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MS/VMF. Vertical Manuscript Files

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: MS/VMF
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

W.H. Auden Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 1, Folder: 06
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf006
Scope and Contents

Sapphic ode with scansion in Auden's hand and awards program.

Larry Eigner Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 4, Folder: 12
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf045
Scope and Contents

Poem drafts and correspondence from Larry Eigner.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 4, Folder: 17
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf050
Scope and Contents

Typed letter signed from Ferlinghetti to Edward Dahlberg concerning the availability of Dahlberg's book, Bottom Dogs, published by City Lights, and which Ferlinghetti praises. Signed in ink with self-caricature. 1 page.

Laura Riding Jackson Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 28
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf220
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Jackson to Marie Syrkin and poem drafts by Jackson

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf094
Scope and Contents

Bound volume of Fugitive Poems and clipping of review by Landon and clipping concerning Landon's death

Haniel Long Notebook

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf100
Scope and Contents

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

Michael McClure Letters

 Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 14
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf106
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from McClure to Henry Wenning, American book dealer and publisher, 1961-1965.

Hilda Morley Letter

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 17
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf209
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed from Morley to Adrienne Rich. 1 page. Morley sends along a book of poems (probably 'A blessing outside us') and reflects on her relationship with her late husband, the composer Stefan Wolpe.

Charles Olson Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf129
Scope and Contents 1965 September 3. Galley proof for O'Ryan 12345678910 [collection of poems]. Note in ink at the bottom of page 2 concerning the spacing and referring to an earlier edition [White Rabbit Press, 1958] is in the hand of Charles Olson. White Rabbit Press version, 1965, keeps all revisions indicated on the galley proof. The title in the 1965 printed edition was changed from upper case Roman letters, found in the galley, to lower case italics. 2...

Harris Hatcher Collection on Wallace Stevens

 Collection — Box VMF 20
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf248
Scope and Contents

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).