Washington University Libraries
Department of Special Collections
Manuscript Division

APRIL, 2003
COLLECTING GUIDELINES

  1. Collect for the needs of literary, historical, and bibliographical research.
    1. Collect primary print materials. Collect manuscript materials. Collect secondary print materials for Olin general. Literary figures/organizations for whom we hold significant manuscript collections.
      1. Lee Anderson, 1896-1972
      2. Jennifer Atkinson
      3. Samuel Beckett, 1906-
      4. Carol Bergé
      5. John Bennett
      6. Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-1979
      7. Robert Creeley, 1926-
      8. James Dickey
      9. Stanley Elkin, 1930-
      10. George P. Elliott, 1918
      11. William Everson, 1912-
      12. Donald Finkel
      13. Isabella Gardner
      14. William H. Gass, 1924
      15. William Gaddis, 1922-
      16. Pamela White Hadas
      17. Fannie Hurst
      18. Josephine Johnson, 1910-
      19. Erica Marx
      20. Shepherd Mead
      21. David Meltzer
      22. James Merrill
      23. John N. Morris
      24. Howard Nemerov
      25. George Marion O'Donnell, 1914-1962
      26. Eric Pankey
      27. Perspective Magazine
      28. River Styx
      29. William Jay Smith, 1918-
      30. Muriel Spark
      31. Robert Sward, 1933-
      32. May Swenson
      33. Allen Tate, 1899-
      34. Alexander Trocchi
      35. Constance Urdang
      36. Mona Van Duyn
      37. David Wagoner
    2. Collect primary print materials. Collect secondary print materials for Olin general. Literary figures/organizations for whom we hold no significant manuscript collection, but for whom we hold a substantial and valuable research collection of printed materials.
      1. Eliot, T.S., 1888-1965
      2. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939
      3. Vladimir Nabokov
      4. Ezra Pound, 1885-1972
      5. Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955
      6. William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963
  2. Collect primary print materials. Selectively collect secondary print materials for Olin general. Literary figures/organizations for whom we have no (or minimal) manuscript collections.
    1. Conrad Aiken, 1889-1973
    2. John Barth
    3. Mary Jo Bang
    4. Saul Bellow
    5. John Berryman, 1914-1972
    6. Paul Blackburn
    7. Louise Bogan, 1897-1970
    8. Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-
    9. Harold Brodkey
    10. Jocelyn Brooke
    11. Basil Bunting
    12. Anthony Burgess
    13. Alfred Chester
    14. Tom Clark, 1941
    15. Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1884-1969
    16. Cid Corman
    17. Robert Coover
    18. Daniel Curley
    19. Edward Dahlberg, 1900-1977
    20. Edward Dorn
    21. Robert Duncan, 1919-
    22. Gerald Early
    23. Ralph Ellison
    24. John Gould Fletcher
    25. Caroline Gordon, 1895-
    26. Charles Guenther
    27. Thom Gunn
    28. John Hawkes
    29. Anthony Hecht, 1923-
    30. Richard Howard1929-
    31. Ted Hughes, 1930-
    32. Violet Hunt, 1862-1942
    33. Laura Riding Jackson, 1901-
    34. Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965
    35. Galway Kinnell, 1927-
    36. Philip Larkin
    37. D.H. Lawrence
    38. Albert Lebowitz, 1922
    39. Denise Levertov, 1923
    40. Philip Levine, 1928
    41. John Logan, 1923-
    42. Robert Lowell, 1917-1977
    43. Joseph McElroy
    44. William Meredith, 1919-
    45. W.S. Merwin, 1927-
    46. Josephine Miles, 1911-
    47. George Moore, 1852-1933
    48. Marianne Moore
    49. Iris Murdoch
    50. Charles Olson, 1910-1970
    51. Carl Phillips
    52. Sylvia Plath
    53. John Crowe Ransom, 1888-1974
    54. Charles Reznikoff, 1894-1976
    55. Kenneth Rexroth, 1905-
    56. Jean Rhys
    57. Dorothy M. Richardson, 1873-1957
    58. Theodore Roethke, 1908-1963
    59. Delmore Schwartz, 1913-1966
    60. Karl Shapiro, 1913-
    61. Louis Simpson, 1923-
    62. Stevie Smith, 1902-1971
    63. W.D. Snodgrass, 1926-
    64. Gary Snyder
    65. William Stafford, 1914-
    66. Mark Strand, 1934-
    67. James Tate, 1943-
    68. John Updike
    69. Theodore Weiss, 1916-
    70. Richard Wilbur, 1921-
    71. Edmund Wilson, 1895-1972
    72. James Arlington Wright, 1927-
    73. Louis Zukofsky
  3. Selectively collect primary print materials. Literary figures for whom we hold no manuscript collections, or literary figures whose manuscripts and printed materials are exhaustively collected in another research institution.
    1. A.R. Ammons
    2. Louis Auchincloss
    3. Morley Callaghan
    4. Rosalyn Drexler
    5. Bruce Jay Friedman
    6. Henry Green
    7. Elizabeth Jennings
    8. Donald Justice
    9. Leonard Michaels
    10. Wright Morris
    11. J.F. Powers
    12. Charles Rezinkoff
    13. Laura Riding
    14. Frederic Seidel
    15. Edward Lucie-Smith
    16. Charles Tomlinson
  4. Retain Current Holdings, No new acquisitions:
    1. Elliott Baker
    2. John Peale Bishop
    3. Guy Patterson Chapman
    4. Horace Gregory
    5. Philip Hobsbaum
    6. John Knoepfle
    7. Robert McAlmon
    8. George MacBeth
    9. Barton Midwood