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Box 99

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Series 2, Sub-series 5: Speeches and Lectures

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Description

Manuscript materials relating to David Wagoner's speaking engagments, participation in lecture series, and related activities

Series 2, Sub-series 6: High School, College, and Graduate School Work

 Sub-Series — Box: 99
Description

Manuscript materials from David Wagoner's time as a student at George Rogers Clark High School in Whiting, Indiana (1940-1944), Pennsylvania State College in University Park, Pennsylvania (1944-1947), and Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana (1948-1949). Arranged alphabetically by type of manuscript. For more materials relating to David Wagoner's high school and college years, please see Series 6.7 Education

Speech for Washington State Association of School Librarians Conference, 1976

 File — Box: 99, Folder: 2
Description

Typescript and autograph, 27 pages. Includes a page of notes relating to the development of the poem After the Speech to the Librarians (1976)

Articles, circa 1944

 File — Box: 99, Folder: 4
Description

Typescript, 1 page. Includes article titled "The Radical" written for the High School newspaper

Essays, 1940-1944, 1948-1949

 File — Box: 99, Folder: 5
Description Typescript, typescript [carbon], and autograph, 56 pages. Includes "A Paper on Poe's Style," "Short Story Summaries," "Personality Improvement Analysis," "The Guess from Marriage," and Geometry notes, all written while he was at George Rogers Clark High School. Includes "A Study of Herman Melville's Johan Marr and Other Sailors," "The Dog Beneath the Skin and ...

Plays, 1943-1944, 1946

 File — Box: 99, Folder: 6
Description

Typescript [carbon] and autograph, 19 pages. Includes a scene from "[A] Dramatization of 'Omit Flowers' [by] Dana Burnet" written for a high school class. Also includes programs for "And Came the Spring," a play David Wagoner performed in while in high school. It also includes "Tomorrow for Angela," a one-act play David Wagoner wrote for his Dramatics class that was performed by the Pennsylvania State College Drama Department 20 January 1946

Unspecificied lecture notes, undated

 File — Box: 99, Folder: 3
Description

Typescript, autograph, and photocopied supplemental documents, 9 pages

Poetry, 1940-1947

 File — Box: 99, Folder: 7
Description Typescript and autograph, 58 pages, 3 slips of paper. Contains poems, untitled poems and poem fragments written in high school and college, including "Campfire," "Thoughts of a Dying Man," "Poems of Death [Sequence]," "The Herdsmen of Pensicore," "Pool of Life," "Three Faiths," "The Bloody Five," "Song of the Memo-pad," "Perfidy," "A Banner for the Brave," "Death is Like This," "Bloody Bugles," "Song of the Alarm Clock," "Song of the Lawn Mower," "The Radical Road to Happiness," "The...

Short Stories, circa 1944

 File — Box: 99, Folder: 8
Description

Autograph, 17 pages. Contains titled, untitled, and fragments of short stories written mostly in High School, including "Eating in Bed," "Sanity Lost," "Patter for Glory," "Those Who See All," and "The Scene of Death"