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Richard P. Wilbur (AC 1942) Papers
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Contents List
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Series 1, POETRY, is further organized into two sub-series:
A. Published Volumes, ca. 1950-1969, includes materials used in the preparation of the following volumes of Wilbur's poetry: Ceremony and Other Poems (1950); Things of This World (1956); Advice to a Prophet (1961); and Walking to Sleep (1969). Arranged chronologically.
B. Individual Poems, includes early worksheets and drafts of individual poems, including some translations. (Other translations are found in Series 2.) Arranged alphabetically by title.
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Subseries A: Published Volumes
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Ceremony and Other Poems - worksheets and typescripts for material eliminated from publishing the volume
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ca. 1950
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Box 1: folder 1
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Ceremony and Other Poems - worksheets and typescripts
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ca. 1950
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Box 1: folder 2
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Ceremony and Other Poems - worksheets and typescripts
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ca. 1950
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Box 1: folder 3
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Ceremony and Other Poems - galley proofs
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ca. 1950
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Box 1: folder 4
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Things of This World - typescript, setting copy
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ca. 1956
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Box 1: folder 5
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Advice to a Prophet - Worksheets and typescripts
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ca. 1959
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Box 1: folder 6
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Advice to a Prophet - galley and page proofs
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ca. 1959
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Box 1: folder 7
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Walking to Sleep - worksheets and typescripts
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ca. 1968
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Box 1: folder 8
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Walking to Sleep - proofs of front matter, dust jacket, and brochure
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ca. 1968
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Box 1: folder 9
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Walking to Sleep - proofs of text
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ca. 1968
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Box 1: folder 10
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Correspondence (2 letters from Wilbur, 1 from John Ciardi about Untermeyer's review of Walking to Sleep)
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1969 Apr
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Box 1: folder 10a
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Pedestrian Flight - typescripts, galley, and page proofs)
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ca. 1979-1981
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Box 1: folder 10b
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Pedestrian Flight - correspondence with Stuart Wright, palaemon Press)
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ca. 1979-1981
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Box 1: folder 10c
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Subseries B: Individual Poems
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Advice from the Muse
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Box 1: folder 11
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Advice to a Prophet
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Box 1: folder 11a
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After the Last Bulletins
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Box 1: folder 12
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The Agent
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Box 1: folder 13
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Another Voice
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Box 1: folder 14
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The Aspen and the Stream
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Box 1: folder 15
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Ballade for the Duke of Orleans
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Box 1: folder 16
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Baroque Wall-fountain (no text, only Wilbur's commentary)
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Box 1: folder 17
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The Beacon
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Box 1: folder 18
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A Black Birch in Winter (fair copy mailed to WGBY-TV for its fundraising auction; includes ALS and env.)
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1974 Apr
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Box 1: folder 18a
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A Black November Turkey
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Box 1: folder 19
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A Christmas Hymn
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Box 1: folder 20
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A Chronic Condition
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Box 1: folder 21
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Complaint
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Box 1: folder 22
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Digging for China
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Box 1: folder 23
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Driftwood
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Box 1: folder 24
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Easter Sun ("Parable" was salvaged from this poem)
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Box 1: folder 25
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Exeunt (also published as "Exodus"), with drafts
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Box 1: folder 26
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Exodus - see "Exeunt"
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Box : folder -
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Fall in Corrales (see also "Speech for the repeal of the McCarran Act")
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Box 1: folder 27
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Ferns in Hampshire County
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Box 1: folder 28
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A fire truck
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Box 1: folder 29
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For Kathleen Raine on her sixtieth birthday
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Box 1: folder 30
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From the lookout rock
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Box 1: folder 31
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Gemini
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Box 1: folder 32
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Gnomons
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Box 1: folder 32a
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The good servant
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Box 1: folder 33
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A grasshopper
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Box 1: folder 34
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He was
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Box 1: folder 35
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Hole in the floor
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Box 2: folder 1
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Icarium Mare
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Box 2: folder 1a
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In a churchyard
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Box 2: folder 2
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In the elegy season
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Box 2: folder 3
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In the smoking car
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Box 2: folder 4
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John Chrysostom
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Box 2: folder 5
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Junk
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Box 2: folder 6
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Lamarck elaborated (with initial notes for "Mind")
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Box 2: folder 7
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A late aubade (includes 1968 Christmas card)
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Box 2: folder 8
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The lilacs (includes proofs of "The proof" and "Seed leaves"
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Box 2: folder 9
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Looking into history (includes initial notes for "Beasts," "A voice from under the table," and some unwritten poems)
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Box 2: folder 10
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Love calls us to the things of this world
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Box 2: folder 11
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Loves of the puppets
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Box 2: folder 12
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Matthew VIII, 28ff
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Box 2: folder 13
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The mechanist
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Box 2: folder 14
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Merlin enthralled
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Box 2: folder 15
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The mill (see also "Speech for repeal of the McCarran Act")
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Box 2: folder 16
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A Miltonic sonnet for Mr. Johnson, on the occasion of his refusal of Peter Hurd's official portrait
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Box 2: folder 17
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Mind (see also "Lamarck elaborated")
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Box 2: folder 18
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Next door
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Box 2: folder 19
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October maples, Portland
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Box 2: folder 20
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On the marginal way
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Box 2: folder 21
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Parable - see "Easter sun"
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Box : folder -
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Piazza di Spagna - see Molière: Misanthrope - worksheets
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Box : folder -
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A plain song for comadre
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Box 2: folder 22
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A postcard for Bob Bly
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Box 2: folder 23
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The proof (includes page proof for Christmas card) See also: " The lilacs" |
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Box 2: folder 24
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The Ride
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Box 2: folder 24a
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Rillons, rillettes
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Box 2: folder 25
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Running
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Box 2: folder 26
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Box 2: folder 27
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Shad-time
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Box 2: folder 27a
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Shame
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Box 2: folder 28
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She
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Box 2: folder 29
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Someone talking to himself
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Box 2: folder 30
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Speech for the repeal of the McCarran Act (also notes on "The Mill," and "Fall in Corrales")
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Box 2: folder 31
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Stop
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Box 2: folder 32
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A summer morning
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Box 2: folder 33
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The terrace
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Box 2: folder 34
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To Ishtar
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Box 2: folder 35
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Two quatrains for first frost
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Box 2: folder 36
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The undead
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Box 2: folder 37
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Under Cygnus (includes Christmas card with personal, handwritten note from Mrs. Wilbur)
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Box 2: folder 38
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Box 2: folder 39
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Walking to sleep
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Box 2: folder 40
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A Wall in the Woods: Cummington (TS with corrected photocopy)
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Box 2: folder 40a
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A wood
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Box 2: folder 41
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Ahkmatova, Anna
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Box 2: folder 42
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Aretino, Pietro
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Box 2: folder 43
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Baudelaire, Charles Pierre
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Box 2: folder 44
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Char, René
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Box 2: folder 45
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Du Bellay, Joachim
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Box 2: folder 46
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Guillen, Jorge
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Box 2: folder 47
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James, Francis
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Box 2: folder 48
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Box 2: folder 49
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Orléans, Charles, duc d'
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Box 2: folder 50
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Pichette, Henri
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Box 2: folder 51
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Quasimodo, Salvatore
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Box 2: folder 52
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Valéry, Paul
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Box 2: folder 53
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Voznesensky, Andrei
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Box 2: folder 54
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Series 2: TRANSLATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS
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Series 2, TRANSLATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS, is further organized into two
sub-series:
A. Translations of Individual Poems, arranged alphabetically by poet.
B. Other Translations, namely of works by Molière and Renard.
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Molière and Hofmannsthal: The bourgeois gentleman - narration to accompany the Boston Symphony performance of the Burger als Edelman by Richard Strauss
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Box 3: folder 1
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Renard, Jules: A romance - corrected typescript
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Box 3: folder 2
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Misanthrope - worksheets, mostly act V (also includes first draft of "Piazza di Spagna")
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Box 3: folder 3
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Misanthrope - typescript, setting copy
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Box 3: folder 4
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Tartuffe - worksheets, typescrpt, and proofs of introduction and front matter.
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Box 3: folder 5
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Tartuffe - Typescript (carbon)
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Box 3: folder 5a
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Tartuffe - worksheets for act II
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Box 3: folder 6
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Tartuffe - typescript, setting copy
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Box 3: folder 7
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Tartuffe - galley proofs
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Box 3: folder 8
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Tartuffe - worksheet of curtain verses written for opening night
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Box 3: folder 9
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Tartuffe - additional lines for Lincoln Center performance
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Box 3: folder 10
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Tartuffe - notes and drafts for article on the Lincoln Center performance
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Box 3: folder 11
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Tartuffe - "Instructions to the director of Tartuffe" (TS, 1 p.), contrasting with the Lincoln Center performance
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ca. 1967-1969
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Box 3: folder 11a
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The Misanthrope and Tartuffe - (Harvest Book edition) - worksheets and draft of note to the Harvest edition
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Box 3: folder 12
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The Misanthrope and Tartuffe - (Harvest Book edition) - proofs of front matter and Tartuffe
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Box 3: folder 13
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Series 3, PROSE, includes essays, reviews, memorial notes, appreciations, etc., organized alphabetically by title or subject.
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American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, Proceedings of - corrected ms. of article, with accompanying TLS to Margaret Mills
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1972 Apr-Sep
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Box 3: folder 14
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Arvin, Newton: Longfellow - worksheets for a review
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Box 3: folder 15
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"Blurbs" written by RW - list prepared by RW together with a proof of covers for R. Pau-Llosa's book Sorting Metaphors
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1983
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Box 3: folder 16
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Essay on Milton's companion poems - worksheets, typescript, and proof
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Box 3: folder 17
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Essay on Poetry - manuscript draft
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Box 3: folder 18
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Frost, Robert - In the Clearing - drafts and typescript of review
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Box 3: folder 19
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Frost, Robert - Contribution to Robert Frost Commemorative Issue of the Amherst Student - worksheet and typescript
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Box 3: folder 20
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Hillyer, Robert - draft of a memorial note
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Box 3: folder 21
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Loudmouse: story outline, manuscript, and typescript; letter to Louis Untermeyer
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1962 Jun 11
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Box 3: folder 21a
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Loudmouse: galleys for a new edition
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Box 3: folder 21b
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Lowell, Robert: "Skunk hour" - manuscript of commentary
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Box 3: folder 22
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The 1964 International Writers' Seminar at Lahti - notes, manuscript, and typescript of an article
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Box 3: folder 23
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The Poe mystery case - manuscript and typescript
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Box 3: folder 24
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A Poet and the movies - worksheets and typescript
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Box 3: folder 25
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Shakespeare's poems - all matter for an introduction
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Box 3: folder 26
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Series 4: LECTURES AND SPEECHES
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Series 4, LECTURES AND SPEECHES, includes texts prepared by Wilbur for occasions of public speaking, including introductions of other speakers.
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American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters - Remarks by the Chancellor (i.e., RW)
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1977 May 18
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Box 4: folder 1
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Bishop, Elizabeth - draft and text of introduction to her poetry reading
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Box 4: folder 1a
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Films - manuscript and typescript of a panel talk on experimental films
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Box 4: folder 2
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Frost, Robert - introduction to his talk
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Box 4: folder 3
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Frost Library, Amherst College - manuscript and typescript of talk at dedication
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Box 4: folder 4
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The house of Poe - manuscript of lecture
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Box 4: folder 5
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Lawrence College - manuscript, typescript, and printed copy of commencement address
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Box 4: folder 6
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Miller, Henry: Tropic of Cancer - draft of defense testimony
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Box 4: folder 7
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Nash, Ogden - introduction to his lecture
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Box 4: folder 8
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National book award acceptance speech - drafts and final text
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Box 4: folder 9
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On my own work - notes, manuscript, and typescript plus corrected proofs for publication
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Box 4: folder 10
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Poetry and happiness - manuscript of lecture
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Box 4: folder 11
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The present state of Whitman - notes, manuscript and typescript of talk
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Box 4: folder 12
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Roethke, Theodore - Manuscript and typescript of talk
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Box 4: folder 13
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Round about a poem of Housman's - notes, outline, manuscript, and partial typescript of lecture
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Box 4: folder 14
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A tribute to Andrei Voznesensky - prefatory remarks
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Box 4: folder 15
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Washington University - notes and typescript of commencement address
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Box 4: folder 16
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Wilbur bibliography - manuscript and carbon of introductory note
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Box 4: folder 17
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Arrangement:
Series 5 is correspondence arranged alphabetically by correspondent name.
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Baird, Theodore
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[ca. 1942]-1983
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Box 4: folder 18
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Berg, Steve (American Poetry Review), with TS of the poem "About Lying"
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1982-1983
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Box 4: folder 19
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Brower, Reuben
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1953 Feb 18
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Box 4: folder 20
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Catoggio, Nicholas (The Amherst Student)
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1994 Nov 8
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Box 4: folder 21
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Clarke, Henry L.
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1979-1984
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Box 4: folder 22
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Cole, William
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1993 May 24
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Box 4: folder 23
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Cooper, Mr. [?]
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1977 Jan 13
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Box 4: folder 24
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Craig, Armour
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1943-1946
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Box 4: folder 25
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Gauthier, Mr. [?]
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1998 Feb 20
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Box 4: folder 26
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Glick, G. Wayne (6 letters + replies)
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1998-2005
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Box 4: folder 27
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Hagstrom, Jack W. C. - explaining a cartoon by RW that appeared in The Montclair Times, ca. 1936
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1981 Aug
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Box 4: folder 28
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Lancaster, John
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1987-2003
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Box 4: folder 29
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Law, Mark (Kolbourne School)
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1982 Feb 18
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Box 4: folder 30
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Leekley, Richard
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1968-1973
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Box 4: folder 31
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Little, John
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1972 Mar 14
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Box 4: folder 32
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Murdoch, Eleanor
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1960 Feb 29
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Box 4: folder 33
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Pringle, Roger (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)
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1977 Mar 28
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Box 4: folder 34
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Targ, [William]
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1971
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Box 4: folder 35
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Toerien, Barend J. (translator of Wilbur poems into Afrikaans)
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1962
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Box 4: folder 36
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Untermeyer, Louis - concerning an anthology, Modern American and Modern British Poetry, Shorter Revised Edition (1955), on which Wilbur and Karl Shapiro served as editorial "consultants" with Untermeyer
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1954-1955
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Box 4: folder 37
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Wright, Stuart (Palaemon Press)
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1980-1985
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Box 4: folder 38
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Series 6, MISCELLANEOUS, includes light verse, an answer to a questionnaire, a statement of political activities.
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Light verse on a frog
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1968 Feb 12
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Box 4: folder 39
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Answer to questionnaire published in DELOS
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1968 Jan-Feb
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Box 4: folder 40
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Political activities
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1967-1968
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Box 4: folder 41
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Three drawings by Wilbur - caricatures of T. W. White IV, Prof. Oscar Schotté, and Prof. Laurence Packard (Gift of Thomas H. White AC 1941)
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ca. 1940-1941
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Box 4: folder 42
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Biographical chronology of RW - photocopy with manuscript corrections by RW
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[1984]
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Box 4: folder 43
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