UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Allen (Donald) Collection, 1930 - 2005
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Donald Allen Collection
- Dates:
- 1930 - 2005
- Creators:
- Allen, Donald, 1912-2004
- Abstract:
- Papers of Donald Allen (1912-1924), an important editor who had a significant impact on the development of post WWII American poetry. The Donald Allen Collection consists of materials pertaining to the editorial work at Grove Press, Four Seasons Foundation, Grey Fox Press, and to special projects Allen did for the University of California, Penguin and St. James presses; materials produced by and regarding the poet Frank O'Hara; papers written by Allen at the Universities of Iowa and California, Berkeley; and finally a substantial correspondence with many of the most important writers and editors in America during the last twenty five years. The addition processed in 1991 contains manuscript and typescript materials related to the Four Seasons Foundation publication of Interviews (1980) by Edward Dorn and The Graces (1983) by Aaron Shurin; and the Grey Fox Press publication of Enough Said (1980) by Philip Whalen and I Remain (1980), a collection of Lew Welch's letters. The addition processed in 2011 enhances the earlier accessions with additional press files, correspondence, as well as Allen's personal subject files.
- Extent:
- 48 Linear feet (105 archives boxes, 1 records carton, 1 card file box, 15 oversize folders)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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Donald Allen Collection. MSS 3. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Papers of editor Donald Allen, who had a significant impact on the development of post WWII American poetry. The Donald Allen Collection consists of materials pertaining to the editorial work at Grove Press, Four Seasons Foundation, Grey Fox Press, and to special projects Allen did for the University of California, Penguin and St. James presses; materials produced by and regarding the poet Frank O'Hara; papers written by Allen at the Universities of Iowa and California, Berkeley; and finally a substantial correspondence with many of the most important writers and editors in America during the last twenty five years. As a whole, the Donald Allen Collection richly documents the American literary temperament ca. 1956-1980, casting much light on the compositional practices and biographies of many important poets.
Accession Processed in 1986
The papers document the editing and publishing accomplishments of Donald Allen, and incidentally inform many literary careers. Although there is material from the 1930s, the bulk of papers date from 1957 to 1975. Arranged in four series: 1) PRESS COLLECTIONS, 2) FRANK O'HARA MATERIALS, 3) PERSONAL PAPERS, and 4) GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Accession Processed in 1991
The accession to the Donald Allen Collection processed in 1991 contains materials which Allen employed in the publication of Four Seasons Foundation and Grey Fox Press books. Arranged in one series: 5) PRESS COLLECTIONS.
Accession Processed in 2011
This accession of the Donald Allen Collection includes documents which span the entire arc of the editor and publisher's career and personal life. The material dates from 1930 up to his death in 2004, although the bulk of the correspondence and press files range from 1955 to 2004. This addition illuminates Allen's personal life with biographical materials, personal correspondence, and his own subject files, notes, writings, and notebooks. The collection almost completely retains Allen's own organization of the materials.
Arranged in two series: 6) PRESS COLLECTIONS and 7) PERSONAL PAPERS.
- Biographical / historical:
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Donald Merriam Allen, one of the most influential editors and publishers of contemporary American literature, was born in Iowa in 1912. During the Second World War he was a Japanese translator, and then became an editor at Grove Press, where he stayed for sixteen years. Allen devoted his career to making innovative writing available to the public. He has edited several important anthologies of contemporary American writing and has published the work of many important poets through his two presses.
Allen's editorial career began in the mid-fifties when he accepted a position with Grove Press. One of his early projects was a collection of work by Brother Antoninus (William Everson), Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, and other poets of the San Francisco Renaissance for an issue of Grove's Evergreen Review (1957). He also aided in editing The Eye of Mexico, an Evergreen issue devoted to contemporary Mexican writing and culture. During these first years at Grove, Allen translated several of Eugene Ionesco's theatre works, including The Bald Soprano (Grove, 1958), and edited books by Jack Kerouac, John Rechy, Lysander Kemp, and others.
In 1958, Allen began work on his most important project at Grove, The New American Poetry anthology. Following the Pound/Williams tradition, Allen hoped to present the range of experimental writing produced in the United States since the Second World War. The project took two years to complete and required extensive correspondence with poets, editors, and literary agents. Finally published in 1960, the anthology chronicled the emergence of the Beat, Black Mountain, and New York schools of poetry. It also increased recognition for such poets as Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, Paul Blackburn, and Charles Olson. Allen originally planned to publish revised anthologies every two or three years. However, he produced only two such books over the next twenty years: New American Writing (Penguin, 1965), and The Postmoderns (Grove, 1965).
Other anthologies compiled by Allen are The New American Story (Grove, 1963), a collection of experimental prose, and The Poetics of the New American Poetry (Grove, 1973), a collection of aesthetic statements by many of the poets appearing in the anthologies. Like The New American Poetry, each of these collections has had a major impact on the shape and scope of experimental American writing. In 1963 Allen reduced his workload at Grove Press by moving to the position of consulting editor. He planned to start his own magazine of contemporary American writing, but the Four Seasons Quarterly never materialized. However, his work on the magazine did lead to the establishment of the Four Seasons Foundation and, subsequently, the Grey Fox Press. Under Allen's direction since 1964, both of these presses have published the work of such poets as Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Lew Welch and many others.
Donald Allen died August 29, 2004, in San Francisco, at the age of 92.
- Acquisition information:
- Acquired 1978, 1989, 2010.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Publishers and publishing -- United States
American poetry -- 20th century
Poetry -- 20th century -- Manuscripts
Poetry -- Editing - Names:
- Evergreen Press Ltd.
Grey Fox Press
Four Seasons Foundation
Grove Press
Schaff, David -- Correspondence
Eigner, Larry, 1927-1996 -- Correspondence
Everson, William, 1912-1994 -- Correspondence
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence -- Correspondence
Field, Edward, 1924- -- Correspondence
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1927 -- Correspondence
Guest, Barbara -- Correspondence
Hoyem, Andrew -- Correspondence
Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Correspondence
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 -- Correspondence
Boyd, Bruce, 1928- -- Correspondence
Broughton, James, 1913-1999 -- Correspondence
Bremser, Ray -- Correspondence
Corman, Cid -- Correspondence
Corso, Gregory -- Correspondence
Dorn, Edward -- Correspondence
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 -- Correspondence
Di Prima, Diane -- Correspondence
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 -- Correspondence
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970 -- Correspondence
Ionesco, Eugène -- Correspondence
Brautigan, Richard -- Correspondence
Waldman, Anne, 1945- -- Correspondence
Adam, Helen, 1909-1993 -- Correspondence
Koller, James -- Correspondence
O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966 -- Correspondence
Kemp, Lysander, 1920-1992 -- Correspondence
Kyger, Joanne -- Correspondence
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997 -- Correspondence
Welch, Lew -- Correspondence
Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005 -- Correspondence
Mac Low, Jackson -- Correspondence
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Correspondence
Loewinsohn, Ron -- Correspondence
Blackburn, Paul, 1926-1971 -- Correspondence
Berkson, Bill -- Correspondence
Snyder, Gary, 1930-
Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978 -- Correspondence
Blaser, Robin -- Correspondence
Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008 -- Correspondence
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 -- Correspondence
Whalen, Philip -- Correspondence
Wieners, John, 1934-2002 -- Correspondence
McClure, Michael -- Correspondence
Meltzer, David -- Correspondence
Rumaker, Michael, 1932- -- Correspondence
Sanders, Ed -- Correspondence
Schuyler, James -- Correspondence
Hall, Donald, 1928-2018
Allen, Donald, 1912-2004 -- Archives
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-02-14 13:18:33 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Original sound recordings are restricted. Listening copies may be available for researchers.
- Preferred citation:
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Donald Allen Collection. MSS 3. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
- Location of this collection:
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9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0175
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, US
- Contact:
- (858) 534-2533
- Restrictions:
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Original sound recordings are restricted. Listening copies may be available for researchers.
- Preferred citation:
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Donald Allen Collection. MSS 3. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
- Location of this collection:
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9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0175La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, US
- Contact:
- (858) 534-2533
Contents
Accession Processed in 1986
Contents
PRESS COLLECTIONS
Background
- Scope and content:
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Series 1) PRESS COLLECTIONS: Correspondence, manuscripts, and publishing materials regarding the six presses with which Allen was associated. Arranged in six subseries: A) Grove Press, B) Evergreen Press, C) Penguin Press, D) St. James Press, E) Four Seasons Press, and F) Grey Fox Press.
A) Grove Press: Publishing materials for Grove Press, particularly for City of Night, The New American Poetry, New American Story, Poetics of the New American Poetry, and The Postmoderns.
B) Evergreen Press: Correspondence, translations, manuscript drafts, and artwork for Evergreen Press.
C) Penguin Press: Correspondence and publishing materials for The New Writing in the USA from Penguin Books.
D) St. James Press: Correspondence and lists of poets for Contemporary Poets from St. James Press.
E) Four Seasons Press: Correspondence, manuscripts, and editorial materials for journals and monographs published by Four Seasons Press.
F) Grey Fox Press: Publishing materials for monographs produced by Grey Fox Press.
Contents
Grove Press
Contents
Various book projects
Contents
Richard Brautigan - Confederate General From Big Sur - Don Allen, report on the novel; correspondence with GP editors and agents (including blurbs from Ferlinghetti, Ciardi, etc.), 31 leaves of which 22 are carbons; Richard Brautigan, blurbs for the book, 3 leaves, 1 AN; specification page from the Book Press, Brattleboro, Vt.; correspondence re. new cover for paperback edition of 1968, 1965
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965
Kenneth Davids - Softness on the Other Side of the Hole - Galleys; holograph correction for p. 19; book jacket, 1965
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965
Margot Patterson Doss - San Francisco at Your Feet - Correspondence with Doss - 17 notes and PCS with carbons of DA's letters; carbon of "A Walk with Allen Ginsberg"; correspondence between Doss and GP editors, carbons of 10 letters; correspondence between GP editors and DA, 13 notes, letters and carbons
Michael McClure - Freewheelin' Frank - 1 ANS, 1 TSS signed; Freewheelin' Frank - Two Hell's Angels membership cards, signed; dust jackets - one for GP edition and one for Evergreen/Black Cat edition, 1967
Summary
- Dates:
- 1967
Floyd Salas - Tattoo the Wicked Cross and other books - 1 ALS, 2 PCS, 1 Xmas greeting, 2 TS signed; DA, one TS carbon; Floyd Sala, 12 PCS to DA; MS of poems, 18 leaves; Tattoo the Wicked Cross , press materials, photo, GP advance notice, advertisement, dust jacket
Miscellaneous correspondence and press releases - Stephen Longstreet, 1 TLS; Jeffrey Nevers ( Evergreen Review ), 2 TLS: book report and correspondence re. Myron Greenman's Temple of the Afternoon . Press releases: Jakov Lind, Landscape in Concrete ; Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal ; Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom . List of applicants and proposals for consultants
Formentor Prize
Contents
Correspondence, press releases, documents, etc., 69 leaves, 1961
Summary
- Dates:
- 1961
Correspondence, press releases, documents, etc., 93 leaves, 1962
Summary
- Dates:
- 1962
John Rechy
Contents
Typescripts - Review of Jean-Luc Goddard's Breathless ; Story: "El Paso del Norte"; Story: "Between Two Lions"; Story: untitled; poems
Story: "Symbolic Assassination of John F. Kennedy"; Story: untitled; Story: "Hey World"; Story: "Schizie Notes on a Novel"; Story excerpts: "Schizie Notes of a Novel"
Typescripts - Shawn ( City of Night )
City of Night
Contents
Typescripts - Part 4 (a)
Typescripts - Part 4 (b)
Corrections recommended for Part 4
Galleys, Part 4
Bound galleys
Book jacket and press photo
Press materials - Announcements, reviews
Correspondence with Rechy, 1957 - 1963
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957 - 1963
Correspondence with Rechy, 1964 - 1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1964 - 1977
Business correspondence
Contents
1959 - 1963
1964 - 1966
1967 - 1969
1969 - 1970
1970 - 1975
Publicity material - Releases, ads, catalogs, etc
Reports on books and manuscripts, 1956 - 1960
Summary
- Dates:
- 1956 - 1960
Reports on books and manuscripts, 1961 - 1966
Summary
- Dates:
- 1961 - 1966
The New American Poetry (Grove, 1960)
Contents
Production materials
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Table of contents
Contributors
Contents
Charles Olson - 13 TS, (57 leaves)
Robert Duncan - 1 ALs, 7 TLs, 1 TLc, 1 APCs, (67 leaves)
Denise Levertov - 2 ALs; 10 TS; 4 R, (21 leaves)
Paul Blackburn - 2 TLs; 7 TS;2 R, (15 leaves)
Robert Creeley - 9 TLs, 12 TS; 12 R, (47 leaves)
Paul Carroll - 1 ALs, 7 TLs; 1 TS;1 R, (13 leaves)
Larry Eigner - 3 TL, 5 TPC; 9 TS; 7 R, (27 leaves)
Ed Dorn - 1 ALs; 3 TLs; 6 TS; 6 R (21 leaves)
Jonathan Williams - 1 TLs; 5 TS, (7 leaves)
Joel Oppenheimer - 5 TS, (6 leaves)
Helen Adam - 10 ALs, 1 TS; 5 R, (24 leaves)
Brother Antoninus/William Everson - 3 ALs, 6 ALsc, TLs, 3 TLsc, 2 APCs; 3 TS; 7 R, (31 leaves)
James Broughton - 3 ALs, 6 TLs, 1 APCs, 3 TPCs; 1 TS, 5 R, (23 leaves)
Madelaine Gleason - 1 ALs, 1 TLs; 1 TS; 3 R, (8 leaves)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - 1 ALs, 4 TLs, 1 APCS, 4 TPCs, 7 TS, 4 R, (27 leaves)
Robin Blaser - 2 ALs; 5 TS; 2 R, (14 leaves)
Jack Spicer - 2 TS, (11 leaves)
Lew Welch -1 ALs, 3 TLs; 2 TS; 3 R, (12 leaves)
Richard Duerden - 1 ALs, 1 TLs; 4 TS; 3 R, (11 leaves)
Philip Lamantia - 2 TLs; 5 TS, 6 R, (14 leaves)
Bruce Boyd - 1 TLS, 3 TS; 2 R, (8 leaves)
Kirby Doyle - 8 TLs, 1 TS, 4 R, (15 leaves)
Ebbe Borregaard - 2 ALs; 2 TS; 2 R, (9 leaves)
Jack Kerouac - 3 TLs; 12 TGS; 4 R, (21 leaves)
Allen Ginsberg - 3 TLs; 9 TS; 1 R, (46 leaves)
Gregory Corso - 1 TLs; 11 TS; 3 R, (20 leaves)
Peter Orlovsky - 2 TS, (3 leaves)
Barbara Guest - 3 TLS; 4 TS; 1 R, (9 leaves)
James Schuyler - 2 TLS; 5 TS, (11 leaves)
Edward Field - 5 TLs, 4 Ts; 2 R, (12 leaves)
Kenneth Koch - 3 TLs; 3 TS, 3 R, 16 leaves
Frank O'Hara - 1 TS, (2 leaves)
John Ashbery - 3 TLs; 3 TS, 4 R, (17 leaves)
Philip Whalen - 1 ALs, 4 TLs; 9 TS; 3 R, (27 leaves)
Gilbert Sorrentino - 3 TLs; 2 TS; 2 R, (8 leaves)
Stuart Z. Perkoff - 1 Tls; 3 TS; 4 R, (25 leaves)
Gary Snyder - 4 TLs; 8 TS; 8 R, (39 leaves)
Ed Marshall - 1 TLs; 1 TS; 2 R, (17 leaves)
Michael McClure - 4 ALs, 3 TLs, 1 TPCs; 16 TS, 6 R, (37 leaves)
Ray Bremser - 1 ALS, 1 TLs; 2 TS; 1 R, (8 leaves)
LeRoi Jones - 8 TS, (11 leaves)
John Weiners - 1 ALs, 1 TLs; 6 TS; 4 R, (22 leaves)
Ron Loewinsohn - 2 TLs; 6 TS; 1 R, (12 leaves)
David Meltzer - 2 TLs; 4 TS; 1 TSs; 2 R, (11 leaves)
Bibliographies of authors
Book jackets
Rejected authors - Correspondence
Contents
William Bronk - 2 ALs, 1 APCs; 5 R, (8 leaves)
Cid Corman - 6 TL, 3 R, (11 leaves)
Judson Crews - 1 TLS; 3 TSc; 2 R, (6 leaves)
Paul Goodman - 2 ALs; 1 TSc; 4 R, (8 leaves)
Joanne Kyger - 2 TLs; 1 R, (3 leaves)
David Lyttle - 4 TLs; 3 R, (7 leaves)
Jack Micheline - 1 TLs; 1 TS; 1 R, (3 leaves)
Stan Persky - 1 ALs, 1 TLs; 3 R, (5 leaves)
New American Story (Grove, 1965)
Contents
Robert Creeley - Correspondence
Warren Tallman - Correspondence re: "Preface," "The Writing Life Preface," TS annotated of page 4 by Robert Duncan
Permissions - Miscellaneous correspondence with agents, editors, and publishers
Correspondence with authors - Including biographical notes and statements: Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, William Eastlake, LeRoi Jones, Edward Dorn, Douglas Woolf, Mike Rumaker, Robert Creeley, John Rechy, Hubert Selby, Jr
Miscellaneous correspondence with GP editors
Press releases, reviews, book jackets, etc
MSS of New American Story
MSS of New American Story - Galleys, sets 1-3
MSS of New American Story - Galleys, sets 4-7
Ephemera
Poetics of the New American Poetry (Grove, 1973)
Contents
Manuscripts - Carbon of final table of contents, xerox of Linda Wagner interview with Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti; "Genesis of 'After the Cries of the Birds,'" Lenore Kandel; "Poetry is Never Compromise," Gary Snyder; "Buddhism and the Coming Revolution," Philip Whalen; "Goldberry Is Waiting," Warren Tallman; "Preface" and "Making It New"
Correspondence with authors
Contents
Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Cid Corman, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Henri Ford, J.C. Gili, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure, Jackson Mac Low
Charles Olson, Norman Holmes Pearson, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, John Wieners, Louis Zukofsky
Correspondence with Warren Tallman
Reviews, book jackets, correspondence with GP editors, permissions
Galleys
The Postmoderns (Grove, 1982)
Contents
George Butterick
Contents
Correspondence, 1973 - 1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1973 - 1978
Correspondence, 1980 - 1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980 - 1982
Guggenheim proposal
Acknowledgements
Page proofs of acknowledgements
Final book leads - Title page, copyright page, acknowledgements
NAP revised table of contents
Page proofs of preface
Galleys of preface
Preface
Contributors
Contents
Charles Olson - 14 TSc, (53 leaves)
William Everson - 2 ALs, 1 APCs; 8 TSc; 1 R, (22 leaves)
Robert Duncan - 3 TSC; 2 R, (14 leaves)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - 1 TLs, 1 TPCs; 14 TSc, (38 leaves)
Barbara Guest - 1 TLs, 2 APCs; 3 TS, 14 TSc; 2 R, (39 leaves)
Jack Kerouac - Nine documents between DA and Sterling Lord (JK's literary agent). TSc of JK's biography, (16 leaves)
Jackson Mac Low - 2 TLs, 1 TPCs; 4 TS; 1 R, (13 leaves)
Denise Levertov - 1 TLs; 2 TSc; 2 R, (17 leaves)
James Schuyler - 1 ALs, 1 TLs, 4 TSc, 13 R, (27 leaves)
Philip Whalen - 2 ALs; 1 TSc, 1 PP; 1 R, (16 leaves)
Robin Blaser - 1 TLs; 1 PP; 2 R, (10 leaves)
Kenneth Koch - 3 ALs, 2 TLs; 2 TSc; 8 R, (25 leaves)
Jack Spicer - 6 TSc, (18 leaves)
Paul Blackburn - 2 ALs (from Joan Blackburn); 2 TS; 1 R, (13 leaves)
Robert Creeley - 3 TLS; 20 TS; 5 R, (53 leaves)
Allen Ginsberg - 1 ALs; 6 TSc; 1 R, (43 leaves)
Frank O'Hara - 2 TSc, 1 PP; 8 R regarding publication rights, (16 leaves)
Lew Welch - 3 TSc, 1 PP, (11 leaves)
John Ashbery - 1 TSc, 9 R regarding publication rights, (17 leaves)
Larry Eigner - 2 TLs; 2 TPC, (11 leaves)
Edward Dorn - 1 ALS; 1 TSc; 2 R, (11 leaves)
Jonathan Williams - 1 TLs, 3 TPCs; 6 TSc, 1 PP; 3 R, (16 leaves)
Gregory Corso - 3 PP; 1 R, (10 leaves)
Joel Oppenheimer - 1 TLs; 2 TSc; 1 R, (11 leaves)
Gary Snyder - 1 ALs, 1 APCs; 14 TSc, (31 leaves)
Jerome Rothenberg - 3 TLs; 4 TSc; 4 R, (29 leaves)
Michael McClure - 1 APCs; 1 TSc, 2 PP, (9 leaves)
Diane Di Prima - 7 TSc; 2 R, (36 leaves)
Anselm Hollo - 1 TLs; 26 TSc; 4 R, (60 leaves)
LeRoi Jones - 1 TLs; 2 TSc, 1 PP, 1 R, (9 leaves)
Joanne Kyger - (8 leaves)
John Wieners - 1 TSc; 1 R, (9 leaves)
Robert Kelly - 2 TLs; 4 TSc, 1 PP, 2 R, (21 leaves)
James Koller - 1 ALs, 2 TLs; 3 R, (11 leaves)
Ron Loewinsohn - 2 TLs, 5 TSc; 5 R, (19 leaves)
David Meltzer - 5 TLs, (10 leaves)
Ed Sanders - 1 ALs, 1 TLs; 2 TSc, 2 PP; 1 R, (18 leaves)
Anne Waldman - 1 TLs; 2 TSc; 3 R, (17 leaves)
Authors' bibliographies
Copies of author's biographies and bibliographies
Contents
Ashbery-Levertov
Loewinshohn-Williams
Galley pages of biographies and bibliographies
Final page proofs of biographies and bibliographies
Miscellaneous correspondence
Material deleted from final book - Duncan poems
Text of books
Contents
Uncut version - Parts 1-9
Uncut version - Parts 10-19
Working manuscript - Parts 1-3
Working manuscript - Parts 4-5
Annotated manuscript
Annotated master set - Parts 1-3
Annotated master set - Parts 4-7
Copy of master set
Second master copy - Parts 1-5
Second master copy - Parts 6
Blues
F&G's
Evergreen Press
Contents
Evergreen Review - The Eye of Mexico , Vol. II, no. 7 (1959)
Contents
Complete issue
Translations by Paul Blackburn; Jamie Sabines, 5 poems; Manuel Duran, 4 poems; Manuel Calvillo, 2 poems; Ricardo Gariby, poem not used; Jaime Garcia Terres, 2 poems; Emilio Carballido, 1 poem; Tomas Segovia, 4 poems; Octavio Paz, 1 poem
Translations by Lysander Kemp; Marco Antonio Monte, 3 poems; Ricardo Pozas Arciniega, 1 work; Juan Rulfo, 1 work; Juan Jose Arreola, 1 work; Octavio Paz, 1 poem; Miguel Leon-Portilla, 1 essay; Elena Garro, 3 plays (one not used)
Translations by William Carlos Williams; Octavio Paz, 1 poem; Ali Chumacero, 2 poems
Translations by John Rechy; Emilio Carballido, 1 story; Ramon Xirau, 3 essays; Miguel Leon-Portilla , 1 review
Translations by John Rechy. Elena Poniatowski, interview with Carlos Fuentes, Jose Luis Ibanez, one work, Jaime Sabines, 5 poems, Michel Duran, 4 poems, Jaime Garcia Terres, 1 poem, Montes De Oca, 1 poem
Contributors' correspondence: Octavio Paz, Manuel Calvillo, Ali Chumacero, Juan De La Cababa, Manuel Duran, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Cara, Miguel Leon-Portilla, Montes De Oca, Ricardo Pozas Arciniega, Helene Poniatowski, Jorge Portilla, Jamie Sabines, Jaime Garcia Terres, Juan Rulfo
Correspondence with Lysander Kemp
Miscellaneous correspondence including Kenneth Koch, Edwin Denby, John Rechy
Correspondence with guest editor Ramon Xirau
Draft of essay on Centro Mexicano De Escritores and biographical profiles prepared by Ramon Xirau
Don Allen's introductory note
Reviews
Correspondence with editors
Artwork
Correspondence regarding artists and architects
Related journals
Contents
Cuadernos de Bellas Artes
Bulletin of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores ; Arts and Architecture
Miscellaneous correspondence re: Evergreen Review
Penguin Books
Contents
The New Writing in the USA (1967)
Contents
Editorial correspondence and permissions
Miscellaneous correspondence
Permissions, table of contents, preface, lists of poets
Preface and table of contents
Table of contents and biographies of poets
Copy of published book
St. James Press
Contents
Contemporary Poets
Contents
Miscellaneous correspondence
List of poets and addresses
Four Seasons Press
Contents
The New Review
Contents
Correspondence pertaining to the projected publication of the Four Seasons Quarterly . This project, later tentatively titled The New Review , was abandoned. Included is a letter detailing DA's early publishing ventures and explaining the connection between the Four Seasons Quarterly , The New Review , Prose I , and Twelve Poets and One Painter
No. 1, Winter 1964, edited by DA, this review was never published. Instead, Allen turned the material into book forms: Prose I and Twelve Poets and One Painter . Correspondence concerning project: Norman O. Brown, John Jones, Joanne, Kyger, Michael Rumaker, Edward Selby, and Allen Sherman. Typescript and proof copy of Edward Selby's review of Michael McClure's Meat Science Essays . The essay was not used
Dummy of the magazine format, two sets of corrected galleys
Prose I
Contents
Correspondence between DA and Michael Rumaker. Corrected xeroxes of Dorn's "The Camp," TS of Dorn's review, TS of Tallman's review, MS of Rumaker's review; Edward Dorn, Michael Rumaker, Warren San Francisco, 1964. Published as "Writing 2," Prose I contains "The Bar" by Michael Rumaker, "The Camp" by Edward Dorn, and reviews of Robert Creeley's The Island by Warren Tallman, of LeRoi Jones' Blues People by Edward Dorn, of Scott Fitzgerald's Letters by Michael Rumaker
One dummy of book with corrected proofs
Twelve Poets and One Painter
Contents
Correspondence concerning project with Robert Creeley, Jess Collins, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov. List of drawings by Jess Collins. TS of royalty agreement; San Francisco, 1964. Published as "Writing 3," this volume contains work by LeRoi Jones, Joanne Kyger, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Max Finstein, Bruce Boyd, and six drawings by Jess Collins
Working MS with corrections and printing instructions. Dummy copy of the book
Monographs
Contents
Robin Blaser
Contents
Cups , San Francisco, 1968 - Published as "Writing 17" - One carbon TLS from DA to Blaser; three sets of galleys, corrected and including printing directions; one dummy of the book
Richard Brautigan
Contents
Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster , San Francisco, 1968 - Published as "Writing 20"
Contents
TS of title and biographical information; black and white photograph; one review; three sets of galleys, corrected by DA and Brautigan
Corrected page proofs
In Watermelon Sugar , San Francisco, 1968 - Published as "Writing 21"
Contents
Announcement, TS of jacket copy, TS of copyright page, book layout, reviews
Two sets of galleys with Brautigan's corrections and instructions, page proofs
Trout Fishing in America , San Francisco, 1967 - Published as "Writing 14"
Contents
TS of information about Brautigan. TS of story by Michelle Clark, inspired by Brautigan; various correspondence and reviews
Edward Conze
Contents
Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines and Its Verse Summary , Bolinas, 1973 - Published as "Wheel Series 1"
Contents
Biographical note, correspondence between Edward Conze and DA, announcement of book
Paste-up and newsprint copies of title page. TS of copyright page, TS of contents page, corrected copies of preface, paste-ups of book leads, various other book materials
Xerox MS with corrections (pp. 1-199)
Xerox MS with corrections (pp. 200-321)
Xerox MS, setting copy (parts 1-3)
Corrected page proofs (pp. 1-142)
Final proof copy (pp. 1-208)
Final proof copy (pp. 209-325)
Cover material
Bya Chos - Abandoned project
Contents
DA's notes regarding project 1 TLS from George Hill, Oxford University Press; offprint of text in printed wrappers
Robert Creeley
Contents
Charm , San Francisco, 1969 - Published as "Writing 23"
Contents
Correspondence between Creeley and DA, TS: additional poems for Charm , folder containing signatures printed by Walter Hamady
Miscellaneous correspondence concerning book, xerox proof of preface and acknowledgements, TS of title and acknowledgements
Xerox TS of preface and contents page, galleys, page proofs
Corrected TS of preface, acknowledgements, and contents, shooting copy of title page
Final proof copy
Context of Poetry: Interviews 1961-1971 , Bolinas, 1973 - Published as "Writing 30"
Contents
Correspondence between Creeley and DA
Holograph list of interviews to be used, xerox MS of Charles Tomlinson's interview, correspondence regarding book's publication, miscellaneous publication materials, reviews and announcements
Working MS (part 1)
Working MS (parts 2-4)
Final photocopy (pp. 1-107), with cover material
Final photocopy (pp. 108-214)
Quick Graph: Collected Notes and Essays , San Francisco, 1970 - Published as "Writing 22"
Contents
Correspondence between Creeley and DA, TS of credits with ANS from Creeley to DA, xerox of article by Creeley in Arts Magazine with ANS from Creeley to DA
Correspondence regarding publication, xerox of credits, TS of contents and inclusions, galley of contents and acknowledgements page, reviews, miscellaneous materials
Author's working MS (parts 1-3)
Author's working MS (part 1)
Xerox and TS of final assembly (pp. 1-295)
Galleys - Part 1
Galleys - Part 2
Page proofs (pp. 1-365)
Final photocopy (pp. 1-52)
Final photocopy (pp. 53-365)
Book cover photograph
Edward Dorn
Contents
Collected Poems, 1956-1974 , Bolinas, 1975
Contents
Correspondence between Ed Dorn and DA, correspondence between Frank Jones and DA
Correspondence regarding book's publication, TS, copyright, acknowledgement contents, index, reviews, announcements, book jacket
Corrected working MS (pp. 1-288)
Corrected page proofs (pp. 1-52)
Corrected page proofs (pp. 53-277)
Interviews , Bolinas, 1980
Contents
Correspondence between Ed Dorn and DA
Editorial correspondence
Working MS: The Sullen Art interview, Barry Alpert interview, and Roy K. Okada interview
Working MS: Robert Bertholf interview, the Stephen Fredman interview, the Flint interview
Xerox MS
Dorn's revision of Fredman's MS
Page proofs
Drummond Hadley
Contents
The Webbing , San Francisco, 1967 - Published as "Writing 15"
Contents
Correspondence between Drummond Hadley and DA, MS corrected, galleys, page proofs, dummy copy of book, review
Dale Herd
Contents
Early Morning Wind , Bolinas, 1972
Contents
Biographical information, correspondence between Dale Herd and DA
Robert Creeley's blurb for book; editorial correspondence; TS of book leads; title, copyright, and contents pages; TS of story "Dark;" page proof of story "Safe;" reviews; miscellaneous material from printing of book
Corrected working MS
Corrected galleys, first-third set
Page proof
Cover
James Koller
Contents
Dogs and Other Dark Woods , San Francisco, 1966 - Published as "Writing 10"
Contents
Correspondence between James Kroller and DA, TS of poem "Some Magic" dedicated to DA, page proofs, book cover with book leads, announcements
TS & xerox MS
Two sets of corrected galleys
Joanne Kyger
Contents
Tapestry and the Web , San Francisco, 1965 - Published as "Writing 5"
Contents
Correspondence between Joanne Kyger and DA, a single page proof, TS of book
Philip Lamantia
Contents
Blood of the Air , San Francisco, 1970
Contents
Correspondence between Philip Lamantia and DA, miscellaneous publication concerning book, TS and xerox of title, copyright, dedication, and content pages, announcements
Working MS corrected
MS paste-up
First page proofs
Page proofs corrected by author
Proof of book cover
Touch of the Marvelous , Bolinas, 1974 - Published as "Writing 32"
Contents
Correspondence between Philip Lamantia and DA, miscellaneous correspondence concerning book's publication, TS of book fronts, announcements
Working MS corrected
Early page proofs, corrected
Final page proofs, corrected with instructions
Photocopy of book
Proof of book cover
Ron Loewinsohn
Contents
Against the Silences Come , San Francisco 1965 - Published as "Writing 4"
Contents
Working MS; two corrected copies of MS; page proofs, corrected
Michael McClure
Contents
Love Lion Book , San Francisco, 1966 - Published as "Writing 11"
Contents
Correspondence between Michael McClure and DA, working MS corrected
Corrected galleys, three sets; page proofs, corrected and with instructions; page proofs of second printing
Sermons of Jean Harlow and the Curses of Billy the Kid , San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation with Dave Haselwood Books, 1968
Contents
One finished copy of book, unsewn
Pamela Millward
Contents
Mother: A Novel of the Revolution , San Francisco, 1970 - Published as "Writing 26"
Contents
Correspondence between Pamela Millward and DA, miscellaneous correspondence regarding book's publication (includes xerox of TLS from Richard Brautigan), early page proofs (partial), announcements
Charles Olson
Contents
Additional Prose: A Bibliography of America , Proprioception and Other Notes and Essays . Ed. George Butterick, Bolinas, 1974
Contents
Correspondence between George Butterick and DA
TS and xerox of material for book, review, announcements
Book fronts, working MSS of "Bibliography for Ed Dorn" and "Proprioception", xerox of Robert Duncan's preface to "Proprioception" (with 2 carbon TL from DA to Duncan)
MS material
Working MS
Galleys, corrected
Reproduction copy of book (pp. 1-111)
Bibliography for Ed Dorn , San Francisco, 1964 - Published as "Writing 1"
Contents
Xerox of MS in Olson's hand; working MS, corrected; galleys, corrected; dummy of book
Causal Mythology , San Francisco, 1969 - Published as "Writing 16"
Contents
Correspondence regarding book's publication; TS of Robert Duncan's preface, with ANS from Duncan to DA; 8x10 glossy photo of Olson, used on book's cover; TS of Hans Gustav Guterback's "The Hittite Version of the Hurrian Kumarbi Myths: Oriental Forerunners of Hesiod"; reviews; announcements
TS of manuscript
Working MS
Galleys and paste-up page proofs
Photocopy of the book
Fiery Hunt , Bolinas, 1977 - Published as "Writing 36"
Contents
Correspondence regarding book's publication, including with Michael Palmer, Maurice Beebe, Merce Cunningham
Correspondence between George Butterick and DA
Xerox MS of unpublished plays and first Black Mountain edition of Apollonius
Working MS
Galleys
Muthologos , vol. 1, Bolinas, 1978
Contents
Correspondence with George Butterick
Miscellaneous correspondence regarding book's publication including: Robert Duncan, Ralph Maud, Jonathan Cape, Gerard Malanga, Sherman Paul
Working MS
Contents
Part 1
Parts 2-4
Page proofs
Muthologos , vol. 2, Bolinas, 1979
Contents
Correspondence with George Butterick
George Butterick's notes
MS of book fronts and ends
Working MS
Page proofs, silver print and check copy
In Cold Hell, In Thicket , San Francisco, 1967
Contents
Correspondence from Charles Olson to DA
Poetry and the Truth: The Beloit Lectures , San Francisco, 1971 - Published as "Writing 27"
Contents
Transcribed and edited by George Butterick - Correspondence between George Butterick and DA
Xerox TS MS, corrected; TS of Butterick's preface; TS of "Beloit's"; xerox proof and TS of acknowledgements; proofs of title page; TS drafts of preface; TS of Butterick's introduction; 8x10 glossy photo of Olson, used on book cover; miscellaneous book material
Galleys, corrected; page proofs, corrected; revised page proofs
Xerox of book cover
Proprioception , San Francisco, 1965 - Published as "Writing 6"
Contents
Working MS, corrected; galleys, corrected; page proofs, corrected
Stocking Cap, A Story , San Francisco, 1966 - Published by Four Seasons as a Christmas book for friend of the press
Contents
Telegram from Charles Olson to DA
Cover layouts for Additional Prose , Casual Mythology , and Poetry and Truth
Cover layouts for Additional Prose , Casual Mythology , and Poetry and Truth
David Schaff
Contents
Moon By Day , San Francisco, 1971 - Published as "Writing 28"
Contents
Correspondence between David Schaff and DA, biographical statement, acknowledgements, autographed TS of four poems, sketch of book's cover, sample of page proofs, announcements
Xerox page proofs, corrected
Final photocopy, corrected
Reproduction of cover
Gary Snyder
Contents
Manzanita , Bolinas, 1972
Contents
Correspondence between Gary Snyder and DA, TLS from James Laughlin to Gary Snyder
Working MS, autographed by GS; xerox MS
Final proof copy
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems , San Francisco, 1966 - Published as "Writing 7"
Contents
Correspondence between Gary Snyder and DA; miscellaneous correspondence regarding book's publication; TS of several poems, corrected; TS of copyright of page; 8x10 glossy photo of oriental painting; review
Copy of first edition, working MS
Page proofs, copy of cover, two 8x10 black and white photographs used in book
Six Sections From Mountains and Rivers Without End , San Francisco, 1970 - Published as "Writing 9"
Contents
Correspondence between Gary Snyder and DA; paste-up of cover; xerox of copyright and acknowledgement pages; TS of contents page; TS: "Blue Sky," "Bubbs Creek Haircut," "Hymn to the Goddess San Francisco in Paradise," and "Origin 12"; announcement
TS and carbon MS, corrected; galleys, corrected; dummy of book; copy of book with printing instructions
Two sets of page proofs, corrected
Charles Upton
Contents
Time Raid , San Francisco, 1969 - Published as "Writing 19"
Contents
Correspondence between Charles Upton and DA, biographical statement, miscellaneous correspondence regarding book's publication, review
Working MS
Proofs, corrected; galleys, corrected
Portrait
Lew Welch
Contents
Hermit Poems , San Francisco, 1965 - Published as "Writing 8"
Contents
Working MS; TS of MS
Lew Welch's calligraphed pages
Philip Whalen
Contents
Kindness of Strangers , Bolinas, 1976 - Published as "Writing 33"
Contents
Correspondence between Philip Whalen and DA; miscellaneous correspondence regarding book's publication; TS of title copyright, and contents pages; announcements
Xerox working MS, corrected
Xerox page proofs, corrected
Reproduction of the book
Off the Wall , Bolinas, 1978
Contents
Correspondence between Philip Whalen and DA; correspondence with interviewers: Anne Waldman, Yves le Pellec, Lee Bartlett, Aran Saroyan, Larry Lee, and Arthur Knight; business materials regarding book's publication
Interview MSS - Anne Waldman; xerox copies and carbon of DA's edited TS; xerox of sequel, not used
Interview MSS - Aram Saroyan; xerox with PW's revisions; Lee Burtlett, xerox with revisions; Yves le Pellec, xeroxes with revisions; Barry Gifford and Larry Lee, xerox
Working MS
Second working MS
Galleys, corrected
Severance Pay: Poems 1967-1969 , San Francisco, 1970 - Published as "Writing 24"
Contents
Correspondence between Philip Whalen and DA, correspondence regarding book's publication, announcements
Working MS (TS and xerox), corrected; sample pages; sample galleys
Galleys, corrected
Paste-up page proofs
Miscellaneous Publishing Materials
Contents
Ed Dorn - Interviews - Camera copy (2)
Charles Olson - Fiery Hunt - Camera copy
Charles Olson - Muthologos , vol. 1 - Camera copy
Charles Olson - Muthologos , vol. 2 - Camera copy
Philip Whalen - Off the Wall - Camera copy
Book People distribution records, 1969 - 1970
Summary
- Dates:
- 1969 - 1970
Book Works distribution records, 1970
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970
City Lights distribution records
Orders referred
Orders to fill, undated
Summary
- Dates:
- undated
Orders paid, 1969 - 1972
Summary
- Dates:
- 1969 - 1972
MSS rejections, 1969 - 1973
Summary
- Dates:
- 1969 - 1973
Grey Fox Press Monographs
Contents
Robert Creeley
Contents
Was That a Real Poem and Other
Contents
Correspondence between Robert Creeley and DA
Editorial correspondence regarding book's publication; "A Creeley Chronology"; xerox of author's TS; xerox of Athanor's publication of "Chronology"; TS of revised "Chronology"
Working MS
Check and silverprint copies
Guy Davenport
Contents
Herakleitos and Diogenes , Bolinas, 1979
Contents
Correspondence between Guy Davenport and DA
Editorial correspondence and book materials; review
MS, mimeograph and TS
Page proofs, camera copy of book, silver print of book cover
Edward Dorn
Contents
Selected Poems , Bolinas, 1978
Contents
Preface by Robert Creeley - Correspondence between Edward Dorn and DA; xerox of Creeley's Preface; partial page proofs, corrected; copy of book cover; silver print copy of book up to p. 56
Working MS
Allen Ginsberg
Contents
Gates of Wrath: Rhymed Poems 1948-1952 , Bolinas, 1972
Contents
Correspondence between Allen Ginsberg and DA, correspondence regarding book's publication, Allen Ginsberg's mailing list, xerox list of poems from Gates of Wrath taped by AG for Fantasy Records, page proofs, TS of afterword "Hindsight"
Working MS with AG's revisions
Galleys
Photocopy of book
Gay Sunshine Interview
Contents
Correspondence, Allen Ginsberg and DA; correspondence, Allen Young and DA; miscellaneous correspondence regarding book's publication
Working MS
Xerox of MS with AG's revisions and holograph note on envelope
Page proofs, corrected
Camera copy
On Chanting - Abandoned project
Contents
Correspondence between Allen Ginsberg, Howard Wheeler, and DA; newspaper clippings regarding Krishna sect; Krishna sect poster; one copy of Back to Godhead, I , (Dec. 1966), includes Ginsberg's "Reflection on the mantra"
Jack Kerouac
Contents
Heaven and Other Poems , Bolinas, 1977
Contents
Correspondence, Jack Kerouac and DA; xerox copies of Kerouac's letters; correspondence regarding book's publication; reviews
Kerouac's original typescripts of poems, DA's TS of title poem, sample of book cover and silver line of book cover
Working MS, with DA's notes
Xerox of working MS
Camera copy
Trip Trap , Bolinas, 1973 - With Albert Saijo and Lew Welch
Contents
Correspondence, Albert Saijo and DA, correspondence regarding book's publication, notes regarding book's cover, thank you notes from Michael McClure and Zoe Brown
Working MS
Photocopy of book
Book cover design
Frank O'Hara
Contents
Early Writing , Bolinas, 1977
Contents
Correspondence regarding book's publication, page proofs of contents and index pages, silver line of cover, copy and photocopy of review slip
Working MS
Camera copy of book and cover
Duplicates and carbons of poems in Early Writing and Poems Retrieved (part 1)
Poems Retrieved , Bolinas, 1977
Contents
Correspondence regarding book's publication: Merle Marsicano, Ned Rorem, John Ashbery, David Kermani, Bill Corbett, and others; correspondence regarding book's reviews; reviews; thank you notes from Anne Waldman, Mike Goldberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Bruce Boone
Copy of American Poetry Review , vol. 5, 3 (1977) containing 17 unpublished poems by O'Hara; copy of Poetry (May 1977) containing O'Hara poems; Ben Weber's musical setting for "Here We Are Again" from Folder 4 (1956); page proofs of editor's note and notes to poems; silver line of book cover
Working MS, corrected
Working MS, other version (parts 1-2)
Working MS, other version (part 3)
Camera copy of book and cover
Standing Still and Walking in New York , Bolinas, 1975
Contents
Editorial correspondence with Norman Bluhm, Alison Lurie, Ben Weber, Edward Lucie-Smith, Ted Berrigan, Christian Rosset, Genevieve Oswald, Renee Neu, Alice Stokuis, and Chris Wagner; correspondence with George Braziller, Inc., regarding O'Hara's Art Chronicles; correspondence regarding book's publication; thank you notes
Xerox of Aram Saroyan's review, early version of Edward Lucie-Smith interview, silver line of cover
Working MS
Page proofs
Charles Olson
Contents
Post Office , Bolinas, 1975
Contents
Correspondence between George Butterick, editor and DA; correspondence between H. L. Dest, Jr., University of Connecticut, and DA; correspondence concerning book's publication; tear sheet of "Stocking Cap" from Harper's Bazaar (July 1967); stats of photos of Charles Olson Sr., Mrs. Olson, and the "Trolley Air Line"; reviews; sample typeset pages; one silver print copy of book
Working MS
Page proofs
Photocopy of book and cover, imposition data
Michael Rumaker
Contents
Day and a Night , Bolinas, 1979
Contents
Working MS
Page proofs
Gary Snyder
Contents
He Who Hunted the Birds in His Father's Village
Contents
Correspondence, Gary Snyder and DA; correspondence re: book's publication; TS of Nathaniel Tarn's "Preface"; TS of Gary Snyder's "Forward"; MS of book fronts
Working MS
Copy of book cover
On Bread and Poetry , Bolinas, 1977 - With Lew Welch and Philip Whalen
Contents
Correspondence, Philip Whalen and DA; correspondence re: book's publication; reviews; announcement paste-up
Aram Saroyan's holograph transcription of the tape of the panel discussion
Galleys
Camera copy of book
Lew Welch
Contents
How I Work as a Poet and Other Essays/ Plays/ Stories
Contents
Correspondence re: publication of book, reviews
Xerox transcription
Working MS
Page proofs
Photocopy of cover
I, Leo--An Unfinished Novel , Bolinas, 1977
Contents
Correspondence, Philip Whalen and DA; correspondence regarding frontispiece drawing; correspondence re: book's publication; review notice; silver print of book
Xerox of Lew Welch's plan for the novel; carbon copies of Chapter I, II, V, VI, and VII--sent to DA in May 1960 with revisions by Lew Welch
Working MS
Xerox copy of working MS
Galleys
Photocopy of book and cover
Ring of Bone , Bolinas, 1973
Contents
Correspondence re: book's publication; Michael McClure: ALS and holograph poem; reviews: including one ALS from Gary Snyder plus tear sheet of review in the San Francisco Chronicle
Lew Welch's original TS of the introduction, copyright, and acknowledgement pages, with holograph revisions; TS of The Uses of Poetry ; xerox of Seth L. Wolitz's unpublished essay of Welch's poetry; galleys
Working MS
Photocopy of book
Ring of Bone , 2nd ed. Bolinas, 1973
Contents
TS revision of Welch chronology, silver print of book and cover, silver print of title page and pp. 91 and 142, correspondence with Duncan McNaughton
Selected Poems , Bolinas, 1976
Contents
Correspondence, Gary Snyder and DA; TS of Snyder's preface (revisions); xerox of Aram Saroyan's holograph book review; correspondence re: book's publication
Working MS, partial photocopy
Copy of book cover
Philip Whalen
Contents
Decompressions , Bolinas, 1976
Contents
Correspondence, Philip Whalen and DA; correspondence re: book's publication; correspondence with Michael McClure regarding his review; reviews
Poster for Philip Whalen's reading at Cody's Bookstore; Philip Whalen's TS of preface with revisions; silver print of first folio of 64 pages; book cover
Working MS
Galleys, corrected
Camera copy of book
Scenes of Life at the Capital , Bolinas, 1972
Contents
Correspondence, Philip Whalen and DA; TS by Philip Whalen of Acknowledgements; reviews
Galleys
Photocopy - Set 1
Photocopy - Set 2
Photocopy of book cover
John Whitney
Contents
A Text - Abandoned project
Contents
Correspondence, John Whitney and DA; author's preface; sample setting
FRANK O'HARA MATERIALS
Background
- Scope and content:
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Series 2) FRANK O'HARA MATERIALS: Manuscripts, correspondence and miscellaneous materials regarding Frank O'Hara.
Contents
Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara . New York: Alfred Knopf, 1971
Contents
Working MS, pp. 1-730
Editor's note MS, 4 leaves, and biography of DA
Working MS, 2nd copy, pp. 1-50
Working MS, 2nd copy, pp. 51-611
Index to titles, 17 leaves
Editor's notes to poems, 83 leaves
Page proofs, pp. 1-300
Page proofs, pp. 301-491
Page proofs, second set, pp. 1-491
Correspondence with Knopf's editors
Publishing correspondence
Selected Poems , New York, 1974
Contents
Correspondence with Knopf editors; DA's original table of contents, 8 leaves; Bill Berkson's suggestions for contents, 12 leaves, notes; table of contents, 4 sets, 27 leaves (one set has Kenneth Koch's suggestion), editor's preface; index of titles and first lines, 10 leaves; chronology of O'Hara's life (2 copies), 4 leaves
Miscellaneous poems
Contents
MSS of other poems
Typescripts of poems
Frank O'Hara's Art News reviews (1953-1955), typed out with listings
Contents
Part 1
Part 2
Byzantine Place: 50 Poems and a Noh Play , Hopwood Award, 1951
Xerox of Fourth of July , an unfinished novel, part 1
Notebook A, Parts 1-2 - Contains O'Hara's early practice poems which were included in Early Writing , and his commonplace book while at Harvard
O'Hara on art and artists
Contents
DA's list of O'Hara's writing on painting and sculpture; notes for an article on Larry Rivers; Gaston Lachaise; Robert Motherwell; introduction to Abstract Watercolors by 14 Americans , (1963); Robert Motherwell, Catalog of VI Bienal So Museu de Arte Moderna , Sao Paulo, 1961
Jackson Pollock , Braziller, 1959; three "Art Chronicles" from Kulchur , 1962-63; a memoir of Larry Rivers from the exhibition catalogue of the Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, Mass., 1966
"Porter Paints" a Picture ( Art News , January 1955); introductory text panel on Arshile Gorky; introductory text panel on David Smith's drawings; "New Spanish Painting and Sculpture" ; introduction for Edwin Denby's Dancers, Builders, and People in the Street ; "Larry Rivers: The Next to Last Confederate Soldier," from B.N. Friedman, ed. School of New York ; "Riopelle: International Speedscapes," Art News ; "David Smith: The Color of Steel," Art News ; "The Grand Manner of Motherwell," Vogue ; Smith Opening; George Spaventa; "Art New York: Sculpting Master of Bolton Landing," transcription from television show; list of O'Hara's art pieces from MOMA (Walter Rasmussen), dated 29 August 1973
Manuscripts of Frank O'Hara's plays
Contents
Ron Padgett: 2 TLS and a list of plays; Joan Simon : 1 ANS; Kenneth Koch, A Tragedy (xerox of Larry Rivers' MS); O'Hara's and the Poets' Theatre: playbills, clippings, etc.; Try! Try! I - Notes on the Noh Play relevant to Try! Try! I , review of The Poets Theatre production by Daniel Ellsberg (1951)
Four Dialogs which Ned Rorem set to music for two voices and two pianos; What Century? A Play ; Lexington Avenue, An Eclogue ; Amorous Nightmare of Delay, An Eclogue ; Washington, A Play (plus duplicate copies)
Change Your Bedding, A Noh Play ; Love on the Hoof ; Love's Labor, An Eclogue ; Mephisto ; The Coronation Murder Mystery ; Shopping for Joe
"The Poets' Theatre" by Cusman Troll, Jr. (Harvard Advocat, 1951); C Revisited, or the True Lesson of Carole Lombard ; Awake in Spain ; The General Returns from One Place to Another ; Lois and Dick, An Eclogue (became Four Dialogs later)
Xerox manuscripts of Frank O'Hara's prose writing
Contents
"The Night before the Fourth," derived from novel (18 leaves); "Robbers, A Story," (11 leaves); "Good Night, Lon," (20 leaves); "Grace Hartigan and Grace," (11 leaves); "Grace Hartigan and Grace," (11 leaves); A Story Out Loud," autobiography, (6 leaves), published in Early Writing ; "A Throw of the Dice Never," (3 leaves), published in Early Writing
"Opera," synopsis of projected opera (6 leaves), also xerox of Tony Towle's MS, (9 leaves); "Late Adventure," published in Harvard Advocate , Sept. 1950, (4 leaves); "O The Dangers of Daily Living," published in Harvard Advocate , 3 leaves; "O The Dangers of Daily Living," (published in The Poet's Story , Howard Moss, ed.), (4 leaves); "The Unquiet Grave" (published in Harvard Advocate , 1948 [?]; "Not with a Bang..." published in Harvard Advocate , Sept. 1948 (2 leaves); "The Apple of Your Eye," (6 leaves)
Frank O'Hara USA: Poetry - Film of O'Hara
Contents
Outline of film, 3 sets
Transcriptions of film, 3 sets
Translations by O'Hara
Contents
Holderlin, Rilke, and Mayakovsky
Baudelaire, Rilke, Mallarme, Reverdy, Genet, and Char
Collaborations
Contents
"Hard Time," with Joe Brainard; "Nina Sestina," with Kenneth Koch; Good Words," with Kenneth Koch; "Essay on Aesthetics," with Kenneth Koch; "The Mirror Naturally Stripped," with Kenneth Koch "Nothing Gained Has Earned a Night's Repose," with John Ashbery; "The Winter," with Steven Rivers; "Ode," with James Schuyler; "If Love Lay Dying," by George Montgomery; "The Hero," with George Montgomery; "In Bed," with George Montgomery; "Since the Work is to be Done," with Don Berry; "Messy Lives," with John Gruen; " Kenneth Koch, A Tragedy , with Larry Rivers; "Stones," by Larry Rivers; "Poem-Paintings," with Norman Bluhm (introduction by Bill Berkson); Hartigan and Rivers with O'Hara , Tidor de Nagy catalogue
With Bill Berkson
O'Hara - Bill Berkson's MSS and Letters (63 leaves)
O'Hara - Rivers' MSS (43 leaves)
O'Hara - Vincent Warren MSS (40 leaves)
O'Hara - MSS and correspondence with Ben Weber (42 leaves)
Miscellaneous papers - Statement to Ford Foundation regarding grant; resume; Ted Berrigan's list of O'Hara's poems; MIT Dramashop playbill; music at Whitney Museum, 1972; O'Hara Library (items are in the Maureen Granville-Smith Collection); Virginia M. Burke, one TLS (1971); A Grand Opera , with Barbara Guest; Ned Rorem, four songs; Peter Hartman's setting of "Young Girl in Pursuit of Lorca"; Bruce Geller, one TLS and "Why I am not a Painter" film script; Arthur A. Cohen, one TLS regarding B. Berkson's proposed volume
Correspondence Regarding Frank O'Hara
Contents
Artists' letters about O'Hara - Merce Cunningham; Helen Frankenthaler; Mike Goldberg; Grace Hartigan; Jasper Johns
John Ashbery correspondence
Bill Berkson correspondence with DA; with Marjorie Perloff regarding her monograph Frank O'Hara, Poet Among Painters ; Berkson's notes on Perloff's chapters 1-2; table of contents and xeroxes of contributions by Kenward Elmslie, LeRoi Jones, and Paul Schmidt for Homage to Frank O'Hara
Bruce Boone correspondence
Tom Clark correspondence
Robert Cornfield correspondence
Jan Cremer correspondence, including copy of O'Hara's letter to Cremer and xerox of FOH's "TV Poems"
Edwin Denby correspondence
Barbara Guest correspondence
David Kermani correspondence - (Bibliographer of John Ashbery)
Kenneth Koch correspondence
Joe Lesuer correspondence
Lawrence Osgood correspondence
Ron Padgett correspondence
Marjorie Perloff
Contents
Typescripts and articles
Correspondence
Peter Schjeldahl correspondence
James Schuyler correspondence
Alex Smith correspondence - (Bibliographer of O'Hara)
Anne Waldman correspondence
Business Correspondence
Contents
Bruce Boone, Andreas Brown, Margaret Fox, and David Rossenberg
Regarding O'Hara's estate
Contents
Daisy Aldan; Arno Bader; Bobbs-Merrill Co; George and Michael Braziller; Rolf Dieter Brinkman; Brown University; Herbert Cahoon; Barry Hall; Paul Carroll; John Herman, City Lights; John Chambers; Gabriella Drudi, DAIS Agency; Wendy Moonan, Entelechy Press; Larry Fagin; Bruce Geller; Morris Golde; Vagn Grosen; Tatyana Grosman; Grove Press editors; Donald Hall; Horizon : assignment of copyright; Bob Hosea; Andrew Hoyem
Dr. Renate Mathali; Allen Katzman; Ruth Krauss; Bob Livernash; Gerard Malanga; Paul Mariah; Anne Hansal; Duncan McNaughton; Harold Mesch; Julien Michel; University of Michigan, Hopwood Room; Richard Miller; Morris Galley; Museum of Modern Art; New Republic , Reed Whitmore; New York Review of Books ; W.W. Norton; Paris Review ; Alan Pearson; University of Pennsylvania; John M. Meyers; Poetry , Henry Rago and Daryl Hine; Peter Riley; Gaby Rogers; Scott, Foreman and Co.; Joan Smith
Simon and Schuster; Harold Snedcof; University of Texas, Academic Center Library; Tony Towle; Viking Press; Villanova University; Fred Wah; Ted Wilentz; Coach House Press; Carlo Consi; Alan Feldman; Evergreen Review ; John Gruen; Fritz Arnold; Houghton Mifflin Co; Richard Kostelanetz; Kiepenhauer and Wtisch Verlag, re: their edition of O'Hara's Lunch Poems ; Little, Brown and Co.; Daryl Hine; Random House; Peter Riley; Readers' Subscription; Chicago Review , Simon Schuchat; KVIE, Valley Instructional Television; Winthrop Publishers; Tony Allan; George Plimpton, Re: "Homage" volume; Kenneth A. Lohf, Columbia University; Frank O'Hara Foundation press release
Complete card catalogue index for all of O'Hara's MSS, compiled by DA, cards include date of composition, MS number and other information
Photograph of Frank O'Hara
PERSONAL PAPERS
Background
- Scope and content:
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Series 3) PERSONAL PAPERS: Allen's 1935 M.A. thesis from the University of Iowa and a dissertation prospectus on D.H. Lawrence.
Contents
Donald Allen's M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, Expressionism in American Drama, June 1935
Summary
- Dates:
- June 1935
Dissertation prospectus on D. H. Lawrence, untitled - Written for Mark Schorer at UC Berkeley in 1948-1949, undated
Summary
- Dates:
- undated
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
Background
- Scope and content:
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Series 4) GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE: The general correspondence papers are arranged alphabetically, and within each folder materials are arranged chronologically. The presence of carbon copies of Allen's own letters has made it possible to reconstruct significant epistolary exchanges, augmenting the collection's importance to scholars.
Contents
Adam, Helen - 14 ALs, 3 TLs, 14 APc; 7 TS, 2 TSca; 2R; ephemera; (85 leaves)
Albee, Edwin - 2 TLs;1 R; (3 leaves)
Alexander, James - 1 TS, (5 leaves)
Ashbery, John - 4 ALs, 16 TLs, 2 APCs; 11 R, (35 leaves)
Ashbery, John - 6 TS, 3 TSca, 2 PP, (21 leaves)
Ashbery, John - Ephemera, (46 leaves)
Beckett, Samuel - 1 APCS; ephemera, (2 leaves)
Bentley, Eric - 1 TLS, (1 leaf)
Berkson, Bill - 1 ALs, 3 TLs, 4 APCs; 6 TS, 4 R, (20 leaves)
Berman, Wallace - 1 APCs, (1 leaf)
Berrigan, Ted - 1 TLS; 2 TS; ephemera, (4 leaves)
Blackburn, Paul - 13 TLs; 4 TS; 9 R; ephemera, (45 leaves)
Blackburn, Paul - 35 TS, 1 TSc, (77 leaves)
Blaser, Robin - 11 ALs, 2 TLS, 1 APCs; 9 R, (51 leaves), 1956 - 1959
Summary
- Dates:
- 1956 - 1959
Blaser, Robin - 15 ALs, 5 TS; 28 R, (54 leaves), 1960 - 1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1960 - 1978
Blaser, Robin - 1 MS, 45 TS, (55 leaves)
Blaser, Robin - 22 TS, (63 leaves)
Blaser, Robin - Ephemera
Blofeld, John - 1 ALs, (1 leaf)
Boer, Charles - 8 TLs, 1 TLc; 7 R, (18 leaves)
Bogan, Louise - 6 ALs, 6 APCs, 1 T; 3 R, (16 leaves)
Borgese, Elizabeth - 1 TLs, (1 leaf)
Borregaard, Ebbe - 3 ALs, 8 TS, 1 PPa; 3 R; ephemera, (30 leaves)
Bowering, George - 1 TL, 1 TLs
Boyd, Bruce - 3 ALs, 16 TLs, 7 APCs, 1 TS; 11 R, (47 leaves)
Boyd, Bruce - 5 TSc, (17 leaves)
Boyle, Kay - 14 ALs, 1 TLs, 4 APCs; 8 R, ephemera, (29 leaves)
Brainard, Joe - 2 ALs, (4 leaves)
Brakhage, Stan - 1 ALs, 4 TLs, 2 TSs, 4 Ts; 2 R, (43 leaves)
Brautigan, Richard - 1 ALs, 7 APCs, 12 R (mostly between Grove editors concerning Brautigan), (25 leaves)
Brautigan, Richard - 6 TS, 27 TSc, 1 TSsc, (36 leaves)
Brautigan, Richard - Ephemera
Bremser, Ray - 2 ALs, 5 TLs, 1 TPC, 2 TS, 1 TSc; 5 R; (from Bonnie Bremser 1 ALs, 7 TLs, 2 APCs; 2 R); (38 leaves)
Bremser, Ray - 14 TS, 1 TSc, ephemera, (51 leaves)
Brody, Jim - 3 TLs, 1 TL, 1 APCs; 1 R; ephemera, (8 leaves)
Bromige, David - 2 ALs, 14 TSc, ephemera, (22 leaves)
Broughton, James - 3 TLs, 2 APCs, 3 TS, 1 TSc, 1 PP; 2 R; ephemera, (22 leaves)
Brown, Bill - 2 TLs, 2 APC, (4 leaves)
Bukowski, Charles - 1 ALs, (1 leaf)
Bullins, Ed - 5 TLs, 1 TPC, 1 TSC, (8 leaves)
Bunting, Basil - 2 ALS; 1 R, (3 leaves)
Burroughs, William - Ephemera
Carrington, Leonora - 1 ALs; 1 R, (2 leaves)
Carroll, Paul - 1 ALs, 7 TLs, 1 APCs, 3 TPCs, 2 TS; 13 R, (25 leaves)
Cervalo, Joe - 1 ALs, 2 TLs; 1 R, (3 leaves)
Charters, Ann - 1 ALs, 1 PP, (2 leaves)
Cioran, E. M. - 1 ALs, 1 TLs; 1 R; ephemera, (3 leaves)
Clark, Tom - 2 ALs, 2 TLs, (4 leaves)
Clays, Gino - 1 TLs, (1 leaf)
Codrescu, Andrei - Ephemera
Constable, Rosalind - 1 TS, (19 leaves)
Corman, Cid - 3 ALs, 12 TLs, 3 TLsc, 4 APCs, 1 TPCs; 13 R, (38 leaves)
Corso, Gregory - 6 ALs, 19 TLs, 13 APCs; 9 R, (50 leaves)
Corso, Gregory - 29 Ts, 11 TSs, 1 PP; ephemera, (62 leaves)
Corso, Gregory - 12 TS, 3 TSs, 2 TSsa, (53 leaves)
Creeley, Robert - 4 ALs, 15 TLs, 3 APCs, 1 TPCs; 14 R, (42 leaves), 1957 - 1959
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957 - 1959
Creeley, Robert - 3 ALs, 9 TLs, 1 APCs, 2 TPCs; 13 R, (32 leaves), 1960 - 1961
Summary
- Dates:
- 1960 - 1961
Creeley, Robert - 2 ALs,16 TLs, 2 APCs, 8 TPCs; 20 R, (41 leaves), 1962 - 1964
Summary
- Dates:
- 1962 - 1964
Creeley, Robert - 10 ALS, 8 TLS, 26 APCs, 6 TPCs; 29 R, (87 leaves), 1965 - 1979
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965 - 1979
Creeley, Robert - 2 TS, 2 TSc, ephemera, (36 leaves)
Creeley, Robert - 2 TS, 1 TSa, 1 co. TISH 33, (17 leaves)
Creeley, Robert - 9 TS, 1 TSa, (22 leaves)
Creeley, Robert - Ephemera
Dawson, Fielding - 3 TLSs, 2 APCs; 2 R; ephemera, (11 leaves)
Di Prima, Diane - 14 ALs, 8 TLs, 9 APCs, 5 TPCs; 13 R, (67 leaves)
Di Prima, Diane - 1 TS, 1 TSa, (41 leaves)
Di Prima, Diane - Ephemera
Dorn, Edward - 11 TLs, 7 TLs, 8 TPCs; 20 R, (46 leaves), 1957 - 1963
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957 - 1963
Dorn, Edward - 18 ALs, 2 TLs, 12 R, (34 leaves)
Dorn, Edward - 13 TS; TSc of Paul Garson's essay on Dorn, (42 leaves)
Dorn, Edward - Ephemera
Doyle, Kirby - 3 ALs, 3 TLs, 30 TS, 1 R; ephemera
Duerdan, Richard - 6 ALs, 5 TLs, 6 APCS; 17 TS, 2 R, (63 leaves)
Duncan, Robert - 7 ALs, 10 TLs, 2 TLc, 3 TS, 13 R, (47 leaves), 1957 - 1958
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957 - 1958
Duncan, Robert - 2 ALs, 12 TLs, 3 APCs, 21 R, (40 leaves), 1959 - 1960
Summary
- Dates:
- 1959 - 1960
Duncan, Robert - 1 ALs, 5 TLs, 4 APCs; 15 R, (28 leaves), 1961 - 1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1961 - 1978
Duncan, Robert - 2 TS, 2 TSa, 1 TSs, 1 TSca, (33 leaves)
Duncan, Robert - 11 TS, 1 TSa, 1TSs, 2 TCc, ephemera, (36 leaves)
Duncan, Robert - 4 TS, (47 leaves)
Duncan, Robert - 1 TS, 1 TSc, (38 leaves)
Duncan, Robert - Ephemera
Dunn, Joe - 3 TLs, 1 APCs, 11 TRS, 1 R, (27 leaves)
Eastlake, William - 2 ALs, 7 TLs, 2 APCs; 2 TS, 6 R, (45 leaves)
Eigner, Larry - 14 TLs, 9 APC ; 8 R, (35 leaves)
Eigner, Larry - 36 TS, 1 TSa, 2 TSc, (43 leaves)
Eigner, Larry - 1 TSc; ephemera, (17 leaves)
Engle, Paul - 1 R, (1 leaf)
Everson, William - 2 ALs, 7 TLs, 3 ALSc, 3 TLSc, 4 R, (19 leaves)
Everson, William - 1 TS, 1 TSc, ephemera, (13 leaves)
Fang, Achilles - 3 TLs; 3 R, (6 leaves)
Feinstein, Elaine - 3 TLs; 3 R, (7 leaves)
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - 3 ALs, 5 TLs, 10 APCs, 4 TPCs; 7 R, (31 leaves)
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - 2 MSc, 6 TS, 2 TSc, (34 leaves)
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Ephemera
Field, Edward - 1 ALs, 10 TLs, 1 APCs, 14 TSc; 9 R, (41 leaves)
Finstein, Max - 1 ALs, 1 R, (2 leaves)
Fowler, Gene - 4 TLs, 1 TLsc, 2 TPCs; 1 TS; ephemera, (24 leaves)
Fuentes, Carlos - 1 TLs, 1 R, (2 leaves)
Gara, Larry - 10 TLs, 8 R, (23 leaves)
Ginsberg, Allen - 4 ALs, 15 TLs, 4 TS, 16 R, (46 leaves), 1957 - 1959
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957 - 1959
Ginsberg, Allen - 7 ALs, 3 TLs, 6 APCs, 2 TPCs; 9 R, (29 leaves), 1960 - 1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1960 - 1974
Ginsberg, Allen - Regarding Ginsberg's application for a Guggenheim fellowship and various publishing ventures; 10 R, (11 leaves)
Ginsberg, Allen - 7 TS (collaboration with Jack Kerouac,), 2 TSc, (35 leaves)
Ginsberg, Allen - 10 TS, 3 TSc, 4 PP, (26 leaves)
Ginsberg, Allen - 2 TS, 1 TSc, (29 leaves)
Ginsberg, Allen - Ephemera
Girodias, Maurice - 4 TLs; 1 R, (5 leaves)
Guest, Barbara - 4 ALs, 8 TLs, 10 APCs; 6 R, (30 leaves)
Guest, Barbara - 12 TS (21 leaves)
Guest, Barbara - 23 TS, ephemera, (32 leaves)
Hadley, Drummond - 1 TS, 1 TSc, (2 leaves)
Hall, Donald - 4 TLs; 1 R (5 leaves)
Hart, Howard - 1 ALs, 1 R, (2 leaves)
Hawley, Robert - 3 TLs, 1 T, 3 R, (9 leaves)
Haselwood, Dave - 2 ALs, 1 TLs; 5 R; ephemera, (11 leaves)
Herndon, Jim - 1 TLs, 1 Ts, 2 R, (11 leaves)
Hirschman, Jack - 1 ALs, 2 TLs; 1 R, (4 leaves)
Hollo, Anselm - 2 TLs, 1 R, (3 leaves)
Howard, Richard - 1 TLs, (1 leaf)
Hoyem, Andrew - 1 ALs; 12 Ts, 2 TSc; ephemera, (25 leaves)
Hoyem, Andrew - 1 ALs; 1 TSc; ephemera, (76 leaves)
Ignatow, David - 1 ALs, 1 TLs, (2 leaves)
Ionesco, Eugene - 2 ALs, (2 leaves)
Ionesco, Eugene - Letters and contracts regarding DA's translation of The Bald Soprano , (13 leaves)
Ionesco, Eugene - 11 TSca (DA's trans.); 1 R; ephemera, (6 leaves)
Ionesco, Eugene - TS (DA's trans of Piece of Four ); letters regarding publication (18 leaves)
Ionesco, Eugene - 2 TS ( Rhinoceros and Oriflamme ); DA's trans), 1 TSc; letters regarding publication and payment of royalties, (53 leaves)
Ionesco, Eugene - Ephemera
Jonas, Stephen - 1 ALs; 3 TS; (29 leaves)
Jones, Frank - 5 ALs; 6 TLs, 10 APCs; 1 TS, 4 R, (33 leaves)
Jones, LeRoi - 5 ALs, 9 TLs, 2 APCs, 2 APCs, 2 TPCs, 20 R, (45 leaves)
Jones, LeRoi - 27 TS, (40 leaves)
Jones, LeRoi - 9 TS, 25 TSc, (36 leaves)
Jones, LeRoi - Ephemera
Kandel, Leonore - 8 TLs; 5 R, (14 leaves)
Kandel, Leonore - 1 TLs, 24 TS, (50 leaves)
Kandel, Leonore - 1 TSc, (52 leaves)
Kandel, Leonore - Ephemera
Keene, Donald - 1 ALs, 3 TLs; 4 R, (9 leaves)
Kemp, Lysander - 20 TLs, 1 APCs, 1 T; 24 R, (55 leaves), 1958 - 1959
Summary
- Dates:
- 1958 - 1959
Kemp, Lysander -16 TLs; 14 R, (38 leaves), 1959 - 1960
Summary
- Dates:
- 1959 - 1960
Kemp, Lysander - 16 TLs, 1 TSs; 14 R, (39 leaves), 1961 - 1971
Summary
- Dates:
- 1961 - 1971
Kemp, Lysander - 1 TSc, (10 leaves)
Kelly, Robert - 1 TLs, 1 APCs, 1 TPCs; 9 TS; 2 R, ephemera, (16 leaves)
Kerouac, Jack - 10 TLs, 11 TPCs; 18 R, (41 leaves)
Kerouac, Jack - 2 TS, 2 TSc; 3 R, 1 TSca (DA's report on Desolation Angels ); ephemera, (27 leaves)
Koch, Kenneth - 1 ALs, 1 TLs, 1 TS, 7 TSs, 6 TSsc, 4 TSsca, 1 TSc, 1 PPsa; 6 R, (61 leaves)
Koch, Kenneth - Ephemera
Koller, James - 6 ALs, 20 TLs, 3 APCs, 1 TPCs; 10 R, (41 leaves)
Koller, James - 1 TLs; 11 RS, 2 TSs, 1 TSa; ephemera, (20 leaves)
Kyger, Joanne - 5 ALs, 2 TLs, 8 APCs; 1 R, ephemera, (19 leaves)
Kyger, Joanne - 1 MSs, 8 TS, 6 TSc, 1 PPs, (55 leaves)
Lamantia, Philip - 1 ALs, 7 TLs, 3 APCs, 1 TPCs; 9 R, (20 leaves)
Lamantia, Philip - 7 TSlk, 1 TSs, 12 TSc; ephemera, (31 leaves)
Levertov, Denise - 20 ALs, 1 TLs, 1 APCs; 1 MS, 10 R, (50 leaves), 1957 - 1960
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957 - 1960
Levertov, Denise - 11 ALs, 2 TLs, 9 APCs; 14 R, (57 leaves), 1961 - 1976
Summary
- Dates:
- 1961 - 1976
Levertov, Denise - 1 TLsc; 2 TS, 1 TSs, 3 TSa, 1 TSsc, 1 TSac, 1 TSc, 1 PP, 21 leaves; 1 TS of review by Robert Duncan, (3 leaves)
Levertov, Denise - Ephemera
Lipton, Lawrence - 2 TLs, 1 TS; 2 R, (9 leaves)
Lima, Frank - 24 TS; 1 R, (19 leaves)
Loewinsohn, Ron. 7 TLs, 1 APCs; 4 R, ephemera, (13 leaves)
Loewinsohn, Ron - 1 TLs, 28 TS, 2 TSc, (45 leaves)
Loewinsohn, Ron - 18 TS; 17 TSc, (44 leaves)
Lord, Sterling - 3 ALs, 9 TLs, 1 TLS, 1 T, 4 R, (16 leaves)
Lowell, Robert - 1 TPCs, (1 leaf)
MacAdams, Lewis - 2 ALs, 1 APCs, ephemera, (5 leaves)
MacLaine, Christopher - 2 TLs, 1 TS; 1 R, (4 leaves)
Mac Low, Jackson - 3 ALs, 1 TLc; 3 R, (8 leaves)
Mac Low, Jackson - 2 TS; copy of The Pronouns , (32 leaves)
Malanga, Gerald - 2 ALs, 4 TLs; 1 TSs, 1 TS, ephemera, (15 leaves)
Mariah, Paul - 1 ALs, ephemera, (2 leaves)
Marshall, Edward - 5 ALs, 1 TLS, 2 APCs ; 2 TS, 1 PP; 3 R, (16 Leaves)
Marshall, Edward - 1 MSc, 5 TS, 2 TSc, (40 leaves)
Martin, John - 2 TLs, 1 TPCs; 2 R, ephemera, (5 leaves)
Maud, Ralph - 1 TLs; 1 TS; ephemera, (6 leaves)
McClure, Michael - 4 ALs, 6 TLs, 1 APCs, 1 TPCs; 1 TSs; 5 R, (32 leaves), 1956 - 1958
Summary
- Dates:
- 1956 - 1958
McClure, Michael - 12 ALs, 4 TLs, 1 APCs, 2 TPCs; 1 TS, 3 R, (35 leaves), 1958 - 1959
Summary
- Dates:
- 1958 - 1959
McClure, Michael - 4 ALS, 1 TLs, 1 APCs, 2 TPCs, 1 TS; 3 R, (35 leaves), 1959 - 1967
Summary
- Dates:
- 1959 - 1967
McClure, Michael - 4 ALs, 3 TLs, 4 APCs; 1 TS, 1 TSa, 2 TSsa; 4 R, (19 leaves), 1970 - 1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970 - 1981
McClure, Michael - 17 TSc, (41 leaves)
McClure, Michael - 1 ALs, 1 TLs, 1 TSca, (15 leaves)
McClure, Michael - 1 AL; 2 TS, 2 TSs; 2 PPa; G; 1 R, (14 leaves)
McClure, Michael - 1 ALs; 12 TSc, (24 leaves)
McClure, Michael - 1 TSc; 10 R, (12 leaves)
McClure, Michael - Ephemera
McNally, Dennis - 1 ALs, 2 TLs, 2 TLs; 2 Ts, 3 TSc; 2 R, (15 leaves)
McNaughton, Duncan - TS, ephemera, (11 leaves)
McNeil, Bill - 6 TS, (8 leaves)
Meltzer, David - 8 TLs, 5 TPCs; 13 TS, 5 R, (29 leaves)
Meltzer, David - 14 TS, (14 leaves)
Meltzer, David - Ephemera
Merrill, Esther - 3 ALs, 1 T, (4 leaves)
Merrill, James - 2 ALs, 1 TLs, 1 APCs; 3 R, (7 leaves)
Merwin, W. S. - 1 ALs, (1 leaf)
Micheline, Jack - 1 ALs; 2 TSc, (3 leaves)
Miles, Josephine - 1 ALs, (1 leaf)
Miller, Henry - 2 ALs, 1 TLs; 3 R, (6 leaves)
Miller, Wayne - 8 TLs, 1 APCs; 1 TSc; 3 R, (18 leaves)
Millward, Pamela - 1 TLs, 4 APCs; 3 R, (9 leaves)
Moore, Marianne - 2 TLs, 1 APCs; 1 R, (4 leaves)
Nicholas, Robert - 2 TLs, 7 TS, (14 leaves)
Norse, Harold - 2 APCs, ephemera, (2 leaves)
Oppenheimer, Joel - 1 ALs, 4 TLs, 1 APCs; 2 TSs, 1 TSsc; 2 R; Ephemera, (15 leaves)
Orlovsky, Peter - 1 ALs, 2 TLs, 1 APCs, 2 TPCs; 2 TS, 1 TSc; ephemera, (9 leaves)
Pearson, Norman - 2 TLs, 1 TL sc, 2 R, (5 leaves)
Perkoff, Stuart - 1 ALs, 6 TLs, 2 APCs; 12 TS; 4 R, (31 leaves)
Persky, Stan - 66 ALs, 4 TLs, 2 R, (16 leaves)
Persky, Stan - 4 TS, 2 TSc, (53 leaves)
Peterson, Will - 12 TLs, 8 R, (21 leaves)
Pivano, Fernanda - 5 TLs, 3 R, (11 leaves)
Plymell, Charles - 1 ALs, 1 Tlsc, 1 Ts 2 R, (6 leaves)
Rexroth, Kenneth - 1 ALs, 1 APCs; 3 R, (5 leaves)
Redl, Harry - 1 TLs, (1 leaf)
Rice, Stan - 1 TLs; 8 TSs, 9 TSsc, (18 leaves)
Ritchie, Donald - 2 TLs; 3 R, (5 leaves)
Rorem, Ned - 1 APCs, 1 TPCs, (2 leaves)
Rosenthal, Irving - 4 TLs; 3 R, (8 leaves)
Rothenberg, Jerome - 1 ALs, 3 TLs, 1 TPCs; 6 TS; 4 R, (20 leaves)
Rumaker, Michael - 5 ALs, 6 TLs; 1 TSsa, 1 TSc, 1 TSsc; 6 R, (32 leaves)
Rumaker, Michael - 2 TSsc, ephemera, (15 leaves)
Ryan, John Allen - 1 TLs, 1 APCs; 8 TS, (12 leaves)
Sanders, Ed - 13 ALs, 4 TLs, 3 APCs; 8 R, (33 leaves)
Sanders, Ed - 5 TSc, (94 leaves)
Sanders, Ed - Ephemera
Sanders, Russell - 9 TS, 1 TSc, (12 leaves)
Saroyan, Aram - 1 ALs, 2 TLs, 1 APCs; 2 R, ephemera, (6 leaves)
Schuyler, James - 1 ALs, 5 TLs, 2 R, (7 leaves)
Schuyler, James - 11 TS, 1 TSc, (17 leaves)
Schuyler, James - Ephemera
Schaff, David - 3 ALs, 5 TLs, 10 APcs; 1 TSc, (26 leaves)
Schaff, David - 1 TSc, (66 leaves)
Schenck, Stephen - 1 ALs, 1 TLs, 2 APCs; 1 TSc; 5 R, (14 leaves)
Schenck, Stephen - 1 TSc; ephemera, (7 leaves)
Selby, Hubert, Jr. - 3 TLs, 1 TPCs; 3 R, (10 leaves)
Selby, Hubert, Jr. - Ephemera
Seldon, Edwin - 10 TLs; 9 R, (25 leaves)
Sinclair, John - 2 TLs, 1 TPCs; 6 R, (10 leaves)
Snyder, Gary - 8 ALs, 9 TLLs; 10 R, (32 leaves), 1957 - 1958
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957 - 1958
Snyder, Gary - 1 ALs, 12 TLs, 2 APCs; 16 R, (30 leaves), 1957 - 1958
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957 - 1958
Snyder, Gary - 13 ALs, 14 TLs; 28 R, (50 leaves), 1962 - 1967
Summary
- Dates:
- 1962 - 1967
Snyder, Gary - 17 ALs, 2 TLs, 1 APCs, 1 TPCs; 22 R, (45 leaves), 1968 - 1972
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968 - 1972
Snyder, Gary - 22 ALs, 5 TLs, 14 APCs; 1 MSs; 18 R, (65 leaves), 1973 - 1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1973 - 1974
Snyder, Gary - 2 ALs, 7 TLs, 1 APCs; 20 R, (33 leaves), 1974 - 1979
Summary
- Dates:
- 1974 - 1979
Snyder, Gary - 11 APCs; ephemera, (11 leaves)
Snyder, Gary - 2 MS, 20 TS, 7 TSc, (52 leaves)
Snyder, Gary - 1 MSsc, 43 TSc, (63 leaves)
Snyder, Gary - Ephemera
Snyder, Gary - Ephemera
Sontag, Susan - 1 TLs, 2 R, (3 leaves)
Sorrentino, Gilbert - 1 ALs, 42 TLs, 1 APCs, 7 TPCs; 11 TS, 1 TSsc, 17 R, (85 leaves)
Souster, Raymond - 3 TLs; 8 R, (11 leaves)
Sproat, Elaine - 3 TLs, 1 R, (4 leaves)
Stanley, George - 9 ALs, 15 TLs, 2 APCs, 1 TPCs; 15 TS, 1 TSs, 3 TSc; 14 R, (75 leaves)
Starkie, Emil - 7 TLs, 1 APCs; 1 TSc; 1 R, (21 leaves)
Stowers, Anthony - 4 TS, (8 leaves)
Tallman, Warren - 6 ALs, 9 TLs; 13 R, (37 leaves)
Thomas, John - Ephemera
Towle, Tony - 1 TLs; 6 Ts, (7 leaves)
Trocchi, Alex - 1 ALs, 4 TLs; 5 R, (11 leaves)
Turnbull, Gael - 1 ALs, 7 Tls, 1 APCs; 2 TSc; Ephemera, (26 leaves)
Upton, Charles - 2 TLs; 1 TS, 2 TSc; 1 R, (29 leaves)
Valoritis, Nancy - 1 ALs, ephemera, (6 leaves)
Voelcker, Hunce -1 TLs; ephemera, (3 leaves)
Waldman, Anne - 5 ALs, 2 TLs, 6 APCs; 1 TSc; ephemera, (45 leaves)
Wakoski, Dianne - 2 ALs, (2 leaves)
Welch, Lew - 1 ALs, 13 TLs, 1 TLsc; 1 TS, 9 R, (35 leaves)
Whalen, Philip - 9 ALs, 13 TLs, 4 APCs; 9 R, (38 leaves), 1957 - 1966
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957 - 1966
Whalen, Philip - 18 ALs, 7 APCs; 12 R, (40 leaves), 1967 - 1979
Summary
- Dates:
- 1967 - 1979
Whalen, Philip - 1 MS, 8 Ts, 3 TSa, 4 TSc, (33 leaves)
Whalen, Philip - Ephemera
Wieners, John - 5 ALs, 8 TLs, 2 APCs, 1 TPCs; 18 TS, 9 R, (53 leaves), 1957 - 1961
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957 - 1961
Wieners, John - 3 ALs, 3 TLs; 8 Ts; 8 R, (25 leaves), 1961 - 1968
Summary
- Dates:
- 1961 - 1968
Wieners, John - 2 MS, 29 TS, 6 TSc, (45 leaves)
Wieners, John - 24 TS, 11 TSc, (45 leaves)
Wieners, John - Ephemera
Williams, Jonathan - 23 TLS, 13 TPCs; 13 R, (49 leaves)
Williams, Jonathan - 27 TS, (32 leaves)
Williams, Jonathan - Ephemera
Williams, William Carlos - 12 TLs, 6 TPCs; 1 TS; 16 R, (36 leaves)
Williams, William Carlos - Ephemera
Wilson, Keith - 10 TLs; 1 TS; 4 R, (34 leaves)
Woolf, Douglas - 4 ALs, 24 TLs, 10 APCs; 23 R, (63 leaves)
Woolf, Douglas - 5 ALs, 9 TLs; 2 TS, 1 TSc; 11 R, (43 leaves)
Yu Suwa - 1 ALs, (2 leaves)
Zukofsky, Celia - 1 TLs; ephemera, (1 leaf)
Zukofsky, Louis - 4 ALs, 1 TLs, 1 APCs; 2 TS; 7 R, (31 leaves)
Miscellaneous
Contents
Nicholas Frank Beaver, Carol Berge, Gene Detro, Babette Deutsch, Eloise Mixon, Howard Schulman, John Edgar Webb, and others (158 leaves)
Mary Novik and others (158 leaves)
Nancy Astor, Sylvia Beach, Michael Benedikt, Alvah Bessie, Norman O. Brown, Jim Elliot, Ed Van Ailstyn, Ralph Reid, and others (158 leaves)
Michael Benedikt, Bill Butler, James Elliott, Shirley Kaufman, Grover Lewis, Norman Moser, Idell Tarlow Romero, John Thomas, and others (158 leaves)
Antler, Carol Berge, Bill Burgess, Jack Collom, Ellie Dorfman, Elaine de Kooning, Larry Lake, J. Richard White, and others (158 leaves)
Heiner Bastion, Philip Booth, Bill Burgess, Thomas Cuson, Robert LaVigne, Anais Nin, Robert Vas Dias, and others (158 leaves)
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PRESS COLLECTIONS
Background
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Series 5) PRESS COLLECTIONS: Manuscript and typescript materials related to the Four Seasons Foundation publication of Interviews (1980) by Edward Dorn and The Graces (1983) by Aaron Shurin; and the Grey Fox Press publication of Enough Said (1980) by Philip Whalen and I Remain (1980), a collection of Lew Welch's letters. Arranged in two subseries: A) Four Seasons Foundation and B) Grey Fox Press.
A) Four Seasons Foundation: Edward Dorn's Interviews and Aaron Shurin's The Graces are represented in the first subseries.
B) Grey Fox Press: The bulk of the addition relates to Allen's research and correspondence for I Remain, a collection of posthumously published letters from Lew Welch to friends and relatives. Included are photocopies of letters by Welch published in the two volume work, as well as numerous items which remain unpublished. Allen corresponded with Welch's friends in his search for extant materials and developed a chronology of the poet's life and activities. Among the correspondents represented in the research materials are Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Stella Kerouac.
Contents
Four Seasons Foundation
Contents
Dorn, Edward - Interviews , annotated typescript
Shurin, Aaron - The Graces , typescript
Grey Fox Press
Contents
Lew Welch - I Remain
Contents
Chronology
Correspondence between Allen and friends of Welch regarding extant Welch letters
Letters by Welch
Contents
Published in I Remain
Not published in I Remain
Transcriptions and xerox copies of Lew Welch's letters to Dorothy Brownfield not included in I Remain
Philip Whalen - Enough Said
Contents
Original manuscript
Accession Processed in 2011
Contents
PRESS COLLECTIONS
Background
- Scope and content:
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Series 6) PRESS COLLECTIONS: Publishing materials from presses with which Allen was involved. Arranged in six subseries: A) Grove Press, B) Evergreen Press, C) Four Seasons Foundation, D) Grey Fox Press, E) University of California Press, and F) Miscellaneous.
A) Grove Press: Materials related to the editing of the landmark anthology The New American Poetry: 1940-1965 including galleys, reviews, permissions, research notes, and drafts. Also included are general correspondence, ephemera, and clippings collected by Allen that are related to Grove Press.
B) Evergreen Press: Includes material related to two important issues of the Evergreen Review edited by Allen, the landmark San Francisco Scene (Issue 2) and The Eye Of Mexico (Issue 7). Included are correspondence, research notes, ephemera, and clippings.
C) The Four Seasons Foundation: Includes Allen's meticulously kept files for individual books published under his control by Four Seasons Foundation. These files include clippings, correspondence, permissions, proofs, contracts, ephemera, printing records, reviews, book lists, copyright registrations, and other documents relating to Allen's work at the press. This subseries features documents related to publications by writers such as Robin Blaser, Richard Brautigan, Robert Creeley, Joanne Kyger, Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen. Documents relating to the finances, sales, and inventory of the press are also contained within this subseries. The miscellaneous correspondence are grouped together and ordered chronologically.
D) Grey Fox Pres: Keeps with the arrangement of the Four Seasons Foundation subseries and features clippings, correspondence, permissions, proofs, contracts, ephemera, printing records, reviews, book lists, copyright registrations, and other documents relating to Allen's work at the press. Documents relating to publications written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Lew Welch, and Philip Whalen are included. This subseries also contains documents relating to the press' finances, inventory, and sales. The miscellaneous correspondence are grouped and ordered chronologically.
E) University of California Press: Documents three significant editorial works by Donald Allen: the re-release of The New American Poetry: 1945-1960, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, and The Collected Prose of Charles Olson. The subseries, arranged alphabetically, contains correspondence, research notes, clippings, photographs, proofs, mock-ups, and reviews.
F) Miscellaneous: Documents relating to Allen's various press projects, both published and unpublished, which cannot be categorized in the other subseries. The projects include various translations and proposed anthologies, along with correspondence and research notes relating to multiple ultimately unrealized volumes of poetry proposed by Donald Allen for the Penguin Modern Poets series. The materials include correspondence, research notes, permissions, clippings, and review lists.
Contents
Grove Press
Contents
The New American Poetry: 1945-1960
Contents
Bibliography, 1957-1961
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957-1961
Credits
Essays
Galleys
Reviews, 1960-1969
Summary
- Dates:
- 1960-1969
Payments, 1960-1967
Summary
- Dates:
- 1960-1967
Permissions, 1959-1960
Summary
- Dates:
- 1959-1960
Miscellaneous
Poetics of The New American Poetry, 1957-1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957-1974
Poetics of The New American Poetry, 1957-1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957-1974
Correspondence, 1958-1994
Summary
- Dates:
- 1958-1994
Ephemera and clippings, 1953-1994
Summary
- Dates:
- 1953-1994
Evergreen Press
Contents
Evergreen Book Week, 1959
Summary
- Dates:
- 1959
The Eye of Mexico, 1958-1959
Summary
- Dates:
- 1958-1959
San Francisco Scene, 1959-1960
Summary
- Dates:
- 1959-1960
Miscellaneous
Four Seasons Foundation
Contents
Publishing projects
Contents
"3 Poem Broadsides" - Series, 1964
Summary
- Dates:
- 1964
A Poetry Folio, 1963 - Broadside Series, 1963-1964
Summary
- Dates:
- 1963-1964
A Poetry Folio, 1964 - Broadside Series, 1964
Summary
- Dates:
- 1964
A Poetry Folio, 1965 - Broadside Series, 1964
Summary
- Dates:
- 1964
"Writing" - Series, 1964-1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1964-1977
Robin Blaser - Cups, 1968-1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968-1977
Richard Brautigan
Contents
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, 1968-1969
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968-1969
In Watermelon Sugar, 1968-1969
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968-1969
Trout Fishing In America, 1968-1969
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968-1969
Edward Conze - The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines and Its Verse Summary, 1972-1995
Summary
- Dates:
- 1972-1995
Robert Creeley
Contents
The Charm, 1968-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968-1981
Contexts of Poetry: Interviews 1961-1971, 1970-1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970-1974
A Quick Graph: Collected Notes and Essays, 1968-1970
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968-1970
Was That a Real Poem and Other Essays, 1978-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1978-1981
Edward Dorn
Contents
Collected Poems: 1956-1974, 1974-1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1974-1980
Collected Poems: 1956-1974 2nd Edition, 1980-1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1983
Interviews, 1977-1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1980
Selected Poems, 1977-1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1978
Selected Poems (French Edition), 1977-1979
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1979
Views, 1977-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1981
Robert Glück - Elements of a Coffee Service, 1980-1984
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1984
Drummond Hadley - The Webbing, 1968
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968
Dale Herd
Contents
Dreamland Court, 1978-1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1978-1983
Early Morning Wind, 1971-1988
Summary
- Dates:
- 1971-1988
James Koller - His Dogs and Other Dark Woods, 1966-1970
Summary
- Dates:
- 1966-1970
Joanne Kyger - Miscellaneous, 1965
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965
Philip Lamantia
Contents
Blood of the Air, 1970-1987
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970-1987
Touch of the Marvelous, 1971-1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1971-1974
Robert Loewinsohn - Against the Silences to Come, 1965
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965
Michael McClure
Contents
Ghost Tantras, 1969-1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1969-1974
Love Lion Book, 1967
Summary
- Dates:
- 1967
Pamela Millward - Mother, 1968-1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968-1978
Charles Olson
Contents
Additional Prose, 1970-1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970-1974
Causal Mythology, 1968-1970
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968-1970
In Cold Hell, In Thicket, 1966-1967
Summary
- Dates:
- 1966-1967
Poetry and Truth: The Beloit Lectures and Poems, 1971-1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1971-1974
Stocking Cap, 1965-1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965-1977
The Fiery Hunt, 1974-1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1974-1980
Seung Sahn
Contents
Bone of Space, 1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982
Only Don't Know: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn, 1982-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982-1985
David Schaff - The Moon by Day, 1970-1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970-1978
Aaron Shurin - The Graces, 1982-1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982-1983
Gary Snyder
Contents
Manzanita, 1972-1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1972-1974
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, 1965-1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965-1977
Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End, 1967-1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1967-1977
Charles Upton - Time Raid, 1969-1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1969-1977
Lew Welch - Hermit Poems, 1965
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965
Philip Whalen
Contents
Heavy Breathing, 1982-1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982-1999
Off the Wall, 1976-1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1976-1978
Severance Pay, 1970-1973
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970-1973
The Kindness of Strangers, 1975-1976
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975-1976
Correspondence
Financial
Contents
Tax reports, 1968-1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968-1980
Miscellaneous financial documents, 1963-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1963-1998
Miscellaneous financial documents
Four Seasons Foundation closeout, 2001-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 2001-2004
General files
Contents
Permissions, 1970-2000
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970-2000
Printing records, 1967-1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1967-1978
Production and inventory, 1964-1970
Summary
- Dates:
- 1964-1970
Miscellaneous
Grey Fox Press
Contents
Book projects
Contents
John Coriolan - Fire Island Fandango, 1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1983
Background
- Biographical / historical:
-
John Coriolan is the pseudonym of William Corrington
Margaret Cruikshank - New Lesbian Writing, 1983-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1983-1985
Daniel Curzon - Human Warmth and Other Stories, 1980-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1981
Guy Davenport
Contents
Herakleitos and Diogenes, 1978-1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1978-1999
The Mimes of Herondas, 1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1981
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - The Populist Manifestos, 1975-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975-1985
Patrick Franklin - Uncertainty of Strangers, 1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1985
Allen Ginsberg
Contents
Composed on the Tongue, 1979-1984
Summary
- Dates:
- 1979-1984
Gay Sunshine Interview, 1973-1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1973-1982
The Gates of Wrath, 1971-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1971-1985
Howard Griffin - Conversations with Auden, 1947-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1947-1998
Richard Hall
Contents
Couplings, 1980-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1985
Three Plays, 1982-1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982-1983
Claude Hartland - The Story of a Life, 1985-1987
Summary
- Dates:
- 1985-1987
Jack Kerouac
Contents
Good Blonde and Others, 1993-2001
Summary
- Dates:
- 1993-2001
Heaven and Other Poems, 1977-1997
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1997
Old Angel Midnight, 1992-1996
Summary
- Dates:
- 1992-1996
Jack Kerouac, Albert Saijo, and Lew Welch - Trip Trap, 1972-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1972-1998
Stanley Lombardo - Parmenides and Empedocles, 1979-1990
Summary
- Dates:
- 1979-1990
Michael McClure - Hymns to St. Geyron and Dark Brown, 1980-1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1982
Frank O'Hara
Contents
Early Writing, 1975-1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975-1978
Poems Retrieved, 1976-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1976-1998
Standing Still and Walking, 1975-1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975-1983
Standing Still and Walking Revised, 1976-1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1976-1978
Charles Olson - The Post Office, 1973-1984
Summary
- Dates:
- 1973-1984
Eric Rofes - I Thought People Like That Killed Themselves, 1979-1984
Summary
- Dates:
- 1979-1984
Michael Rumaker - Robert Duncan in San Francisco, 1996-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1996-1998
Gary Snyder
Contents
He Who Hunted Birds, 1977-1991
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1991
Passage Through India, 1982-1992
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982-1992
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, 1965-1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965-1982
Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, and Philip Whalen - On Bread and Poetry, 1976-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1976-1985
Jack Spicer - One Night Stand, 1957-2000
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957-2000
Lew Welch
Contents
How I Read Gertrude Stein, 1976-1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1976-1999
How I Work as a Poet, 1970-1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970-1983
I, Leo: An Unfinished Novel, 1973-1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1973-1978
I Remain
Contents
Miscellaneous, 1973-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1973-1981
Editing, 1951-1976
Summary
- Dates:
- 1951-1976
Permissions, 1972-1979
Summary
- Dates:
- 1972-1979
Ring of Bone, 1972-1994
Summary
- Dates:
- 1972-1994
Selected Poems, 1975-1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975-1982
Philip Whalen
Contents
Decompressions, 1976-1979
Summary
- Dates:
- 1976-1979
Enough Said, 1980-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1981
Scenes of Life at the Capital, 1971-1973
Summary
- Dates:
- 1971-1973
George Whitmore - The Confessions of Danny Slocum, 1979-1990
Summary
- Dates:
- 1979-1990
Roy F. Wood - Restless Rednecks, 1984-1987
Summary
- Dates:
- 1984-1987
Allen Young - Gays Under the Cuban Revolution, 1980-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1981
Correspondence, 1990-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 1990-2004
Financial
Contents
1970-1994
1970-1994
1995-1999
2000-2004
General files
Contents
Archive
Catalog revisions
Royalties, 1972-2000
Summary
- Dates:
- 1972-2000
Permissions, 1972-2003
Summary
- Dates:
- 1972-2003
Permissions, 1972-2003
Summary
- Dates:
- 1972-2003
Printing records, 1973-1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1973-1977
Miscellaneous
University of California Press
Contents
Book projects
Contents
The New American Poetry: 1945-1960 Re-release
Contents
Afterword
Bibliography, 1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1999
Correspondence, 1996-1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1996-1999
Miscellaneous, 1959-1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1959-1999
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, 1957-1995
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957-1995
Charles Olson - Collected Prose, 1980-2000
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-2000
Charles Olson - Collected Prose, 1980-2000
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-2000
Miscellaneous
Contents
Book reviewer lists
Bowker data collection, 1995-2000
Summary
- Dates:
- 1995-2000
Contracts, 1954-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1954-1998
Copyright registrations, 1965-1994
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965-1994
Daedalus Books, 1986-1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1986-1999
McNaughton & Gunn, Inc., 1989-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 1989-2004
Frank O'Hara
Contents
Bibliography, 1947-1996
Summary
- Dates:
- 1947-1996
Collected Letters - Unrealized project, 1977-1996
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1996
Estate, 1968-1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968-1977
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.), 1970-1993
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970-1993
The Fourth of July - Xerox copies of unpublished typescript
Charles Olson - Maximus Poems Essays
Penguin Modern Poets, 1967-1969
Summary
- Dates:
- 1967-1969
Permissions for translation, 1991-2000
Summary
- Dates:
- 1991-2000
Gary Snyder bibliography, 1976-1984
Summary
- Dates:
- 1976-1984
Lew Welch
Contents
Bibliography, 1954-1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1954-1977
Recollection, 1971-1997
Summary
- Dates:
- 1971-1997
Uncollected poems, 1950-1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1950-1974
Unrealized Anthologies
Contents
Modern Tradition Anthology, 1958-1963
Summary
- Dates:
- 1958-1963
Pre-New American Poetry Anthology, 1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977
San Francisco Anthology, 1960-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1960-1998
Miscellaneous and unidentified items
PERSONAL PAPERS
Background
- Scope and content:
-
Series 7) PERSONAL PAPERS: The series sheds light on Allen's personal interests and history. Almost entirely maintaining Allen's own organization and folder titles, the ephemera, clippings, correspondence, and visual materials within this series illuminate his life outside of editing. Arranged in five subseries: A) Biographical Materials, B) Correspondence, C) Subject Files, D) Writings, and E) Images.
A) Biographical Materials: Materials related to the personal life of Donald Allen from his youth in Iowa, service in the U.S. Navy, college in Iowa and Berkeley, and adulthood spent in New York, San Francisco, and Bolinas. Included are transcripts, correspondence, naval records, diplomas, identification cards, passports, photographs, clippings, obituaries, and wills.
B) Correspondence: Arranged alphabetically, contains letters and emails from Robin Blaser, George Butterick, Robert Creeley, Barbara Guest, Charles Olson, Marjorie Perloff, and Warren Tallman, among others. Because Allen's arrangement of the material was retained, this subseries contains both personal and business correspondence. Additional correspondence can also be found in the PRESS COLLECTIONS series, as well as in the Subject Files subseries.
C) Subject Files: Materials compiled by Donald Allen that related to his various interests. The bulk of the material is comprised of clippings and ephemera. In addition, correspondence and handwritten and typed notes can be found within the subseries. Topics include the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, the San Francisco Renaissance, and Zen Buddhism. The files are arranged alphabetically by topic; however, in maintaining Allen's own organization of the material, the topics of materials within the miscellaneous subject files are not always immediately clear.
D) Writings: Various documents of Donald Allen's own writing, including poetry, essays, and fiction, along with several folders of Allen's handwritten notes, notebooks, and planners. Miscellaneous writings are contained in a single folder, while the notebooks and planners are arranged chronologically.
E) Images: Photographic prints, transparencies, and negatives collected by Donald Allen both personally and for use in his publications and editorial projects. Featured are numerous photographs of Donald Allen, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, Gary Snyder, and Lew Welch.
Contents
Biographical Materials
Contents
Academic materials, 1930-1949
Summary
- Dates:
- 1930-1949
Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965
Bolinas property deed purchase and transfer, 1971-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1971-1985
Books for sale
Family genealogy
Library sales, 1964-1975
Summary
- Dates:
- 1964-1975
Marriage and annulment, 1949
Summary
- Dates:
- 1949
Navy retirement, 1948-1950
Summary
- Dates:
- 1948-1950
Obituaries for Donald Allen, 2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 2004
The Pacific - ephemera and clippings from Allen's service in WWII, 1944-1956
Summary
- Dates:
- 1944-1956
Passports and I.D.'s of Donald Allen, 1938-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 1938-2004
Rockefeller Grant, 1959-1967
Summary
- Dates:
- 1959-1967
Sketches by Donald Allen
Travel - Latin America/Caribbean, 1959
Summary
- Dates:
- 1959
Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963
Summary
- Dates:
- 1963
Wills of Donald Allen, 1956-2005
Summary
- Dates:
- 1956-2005
Miscellaneous
Correspondence
Contents
A - Miscellaneous
Allen, Dennis, 1997-2003
Summary
- Dates:
- 1997-2003
Allen, Merriam, 1944-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1944-1981
B - Miscellaneous
Bertholf, Robert, 1975-1992
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975-1992
Blaine, Nell, 1984-1987
Summary
- Dates:
- 1984-1987
Blaser, Robin
Contents
1951-1997
1998
1999-2004
Boyle, Kay, 1973-1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1973-1980
Brainard, Joe, 1979-1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1979-1980
Brann, Helen, 1974-1975
Summary
- Dates:
- 1974-1975
Brennan, Gerald E., 1996-1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1996-1999
Brownfield, Dorothy, 1975 October 27
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975 October 27
Butterick, George, 1977-1986
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1986
C - Miscellaneous
Charters, Ann, 1961-1994
Summary
- Dates:
- 1961-1994
Chesley, Robert, 1984-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1984-1985
Ciardi, John, 1975
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 1972-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 1972-2004
Clark, Tom, 1986
Summary
- Dates:
- 1986
Connoly, Gertrude, 1948
Summary
- Dates:
- 1948
Corbett, Bill, 1996
Summary
- Dates:
- 1996
Corso, Gregory, 1957-1959
Summary
- Dates:
- 1957-1959
Coruestes, Bill, 1985-1996
Summary
- Dates:
- 1985-1996
Creeley, Robert, 1962-1997
Summary
- Dates:
- 1962-1997
Cregg, Magda
Contents
1973-1979
1980-2004
Cruikshank, Margaret "Peg", 1985-2002
Summary
- Dates:
- 1985-2002
Curzon, Daniel, 1981-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1981-1985
D - Miscellaneous
Daly, Tom, 1969-1974
Summary
- Dates:
- 1969-1974
Damon, Maria, 1993-1994
Summary
- Dates:
- 1993-1994
Dash, Robert, 1961-1964
Summary
- Dates:
- 1961-1964
Davenport, Guy, 1979-1986
Summary
- Dates:
- 1979-1986
Davidson, Michael, 1978-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1978-1981
Delany, Samuel, 1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1983
Dorn, Edward, 1958-1995
Summary
- Dates:
- 1958-1995
Doss, Margot Patterson, 1966-1989
Summary
- Dates:
- 1966-1989
Doyle, Kirby, 1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1981
E - Miscellaneous
Ellis, Richard, 1975
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975
Enslin, Theodore, 1958-1959
Summary
- Dates:
- 1958-1959
Eshleman, Clayton, 1967-1969
Summary
- Dates:
- 1967-1969
Estes, Valerie, 1973-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1973-1998
F - Miscellaneous
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1977-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1985
Field, Tom, 1987
Summary
- Dates:
- 1987
Fone, Byrne, 1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982
Friedlander, Ben, 1995-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1995-1998
G - Miscellaneous
Gershman, Elizabeth, 1985-1988
Summary
- Dates:
- 1985-1988
Gilgun, John, 1980-1987
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1987
Ginsberg, Allen, 1973-1987
Summary
- Dates:
- 1973-1987
Girodias, Maurice, 1968
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968
Gizzi, Peter, 1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1998
Glück, Robert, 1983-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1983-1998
Godwin, Tony, 1966-1970
Summary
- Dates:
- 1966-1970
Golding, Allen, 1996-1997
Summary
- Dates:
- 1996-1997
Gooch, Brad, 1988-1991
Summary
- Dates:
- 1988-1991
Granville-Smith, Maureen, 1968-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 1968-2004
Guest, Barbara, 1969-1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1969-1999
Gunn, Thom, 1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1981
H - Miscellaneous
Hall, Richard, 1982-1991
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982-1991
Hansen, Joseph, 1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980
Hatch, Jim, 1966-1967
Summary
- Dates:
- 1966-1967
Hoffman, Berenice, 1983-1987
Summary
- Dates:
- 1983-1987
Holmes, John Clellon, 1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1981
Howard, Peter (Serendipity Books), 1974-1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1974-1977
I-J - Miscellaneous
Johnson, Joyce, 1964-1967
Summary
- Dates:
- 1964-1967
Johnson, Paul, 1958
Summary
- Dates:
- 1958
Jones, Frank, 1974-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1974-1981
K - Miscellaneous
Keene, Don, 1965-1979
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965-1979
Kellog, Stuart, 1979-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1979-1985
Killian, Kevin, 1985-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 1985-2004
Kuharic, Martina, 1974-1975
Summary
- Dates:
- 1974-1975
Kyger, Joanne, 1977-1986
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1986
L - Miscellaneous
Laaksonen, Touko (Tom of Finland), 1982-1984
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982-1984
Lambda Book Club, 1982-1984
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982-1984
LaVigne, Robert, 1972-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1972-1998
Les Lettres Nouvelles, 1960
Summary
- Dates:
- 1960
LeSeur, Joe, 1976-1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1976-1999
Loewinsohn, Ron, 1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1983
M - Miscellaneous
Mariah, Paul, 1979-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1979-1981
Martin, John, 1965-1977
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965-1977
McClure, Michael, 1980-1984
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1984
McCorkle, Locke, 1966-1975
Summary
- Dates:
- 1966-1975
McPheron, William, 1994-1995
Summary
- Dates:
- 1994-1995
Mohr, Bill, 1996-1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1996-1999
Monte, Bryan, 1983-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1983-1985
Morgan, Bill, 1980-1991
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1991
Mullholland, Catherine, 1978-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1978-1998
N - Miscellaneous
New Directions Press (eds. James Laughlin and Robert MacGregor), 1958-1996
Summary
- Dates:
- 1958-1996
Newman, Charles, 1964-1966
Summary
- Dates:
- 1964-1966
Nirosia, Gerald, 1977-1978
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1978
Nolan, Pat, 1981-1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1981-1983
Norse, Harold, 1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980
Olson, Charles
Contents
1957-1959
1960-1969
P - Miscellaneous
Padgett, Ron, 1977-1996
Summary
- Dates:
- 1977-1996
Payne, Kay (Allen), 1972-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 1972-2004
Paz, Octavio, 1961
Summary
- Dates:
- 1961
Perington, Deborah, 1965-1967
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965-1967
Perloff, Marjorie, 1979-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 1979-2004
Peters, Nancy, 1974-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 1974-2004
Peters, Robert, 1975-1984
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975-1984
Pieyre de Mandiargues, André, 1958
Summary
- Dates:
- 1958
Poresky, Donald, 1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1998
Portuges, Paul, 1975
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975
Powdermaker, Hortense, 1966-1967
Summary
- Dates:
- 1966-1967
Quinn, Eulas, 1979-1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1979-1980
R - Miscellaneous
Raworth, Tom, 1964
Summary
- Dates:
- 1964
Rechy, John, 1965-1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965-1980
Redl, Harry, 1996
Summary
- Dates:
- 1996
Rodefer, Stephen, 1980-1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1982
Rofes, Eric, 1983-1988
Summary
- Dates:
- 1983-1988
Rorem, Ned, 1966-1971
Summary
- Dates:
- 1966-1971
Rosset, Barney, 1959-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1959-1998
Rothenberg, Jerome, 1961-1962
Summary
- Dates:
- 1961-1962
Rule, Jane, 1982-1984
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982-1984
Rumaker, Michael, 1978-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 1978-2004
S - Miscellaneous
Saijo, Albert, 1976-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1976-1981
Sampas, John, 1991-1994
Summary
- Dates:
- 1991-1994
Samsasha, 1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1985
Samuel French, Inc., 1996-1997
Summary
- Dates:
- 1996-1997
Schuyler, James, 1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980
Shively, Charles, 1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982
Shurin, Aaron, 1980-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1985
Smith, Larry R., 1979-1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1979-1980
Snyder, Gary, 1970-2004
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970-2004
Southgate, Patsy, 1966-1995
Summary
- Dates:
- 1966-1995
St. Adrian Company, 1994-1999
Summary
- Dates:
- 1994-1999
Stendhal, Renate, 1996-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1996-1998
The Sterling Lord Agency, 1960-1995
Summary
- Dates:
- 1960-1995
T - Miscellaneous
Tallman, Ellen, 1976-1998
Summary
- Dates:
- 1976-1998
Tallman, Warren, 1961-1986
Summary
- Dates:
- 1961-1986
Taylor, Simon, 1965-1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1965-1980
U-V - Miscellaneous
University of Connecticut, 1978-2002
Summary
- Dates:
- 1978-2002
Viking Penguin Press, 1991-1995
Summary
- Dates:
- 1991-1995
W-Z - Miscellaneous
Waldman, Anne, 1974-1994
Summary
- Dates:
- 1974-1994
Whitmore, George, 1981-1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1981-1983
Williams, Jonathan, 1981-1983
Summary
- Dates:
- 1981-1983
Wilson, Carter, 1982-1992
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982-1992
Witomski, T.R., 1986-1987
Summary
- Dates:
- 1986-1987
Young, Allen, 1969-1985
Summary
- Dates:
- 1969-1985
Young, Ian, 1980-1981
Summary
- Dates:
- 1980-1981
Zavatsky, Bill, 1970
Summary
- Dates:
- 1970
Unidentified correspondents
Contents
John, 1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982
[Dorothy], 1975-1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975-1982
[Maggie], 1975-1980
Summary
- Dates:
- 1975-1980
[Toby], 1982
Summary
- Dates:
- 1982