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May Swenson Papers, Accrual 10
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| Title | May Swenson papers, | |
| Dates: | 1949-1980. | |
| Quantity: | ca. 5000 items | |
| Identification: | WTU00111 | |
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Although acclaimed principally for her poetry, May Swenson is also a playwright, critic, translator, and editor. She was born in Utah and received a B.S. from the University of Utah in 1939, but has spent the greater part of her career in New York. Between 1959 and 1966, Swenson was an editor at New Directions; she has also taught for brief periods at several schools including Purdue University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of California at Riverside. She has been recognized with numerous awards and grants, most recently a Bollingen Prize in 1981.
Swenson has produced nine volumes of poetry, one play, and one collection of translations of Swedish poetry. Critics have recognized her naturalist's ability to observe and describe details of the physical world--a distinguishing feature of her work which places her in a position of significant influence in contemporary poetry.
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Washington University's May Swenson Papers contain manuscript and editorial material toward most of her books including Another Animal (1954), A Cage of Spines (1958), To Mix with Time: New and Selected Poems (1963), and Half Sun Half Sleep (1967). This material includes drafts of individual poems as well as letters to and from various editors, friends, and readers. Swenson's correspondents include John Hall Wheelock, and Burroughs Mitchell, but the most fascinating portion of May Swenson's Papers is her correspondence with the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. The two were close friends and Washington University holds 268 of their letters written from 1950 to 1979, the year of Bishop's death.
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May Swenson papers, Accrual 1, |
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| Series I. Correspondence, | ||||||||||||
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| Subseries I.1 Business Correspondence, 1935 - 1994, | |||||||||||||
| Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||||
| 1/1 | Swenson Business 1935., 1 item. | ||||||||||||
| 1/2 | Swenson Business 1940., 1 item. | ||||||||||||
| 1/3 | Swenson Business 1949., ca. 55 items. | ||||||||||||
| 1/4 | Swenson Business 1950., ca. 75 items. | ||||||||||||
| 1/5 | Swenson Business 1951., ca. 95 items. | ||||||||||||
| 1/6 | Swenson Business 1952., ca. 45 items. | ||||||||||||
| 1/7 | Swenson Business 1953., ca. 62 items. | ||||||||||||
| 1/8 | Swenson YMCA Poetry Center, 1953-73, ca. 35 items | ||||||||||||
| 1/9 | Swenson Business 1954., ca. 100 items. | ||||||||||||
| 2/10 | Swenson Business 1955., ca. 90 items. | ||||||||||||
| 2/11 | Swenson Business 1956., ca. 95 items. | ||||||||||||
| 2/12 | Swenson Business 1957., ca. 120 items. | ||||||||||||
| 2/13 | Swenson Donnelly Fellowship, Bryn Mawr, 1954-5, ca. 5 items. | ||||||||||||
| 2/14 | Swenson Breadloaf, 1954-7., ca. 65 items. | ||||||||||||
| 3/15 | Swenson Business 1958 I. Jan.-June 1958, ca. 95 items. | ||||||||||||
| 3/16 | Swenson Business 1958 II. June-Dec., ca. 60 items. | ||||||||||||
| 3/17 | Swenson Business 1959 I. Jan.-June, ca. 95 items. | ||||||||||||
| 3/18 | Swenson Business 1959 II. July-Oct. (some June), ca. 40 items. | ||||||||||||
| 4/19 | Swenson Business 1959 III. Oct.-Dec., ca. 35 items. | ||||||||||||
| 4/20 | Swenson Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation, 1960, ca. 20 items | ||||||||||||
| 4/21 | Swenson Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship 1960, ca. 22 items | ||||||||||||
| 4/22 | Swenson Business 1960, ca. 94 items | ||||||||||||
| 4/23 | Swenson Business 1961, ca. 81 items | ||||||||||||
| 5/24 | Swenson Business 1962., ca. 150 items | ||||||||||||
| 5/25 | Swenson Business 1963 I. Jan-July 1963, ca. 150 items. | ||||||||||||
| 5/26 | Swenson Business correspondence 1963 II. Aug.-Dec. 1963, ca. 105 items. | ||||||||||||
| 5/27 | Swenson Business 1964 I. Jan.-May 1964, ca. 148 items. | ||||||||||||
| 6/28 | Swenson Business 1964 II. May-Dec. 1964, ca. 147 items. | ||||||||||||
| 6/29 | Swenson Business 1965 I. Jan-July 1965, ca. 152 items. | ||||||||||||
| 6/30 | Swenson Business 1965 II. July-Dec. 1965, ca. 149 items. | ||||||||||||
| 6/31 | Swenson -Ford Foundation Theater Grant. 1961-5, ca. 35 items. | ||||||||||||
| 7/32 | Swenson Business 1966., ca. 149 items. | ||||||||||||
| 7/33 | Swenson Purdue Fall 1966 Lessons and Exercises., ca. 54 items | ||||||||||||
| 8/34 | Swenson Business 1967., ca. 174 items | ||||||||||||
| 8/35.I | Swenson Purdue Correspondence, 1965 -1970., ca. 85 items. | ||||||||||||
| Swenson Bus. Cor.: Sister Mary Aaron 1967-1969., ca. 22 items. | |||||||||||||
| 9/36 | Swenson Business 1968., ca. 121 items. | ||||||||||||
| 9/37 | Swenson Correspondence Business 1968., ca. 86 items. | ||||||||||||
| 9/38 | Swenson Business 1969., ca. 175 items. | ||||||||||||
| 9/39 | Swenson U. of North Carolina, Greensboro. 1968-71, ca. 50 items. | ||||||||||||
| 10/40 | Swenson Business 1970., ca. 188 items. | ||||||||||||
| 10/41 | Swenson Business 1971., ca. 166 items. | ||||||||||||
| 10/42 | Swenson Los Angeles Reading Tour, 1971 (Ann Stanford.), ca. 35 items. | ||||||||||||
| 11/43 | Swenson Business 1972., ca. 141 items. | ||||||||||||
| 11/44 | Swenson National Book Award Committee, 1972., ca. 32 items. | ||||||||||||
| 11/45 | Swenson Business 1973., ca. 114 items. | ||||||||||||
| 11/46 | Swenson Business 1974., ca. 173 items. | ||||||||||||
| 12/47 | Swenson Bollingen Award (Panelist 1973, Recipient 1981)., ca. 52 items. | ||||||||||||
| 12/48 | Bushmaker MA Thesis on Swenson Correspondence, 1973-1974., ca. 10 items. | ||||||||||||
| 12/49 | Swenson Business 1975 Jan.-Sept. 1975, ca. 108 items. | ||||||||||||
| 12/50 | Swenson Business Correspondence 1975 II. Sept-Dec., ca. 87 items. | ||||||||||||
| 12/51 | Swenson CAPS 1975 (Creative Artists Public Service), ca. 15 items. | ||||||||||||
| 12/52 | Swenson Business 1976., ca. 92 items. | ||||||||||||
| 13/53 | Swenson Copernicus and Poe Awards, 1976., ca. 39 items. | ||||||||||||
| 13/54 | Swenson Business 1977., ca. 152 items. | ||||||||||||
| 13/55 | Swenson Bryn Mawr Reading (1977) and Marianne Moore Fund., ca. 19 items. | ||||||||||||
| 14/56 | Swenson Business 1978 I. Jan.-May 1978, ca. 113 items. | ||||||||||||
| 14/57 | Swenson Business 1978 II. June-Dec. 1978, ca. 123 items. | ||||||||||||
| 15/58 | National Book Awards 1979, ca. 14 items. | ||||||||||||
| 15/59 | Swenson Business 1979 I. Jan.-June 1979, ca. 120 items. | ||||||||||||
| 15/60 | Swenson Business 1979 II. July-Dec. 1979, ca. 132 items. | ||||||||||||
| 16/61 | Swenson Business 1980., ca. 200 items. | ||||||||||||
| 16/62 | Swenson -Austin 1980, ca. 49 items. | ||||||||||||
| 16/63 | Swenson Buffalo Reading 1980, ca. 23 items. | ||||||||||||
| 16/64 | Swenson Business 1981 (Awards, grands, readings, etc.), ca. 170 items. | ||||||||||||
| 17/65 | Swenson Readings, teaching, and business correspondence., ca. 204 items. | ||||||||||||
| 17/66 | Swenson Business 1983 I. Jan.-Aug. 1983, ca. 100 items. | ||||||||||||
| 17/67 | Swenson Academy of American Poets I: 1983-1988., ca. 118 items. | ||||||||||||
| 18/68 | Swenson Business 1983 II. July-Dec. 1983, ca. 92 items. | ||||||||||||
| 18/69 | Swenson Library of Congress 1968-9, 1983, ca. 24 items. | ||||||||||||
| 18/70 | Swenson Academy of American Poets II: 1983-1988., ca. 139 items. | ||||||||||||
| 19/71 | Swenson Business 1984 I. Jan.-May. 1984, ca. 96 items | ||||||||||||
| 19/72 | Swenson Business 1984 II. June-Dec. 1984, ca. 93 items. | ||||||||||||
| 19/73 | Swenson Business 1985., ca. 139 items | ||||||||||||
| 20/74 | Swenson Business 1986. Jan.-Nov. 1986, ca. 127 items. | ||||||||||||
| 20/75 | Swenson Correspondence Business (1986)., ca. 38 items. | ||||||||||||
| 20/76 | Swenson Business 1987 I. Jan.-June 1987, ca. 91 items. | ||||||||||||
| 20/77 | Swenson Business 1987 II. July-Dec. 1987, ca. 120 items. | ||||||||||||
| 21/78 | Swenson Business 1988 I. Jan.-June 1988, ca. 106 items. | ||||||||||||
| 21/79 | Swenson Business Correspondence 1988 II. July-Dec. 1988, ca. 150 items | ||||||||||||
| 21/80 | Swenson Business 1989 I. Jan.-June 1989, ca. 145 items. | ||||||||||||
| 22/81 | Swenson Business Correspondence 1989 II. July-December 1989, ca. 124 items. | ||||||||||||
| 22/82 | Swenson Business Correspondence 1990 I. Jan.- Oct. 1990, ca. 110 items. | ||||||||||||
| 22/83 | Swenson Business Correspondence 1990 II. Oct.-Dec. 1990, ca. 119 items. | ||||||||||||
| 23/84 | Swenson Business Correspondence Jan. 2-June 18, 1991, ca. 77 items. | ||||||||||||
| 23/85 | Swenson Business Correspondence June 25 -Dec 20, 1991., ca. 65 items. | ||||||||||||
| 23/86 | Swenson Business Correspondence 1992., ca. 116 items. | ||||||||||||
| 23/87 | Swenson Business Correspondence 1993., ca. 122 items. | ||||||||||||
| 23/88 | Swenson Business Correspondence Jan. 17-Feb. 14, 1994., ca. 10 items. | ||||||||||||
| 23/89 | Swenson Correspondence Business Undated., ca. 17 items. | ||||||||||||
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| Subseries I.2 Business Correspondence, Organizations, | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by organization name. | |||||||||||||
| 24/90 | Swenson American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1980 -1982., ca. 92 items. | ||||||||||||
| 24/91 | American Academy of Arts and Letters., 20 items. | ||||||||||||
| 24/92 | American Booksellers Association., ca. 8 items. | ||||||||||||
| 24/93 | American Poetry Review., 4 items. | ||||||||||||
| 24/94 | American Review., 10 items. | ||||||||||||
| 24/95 | Antaeus., 13 items. | ||||||||||||
| 24/96 | Anthology of Magazine Verse., 3 items. | ||||||||||||
| 24/97 | APHRA (magazine)., 5 items. | ||||||||||||
| 24/98 | BBC., 5 items. | ||||||||||||
| 24/99 | Beyond Baroque (California State University, Northridge)., ca. 8 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/100 | Books and Company., ca. 8 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/101 | Breadloaf. 1976, ca. 35 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/102 | Caedmon Records., ca. 36 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/103 | The Carleton Miscellany (magazine)., ca. 6 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/104 | The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (The Poet’s Corner), 3 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/105 | Chelsea (magazine)., 11 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/106 | Chicago Tribune., ca. 8 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/107 | Children’s Book Council., 1 item. | ||||||||||||
| 25/108 | College of William and Mary., 11 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/109 | Colorado College (The Press -Broadsides for Four Word Lines.)., 14 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/110 | Comentary (magazine)., 3 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/111 | Contact & The Western Review., ca. 33 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/112 | Contemporary Poetry., 5 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/113 | Cornell., ca. 6 items. | ||||||||||||
| 25/114 | Cornell Review., 4 items. | ||||||||||||
| 26/115 | C.W. Post College (Long Island University)., ca. 16 items. | ||||||||||||
| 26/116 | Decordova (Ling, Mass)., 6 items. | ||||||||||||
| 26/117 | Friends of Libraries, 6 items. | ||||||||||||
| 26/118 | Gallimaufry (magazine)., 2 items. | ||||||||||||
| 26/119 | Harvard., ca. 25 items. | ||||||||||||
| 26/120 | Indiana University Writers Conference., ca. 20 items. | ||||||||||||
| 26/121 | International Poetry Forum (Samuel Hazo)., ca. 58 items. | ||||||||||||
| 26/122 | Ladies Home Journal., 7 items. | ||||||||||||
| 26/123 | Lafayette College. (Roethke Festival), ca. 22 items. | ||||||||||||
| 26/124 | Light year (anthology)., ca. 18 items. | ||||||||||||
| 26/125 | Little, Brown Contracts., ca. 41 items | ||||||||||||
| 27/126 | MacArthur Fellowship Program, ca. 25 items | ||||||||||||
| 27/127 | Macdowell colony., ca. 119 items. | ||||||||||||
| 27/128 | Mademoiselle., ca. 41 items. | ||||||||||||
| 27/129 | McGraw Hill (The Modern Poets Anthologies)., ca. 16 items. | ||||||||||||
| 28/130 | Media Plus, ca. 48 items. | ||||||||||||
| 28/131 | National Council of Teachers of English, ca. 34 items | ||||||||||||
| 28/132 | National Institute of Arts and Letters, ca. 73 items | ||||||||||||
| 28/133 | National Institute of Arts and Letters (Ceremonies), ca. 30 items | ||||||||||||
| 28/134 | Correspondence, New Directions 1949-1986, ca. 72 items | ||||||||||||
| 28/135 | New York City High School (Poetry contest), ca. 15 items | ||||||||||||
| 29/136 | New York Foundation for the Arts, ca. 9 items | ||||||||||||
| 29/137 | New York University reading & New York Poets course, ca. 17 items | ||||||||||||
| 29/138 | New Yorker, ca. 42 items | ||||||||||||
| 29/139 | Paris Review, ca. 40 items | ||||||||||||
| 29/140 | Basic Books (Poets on Poetry anthology), ca. 25 items | ||||||||||||
| 29/141 | Correspondence, Poetry, 1949-1958, ca. 50 items | ||||||||||||
| 29/142a | Correspondence, Poetry, 1959-1989, ca. 93 items | ||||||||||||
| 29/142b | Poetry in Public Places, ca. 25 items | ||||||||||||
| 29/142c | Poetry Society of America, ca. 33 items | ||||||||||||
| 29/142d | Correspondence, mss. Editorial matter, 1954-1965, Correspondence Nov. 21-Dec. 9 1963, ca. 24 items | ||||||||||||
| 30/143 | University of California, Riverside, ca. 40 items | ||||||||||||
| 30/144 | University of Letheridge, ca. 33 items | ||||||||||||
| 30/145 | University of North Carolina at Greensboro, ca. 20 items | ||||||||||||
| 30/146 | Utah State University (students), ca. 21 items | ||||||||||||
| 30/147 | Utah Readings, 1982, ca. 15 items | ||||||||||||
| 30/148 | Visiting Hurst Professor, 1982, ca. 47 items | ||||||||||||
| 30/149 | Yaddo, ca. 48 items | ||||||||||||
| 30/150 | Yaddo, ca 26 items | ||||||||||||
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| Subseries I.3 Business Correspondence - Financial, | |||||||||||||
| 31/151 | Taxes 1978, ca. 285 items | ||||||||||||
| 31/152 | Taxes 1979, ca. 213 items | ||||||||||||
| 31/153 | Taxes 1980, ca. 177 items | ||||||||||||
| 32/154a | Taxes 1981, ca. 198 items | ||||||||||||
| 32/154b | Bank books (1), ca. 28 items | ||||||||||||
| 32/154c | Bank books (2), ca, 13 items | ||||||||||||
| 33/154d | Tax info 1983, ca.124 items | ||||||||||||
| 33/155 | Taxes 1982, ca. 134 items | ||||||||||||
| 33/156 | Taxes 1983, ca. 81 items | ||||||||||||
| 34/157 | Taxes 1983, ca. 212 items | ||||||||||||
| 34/158 | Taxes 1984, ca. 180 items | ||||||||||||
| 35/159 | Taxes 1984-1985, ca. 55 items | ||||||||||||
| 35/160 | Taxes 1986, ca. 224 items | ||||||||||||
| 35/161 | Taxes 1985, ca. 212 items | ||||||||||||
| 36/162 | Taxes 1987, ca. 50 items | ||||||||||||
| 36/163 | Estimated Taxes, 1987-1988, ca. 80 items | ||||||||||||
| 36/164 | Declared Taxes, 1988, ca. 200 items. | ||||||||||||
| 37/165 | Taxes 1988, ca. 18 items. | ||||||||||||
| 37/166a | Taxes 1989, ca. 18 items | ||||||||||||
| 37/166b | The Amalgamated Bank of New York cancelled checks 1986-1987, 1 item | ||||||||||||
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| Series II. Manuscripts by Swenson, | ||||||||||||
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| Series II.1. Poems individually titled, | |||||||||||||
| Poems arranged alphabetically by title | |||||||||||||
| 38/ 167 | Above the Aruo., August 21, 1960 1 item (16 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 168 | Advice to the Sexes., June 8, 1965 1 item (2 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 169 | Alone in the House., 1 item (1 p. | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 170 | Alternate Hosts, 1952-1959 1 item (5 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Begun 1952, completed November 1959 | |||||||||||||
| 38/ 171 | The Alyscamps at Arles, July 1, 1960 1 item (9 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 172 | Another Spring Uncovered; An April Day, Mar. 24, 1957 1 item (11 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 173 | Asleep, 1 item (2 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 174 | As Long Ago as Far Away, 1958-1976 1 item (12 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Published in Long Pond Review January 1976, begun February 1958 | |||||||||||||
| 38/ 175 | At the Museum of Modern Art, Feb. 1959 1 item (11 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 176 | Behind my eyes…, 1 item (1 p.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 177 | A Boy Looking at Big David, Aug. 22, 1960 1 item (10 pp,) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 178 | Cabala, August 27 (22?), 1961 1 item (11 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editorial matter. | |||||||||||||
| 38/ 179 | Cat and I, 1 item (1p.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 180 | Cat and the Weather, Feb. 4, 1961 1 item (9 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 181 | Celebration, April 22, 1971 1 item (4 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 182 | A Clear Night on Mt. Hopkins, November 23, 1989 1 item (17 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 183 | The Contraption, Summer 1959 1 item (14 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 184 | A Couple; June, June 1958 1 item (21 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 185 | The Crossing, August 1957 1 item (3 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 186 | Daffodildo, June 24, 1981 1 item (17 pp.), | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1981. | |||||||||||||
| 38/ 187 | Dancer, Published in The Atlantic November 1954 1 item (1 p.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 188 | Dear John, July 10, 1989 1 item (4 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 189 | Death Invited, June 4, 1960 1 item (13 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 190 | December 10th, 1 item (1 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 191 | DeChirico: Superimposed Interiors, Dec., 1956 1 item (27 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 192 | The Desk, The Body, 1 item (3 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 193 | Distance and a Certain Light, Oct. 2, 1959 1 item (9 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 194 | Downward; The Reason, 1961 1 item (15 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 195 | Each Like A Leaf, Feb., 1962 1 item (9 pp. ) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 196 | East River, February, February 1958 1 item (16 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 197 | Easter: A Walk on Broadway, July 1965 1 item (11 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editoral matter. | |||||||||||||
| 38/ 198 | Exact Cause Unknown, January 2, 1989 1 item (20 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 199 | The Exchange, Aug. 5, 1961 1 item (12 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 200 | Facing, September 4, 1956 1 item (2 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 201 | Feeling Sorry, 1 item (5 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 202 | Fireflies, Aug. 1961 1 item (17 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 203 | A Fixture, Feb., 1959 1 item (14 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 204 | The Fluffy Stuff, January 26, 1986 1 item (31 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 205 | Flying Home from Utah, published in New Yorker June 23, 1963 1 item 7p. | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 206 | Fountains of Aix; Fontaines Aixoise, July 5, 1960 1 item (15 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 207 | From the Office Window; Late Afternoon by a Window, Feb. 1959 1 item (15 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 208 | From Sea Cliff, March, January 11, 1977 1 item (6 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editorial matter 1977 | |||||||||||||
| 38/ 209 | God; The Name, Apr. 7, 1961 1 item (8 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 210 | Guilty, January 18, 1989 1 item (10 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editorial matter 1989 | |||||||||||||
| 38/ 211 | Haymaking, Written 1936, published 1949, corrected December 9, 1964 1 item 2p. | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 212 | Honorable Mention, 1 item (1 p. ) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 213 | Horse, post-it note on folder says: incl. Xerox of ms. published in Nation, 1993 1 item (4 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 214 | How Could We Leave You?, illegible post-it note on folder (includes word unpub.) 1 item (3 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 215 | How to be Old, Oct. 23, 1960 1 item (17 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 38/ 216 | A Hurricane at Sea, Nov., 1960 1 item (10 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1954-1965. [NS. | |||||||||||||
| 39/ 217 | I’m Coming Toward You, August 1941 1 item (3 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editorial matter 1941. | |||||||||||||
| 39/ 218 | Incantation, contains Xeroxes 1 item (4 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 219 | Inchworm, June 27, 1967 1 item (2 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Published in The New Republic April 26, 1969 | |||||||||||||
| 39/ 220 | In Love Made Visible, 1 item (3 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editorial matter | |||||||||||||
| 39/ 221 | In March, 1984, 1 item (2 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 4 leaves incl. Xerox of one page | |||||||||||||
| 39/ 222 | Instead of the Camargue, July, 1960 1 item (51 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 223 | Italian Sampler, Oct, 1960 1 item (11 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 224 | Japanese Breakfast, August 26, 1961 1 item (14 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 225 | Kiwi, 1 item (16 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 226 | Landing on the Moon, Feb. 1958 1 item (35 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 227 | Last Day, Dec. 1986 1 item (9 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 228 | Let us Prepare; Something Else; Ourselves, July 8, 1961 1 item (20 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 229 | Listening to Strauss and Stroking an Autumn-Colored Cat, 1 item (5 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 230 | Living Tenderly, June 10, 1962 1 item (4 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1950-1965. | |||||||||||||
| 39/ 231 | Look Closer, July 31, 1988 1 item (26 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1988. | |||||||||||||
| 39/ 232 | Love Sleeping, 1 item (5 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 233 | The Many Christs, 1 item (22 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss. editorial matters | |||||||||||||
| 39/ 234 | Manyone Flying, February 16, 1977 1 item (6 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 235 | March 4, 1965 (poem), 1 item (1 p.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 236 | A May Night, November 1959 1 item (ca. 8 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 237 | Memory of the Future? Prophecy of the Past?, December 11, 1988 1 item (16 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 238 | The most important thing I can do just now…, 1 item (5 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 239 | The Museum of the Sea, 1 item (3 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 240 | My Farm, 1 item (3 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 241 | Night Practice, 1957(?) 1 item (14 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1954-1965. | |||||||||||||
| 39/ 242 | Night Visits with the Family II, June 1988 1 item (7 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 243 | Notes Made in the Piazza San Marco, August 14, 1960 1 item (20 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 244 | Once there were Glaciers, 1 item (14 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 245 | One Morning in New Hampshire, August 11, 1956 1 item (ca. 40 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 246 | On Lighting the Fire, 1 item (ca. 20 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 247 | An Opening (intro for poems), 1 item (4 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 248 | Out of my Head; The Idea; Out, Nov. 1959 1 item (7 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 39/ 249 | Overview, June 20, 1969 1 item (6 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 250 | Paired Words, 1 item (12 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 251 | The Pantheon, Rome, Sept. 26, 1960 1 item (24 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 252 | Picasso: Dream. Oil. 1932, Dec. 29, 1968 1 item (7 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 253 | Pigeon Woman, Summer 1959 1 item (15 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 254 | The Primitive, Aug. 16, 1961 1 item (36 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 255 | Prison Architecture, 1 item (11 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 256 | A Rescue, 1 item (2 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 257 | The Rest of My Life, 1 item (34 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Publ. in Poetry Feb. 1988 | |||||||||||||
| 40/ 258 | The Retreat of the Tide, begun 1962 1 item (7 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Publ. in Chicago Tribune | |||||||||||||
| 40/ 259 | Riddle of One Hundred and One Rhymes, 1 item (ca.18 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 260 | Riding the "A", May 15, 1959 1 item (17 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 261 | The Sea, 1 item (4 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 262 | Seasons of Being, 1956 6 items (ca. 26 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Includes 3 gallery programs, 1 letter from Rolick, + some Rolick prints/ | |||||||||||||
| 40/ 263 | Seeing the Frog, Aug 1, 1961 1 item (19 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 264 | Seven Days on the Sea, April 1960 1 item (65 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 265 | The Shape of Death, 1954 1 item (6 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 266 | Skopus, 1 item (2 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 267 | Sleeping With Boa, Nov. 28, 1980 1 item (11 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| The real title appears to be Sleeping With Boa (as per the drafts in folder) I corrected the title on folder (was: Sleeping With the Boa) | |||||||||||||
| 40/ 268 | The Snowy, 1 item (16 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 269 | The Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay, April 23, 1962 1 item (17 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 270 | Snow on New York; Gift From the Alps, Feb. 19, 1958 1 item (20 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 271 | Southbound on the Freeway, June 10, 1962 1 item (4 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 272 | Staring at the Sea on the Day of the Death of Another, Dec. 28, 1972 1 item (15 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 273 | Staring Into the Grate, June 23, 1964 1 item (13 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 274 | Statistics, Nov. 25, 1963 1 item (41 pp.): + clippings | ||||||||||||
| Lip of folder is labeled differently: simply Drafts and Material toward Statistics (Kennedy Memorial Poem) | |||||||||||||
| 40/ 275 | Stripping and Putting On, September 2, 1986 1 item (5 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 276 | Sunset, July 14, 1965 1 item (2 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 40/ 277 | The Surface, August 1961 1 item (14 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 278 | That One, July 28, 1963 1 item (8 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 279 | This is That, 1 item (13 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 280 | The Time Came, 1957 1 item (16 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 281 | To Frankie, 1 item 1 p. | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 282 | The Totem, July, 1958 1 item (17 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 283 | A Tree in Spring, April 25, 1989 1 item (26 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 284 | Trinity Churchyard, spring 1961 (poem), March, 1958; Oct. 1961/ 1 item (30 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 285 | The Truth is Forced, March 16, 1961 1 item (6 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 286 | The Universe, April 7, 1961/ 1 item (10 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 287 | Waking at Drum Rock, 1 item (5 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 288 | Weather, 1 item (8 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 289 | What I Did on a Rainy Day, 1p 1 item | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 290 | What is Nameless, 1 item (6 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 291 | When You Lie Down, the Sea Stands Up, August 1959/ 1 item (4 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 292 | While Sitting in the Tuileries and Facing the Slanting Sun, Oct. 1960/ 1 item (16 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 293 | Whiteness, August 16, 1975/ 1 item (12 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, mss., editorial matter | |||||||||||||
| 41/ 294 | Wingfolk, 1 item (3 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 295 | The Wish to Escape to Inner Space, Jan. 1958/ 1 item (9 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 296 | Woman in a Garden II, November 27, 1989 1 item (12 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 297 | The Woods at Night, April 28, 1962/ 1 item (6 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 298 | Third Floor Walk-up, Sept 1986/ 1 item (16 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Corrected front of folder from 8 ps. to match lip. | |||||||||||||
| 41/ 299a | Dates for To Mix With Time, 1 item (4 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 41/ 299b | Master Index to poetry publications., 1 item (35 pp.): photocopy | ||||||||||||
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| Series II.2. Collected and Unpublished Poems., | |||||||||||||
| 42/300 | Swenson Manuscripts, Collected and Unpublished Poems, 57 items | ||||||||||||
| This contains multiple drafts of a number of poems in no apparent order. The drafts also appear to be out of order. Close to half of the folder is comprised of drafts of a poem entitled You, It and The. Towards the end of the folder there are a number of poems with only one draft. Ca. 66 items. | |||||||||||||
| 42/301 | Swenson Material Toward Another Animal, 48 items | ||||||||||||
| This folder contains primarily royalty statements and newspaper clippings. | |||||||||||||
| 42/302 | Swenson Material Toward A Cage of Spines, ca. 70 items | ||||||||||||
| A card dated Aug. 14, 1958 from Baerth (?) is flagged in the folder it appears totally unrelated to the rest of the material.Letters to publishers, newpaper clippings, royalty statements, business correspondence. | |||||||||||||
| 42/303 | Swenson manuscripts Material Toward Converging Parallels, 7 items | ||||||||||||
| Contains Ts of Converging Parallels. Also earlier drafts of Palm Beach Camp with a draft of Jan. 1, ’69. Picasso: Dream.Oil. 1932 on the same page as one of the drafts. Also an early Ms notebook of Converging Parallels. | |||||||||||||
| 42/304 | Swenson Manuscript, Earthlight on the Moon, 20 items | ||||||||||||
| A newspaper clipping, a letter from Harry Ford, and assemblage of photocopies of poems towards Earthlight on the Moon. I would say 3 items. | |||||||||||||
| 42/305 | Swenson Manuscripts and Material Toward Guess + Spell Coloring Book, 88 items. | ||||||||||||
| Includes galley proofs and Xeroxed material toward Guess + Spell Coloring Book | |||||||||||||
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| Series II.3 Published Poetry Collections, | |||||||||||||
| II.3.a Material towards Iconographs, | |||||||||||||
| 43/306a | Iconographs Drafts with titles beginning B to O (first folder), (ca. 215 pp) | ||||||||||||
| This folder contains drafts of poems towards Iconographs. | |||||||||||||
| 43/306b | Iconographs Drafts with titles beginning B to O (second folder), (ca. 215 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Item count is an estimation. Folder contains drafts of poems towards Iconographs | |||||||||||||
| 44/307a | Iconographs Drafts P to Z (first folder), (ca. 200 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Item count is an estimation. Folder contains drafts of poems towards Iconographs | |||||||||||||
| 44/307b | Iconographs Drafts P to Z (second folder), (ca. 200 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Item count is an estimation. Folder contains drafts of poems towards Iconographs | |||||||||||||
| 45/308 | Material Toward Iconographs, (ca. 90 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Contains uncorrected 1st proof of Iconographs and the original envelop containing it | |||||||||||||
| 45/309 | Material Toward Iconographs, (ca. 44 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Contains preface and some drafts of poems | |||||||||||||
| 45/310 | Iconographs Pub. Correspondence, (ca. 150 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Includes paste-up of Iconographs and correspondence towards the publication of Iconographs | |||||||||||||
| 45/311 | Iconographs - Reviews, comments, (ca 110 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings, reprintings, references to Swenson’s poetry, reviews, commentary | |||||||||||||
| 45/312 | Iconographs Manuscript: Scribner Copy., Jan. 1971 (ca. 86pp) | ||||||||||||
| Ms. of Iconographs, original envelope, + Swenson’s notes on production of Iconographs. There is also a cardboard tube, not numbered, containing title proofs for Iconographs. | |||||||||||||
| II.3.b. Material toward In Other Words, | |||||||||||||
| 46/313 | Swenson Drafts and Manuscripts (Material Toward In Other Words), (94 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems toward In Other Words | |||||||||||||
| 46/314 | Swenson Material Toward In Other Words, (72 items) | ||||||||||||
| Also drafts of poems | |||||||||||||
| 46/315 | Swenson Manuscripts IV (Material Toward In Other Words), (168 items) | ||||||||||||
| More drafts of poems. | |||||||||||||
| 47/316 | Swenson Manuscripts and Material Toward In Other Words I, (90 items) | ||||||||||||
| More drafts, clippings related to the space program, a note toward the publication | |||||||||||||
| 47/317 | Swenson Manuscripts and Materials toward In Other Words II, (84 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts, and clippings related to the space program. | |||||||||||||
| 47/318 | Swenson Manuscripts and Material Toward In Other Words III, (93 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts, clippings toward drafts | |||||||||||||
| 47/319 | Swenson Manuscripts and Material Toward In Other Words IV, (50 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts | |||||||||||||
| 48/320 | Swenson Drafts of Banyan, (59 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts and some other material (e.g. clippings, a postcard) | |||||||||||||
| 48/321 | Swenson Manuscripts toward Things and In Other Words, (48 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems | |||||||||||||
| 48/322 | Swenson Manuscripts towards In Other Words - 2nd Copy, (95pp) | ||||||||||||
| Contains a mock-up of In Other Words | |||||||||||||
| 48/323 | Swenson Drafts, Some Quadrangles (in In Other Words), (66 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts and an intro to the presentation of Some Quadrangles to the Phi Beta Kappa of Massachusetts. | |||||||||||||
| II.3.cMaterial towards .Love Poems, | |||||||||||||
| 49/324 | Swenson Correspondence on (posthumous) Love Poems 1990-1, (29 items) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence regarding primarily the publication of Love Poems | |||||||||||||
| 49/325 | Swenson Material toward Love Poems Drafts of poems, (15 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts | |||||||||||||
| II.3.d.More Poems to Solve, | |||||||||||||
| 49/326 | Swenson: More Poems to Solve, (115 items) | ||||||||||||
| Photocopy proof, mock-up, photocopy mock-up, correspondence | |||||||||||||
| 49/327 | Swenson Material towards More Poems to Solve, (23 items) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence and material towards the publication thereof | |||||||||||||
| II.3.e.Material toward New and Selected things Taking Place, | |||||||||||||
| 49/328 | New and Selected Things Taking Place, (183 items) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, material toward publication | |||||||||||||
| 49/329 | Swenson poems considered for inclusion in Things Taking Place, (15 items) | ||||||||||||
| Poems, some with multiple drafts | |||||||||||||
| 50/330 | Material toward Things Taking Place Drafts of The Pure Suit of Happiness with draft of unpub. Poem on back of last pg., (6 items) | ||||||||||||
| Description on folder is accurate, but out of order (drafts are upside-down and backwards, I think) | |||||||||||||
| 50/331 | Swenson Manuscripts and Drafts, New and Selected Things, (54 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems | |||||||||||||
| 50/332 | Swenson Manuscripts and Drafts, New and Selected Things, (48 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems | |||||||||||||
| 50/333 | Swenson Manuscripts and Drafts, New and Selected Things, (78 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems | |||||||||||||
| 50/334 | Swenson Manuscripts and Drafts, New and Selected Things, (49 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems | |||||||||||||
| 50/335 | Swenson Manuscripts and Drafts, New and Selected Things, (42 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems | |||||||||||||
| 51/336 | Swenson Material toward New and Selected Things Taking Place, (87 items) | ||||||||||||
| Reviews, clippings, press, and some correspondence. Some material that doesn’t appear directly related to New and Selected Things, but came from the period of time surrounding its publication. | |||||||||||||
| 51/337 | Swenson Manuscripts V (Material toward New and Selected Things Taking Place, (187 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems, material towards poems | |||||||||||||
| 52/338 | Swenson Drafts, Things Taking Place, (79 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems, list of contents. | |||||||||||||
| 52/339 | Swenson Manuscripts II (Material Toward New and Selected Things Taking Place), (169 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems | |||||||||||||
| 52/340 | Swenson Manuscripts III (Material Toward New and Selected Things Taking Place), (99 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems | |||||||||||||
| II.3.f. Poems to Solve, | |||||||||||||
| 53/341 | Swenson Material Toward Poems to Solve, (70 items) | ||||||||||||
| Clippings, correspondence, material towards publication, drafts, uncorrected galleys, other miscellaneous material | |||||||||||||
| 53/342 | Swenson Manuscripts, Poems to Solve, (47 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Proofs, paste-ups | |||||||||||||
| 53/343 | Swenson Material toward Poems to Solve (1966-9), (29 items) | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence surrounding the publication, reviews, commentary | |||||||||||||
| II.3.g To Mix with Time, | |||||||||||||
| 53/344 | Swenson Material toward cassette, To Mix with Time, (9 items) | ||||||||||||
| Notes, intro, and correspondence about the tape | |||||||||||||
| 53/345 | Swenson Reviews and Material toward To Mix with Time-1963, (70 items) | ||||||||||||
| Reviews, correspondence about reviews, comments | |||||||||||||
| 53/346 | Swenson Manuscripts VII The Totem (to Mix with Time), (11 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of The Totem and a few other poems | |||||||||||||
| 53/347 | Swenson Material toward Misc. works, (73 items) | ||||||||||||
| Drafts of poems, some copied from books or prints | |||||||||||||
| 347.I. | Material towards To Mix With Time. Translations by Erika Gueterman of Swenson’s poetry., (ca. 35 items) | ||||||||||||
| 54/347.II. | Swenson May, 1919-. Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1954-1965 To Mix With Time (tss., printer’s copy), (ca. 160 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Also contains note to printer | |||||||||||||
| 54/347.III. | Swenson, May, 1919-. Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1954-1965. To Mix with Time, corrected first proofs, (1 item) | ||||||||||||
| Corrected galley proofs | |||||||||||||
| 54/347.IV. | Swenson, May, 1919-. Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1954-1965. To Mix with Time, corrected second proofs, (1 item) | ||||||||||||
| Corrected galley proofs | |||||||||||||
| 54/347.V. | Swenson, May. 1964. To mix with time [collection of poems. Ts of material for rev. ed., (1 item (2 pp.)) | ||||||||||||
| Blurbs. | |||||||||||||
| 54/347.VI. | Swenson, May, 1919-. Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1954-1965. To Mix with Time, editorial matter. 1963, (5 items) | ||||||||||||
| Book jackets, publication announcements. | |||||||||||||
| 54/347.VII. | Swenson, May, 1919-. Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1954-1965. photographs of Swenson 1954, ’58, ‘60, (8 items) | ||||||||||||
| 1 color, 7 black and white. | |||||||||||||
| 54/347.VIII. | Swenson, May, 1919-. Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1954-1965. Feb. 12, 1965 Text for poetry reading., (1 item (4 pp.)) | ||||||||||||
| Poetry reading for Washington University and U. of Arizona. | |||||||||||||
| II.3.h. Material towards Miscellaneous Works, | |||||||||||||
| 55/348a | Swenson correspondence April 5-December 22 1993. Xerox of contents pg. + index. Material toward Nature; draft of The Sea., (25 items) | ||||||||||||
| Contains correspondence toward Nature, primarily between Rozanne Knudson and Peter Davidson, and Knudson and Wendy Holt; also xeroxes of contents and index and a draft of The Sea. | |||||||||||||
| 55/348b | Swenson, May. Ser. II.3.k. Material towards Misc. Works. The Shadow-Maker & Other Poems, Oct. 17, 1956 (2 items) | ||||||||||||
| Contains poetic sequence, titled as above on front cover, but as Shapes, Riddles, Objects on title page. Also contains Swenson’s notes for possible alternate titles, possible contents. | |||||||||||||
| 55/348c | Swenson, May. Ser. II.3.k. Material towards Misc. Works. 12 New Poems, (1 item) | ||||||||||||
| Poetic sequence, undated but I believe it is fairly early, as Another Animal is listed as one of the 12 New Poems. | |||||||||||||
| 55/348d | Ser. II.3.k Material towards Misc. Works. Gabriela Morisco (Italian Translations of Swenson’s poetry), (ca. 15 items) | ||||||||||||
| Was originally in group II gen. corr. alpha | |||||||||||||
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| Series II.4 Prose, | |||||||||||||
| Subseries II.4.a, Unpublished Prose (Accesion 1951.), | |||||||||||||
| 56/349 | Appetite, (1 item (4 pp.)) | ||||||||||||
| Contains draft of Appetite (My Dad) | |||||||||||||
| 56/350 | Dawn(Birth), (1 item (4 pp) Ts.) | ||||||||||||
| Draft of story | |||||||||||||
| 56/351 | Swenson, May, 1913-1989. American Author. Accesion 1951. Day at the Sea, (8 pp.(ms.)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft of story | |||||||||||||
| 56/352 | Elena, (1 item 3 pp.(ts.)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft of story | |||||||||||||
| 56/353 | A Fable, (1 item (5 pp.)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft of story | |||||||||||||
| 56/354 | The Garden, (1 item 1p (ts.)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft of story | |||||||||||||
| 56/355 | The Hand in the Window, (1 item (2 pp.)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft of story | |||||||||||||
| 56/356 | Hopeless, (1 item 1p. (ts.)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft | |||||||||||||
| 56/357 | How to Live Forever, (1 item 4 pp.(ms.)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft | |||||||||||||
| 56/358 | The Jungle, (1 item (3 pp.) (ts., corrected)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft | |||||||||||||
| 56/359 | The Lot, (1 item (5 pp.) (ts.)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft | |||||||||||||
| 56/360 | A Movie, (1 item (5 pp.)(ts.)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft | |||||||||||||
| 56/361 | May, (1 item 2 pp.(ts.)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft | |||||||||||||
| 56/362 | Old Man, (1 item 1p (ts., corrected)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft | |||||||||||||
| 56/363 | On the Mall, (1 item (5 pp.)(ts., corrected)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft | |||||||||||||
| 56/364 | Swenson Prose Report of an Experiment Dug up at the Site of a Buried Archaelogical Museum on Market Street…(vision), (3 items 12 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Contains 2 drafts and clippings toward story | |||||||||||||
| 56/365 | Sleep, (2 items (4 pp.)(ms., ts., corrected)) | ||||||||||||
| 1 draft with some overlap between ts. and ms. | |||||||||||||
| 56/366 | The Bayamon Story, (1 item (4 pp.) (ms.)) | ||||||||||||
| 1 draft. | |||||||||||||
| 56/367 | Story in 3 Episodes, (1 item (5 pp.) (ms.)) | ||||||||||||
| Actually 1 draft of Story in 3 Episodes (3 pp.) and 1 draft of A Fable (2 pp.), both ms. | |||||||||||||
| 56/368 | The Suicide, (1 item (7 pp.)(ts.)) | ||||||||||||
| 1 draft | |||||||||||||
| 56/369 | The Tree-House, (2 items (17 pp.) (ts. corrected)) | ||||||||||||
| Contains ts. draft of story and ms. outline for story | |||||||||||||
| 56/370 | World of Childhood, (1 item (1 p.) (ts.)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft | |||||||||||||
| 56/371 | Untitled: A woman now forty years old…, (1 item (2 pp.) (ts. corrected)) | ||||||||||||
| Draft 3 pp.2 leaves | |||||||||||||
| 56/372 | Miscellaneous short fiction., (3 items (4 pp.)) | ||||||||||||
| Contains Oodles of Noodlesto be Nude Next Year: 1973 Fashion Forecast by Roberta Frosting , My George (author unknown) and untitled Leonardo da Vinci took his quil (sic) (author unknown) | |||||||||||||
| Series II.4.b. Published Prose, | |||||||||||||
| 57/373 | Swenson Manuscripts A Book of Days (prose), ca, 1950-1959 (59 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| apparent journal by Swenson. Contains dreams and waking experiences. | |||||||||||||
| 57/374 | Swenson A Clean World, (27pp) | ||||||||||||
| Ts. of story and an ALS from J to Swenson | |||||||||||||
| 57/375 | Swenson Conversation with an Angel (prose), (52pp) | ||||||||||||
| About 3 drafts + notes | |||||||||||||
| 57/376 | Swenson The Countess and the Worm (prose), (7pp) | ||||||||||||
| One draft | |||||||||||||
| 57/377 | Swenson Manuscripts. The Day of the Earthquake (prose), ca. 1960-69 (6 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| one ms. draft of story | |||||||||||||
| 57/378 | Swenson A De-Animated Cartoon (prose)/ 1p/ Sept. 23, 1976, (1 ts. draft) | ||||||||||||
| 57/379 | Swenson Do You Know Who I Am?, (11 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 1 ts. draft | |||||||||||||
| 57/380 | Swenson The End of the Line (prose), (6 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 1 ts. draft | |||||||||||||
| 57/381 | Swenson Fables of Things and Other Fables (prose), (54 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| contains ts. drafts of around 11 fables, as well as re-workings of Aesop’s fables. Also contains page of ms. notes at end of folder | |||||||||||||
| 57/382 | Swenson From the Window (prose), (24 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| 1 ts. draft of story | |||||||||||||
| 57/383 | Swenson The Inmost Center (prose), (59 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Ts. with annotation, misc. notes at beginning of folder | |||||||||||||
| 57/384 | Swenson Let’s Be Objective About This (prose), (20 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Notes and Ts. | |||||||||||||
| 57/385 | Swenson The Missing Meteorite, (10pp) | ||||||||||||
| Ts. carbon | |||||||||||||
| 57/386 | Swenson Monkey and Baby-cat (prose), (1p) | ||||||||||||
| Mixed ts. and ms. | |||||||||||||
| 57/387 | Swenson Mutterings of a Middlewoman, (ca. 34 pp. ts + anno., and notes to printer) | ||||||||||||
| 57/388 | Swenson Mythmakers (prose), (18pp) | ||||||||||||
| Ts. + anno. | |||||||||||||
| 57/389 | Swenson An Odyssey and A Pair of Scissors, (5 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Ts. | |||||||||||||
| 57/390 | Swenson One Hundred Pages, (60pp) | ||||||||||||
| Ts., with Idea notes at the beginning of folder | |||||||||||||
| 58/391 | Swenson Manuscripts The Other Room (prose), (13 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Ts.[c | |||||||||||||
| 58/392 | Swenson The Power and the Danger (prose), (19pp) | ||||||||||||
| Complete draft, incomplete drafts, and notes | |||||||||||||
| 58/393 | Swenson A Preliminary Report, (38pp) | ||||||||||||
| Ts. [c, some anno. | |||||||||||||
| 58/394 | Swenson Relics (prose), (ca. 79 pp) | ||||||||||||
| 2 drafts of story, and letters regarding magazine publication. | |||||||||||||
| 58/395 | Swenson Manuscripts The Urinartist (prose), (ca. 25 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Ts. + anno, and note at beginning | |||||||||||||
| 58/396 | Swenson What What (prose), (ca. 22 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Ts.[c, notes and original folder | |||||||||||||
| 58/397 | Swenson You Can’t Have Your Cake, (16 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| Ts., minimal anno. | |||||||||||||
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| Series II.5. Plays, | |||||||||||||
| 59/398 | Swenson Another View (play), 21pp | ||||||||||||
| Contains Ts. of play, and a photograph of a pendulum | |||||||||||||
| 59/399 | Swenson The Boat (play), 15 pp | ||||||||||||
| Contains draft of play, notes and a clipping toward play | |||||||||||||
| 59/400a | Swenson, May, 1919-1989. American Author. Accession 1854. Manuscripts Bow Horse Cane Harp (play), 100 pp | ||||||||||||
| Contains multiple drafts of play. Attn. preservation | |||||||||||||
| 59/400b | Swenson, May, 1919-1989. American Author. Accession 1854. Manuscripts Bow Horse Cane Harp (play), ca. 50pp | ||||||||||||
| Contains one ms. draft of play. Attn. Preservation | |||||||||||||
| 59/400c | Swenson, May, series II.5: plays. The Floor., ca. 13 items | ||||||||||||
| Contains mimeo. draft of play, heavily edited with both ms. and ts. notes. Additional notes regarding line changes, actor notes, character and set notes, bird’s-eye blueprint of the set, newspaper article about Ionesco. See also group II series I.1. general correspondence-alpha. unsent. Box 9 folder 112 for note regarding The Floor. | |||||||||||||
| 59/401 | Swenson Manuscripts. The Floor (play)., 134 pp. | ||||||||||||
| Contains correspondence, notes toward the script and characters, ms. material. | |||||||||||||
| 59/402 | Swenson The Floor (correspondence), September 9, 1988 - April 5, 1991 20 pp. | ||||||||||||
| Contains correspondence concerning the publication of The Floor continued by R. Knudson after Swenson’s death. Knudson correspondence is at front of folder and is filed in reverse chronological order; Swenson correspondence is at back, in chronological order. | |||||||||||||
| 59/403 | Swenson The Floor, manuscript and materials., 29 items | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, Typescript with anno. 2 MS[m, photos, Xeroxed copy of To Make a Play (poem)from Half Sun Half Sleep, programs for Doubles and Opposites, wherein The Floor was presented. | |||||||||||||
| 59/404 | Swenson The Planets (play), 28 items | ||||||||||||
| Contains TS draft of play with heavy annotation, notes toward play, newspaper clippings | |||||||||||||
| 59/405 | Swenson Places Please (play), 2pp | ||||||||||||
| Ts draft | |||||||||||||
| 59/406 | Swenson, May (1919-1989) Play About Relief, May 2, 1937 1 item (10 pp.) Ts draft. | ||||||||||||
| 59/407 | Swenson Why Don’t They Think of Something for Cats to Do? (play), 3 item (6 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| List of things cats can do v. things dogs can do, draft of short story it’s not a play, unless Swenson was planning to work up a play from it. | |||||||||||||
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| Series II.6. Translations, | |||||||||||||
| 60/408 | Swenson Bulgarian Poetry Translation, 1985, ca.31 pp | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, a couple of translations, copy of contents and forward to Poets of Bulgaria | |||||||||||||
| 60/409 | Swenson Translations. Six Contemporary Swedish Poets., 57pp | ||||||||||||
| Photostat manuscript, contains material in both Swedish and English | |||||||||||||
| 60/410 | Swenson: Tranströmer Translations I, 116pp | ||||||||||||
| Primarily correspondence. Representative: Swenson, Tomas Tranströmer, Leif Sjoberg, Samuel Hazo, Frederick Hetzel | |||||||||||||
| 60/411 | Swenson Tranströmer Translations II, 114 items | ||||||||||||
| Mainly correspondence toward publication. Some material at the end of the folder appears unrelated and should perhaps be re-examined. | |||||||||||||
| 60/412 | Swenson Series II.6. Translations. Correspondence with Robert Hass towards Windows & Stones., ca. 14 items | ||||||||||||
| 60/413 | Swenson Material toward Windows and Stones, 23pp | ||||||||||||
| Mainly this material seems to be reviews and commentary immediately following the publication of this volume. | |||||||||||||
| 60/414 | Swenson Windows and Stones (Tomas Tranströmer), 116 items | ||||||||||||
| TS[c of book with some corrections, notes, and some drafts. Also, some pages stuck together that I was hesitant to separate because of water damage. | |||||||||||||
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| Series II.7. Manuscripts toward Readings, | |||||||||||||
| 61/415 | Swenson Honorary award, Utah State U., 1987, 35 items | ||||||||||||
| Material related to or concerning the receipt of this award and surrounding activities primarily correspondence. There is no apparent order. | |||||||||||||
| 61/416 | Swenson Harborfront Reading 1988, 55 items | ||||||||||||
| Poetry selections, informational material and correspondence | |||||||||||||
| 61/417 | Swenson Pen AIDS Benefit, 1988, 3 items | ||||||||||||
| Notes for readings, correspondence toward benefit, program | |||||||||||||
| 61/418 | Swenson Marie Bullock Memorial, Nove. 6 1988, 12 items | ||||||||||||
| Invitations, program, poems to be read | |||||||||||||
| 61/419 | Swenson, May (1919-1989). Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, April 12, 1965 1 item (6 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| This appears to be something like a eulogy | |||||||||||||
| 61/420 | Swenson Ann Stanford Memorial, June 1989 9 items | ||||||||||||
| Program, correspondence, information, poetry selection | |||||||||||||
| 61/421 | Swenson Marianne Moore Birthday, 16 pp. | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, drafts of article for the book | |||||||||||||
| 61/422 | Swenson Talk at Nassau Community College (manuscript + correspondence), 1980 7 items | ||||||||||||
| 2 drafts of manuscripts, and correspondence | |||||||||||||
| 61/423 | Swenson Hallmark K.C. Poetry Contest, 13 pp | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, poems to be judged by Swenson | |||||||||||||
| 61/424 | Swenson Trenton State Reading, 10pp | ||||||||||||
| Draft of speech, correspondence | |||||||||||||
| 61/425 | Swenson Manuscripts of Readings, 44 items | ||||||||||||
| Manuscripts of various readings | |||||||||||||
| 61/426 | Swenson Manuscripts of Readings, 14 pp | ||||||||||||
| More manuscripts of readings | |||||||||||||
| 61/427 | Swenson Introductions to Readings of Others, 27 pp | ||||||||||||
| Introductions; also a bunch of Swenson’s poems. | |||||||||||||
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| Series II.8. Manuscripts toward Reviews, | |||||||||||||
| 62/428 | Swenson Manuscripts of Reviews, 30 items | ||||||||||||
| Manuscripts and correspondence regarding reviews | |||||||||||||
| 62/429 | Goodnight (poem), 1934 1 item (1 p.) | ||||||||||||
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| Series II.9. Juvenalia, | |||||||||||||
| 62/430 | Swenson Early Poetry., 2 items | ||||||||||||
| Contains program for An Old-Fashioned Garden (appears to be early dance performance based on poetry (Dec. 18, 1930)), and manuscript of That Never Told can Be (collection of early poems) | |||||||||||||
| 62/431 | Swenson Manuscripts Early Prose, 10 items | ||||||||||||
| Early prose, one poem bookmarked. | |||||||||||||
| 62/432 | Swenson Early prose (non-fiction), 4 items | ||||||||||||
| Not all non-fiction | |||||||||||||
| 62/433 | Swenson Early Notes and Ideas, 4 items | ||||||||||||
| Notes and ideas | |||||||||||||
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| Series II.10 Introductions, | |||||||||||||
| 63/434 | Swenson Material toward Intro. To Spoon River Anthology, 25 items | ||||||||||||
| Drafts, notes correspondence | |||||||||||||
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| Series II.11 Statements on Poetry, | |||||||||||||
| 63/435 | Manuscripts Swenson Statement on Poetry, 2 items | ||||||||||||
| A letter to Robert Schultz and Rory Holscher of EPOCH (or so claims a note written on the first page), and a preface to something uncertain. I’m not sure of the connection. | |||||||||||||
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| Series II.12 Autobiography, | |||||||||||||
| 63/436 | Swenson Autobiography, 3 items | ||||||||||||
| Contains various short texts of biographical information | |||||||||||||
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| Series III. Interviews, | ||||||||||||
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| 63/437 | Swenson Tourmaline Interview, 1966, (4 items) | ||||||||||||
| Copy of interview for The Tourmaline, correspondence with interviewer and another staff member. | |||||||||||||
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| 63/438 | Swenson Interview, (1 item 17 pp) | ||||||||||||
| Interview of Swenson with notes and corrections by her. Interviewer’s initials are K.H. | |||||||||||||
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| 63/439 | Swenson Interview for KPFA, (1 item 4 pp.) | ||||||||||||
| from Oct 8, 1958 on the radio. Partial text of interview with May Swenson conducted by Eleanor McKinney for station KPFA, San Francisco, Oct. 8, 1958 | |||||||||||||
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| 63/440 | Swenson Interviews with Others, (10 items) | ||||||||||||
| Text of interviews with other persons | |||||||||||||
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| Series IV. Reviews and Bibliography list., | ||||||||||||
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| 63/441 | Swenson, May, 1919-. Correspondence, mss., editorial matter, 1954-1965. Magazines and newspapers containing reviews of publications by Swenson, (1 item (4 pp.)) | ||||||||||||
| List of magazines and newspapers containing this material. | |||||||||||||
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| 63/442a | Swenson Reviews and Notices, (ca. 50 items) | ||||||||||||
| Contains reviews and notices surrounding various publications and honors. | |||||||||||||
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| 63/442b | Swenson Reviews and Notices, (ca. 50 items) | ||||||||||||
| Reviews and notices surrounding various publications and honors. | |||||||||||||
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| 63/443 | Swenson Bibliography and Review List, (28 items) | ||||||||||||
| Various bibliographies, review lists, c.v.’s | |||||||||||||
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| Series V. Clippings, | ||||||||||||
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| 64/444 | Clippings on Swenson, (19 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/445 | Swenson Reviews and Notices, 1956-1973, (43 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/446 | Swenson Miscellaneous Notices, Clippings, Reviews, (93 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/447 | Swenson N.Y. Times, (24 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/448 | Swenson Miscellaneous Clippings, (49 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/449 | Swenson Clippings Name mentioned, 1980, (9 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/450 | Swenson Manuscripts by others (undated), (6 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/451 | Swenson Clippings Moon shot, (51 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/452 | Swenson Clippings Poems of others, (35 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/453 | Swenson Clippings 1960’s (mostly), (42 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/454 | Swenson Clippings 1965, (5 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/455 | Swenson Clippings 1964, (23 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/456 | Swenson Clippings 1987-8, (18 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/457 | Swenson Clippings Space and science, (17 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/458 | Swenson Material toward Baizerman Piece, (8 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/459 | Swenson Clippings Space and moon landing, (21 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/460 | Swenson Miscellaneous Clippings, (46 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/461 | Swenson Miscellaneous Clippings, (38 items) | ||||||||||||
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| 64/462 | Swenson Clippings on Others, (90 items) | ||||||||||||
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