answered Prayers, though the text is scratched out. It reads: "The Nigger Queer Kosher Café." Other materials include catalogues listing the location and prices of various Capote items, a program from a memorial service held for Capote, and a humorous letter and accompanying image from Capote's representative Andrew Wylie, producer of a novelty item "Hot Dice;" in this 1978 letter, Wylie refers to an accompanying image of Capote holding a pair of the dice: "Here at last for the whole world to see: Truman with cock in hand." Also includes flyers for
The Grass Harp, a playbill for
Tru, and the Max Schulman flyer parodying a Capote photograph.
29
F267
Capote's blurbs
undated
Variety of news clippings, publicity cards, flyers and materials that feature blurbs by Capote. Items of interest include an exhibition announcement for
Paintings of Greece by Maurice Grosser, in which Capote's name is misspelled; a flyer for Sandy Campbell's
B; a wrap-around band for Jose Ackerley's autobiography; & a 1960 advertisement for Harper Lee's
To Kill a Mockingbird.
File I.O.5.
Media
circa 1954-1992
29
F268A
The Glass House (1972)
1987
SPEC Media
Starring Alan Alda, Vic Morrow, and Billy Dee Williams. Directed by Tom Gries. Showcase Productions, Inc., 1987.
29
F268B
Beat the Devil (1954)
undated
SPEC Media
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida. Directed by John Huston. RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, undated.
29
F268C
Indiscretions of an American Housewife (1954)
undated
SPEC Media
Starring Montgomery Clift and Jennifer Jones. Directed by Vittorio de Sica. The ABM Group, undated.
29
F268D
TRU with Robert Morse (1992)
undated
SPEC Media
Home recording.
Subseries I.P.
Congdon, Kirby
American poet Kirby Congdon was born November 13, 1924, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Congdon is the author of dozens of books and small-press editions of poetry. He is also the founder, with Ralph Simmons of Cycle Press. "Kirby Congdon." Poetry Foundation at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/kirby-congdon (accessed December 2011).
File I.P.1.
Printed material
1963-1996
29
F290
Announcement for
A Century of Progress
1963
1 item
29
F290
Print of poem
Celebration signed
1996
1 item
No. 52 of 100 copies.
Subseries I.Q.
Corso, Gregory (1930-2001)
1960-1985
The American poet and writer Gregory Corso was born March 26, 1930, in New York, New York; he died, January 17, 2001, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Corso was one of the primary participants in the Beat movement, an association that started in 1950, when he met Allen Ginsberg in New York City. His best known work is
Gasoline (1958), published by City Lights Books in San Francisco.
File I.Q.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson (unless otherwise noted)
1960-1985
2
F17
Typed letter signed
[no year] December 9
1 p.
2
F17
Typed letter (copy) from Fred Jordon to James Laughlin
1960 August 31
1 p.
2
F17
Typed letter (copy) from Fred Jordon to James Laughlin
1960 September 7
1 p.
Two letters concerning publication of Corso's poems.
2
F17
Typed letter (copy) from Fred Jordon to Gregory Corso.
1961 January 5
1 p.
2
F17
Autograph letter signed from Gregory Corso to James Laughlin
1966
2 pp.
Posted from Athens, Greece, with Gregory Corso's comments on publishing his work.
2
F17
Typed letter signed
1969 December 15
1 p. with envelope
2
F17
Autograph letter signed
[1972 April 18]
2 pp.
Dated in pencil in an unknown hand (Robert A. Wilson?).
2
F17
Autograph letter signed
1974 February 18
1 p.
2
F17
Autograph card signed
1974 September 5
1 card
2
F17
Autograph letter signed
1975 July 16
1 p. with envelope
2
F17
Autograph letter signed
1975 October 9
2 pp. with envelope
2
F17
4 Autograph cards signed
1983 November 2
4 cards
Series of postcards numbered 1-4 and mailed from Paris on the same day.
2
F17
Typed letter signed
1985 March 14
1 p.
Letter to William S. Burroughs concerning a misunderstanding between the two writers. Also includes an autograph card signed (1998 March 20) from Bill Morgan to Wilson regarding the publication of Corso's
Ankh.
File I.Q.2.
Manuscripts
1962-1981
2
F18
"Ginsberg by Corso"
1970
Drawing, ink on paper, 8.5x11"
2
F19
"Events Not of the Ordinary," from
The Other Side of April
[circa 1967]
15 pp.
Typescript manuscript with Corso's corrections in two sections for the autobiographical essay that appeared in
Evergreen Review, August 1967, under the title "When I was Five Years Old I Saw a Dying Indian." Includes a 3 pp. section not appearing in the published essay, with autograph notes in Corso's hand and the address stamp of
Evergreen Review.
2
F20
The Golden Dot
undated
105 pp.
Typescript and autograph manuscript, unpublished, with "SAR with Corso, March 2 1984" and "Physicist" (on verso), drawings, ink on paper. Poem in several sections.
2
F20a
The Golden Dot preservation photocopy
undated
2
F21
Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit uncorrected galleys
1981
SPEC MSS oversize galleys
New York: New Directions, 1981. Rochelle Ratner's copy.
2
F21
Long Live Man galleys
1962-1973
SPEC MSS oversize galleys
New York: New Directions, ND Paperbook 127, 1962. Inscribed to Robert A. Wilson from Corso, dated 1973. Includes mailing envelope.
2
F22
"Mutation of the Spirit"
[1964]
3 pp.
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
[New York: Death Press]. Galleys for a "shuffle poem."
2
F23
"The Night last Night was at its Nightest"
[1972]
1 p.
Typescript manuscript with autograph corrections, signed by Corso. Published by the Phoenix Book Shop as a holiday greeting. Fragment.
3
F24
Spiral notebook with autograph notes
undated
25 leaves
"Champion" notebook, red cardboard covers.
3
F25
10 Times a Poem: Collected at random from 2 suitcases filled with poems—the gathering of 5 years
1967
New York: s.n. Autograph manuscript, artwork, and layout sheets for Corso's collection of short poems, published December 1967.
Subseries I.R.
Di Prima, Diane
American poet Diane Di Prima was born on August 06, 1934, in New York, New York. Di Prima also edited Floating Bear (magazine), was director and co-founder of the New York Poets Theater from 1961-65. Di Prima has also taught at Naropa Institute School of Poetics. "Diane di Prima. The Writers Directory. Detroit: St. James Press, 2011. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2011.
File I.R.1.
Printed flyer
29
F291
Benefit #2 An Afternoon with Robert Creel[e]y
1962 February 4
1 p.
This flyer for the Creeley reading was printed by Di Prima.
Subseries I.S.
Everson, William (1912-1994)
William Everson, the American poet and Dominican monk, was born September 10, 1912, in Sacramento, California; he died June 3, 1994, in Santa Cruz, California. Everson began publishing poetry in the mid-1930s, starting with
These Are the Ravens (1935). Black Sparrow Press brought out
The Veritable Years: Poems 1949-1966, in 1978. Everson also wrote under his Dominican name, Brother Antoninus. He published over forty volumes of poems and edited the works of Robinson Jeffers during the 1970s.
File I.S.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1961-1994
3
F26
Autograph letter signed
1964 January 24
1 p. with envelope
Written on Dominican Priory stationery, signed "Brother Antoninus."
3
F26
Autograph letter signed
1974 October 25
1 p. with envelope
3
F26
Typed letter signed
1984 February 4
1 p. with envelope
File I.S.2.
Ephemera
undated
3
F26
The Residual Years: Poems, 1940- 1941
undated
[Waldport, OR: The Untide Press, 1944]. Artwork and dummy copy for Everson's private press book of poems. Includes woodblock prints and sketches for the final copy of the book.
Subseries I.T.
Gallup, Donald (1913-2000)
Literary bibliographer and editor Donald Gallup was born on May 12, 1913, in Sterling, Connecticut; died in 2000 in Branford, Connecticut. Gallup was educated at Yale University, B.A., 1934. An eminent bibliographer of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Gallup is credited with confirming the discovery of the missing "Wasteland" manuscript in 1968. Gallup published his first checklist of Eliot works in 1937. Gallup was the curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature for more than 30 years.
File I.T.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1960, 1987-2000
28
F228
Envelope
199? October 24
28
F228
Signed card
undated
1 card
28
F228
Signed card
undated
1 card
28
F228
Autograph card signed
undated
1 card
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1960 November 2
1 p.
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1987 February 22
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1988 December 12
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1988 December
1 p.
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1990 October 25
1 p.
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1991 September 4
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1992 November 15
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Autograph card signed
1993
1 card
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1993 April 3
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1994 April 14
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1994 April 26
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1994 May 6
1 p.
28
F228
Typed card signed
1994 December 12
1 card
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1994 December 14
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1994 December 31
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1995 February 17
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1995 December 3
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1996 December
1 p.
28
F228
Autograph card signed
[1997]
1 card
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1997 November 24
1 p.
28
F228
Autograph card signed
1998 October 22
1 card with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
1999 October 7
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed
2000 June 21
1 p. with envelope
28
F228
Typed letter signed from Bruce Kellner to Robert A. Wilson
2000 September 6
1 p.
Concerning the deterioration of Donald Gallup's health.
28
F228
Typed letter signed from Bruce Kellner to Robert A. Wilson
2000 September 14
1 p.
Regarding Donald Gallup's passing.
File I.T.2.
Ephemera
1985, 2000
28
F228
Ephemera
1985, 2000
Includes a presentation copy of an offprint of "Taste, Technique and Utility in Book Collecting," dated1985. Inscribed by Donald Gallup to Robert A. Wilson: "For Robert A. Wilson/with Season's Greetings/D.C.G./1985." Also included is a clipping of Donald Gallup's obituary from
The New York Times, September 10, 2000.
Subseries I.U.
Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)
The American poet Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey; died April 5, 1997, in New York, New York. Ginsberg was educated at Columbia University, A.B., 1948. While at Columbia Ginsberg met the two writers with whom he is most frequently associated, William S. Burroughs (1914 – 1997) and Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969), and the three writers went on to become the leading figures of the Beat movement. Ginsberg entered the literary scene at San Francisco's Six Gallery in 1955, the occasion of his first public reading of the poem "Howl." During his career he published more than twenty volumes of poetry, and is best known for his long, Whitmanesque poems, such as "Howl" (1956) and "Kaddish" (1961). Ginsberg was one of the most prominent literary figures of his generation, and his extensive body of creative work includes essays, published journals, photographs as well as poetry. Although he was frequently identified with the youth movements of the 1950s and 1960s, Ginsberg's work shows a broad and sustained interest in the social issues confronting contemporary society.
File I.U.1.
Correspondence - Letters from Allen Ginsberg
1956-1992
Letters from Allen Ginsberg to others, arranged chronologically.
3
F27
Typed letter signed to LeRoi Jones
undated
1 p.
Letter written from Paris, including a typed note from Gregory Corso.
3
F27
Autograph note signed to Robert A. Wilson
undated
1 p.
3
F27
Autograph card signed to [Robert A. Wilson]
undated
1 card
3
F27
Typed letter to Richard Eberhart
1956 May 18
2 pp.
Allen Ginsberg to Richard Eberhart. Eberhart's typescript transcription of 2 pp. "summary" included with Allen Ginsberg letter to Robert Eberhart, "May 18, 1956, SF."
3
F27
Typed letter signed to Bob [La Vigne]
1956 August 3
1 p.
Includes Robert A. Wilson's note on the composition date of Allen Ginsberg's "Siesta at Xbalba."
3
F27
Autograph card signed to Francesca Carr
1963 October 9
1 card
3
F27
Autograph letter signed to Ed Sanders
1964 January 19
21 p. with envelope
Allen Ginsberg proposes various steps to promote the legal use of marijuana.
3
F27
Typed letter from Timothy Leary Defense Fund
1966 April 9
1 p.
Form letter distributed in the names of Diane di Prima and Allen Ginsberg. Bears autograph note "This is not my prose- but for- I dunno- maybe Alan Marlowe wrote it," signed "Allen Ginsberg, Dec 8, 1966."
3
F27
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1968 December 8
1 card
3
F27
Autograph letter signed to Bob [La Vigne]
1970 August 18
1 p.
Penciled note identifies recipient as Bob Rosenthal (Allen Ginsberg's secretary), but Allen Ginsberg bibliographer Bill Morgan suggests the letter is to Bob La Vigne. Includes photocopies of 5 manuscript poems, "Police State Blues," "After Thoughts," "Done, Finished with the Biggest Cock," "Kiss Ass," and "Prophecy."
3
F27
Autograph letter signed to Peter Orlovsky
1972 March 12
4 pp. with envelope
Posted from Australia.
3
F27
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1973 January 5
1 card
3
F27
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1973 July 5
1 card
3
F27
Typed form letter
1973 August 29
4 pp.
Allen Ginsberg's letter concerning Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg's view of "the drug problem in America." Inscribed by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson.
3
F27
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1973 December 17
card with envelope
3
F27
Typed form Letter
1974 February 25
3 pp.
Allen Ginsberg's letter supporting Abbie Hoffman, with Allen Ginsberg's later autograph (10/21/85). Also includes a typed letter from the Abbie Hoffman & Friends Defense Committee.
3
F27
Autograph letter signed to Robert A. Wilson
1974 March 7
1 p. with envelope
On the verso of a flyer for Peace Illumination Walk, New York City, December 23, [1974].
3
F27
Autograph letter signed to Lanny Reinhardt
1976 February 3
1 p. with envelope
Letter to Louis Ginsberg concerning rare books, forwarded to Robert A. Wilson by Allen Ginsberg, included Robert A. Wilson's post-it note.
3
F27
Autograph note signed Robert A. Wilson
1981 September 11
1 p.
Allen Ginsberg's IOU to Robert A. Wilson.
3
F27
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1985 January 1
card with envelope
Announcement of Ginsberg's photographic exhibition.
3
F27
Postcard to Robert A. Wilson
1985 February 15
postcard
Announcement of a reading by Ginsberg, addressed by Allen Ginsberg (?).
3
F27
Autograph letter signed to Rene [Ricard]
1987 [June 2]
2 pp.
3
F27
Autograph letter signed to Jim Perrizo
1987 November 21
1 p.
Includes a photocopy of Perrizo's [unpublished] typed manuscript "Edie Kerouac Parker and the Birth of the Beat Generation" with Ginsberg's autograph corrections, 19 pp. Includes copies of additional comments on the manuscript from Carolyn Cassady, Henri Cru, John Montgomery, and others.
3
F27
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1989 November 28
1 card
On the verso of "Arrive" poem by John Wieners, 1984.
3
F27
Autograph letter signed to Charles Plymell
1990 March 10
3 pp.
Includes photocopy of Allen Ginsberg's envelope as well as Plymell's typed letter signed, 1989 December 18, 6 pp.
3
F27
Autograph card signed to Charles Plymell
1990 April 15
1 p.
Photocopy of an autograph postcard.
3
F27
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1990 September 29
1 card
Allen Ginsberg's poem "Homework," 1980 appears on the verso.
3
F27
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1992 January 30
1 card
Announcement of a performance by Allen Ginsberg and the False Prophets on verso.
3
F27
Autograph letter signed to Edie Kerouac Parker
1992 May 11
2 pp.
3
F27
Four unmatched envelopes
undated
Addressed to Wilson (one to Phoenix Book Shop).
File I.U.2.
Correspondence - Letters to Allen Ginsberg
1971-1976
3
F29
Incoming mail addressed to Allen Ginsberg
1971-1976
4 items
Includes correspondence from
Psychology Today magazine, P.E.N. American Center, and others.
File I.U.3.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson concerning Allen Ginsberg
1987-1999
All correspondence in this folder is addressed to Robert A. Wilson.
3
F30
From Bill Morgan
1987 March 18
New clippings & envelope. Published letter signed by Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso to
Time magazine, 9 March 1959, and Art Buchwald's column concerning Allen Ginsberg and Fidel Castro, Chicago
Sun Times 17 May 1961.
3
F30
Typed letter signed from Bill Morgan
1991 July 1
2 pp.
3
F30
Typed letter signed from Bill Morgan
1991 July 13
2 pp.
3
F30
Typed letter signed from Bill Morgan
1992 December 11
2 pp.
Includes Morgan's summary of bibliographic entries of Allen Ginsberg's writings.
3
F30
Typed letter signed from Marshall
1993 June 22
1 p.
3
F30
Typed letter signed from
Tikkun
1994 January 5
1 p. and insert
Includes
Tikkun Conference schedule at which Allen Ginsberg was honored.
3
F30
Autograph note signed from Coffee House Press
1994 November 6
1 p.
Note from Leslie Ross, flyer, and a printing sample from Allen Ginsberg's
Honorable Courtship.
3
F30
Typed letter signed from Allen Ginsberg Trust
1999 March 14
3 pp.
Letter concerning the auction of Allen Ginsberg's possessions at Sotheby's, signed by Bill Morgan and Bob Rosenthal.
File I.U.4.
Manuscripts
1959-1996
Miscellaneous Manuscripts
1959-1996
3
F31
"Bus Ride Ballad, Road to Suva"
undated
2 pp.
Music manuscript. Lyrics in Allen Ginsberg's hand.
3
F31
"China in Transition, Through a Poet's Eyes"
1985
13 pp.
Typescript photocopy with Allen Ginsberg's autograph note, signed "N.Y.C. 9/22/85."
3
F31
Committee on Poetry protest use of New York obscenity law in the case of Lenny Bruce
1964 June 13
Open letter with autograph notes by Allen Ginsberg, inscribed by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson "10/21/85."
3
F31
"Cosmopolitan Greetings"
1986
4 pp.
Poem. Autograph photocopy, dated "June 25, 1986."
3
F31
"Hey sweet rasberries [sic] growing in a row..."
undated
1 p.
Autograph lyrics with chord notations.
3
F31
"Graffiti in the 12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse Airport"
1969 November 11
2 pp.
Poem. Typescript copy with Allen Ginsberg's corrections, dated "March 15, 1970."
3
F31
"The Living Theatre"
1971
Press release form letter for the Paradise Defense Fund, signed by Allen Ginsberg.
3
F31
"On Mindfulness"
1977
Typescript copy, "Presentation to Conference on Life Cycle Planning," signed by Allen Ginsberg.
3
F31
"O When I woke up this morning Cambodia was bombed again..."
undated
1 p.
Lyrics with chord notations. Two verses written in Allen Ginsberg's hand, signed "Jim [Jackson] Peter Orlovsky & A Ginsberg."
3
F31
"Please Master"
1968
2 pp.
Poem. Typescript copy with Allen Ginsberg's corrections, dated "May 1968."
3
F31
Poems All Over the Place, Mostly 'Seventies
1978
Autograph sheet (in Allen Ginsberg's hand?) for the cover of his book of poems published by Cherry Valley Editions, a small press run by Charles Plymell. (cf. Morgan A41)
3
F31
Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
1959 April 25
Flyer for a reading by Allen Ginsberg, signed by Allen Ginsberg.
3
F31
"A Public Poetry"
1982
1 leaf
Poem. Typescript copy with Allen Ginsberg's autograph corrections, typed date of "April 6, 1982" with "Nov 1985" added in an unknown hand.
3
F31
"Some Mantras"
1969
4 pp.
Mantras, "for chanting at New School, NYC." Typescript and photocopies with Allen Ginsberg's added notes and signature.
3
F31
Stony Brook Poet's Prophesy
1968 June 23
Flyer, signed by Allen Ginsberg and American poet Robert Duncan.
3
F31
"To the Viewer"
1996
4 pp.
Autograph photocopy of Allen Ginsberg's note for an exhibition of his photographs (with drawings and watercolors by Robert La Vigne), Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, November 18, 1996.
3
F32
"PO: Allen is going to..."
1961
20 pp.
Erotic dialogue between Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. Typed manuscript with autograph corrections in two parts, dated "July 16, 61" and "July 29, 61."
3
F33
Scrap Leaves: Tasty Scribbles
1968
Poems. Autograph manuscript of poems in Allen Ginsberg's hand composed 1962- 1967. The manuscript was reproduced in facsimile and published by The Poet's Press, Millbrook, New York in an edition of 150 copies signed and numbered by Allen Ginsberg. (cf. Morgan A11).
Miscellaneous notes
circa 1976-1985
3
F34
Miscellaneous notes
circa 1976-1985
A group of notes, received correspondence, and other miscellaneous items bearing Allen Ginsberg's hand. Some items are dated "Nov 85" in an unknown hand, while others are stamped "SEP 7 1976." Approximately 20 items including a cancelled check written by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson, December 17, 1985.
Manuscripts by others
undated
3
F35
Arthur, Gavin (1901-1972)
undated
"Document received from the hands of a living person [Gavin Arthur] & its authenticity vouched for by Allen Ginsberg," undated. Typescript manuscript of Arthur's essay concerning a meeting with British writer Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) with Allen Ginsberg's signature below his typed statement of authentication. Includes two notes in Robert A. Wilson's hand identifying Gavin Arthur, the grandson of US President Chester Alan Arthur (1830-1886), as the author. The essay was eventually published in
Gay Sunshine: A Journal of Gay Liberation 35 (Winter 1978); 29.
File I.U.5.
Publications
1989-1992
3
F36
Hydrogen Jukebox
1991
Two items
Playbill for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's production featuring Allen Ginsberg's poetry accompanied by the music of Philip Glass. Playbill inscribed by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson "11/3/92." Also included is the BAM's 1991 performance schedule, which lists
Hydrogen Jukebox.
3
F37
Miscellaneous
1989-1992
Includes two poems on printed postcards, "Homework," 1989 and "In the Benjo," 1992 (Morgan E344); tear sheet photocopy from
rallying point magazine of "Mock-Sestina: The Conspiracy Against Dr. Timothy Leary," 1973 (Morgan E79); and "Tompkins Park," 1989, from
This is Important with Allen Ginsberg's autograph corrections. Allen Ginsberg's autographed introduction to "
The Soft Machine," by William S. Burroughs,
Olympia, December 1961.
3
F38
"What the East Means to Me"
1989
Kyoto Review, 22, Spring 1989. Lecture delivered at Kyoto Seika University, November 2, 1988. Includes an essay by Morgan Gibson from the same issue. (Morgan J4671)
File I.U.6.
Photographs and images
1953-1995
3
F39
Photographs
[1972-1994]
At the American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York City, May 15, 1972. photographs include Allen Ginsberg, Robert A. Wilson, Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky (1933- ), and Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney (1939- ).
3
F40
Photographs and artwork
[1953-1975]
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Photographs by Allen Ginsberg include Jack Kerouac (1953) and Nanda Pivano & Alice Notley (1984), both inscribed; photograph of Allen Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Bob Dylan (1975); and a signed photograph of Allen Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Michael McClure (1965). Artwork for "A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley," by Allen Ginsberg and Robert La Vigne (1963, Morgan AA1), and a print from Wynn Chamberlain's
Chamberlain's Nakeds (1965).
3
F41
Photographs and postcards
1970-1995
Includes 11 postcards of Allen Ginsberg's photographs, three signed by Allen Ginsberg; set of four autograph poems written on postcards by Allen Ginsberg and Alice Notley, various other postcards and photographs of Allen Ginsberg and associates, many of which are inscribed and signed.
File I.U.7.
Ephemera
1959-1995
3
F42
Autographed items
[1973-1986]
Includes bookmarks, flyers, and a cancelled check signed by Allen Ginsberg, Robert A. Wilson, and Gregory Corso. "A Memorial Tribute to Louis Ginsberg," May 20, 1979, signed by Allen Ginsberg; "A Tribute to Walt Whitman," March 26, 1992, signed by Allen Ginsberg, and others.
3
F43
Ginsberg's Itinerary
1985 November 7-1985 December 17
Typed itinerary for Allen Ginsberg's tour of universities in the United States and visit to Russia.
3
F44
Miscellaneous items
[1959-1995]
Flyers, brochures, book catalogs, postcards, exhibition catalogs, materials related to the Naropa Institute, and other items related to Allen Ginsberg. Includes a 1969 catalog for City Lights Books, a press release from the New York Committee to Legalize Marijuana concerning Allen Ginsberg, and several flyers for early readings and appearances.
4
F45
Posters
[1981-1994]
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches) and SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches)
Posters and large flyers for readings and events, includes full page New York
Times GAP advertisement featuring Allen Ginsberg.
4
F46
Six Auerhahn Poets
1963
Small poster for a November 26, 1963, reading by Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Mike McClure, and others. Robert A. Wilson's typed note is included.
4
F47
Three Broadsides
[1991-1992]
Includes "Deadline Dragon Comix" (Morgan C1184); "Deeper into America;" and "Fear & Fearlessness." All three pieces are inscribed by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson.
4
F48A
"Things are symbols of themselves"
undated
T-Shirt. White cotton with black design by Allen Ginsberg.
File I.U.8.
Sound Recordings and media
1981-1985
4
F48B1
Plutonium Ode
undated
SPEC Media
London, England: Poetry London/Apple Magazine, undated.
4
F48B2
Birdbrain and Sue Your Parents
1981-1982
SPEC Media
Alekos Records, 1981. Inscribed "for Ted Berrigan New Years' Day 1982 Allen Ginsberg."
4
F48B3
Blake's Greatest Hits
1982-1985
SPEC Media
Blue Moon Records, 1982. Bears two inscriptions from Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson: 1). on side 2 of the record: "Allen Ginsberg 10/21/85 for Bob Wilson" and 2). on the record cover: "Allen Ginsberg 10/21/85 for Bob Wilson."
4
F48B4
Interview with Allen Ginsberg
undated
SPEC Media
video cassette recording made by Robert Wilson
File I.U.9.
Realia
1964
4
F49
Clipping from Allen Ginsberg's beard
1964
Stored in a Phoenix Book Shop envelope with Robert A. Wilson's autograph note, "Ginsberg's beard | 1964."
File I.U.10.
Periodicals and News Clippings—Allen Ginsberg
1972-1999
4
F50
Various news clippings
1972-1999
Topics include the theatre production of
Kaddish (1972), censorship issues, Allen Ginsberg's archive at Stanford, and Allen Ginsberg's obituary from various sources. 24 items, including four periodicals related to Allen Ginsberg,
Third Rail No. 8 inscribed by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson.
Subseries I.V.
Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986)
The writer Christopher Isherwood was born August 26, 1904, in High Lane, Cheshire, England; died, January 4, 1986, in Santa Monica, California; he was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1924-25 and King's College, University of London, 1928-29. Isherwood immigrated to the United States in 1939, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1946. His works include the novels
The Last of Mr. Norris (1935),
Goodbye to Berlin (1939),
A Meeting by the River (1967), and an autobiography,
Lions and Shadows (1947). He also wrote screenplays, translations, essays, and collaborated with W.H. Auden (1907 – 1973) on several plays.
File I.V.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1973-1976
4
F51
Autograph card signed
1973 November 3
1 card
4
F51
Autograph card signed
1975 March 25
1 card
4
F51
Autograph card signed
1976 October 13
1 card
4
F51
Autograph card signed
1976 November 22
1 card
File I.V.2.
Photographs, playbills, ephemera
4
F52
Photographs, playbills, and ephemera
One autographed publicity photograph [1980]; two photograph postcards of portrait drawings by Don Bachardy; two copies of
Playbill for Meeting at the River (1979) autographed by Isherwood & Don Bachardy, and
I am a Camera (1951); also includes a flyer, book catalog, and one periodical. Phonograph removed to SPEC Media; Publicity poster removed to SPEC MSS oversized boxes; Early photograph, signed by Isherwood and the photographer, removed to SPEC MSS oversized boxes (20 inches).
Subseries I.W.
Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965)
1958-1982
The American literary critic and poet Randall Jarrell was born May 6, 1914, in Nashville, Tennessee; died October 14, 1965, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He received his education at Vanderbilt University, A.B., 1935, A.M., 1938. As a critic Jarrell is known for his candid and unwavering critical stance on the works he reviewed; his poems are characterized by a modern, plain style, showing more in common with the work of Robert Frost than that of T.S. Eliot. His works include
Losses (1948),
The Seven League Crutches (1951),
The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems and Translations (1961), and numerous reviews; Jarrell also edited short story collections and works by Rudyard Kipling, as well as translating Chekhov's play
The Three Sisters (1964).
File I.W.1.
Correspondence and ephemera
[1958]-1982
4
F53
Autograph letter signed
undated
1 p.
Written on Mrs. Randall Jarrell's stationery.
4
F53
Autograph letter signed from Carolyn Harris
1982 June 14
1 p. with envelope
Includes an autograph letter signed with envelope from Jarrell to Harris, which Harris dates as Fall of 1958 or Spring 1959.
4
F53
Ephemera
1960-1965
Playbill, "The Three Sisters," 1964; various news clippings 1960-1965.
Subseries I.X.
Jess (1923-2004)
American painter and collage artist Jess Collins (1923-2004), who was known simply as "Jess," was the longtime partner to poet Robert Duncan. Obituary San Francisco Chronicle. http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-01-07
File I.X.1.
Correspondence
1982-1990
29
F292
Card announcing exhibition
1982 April 5
1 item with envelope
29
F292
Autograph postcard signed
1990 May 16
1 p. with envelope
Subseries I.Y.
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Irish author and poet James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882–1941), one of the best known writers of the twentieth century, was born on February 2, 1882 in Rathgar, a Dublin suburb. Joyce, the eldest of seven children, was educated at University College. Joyce developed friendships with other members of the Irish Literary Renaissance, including John Millington Synge and Oliver St. John Gogarty. His first book,
Chamber Music, was published in 1907. Joyce's well-known literary works include
Dubliners (1914),
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916),
Ulysses (1922), and
Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce died in Zurich, Switzerland in 1941. "Joyce, James, 1882–1941." Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed April 17, 2007).
File I.Y.1.
29
F293
Printed ephemera
1967-1993
29
F293
Program for screen version of
Ulysses
1967
1 item
The Walter Reade, Jr./Joseph Strick Production.
29
F293
Prospectus for
James Joyce Ulysses: a facsimile of the manuscript
1975
1 item
29
F293
Announcement for the play,
James Joyce's Exiles
1977
2 items
Performed by the Circle Repertory Company in New York.
29
F293
Brochure for the exhibition
Two Centernarians: Virginia Woolf & James Joyce
1982 January-July
1 item
In the New York Public Library
29
F293
Invitation for a "Bloomsday" celebration
1982 June 16
1 item
In the New York Public Library
29
F293
Announcement for an exhibition
A Valentine to James Joyce
1993 June-August
1 item
At the University of Texas, Austin.
Subseries I.Z.
Koch, Kenneth (1925-2002)
1961
The American poet and writer Kenneth Koch was born February 27, 1925, in Cincinnati, Ohio; died, July 6, 2002, in New York City. Koch was educated at Harvard University, A.B., 1948; Columbia University, M.A., 1953, Ph.D., 1959. The author of several books on literary criticism, more that fifteen plays, and twenty volumes of poems, Koch has received many awards for his writing, including the Frank O'Hara Prize, 1973; Christopher Book Award and Ohioana Book Award, both 1974, both for
Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children; the Bollingen Prize, 1995; Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, 1996, for
One Train: Poems; and a National Book Award, 2000, for
New Address.
Item I.Z.1.
11
F121
Guinevere, or the Death of the Kangaroo
1961
9 pp.
NY: American Theatre for Poets. Play. Inscribed by Koch to Robert A. Wilson.
Subseries I.AA.
Laughlin, James (1914-1997)
1975-1992
Publisher, editor and poet James Laughlin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1914; died in Norfolk, Connecticut, in 1997. Laughlin was educated at Harvard University, B.A., 1939, from which he took a six-month hiatus to study under Ezra Pound in Italy. As the founder and owner of the periodical
New Directions, Laughlin published the early and experimental writings of many well-known modern authors, such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, the Beat writers, and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as reprinting and revitalizing older authors like Henry James.
New Directions was founded in 1936 with its first publication,
New Directions in Prose & Poetry. Laughlin was honored with the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1992.
File I.AA.1.
Correspondence and ephemera
1975-1992
28
F229
Autograph letter signed
1975 December 15
1 p. with envelope
This letter was a rejection of a short story Robert A. Wilson had submitted to
New Directions. In Robert A. Wilson's hand: "re: my submission of my short story called 'Water Color' [never published] Robert A. Wilson."
28
F229
Autograph card signed
1983 December 19
1 card
28
F229
Autograph letter signed
1985 October 18
1 p. with envelope
28
F229
Autograph letter signed
1990 July 17
1 p. with envelope
28
F229
Typed letter signed (copy)
1992 February 27
1 p. with envelope
28
F229
Ephemera
1981-2001
Ephemera includes four cards advertising symposia between 1981 and 2001 featuring James Laughlin and New Directions; one for a memorial service for James Laughlin. Also included is a photocopy of article from
Publisher's Weekly, November 22, 1985, titled "The Way It Was: James Laughlin and New Directions" by Miriam Berkley; and a photocopy of James Laughlin's obituary from
The New York Times, November 14, 1997. Also includes six New Directions catalogs (1970-1999) and an announcement for a slide show re: Ezra Pound at the Grolier Club (1985).
Subseries I.BB.
LaVigne, Robert (1928- )
Painter, illustrator, and theatrical set designer Robert LaVigne, who was born in St. Maries, Idaho in 1928, is associated with the Beat Generation and poets of the San Francisco Renaissance. He was knew a number of poets and counter-culture figure, including Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky. LaVigne was the Art Director of the Auerhahn Press, which published the work of the San Francisco Renaissance. Robert LaVigne Papers, Columbia University Libraries, http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079553/summary (accessed December 2011).
File I.BB.1.
Correspondence
1979-1998
29
F294
Postcard invitation
1979 January 1
1 item
29
F294
Postcard invitation
1984 November 20
1 item
29
F294
Envelope addressed by LaVigne to Wilson
1987 Feb 17
1 item
29
F294
Greeting card signed
1994 December 22
1 p. with envelope
29
F294
Typed letters signed
1998 May 12
1 p.
Enclosed with the letter are typescripts of a resume, an "artist's statement," and "The Lion Preface" by Allen Ginsberg.
29
F294
Postcard invitation
1998 September 4
1 item
Subseries I.CC.
Levertov, Denise (1923-1997)
1972-1998
Poet, essayist, editor, and educator Denise Levertov was born October 24, 1923, in Ilford, Essex, England; after immigrating to the United States in 1948 she became an American citizen in 1955. With Muriel Rukeyser and several other poets, Levertov founded the Writers and Artists Protest against the War in Vietnam. Levertov was an award winning poet, including Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America in 1984 and the Robert Frost medal in 1990. Levertov died December 20, 1997, in Seattle, Washington. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC.
File I.CC.1.
29
F270
A Bibliography of Denise Levertov
1972
Carbon typescript of Wilson's Levertov bibliography with autograph notes by Levertov on some pages, plus mailing envelope.
29
271
Correspondence and ephemera
1997-1998
5 items
Includes a postcard from Levertov's son, Nikolai Gregor Goodman, a postcard announcing a memorial service for Levertov, two clippings of her obituary and a package label.
29
F294
Greeting card signed
1998 December
1 item
Subseries I.DD.
McClure, Michael (1932- )
The American poet and playwright Michael McClure was born October 20, 1932, in Marysville, Kansas; he was educated at San Francisco State College, B.A., 1955. McClure, a participant in the 1955 reading at San Francisco's Six Gallery, was an early member of the Beat movement. He has authored over twenty plays, including
The Beard (1965) and
Josephine, the Mouse Singer (1978), as well as more than twenty-five volumes of poetry, including
Plane Poems (1969) and
Selected Poems (1986). McClure has received an Obie Award for best play (
Josephine, 1979) and a Pushcart Prize for his poetry (1991), among other awards.
File I.DD.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1965-2006
5
F54
Typed letter signed
undated
1 p.
"Dear Marshall & Bob, | Thought you might like..."
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
undated
1 p.
"Bob & Marshall, | Just found some 1967..." Written on verso of flyer for
The Beard.
5
F54
Autograph note signed
undated
1 p.
"Bob, This is the flyer..." Written on verso of a flyer for "Two McClures Sunny-Side up."
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
undated
1 p.
"Dear Bob, | MICHAEL AND THE LIONS by Robert Wilson..."
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
undated
1 p.
"Bob & Ken | Devour that lovely..." Written on verso of a flyer for McClure's reading at 544 Natoma.
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
undated
1 p.
"Dear Bob, | All's well here at the Naropa Institute..."
5
F54
Autograph card signed
undated
1 card
Greeting card with "Indian moon moths" addressed to Ken [Doubrava].
5
F54
Telegram
[no year] December 7
1 p.
Confirmation copy of McClure's telegram to
Life magazine.
5
F54
Typed letter signed
1965 January 27
1 p. with envelope
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1965 March 8
1 card
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1966 April 10
1 card
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1966 June 1
1 card
5
F54
Typed letter signed
1966 Labor Day
3 pp. with envelope
5
F54
Typed letter signed
1966 December 3
2 pp. with envelope
5
F54
Typed letter signed
1967 January 13
1 p. with envelope
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
1968 December 21
1 p. with envelope
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
1971 November 2
1 p. with envelope
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1974 March 19
1 card
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1974 August 9
1 card
5
F54
Typed letter signed
1974 September 26
1 p. with envelope & news clipping
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1975 March [20]
1 card
5
F54
Typed letter signed
1977 April 15
1 p. with envelope
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
1978 February 10
1 p. with envelope
Letter written at the foot of a photocopied review of McClure's play
Goethe: Ein Fragment. 4 pp. of photocopied reviews.
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1978 May 21
1 card
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
1978 July 5
1 p. with envelope
5
F54
Autograph card signed from Joanna McClure
1978 November 24
card with envelope
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
1979 December 10
1 p. with envelope
5
F54
Wedding invitation
1982 June 14
1 card with envelope
Wedding of McClure's daughter, Katherine.
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1982 December 19
1 card
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1983 June 14
1 card with envelope
Originally included two photographs of grandson James & [McClure's daughter] Jane, which have been moved to McClure photographs, F79.
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1984 January 16
1 card
5
F54
Typed letter signed
1984 July 19
2 pp.
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1985 December 27
1 card
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
1986 December
2 pp.
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1981 September 11
1 postcard
Includes photograph, postcard, and news clipping related to the "River City Re-Union" in Lawrence, Kansas in September 1987. The postcard, addressed to Wilson, bears greetings and signatures of Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Andrei Codrescu, Michael McClure, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Perrizo, and Ed Sanders. Photograph includes: Creeley, Waldman, Codrescu, Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Edie Parker Kerouac.
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
1987 September 21
1 p. with envelope
Verso contains a photocopy of a
Time magazine story on a Beat writer reunion.
5
F54
Typed letter signed
1989 February 25
3 pp. with envelope
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
1993 May 10
1 p.
Written on the verso of an
American Poetry flyer.
5
F54
Autograph card signed
1994 April 4
1 card
In Amy Evans McClure's hand.
5
F54
Autograph letter signed
1997 November 19
1 p.
Written on the verso of a flyer advertising a performance by McClure & Ray Manzarek.
5
F54
Autograph note signed
[1999]
Note & news clipping.
5
F54
Autograph card signed from Amy Evans McClure
2002 February 19
1 card
5
F54
Undated cards and notes
undated
Includes six autograph cards signed, one of which is from Joanna McClure, one typed card signed, and four brief autograph notes, all undated.
5
F54
Autograph card signed
2006 December [18]
1 card with envelope
5
F55
Envelopes
1964-1994
23 unmatched envelopes addressed to Robert A. Wilson from McClure.
File I.DD.2.
Manuscripts
1961-1980
5
F56
The Adept
[1971]
179 pp.
Novel. Typescript copy with autograph corrections, "A new draft for a novel" in McClure's hand on title page, inscribed to Robert A. Wilson, and stamped with Helen Merrill's address.
5
F57
The Adventures of Gorf
undated
14 pp.
Play. Typescript copy inscribed to Robert A. Wilson by McClure, including small drawing in McClure's hand.
6
F58
"Ah, Mother"
undated
11 pp.
Poem. Typescript copy.
6
F59
The Blossom: or Billy the Kid
1964
28 pp. (missing p. 26)
New York: American Theatre for Poets Play. Typescript copy, signed by McClure.
6
F60
Coyote in Chains
[1980]
84 pp.
Play. Typescript copy inscribed by McClure for Robert A. Wilson on the title page.
6
F61
The Derby
[1975]
115 pp.
Play. Typescript copy, with McClure's autograph note "Second Version" and signed by McClure.
6
F62
The Feast
[1960]
19 pp.
Play. Typescript with McClure's corrections and a drawing on the first page, inscribed for Robert A. Wilson by McClure.
6
F62
The Floting Bear, a Newsletter
1961
Newsletter. Typescript copy. Issue #14, edited by Diane Di Prima & LeRoi Jones. Includes McClure's "The Feast," signed by McClure.
6
F63
General Gorgeous
[1975?]
105 pp.
Play. Typescript copy. Title page bears original drawing by McClure. Includes mailing envelope from McClure to Robert A. Wilson.
6
F64
Gorf and the Blind Dyke (The Purple Cycle Hero)
[1974]
80 pp.
Play. Typescript copy, spiral bound in red wrappers. Title page bears original drawing, signed by McClure.
6
F65
Josephine, or Josephine the Mouse Singer
[1980]
108 pp.
Play. Typescript copy and autograph drawing. Title page with drawing, inscribed by McClure "A reading copy of the first draft for Robert Wilson" in McClure's hand.
6
F66
Typescript copy of Michael Feingold's preface
circa 1980
9 pp.
Small drawing and McClure's initials in ink on title page.
6
F67
Long galleys
[1980]
39 pp.
SPEC MSS oversize galleys
[New York: New Directions]. Autographed by McClure.
6
F68
"Listen, Lawrence"
undated
12 pp.
Typescript copy with autograph corrections. Poem, signed by McClure.
6
F69
Little Odes
1961, 1968
12 pp.
Poems. Autograph manuscript in McClure's hand for Poet's Press facsimile edition. Artwork removed to SPEC MSS oversized boxes (20 inches).
Correspondence (
Little Odes)
1968
McClure to Diane Di Prima concerning the Poet's Press edition of
Little Odes.
6
F69
Autograph letter signed
1968 May 7
2 pp. with envelope
Includes artwork with McClure's autograph notes.
6
F69
Autograph letter signed
1968 May 7
1 p. with envelope
6
F69
Autograph letter signed
1968 June 4
2 pp. with envelope
Envelope includes a long autograph note in McClure's hand.
6
F70
The Masked Choir
[1976]
34 pp.
Play, typescript copy with autograph title page in McClure's hand inscribed to Robert A. Wilson by McClure. Includes original mailing envelope.
6
F71
Pillow
[1961]
9 pp.
Play, typescript [mimeograph] in green ink with autograph notes in [McClure's] hand, signed on the title page. Includes a flyer from The New York Poet's Theatre, signed by McClure.
6
F72
The Red Snake
1979 August
86 pp.
Play, typescript copy with "Version A | Aug. 30, 1979" and "New York Shakespeare Festival" on the cover page. Inscribed to Robert A. Wilson from McClure.
6
F73
The Velvet Edge
undated
49 pp.
Play, typescript copy with the characters German Shepherd and Cactus. 49 pp. in blue paper binding, inscribed by McClure for Robert A. Wilson.
7
F74
Vktms: Orestes in Scenes
undated
59 pp.
Typescript copy. Play, inscribed in ink to Robert A. Wilson by McClure.
7
F75
Manuscript Fragments
undated
3 pp.
Photocopies of poems, two in McClure's hand.
File I.DD.3.
Photographs
undated
7
F76
Photographs
undated
Three photographs of McClure and three of [grandson] James, one inscribed by McClure. One photo inscribed "For Phoenix- Very Best, Michael McClure"; New Directions publicity photo with horns and mustache added in ink, signed "Miguel."
File I.DD.4.
Ephemera
undated
7
F77
Flyers and broadsides
undated
Announcements for McClure's readings, plays, and performances, some of which are photocopies of autograph originals in McClure's hand. Most of these items include mailing envelopes addressed to Robert A. Wilson from McClure. Venues for readings and performances include the Great American Music Hall & the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, and the Bottom Line in New York. Also included are two items addressed to Diane Di Prima.
7
F78
The Cherub
[1969]
Poster for McClure's play at the Mandrake Theatre in Berkeley, California.
7
F79
Miscellaneous ephemera
undated
Programs, manuscript notes, flyers, news clippings, posters, ticket stubs, book catalogs, and a promotional packet from De Leon Artists (inscribed to Robert A. Wilson), including a photograph of McClure. Posters removed to SPEC MSS oversized boxes (20 inches). Also includes an undated announcement from Jargon Press for the publication of McClure's first book
Passage.
Subseries I.EE.
Malanga, Gerard
American poet and avant-garde photographer Gerard Malanga was born March 20, 1943, in New York, New York. Malanga, who was an assistant to pop-culture artist Andy Warhol during the 1960s, collaborated with Warhol on many filmmaking and literary projects. "Gerard Joseph Malanga." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2011.
File I.EE.1.
Printed ephemera
1991-1998
29
F295
Invitation to a book party for
Three Diamonds
1991 October 23
1 p.
29
F295
Invitation to a celebration of the publication of
Resistance to Memory
1998 April 23
4 p.
29
F295
Malanga's business card
undated
1 item
29
F295
Invitation to a birthday party for Malanga given by Steve Seymour
undated
1 item
Subseries I.FF.
Mead, Taylor
American writer Taylor Mead was born December 31, c. 1931, in Detroit, Michigan. His best know work is the three volumes of
Excerpts From the Anonymous Diary of a New York Youth. Mead also Mead acted in numerous avant-garde films and plays, starring in Frank O'Hara's
The General Returns From One Place to Another," for which he won an Obie. "Taylor Mead." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2011.
File I.FF.1.
Correspondence
1964-1992
29
F296
Autograph letter signed
1964 December 1
5 p. with envelope
29
F296
Autograph letter signed
1965 September 28
3 p. with envelope
Enclosed is a photograph of Mead.
29
F296
Autograph letter signed
1965 December 11
2 p. with envelope
29
F296
Invitation to a exhibition and book party for
Anonymous Diary of a New York Youth
1992 October 5
1 item
Honors Mead and William Rand.
Subseries I.GG.
Micheline, Jack (1929-1998)
Beat poet, painter and author Jack Micheline was born November 6, 1929 as Harvey Martin Silver, in New York City. Micheline's first book of poetry,
River of Red Wine which included an introduction by hi friend Jack Kerouac, was published by Troubador Press in 1958. "Jack Micheline." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2011.
File I.GG.1.
Correspondence and ephemera
1963-1998
29
F297
Autograph wedding invitation
1963 March 13
1 p.
Micheline to Mimi Redding.
29
F297
Clipping of Micheline's obituary
1998 March 6
Subseries I.HH.
Olson, Charles (1910-1970)
American poet and essayist Charles Olson was born December 27, 1910, in Worester, Massachusetts. Olson served as rector at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC, from 1951 to 1956. Olson's work influenced numerous other writers during the 1950s and 1960s, including Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, and Paul Blackburn. Charles Olson died January 10, 1970, in New York. "Charles Olson." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2011.
File I.HH.1.
Correspondence - Letters from Charles Olson
1961-1963
7
F80
Autograph note to Robert A. Wilson
undated
envelope
Autograph note in Olson's hand on Phoenix Book Shop envelope.
7
F80
Autograph letter signed to John Wieners
[no year] June 7
1 p.
Written on Black Mountain College stationery.
7
F80
Autograph letter signed to Leroi Jones
196[2] January 5
1 p. with envelope
Dated "1961" by Olson, but postmarked 1962.
7
F80
Autograph letter signed to Robert A. Wilson
1963 July 6
2 pp. with envelope
Olson's reply to Robert A. Wilson's typed letter signed, 1963 June 19.
7
F80
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1963 September 28
card
7
F80
Autograph card signed to Robert A. Wilson
1963 December 21
card
File I.HH.2.
Photographs
circa 1965-1968
7
F81
Photographs
circa 1965-1968
Nine photographs of Olson and family at Black Mountain College, one of Olson reading (1965), and one credited to Ann Charters (1968), inscribed by Olson.
File I.HH.3.
Publications
[1969-2004]
7
F82a
Publisher Catalogs
[1969-1989]
6 catalogs
Black Sparrow Press and Frontier Press catalogs listing Olson's publications.
7
F82b
Minutes of the Charles Olson Society
2001-2004
2 items
Issues #42 and #52
File I.HH.4.
Posters
[1980-1982]
7
F83
Posters
[1980-1982]
2 posters
SPEC MSS oversize boxes
Performance poster for "Apollonius of Tyana," 1980; exhibition poster for "Beats & Others, Literary Photographs by Ann Charters," 1982.
Subseries I.II.
Oppenheimer, Joel (1930-1988)
1988
American poet Joel Oppenheimer, who was born February 18, 1930, in Yonkers, New York, is remembered as one of the Black Mountain Poets, a literary group centered at North Carolina's Black Mountain College, where he studied from 1950 to 1953. From 1966 to 1972, Oppenheimer was director of the Poetry Project at New York City's St. Mark's Church, and from 1969 until 1984 he was a contributing editor for the
Village Voice. Oppenheimer died October 11, 1988, in Henniker, New Hampshire. "Joel Oppenheimer." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2011.
File I.II.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1988
7
F84
Autograph letter signed
1988 January 19
1 p. with envelope
Also included: 2 Autograph note signed (undated) on New England College stationery, 1 unmatched envelope, and a printed "Season's Greetings" card.
Subseries I.JJ.
Orlovsky, Peter (1933- )
The American writer Peter Orlovsky was born July 8, 1933, in New York, New York. Orlovsky is the author of
Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs: Poems, 1957-1977 (1978); his longtime relationship with Allen Ginsberg is described in
Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947-1980 (1981).
File I.JJ.1.
Correspondence from Peter Orlovsky
1961-1968
8
F85
Typed letter signed to Katherine Orlovsky
1961 November 24
4 pp. with envelope
Posted from Israel to Orlovsky's mother, including an autograph note from Allen Ginsberg.
8
F85
Autograph card signed to Carl Solomon
1968 October 28
1 card
File I.JJ.2.
Manuscripts
1956-[1978]
8
F86
Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs, from 1957 to 1977
[1978]
130 pp.
Typed manuscript with autograph corrections in Orlovsky's hand, bound in hard-backed notebook. Some pages are photocopies and others have text pasted down.
8
F87
Miscellaneous manuscript
undated
6 pp.
Autograph manuscript in Orlovsky's hand, with the note, "used Bill B cut up method."
8
F88
Drawings
1967
Account book with carbon pages with drawings by Orlovsky, signed and dated "1967."
8
F89
Notebooks
[1956]-1966
Includes pocket-sized notebook with autograph poem in Jack Kerouac's hand (cf. Robert A. Wilson's note), [1956]; large notebook dated "Oct. 19, 57" on the cover and inscribed to Robert A. Wilson with the date "Aug 9, 1988" inside the front cover; pocket notebook date "Feb 16, 66" includes a mantra in Allen Ginsberg's hand.
File I.JJ.3.
Photographs
8
F90
Photographs
[circa 1955-1975]
Includes photographs of Orlovsky and Ginsberg and unidentified others. Robert A. Wilson's note identifies the location of some of these photographs as "India," but they are in fact taken in Yosemite National Park.
File I.JJ.4.
Documents
1954-1957
8
F91
US Army Honorable Discharge
1954 July 12
8
F91
International Driving Permit
1957 March 8
File I.JJ.5.
Ephemera
circa 1954-1959
8
F92
Flyers and drawings
circa 1954-1959
Includes the drawing, "Peter Orlovsky Standing on a Bed," by Robert La Vigne, 1954, ink on paper (removed to SPEC MSS oversized boxes). Also includes, one photocopied drawing (by Robert La Vigne, 1954) and one mimeograph drawing (1959) and 2 flyers for readings.
Subseries I.KK.
Patchen, Kenneth (1911-1972)
American poet Kenneth Patchen was born December 13, 1911 in Niles, Ohio. In addition to over thirty books of poetry, Patchen wrote four novels and two plays. In 1967 Patchen received the National Foundation on Arts and Humanities award for lifelong contribution to American letters. Patchen died January 08, 1972, in Palo Alto, California. "Kenneth Patchen." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2011.
File I.KK.1.
Printed ephemera
29
F298
Invitation to a Gotham Book Mart Gallery exhibition of Patchen's work
1982 September 8
1 p.
29
F298
Flyer for the Patchen Tribute Fund
undated
1 p.
Subseries I.LL.
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
SPEC VAULT MSS
The American poet and essayist Ezra Loomis Pound was born October 30, 1885, in Hailey, Idaho; died November 1, 1972, in Venice, Italy. He received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College (1905), and his M.A. from University of Pennsylvania (1906), where he was friends with poets William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) and Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961). In 1908 Pound sailed to Europe, publishing his first book of poems,
A Lume Spento (1908) in Venice. Then in London he began associating with W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), for whom he worked as an unofficial secretary (1913-16), and met Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), T. E. Hulme (1883-1917), and other important writers of his generation. During his time in England (1908-1920) Pound left a marked influence on the literary world, working as an editor for several little magazines, such as
Poetry, the
Egoist, and the
Little Review, he helped both T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) and James Joyce (1882-1941) publish their work. His own works published at this time include
Personae and Exultations (1913),
Lustra (1917),
Quia Pauper Amavi (1918), and
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920). Leaving London for Paris, where his influence continued, Pound helped the young Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) get started in the literary world and edited T. S. Eliot's
The Waste Land (1922). During the 1920s Pound began publishing an ongoing collection of poems,
The Cantos. In 1924, Pound and his wife moved to Rapallo, Italy, a Mediterranean village where Yeats and other literary figures frequented. At the beginning of World War II, Pound made regular broadcasts on Rome Radio, harshly attacking American politicians and policies until he was eventually arrested in 1945. Pound suffered a nervous breakdown while awaiting trial, but was able to produce the
Pisan Cantos (1948), which won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. After a period of internment Pound returned to Italy in 1958.
File I.LL.1.
Correspondence - Letters from Ezra Pound
SPEC VAULT MSS
From Ezra Pound to various correspondents, unless noted.
26
F200
Autograph letter signed to Elkin Mathews
[1909] September 16
4 pp.
SPEC VAULT MSS
Includes 1 p. autograph contract with Elkin Mathews for the
Exultations of Ezra Pound (1909), signed by Ezra Pound.
27
F201
Autograph postcard signed to Elkin Mathews
1909 October 31
1 pp.
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F201
Autograph letter signed to unknown person
1912
2 pp.
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F201
Autograph letter signed to Elkin Mathews
1914 October 16
2 pp.
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F201
Typed letter signed to René Taupin
19xx April 2
1 p.
SPEC VAULT MSS
Written on Ezra Pound's Via Marsala, Rapallo stationery. See also the autograph letter to Caresse Crosby in this collection.
26
F201
Autograph letter signed to Elkin Mathews
undated
2 pp.
SPEC VAULT MSS
"Are these people..." Single leaf.
26
F201
Autograph letter signed to Elkin Mathews
undated
2 pp.
SPEC VAULT MSS
"Will you finish..." Two leaves.
26
F201
Autograph card signed to Elkin Mathews
1910 March 25
1 card
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F201
Autograph card signed to Elkin Mathews
1913 February 12
1 card
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F201
Autograph letter signed to Harriet Monroe (possibly from Ezra Pound)
1914 June 19
2 pp.
SPEC VAULT MSS
Written on Elkin Mathews, Publisher stationery.
26
F201
Typed letter signed to Miss Buss
1916 October 27
1 p.
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F201
Autograph letter signed to Caresse Crosby
undated
2 pp. with envelope
SPEC VAULT MSS
Written on Hôtel du Périgord stationery. Mentions René Taupin, see letter to Taupin dated April 2 in this collection.
26
F201
Autograph note signed possibly to Elkin Mathews
undated
1 p.
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F201
Autograph note to unknown person
undated
1 p.
SPEC VAULT MSS
Includes clipping of Ezra Pound's "Love-Song to Eunoe" (Gallup C197), and a harsh review of Ezra Pound's poetry.
File I.LL.2.
Correspondence regarding "Cantos 72-73"
1973-1984
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F202
"Cantos 72-73"
1973-1984
SPEC VAULT MSS
Includes correspondence between New Directions publisher and editor James Laughlin and the bookseller Ted Wilentz and a note in Robert A. Wilson's hand dated 26 June 1973, concerning the production and copyrighting of Ezra Pound's "Cantos 72-73," which Laughlin explains in an article written for the
Paris Review, no. 128 (1993), a photocopy of which is included here. Also includes copy 7 of 25 of the published pamphlet and copy 1 of 3 of a pirated facsimile edition (removed for cataloging in Special Collections). (Gallup A94)
26
F202
Autograph card signed from James Laughlin to Ted Wilentz
1973 June 27
1 card
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F202
Typed letter signed James Laughlin to Ted Wilentz
1978 July 6
1 p. with envelope
SPEC VAULT MSS
Includes typed letter (copy) from James Laughlin to Vittoria Mondolfo, Burke Library, Hamilton College (Ezra Pound's alma mater).
26
F202
Autograph letter signed James Laughlin to Ted Wilentz
1984 August 21
1 p. with envelope
SPEC VAULT MSS
File I.LL.3.
Other Correspondence
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F203
Typed form letter
1949 November 4
1 p.
SPEC VAULT MSS
Form letter signed by various writers and critics response to
The Saturday Review of Literature's criticism of Ezra Pound receiving the 1949 Bollingen Prize.
26
F203
Autograph letter signed from Dorothy Pound to Robert A. Wilson
1961 March 18
2 pp. with envelope
SPEC VAULT MSS
Includes photograph (circa 1958) of Ezra Pound sent by Dorothy.
26
F203
Typed letter signed from Omar Pound to Karl Gay
1978 January 9
1 p. with envelope
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F203
Autograph letter signed from Olga Rudge to Robert A. Wilson
1982 July 14
1 p. with envelope
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F203
Typed letter signed from Mary de Rachewiltz to Robert A. Wilson
1985 July 8
2 pp. with envelope
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F203
Invitation from Mary de Rachewiltz to Frederick Selch
1985 September 13
Invitation with envelope
SPEC VAULT MSS
Calling card of Mary de Rachewiltz and an invitation in German and Italian for an exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of Ezra Pound's birth, held in Merano, Italy.
26
F203
Typed letter signed from Mary de Rachewiltz to Robert A. Wilson
1986 April 28
1 p. with envelope
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F203
Autograph postcard from Barry Miles
1990 December 17
1 p.
SPEC VAULT MSS
File I.LL.4.
Contracts
1910
SPEC VAULT MSS
26
F204
Provença contract
1910
SPEC VAULT MSS
Typescript (carbon) contract for the Small, Maynard, and Company publication of Ezra Pound's
Provença, signed by Ezra Pound and witnessed by his father Homer Pound.
File I.LL.5.
Photographs
undated
26
F205
Photographs
undated
SPEC VAULT MSS
Nine black and white photographs, four color photographs, two photographic reproductions, and one postcard of Ezra Pound, including photographs of Robert A. Wilson with Olga Rudge (inscribed to Robert A. Wilson) and Olga Rudge with Mary de Rachewiltz, her daughter by Ezra Pound. Others include Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Marshal G.M. Kearney, Gian Carlo Menotti, John Quinn, Vanni Scheiwiller, and John Wieners.
File I.LL.6.
Periodicals and published materials related to Ezra Pound
SPEC VAULT MSS
Items arranged chronologically.
26
F206A
"Burgos, A Dream City of Old Castile"
1906 October
SPEC VAULT MSS
The Book News Monthly. Travel essay by Ezra Pound. Includes a prospectus for the NADJA fine press reprinting of the essay, 1994. (Gallup C4)
26
F206B
"Three Cantos I"
1917 June
SPEC VAULT MSS
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Vol. X, no. III. (Gallup C260)
26
F207
"Ezra's Jazz Band," Charles Stevens Remington
1919 July
SPEC VAULT MSS
Pearson's Magazine, July 1919.
26
F208
"Modern Art and Gaudier-Brzeska"
1931 March
SPEC VAULT MSS
Wings. Extracts from Ezra Pound's
Gaudier-Brzeska. (Gallup A10)
26
F209
"Poeti francesi,"
Il Mare. XXV. 1233
1932 October 29
SPEC VAULT MSS
News clipping of installment four of eleven. (Gallup D110)
26
F210
Alfred Venison's Poems
1935
SPEC VAULT MSS
A photocopy of Ezra Pound's own copy of this work from the Venice library of Ezra Pound and Olga Ridge. Includes 2 pp. typed letter signed from the bookseller Glenn Horowitz concerning Ezra Pound's personal library. (Gallup A39)
27
F211
Musica a Rapallo, Musique á [sic] Rapallo, Music in Rapallo
[1938]
SPEC MSS oversize boxes
"I Concerti di Febbraio," text in Italian for Rapallo concert series, signed by Ezra Pound. (Gallup E2p)
27
F212
"Comité International en Faveur d'Ezra Pound"
1952
SPEC MSS oversize boxes
Open letter from Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana, and Stephen Spender soliciting signatures for a petition supporting Ezra Pound during his internment at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. In English, French, and Spanish. Dated "Naples, Le 1er Decembre 1952."
26
F213
Gotham Book Mart
1957 Spring
SPEC VAULT MSS
Bookseller's catalog, Robert A. Wilson's copy listing Ezra Pound's
A Lume Spento. See Goldwasser's census,
PBSA, March 1989, p. 40, (F220) for further details.
26
F214
"Ezra Pound, Voice of Silence"
1972 January 9
SPEC MSS oversize boxes
New York Times Book Review.
26
F215
Homage to Sextus Propertius
[1976]
SPEC VAULT MSS
Prospectus (illustrated) from Galleria M'Arte, Milan, Italy for an artist's edition of Ezra Pound's
Homage illustrated by Fausto Melotti, from the series "Images and Words." Includes 1 p. typed letter signed with envelope from Luigi Majno, Galleria M'Arte.
26
F216
The Edward and Catherine O'Donnell Collection of Modern Literature
1979
SPEC VAULT MSS
Exhibition catalog from the University of Rochester Library, Fall 1979. Inscribed to Robert A. Wilson by Peter Dzwonkoski, Head of Rare Books & Manuscripts at Rochester.
26
F217
Envoy
1981-1982
SPEC VAULT MSS
Newsletter, The Academy of American Poets, Fall-Winter, 1981-1982. Includes facsimile letter from Ezra Pound to Mrs. Bullock, dated 23 August 1963, acknowledging the award he received in 1963 "for distinguished poetic achievement."
27
F218
Unmuzzled Ox
1983
SPEC VAULT MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
"The Cantos (121-150) Ezra Pound." Tributes to Ezra Pound by various poets. Includes a prospectus for this special issue.
26
F219
"Make it New"
1985
SPEC VAULT MSS
Grolier Club Centennial Exhibition celebrating Ezra Pound's birth, most of the exhibition materials coming from Robert A. Wilson's collection. Includes Grolier Club invitation, with a portrait photograph of Ezra Pound by Alvin Langdon Coburn (1913), announcing the exhibition opening and lecture by Donald Gallup, October 15, 1985; an embossed invitation to James Laughlin's Grolier Club lecture on Ezra Pound, November 19, 1985; sixteen color photographs of the exhibition; and a typescript describing the items in the Grolier Club exhibition. Also included is the wood block used to emboss the Grolier Club invitation, which reproduces Gaudier-Bzreska's portrait of Ezra Pound.
26
F220
"Ezra Pound's
A Lume Spento: A Preliminary Census," Thomas Goldwasser
1989 March
SPEC VAULT MSS
The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. March 1989. Offprint. Inscribed to Robert A. Wilson by the author.
27
F221
"Well, off hand, I'd say it was something by Ezra Pound"
undated
SPEC MSS oversize boxes
Cartoon, by 'Lloyd,' mounted on foam board.
File I.LL.7.
Ephemera
SPEC VAULT MSS
Includes brochures, flyers, announcements, and other ephemera related to Ezra Pound.
26
F222
Concert handbill and ticket
1926 June 19
SPEC VAULT MSS
Concert handbill (signed by Ezra Pound on verso) and a ticket for a performance by George Antheil, 19 Juin 1926, Théatre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.
26
F222
Concert announcement for Ezra Pound's
Le Testament
1983 March 28
SPEC VAULT MSS
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, March 28, 1983.
26
F222
Calling cards
undated
SPEC VAULT MSS
Calling Cards (two items) for Ezra Pound (Via Marsala, Rapallo) and another for Mrs. Ezra Pound (no address).
26
F222
Wedding announcement
[1914] April 18
SPEC VAULT MSS
For Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear, dated April 18, [1914].
26
F222
Publishers brochures / flyers
circa 1969
SPEC VAULT MSS
New Directions ("Ezra Pound for President"), Vanni Scheiwiller, and Black Sparrow Press (Ezra Pound's blurb on George Oppen), "Edizioni di Vanni Scheiwiller 1952-1962 with Pound offerings, and New Directions (1969) with an excerpt from "Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII."
26
F222
Mostra delle Edizioni Poundiane, Azienda Autonoma di Soggiorno, Merano
1958 October 30-1958 November 16
SPEC VAULT MSS
[Exhibitions of Ezra Pound's editions, Merano, Italy tourist office].
26
F222
Postcard, "A Quiet Requiem for E.P."
[no year] January 4
SPEC VAULT MSS
Academy of American Poets.
26
F222
Broadside for "Make It New: A Symposium on Translation and Metrical Innovation: Aspects of Ezra Pound's Work"
1967 March 15-1967 March 17
SPEC VAULT MSS
At the University of Texas, 15-17 March 1967.
26
F222
Exhibition announcement, University of Pennsylvania Library
1975 April 18
SPEC VAULT MSS
For the exhibit The Letters of Ezra Pound to Mary Moore Cross, and other Ezra Pound materials.
26
F222
Postcard, "Many Thanks," by Ezra Pound
1948 October
SPEC VAULT MSS
An excerpt from an October 1948 letter from the Pound-Willis Hawley Correspondence, Simon Fraser University Library.
26
F222
Catalog no. 46, part two (front cover only)
undated
SPEC VAULT MSS
Dalian Books, London, England, with Ezra Pound portrait.
26
F222
Brochure, "Ezra Pound, the Last Ten Years, 1962-1972, American Academy in Rome"
SPEC VAULT MSS
Includes facsimile manuscript from
Pisan Canto LXXVI and photograph of "Hieratic Head" by Gaudier-Brzeska.
26
F222
Program, "Ezra Pound, A Celebration," University Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne
1972 November 26
SPEC VAULT MSS
Includes Basil Bunting's "Prince of Poets" remembrance of Ezra Pound.
26
F222
Poster, Book promotion for
Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound: From the Recordings and Transcriptions of His Wartime Broadcasts, Rome, 1941-1943
1975
SPEC VAULT MSS oversize boxes
Rotterdam: Cold Turkey Press, 1975.
25
F222
"Ezra Pound" CRAllen GinsbergS*90 copyright (sp?)
undated
SPEC MSS oversize boxes
Hanes Beef-T 100 % Cotton T shirt, LG 42/44. Also includes an announcement for an "Ezra Pound Doll."
File I.LL.8.
Sound Recordings
SPEC Media
25
F223A
Ezra Pound Reading His Poetry
1960
SPEC Media
New York, NY: Caedmon Publishers, 1960.
25
F223B
The World's Great Poets Reading at the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy: Ezra Pound Reading His Cantos III, XVI, XLIX, LXXXI, XCII, CVI, CXV
1968
SPEC Media
New York, NY: Applause Productions, Inc., 1968.
25
F223C
Ezra Pound's Opera: Le Testament de Villon
1972
SPEC Media
Berkeley, CA: Fantasy Records, 1972.
Subseries MM.
Purdy, James (1923- )
undated
For related material see MSS 369, Robert A. Wilson collection related to James Purdy, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library.
File I.MM.1.
Correspondence
undated
8
F93
Autograph card signed
undated
1 card
Christmas postcard.
8
F93
Autograph card signed
undated
1 card
Postcard with an untitled poem, "She came out of the mists of the morning," inscribed to Robert A. Wilson by Purdy.
8
F93
Autograph note signed
1999
1 p. with envelope
Typescript copy of Purdy's poem "It is July" (1999), inscribed to Robert A. Wilson.
Subseries I.NN.
Reynolds, Tim (1936- )
The American writer Tim Reynolds was born July 18, 1936, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He was educated at University of Wisconsin, B.A., 1961 and Tufts University, M.A., 1962. Reynolds is the author of several volumes of poems, including
The Women Poem (1973), and two plays.
File I.NN.1.
Correspondence - Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1968-1974
8
F94
Typed letter signed
1968 March 16
1 p. with envelope
8
F94
Typed letter signed
1970 March 8
1 p. with envelope
8
F94
Typed letter signed
1970 March 15
2 pp. with envelope
8
F94
Typed letter signed
1970 July 11
1 p. with envelope
8
F94
Autograph card signed
1970 September 1
1 card
8
F94
Typed letter signed
1970 October 12
1 p. with envelope
8
F94
Autograph letter signed
1972 January 3
1 p.
8
F94
Typed letter signed
1972 December 29
1 p.
8
F94
Autograph letter signed
1973 January 25
1 p.
8
F94
Typed letter signed
[1973] June 30
1 p.
8
F94
Typed letter signed
1973 August 15
1 p.
8
F94
Typed letter signed
1973 August 28
1 p. with envelope
8
F94
Typed letter signed
1974 July 8
1 p. with envelope
Includes 5 unmatched envelopes.
8
F95
The Women Poem
1973
Publication file for the Phoenix Book Shop publication of Reynold's poems, which includes manuscript, correspondence, and other materials related to
The Women Poem. See also general correspondence from Reynolds to Robert A. Wilson.
File I.NN.2.
Correspondence - Letters from Tim Reynolds
All correspondence written by Tim Reynolds, unless otherwise noted.
8
F95
Autograph letter signed to Robert A. Wilson
1972 January 17
1 p. with envelope
8
F95
Autograph letter signed to Marshall Clements
197[2] January 25
1 p. with envelope
8
F95
Typed letter signed (copy) from Marshall Clements to the Library of Congress Card Catalog Division
1972 January 27
1 p.
8
F95
Typed letter signed to Marshall Clements
1972 February 14
1 p.
Reply from Loran Karsner at the Library of Congress, includes LC Catalog Card. Also includes an autograph letter signed from Alan Brilliant to Wilson with bibliographic information related to Reynolds.
File I.NN.3.
Manuscripts -
The Women Poem
8
F95
Typescript manuscript
With Tim Reynolds's corrections in pencil and ink, 17 pp. Includes photostat copy of "The Women Poem" without Tim Reynolds's corrections, 10 pp.
8
F95
Carbon typescript
19 pp.
With corrections and notes in red and blue ink. Title page has the autograph heading "Phoenix master copy" in blue ink.
8
F95
Photocopy page proofs
18 pp.
With corrections in an unknown hand. Includes mailing envelope addressed to Robert A. Wilson from Tim Reynolds.
Subseries I.OO.
Riding, Laura (Laura Jackson, Mrs. Schuyler B. Jackson) (1901-1991)
The American poet, critic, and author Laura Riding—also known as Laura (Riding) Jackson—was born January 16, 1901, in New York, New York; died September 2, 1991, in Sebastian, Florida. In 1923 Riding began publishing her first poems in
The Fugitive, a little magazine associated with a group of writers at Vanderbilt University—including John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. She published, with Robert Graves,
A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927), in which she developed critical and theoretical principles that prefigured The New Criticism. In the early 1940s she gave up poetry in order to write criticism. Her
Collected Poems (1938) was followed by
The Telling (1972) and
Rational Meaning: A New Foundation for the Definition of Words, and Supplementary Essays (1997).
File I.OO.1.
Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1981-1995
All letters addressed to Robert A. Wilson, unless otherwise indicated.
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1981 March [17]
4 pp.
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1981 December 29
2 pp. with envelope
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 January 17
3 pp. with envelope
Includes autograph card signed, undated.
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 January 29
4 pp. with envelope
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 February 6
2 pp. with envelope
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 February 20
4 pp. with envelope
Includes typed letter signed dated February 1982 referring to
Progress of Stories, 1982.
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 March 8
2 pp. with envelope
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 April 9
2 pp. with envelope
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 April 30
2 pp. with envelope
9
F96
Typed letter signed
1982 May 29
1 p. with envelope
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 June 5
2 pp. with envelope
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 June 17
1 p. with envelope
9
F96
Typed letter signed
1982 June 19
1 p. with envelope
9
F96
Autograph card signed
1982 July 17
1 card
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 December 2
2 pp. with envelope
Includes holograph index card with recipe.
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 December 23
3 pp. with envelope
Includes a copy of Robert A. Wilson's
Six Favorites to which this letter refers.
9
F96
Autograph letter signed
1982 December 11
3 pp. with envelope
9
F97
Autograph letter signed
1983 January 1
2 pp. with envelope
9
F97
Autograph letter signed
1983 January 19
2 pp. with envelope
9
F97
Autograph letter signed to Kenneth Doubrava
1983 February 28
2 pp. with envelope
Sent to Kenneth Doubrava, a friend of Robert A. Wilson.
9
F97
Autograph card signed to [Kenneth J. Donavon]
1983 March
1 card
Signed "Laura Jackson."
9
F97
Autograph letter signed to Kenneth Doubrava
1983 March 12
2 pp. with envelope
Sent to Kenneth Doubrava, a friend of Robert A. Wilson.
9
F97
Autograph letter signed
1983 September 13
1 p. with envelope
9
F97
Typed letter signed
1983 October 18
1 p. with envelope
9
F97
Autograph letter signed
1983 December 10
6 pp. with envelope
9
F97
Autograph letter signed
1984 April 10
2 pp. with envelope
Includes 2 photographs.
9
F97
Autograph letter signed
1984 March 6
4 pp. with envelope
9
F97
Autograph letter signed
1984 March 23
2 pp. with envelope
9
F97
Autograph letter signed
1984 June 16
2 pp. with envelope
9
F98
Autograph letter signed
1985 January 21
4 pp. with envelope
9
F98
Autograph letter signed
1985 March 4
1 p. with envelope
9
F98
Autograph letter signed
1985 March 28
1 p.
9
F98
Inscribed photograph
1985 March 28
with envelope
9
F98
Autograph letter signed
1985 April 19
2 pp. with envelope
9
F98
Autograph letter signed
1985 May 28
2 pp. with envelope
9
F98
Autograph letter signed
1985 June 6
3 pp. with envelope
Includes news clipping from the
Cornell Alumni News.
9
F98
Typed letter signed
1985 June 28
1 p. with envelope
9
F98
Autograph letter signed
1985 July 8
2 pp. with envelope
9
F98
Autograph letter signed
1985 July 21
2 pp. with envelope
9
F98
Typed letter signed
1985 September 20
2 pp. with envelope
9
F98
Typed letter signed
1985 December 16
2 pp. with envelope
9
F98
Typed letter signed
1986 May 9
1 p. with envelope
9
F98
Typed letter signed
1986 November 8
1 p. with envelope
9
F98
Typed letter signed
1986 November 28
2 pp. with envelope
9
F98
Autograph letter signed
1986 December 13
2 pp.
9
F98
Autograph letter signed
1986 December 29
1 p. with envelope
9
F99
Autograph card signed
1987 April 1
1 card with envelope
9
F99
Autograph letter signed
1987 May 2
1 p. with envelope
9
F99
Autograph letter signed
1987 October 6
2 pp. with envelope
9
F99
Autograph letter signed
1987 October 23
2 pp. with envelope
9
F99
Autograph letter signed
1987 October 30
2 pp. with envelope
9
F99
Autograph letter signed
1987 December 23
2 pp.
9
F99
Autograph letter signed
1988 February 19
2 pp. with envelope
9
F99
Autograph letter signed
1988 November 15
2 pp. with envelope
9
F100
Autograph card signed
1989 June 30
card with envelope
Written by Elizabeth Friedmann for Laura Riding.
9
F100
Typed letter signed
1989 September 12
1 p. with envelope
Written by Elizabeth Friedmann for Laura Riding. Includes a photocopy from
Newsweek, [January 6, 1987], p.52.
9
F100
Typed letter signed
1989 December 20
1 p. with envelope
9
F100
Typed letter signed
1990 April 22
1 p.
Written by Elizabeth Friedmann for Laura Riding.
9
F100
Typed letter signed
1990 April 22
1 p.
9
F100
Typed letter signed
1990 July 19
1 p.
Written by Elizabeth Friedmann for Laura Riding.
9
F100
Autograph card signed
1991 February 21
1 card
Written by Elizabeth Friedmann for Laura Riding.
9
F100
Typed letter signed
1991 April 2
1 p. with envelope
Includes a news clipping of "Laura Riding at 90" from
PN Review, March-April 1991.
9
F100
Autograph card signed from Ted Wilentz
1991 September 2
1 card
From Ted Wilentz, owner of the Eighth Street Bookshop in New York City, reporting Laura Riding's death.
9
F100
Typed letter signed from Elizabeth Friedmann
1991 November 13
3 pp.
Includes a 2 pp. typed letter commenting on Robert A. Wilson's memoir of Laura Riding, and a photocopy of a typed manuscript (by Laura Riding?).
9
F100
Typed letter signed from the Laura Riding Jackson Home Preservation Foundation
1993 October 15
1 p. with envelope
Signed by Greg Smith.
9
F100
Typed letter signed from Elizabeth Friedman
1995 March 16
1 p.
Concerning Laura Riding's publications. Also includes a typed transcript of a [1930] letter from Laura Riding to Gertrude Stein.
9
F100
Envelopes
1981-1987
8 envelopes
Addressed to Robert A. Wilson from Laura Riding.
File I.OO.2.
Manuscripts and Publications
circa 1938-1986
7 items
9
F101
"A Short Sentence For Private Reflection"
undated
1 leaf
Autograph manuscript signed by Laura Riding (1 leaf) and typed transcript with autograph corrections.
9
F101
Autograph note in Laura Riding's hand
undated
1 leaf
Concerning the appraisal of her papers by Robert A. Wilson.
9
F101
Typed (photocopy) errata sheet
undated
1 p.
For an unidentified work by Laura Riding.
9
F101
"Christmastime"
undated
2 pp.
Typescript copy with autograph corrections in Laura Riding's (?) hand. This story was published in
Progress of Stories, 1982.
9
F101
The Covenant of Literal Morality
1938
10 pp.
Photocopy of the Seizin Press edition, with additional typed errata sheet.
9
F101
"An Early Exchange of Compliments Between Gertrude Stein and Robert Graves"
undated
4 pp.
Typescript copy with autograph correction is Laura Riding's hand.
9
F101
"Oh Exactitude"
1986
4 pp.
Autograph manuscript.
File I.OO.3.
News clippings and printed material
1982
9
F102
New clippings
1982
2 clippings, an announcement, and one newsletter concerning Laura Riding.
Subseries I.PP.
Sandy, Stephen
American poet and educator Stephen Sandy was born August 02, 1934, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sandy was an Academy of American Poets award recipient in 1955. His most recent book of poetry is
Overlook: Poems published by Louisiana State University Press in 2011. "Stephen Sandy." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2011.
File 1.
Correspondence
1985
29
F299
Autograph card signed
1985 December 23
1 p. with envelope
Subseries I.QQ.
Simpson, Louis (1923- )
[1961]-1990
The American writer Louis Simpson was born March 27, 1923, in Kingston, Jamaica. He was educated at Columbia University, B.S., 1948, A.M., 1950, Ph.D., 1959. Simpson is the author of poems, novels, essays, and criticism. He has been awarded many important awards and prizes for his writing, including the Pulitzer Prize for
At the End of the Open Road (1963). His other works include
A Dream of Governors (poems, 1959), the novel
Riverside Drive (1962), and the autobiographical works
North of Jamaica (1972) and
The King My Father's Wreck (1994).
File I.QQ.1.
Correspondence and ephemera
[1961]-1990
9
F103A
Typed letter signed
undated
1 p.
"Dear Bob: | Yes..."
9
F103A
Autograph card signed
undated
1 card
"Dear Bob, | The books will be..."
9
F103A
Autograph card signed
undated
1 card
Dear Bob, | Send the books along..."
9
F103A
Autograph card signed
undated
1 card
Dear Bob, | Just send the | books to me at..."
9
F103A
Typed letter signed
[1961]
1 p.
See correspondence under 1973 February 12 for related letter.
9
F103A
Typed letter signed
1962 September 26
1 p. with envelope
9
F103A
Typed letter signed
1968 September 26
1 p.
9
F103A
Autograph letter signed
1973 February 12
1 p. with envelope
Simpson's note written on an typed letter signed from Robert A. Wilson dated 8 August 1973.
9
F103A
Typed letter signed
1973 July 3
1 p. with envelope
9
F103A
Autograph letter signed
1986 May 8
1 p. with envelope
9
F103A
Autograph letter signed
1990 August 1
1 p.
9
F103A
Unmatched envelopes
undated
2 envelopes
9
F103A
Ephemera
undated
Includes a photograph inscribed by Simpson to Robert A. Wilson "13 Feb. 1963"; a news clipping; and a postcard advertising Simpson's
There You Are.
Subseries I.RR.
Smith, Patti (1946 - )
American singer-songwriter and poet was born Patricia Lee Smith on December 30, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois. Smith was influential in the birth of punk rock and known for integrating a beat performance style with rock music. Her songs alluded to nineteenth century French poetry. Smith was named a Commander of the Orde des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in 2005. In 2007 Patti Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall.
9
F103B
Flyer for performance in Washington, D.C.
2008 February 1
Subseries I.SS.
Smith, William Jay (1918- )
1993-2006
The poet, translator, and educator William Jay Smith was born April 22, 1918, in Winnfield, Louisiana. He was educated at Washington University, B.A., 1939, M.A., 1941; Université de Poitiers, diplôme d'études françaises; graduate study at Columbia University, 1946-47, at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, 1947-48, and at University of Florence, 1948-50. Smith served in the Vermont House of Representatives, 1960-1962 and as the Library of Congress's consultant in poetry (an honor now known as Poet Laureate), 1968-70. His publications include
The World Below the Window: Poems 1937 – 1997 (1998) and translations of many French, Russian, Hungarian and Swedish poets.
File I.SS.1.
Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1995-2006
9
F104A
Typed letter signed
1995 October 21
1 p.
9
F104A
Typed letter signed
1995 November 2
1 p.
9
F104A
Autograph letter signed
1995 November 10
1 p.
9
F104A
Autograph card signed
1995 December 5
1 p. with envelope
9
F104A
Envelope
1995 December 8
9
F104A
Autograph letter signed from Sonja Smith
1996 March 15
2 pp. with envelope
Sonja Smith, William Jay Smith's wife.
9
F104A
Autograph card signed
1996 May 22
with envelope
9
F104A
Autograph card signed
1996 September 18
with envelope
Includes invitation to the Smith's 30th wedding anniversary.
9
F104A
Autograph letter signed
1996 October 8
2 pp.
9
F104A
Autograph card signed from Sonja Smith
1996 October 8
with envelope
9
F104A
Autograph card signed
1996 December 26
with envelope
9
F104A
Autograph letter signed
1997 June 15
1 p. with envelope
9
F104A
Autograph card signed
1997 August 9
with envelope
9
F104A
Autograph letter signed
1998 January 26
2 pp.
9
F104A
Autograph letter signed
1998 August 7
1 p.
9
F104A
Autograph note signed
2000 March 11
1 leaf with envelope
Flyer with autograph note from William Jay Smith.
9
F104A
Autograph letter signed
2000 August 26
1 p. with envelope
9
F104A
Autograph card signed
2000 December 18
with envelope
9
F104A
Envelope
2000 December 20
9
F104A
Autograph card signed
2001 December 27
1 p.
9
F104A
Photocopy poem/signed
2001 December 28
1 p. with envelope
9
F104A
Envelope
2002 December 16
9
F104A
Autograph card signed
2004 February 4
1 p. with envelope
9
F104A
Autograph card signed
2004 August 2
with envelope
9
F104A
Typed letter signed
2006 February 13
1 p.
9
F104A
Typed letter signed
2006 March 22
1 p. with envelope
9
F104A
Autograph card signed
2006 June 6
1 card with envelope
9
F104A
Autograph note signed
2008 January 5
1 p.
With a typescript poem, "BASHO: Haiku," translated by Smith and inscribed to Wilson and Ken Donbrava. 2 Flyers (February-May 2000) announcing readings by William Jay Smith are also included.
9
F104A
Autograph card signed
2009 January 24
1 postcard with envelope
File I.SS.2.
Ephemera
1993
9
F104B
Appraisal of William Jay Smith's grandfather's account book
1993
Includes correspondence between Smith and Wilson, photocopies of pages from the account book (1869 in Louisiana), and a copy of the appraisal. Includes one typed letter signed from Smith to Wilson (1993 October 4).
Subseries I.TT.
Steloff, Frances (b. 1887)
Founder of Gotham Book Mart Frances Steloff was born December 31, 1887 in Saratoga Springs, New York. Founded in 1920 Gotham Book Mark would become a literary gathering place, featuring avant garde writers, poetry readings, and parties. By her death in 1989, Frances Steloff had earned a reputation as one of the nation's most distinguished booksellers. Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers. http://books.google.com/books (accessed December 2011).
File I.TT.1.
Correspondence and ephemera
1971-1995
29
F300
Material toward
Attacks of Taste
ca. 1971
5 p.
Photocopied letters from Evelyn Byrne, Kay Boyle, Archibald MacLeish, and William Saroyan.
29
F300
Keepsake for Steloff's 100th birthday
1987 December 31
4 p.
Plus printed napkin.
29
F300
Announcement for the film,
Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
1995 December 22
2 p.
two copies
Subseries I.UU.
Swenson, May (1919-1989)
The American poet May Swenson was born May 28, 1919, in Logan, Utah; died December 4, 1989, in Ocean View, Delaware. Swenson was educated at Utah State University, B.A., 1939. During her career Swenson received many awards for her poetry, including Guggenheim fellowship, 1959; National Institute of Arts and Letters award, 1960; Brandeis University Creative Arts Award, 1967; Rockefeller Writing fellowship, 1967; Shelley Poetry Award, 1968; National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1977; National Book Award nomination, 1978, for
New and Selected Things Taking Place; Bollingen Poetry Award, 1981; MacArthur Award, 1987; and a National Book Critics Circle award nomination, 1987, for
In Other Words.
File I.UU.1.
Letters to Robert A. Wilson
The letters are from May Swenson (MS) and her literary executor Rozanne Knudson (RK), unless otherwise noted.
11
F122
Autograph card signed from MS and RK
undated
1 card
"Dear Bob Wilson, | Your Ten Tintypes..."
11
F122
Autograph note signed from RK
undated
1 card & manuscript
"Bob, | Here's a note..." Includes an autograph manuscript is Swenson's hand related to her PBK poem.
11
F122
Autograph card signed from RK
undated
1 card
Postcard, Wyoming state bird.
11
F122
Typed letter signed from RK
undated
1 p. with envelope
"Dear Bob, | The reason most of these..."
11
F122
Autograph letter signed from RK
Thursday
1 p.
Written on a photocopied sheet with Swenson's poem "Come in Go Out" printed above.
11
F122
Autograph card signed from RK
December 17
1 card
11
F122
Typed letter signed from MS to Ray Johnson
1963 June 12
1 p.
11
F122
Autograph card signed from MS and RK
1977 December 13
1 card
11
F122
Autograph card signed from MS and RK
1980 December 23
1 card
11
F122
Autograph card signed from MS
1986 March 10
1 card
11
F122
Autograph card signed from MS
1986 March 28
1 p.
11
F122
Autograph letter signed from RK
1989 December 26
1 p. with envelope
Written on a folded and printed sheet with Swenson's image and "The Wonderful Pen."
11
F122
Typed letter signed from RK
1990 April 24
1 p. with envelope
11
F122
Autograph card signed from RK
1990 June 7
1 card
11
F122
Autograph card signed from Ted and Jim
1992 December 16
1 card with envelope
Greeting card from the Sea Cliff Press printed with Swenson's "Third Floor Walk-up, 1984."
11
F122
Typed letter signed from RK
1997 May 19
1 p.
11
F122
Typed letter signed from RK
1997 June 6
1 p.
11
F122
Envelope
undated
1 envelope
One unmatched envelope, undated, addressed in [Swenson's] hand.
File I.UU.2.
Manuscripts and ephemera
undated
11
F122
Manuscripts and ephemera
undated
Items include an autograph manuscript in Swenson's hand concerning her review of Claire McAllister's "Arms of Light," one leaf; publisher's flyers announcing Swenson's publications; two invitations; ticket stubs, and other ephemera.
11
F122
Liner notes and poster
undated
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Liner notes for a phonograph of Swenson reading and poster advertising a reading by Swenson and Anthony Hecht, March 30, 1967.
Subseries I.VV.
Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964)
Critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten, born June 17, 1880, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was active in the cultural scene of New York city and Paris during the early half of the twentieth century. After 1932 Van Vechten worked predominantly as a photographer, producing classic images of many literary and cultural figures. Van Vechten was also Gertrude Stein's literary executor and following her death in 1946 edited much of her collected writing. Carl Van Vechten died on December 21, 1964. "Carl Van Vechten." Contemporary Authors Online. Gale Biography in Context. (accessed December 2011).
File I.VV.1.
Letters to Robert A. Wilson
1957-1964
29
F269
Typed letter signed
1957 June 8
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Typed note signed
1959 November 10
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Typed note signed
1959 November 21
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Typed letter signed
1959 November 27
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Autograph note signed
[1959]
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Typed letter signed
1960 January 13
1 p. with envelope
The envelope bears an autograph note on the verso.
29
F269
Typed note signed
1960 February 2
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Typed note signed
1960 April 20
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Typed letter signed
1960 December 5
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Typed letter signed
1960 December 14
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Typed letter signed
1962 October 24
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Autograph letter signed
1964 May 28
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Autograph note signed
1964 June 3
1 p. with envelope
29
F269
Van Vechten address label typed to Wilson
undated
1 p.
Subseries I.WW.
Wakoski, Diane (1937- )
2002
The American poet Diane Wakoski was born August 3, 1937, in Whittier, California. She was educated at University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1960. Wakoski has published dozens of volumes of poetry and received a number of grants and awards, including the 1989 William Carlos Williams Prize for
Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987 (1988).
File I.WW.1.
Letters to Robert A. Wilson
2002
9
F105
Typed letter signed
2002 January 3
5 pp. with envelope
9
F105
Typed letter signed
2002 August 21
14 pp. with envelope
9
F105
Typed letter signed
2002 September 7
9 pp.
9
F105
Typed letter signed
2002 November 2
10 pp. with envelope
Subseries I.XX.
Whalen, Philip (1923-2002)
1960-1996
The American writer Philip Whalen was born October 20, 1923, in Portland, Oregon; died June 26, 2002, in San Francisco, California; Whalen was educated at Reed College, B.A., 1951. Whalen participated in the 1955 Six Gallery Reading in San Francisco with Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure. He is known for his works
Like I Say (1960),
Memoirs of an Interglacial Age (1960), and
Overtime: Selected Poems (1999). Whalen was also an ordained Zen Buddhist priest and his poems combine his interest in nature and spiritualism.
File I.XX.1.
Correspondence
1960-1996
9
F106
Autograph letter signed
undated
1 p.
"Dear Bob, | Thanks for the note..."
9
F106
Autograph card signed to Leroi Jones
1960 May 20
1 card
9
F106
Autograph letter signed
[1965 March 16]
1 p.
"Dear Mr. Wilson, | Enclosed is poorly printed sample..."
9
F106
Autograph letter signed
1965 April 5
1 p. with envelope
9
F106
Autograph letter signed
1965 April 22
1 p. with envelope
9
F106
Autograph card signed
1965 August 5
1 card
9
F106
Autograph card signed
1966 January 4
1 card
9
F106
Autograph card signed
1968 February 14
1 card
9
F106
Autograph letter signed
1975 March 18
1 p. with envelope
9
F106
Autograph card signed
1978 April 18
1 card
9
F106
Autograph letter signed
1978 May 5
1 p. with envelope
9
F106
Autograph card signed
1986 April 15
1 card
9
F106
Autograph letter signed
1986 May 1
1 p.
Includes photocopy of
Hymnus ad Patrem Sinensis, see printed catalog.
9
F106
Autograph card signed
1986 May 24
1 card
9
F106
Autograph card signed
1996 January 29
1 card
9
F106
Envelopes
undated
2 envelopes
Includes 2 unmatched envelopes.
Subseries I.YY.
Wilson, Lanford (1919-1989)
1965-1980s
The American playwright Lanford Wilson was born April 13, 1937, in Lebanon, Missouri. He was educated at a number of universities in the late 1950s and the University of Missouri, Ph.D., 1985. Wilson started his career as a playwright in Off-off-Broadway theaters such as Caffe Cino and Café La Mama in the early 1960s, where he played the role of writer, director, actor, and designer from 1963 – 1967. Wilson was a founding member, resident playwright, and director at Circle Repertory Company, New York City, 1969-1995. His plays include
The Hot l Baltimore (1973, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Obie Award);
Talley's Folly (1979, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize);
Fifth of July (1978). Wilson has also authored scripts for films and television, including
The Migrants, with Tennessee Williams (1973).
File I.YY.1.
Manuscripts
circa 1968-1976
10
F107
"Commitment to a Theatre Company"
undated
Typescript essay, photocopies, and autograph notes. Includes several version of the essay with Lanford Wilson's corrections. Also included is a seemingly unrelated fragment.
10
F108
Home Free
undated
79 pp.
Typed film script, inscribed "1st draft Film Script | 17 Bank St | Lanford Wilson." Includes Lanford Wilson's autograph corrections.
Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye, a Farce
1970
10
F109
Autograph manuscript play
1970
12 pp.
Inscribed "Original working 1st draft of play," and signed by Lanford Wilson, heavily corrected and annotated, dated "Oct 18-22, 1972."
10
F109
Typescript manuscript of a play
1970
11 pp.
Inscribed, "1st typescript | 17 Bank St. | Lanford Wilson."
10
F110
Lemon Sky
1968
115 pp.
Typescript (photocopy) play, inscribed "for Bob | this may be the only | copy of this thing | Lance Wilson." Back cover has autograph notes in Lanford Wilson's hand. Paper covers.
10
F111
The Migrants
1972
125 pp.
Typescript (photocopy) teleplay, written with Tennessee Williams. Inscribed "For Bob | with all good wishes | Lanford." Paper covers.
10
F112
The Migratory Stream
1972
77 pp.
Typescript (photocopy) teleplay, "First Draft | 7/13/72." Signed by Lanford Wilson on the title page. Paper covers.
11
F113
One Arm
1969
137 pp.
Typescript (carbon) screenplay from a Tennessee Williams story, with autograph corrections, "August 1, 1969 | New York City." Inscribed "To Bob Wilson | with love | this must be the | only extant copy of this thing anywhere! | Lanford." Also signed by Lanford Wilson on the verso of the final leaf. Paper covers.
11
F114
The Rimers of Eldritch
undated
87 pp.
Typescript (photocopy) teleplay, in two acts, inscribed "For Robert Wilson | Lanford Wilson." Paper covers.
11
F115
Taxi
1976
99 pp.
Typescript (photocopy) teleplay, "First Draft | September 3, 1976." Inscribed "for Bob | who is surely | the only | person | owning | this | thing- | —put it on your TV. | Lance | Feb21 '77." "Paramount Television" paper covers.
11
F116
Playbills and theater programs
undated
Nine programs, eight of which for plays by Lanford Wilson, many of which are inscribed by Lanford Wilson to Robert A. Wilson. Included are programs for
Talley's Folly,
Fifth of July, and other plays by Lanford Wilson.
File I.YY.2.
Ephemera
1965-1980s
11
F117
Caffe Cino Benefit program
1965 March 15
Program for a benefit to aid the Caffe Cino Theater after a fire, the benefit included
Or Harry Can Dance, a play by Wilson.
11
F118
Correspondence, flyers, programs, posters, and ephemera
circa 1970s-1980s
Includes an inscribed flyer for Caffe Cino Theater from Lanford Wilson to Robert A. Wilson; three typed letter signed from Lanford Wilson to Robert A. Wilson, 10 September 1979, 10 June 1981, and 1 February 1983 on Circle Repertory Company letterhead; one autograph card signed, undated, from Lanford Wilson to Robert A. Wilson; publicity and program flyers from Circle Repertory Company, and other ephemera.
11
F118
Posters
undated
Posters for
Angels Fall (New York: Circle Repertory Company), undated;
Serenading Louie (New York: Circle Repertory Company).
11
F119
Sequoya, Vol. XXXIV, No. II
1968
Literary journal published at St. John's University, Jamaica, New York. Includes an article in which Lanford Wilson comments on Off-off-Broadway Theater, signed by Lanford Wilson.
Subseries I.ZZ.
Windham, Donald (1920-2010)
American writer Donald Windham, born on July 02, 1920, in Atlanta, Georgia, was the author of short stories, novels, and autobiographical works. His published work was a collaboration with Tennessee Williams on the play,
You Touched Me,which was produced on Broadway in 1945 and published by Samuel French in 1947. Windham died May 31, 2010, in New York City. "Donald Windham." Contemporary Authors Online. Gale Biography In Context. (accessed December 2011).
File I.ZZ.1.
Windham letters to Richard Harwell
1977-1980
29
F272
Autograph postcard signed
1977 January 7
1 p. with envelope
29
F272
Typed letter signed
1977 March 22
2 p. with envelope
29
F272
Autograph postcard signed
1977 October 4
1 p.
29
F272
Postcard announcement signed
1980 December 22
2 p.
File I.ZZ.2.
Windham letters to Robert Wilson
1976-2004
29
F273
Autograph note signed
1976 December 18
1 p.
Includes a 1976 photograph of Windham and Sandy Campbell which is signed by both. The photograph was taken October 26, 1955, by Carl Van Vechten.
29
F273
Printed comments on
The Warm Country
1976 December 18
1 p.
29
F273
Postcard announcement
1977 March 30
1 p.
29
F273
Postcard announcement
1977 October 3
2 p.
29
F273
Autograph postcard signed
1977 December 11
1 p. with envelope
29
F273
Autograph postcard signed
1978 March 16
1 p.
29
F273
Autograph card signed
1978 [Lent]
1 p. with envelope
29
F274
Postcard announcement signed
1980 December 22
2 p.
29
F274
Typed letter
1982 December 4
1 p.
29
F274
Autograph postcard signed
1988 June 3
1 p. with envelope
29
F274
Check from Wilson endorsed by Windham
1988 July 13
1 p.
29
F274
Autograph postcard signed
1989 January 5
1 p. with envelope
Enclosed with the card is a card announcing the death of Sancy Campbell.
29
F274
Typed letter signed
1989 February 18
1 p. with envelope
Enclosed are photocopies of letters regarding Campbell's bequest to the New York Public Library.
29
F274
Autograph postcard signed
1989 June 1
1 p. with envelope
Enclosed with the card are five photographs of the an exhibition of the work of Sandy Campbell.
29
F274
Postcard announcement
1989 October 20
1 p.
29
F275
Autograph postcard signed
1990 March 5
1 p. with envelope
29
F275
Typed letter signed
1990 March 9
1 p. with envelope
Enclosed are photocopies of letter from Windham to Lyle Leverich.
29
F275
Autograph postcard signed
1990 April 7
1 p. with envelope
29
F275
Autograph card signed
1990 July 12
2 p. with envelope
29
F275
Autograph postcard signed
1990 July 19
1 p.
29
F275
Autograph postcard signed
1990 July 25
1 p. with envelope
Enclosed with the postcard is a photocopy of a memoir by Windham of the events on June 26, 1988 (death of Sandy Campbell), 14 p.
29
F275
Typed postcard signed
1990 August 22
1 p.
29
F275
Typed letter signed
1990 September 27
1 p. with envelope
29
F275
Typed postcard signed
1990 October 22
1 p. with envelope
29
F275
Typed card signed
1990 December 24
1 p. with envelope
29
F276
Autograph postcard signed
1991 January 24
1 p. with envelope
29
F276
Autograph card signed
1991 March 26
1 p. with envelope
Enclosed with the card are photocopies of articles regarding Windham's
You Touched Me.
29
F276
Typed postcard signed
1991 April 9
1 p. with envelope
29
F276
Typed card signed
1991 August 14
2 p. with envelope
29
F276
Typed letter signed
1991 August 20
2 p. with envelope
Enclosed with photocopy clipping.
29
F276
Autograph note signed written on a clipping
1991 October 24
1 p. with envelope
29
F276
Typed letter signed
1991 November 6
1 p. with envelope
Written on the verso of a photocopy of a letter to Windham from Officina Bodoni.
29
F276
Typed letter signed
1991 November 8
1 p. with envelope
Enclosed with an exhibition catalog for the work of Anne Ryan.
29
F276
Autograph postcard signed
1991 November 19
1 p. with envelope
29
F276
Typed postcard signed
1991 November 22
1 p.
29
F276
Autograph postcard signed
1991 December18
1 p. with envelope
29
F277
Typed letter signed
1992 February 19
1 p.
29
F277
Program
1992 June 13
3 p. with envelope
29
F277
Typed card signed
1992 August 4
1 p. with envelope
29
F277
Typed letter signed
1992 September 24
1 p. with envelope
29
F278
Autograph card signed
1993 April 22
1 p. with envelope
29
F278
Typed letter signed
1993 May 25
1 p.
29
F278
Typed letter signed
1993 July 1
2 p. with envelope
29
F278
Typed letter signed
1993 July 13
1 p. with envelope
29
F278
Typed letter signed
1993 July 26
1 p. with envelope
29
F278
Typed letter signed
1993 October 12
1 p.
29
F278
Autograph postcard signed
1993 October 18
1 p.
29
F278
Autograph card signed
1993 October 21
2 p. with envelope
29
F278
Typed letter signed
1993 October 29
1 p.
29
F278
Autograph card signed
1993 October 30
1 p.
With enclosed photocopy of Windham's letter to Patricia C. Willis.
29
F278
Typed letter signed
1993 November 18
1 p.
29
F278
Autograph card signed
1993 December 14
1 p. with envelope
29
F278
Autograph postcard signed
1993 December 14
1 p. with envelope
With enclosed movie review/announcement and a letter for "Big Brother/Big Sister" with autograph comments by Windham.
29
F278
Autograph noted signed on a bookmark
1993 December 24
1 p. with envelope
29
F279
Typed letter signed
1994 February 25
2 p. with envelope
29
F279
Autograph card signed
1994 December 16
3 p. with envelope
29
F279
Typed letter signed
1995 February 13
1 p.
With enclosed photocopies of a correspondence with the University of Georgia and the University of Georgia Press.
29
F279
Typed postcard signed
1995 March 23
1 p.
29
F279
Autograph postcard signed
1996 June 26
1 p.
29
F280
Typed letter signed
1997 April 30
2 p.
With enclosed photocopies of a letter from Robert Hines and a clipping.
29
F280
Typed letter signed
1997 December 28
1 p.
With enclosed photocopies of a letter from Stamperia Valdonega and a clipping.
29
F280
Autograph card signed
1998 January 26
2 p. with envelope
29
F280
Autograph card signed
1998 July 2
2 p. with envelope
29
F280
Autograph postcard signed
1998 December 21
1 p.
With enclosed announcement for Windham's
1948: Italy.
29
F280
Autograph letter signed
1999 October 15
1 p.
29
F280
Autograph card signed
1999 December 20
1 p. with envelope
29
F281
Autograph card signed
2000 May 26
1 p.
29
F281
Typed letter signed
2003 May 21
2 p. with envelope
29
F281
Autograph card signed
2004 April 20
1 p. with envelope
29
F282
Autograph note signed
undated
1 p.
29
F282
Autograph note signed
undated
1 p.
29
F282
Miscellaneous card and envelopes
1978-1983
File I.ZZ.3.
Notes and lists by Windham or Wilson
undated
29
F283
Lists of books, notes about collections
undated
5 p.
File I.ZZ.4.
Photographs
1974-1990
29
F284
Photographs of Windham, Frances Steloff, Sandy Campbell and Deb Dawkins
1974-1990
13 items
File I.ZZ.5.
Program
1991
29
F285
You Touched Me!
1991 March 5
1 item
Program for The Cleveland Play House revival of Windham's and Tennessee Williams's play.
File I.ZZ.6.
Writing by Donald Windham
undated
29
F286
A Posthumous Book
undated
7 p.
Photocopied typescript of a memoir.
29
F287
Like a Flower: a novel
undated
244 p.
Bound photocopied typescript draft of a novel by Windham. The volume is inscribed to Robert Wilson on October 30, 1988. The typescript bears some photocopied corrections and changes.
29
F315
Stone in the Hourglass
1981 May 15
1 p.
Proof of the cover signed by artist Fritz Bultman.
Series II.
Literary Miscellany
Subseries II.A.
Photographs
29
F301
Photographs of literary figures
1978-1994
32 items
Includes Edward Albee, John Ashbery, John Barth (May 1994), Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, John Malcolm Brinnin (New York, 1989*), Paul Cadmus, Erskine Caldwell (2), John Ciardi, Gregory Corso with Richard Eberhart, Diane de Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (May 1994), William Gaddis, Allen Ginsberg (June 1992), John Hawkes (May 1994), John Hollander, Barbara Howes, Kenneth Koch, Michael McClure, James Merrill (May 1992), Brad Morrow with William Gass, Octavio Paz with Frank McShane (American Academy May 198?*), Jerome Robbins, Ed Sanders (May 1994), William Jay and Sonya Smith (July 1991), Mark Strand, John Updike, Andrei Voznesenskii (June 1992), Robert Penn Warren, Glenway and Lloyd Wescott (November 1978), and Richard Wilbur (May 1992).
Subseries II.B.
Organizations
File II.B.1.
The Academy of American Poets
33
F302
Invitations, brochures, calendar of readings, publications
1982-1998
10 items
File II.B.2.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters
Also known as the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and associated with the National Institute of Arts and Letters
33
F303
Brochure
1994
1 item
33
F304
Invitations and tickets to the annual ceremonial
1964-2002
19 items
Programs for the annual ceremonial
A couple of programs bear notes by Wilson.
33
F305
Programs
1968-1980
9 items
33
F306
Programs
1981-1990
11 items
33
F307
Programs
1992-2000
7 items
The 1995 program includes autographs by Erskine Caldwell and Robertson Davies.
33
F308
Catalogs for exhibitions of work by newly elected members and recipients of awards
1971-2000
7 items
File II.B.3.
The Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y
1971-1989
33
F309
Flyers, brochures and announcements
1971-1989
4 items
Subseries II.C.
Exhibitions, Concerts, Ceremonies, Publications, and Readings
33
F310
Programs, flyers, advertisement, catalogs, and t-shirt
1963-2005
13 items
Includes printed flyer for the 1963
Six Auerhahn Poets reading which included Allen Ginsberg. Includes several exhibitions regarding the Beats and poster "Horst: Sixty Years of Photography" which is based on Horst's self-portrait photograph with Gertrude Stein.
Subseries II.D.
Small presses and bookstores
33
F311
Flyers, advertisement, catalogs, postcards, prospectuses, and printed ephemera
1957-1996
25 items
Includes a 1957 proof for the Windhover Press book list, a City Lights Publication catalog for 1967, plus lists for The Auerhahn Press, Hanuman Books, and the Dim Gray Bar Press.
Subseries II.E.
Literary periodicals
33
F312
Ballast Quarterly Review
2005 Summer
1 item
33
F312
The Kerouac Connection
1989 Spring
1 item
33
F312
Lyrische Blatter
1958 February
1 item
Subseries II.F.
Clippings and photocopies
33
F313
Obituaries and articles
1959-2005
10 items
Includes obituaries for Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson, and Lucien Carr, as well as articles on H. L. Mencken, subway poetry, and Beatniks. The 1959 clipping on Beatniks has an accompanying typescript response.
Subseries II.G.
Miscellaneous material
33
F314
Correspondence, business cards, bookplate and printed poem
1961-1997
9 items
Includes letters from Wesleyan University Press, Michael Peich, and St. Mark's Church (The Poetry Project). Also includes an envelope addressed by Anselm Hollo, a postcard portrait of Stephen Spender, business cards of William Kennedy and Maurice Girodias, a bookplate from the library of Thomas Hardy and a printed card poem by Audrey McGaffin.