Humphries Papers, 1896-1992 (Bulk: 1915-1969)
19 archives boxes (9.5 linear ft.)
Terms of Access and Use:
There is no restriction on access to the papers for research use. Photocopied materials in the collection may not be photocopied without permission from the owner of the originals.
Requests for permission to publish material from the papers should be directed to Archives and Special Collections.
George Rolfe Humphries, noted poet, translator, teacher, critic and editor, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 20, 1894. He attended Towanda High School and entered Amherst College in 1911. He taught Latin in secondary schools in San Francisco, New York City and Long Island through 1957. In 1925 he married Helen Ward Spencer. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in creative writing, 1938-1939. In 1957 Humphries joined the faculty of Amherst College as a Lecturer in the English Department. He retired in 1965.
Humphries' lasting achievement was as a poet and translator. His works of original verse include Europa and Other Poems and Sonnets, 1929; Out of the Jewel, 1942; The Summer Landscape, 1945; Forbid Thy Ravens, 1947; The Wind of Time, 1949; Poems Collected and New, 1954; His translations include The Poet in New York, a translation of Garcia Lorca, 1940; Virgil's Aeneid, 1951; Ovid's Metamorphoses: Art of Love, 1953, 1955; Juvenal's Satires, 1959; Selected Epigrams of Martial, ca. 1963. W.H. Auden called Humphries' translation of Virgil's Aeneid "a service for which no public reward could be too great."
Humphries is also notable as a mentor to many young poets, including Theodore Roethke. Among his literary friendships were those with Louise Bogan, Edmund Wilson, and Roethke. He taught at many poetry and creative writing workshops, including the University of New Hampshire Writers' Conference and the Writers' Conference in the Rocky Mountains at the University of Colorado.
Rolfe Humphries died on April 22, 1969 in Redwood City, California.
The collection consists chiefly of incoming and outgoing correspondence, manuscript drafts, typescripts and galley proofs documenting the career of Rolfe Humphries as a poet, translator, teacher, editor, and reviewer. Correspondents include Louise Bogan, David Ferry, Richard Gillman, Donald Hall, Ezra Pound, Theodore Roethke, and E. Merrill Root. Poetry manuscripts include material that was unpublished or appeared later in substantially different form. Also included are reviews of Humphries' work and general articles about him as well as a small amount of family papers, including an autobiography of his mother, Florence Yost Humphries.
This collection is organized into ten series:
There is no restriction on access to the papers for research use. Photocopied materials in the collection may not be photocopied without permission from the owner of the originals.
Requests for permission to publish material from the papers should be directed to Archives and Special Collections.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
[Identification of item], in Rolfe Humphries (AC 1915) Papers [Box #, folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library
Unless otherwise indicated, the Papers are a gift of Helen Spencer Humphries.
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SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE,
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1915-1969
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Series 1, Correspondence, 1915-1969, includes letters with intimates as well as isolated letters of a more formal nature, which could not be grouped into another section. Correspondence dealing directly with publications (i.e. from and to contributors, editors, publishers, proof-readers, etc.) is filed with the particular publication in question. |
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Sub-Series: Incoming
Correspondence
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Agard, Walter (2 items)
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1942, 1951
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Box 1: folder 1
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Allen, Lee (4 items)
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1962-1967
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Box 1: folder 1
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Babcock, Donald C. (2 items); includes 1
p. carbon typescript poem "A Week of
FM"
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1953
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Box 1: folder 1
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Bell, H. [?] (1 item)
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1956 Jun 25
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Box 1: folder 1
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Bianchi, Martha Gilbert Dickinson (2
items)
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1929 Apr
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Box 1: folder 1
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Bogan, Louise
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1961 Oct. 14
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Box 1: folder 1
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Burgess, Anthony (2 items); includes 2p.
photocopy "Tremor of Intent"
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ca. 1963, 1967
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Box 1: folder 1
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Bynner, Witter
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1932 Jul 5
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Box 1: folder 1
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Carpenter, Margaret
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1960 Nov 5, n.d.
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Box 1: folder 2
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Cummings, Edward Estlin
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1946 Dec 26
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Box 1: folder 2
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Davies, Winifred Humphries (Mrs. Ivor) (2
items)
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1968-1969
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Box 1: folder 2
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Dickey, James: includes 10p. photocopy
"The Greatest American Poet" by
James Dickey
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1968 Oct
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Box 1: folder 2
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Eastman, Max: 1 postcard
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1957 Sep 12
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Box 1: folder 2
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Feldman, Burton (1 item)
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1969 Jan 2
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Box 1: folder 2
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Field, Sara Bard
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1926-1930
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Box 1: folder 2
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Gaus, John (2 items)
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1942-1943
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Box 1: folder 2
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Gibson, William Walker
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1951, 1954
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Box 1: folder 2
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Gillman, Richard (1 item)
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1967 Jan 10
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Box 1: folder 2
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Giraudier, Antonia (1 item + calling card)
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[1956]
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Box 1: folder 2
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Giraudier, Antonio Jr. (1 item + calling
card)
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1956 Oct 25
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Box 1: folder 2
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Goll, Ivan (1 item)
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1940 Aug 10
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Box 1: folder 2
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Gomez, Jesus (1 item + receipt)
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1938 Dec 15
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Box 1: folder 2
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Gordon, Ronald (1 item)
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1965 May 5
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Box 1: folder 2
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Grose, Minot (2 items); includes untitled
poem
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1967-1968
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Box 1: folder 2
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Heinsimer, Edward R. jr. to RH (1 item +
photo)
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1929 Nov 3
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Box 1: folder 3
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Hewlett, Horace W. to RH (1 item, 1
partial)
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1956, 1967
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Box 1: folder 3
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Highet, Gilbert to RH (2 items)
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1957 Mar 1, 16
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Box 1: folder 3
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Howe, Robert B. to RH (1 item + poem)
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1965 May 10
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Box 1: folder 3
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Hubbard, Jack to RH (1 item)
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1968 Mar 19
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Box 1: folder 3
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Humphries, John to RH (2 items ); includes
2p. limericks by JH)
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1957, Jul 22, 29
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Box 1: folder 3
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Jones, Ann (Mrs. William) to RH (1 item)
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 3
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Kincaid, Arthur to RH (1 item)
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1968 Aug 21
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Box 1: folder 3
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Kohn, John S. Van E. to RH (1 item)
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1967 Aug 31
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Box 1: folder 3
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Lape, Jim and Betty (Mr. and Mrs.) to RH
(1 item + envelope)
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1967 Sep 18
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Box 1: folder 4
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Larson, William to RH
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[1956] Jun 22
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Box 1: folder 4
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Macdougall, Allan to RH (3 items + 2
envelopes)
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1951, 1952
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Box 1: folder 4
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McKeon, Newton to RH (3 items)
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1956, 1967
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Box 1: folder 4
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Mann, David to RH
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[19]67 Mar 10
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Box 1: folder 4
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Manthey-Zorn, Otto to RH
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1955 Dec 30
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Box 1: folder 4
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[Marshall, Margaret] to RH plus T.L.S.
Harold Lazarus to Margaret [Marshall]
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1951 Nov 9
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Box 1: folder 4
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Meiklejohn, Alexander to RH
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[19]63 Dec 22
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Box 1: folder 4
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Morrill, Edward F. to RH (1 item);
includes 6p. poems, Emily Dickinson trans. into
Spanish
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1945 Mar 13
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Box 1: folder 4
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Morton, G.K. (Postcard)
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1960 Mar 2
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Box 1: folder 4
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Norton, Daphne to RH (1 item)
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1967 Aug 4
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Box 1: folder 4
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Norton, Theodore to RH (1 item)
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[19]37 Dec 11
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Box 1: folder 4
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Pedon, William to RH (1 item)
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1959 Aug 19
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Box 1: folder 5
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Plimpton, Calvin to RH (3 items); includes
carbon typescript of RH response Oct 7, 1964, inc.
"Alma Mater Song for the Philadelphia College Museum
of Art")
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1961, 1964
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Box 1: folder 5
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Pound, Ezra to RH (1 item + envelope)
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[1934] May 6
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Box 1: folder 5
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Price, David to RH (2 items + 1 envelope)
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1968 Apr, Feb
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Box 1: folder 5
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Ribicoff, Peter to RH
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1967 Dec 1
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Box 1: folder 5
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Ritter, Larry to RH (1 item + envelope);
includes change of address card
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[1967] July 14
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Box 1: folder 5
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Rolfe, Henry W.
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1942 Dec 27
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Box 1: folder 5
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Root, E. Merrill to RH (22 items, Gift of
E. Merrill Root 1973); includes typescript of poems
"The Lost Batalion", "Pyramid of Death
(Teotehuacan)", "Israel Putnam"
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1936-1946
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Box 1: folder 6
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Root, E. Merrill - poetry (Gift of E.
Merrill Root 1972); 99 titles; see alphabetical list
in folder, Article on American verse by Root [?] -
carbon, 4p.
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 6a
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Root, E. Merrill to RH (Gift of E. Merrill
Root 1972); Partial letters - 2, Undated letters -
44, Letter from Winthrop H. Root to Family, Letter
from Hendrick ("Heinie") to Rolfe Humphries
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 6b
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Root, E. Merrill to RH (63 items, Gift of
E. Merrill Root 1972)
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1920-1929
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Box 1: folder 6c
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Ruxin, James to RH (1 item + envelope);
includes 3p. poem
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1967 Apr 15
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Box 1: folder 7
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Seamon, Richard to RH (1 item + envelope);
includes A.N. to Newton NcKeon on Seamon letter
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[19]56 Jul 11
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Box 1: folder 7
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Stafford, William to RH (1 item +
envelope)
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1967 Jul 25
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Box 1: folder 7
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Storm, Hans Otto (1 item)
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1940 Feb 12
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Box 1: folder 7
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Thompson, Lawrence to RH
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1967 Mar 31
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Box 1: folder 7
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Tilford, Terry T.
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1962 Oct 24
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Box 1: folder 7
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Towner, Annemarie Ewing
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1961 Oct 26
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Box 1: folder 7
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Victor, W. to RH; W. Victor to Carroll;
includes 1p. carbon typescript by Leishman of Rilke
"Sonnets of Orpheus," Part II, n. 15
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1945 Aug 13
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Box 1: folder 7
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Wadsworth, Charles to RH
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1967 Mar 20
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Box 1: folder 7
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Weathers, Paul D. to RH
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1955 Dec 30
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Box 1: folder 7
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Wengler, Harold to RH
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[19]57 Dec 11
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Box 1: folder 7
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Whicher, George Frisbee to RH (2 items)
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1943, 1944
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Box 1: folder 7
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Woodward, Stanley to RH (2 items)
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1964 Feb, Mar
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Box 1: folder 7
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Yourcenar, Marguerite to TH
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1956 Mar 15
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Box 1: folder 7
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Sub-Series: Outgoing
Correspondence
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RH to Theodore A. Baird (1 item, Gift of
Theodore A. Baird 1969); includes typescript "Arachne
and Penelope", carbon typescript "Who Hath Seen?" and
"A Ragbag of Old Airs", Photocopy typescript "A Song
for Mortimer"
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1968-1969
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Box 1: folder 8
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RH to Charles G. Bell (57 items, Gift of
Charles G. Bell 1970); includes typescript "Flight
609", "Green Slick Girls", and "Disconsolate
Reflection of the Wonders of Science in the XX C.",
autograph ms "Pandemic", carbon 2 T.L. Bell to RH, 5
typescript Bell poems with RH comments. photocopy
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1951-1967
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Box 1: folder 9
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RH to Marie Bullock (Mrs. Hugh) (3 items,
Gift of Mrs. Hugh Bullock 1970); includes fliers on
American Academy of Poets. photocopy
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1955-1956
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Box 1: folder 10
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RH to Joseph Carter (4 items, gift of
Joseph Carter 1971) photocopy
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1961-1968
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Box 1: folder 11
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RH to James and Margaret Craig (Mr &
Mrs.) (55 items, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. James Craig
1970)
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1965-1969
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Box 1: folder 12
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RH to Neal Cross (3 items, gift of Neal
Cross 1970)
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1967-1969
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Box 1: folder 13
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RH to Winifred Humphries Davies (Mrs.
Ivor) (11 items)
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1969 Jan-Apr
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Box 1: folder 14
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RH to E. Porter Dickinson (2 items, Gift
of E. Porter Dickinson 1973); includes typescript "A
Fugue for the Equinox", autograph ms "A Fugue for the
Equinox"
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1967-1968
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Box 1: folder 15
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RH to Gordon Ellis (16 items, Gift of
Gordon Ellis 1973)
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1958-1964
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Box 1: folder 16
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RH to [William I.] Fletcher from Frost
Library files
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1924
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Box 1: folder 17
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RH to Richard Gillman (34 items, Gift of
Richard Gillman 1970); includes typescript "Belmont".
photocopy
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1961-1969
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Box 1: folder 18
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RH to Richard Gillman- originals. (64
items, Gift of Richard Gillman 1994); 56 letters and
2 postcards (several written on Gillman's or others'
originals), including 4 poems.
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1961-1969
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Box 1: folder 18a
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RH to William Heath, with carbon TS of "A
lilt for Nunney"
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1968 Jun 17
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Box 1: folder 18b
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RH to Barbara Heldt
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 18c
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RH to Robert B. Howe (Gift of Robert B. Howe, 10 July 1970). 25 TLS; 1 TNS; 1 ALS; 7 TL carbon Howe to RH; 1 TLS Charles F. Lester, Jr. to Amherst College; 1 TLS Steward Richardson to RH; 1 TLS Ben DeMott to RH; 1 TL carbon Len Newcomb to RH.
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1959-1967
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Box 1: folder 19
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RH to Katherine Bowen concerning the memorial service for Robert Frost at Amherst College
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1963 Mar 4
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Box 1: folder 20
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RH to John H. Hubbard (3 items, Gift of
John H. Hubbard 1971); includes 1 carbon Hubbard to
Ralph Glaze.
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1967 Mar-Jun
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Box 2: folder 1
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RH to Helen Spencer Humphries (2 items)
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c. 1922
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Box 2: folder 2
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RH to Ann Jones (Mrs. William), (42 items,
Gift of Mrs. William Jones 1970)
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1959 Jun-Mar
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Box 2: folder 3
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RH to John Kiely (7 items, Gift of John
Kiely 1972); includes 1 item RH to Frank Tatum, Jr.,
typescript "An Open Letter to Coach Ostendarp",
autograph ms. "Coat on a Stick". photocopy.
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1961-1968
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Box 2: folder 4
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RH to Arthur Kincaid (12 items, Gift of
Arthur Kincaid 1972); includes typescript
"Villanelle: Caliban's Song". photocopy.
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1960-1968
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Box 2: folder 5
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RH to John S. Van E. Kohn (2 items, Gift
of John S. Van E. Kohn 1972)
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1967-1968
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Box 2: folder 6
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RH to Newton F. McKeon from Library files
(11 items); includes item from RH to Rena Durkin
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1955-1968
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Box 2: folder 7
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RH to Mrs. David S. Morton (20 items, Gift
of Mrs. David S. Morton 1970); includes carbon
typescripts "Frisbee", "Detective Story" (2), "A Lilt
for Nunney"
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1965-1969
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Box 2: folder 8
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RH to Mrs. David S. Morton (3 items, Gift
of Mrs. David S. Morton 1970) Restricted
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1968 Feb-Sep
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Box 2: folder 9
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RH to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore E. Norton (20
items, Gift of Mrs. Theodore E. Norton 1973)
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1965-1966
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Box 2: folder 10
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RH to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore E. Norton (24
items, Gift of Mrs. Theodore E. Norton 1973)
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1967 Jan-Dec
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Box 2: folder 11
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RH to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore E. Norton (34
items, Gift of Mrs. Theodore E. Norton 1973);
includes 1 item John M. Liddell to RH, carbon
typescript "Extracts from a Thesis on Terminology of
Evacuation", autograph ms. "Mnemonies for Ted"
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1968-1969
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Box 2: folder 12
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RH to Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Polhemus
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1967 Jul 31
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Box 2: folder 13
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RH to Lawrence S. Ritter (31 items, Gift
of Lawrence S. Ritter 1970); includes 1 item Richard
Seaman to RH, 2 carbons Ralph Glaze to RH, 1 carbon
Barron Beshoar to RH
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1966-1968
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Box 2: folder 14
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RH to Merrill Root (2 items, Gift of
Merrill Root 1973); includes typescripts "From a
Hilltop", "Inadequate", and "Grey Sunset"
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1920-1922
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Box 2: folder 15
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RH poetry (Gift of Merrill Root 1972); 37
titles, see alphabetical list in folder; includes
article entitled "The Dreams of Aeneas" - carbon copy
7pp.; reprint of article
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 15a
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RH to E. Merrill Root (28 items, Gift of
E. Merrill Root 1972); Updated letters
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 15b
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RH to Merrill Root (11 items, Gift of E.
Merrill Root 1972)
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1916-1923
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Box 2: folder 15c
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RH to E. Merrill Root (31 items, Gift of
E. Merrill Root 1972)
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1924-1951
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Box 2: folder 15d
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RH to Gil Schmerler (1 item, Gift of Gil
Schmerler 1971)
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? Mar 7
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Box 2: folder 16
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RH to Richard M. Seamon (36 items, Gift of
Richard M. Seamon 1971); includes item from John
Humphries to Richard Seamon, notes by RH on Seamon
poem, typescripts "Of Miturition: A Morality", "The
Screaming Meamies", and "Jackie Robinson, and His
Predecessors"
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1938-1969
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Box 2: folder 17
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RH to Anne Marie Ewing Towner (93 items,
Gift of Anne Marie Ewing Towner 1970) photocopy
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1952-1969
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Box 2: folder 18
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RH to Samuel Yellen (13 items, acquired
from Indiana University); includes 1 item from RH to
Upton Beall Sinclair, 1 item from RH to Louis
Untermeyer
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1948-1966
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Box 2: folder 19
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RH to Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Weathers (Gift
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Weathers 1973) typescript "On
a Treasure's Retirement", autograph ms. "On a
Treasure's Retirement", and autograph ms. poem on
doily by RH at 1915 class reunion
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1915
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Box 2: folder 20
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RH to William Wilson (24 items); includes
carbon typescript "Tale of a Wayside Inn"
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1949-1969
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Box 2: folder 21
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Correspondence concerning Roethke
correspondence of RH:
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 22
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Edlund, Paul E. (3 items)
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Box 2: folder 22
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Mills, Ralph J. Jr. (1 item)
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Box 2: folder 22
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Roethke, Beatrice (2 items)
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Box 2: folder 22
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Wood, Jennings (4 items)
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Box 2: folder 22
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Acquisition information, Library of
Congress Instrument of gift
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Box 2: folder 22
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Batie, Jean 1p. (2 items); includes poem
trans. "One of Many Elegies"
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Box 2: folder 22
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Notes on Roethkiana
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Box 2: folder 22
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Series 2: GENERAL POETRY,
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1910-1969
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Series 2, General Poetry, 1910-1969, is arranged alphabetically by title and includes only those poems that were unfinished, unpublished, or published in magazines and/or anthologies, but not in a volume of poetry wholly by Humphries. (See Series 4 for poems published in Humphries' own books of poetry.) A poem that has a tentative title or no title is filed under the published title (in brackets). |
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Poetry scrapbook - kept by Florence Yost
Humphries (mother of RH). Contains typescripts, carbon
typescripts, clippings from mags. and newspapers of
poems (publ. and unpubl.)
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1910-1926
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Box 3: folder 1
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"All alone, I visit lovely
places:…" carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 2
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"American Corn: A Symphony" autograph ms.
draft, typescripts, carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 3
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"At a Dance-Hall" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 4
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"Ballad of Willie the Lemon for Gus
Polhemus" typescript, carbon typescript, A.N. on
typescript by Helen Spencer Humphries
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 5
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"Ballade" autograph ms. draft, carbon
typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 6
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"Ballade of an Argument with Verlaine"
carbon
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 6a
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"Ballade of the Post Apocalypse" mimeo
typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 7
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"Buck Hill" autograph ms. drafts, carbon
typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 8
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"Car Full of People" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 9
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"Cats, acutely nutty…" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 10
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"Chiaroscuro" carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 11
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"Complaint of the Garden God" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 12
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"Of Cymru" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 13
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"Dark floods of rushing music roar and
pound…" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 14
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"David of the White Rock/ Dafydd y Gareg
Wen" typesript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 14a
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"Dear Mechans: If the Woodside
lots…" autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 15
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"Decandent" carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 16
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"Detective Story" autograph ms.
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 17
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"Disarray…" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 18
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"Disconsolate Observation on the Wonders of
Science in the XX C." autograph ms.
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 19
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"Epode I" autograph ms.
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Box 3: folder 20
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"Eternal Recurrence" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 21
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"Et tu, -_______" (after Horace, Ode VIII)
autograph ms
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 22
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"February" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 23
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"Flight 609" autograph ms. drafts, carbon
typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 24
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"For Dad" - typescript, signed
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1934 Aug 3
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Box 3: folder 24a
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"For Mother" - typescript, signed
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1934 Aug 3
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Box 3: folder 24b
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"For Triple Armour" - printed leaflet
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 24c
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"The Gospel According to Neitzsche, or The
True Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 25
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"Hebulous" carbon typescript, annotated by
RH
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 26
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"Hergest's Red Book is probably…"
autograph ms.
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 27
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"A Hill Above Rome" from the epigrams of
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Book IV, n. 64" autograph
ms.
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 28
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"House of Sleep" typescript, newsclipping
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Box 3: folder 29
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"Indifferent" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 30
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"I wore a purple necktie…"
autograph ms.
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Box 3: folder 31
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"Lillie Mae's Advice" autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 32
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"Lizards" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 33
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"To Maecenas" carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 34
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"The Mantle, of The Gift of God" autograph
ms. drafts, carbon typescripts
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 35
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"My Brother's Godfather" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 36
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"My Grot Philosophy" autograph ms.
worksheets, carbon typescripts
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 37
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"For Nineteen Fifteen/ On the Occasion of
Our Fortieth Class Reunion" carbon typescript,
autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 38
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"Ode V" autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 39
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"Oh little Malcolm, how do you
feel?…" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 40
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"On Not Being Completely Retired" carbon
typescript, autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 41
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"On the Overland" (Gift of E. Merrill Root
1973) typescripts (types with note is gift of Root)
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 42
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"On a Treasure's Retirement" carbon
typescripts
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 43
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"An Open Letter to Coach Ostendarp" carbon
typescript, T.N.S RH to Rena Durkin, T.L. carbon Rena
Durkin to RH
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 44
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"Overdry pitted sand and rising
tides…" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 45
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"Parcius Iunctas Quatiunt
Fenestras" (Horace: Odes 1,25) carbon
typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 46
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"The Piollets, and Marie Antoinette"
autograph ms. drafts, carbon typescript, typescript,
photocopy copy
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 47
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"The Piollets, and Marie Antoinette"
correspondence
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 48
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"Places" tearsheet fm. Chicago
Tribune, Nov 10, 1968
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 49
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"For Porter Dickinson: A Tribute California
to Amherst, June 1968" autograph ms. draft, photocopy
autograph ms.
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 50
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"Rain in Jackson Heights" autograph ms,
draft, carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 51
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"Roget 511" autograph ms. draft, carbon
typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 52
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"Rumors of War" autograph ms. draft,
typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 53
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"A Sad Little Lyric for Vacation" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 54
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"Satyriasis" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 55
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"Senator Joseph McCarthy is a true
patriot..." typescript, carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 56
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"Solitary" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 57
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"Success story, 1958" (poem in honor of Dwight Farraday) - typescript, signed
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1968 May
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Box 3: folder 57a
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"Summer People (For H.W.S.)" - typescript, signed
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1934 Sep
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Box 3: folder 57b
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"Symbiosis" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 58
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"There are females fair in the shoptown
Sayre" carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 59
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"There's been a forest fire somewhere
today..." carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 60
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"This Exhilarating Game" carbon typescript,
mimeo. typescript, photocopy typescript, plus
correspondence
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 61
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"Tribute for Martha" carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 62
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"Tuftonian" The Phi Beta Kapp Poem for 1945
at Tufts College author's proof
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 63
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"Undera Cheever" carbon typescripts - one
with T. N.
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 64
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Variations on an Address" autograph ms.
draft, carbon typescript, photocopy typescript, plus
carbon typescript "Lecture for the American
Intellectual Society
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 65
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"Variations on a Cliché" autograph
ms. drafts, carbon typescript, photocopy typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 66
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"For Walker Hall" autograph ms. draft,
carbon typescript, photocopy typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 67
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Washington's Farewell Address" autograph ms.
draft, A.N. concerning poem by Newton F. McKeon states
"'Washington's Farewell Address' is his [Humphries']
intended last will and testament as he entered the
hospital…" plus autograph ms, draft of "La
Cucuracha
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 68
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"Yearnings for a curate..." typescript
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 69
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Tape recording - RH reading his poetry
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n.d.
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Box 3: folder 70
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Series 3: GENERAL PROSE, ca.
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1938-1967
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Series 3, General Prose, ca. 1938-1967, is arranged alphabetically by title or, if no clear title exists, by the name of the subject or occasion. |
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"Louise Bogan" letter to
NYT autograph ms, notes on
single sheet, mounted newsclippings
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1941 Dec 14
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Box 4: folder 1
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Confession of the Archpoet of Cologne"
Chapel speech carbon typescript, photocopy typescript
includes poem "From, the Archpoet's Confession
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 2
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"The Guiding Star" by RH and Guy Reiff
typescript, plus photocopy T.L.S. J. Alfred Guest to
Guy Reiff
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 3
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"Hero and Anti-Hero" (Some Remarks on
Teaching Homer and Some Obiter Dicta) carbon typescript
draft with corrections
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 4
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"Hero and Anti-Hero" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 5
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"Hero and Anti-Hero" correspondence dealing
with Ohio State University lecture John B. Titchener to
RH - 2 T.L.S.; Charles L. Babcock to RH - 4 T.L.S.;
John A. Moore to RH - 1 A.L.S.; Mark Morford to RH - 5
T.L.S.
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 6
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"Hotbed of Baseball" Empire
Mag. July 28, 1956 magazine tearsheets
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 7
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"How the Chief Made the Major Leagues..." by
Ralph Glaze as told to Rolfe Humphries,
Empire Mag. Aug. 20, 1967.
magazine tearsheets, plus A.N.S. RH to James Amend
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 8
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"for immediate release..." satirical short
piece on schooling in America. typescript, autograph
ms. draft in yellow booklet
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 9
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Introduction to Ezra Pound's Selected Poems
- not published. typescript with corrections and
notations [red X by Pound?]
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 10
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Introduction to Ezra Pound's
Selected Poems
correspondence James Laughlin to RH - 1 A.L.S. , 2
T.L.S.; Dorothy Shakespeare Pound to RH - 2 A.L.S.;
Dorothy Shakespeare Pound to [James Laughlin] - 1
T.L.S.; Ezra Pound to RH - 2 A.L.S.; 1p. transcription
of document received in photostat denouncing that EP
took part in faschist activities
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 11
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Marjorie Fischer Bequest. typescript signed,
plus A.N.S. RH to Newton F. McKeon
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 12
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"On Writing Poetry" - pub. in How to Write
for Pleasure and Profit Warren Espy Bower, ed.- marked
"MS.I". carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 13
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"Measured Music" - marked "MS. II" on
writing techniques. typescript, carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 14
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"On Writing Poetry" notes on drafts
typescripts, plus T.L.S. to RH, signed Alex
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 15
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"Publish or Perish, and some extension of
remarks on education by RH" in Rocky
Mountain Herald, Apr. 15, 1967, vol. 107,
n.51. newspaper
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 16
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"...random remarks on life, art, and the
creative spirit." chapel speech. typescript, photocopy
typescript
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 17
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"Spanish Children in Mexico" [Dec. 24] 1938
typescript, carbon typescript, autograph ms. notes
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 18
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"Tall-Tale American" article on A.H. Lewis
The Nation Aug. 28, 1967 -
shortened version of introduction for
Wolfville Yarns of Alfred Henry
Lewis, ed. Rolfe and John Humphries.
carbon typescript, photocopy typescript, printer's
typescript, tearsheets from The Nation, plus 1 T.L.S.
to RH
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1967 Aug 28
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Box 4: folder 19
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The Writer's Conference in the Rocky
Mountains Alan Swallow Memorial Fund - letter composed
by RH. autograph ms. draft, carbon typescript draft,
typescript draft, reproduced typescript, newsclipping
on Alan Swallow, photocopy of newsclipping, tear
section from Denver Quarterly "Tribute to Alan Swallow"
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 20
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Alan Swallow Memorial Fund - correspondence
Brigid Davis to RH - 3 T.L.S.; Mark Harris to RH - 1
T.L.S., newsclipping; Margaret Robb to RH - 4 T.L.S.;
Dwight V. Roberts to RH - 1 T.L.S.; J. R. Smiley to RH
- 1 T.L.S.; John Wrenn to RH - 4 T.L.S.
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 21
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Series 4: ORIGINAL TITLES WHOLLY BY HUMPHRIES,
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1929-1974
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| Arrangement: Volumes are arranged chronologically; poems or each volume are in the order of the table of contents; if any poem appears in more than one volume, it will be filed with the volume of first appearance Series 4, Original Titles Wholly by Humphries, 1929-1974, is further organized into individual volumes of poetry in the order in which they were published. The order in which the poems are listed is identical to each volume's table of contents. Any correspondence or reviews concerning a book of poetry by Humphries follows the poems. If a poem is a reprint, it is located in the volume of first appearance. |
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EUROPA
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"Drowning" carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 22
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"A Little Poem for Spring" typescript,
with A.N.S. on verso by RH
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 23
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A Prayer" carbon typescript, also includes
"Timoromantic" and "In Your Own Words
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 24
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"Sonnet Number Three Hundred and
Twenty-Six" carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 25
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"To a Satellite" carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 4: folder 26
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OUT OF THE JEWEL
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"Ambiguous Lyric" ["Lyric with Ambiguous
References"] autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 1
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"42nd Street Library" autograph ms.
drafts, carbon typescripts, photocopy typescript,
photocopy ms. drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 2
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["Atlantic Round"] autograph ms. drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 3
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"Jersey Ecologue" ["New Jersey Ecologue"]
carbon typescript, autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 4
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"In Dark Weather" autograph ms. draft,
carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 5
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["Under Sirius"] autograph ms.
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 6
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["August Elegy"] autograph ms. drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 7
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["From the Side of a Hill"] autograph ms.
draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 8
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"Lull" autograph ms.
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 9
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"Half Heard Air" carbon typescript,
autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 10
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"Words in Your Mouth" typescript, carbon
typescript, autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 11
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"The Intellectuals" autograph ms.
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 12
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"The War in the Dark" autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 13
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"With a Resignation Untendered" autograph
ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 14
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"Curtain" ["Epilogue"] autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 15
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["L'Oubli"] autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 16
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["Leid vom
Meer"] after Rainer Maria Rilke
typescript, autograph ms. drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 17
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"A Sad Song, This Time" autograph ms.
drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 18
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"Song, with no particular Rhyme or Reason"
["Song"] typescript, carbon typescript, autograph ms.
drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 19
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"Anecdote In Verse" autograph ms, drafts,
photocopy. typescripts (4)
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 20
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"Papillion Japonica (Newn.) autograph ms,
drafts, carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 21
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"Paseo de la
Reforma" carbon pt, autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 22
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"Obligato for a Children's Story" ["All on
a Summer's Day"]
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 23
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"Proteus or the Shapes of Conscience"
autograph ms.
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 24
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"A Man on the Isle of Palms" autograph ms.
drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 25
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"Rühmer, das ist's" carbon
typescript, autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 26
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THE SUMMER LANDSCAPE
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"The Image" typescript, carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 27
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"For an Almanac" carbon typescript,
typescript, autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 28
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"The Exiles" typescript, autograph ms.
drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 29
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"La Belle Dame Sans
Merci" autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 30
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"Coming Home" carbon typescript, autograph
ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 31
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"Spring Piece" carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 32
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"From My Travels" typescript, autograph
ms.
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 33
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"Garden Piece" carbon typescript,
autograph ms.
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 34
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"The Summer Landscape" carbon typescript,
autograph ms. drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 35
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"Polo Grounds" autograph ms. drafts, plus
2 T.L.S. NY Giants to RH
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 36
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"Night Piece, In the Country" carbon
typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 37
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["The Good Swimmer"] autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 38
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"The Contending Twins" typescript,
autograph ms. drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 39
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"Variations on a Theme by E. E. Cummings"
typescript, autograph ms. draft, carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 40
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"The Voices" typescript, autograph ms.
draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 41
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"Meditation" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 42
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"Rain in Forty-Eight Hours" typescript,
autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 43
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"Maybe" carbon typescript, autograph ms.
draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 44
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["From the North Terrace"] autograph ms.
draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 45
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"They Talk About the Weather" carbon
typescript, typescript, autograph ms.
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 46
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"Season Greetings" typescript, carbon
typescript, autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 47
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"Aria" carbon typescript, autograph ms.
draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 48
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"Advice" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 49
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Reviews of THE SUMMER LANDSCAPE clipping
from The Christian
Century, statement of remittance from
Houghton Mifflin Co.
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 50
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FORBID THY RAVENS
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"A Landscape, and a Lady" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 51
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"Night Game" typescript, autograph ms.
drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 52
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"Hell" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 53
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"Maxim" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 54
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"Reflections" typescript, autograph ms.
drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 55
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"Narcissa" typescript, carbon typescript,
autograph ms.
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 56
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"A Word of Guidance" typescript, carbon
typescript, autograph ms. drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 57
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"Render unto Caesar" typescript, carbon
typescript, autograph ms., autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 58
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"The Angels" typescript, carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 59
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"Hawthorne's Court: Summer Morning" carbon
typescript, autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 60
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"Noblesse
Oblige" typescript, autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 61
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"Columbia,
Dative and Accusative" carbon typescript, autograph
ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 62
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"Landscape, or Portrait" typescript,
autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 63
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"Old Man, Madison Square, September
Evening" typescript, carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 64
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"Autumnal" carbon typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 65
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"For St. Martin's Day" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 66
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"The Doubtcaster" carbon typescript,
autograph ms. drafts, tearsheet from
[The New Yorker?]
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 67
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"The Bells" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 68
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"The Deep-Rooted" carbon typescript,
autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 69
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"Oak and Linden" typescript, autograph ms.
drafts
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 70
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"Concerto in D Major" typescript
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 71
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"Scales and Scorpion" carbon typescript,
galley proof sheet, autograph ms. draft
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n.d.
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Box 5: folder 72
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"Muta Quies (Tacent Satis
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