MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files
W.H. Auden Collection
Sapphic ode with scansion in Auden's hand and awards program.
Cecil Day Lewis Letters
Correspondence from Cecil Day Lewis to Alan Hancox, 2 items.
Laura Riding Jackson Collection
Correspondence from Jackson to Marie Syrkin and poem drafts by Jackson
Letitia Elizabeth Landon Collection
Bound volume of Fugitive Poems and clipping of review by Landon and clipping concerning Landon's death
Haniel Long Notebook
Notebook of Long poems. Notebook is a small tan binder, with Long's bookplate and a sticker annotated, "Poems at work on 1942 (copy left with [Heari] Haniel." Contains 11 pages in typescript, corrected; 6 pages in manuscript (3 are fragments pasted in); 20 pages uncorrected carbon typescript, 37 pages. Laid in are 1 page typescript and 1 page typescript carbon. Enclosed is a 5x7" black and white photograph of Long, circa age 70
Paul C. Metcalf Galley Proof
Uncorrected galley proofs of Patagoni. Penland, North Carolina: Jargon Society, circa 1971. 43 leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-43)
George Moore and William Butler Yeats Typescript
Harris Hatcher Collection on Wallace Stevens
The Harris Hatcher Collection on Wallace Stevens consists of one piece of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company letterhead and a framed photographic print of Stevens. Also included are limited editon books with letters of provenance, Ideas of Order (1935), Ideas of Order (1936), The Palm at the End of the Mind (1984), and Sur Ma Guzzla Gracile (Poetry, Volume 19, Number 1, 1921).
Robert Penn Warren Letter
Typed letter signed from Warren at the the American Academy in Rome, to Burton M. Wheeler at the Department of English, Washington University. 1 page with envelope
Jay Wright Manuscript
Consists of the original manuscript of The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright. Published on July 29, 2019, The Prime Anniversary is comprised of a sequence of poems and a one-act play.
Donated to Washington University in St. Louis Department of Special Collections by Jay and Lois Wright in honor of their friend, Professor Steven Meyer.