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Ntozake Shange Papers, 1913-2022, bulk 1970-2018
68.8 Linear FeetJudith Emlyn Johnson papers, circa 1967-1979
9 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, and printed materials of Judith Johnson Sherwin.
Anita Browne literary and musical collection, 1934-1940
1 boxFive volumes of typescript poems by contemporary poets including four volumes of poems by Donald Bain of Buffalo, N.Y., and one volume of miscellaneous poems in typescript which were submitted for sale or for use on radio programs. Also, seven music manuscripts, songs by Bernice Ward Stockland of St. Albans, N.Y.
Jacob Rabinowitz letters, 1978-1993
0.5 linear feetLetters from William Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and others concerning his poetry and translations and about their own lives. There are also a few poems and photographs.
Henry Morton Robinson papers, 1915-1965
42 boxesPapers dealing with Robinson's activities as a student and instructor in English at Columbia University, editor of CONTEMPORARY VERSE, senior editor at THE READER'S DIGEST, poet and author of many books including THE CARDINAL. Among the correspondents are Melville Cane, Paul de Kruif, John Erskine, Merrill Moore, and Christopher Morley.
Maurice Francis Egan letters, 1911-1919
1 boxLetters from Egan to Henry Goddard Leach. These concern the stories and poems of both men, United States-Scandinavian affairs, President Wilson, Danish theater and literature, and the effect on Denmark of the American embargo during the first World War.
Michael McClure Papers, 1958-1968
93 itemsLetters from McClure to David Meltzer discussing McClure's writings, especially during a visit to New York in 1961. Also, three poems sent to Meltzer; one letter, dated 1965, and addressed to Joe Pinelli; letters from McClure to his agent, Max Gartenberg, 1965-1967, concerning his negotiations with Grove Press; and 43 drafts of his MEAT SCIENCE ESSAYS, published by City Lights Books in 1963 and 1966.
Phonographic Library of Contemporary Poets records, 1940-1942
1 boxA collection of letters, documents, and printed materials relating to the Library, including letters from Archibald MacLeish, Leonora Speyer, Genevieve Taggard, Allen Tate, and John Hall Wheelock concerned with the recording of their poems for the series.
Don Marquis papers, 1894-1944
10 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, proofs, photographs, and printed and miscellaneous material relating to the life and writings of Don Marquis. Among the more important works included are MASTER OF THE REVELS, CHAPTERS FOR THE ORTHODOX, JACK (published as SONS OF THE PURITANS), THE EGO BIOGRAPHY, the "Old Soak" and "O'Meara" and stories, works related to archy and mehitabel, and THE DARK HOURS. Also, letters by Marquis, Joseph B. Gilder, Marjorie Vonnegut Marquis, Christopher Morley, and others, and manuscripts by Benjamin DeCasseres, Joseph B. Gilder, and Rodman Gilder.
Edgar Lee Masters papers, 1910-1942
1 boxManuscripts and correspondence of Masters. Two manuscripts"An Etching" and "Starved Rock in Winter" are in the author's holograph, while the remaining 29 are in typescript, most of which are signed by the author or inscribed to his friend Kimball Flaccus. With the exception of the manuscript of "An Etching" dated 24 October 1910, all of the manuscripts date from the 1940 to 1942 period of the writer's career. Eight of the manuscripts were published in the poet's last two volumes of poetry, ILLINOIS POEMS (Prarie City, 1941) and ALONG THE ILLINOIS (Prairie City, 1942), and the remaining poems are apparently unpublished or uncollected. The collection also contains four letters and several pieces of printed ephemera.
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