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Patricia Beck Papers
1936-1986(bulk 1940-78)
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SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
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Contents
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Box 1: folder 1
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Autograph book,
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1937-38
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Box 1: folder 2
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1924-78
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Box 1: folder 3
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1978, 1984-86
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Box 1: folder 4
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Maulding, Tom: taxes, trial report, funeral program,
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1954-59, 1975
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Box 1: folder 5
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Will and estate,
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1949, 1977-78
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Box 1: folder 6
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Photographs
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Beck alone,
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1940, 1976-78, n.d.
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Box 1: folder 7
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Family and friends,
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1943-52, n.d.
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Box 1: folder 8
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North Bennington, Vermont,
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1968, n.d.
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Box 1: folder 9
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Artwork by Beck
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1948
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Box 1
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Slides,
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1943-51, 1961, 1975, n.d.
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Box 1: folder 10
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Sep 1938-1940
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Box 1: folder 11-13
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1941-43
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Box 2: folder 1-7
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1944-46
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Box 3: folder 1-7
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1947-48
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Box 4: folder 1-6
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1948-51, n.d.
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Box 4: folder 7
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Aug 1948 - Aug 1949
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Box 4: folder 8-9
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1949 - Jun 1951
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Box 5: folder 1-7
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1951-53
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Box 6: folder 1-6
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1953-55
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Box 7: folder 1-8
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Jul 1955 - Sep 1959
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Box 7: folder 9-10
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1956-59
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Box 8: folder 1-8
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Sep 1959 - Nov 1962
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Box 9: folder 1-9
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1962-64
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Box 10: folder 1-8
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1964-66
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Box 11: folder 1-8
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1967-69
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Box 12: folder 1-8
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1970-73
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Box 13: folder 1-8
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1974-76
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Box 14: folder 1-6
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1977-78
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Box 15: folder 1-4
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SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE
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Personal
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Abbott, Harold,
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1943-48
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Box 16: folder 1-2
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Beck, Fred,
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1944-47
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Box 16: folder 3-9
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Beck, Vera J.,
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1946-76
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Box 16: folder 10
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Bennington College,
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1945-46, 1960-61
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Box 16: folder 11
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Capra, Frank,
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1974-77, n.d.
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Box 16: folder 12
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DeGray, Julian and Margaret,
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1967, 1976
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Box 16: folder 13
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Erdman, Glory,
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1945-46
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Box 16: folder 14
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Flory, Mary Delia,
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1955-78
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Box 16: folder 15
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Foster, Thomas and Kit,
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1953-66
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Box 16: folder 16
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Fromm, Henny and Erich,
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1945-57, n.d.
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Box 16: folder 17
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Fruitrich, Chris,
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1961-63, n.d.
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Box 17: folder 1
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Fruitrich, Mary,
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1961-70, n.d.
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Box 17: folder 2
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Hicks, Dorothy and Granville,
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1969-76, n.d.
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Box 17: folder 3
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Holt, George, Jean, Sarah, Charlotte, and Charles,
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1943-48, 1968, n.d.
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Box 17: folder 4
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1936-44
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Box 17: folder 5
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June, Willa and Milo (Tom Maulding's parents),
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1959, 1975-76
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Box 17: folder 6
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Malamud, Bernard and Ann,
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1962-71
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Box 17: folder 7
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Malamud, Paul,
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1963-69, n.d.
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Box 17: folder 8
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Mendelson, Edward (about W.H. Auden),
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1975
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Box 17: folder 9
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Polanyi, Karl,
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1947-54
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Box 17: folder 10
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Seager, Allan and Barbara,
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1943-48, n.d.
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Box 17: folder 11
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Seide, Katherine and Mike,
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1965-69, n.d.
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Box 17: folder 12
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Stevenson, Lewis,
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1964-71
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Box 17: folder 13
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Swiderski, Paul and Amilla,
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1970, 1976
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Box 17: folder 14
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Watson, E.H.,
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1970, n.d.
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Box 17: folder 15
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Yeomans, Barbara,
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1976
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Box 17: folder 16
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Miscellaneous,
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1943-46, 1960-62, 1969-76, n.d.
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Box 17: folder 17
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Unidentified,
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1942-47, 1955, 1962, 1973-76, n.d.
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Box 17: folder 18
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Professional
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Rejection letters,
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1963-78
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Box 17: folder 19
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Fox Chase Agency,
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1972-73
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Box 17: folder 20
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<title render="italic">Yankee </title>magazine,
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1969-78
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Box 17: folder 21
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Books
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<title render="italic">Like Gone</title>,
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n.d.
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Box 17
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Notes
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Box 17: folder 22
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Typescript
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Box 17: folder 23-24
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<title render="italic">Under the Shadow of a War</title>: typescript,
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n.d.
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Box 18: folder 1
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Poetry
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Written by Beck,
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1944-45, circa 1970, n.d.
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Box 18: folder 2-4
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Collected poems and quotations by others,
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circa 1946, n.d.
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Box 18: folder 5-6
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Short stories
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Published
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"A Promise in the Wind," <title render="italic">Yankee</title>,
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Mar 1970
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Box 18: folder 7
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"Come Down to the Willow," <title render="italic">Yankee</title>,
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Jun 1970
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Box 18
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<title render="italic">A Gift of Kindling and Other Stories</title> published volume, miscellaneous
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(1978):
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Box 18: folder 8-9
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Unpublished
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"Age of Reason"
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(n.d.)
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Box 18: folder 10
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"Allenhurst"
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(circa 1940)
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Box 18
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"Balcony Scene"
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(1961)
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Box 18: folder 11
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"The Beautiful Indian and the Ribbon on Moonlight"
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(1961)
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Box 18
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"A Bed for Mr. John"
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(1959)
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Box 18
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"Black Ace"
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(1950)
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Box 18
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"The Breeze from Valldemosa"
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(1962)
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Box 18: folder 12
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"The Bronze Eagle"
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(1961)
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Box 18
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"The Bus"
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(circa 1940)
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Box 18
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"Buy Yourself Something Pretty"
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(1962)
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Box 18
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"A Cake for Supper"
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(1951)
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Box 19: folder 1
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"The Clocks"
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(n.d.)
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Box 19
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"Cold Enough"
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(1968)
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Box 19
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"Coffee at Al's"
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(circa 1964)
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Box 19
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"The Cupid in the Garden"
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(1963)
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Box 19
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"The Donkey's Necklace"
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(circa 1950)
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Box 19: folder 2
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"Echoes of a Young Musician"
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(1963)
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Box 19
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"Erin Go Bragh"
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(1964, 1977)
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Box 19
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"The Fair"
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(n.d.)
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Box 19: folder 3
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"Four Lemons"
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(n.d.)
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Box 19
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"Fresh Starched Curtains"
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(1951)
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Box 19
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"Fringed Genetian"
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(1964)
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Box 19
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"Fringes of Knowing"
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(n.d.)
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Box 19
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"Fun Fair"
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(1951)
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Box 19
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"A Gaggle of Lovers"
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(1965)
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Box 19: folder 4
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"A Gift of Kindling" [originally titled "Poor Sir Guilbert"]
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"Goodbye Uncle George"
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(circa 1950)
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Box 19
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"The Green Heart"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"Howie Died Last Week"
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(1952)
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Box 19: folder 5
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"Ich Liebe Dich"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"Imitation of Scheherazade"
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(1961)
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Box 19
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"In Other Words, The Good Book"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"In the Distance, Tom Toms"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"Indifference"
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(n.d.)
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Box 19
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"Invasion"
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(1972)
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Box 19
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"A Joyous Sound"
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(1962)
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Box 19: folder 6
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"King Fisher"
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(1945)
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Box 19
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"Kate O'Reilly, C'est Moi"
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(1976)
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Box 19: folder 7
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"Madame Midnight Goes to the Ball"
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(1962)
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Box 19: folder 8
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"The Man Who Ran Away from the Circus"
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(1978)
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Box 19
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"The Maze"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"The Meaning of the Word"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"The Mole"
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(1951)
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Box 19
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"The Muskrat"
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(1970)
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Box 19
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"Mute the Trumpet"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"My Father and Aristotle"
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(1951)
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Box 19
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"N.M.S."
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(n.d.)
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Box 19: folder 9
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"The Need for Nightingales"
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(circa 1964)
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Box 19
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"Night School"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"Of Fireballs, and Fear from the Dark Border"
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(1964)
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Box 19: folder 10
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"The Omen of the Three Cardinals"
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(1961)
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Box 19
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"One of the Green Mountain Boys"
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(1970)
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Box 19
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"Overture to the Blues"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"Polonaise"
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(1961)
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Box 19: folder 11
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"Poor Sir Guilbert" [published as "A Gift of Kindling"]
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"Purple Finches Come to Pleasant St."
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(1963)
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Box 19
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"A Relative Performance"
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(1965)
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Box 19: folder 12
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"The Ring"
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(1951)
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Box 19
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"Roots of Memory"
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(1951)
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Box 19
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"The Saga of 'Alie-Cat,' a Letter Writer"
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(1963)
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Box 19: folder 13
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"A Sin of Blood"
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(1961)
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Box 19
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"Sinbad: A Wish to Grow On"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"Snow Ghosts"
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(n.d.)
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Box 19
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"So Many Ports"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"Something of a Stranger"
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(1962)
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Box 19
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"Soon We Expect the Cardinal"
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(1965)
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Box 19
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"The Sound of the Wind in the Trees" (n.d)
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Box 20: folder 1
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"Space" [also called "Empty Space"]
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(1962)
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Box 20
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"The Standard of Gold"
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(circa 1965)
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Box 20
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"The Star Gazer"
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(1970)
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Box 20
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"Still Life, Opus 132"
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(1962)
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Box 20
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"Storm Outside"
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(1946)
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Box 20
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"A Streak of Blue"
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(1962)
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Box 20
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"The Sunken Tree"
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(1961)
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Box 20
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"The Survivor"
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(1961)
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Box 20
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"Take It as a Gag"
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(1963)
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Box 20: folder 2
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"Ten Minute Wait"
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(n.d.)
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Box 20
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"That Certain Glow"
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(1977)
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Box 20
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"There Was This Horseplayer"
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(1962)
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Box 20
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"There Will the River Whispering Run"
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(1962)
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Box 20
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"There's Something Up Ahead"
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(1969)
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Box 20
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"Three Flights Up to Davy Jones's Locker"
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(1941)
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Box 20
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"Two Weeks in Silver City"
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(1963)
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Box 20
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"Velvet Dust"
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(1970)
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Box 20: folder 3
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"The Violets are Here Dear"
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(1965)
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Box 20
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"Wake to a Dream"
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(1963)
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Box 20
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"The Waste-land, or Tonight at 8:30 on Channel 40"
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(1963)
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Box 20
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"White Bird"
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(circa 1945)
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Box 20
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"The Wind"
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(1951)
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Box 20
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"Yankee Ingenuity"
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(1967)
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Box 20
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"Yellow on Black" [originally titled, "As a Decrepit Father Takes Delight"]
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(1963, 1965)
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Box 20
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Unnamed stories,
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n.d.
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Box 20: folder 4
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Notes
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Late
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1930s-1946
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Box 20: folder 5-7
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1946-65
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Box 21: folder 1-13
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1966-78
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Box 22: folder 1-9
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Notebooks
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Autobiographical:
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1968-77; 1974-76
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Box 22: folder 10-11
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1938-43
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Box 23: folder 1
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Reading journal,
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circa 1940-1967
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Box 23: folder 2
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"A Trip Abroads [sic]," notes and stories about European travels,
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n.d.
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Box 23: folder 3
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Biographical materials
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Portrait of Allan Seager,
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1948
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Box 24
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Magazine clipping with images: "Kicking the Sky" by Egons Spuris; "The Drum Major" by Alfred Eisenstaedt; and "Motherless Chinese Baby After Air Raid; Shanghai," by H.S. ("Newsreel") Wong
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1937
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Flat file
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Article, "Faculty Literati of 1940s Recalled," <title render="italic">Quadrille</title> (Bennington College),
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Apr 1984
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Flat file
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Article, "The Report of the Round Table," by Russell W. Davenport,
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n.d.
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Flat file
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Writings
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"Have a Very Happy Christmas" poster,
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n.d.
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Flat file
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Literary Acquaintance Test: Current literature,
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n.d.
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Flat file
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