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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.

Found in: Manuscripts / Michael McClure Letters

Scope and Contents The Shepherd Mead Papers consist of typescripts, variant drafts, and several thousand pages of notes toward many of his books, including The Four Window Girl (1958), Dudley, There is No Tomorrow (1963), The Carefully Considered Rape of the World (1966), How to Live Like a Lord Without Really Trying (1965), and Free the Male Man!...

Found in: Manuscripts / Shepherd Mead Papers

David Meltzer Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms081

Scope and Contents The David Meltzer Papers consists of correspondence to and from Robert Hawley which provide an interesting insight into Oyez Press and its production of some of Meltzer's books as well as a number of letter to American bookseller Henry Wenning.In addition to writing numerous collections of poetry, Meltzer has edited a number of anthologies and the significant collection of interviews including, The San Francisco Poets (1971). The book consists of...

Found in: Manuscripts / David Meltzer Papers

Isador Mendle Collection on the History of Printing

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Identifier: MS-MS-ms082

Scope and Contents The Mendle Collection has seven main groupings. The first of these is the collection of James Moran Papers. Moran, a British author and historian of printing, wrote several books relating to printing, including a biography of British scholar and typographer Stanley Morison. Moran's papers consist primarily of material toward his books. The Ellic Howe Papers are another important part of the collection. These consist of Howe's (a British printer) notes on the history of the printing trade,...

Found in: Manuscripts / Isador Mendle Collection on the History of Printing

James Merrill Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms083

Scope and Contents

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.

Found in: Manuscripts / James Merrill Papers

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Collection of James Merrill Papers

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Identifier: MS-MS-ms165

Scope and Contents Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Collection of James Merrill Papers includes correspondence, inscribed publications, photographs and other materials from or related to James Merrill.Marilyn Aronberg Lavin was born in 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1947 and earned a M.A. from Harvard in 1949. Her Ph.D. was awarded in 1973 from New York University with a dissertation on Piero Della Francesca. She was a visiting professor of art history...

Found in: Manuscripts / Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Collection of James Merrill Papers

Mary Boatwright Collection of James Merrill Papers

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Identifier: MS-MS-ms133

Scope and Contents

Mary Boatwright Collection of James Merrill Papers consists of correspondence, manuscripts, ephemera, and realia.

Found in: Manuscripts / Mary Boatwright Collection of James Merrill Papers

Josephine Miles Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms084

Scope and Contents The Josephine Miles Papers consists of correspondence (1960-1968) to Miles from Donald Hammonds, editor, Little, Brown and Co. writing about publication of Classic Essays in English [anthology] and Style and Proportion [language study], other editors concerning copyright permissions, production arrangements, etc.; friends, colleagues writing with suggestions, comments on Style and Proportion;...

Found in: Manuscripts / Josephine Miles Papers

Pamela Millward Letters

Collection — Box VMF 10, Folder: 23

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf115

Scope and Contents

Correspondence to Millward from Tom Clark, Charles Olson, and Anselm Hollo

Found in: Manuscripts / Pamela Millward Letters

Charles Monaghan Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms076

Scope and Contents

The Charles Monaghan Papers consists of materials relating to Monaghan's relationship with William Gaddis as an early Gaddis promoter. Includes correspondence from William Gaddis, Jack Green, Aaron Asher, Douglas M. Davis, Steven Moore, Ormonde de Kay, and Mimi O'Keeffe. Also, includes other various Gaddis-related material such as copies of Monaghan's interview with Ormonde de Kay and Bob Ginna, various Gaddis-I listserv materials, proof copy of The Dutton Review, etc.

Found in: Manuscripts / Charles Monaghan Papers