MS/MS. Manuscript Collections
David Jackson Papers
The David Jackson Papers consists of extensive correspondence, photographs of family and friends, and manuscript material towards Jackson’s poems, stories, and plays.
James Merrill Papers
The collection holds a wide variety of materials that document James Ingram Merrill's entire life.
The extensive correspondence is between Merrill and his family, friends, business associates, and others. Thousands of pages of heavily annotated notebooks, typescripts, worksheets, and galleys show Merrill's work towards poems, fiction, and drama. The audiovisual and personal material document other aspects of Merrill's life.
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Collection of James Merrill Papers
Howard Nemerov Papers
May Swenson Papers
Mona Van Duyn Papers
The Mona Van Duyn Papers contain manuscripts and editorial matter toward her books, including the award-winning Near Changes. In addition, there are numerous drafts of individual poems and correspondence from and manuscripts by numerous literary figures.