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Lee Anderson Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms004

Found in: Manuscripts

Scope and Contents The Mary Jo Bang Papers consists largely of her own manuscript materials, including drafts of individual poems, book reviews, essays, introductions and translations, as well as editorial material toward her published and unpublished books. Also included are personal journals, college work, artwork, printed materials and ephemera. A substantial amount of personal and business correspondence is present, primarily with friends, family, editors, students, and...

Found in: Manuscripts

Elizabeth Bishop Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms012

Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of letters and cards from Elizabeth Bishop to Anne Stevenson providing biographical information to be used in writing Elizabeth Bishopas part of Twayne's United States Authors Series. Bishop also discusses her work and comments on literary figures including Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Ernest Hemingway, John Berryman, and many others. Included with the collection are one typed letter signed from Marianne Moore...

Found in: Manuscripts

Kay Boyle Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 20, Folder: 8

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf241

Scope and Contents

Includes 6-page transcript from Kay Boyle's Senate loyalty hearings during the McCarthy era; manuscript draft of a letter from Boyle to Samuel Beckett (2 sheets); two letters from Kenneth Burke to Boyle (including one with photocopied letter from Mona Van Duyn to Burke on verso); one letter from Evan Connell to Boyle; and one letter from Alexandra Pringle at Virago Press in London to Boyle (with Boyle's manuscript annotations).

Found in: Manuscripts

Louis Brownlow Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-MS-ms018

Scope and Contents

Three typescript copies of Brownlow's manuscript, Anatomy of the Anecdote, at various stages of composition and correction.

Found in: Manuscripts

Ethan Shaskan Bumas Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-MS-ms020

Scope and Contents

The Ethan Shaskan Bumas papers contains three items of correspondence, five manuscripts, reading announcements and clippings.

Found in: Manuscripts

William S. Burroughs Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 20, Folder: 1

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf234

Scope and Contents A pair of Burroughs’ “automatic drawings” from the cycle of Surrealistic experiments he created in Paris while his 1959 novel Naked Lunch was being prepared for publication. Inspired to try his hand at visual pieces by the artist Brion Gysin—who was assisting Burroughs in the organization of the book, and would later become a long-time collaborator—the drawings arrange loose circular spirals and diagonal scrawls, respectively, in rows and columns over the...

Found in: Manuscripts

Tom Clark Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms026

Scope and Contents The Tom Clark Papers consists of what Clark has termed his “Naropa Archive” - material he gathered together during his two-year investigation of the Naropa Institute including research materials, manuscripts, correspondence, editorial matter and other materials related to this research. Also included in the Clark Papers are correspondence, manuscripts, and editorial matter toward Clark’s other works including Family Pictures, The...

Found in: Manuscripts

Cid Corman Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-MS-ms030

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence of Cid Corman and Henry Wenning, 1962-1964, with 31 letters written by Corman, and 5 by Wenning [carbon only]. The letters discuss prospective business arrangements for distribution in the United States of Origin Press materials and other books, as well as personal affairs and observations of life in Kyoto, Japan. Arrangements center largely around possible purchase by Wenning and James Lowell of 50 bound volumes of Origin, second...

Found in: Manuscripts

Robert Creeley Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms031

Scope and Contents Series I, Correspondence, 1945-1968, bulking 1963-1968, including letters from Charles Olson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, W.S.Merwin, Witter Bynner, Louis Zukofsky, Henry Rago, Fred Eckman, others and correspondence among Creeley, Walter Hamady and Henry Wenning on publication of The Charm, Words, For Joel, letters from Creeley to Dudley Wynn, University of New Mexico, others, c. 200 items;Series 2, Literary manuscripts, inc. those of The Charm, Divisions & other early poems,...

Found in: Manuscripts

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