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John Burnett Payne Papers
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John Burnett Payne was born on February 10, 1919 in New Mexico, but grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. His father, Virgil F. Payne, was a chemistry professor at Transylvania College, which Payne ultimately attended from 1935-1938. In 1938, he enrolled in the University of Cincinnati, obtaining his master's degree in English and American Literature. In 1951, he moved to New York and began his teaching career at Pratt University. He wrote a significant amount of poetry, and published much of it. Wind, ManRoot, Charas, Kauri, and Stonecloud are just a few of the literary journals that published his poetry. In The American Zionist, he published an article "My View of Jews in American Literature." Ghosts Scare Tito Rosa and Tell Me You Love Me, Con Edison are two chapbooks Payne published in the 1970s with Kirby Congdon and Interim Books.
Payne began working on a biography of Daniel Fuchs which was never completed nor published. It appears that he was working on another novel about a character named Julie Friedhof, which was also not published. In addition to writing and publishing his own poetry, he worked as a reader for Lancer Books and Avon Books. During the 1960s and 1970s, Payne also wrote book reviews for the Alton Democrat, a daily newspaper in Iowa. He was part of the New York Poets' Cooperative and appeared at poetry readings throughout New York City. He was active in the poetry scene until he died in 1986.
This collection contains a significant amount of correspondence, verse, many of Payne's publications, and his numerous book reviews with Avon Books. Also included are financial records, photographs, artwork and ephemera, and other records. The collection also includes a carbon typescript of a pulp fiction novel "The Wicked and the Warped," possibly written by Payne under the name of Max Alth.
The collection is arranged into 16 series as follows:
Series 1: Reports, 1967-1985, undated
Series 2: Manuscripts and verse, 1931-1986, undated
Series 3: Publications: Payne's, 1967-1989
Series 4: Publications: Published poems, 1966-1978
Series 5: Publications: Book reviews, 1968-1971, undated
Series 6: Activities, 1967-1986, undated
Series 7: Manuscripts: Other authors, 1959-1986, undated
Series 8: Financial, 1950-1986
Series 9: Education/employment, 1931-1970, undated
Series 10: Personal, 1943-1986, undated
Series 11: Research, 1939-1986
Series 12: Correspondence, 1943-1986, undated
Series 13: Photographs, 1947-1986, undated
Series 14: Artwork and ephemera, 1960-1986, undated
Series 15: Magazines and journals, 1957-1986, undated
Series 16: Supplies, undated
Series 2: Manuscripts and verse, 1931-1986, undated
Series 3: Publications: Payne's, 1967-1989
Series 4: Publications: Published poems, 1966-1978
Series 5: Publications: Book reviews, 1968-1971, undated
Series 6: Activities, 1967-1986, undated
Series 7: Manuscripts: Other authors, 1959-1986, undated
Series 8: Financial, 1950-1986
Series 9: Education/employment, 1931-1970, undated
Series 10: Personal, 1943-1986, undated
Series 11: Research, 1939-1986
Series 12: Correspondence, 1943-1986, undated
Series 13: Photographs, 1947-1986, undated
Series 14: Artwork and ephemera, 1960-1986, undated
Series 15: Magazines and journals, 1957-1986, undated
Series 16: Supplies, undated
Donated by Dennis Barone in 1987.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared in July 2011 by Holly Wilson, Special Collections/Reference Librarian. Finding aid revised according to contemporary archival standards in December 2015 by Holly Wilson.
Many books, journals, and chapbooks originally contained within this collection have been removed and cataloged separately:
Cataloged into the Contemporary Culture Collection:
- Blair, Ed, 1909-1967. Ed Blair: Poetry. [N.Y., Ann Blair, 1968].
- Brown, Robert T. Hey There. Poems ... [New York, Judith Graham Brown, 1977].
- Cope, David. Go [Poems]. [Grand Rapids, MI, Nada Press/Big Scream, c1977].
- Creeley, Robert. America. [S.l.: s.n., n.d.] Small broadside.
- Dame, Enid. Between Revolutions. N.Y., Downtown Poets Co-op [c1977].
- Davie, Donald. A Sequence for Francis Parkman. Hessle, Yorkshire, England, The Marvell Press, 1961. "Listenbooks" ... 33 1/3 rpm record included.
- Duffany, Brett. Until Telepathy. Abecedarian Properties of Relative Light. Adams, New York, Dreambooks, 1976.
- Giles, Dolores. Arguello East & the Bluebird of Hackensack. N.Y., The Poet's Press [c1973]. Inscribed to Payne by the author.
- Hayn, Annette. The Crossing. The Poet's Press, 1984.
- Hobson, Dale. Nickelodeon. Twenty Poems ... Potsdam, N.Y., Banjo Press [1976].
- Hoey, Allen. Evening in the Antipodes. Potsdam, New York, Banjo Press [1977]. Inscribed to John Burnett Payne by the author.
- Holland, Barbara A. Autumn Wizard. New York, The Poet's Press [c1973].
- Holland, Barbara A. Burrs. N.Y., Grim Reaper Books [c1977].
- Howard, Quentin R. Tell Me No Sad Tale...but if you do don't expect me to listen. Pikesville, KY, The Wind Press, 1976.
- Lane, Ronnie M. The Blue Quest & Other Poems. [Grand Rapids, MI, Free Press, c1975].
- McMahon, Michael. Ripening for Heaven. [Grand Rapids, MI, Nada Press/Big Scream c1977].
- Patler, Louis. (Ed. & Pub.) Yanagi Three. Mill Valley, CA, Patler, 1976.
- Powell, Shirley, comp. Womansong. The Poet's Press (#56) [N.Y., n.d.]. Poor Condition.
- Rizzon, Bruce. I am the Lonely Sea. Poems... [Grand Rapids, MI, Gearhead Press, c1976.]
- Tafoya, Alfonso. Confrontation at Calvary. Pomeroy, Ohio, Carpenter Press, 1975. Inscribed to Payne by the author
- Glaze, Andrew. A City. Amherst, Mass., Ed Rayher [n.d.]. One of 200 copies.
- Trakl, Georg, 1887-1914. Winter Night. Translated by Allen Hoey. Syracuse, N.Y., Tamarack, 1983. One of 50 copies. Inscribed by Hoey to John Payne.
- Ally. A Poetry Journal. 1978.
- ARX Magazine. Vol. 3, no. 5, September 1969.
- Asterisk. (Pratt Institute) Nos. 16 and 17.
- Centering. 3. Michigan State. 1977.
- Dacotah Territory. Nos. 1 and 2. 1971 and 1972.
- Galley Sail Review, The. A Journal of Poetry. Spring 1986.
- Home Planet News. Vol. 1, no. 1 (1979) and v. 4, no. 3 (1983).
- Kauri. No. 22. September/October 1967.
- Lace Review. A Magazine of Poetry and Prose. No. 3, November 1969.
- Loomings. (No. 1) (1969) Commack High School South (Long Island, N.Y.)
- Quartet. Vol. 3, no. 22 (Spring 1968) and vol. 4, no. 26 (Spring 1969)
- Smith, The. Special issue/6. (Poster) (1966?)
- Talisman (San Jose, CA) No. 12. Winter 1957/Spring 1958.
- Wind. Vol. 6, no. 22, 1976.
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Collection Inventory
Scope and Contents
Series 1: Reports, contains all of the Avon Books Reader's Report from 1967-1985. Payne reviewed books for Avon Books with a summary and his recommendation about whether Avon should publish it. The bulk of the reports are from 1979-1984.
Avon Books Reader's Reports, 1967-1977.
Box 1
Folder 1
Avon Books Reader's Reports, July-September 1979.
Box 1
Folder 2
Avon Books Reader's Reports, October-December 1979.
Box 1
Folder 3
Avon Books Reader's Reports, January-March 1980.
Box 1
Folder 4
Avon Books Reader's Reports, April-June 1980.
Box 1
Folder 5
Avon Books Reader's Reports, July-September 1980.
Box 1
Folder 6
Avon Books Reader's Reports, October-December 1980.
Box 2
Folder 1
Avon Books Reader's Reports, June-July 1981.
Box 2
Folder 2
Avon Books Reader's Reports, August-September 1981.
Box 2
Folder 3
Avon Books Reader's Reports, October-December 1981.
Box 2
Folder 4
Avon Books Reader's Reports, June-September 1982.
Box 2
Folder 5
Avon Books Reader's Reports, October-December 1982.
Box 2
Folder 6
Avon Books Reader's Reports, January-March 1983.
Box 3
Folder 1
Avon Books Reader's Reports, April-July 1983.
Box 3
Folder 2
Avon Books Reader's Reports, August-December 1983.
Box 3
Folder 3
Avon Books Reader's Reports, January-March 1984.
Box 3
Folder 4
Avon Books Reader's Reports, April-June 1984.
Box 3
Folder 5
Avon Books Reader's Reports, July-September 1984.
Box 3
Folder 6
Avon Books Reader's Reports, October-December 1984.
Box 3
Folder 7
Avon Books Reader's Reports, 1985.
Box 3
Folder 8
Book of the Month Club, undated.
Box 3
Folder 9
Reports: Avon, undated.
Box 3
Folder 10
Scope and Contents
Series 2: Manuscripts and verse. This series includes two unpublished manuscripts by Payne: a biography of Daniel Fuchs and a novel about a character named Julie Friedhof. There is also a significant amount of Payne's poetry. It includes the typescript to the pulp fiction novel The Wicked and the Warped by Max Alth, which may have been written by Payne. The Special Collections Research Center holds the published book.
Daniel Fuchs: Fuchs Bibliography, 1931-1962.
Box 4
Folder 1
Daniel Fuchs: Research, 1966-1972.
Box 4
Folder 2
Daniel Fuchs: Reviews about Fuch's, 1961.
Box 4
Folder 3
Daniel Fuchs: Reviews written by Fuch's, 1982.
Box 4
Folder 4
Daniel Fuchs: Material on Fuch's, 1964.
Box 4
Folder 5
Daniel Fuchs: Correspondence with Fuch's, 1966-1967.
Box 4
Folder 6
Daniel Fuchs: Correspondence re: Fuch's, 1965-1970.
Box 4
Folder 7
Daniel Fuchs: Klinger and Fuch's (includes a 1965 MLA Style Sheet Book), 1965-1966.
Box 4
Folder 8
Daniel Fuchs: "Give Hollywood a Chance", 1938.
Box 4
Folder 9
Daniel Fuchs: "Homage to Blenholt", 1967.
Box 4
Folder 10
Daniel Fuchs: "Love in Brooklyn", undated.
Box 4
Folder 11
Daniel Fuchs: "Low Company", undated.
Box 4
Folder 12
Daniel Fuchs: "Roused from Sleep", undated.
Box 5
Folder 1
Daniel Fuchs: "Summer in Williamsburg", undated.
Box 5
Folder 2
Daniel Fuchs: "The Village By the Sea", undated.
Box 5
Folder 3
Daniel Fuchs: "The Woman in Buffalo", 1939.
Box 5
Folder 4
Daniel Fuchs: Publications: Commentary, Dimensions and The Griffin, 1948-1969.
Box 5
Folder 5
Daniel Fuchs: Miscellaneous, 1962-1967.
Box 5
Folder 6
Daniel Fuchs: Book Reviews by Payne: Collier's, 1938-1940.
Box 5
Folder 7
Daniel Fuchs: Book Reviews by Payne: New Yorker, 1937-1940.
Box 5
Folder 8
Daniel Fuchs: Book Reviews by Payne: Various Magazines, 1931-1939.
Box 5
Folder 9
Julie Friedhof: Typescript-Folder 1, undated.
Box 6
Folder 1
Julie Friedhof: Typescript-Folder 2, undated.
Box 6
Folder 2
Julie Friedhof: Typescript-Folder 3, undated.
Box 6
Folder 3
Julie Friedhof: Typescript-Folder 4, undated.
Box 6
Folder 4
Julie Friedhof: Typescript-Folder 5, undated.
Box 6
Folder 5
Julie Friedhof: Typescript-Folder 6, undated.
Box 6
Folder 6
Julie Friedhof: Typescript-Folder 7, undated.
Box 6
Folder 7
Julie Friedhof: Typescript-Folder 8, 1956.
Box 7
Folder 1
Julie Friedhof: Typescript-Folder 9, undated.
Box 7
Folder 2
Julie Friedhof: Research/Notes-Folder 1, 1956.
Box 7
Folder 3
Julie Friedhof: Research/Notes-Folder 2, undated.
Box 7
Folder 4
Julie Friedhof: Research/Notes-Folder 3, undated.
Box 7
Folder 5
Julie Friedhof: Research/Notes-Folder 4, 1954-1955.
Box 7
Folder 6
Julie Friedhof: Correspondence with Peter, 1954.
Box 7
Folder 7
Julie Friedhof: Miscellaneous, 1955-1956.
Box 7
Folder 8
Julie Friedhof: Correspondence with Sylvan Schendler, 1951.
Box 7a
Folder 1
Julie Friedhof: Correspondence with Sylvan Schendler, 1952.
Box 7a
Folder 2
Julie Friedhof: Correspondence with Sylvan Schendler, 1953.
Box 7a
Folder 3
Julie Friedhof: Correspondence with Sylvan Schendler, 1954.
Box 7a
Folder 4
Julie Friedhof: Correspondence with Sylvan Schendler, 1955.
Box 7a
Folder 5
Julie Friedhof: Correspondence with Sylvan Schendler, 1956.
Box 7a
Folder 6
Short Stories, Writings, undated.
Box 8
Folder 1
"Also Known as John Cherry", 1978-1979.
Box 8
Folder 2
"Don't Cry Joe" and "The Larcenous Heart", undated.
Box 8
Folder 3
"A Quiet Evening at Basement East", undated.
Box 8
Folder 4
"Allie Lawford's Woman", undated.
Box 8
Folder 5
"Three Parts from the 'Peeping Tom' material" (From a Short Story Writing Class John took at an Adult Education Class), 1984.
Box 8
Folder 6
"Pre American P.E.N." (poetry journal), 1978.
Box 8
Folder 7
"Post American P.E.N.", 1978.
Box 8
Folder 8
Miscellaneous Writings, undated.
Box 8
Folder 9
The Wicked and the Warped by Max Alth: Carbon typescript: Folder 1, 1955.
Box 9
Folder 1
The Wicked and the Warped by Max Alth: Carbon typescript: Folder 2, 1955.
Box 9
Folder 2
The Wicked and the Warped by Max Alth: Chapters 1-4, 1955.
Box 9
Folder 3
The Wicked and the Warped by Max Alth: Repros, 1955.
Box 9
Folder 4
The Wicked and the Warped by Max Alth: Legal Agreement between Payne and Woodford Press, 1955., undated.
Box 9
Folder 5
Unidentified writings, Folder 1, undated.
Box 10
Folder 1
Unidentified writings, Folder 2, undated.
Box 10
Folder 2
Unidentified writings, Folder 3, undated.
Box 10
Folder 3
Unidentified writings, Folder 4, undated.
Box 10
Folder 4
Unidentified writings, Folder 5, undated.
Box 10
Folder 5
Unidentified writings, Folder 6, undated.
Box 10
Folder 6
Unidentified writings, Folder 7, undated.
Box 11
Folder 1
Unidentified writings, Folder 8, undated.
Box 11
Folder 2
Unidentified writings, Folder 9, undated.
Box 11
Folder 3
Unidentified writings, Folder 10, 1967.
Box 11
Folder 4
9 Poems, undated.
Box 11
Folder 5
30 Poems, undated.
Box 11
Folder 6
"There's a Woefully Intime Little Bistro", undated.
Box 11
Folder 7
"Summer Count", undated.
Box 11
Folder 8
"A Game Maker Must Allow", undated.
Box 11
Folder 9
"A Book of Numbers, a Number of Books", 1986.
Box 11
Folder 10
"Shaman, Shaman", 1969.
Box 11
Folder 11
"Sometimes it is Touch and Go", 1967.
Box 11a
Folder 1
"Emily Post Came Calling", undated.
Box 11a
Folder 2
"Sometimes a Name", 1967.
Box 11a
Folder 3
With Environmental as a Metaphor: Williamsburg Poems, undated.
Box 11a
Folder 4
"Rosa Will Walk Increasingly With Pride", 1984.
Box 11a
Folder 5
"Some of My Poems" Folder 1, 1967.
Box 11a
Folder 6
General
(see Box 12 for Folder 2)
"Some of My Poems" Folder 3, 1969.
Box 11a
Folder 7
"Newer Poems; Poems being Revised, etc.", undated.
Box 11a
Folder 8
CAPS submission, 1972-1976.
Box 11a
Folder 9
"The Gopher and Other Poems, " City Lights Submission, 1971-1972.
Box 11a
Folder 10
Pittsburgh Competition, 1973.
Box 11a
Folder 11
Miscellaneous: removed from correspondence, undated.
Box 11a
Folder 12
"Record of Poems of Mine: Individuals to Whom Mailed…", 1967-1978.
Box 11a
Folder 13
"Some of My Poems" Folder 2, 1963-1969.
Box 12
Folder 1
General
(see Box 11a for Folder 6)
"A Single Shot to Kill the Bare", 1966-1979.
Box 12
Folder 2
"Leper Colony", 1967-1968.
Box 12
Folder 3
"Parents, Willy and Otherwise", 1967.
Box 12
Folder 4
"In Rose Hill Where I Live", 1967-1975.
Box 12
Folder 5
"Job Description", undated.
Box 12
Folder 6
"Native Dancers Sequence", 1968-1975.
Box 12
Folder 7
"Wound and Bow", undated.
Box 12
Folder 8
Juniper Submission, 1974.
Box 12
Folder 9
Swallow Press Submission, 1971-1972.
Box 12
Folder 10
Material Sent to Poet's Press, undated.
Box 12
Folder 11
Scope and Contents
Series 3: Publications: Payne's, includes copies of Payne's poetry as published in various journals. Some folders contain the original journal which was original to the collection. The series also contains photocopies of poems from journals found in the Contemporary Culture Collection of the SCRC. The processor made photocopies and added them to the collection.
The 42nd Street Trip: Summer #21, 1975.
Box 13
Folder 1
Abbey: (photocopy, not original to collection), November 1972.
Box 13
Folder 2
Ally: Volume 1 No 3, Summer 1974.
Box 13
Folder 3
The American Pen: (photocopy not original to the collection) Fall 1973 Vol. V: 4; Winter 1974 Vol. VI:1, Spring 1975 Vol. VII:2, 1973-1975.
Box 13
Folder 4
The American Zionist: "My View of Jews in American Literature" (several of his own typewritten copies, one photocopy not original to the collection), December 1971.
Box 13
Folder 5
At the Corner of Third Avenue and 14th St.-chapbook (another copy can be found in Contemporary Culture Collection), 1970.
Box 13
Folder 6
ARX: Vol. III No. 6, October 1969.
Box 13
Folder 7
Baby John: (photocopies, not original to the collection): #2 September 1970; #5, November 1972.
Box 13
Folder 8
Blackbird Circle: No. 4, Spring 1973.
Box 13
Folder 9
Charas: Charas 4 Vol. II No. 3 (1972) (includes a review of Tell Me You Love Me Con Edison and At the Corner of Third Avenue and 14th St.); Charas 6 Vol. III No. 2 (1973), 1972-1973.
Box 13
Folder 10
The Crier of Florence: Vol. II No. 3, December 1967.
Box 13
Folder 11
Dodecca: Vol. II No. 1, January 1976.
Box 13
Folder 12
Dogsoldier: 3, 1975.
Box 13
Folder 13
Egg: Vol. I No. 2, Spring 1973.
Box 13
Folder 14
Emily and Walt, Walt and Emily (photocopy, not original to the collection) Physical copy can be found in Contemporary Culture Collection, 2006.
Box 13
Folder 15
Emily and Walt, Walt and Emily: Poets Press Materials (includes correspondence between Dennis Barone and Brett Rutherford. Also includes a floppy disk of the book.), 1983-1987.
Box 13
Folder 16
Ghosts Scare Tito Rosa-chapbook, 1977.
Box 13
Folder 17
Group 74: Poems from the New York Poet's Cooperative, 1974.
Box 13
Folder 18
Home Planet News: Vol. 1 No. 3 1979; No. 25 1988; No. 27 1989, 1979-1989.
Box 13a
Folder 1
Imagerie, Issue 1, 1981.
Box 13a
Folder 2
Kauri, 23: November/December 1967; 24: January/February 1968; 25, March/April 1968, 1967-1968.
Box 13a
Folder 3
The Lake Superior Review: Vol. 4 No. 1, Summer 1973.
Box 13a
Folder 4
Lynx: Vol. 2 No. 1, Summer 1975.
Box 13a
Folder 5
Manroot: #5, #6/7, #9, 1971-1973.
Box 13a
Folder 6
Modern Poetry Studies: Vol. IV No. 3, Winter 1973.
Box 13a
Folder 7
Mouth of the Dragon: No. 8, March 1976.
Box 13a
Folder 8
The Nantucket Review: No. 4, May 1975.
Box 13a
Folder 9
New Leaves Review: No. 6, No. 7, No. 10, No. 12, 1983-1984.
Box 13a
Folder 10
Perspectives, Spring 1974.
Box 13b
Folder 1
Phoebe, 1975.
Box 13b
Folder 2
A Poetry Mag: February 1982 No. 1; August/November 1982 No. ¾, 1982.
Box 13b
Folder 3
Poets of Gansevoort Pier: September 1968 Vol. 1 No. 1 (2 copies); November 1968 Vol. 1 No. 2 (3 copies); January 1969 Vol. 1 No. 3 (4 copies); April 1969 Vol. 1 No. 4 (3 copies); September 1969 Vol. 1 No. 5 (1 copy), 1968-1969.
Box 13b
Folder 4
The Small Pond Magazine of Literature No. 17, Fall 1969.
Box 13b
Folder 5
Softball No. 3, 1971.
Box 13b
Folder 6
Speculum, 1975.
Box 13b
Folder 7
Star-Web Paper: Autumn 1973 No. 3; 1974 No. 5 (photocopy, not original to the collection), 1973-1974.
Box 13b
Folder 8
Stonecloud Nos. 3 & 4, 1974.
Box 13b
Folder 9
Tamarisk Vol. II No.2, Summer 1978.
Box 13b
Folder 10
"Tell Me You Love Me, Con Edison" chapbook published by Great Jones Printing Company, 1972.
Box 13c
Folder 1
The Transylvanian Vol. 82 No. 2, Winter 1975.
Box 13c
Folder 2
Tristan in Triumph, 1967.
Box 13c
Folder 3
The Voyeur: September 1975 Vol. 1 No. 10; December 1975 Vol. 1 No. 13; February 1976 Vol. 2 No. 2; August 1976 Vol. 2 No. 8, 1975-1976.
Box 13c
Folder 4
Weid: Vol. VIII No. 2 Whole Number 34 (photocopy, not original to the collection), 1972.
Box 13c
Folder 5
Wind: Spring 1973 No. 7; 1973 No. 10; 1977 Vol. 7 No. 25; 1981 Vol. 11 No. 40; 1982 Vol. 12 No. 46, 1973-1982.
Box 13c
Folder 6
Scope and Contents
Series 4: Publications: Published poems, contains drafts of poems that Payne indicates were published.
Dallas, Memphis, Nashville and Mobile" published in Galley Sail Review, 1973.
Box 13c
Folder 7
"His Eye is On the Shifting Landscape" published in Poems of the People, 1970.
Box 13c
Folder 8
"Taxed by April, Eliot" published in Runcible Spoon, 1969.
Box 13c
Folder 9
Bibliography, 1966-1978.
Box 13c
Folder 10
Scope and Contents
Series 5: Publications: Book reviews, includes book reviews Payne wrote for the Alton Democrat, an Iowa daily newspaper. It also includes a few book reviews with no indication as to who published it.
Alton Democrat: "American Song" by Paul Engle, Thursday June 19, 1969.
Box 14
Folder 1
Alton Democrat: "American Indian Mythology" by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin, Thursday December 12, 1968.
Box 14
Folder 2
Alton Democrat: "The Beach Umbrella" by Cyrus Colter, Thursday December 31, 1970.
Box 14
Folder 3
Alton Democrat: "A Burnt-Out Case" by Graham Greene, undated.
Box 14
Folder 4
Alton Democrat: "Couples" by John Updike, Thursday February 18, 1971.
Box 14
Folder 5
Alton Democrat: "Dangerous Corner" by Maurice Vlaminck, Thursday October 22, 1970.
Box 14
Folder 6
Alton Democrat: "The Erasers" by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Thursday December 11, 1969.
Box 14
Folder 7
Alton Democrat: "An Exile" by Madison Jones, Thursday May 30, 1968.
Box 14
Folder 8
Alton Democrat: "The Fish Can Sing" by Halldor Laxness, Thursday July 24, 1969.
Box 14
Folder 9
Alton Democrat: "The Folks" by Ruth Suckow, Thursday January 16, 1969.
Box 14
Folder 10
Alton Democrat: "The Funco File" by Burt Cole, Thursday April 16, 1970.
Box 14
Folder 11
Alton Democrat: "The Greening of America" by Charles A. Reich, Thursday February 25, 1971.
Box 14
Folder 12
Alton Democrat: "The Guggenheim's and the American Dream" by Edwin P. Hoyt, Thursday July 25, 1968.
Box 14
Folder 13
Alton Democrat: "A Hall of Mirrors" by Robert Stone, Thursday November 21, 1968.
Box 14
Folder 14
Alton Democrat: "Hang-Up" by Sam Ross, Thursday February 8, 1968.
Box 14
Folder 15
Alton Democrat: "The Harmless People" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Thursday December 25, 1969.
Box 14
Folder 16
Alton Democrat: "Hellhole" by Sara Harris, Thursday March 27, 1969.
Box 14
Folder 17
Alton Democrat: "The Hole in Zero" by M.K. Joseph, Thursday April 25, 1968.
Box 14
Folder 18
Alton Democrat: "In Orbit" by Wright Morris, Thursday January 23, 1969.
Box 14
Folder 19
Alton Democrat: "In This Sign" by Joanne Greenberg, Thursday July 8, 1971.
Box 14
Folder 20
Alton Democrat: "The Keeper of Antiquities" by Yury Dombrovsky, Thursday September 18, 1969.
Box 14
Folder 21
Alton Democrat: "The Kramer Girls" by Ruth Suckow, Thursday July 11, 1968.
Box 14
Folder 22
Alton Democrat: "Leafy Rivers" by Jessamyn West, Thursday October 2, 1969.
Box 14
Folder 23
Alton Democrat: "Man of Earth" by Maggi Lidchi, Thursday June 17, 1971.
Box 14
Folder 24
Alton Democrat: "A Maze of Death" by Philip Dick, Thursday October 1, 1970.
Box 14
Folder 25
Alton Democrat: "Meyer Meyer" by Helen Hudson, Thursday October 24, 1968.
Box 14
Folder 26
Alton Democrat: "Moving On" by Larry McMurty, Thursday September 10, 1970.
Box 14
Folder 27
Alton Democrat: "The Nice and the Good" by Iris Murdoch, 1967.
Box 14
Folder 28
Alton Democrat: "Picasso and His Friends" by Fernande Oliver, Thursday May 13, 1971.
Box 14a
Folder 1
Alton Democrat: "Poverty: America's Enduring Paradox" by Sidney Lens, Thursday February 20, 1969.
Box 14a
Folder 2
Alton Democrat: "Rafferty & Co." by Betty Wahl, Thursday January 1, 1970.
Box 14a
Folder 3
Alton Democrat: "Real People" by Alison Lurie, Thursday March 19, 1970.
Box 14a
Folder 4
Alton Democrat: "Red Sky at Morning" by Richard Bradford, Thursday July 4, 1968.
Box 14a
Folder 5
Book Reviews: Alton Democrat: "Report on Probability" by Brian W. Aldiss, Thursday August 20, 1970.
Box 14a
Folder 6
Alton Democrat: "Strange Harp, Strange Symphony" by John Walsh, Thursday August 22, 1968.
Box 14a
Folder 7
Alton Democrat: "The Three Suitors" by Richard Jones, Thursday March 14, 1968.
Box 14a
Folder 8
Quartet Vol. 3, No. 24, Fall 1968.
Box 14a
Folder 9
Small Press Review (photocopy, not original to collection): Vol. 3 No. 1, 1976.
Box 14a
Folder 10
Miscellaneous, undated.
Box 14a
Folder 11
Scope and Contents
Series 6: Activities, includes records related to Payne's poetry readings from 1967-1986. Included are flyers promoting the events and Payne's personal notes about the events, including which poems he planned to read.
Poetry Readings: Gansevoort Pier, 1967.
Box 15
Folder 1
Poetry Readings: WYNC, January 17, 1969.
Box 15
Folder 2
Poetry Readings, October 23, 1969.
Box 15
Folder 3
Poetry Readings: Voice Media, December 22, 1969.
Box 15
Folder 4
Poetry Readings, March 26, 1970.
Box 15
Folder 5
Poetry Readings: Co-op Reading, May 7, 1970.
Box 15
Folder 6
Poetry Readings: Emilie Glen, September 1, 1970.
Box 15
Folder 7
Poetry Readings: Mainstream Reading, September 12, 1970.
Box 15
Folder 8
Poetry Readings: Co-op Reading, November 5, 1970.
Box 15
Folder 9
Poetry Readings: Bronx Reading, December 16, 1970.
Box 15
Folder 10
Poetry Readings: Hilly's on the Bowery, February 20, 1971.
Box 15
Folder 11
Poetry Readings: Human Planet Reading, October 5, 1971.
Box 15
Folder 12
Poetry Readings, November 3, 1971.
Box 15
Folder 13
Poetry Readings, Jean Cocteau Theatre, November 14, 1971.
Box 15
Folder 14
Poetry Readings, The Bankside, November 23, 1971.
Box 15
Folder 15
Poetry Readings: East Manhattan School, April 2, 1972.
Box 15
Folder 16
Poetry Readings: (with R. Samitz), December 11, 1972.
Box 15
Folder 17
Poetry Readings: Transylvania Reading, March 27, 1973.
Box 15
Folder 18
Poetry Readings:: "The Basement" (referring to Payne's apartment at Basement East), May 31, 1973.
Box 15
Folder 19
Poetry Readings: St. Marks, April 15, 1974.
Box 15
Folder 20
Poetry Readings: The Book Gallery, May 14, 1975.
Box 15
Folder 21
Poetry Readings: The Voyeur, April 9, 1976.
Box 15
Folder 22
Poetry Readings: Co-op Reading, June 6, 1976.
Box 15
Folder 23
Poetry Readings:: loft of Rick Moore and Rose Auslander (reading with Allen Hoey), August 19, 1977.
Box 15
Folder 24
Poetry Readings: Donnell Library Center (reading with Shirley Powell), September 26, 1977.
Box 15
Folder 25
Poetry Readings: St. Clements (reading with Allen Hoey), October 10, 1977.
Box 15
Folder 26
Poetry Readings: Cedar Tavern (reading with Barbara Holland), November 20, 1977.
Box 15
Folder 27
Poetry Readings: Library & Museum of Performing Arts, December 7, 1977.
Box 15
Folder 28
Poetry Readings: the "space" of Armen Kachaturian and Serene Oakley, December 30, 1977.
Box 15
Folder 29
Poetry Readings: Book Friends, March 7, 1978.
Box 15
Folder 30
Poetry Readings: Book Friends (reading with Allen Hoey), July 18, 1978.
Box 15
Folder 31
Poetry Readings:: "Fourth Floor Studio" of Rose Auslander and Rick Moore: Payne's 60th Birthday Party Poetry Reading, February 10, 1979.
Box 15
Folder 32
Poetry Readings: Some Place Nice, June 2, 1980.
Box 15
Folder 33
Poetry Readings: Jefferson Market Library, February 19, 1983.
Box 15
Folder 34
Poetry Readings: Neither/Nor, June 17, 1986.
Box 15
Folder 35
Poetry Readings: Green Fields, September 24, 1986.
Box 15
Folder 36
Poetry Readings: Home Planet News, undated.
Box 15
Folder 37
Poetry Readings: New York Poet's Cooperative (includes readings, address lists of members, correspondence and meeting minutes), 1969-1976.
Box 15
Folder 38
Poetry Readings: Other Poets, 1969-1982.
Box 15
Folder 39
Poetry Readings: Miscellaneous, 1972.
Box 15
Folder 40
10th St., undated.
Box 15
Folder 41
Scope and Contents
Series 7: Manuscripts, Other authors, contains verse, articles, book reviews by other authors, including friends of Payne. There is a significant amount of poems by Bob Cooperman and Dennis Barone. It is arranged alphabetically.
Arlen, Michael J., 1970.
Box 16
Folder 1
Atlas, James, 1986.
Box 16
Folder 2
Auslander, Rose and Ricky Moore (Ricky Moore is Payne's nephew), 1984.
Box 16
Folder 3
Bailey, Anthony, 1967.
Box 16
Folder 4
Balliet, Whitney, 1985.
Box 16
Folder 5
Barone, Dennis, 1976-1985.
Box 16
Folder 6
Boone, Bruce, undated.
Box 16
Folder 7
Breytenbach, Breyten, 1984.
Box 16
Folder 8
Brown, Daniel W., undated.
Box 16
Folder 9
Buchan, Perdita, 1969.
Box 16
Folder 10
Cameron, Douglas (several short stories), 1983.
Box 16
Folder 11
Coffin, Robert P. Tristram, undated.
Box 16
Folder 12
Cooperman, Bob, 1974-1976.
Box 16
Folder 13
Concepcion, Eve, 1974.
Box 16
Folder 14
Cox, Maggie, 1976.
Box 16
Folder 15
Dame, Enid, 1983.
Box 16
Folder 16
Drexler, Rosalyn, undated.
Box 16
Folder 17
Drucker, Joe, 1976.
Box 16
Folder 18
Farina, Richard, undated.
Box 16
Folder 19
Ferry, Bettina, 1967.
Box 16
Folder 20
Fixel, Michael, 1976-1977.
Box 16
Folder 21
French, Julianne (there are also some poems of hers in Box 17, Folder 17 "Poems by Friends of Mine"), 1973-1978.
Box 16
Folder 22
Gallagher, Tess, 1985.
Box 16
Folder 23
Gold, Herbert, undated.
Box 16
Folder 24
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 1969.
Box 16
Folder 25
Harris, Jane, 1975.
Box 16
Folder 26
Haukeness, Helen, undated.
Box 16
Folder 27
Hobbs, Ronald, 1970.
Box 16
Folder 28
Hogan, Michael, 1979.
Box 16
Folder 29
Hoey, Allen, 1979.
Box 16
Folder 30
Isaac, Dan, 1968-1970.
Box 16
Folder 31
Krim, Seymour, 1970.
Box 16
Folder 32
Marshall, Jack, 1967.
Box 16
Folder 33
Mason, Bobbie Ann, 1985.
Box 16
Folder 34
McPhee, John, 1967.
Box 16
Folder 35
Montgomery, David, 1983.
Box 16
Folder 36
Morris, Wright, 1970-1981.
Box 16
Folder 37
Moss, Susan, 1967-1968.
Box 16
Folder 38
Pollack, Jackson, 1967.
Box 17
Folder 1
Powell, Shirley, 1975-1978.
Box 17
Folder 2
Pritchard, Stanford K. ("The Whole Cloth"), 1977.
Box 17
Folder 3
Putnam, Phelps, undated.
Box 17
Folder 4
Rashbaum, Burt, 1973.
Box 17
Folder 5
Resnick, Carole, undated.
Box 17
Folder 6
Rohen, Dav, 1966.
Box 17
Folder 7
Rosenberg, Harold, 1968-1969.
Box 17
Folder 8
Ryan, Geoffrey C., 1975.
Box 17
Folder 9
Samet, Steven, 1968.
Box 17
Folder 10
Sexton, Anne, 1968.
Box 17
Folder 11
Shoumatoff, Alex, 1986.
Box 17
Folder 12
Schulz, Max F. (typescript of "Radical Sophistication: Studies in Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists"), undated.
Box 17
Folder 13
Singer, I.B., 1968-1970.
Box 17
Folder 14
Singleton, B., undated.
Box 17
Folder 15
Sontag, Susan, 1973.
Box 17
Folder 16
Tafoya, Al, 1973-1975.
Box 17
Folder 17
"Poems By People I Know", undated.
Box 17
Folder 18
"Poems By Friends of Mine", 1967-1968.
Box 17
Folder 19
"Short Stories" (synopses of some short stories, undated.
Box 17
Folder 20
Unknown, 1973.
Box 17
Folder 21
Miscellaneous, 1965-1979.
Box 17
Folder 22
Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles, 1959-1984.
Box 17
Folder 23
Scope and Contents
Series 8: Financial, includes Payne's financial materials, income, tax returns, bills and receipts and a folder of all of his Lancer Books Readings. Lancer Books was a publishing company with a short existence, 1961-1973. Also included are Payne's own lists of income (dates and sources) from 1966-1986.
Correspondence, 1952.
Box 18
Folder 1
Bills, 1983-1984.
Box 18
Folder 2
Bellevue Hospital statements, 1982-1986.
Box 18
Folder 3
Apartment leases, 1966-1983.
Box 18
Folder 4
'Lancer Books; readings, 1968-1971.
Box 18
Folder 5
Tax returns, 1952-1956.
Box 18
Folder 6
Tax returns, 1965.
Box 18
Folder 7
Tax returns, 1966.
Box 18
Folder 8
Tax returns, 1967.
Box 18
Folder 9
Tax returns, 1968.
Box 18
Folder 10
Tax returns, 1969.
Box 18
Folder 11
Tax returns, 1970.
Box 18
Folder 12
Tax returns, 1971.
Box 18
Folder 13
Tax returns, 1976.
Box 18
Folder 14
Tax returns, 1977.
Box 18
Folder 15
Tax returns, 1978.
Box 18
Folder 16
Tax returns, 1979.
Box 18
Folder 17
Tax returns, 1980.
Box 18
Folder 18
Tax returns, 1981.
Box 18
Folder 19
Tax Collections, Liens, 1972-1983.
Box 18
Folder 20
Miscellaneous, 1950-1955.
Box 18
Folder 21
Income: Sources, 1966.
Box 19
Folder 1
Income: Sources, 1967.
Box 19
Folder 2
Income: Sources, 1968.
Box 19
Folder 3
Income: Sources, 1969.
Box 19
Folder 4
Income: Sources, 1970.
Box 19
Folder 5
Income: Sources, 1971.
Box 19
Folder 6
Income: Sources, 1972.
Box 19
Folder 7
Income: Sources, 1973.
Box 19
Folder 8
Income: Sources, 1974.
Box 19
Folder 9
Income: Sources, 1975.
Box 19
Folder 10
Income: Sources, 1976.
Box 19
Folder 11
Income: Sources, 1977.
Box 19
Folder 12
Income: Sources, 1978.
Box 19
Folder 13
Income: Sources, 1979.
Box 19
Folder 14
Income: Sources, 1980.
Box 19
Folder 15
Income: Sources, 1981.
Box 19
Folder 16
Income: Sources, 1982.
Box 19
Folder 17
Income: Sources, 1983.
Box 19
Folder 18
Income: Sources, 1984.
Box 19
Folder 19
Income: Sources, 1985.
Box 19
Folder 20
Income: Sources, 1986.
Box 19
Folder 21
Scope and Contents
Series 9: Education/employment, includes materials from Payne's education beginning with elementary school through his college years at Transylvania College (1935-1938) and University of Cincinnati. In 1942 he began pursuing a Library Science degree from University of Michigan, which there is no indication he finished. In 1951 he began teaching at Pratt Institute, and this series includes Payne's notes and syllabi for his classes.
Fayette County Public School-Elementary, May 22, 1931.
Box 20
Folder 1
Bryan Station High School: cumulative reading records, 1933-1935.
Box 20
Folder 2
Bryan Station High School: photograph and commencement booklet, 1935.
Box 20
Folder 3
Papers from Cincinnati, Madison, Michigan State-Folder 1, undated.
Box 20
Folder 4
Papers from Cincinnati, Madison, Michigan State-Folder 2, 1946-1950.
Box 20
Folder 5
Alpha Lambda Tau certificate, March 22, 1937.
Box 20
Folder 6
University of Cincinnati: essays/assignments, 1938-1950.
Box 20
Folder 7
University of Cincinnati: commencement catalog, June 9, 1939.
Box 20
Folder 8
University of Michigan: transcripts, undated.
Box 20
Folder 9
Transylvania College, 1965-1970.
Box 20
Folder 10
Some course ideas, 1965.
Box 20
Folder 11
Pratt Institute: correspondence, 1956-1963.
Box 20a
Folder 1
Pratt Institute: "Friday Class" (English 701E), 1956.
Box 20a
Folder 2
Pratt Institute: "The Art Review Writing Class" (Analytical and Critical Art Writing-English 470E), 1964.
Box 20a
Folder 3
Pratt Institute: book lists, 1962-1963.
Box 20a
Folder 4
Pratt Institute: exams, 1962-1963.
Box 20a
Folder 5
Pratt Institute: syllabi, 1958-1964.
Box 20a
Folder 6
Pratt Institute: publications: Rationale, 1963.
Box 20a
Folder 7
Pratt Institute: weber, 1962-1965.
Box 20a
Folder 8
Pratt Institute: miscellaneous, 1959-1963.
Box 20a
Folder 9
Scope and Contents
Series 10: Personal, includes personal notes: some specific to certain writings, others with no clear association.
Notes: "Engage, Notes, etc.", 1966.
Box 21
Folder 1
Notes: "Closed Field, etc.", 1962.
Box 21
Folder 2
Notes: "Rough drafts for the 'Easily Consoled Widow' paper", undated.
Box 21
Folder 3
Notes: "Notes on the Exit, etc.", 1966.
Box 21
Folder 4
Notes: "To The Forum", 1966-1967.
Box 21
Folder 5
Notes: "The Bellevue Notes/Observations, etc.", April 23-May 2, 1980.
Box 21
Folder 6
Notes: "Notes from the Week at Bellevue", November 5-November 21, 1981.
Box 21
Folder 7
Notes: Folder 1, 1981-1982.
Box 21
Folder 8
Notes: Folder 2, 1967-1982.
Box 22
Folder 1
Notes: Folder 3, 1978-1986.
Box 22
Folder 2
Notes: Folder 4, 1954.
Box 22
Folder 3
Notes: Folder 5, 1943-1983.
Box 22
Folder 4
Notes: Folder 6, 1953.
Box 23
Folder 1
Dated Diary Entries: Folder 1, 1967-1982.
Box 23
Folder 2
Dated Diary Entries: Folder 2, 1953-1966.
Box 23
Folder 3
"Books Given in 1982", 1981-1982.
Box 23
Folder 4
"Books Given in 1983", 1982-1983.
Box 23
Folder 5
"Books Mailed", 1972-1979.
Box 23
Folder 6
"Possible Book Titles for Transylvania", undated.
Box 23
Folder 7
Gordon Gray (a eulogy for his friend Gordon Gray), 1970.
Box 23a
Folder 1
Virgil F. Payne's Will, 1981.
Box 23a
Folder 2
"For John Payne", undated.
Box 23a
Folder 3
Memorial for Payne (held at Vineyard Theatre), Saturday January 17, 1987.
Box 23a
Folder 4
"Some Unfinished Business", 1964.
Box 23a
Folder 5
"Some Tentative Statements", undated.
Box 23a
Folder 6
Miscellaneous, 1973-1984.
Box 23a
Folder 7
Scope and Contents
Series 11: Research, contains information collected by Payne about various authors and stories. Some of the research was for personal use and some of it was for possible publication. This series is arranged in alphabetical order based on what Payne titled his folder, so authors are interspersed with story titles.
"The Age of Reason", circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 1
"All Quiet on the Western Front", circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 2
"The Analects of Confucius", circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 3
Aristotle, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 4
Arlington, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 5
"The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt", circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 6
Baldwin, James, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 7
Barrett, William, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 8
Beatty and Johnson, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 9
Beckett, Samuel, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 10
Bishop, John Peale, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 11
Boccaccio, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 12
Bowra, C.W., circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 13
Brinton, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 14
Brown, Norman O., circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 15
"The Cabinet Minister", circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 16
Cellini, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 17
Cervantes, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 18
Chaucer, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 19
Chekov, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 20
"Conduct is Fate", circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 21
Conrad, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 22
Coriolanus, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 23
"Crime and Punishment", circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 24
Descartes, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 25
De Tocqueville, Alexis, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 26
Dante, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 27
Dewey, John, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 28
Dickens, Charles, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 29
Discourses of Keidansky, etc., circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 30
Dostoyevsky, circa 1939-1986.
Box 24
Folder 31
Ernst, Jimmy-Folder 1, 1963-1966.
Box 24
Folder 32
Ernst, Jimmy-Folder 2, 1964-1965.
Box 25
Folder 1
Eliot, George, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 2
Eliot, T.S., circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 3
Esslin, Martin "Theatre of the Absurd", circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 4
F.D.R., circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 5
Flaubert, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 6
Freud, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 7
Genesis, etc., circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 8
Genet, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 9
Gilbert Gurney, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 10
"Goethe", circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 11
"Good Woman of Setzuan", circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 12
"Granby", circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 13
"Grand Inquisitor", circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 14
Hadas, Moses, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 15
"The Hamilton's", circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 16
Hamlet, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 17
Harrington, Michael: "The Other America", circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 18
Hegel, 1963.
Box 25
Folder 19
Hippolytus, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 20
"Huckleberry Finn", circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 21
Ibsen, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 22
"The Idiot", 1968.
Box 25
Folder 23
Italian fascism, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 24
Jefferson, Thomas, 1963.
Box 25
Folder 25
Lacy, Herbert, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 26
"Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell Bury", circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 27
Lear, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 28
L.E.L., circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 29
Lucretius, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 30
Machiavelli, 1963.
Box 25
Folder 31
Magister Ludi, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 32
"The Manners of the Day", circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 33
Marxist material, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 34
Maxwell, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 35
McCurdy, Charles, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 36
Melville, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 37
Miller, Arthur, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 38
Miller and Slote, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 39
Milton, 1945-1948.
Box 25
Folder 40
Moliere, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 41
More, circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 42
Montaigne, 1964.
Box 25
Folder 43
"The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington", circa 1939-1986.
Box 25
Folder 44
"Mrs. Armitage", circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 1
The New Yorker, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 2
Nicolson, Harold: "Journey to Java", circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 3
Nietzsche, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 4
Northrop, F.S.C., circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 5
"Odyssey" and "Iliad", 1963.
Box 26
Folder 6
"Oedipus", 1962-1967.
Box 26
Folder 7
O'Neill, Eugene, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 8
"Oresteia", circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 9
Ornette, 1982.
Box 26
Folder 10
Philoctete, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 11
Plato, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 12
Rabelais, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 13
Riesman, 1961.
Box 26
Folder 14
Rodriguez, Millie, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 15
"Rogue's March", circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 16
Rulfo, Juan, 1986.
Box 26
Folder 17
St. Thomas Aquinas, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 18
Salinger, J.D., circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 19
Samuel, Maurice, 1972.
Box 26
Folder 20
Silone, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 21
Shaw, George Bernard, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 22
Smith, Lillian, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 23
Steinbeck, John, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 24
Strindberg, August, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 25
Styron, William, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 26
Swift, Jonathan, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 27
"Theodore Hook", circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 28
Thucydides, 1961.
Box 26
Folder 29
Tomlinson, Swinnerton and Francis Brett Young, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 30
Troilus & Cressida, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 31
"Twelfth Night", circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 32
"Under the Volcano", circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 33
Vergil, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 34
"The Victims of Society", circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 35
Voltaire, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 36
Watts, Allan, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 37
'The Jerome Weidman file', 1962-1967.
Box 26
Folder 38
'Another Weidman file', 1967.
Box 26
Folder 38
Wind, Edgar, 1964.
Box 26
Folder 38
World War I, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26
Folder 38
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", 1975.
Box 26a
Folder 1
'Texts of Some Poems', 1961.
Box 26a
Folder 2
'Some essays', circa 1939-1986.
Box 26a
Folder 3
'Notes on short stories', circa 1939-1986.
Box 26a
Folder 4
'Notes on miscellaneous essays', circa 1939-1986.
Box 26a
Folder 5
Miscellaneous book lists, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26a
Folder 6
Library catalog cards, 1939-1954.
Box 26a
Folder 7
'American autobiographies', 1965-1966.
Box 26a
Folder 8
'Film biographies', circa 1939-1986.
Box 26a
Folder 9
'Bulgarian writers', circa 1939-1986.
Box 26a
Folder 10
'Jewish writers', 1968.
Box 26a
Folder 11
17th and 18th century course notes, 1952-1954.
Box 26a
Folder 12
18th century bibliography, 1949.
Box 26a
Folder 13
20th century reports, 1940-1965.
Box 26a
Folder 14
Twayne Series, 1966-1967.
Box 26a
Folder 15
Medieval literature notes, 1953.
Box 26a
Folder 16
Quotations, circa 1939-1986.
Box 26a
Folder 17
The Joycian Court Publisher Series on translated works: Younger Romanian poets, 1969.
Box 26a
Folder 18
Miscellaneous, 1963-1965.
Box 26a
Folder 19
Scope and Contents
Series 12: Correspondence, contains correspondence between Payne and his family and friends. The bulk is from 1969-1986. Some letters include photographs, which have been removed to the Photographs series. This series is organized by date, with the exception of correspondence with his father, fellow poets (Bob Cooperman, Shirley Powell, Allen Hoey and more) and a few organizations, which are filed by name or organization.
General correspondence (includes letter from John), 1943-1959.
Box 27
Folder 1
Correspondence (Irish Hospital Sweepstakes tickets enclosed with correspondence from Emmaus Stigo), 1960.
Box 27
Folder 2
General correspondence, 1961-1962.
Box 27
Folder 3
General correspondence, 1963-1965.
Box 27
Folder 4
General correspondence (includes birth announcement with enclosed charm), 1966.
Box 27
Folder 5
General correspondence, 1967.
Box 27
Folder 6
General correspondence, 1968.
Box 27
Folder 7
General correspondence, January-August 1969.
Box 27a
Folder 1
General correspondence, September-December 1969.
Box 27a
Folder 2
General correspondence, 1970.
Box 27a
Folder 3
General correspondence, 1971.
Box 27a
Folder 4
General correspondence, January-June 1972.
Box 28
Folder 1
General correspondence, July-September 1972.
Box 28
Folder 2
General correspondence, October-December 1972.
Box 28
Folder 3
General correspondence, January-March 1973.
Box 28
Folder 4
General correspondence, April-June 1973.
Box 28a
Folder 1
General correspondence, July-August 1973.
Box 28a
Folder 2
General correspondence, September-October 1973.
Box 28a
Folder 3
General correspondence, November-December 1973.
Box 28a
Folder 4
General correspondence, January-March 1974.
Box 29
Folder 1
General correspondence, April-June 1974.
Box 29
Folder 2
General correspondence, July-November 1974.
Box 29
Folder 3
General correspondence, December 1974.
Box 29
Folder 4
General correspondence, Christmas 1974-1975.
Box 29
Folder 5
General correspondence, January-February 1975.
Box 30
Folder 1
General correspondence, March-April 1975.
Box 30
Folder 2
General correspondence, May-July 1975.
Box 30
Folder 3
General correspondence, August-September 1975.
Box 30
Folder 4
General correspondence, October-November 1975.
Box 30a
Folder 1
General correspondence, December 1975.
Box 30a
Folder 2
General correspondence, January-February 1976.
Box 30a
Folder 3
General correspondence, March-April 1976.
Box 31
Folder 1
General correspondence, May-June 1976.
Box 31
Folder 2
General correspondence, July-September 1976.
Box 31
Folder 3
General correspondence, October-December 1976.
Box 31
Folder 4
General correspondence, January-March 1977.
Box 31a
Folder 1
General correspondence, April-June 1977.
Box 31a
Folder 2
General correspondence, July-September 1977.
Box 31a
Folder 3
General correspondence, October-December 1977.
Box 31a
Folder 4
General correspondence (water damaged), 1977.
Box 31a
Folder 5
General correspondence, January-March 1978.
Box 32
Folder 1
General correspondence, April-June 1978.
Box 32
Folder 2
General correspondence, July-September 1978.
Box 32
Folder 3
General correspondence, October-December 1978.
Box 32
Folder 4
General correspondence (water damaged), 1978.
Box 32
Folder 5
General correspondence, January-March 1979.
Box 32a
Folder 1
General correspondence, April-June 1979.
Box 32a
Folder 2
General correspondence, July-September 1979.
Box 32a
Folder 3
General correspondence, October-December 1979.
Box 32a
Folder 4
General correspondence, December 1979.
Box 32a
Folder 5
General correspondence (water damaged), 1979.
Box 32a
Folder 6
General correspondence, 1980.
Box 32b
Folder 1
General correspondence, 1981.
Box 32b
Folder 2
General correspondence, January-March 1982.
Box 32b
Folder 3
General correspondence, April-September 1982.
Box 32b
Folder 4
General correspondence, October-December 1982.
Box 32b
Folder 5
General correspondence, January-June 1983.
Box 32c
Folder 1
General correspondence, July-November 1983.
Box 32c
Folder 2
General correspondence, December 1983.
Box 32c
Folder 3
General correspondence, January-March 1984.
Box 32c
Folder 4
General correspondence, April-June 1984.
Box 32d
Folder 1
General correspondence, July-September 1984.
Box 32d
Folder 2
General correspondence, October-December 1984.
Box 32d
Folder 3
General correspondence, January-April 1985.
Box 32d
Folder 4
General correspondence, May-August 1985.
Box 32d
Folder 5
General correspondence, September-December 1985.
Box 32e
Folder 1
General correspondence, January-April 1986.
Box 32e
Folder 2
General correspondence, May-October 1986.
Box 32e
Folder 3
General correspondence: Folder 1, undated.
Box 32e
Folder 4
General correspondence: Folder 2, undated.
Box 32f
Folder 1
General correspondence: Folder 3, undated.
Box 32f
Folder 2
General correspondence: Addresses, undated.
Box 32f
Folder 3
"Letters to Jim", undated.
Box 32f
Folder 4
Barone, Dennis, 1972-1986.
Box 33
Folder 1
Barone, Dennis-From John, 1985-1986.
Box 33
Folder 2
Congdon, Kirby (Interim Books), 1976.
Box 33
Folder 3
Cooperman, Bob, 1975-1985.
Box 33
Folder 4
Hoey, Allen (Banjo Press), 1975-1977.
Box 33
Folder 5
Hoey, Allen (Banjo Press), 1978-1979.
Box 33
Folder 6
Holland, Barbara, 1973-1974.
Box 33a
Folder 1
Powell, Shirley, 1975-1983.
Box 33a
Folder 2
Rosati, Diane, 1970-1982.
Box 33a
Folder 3
Tafoya, Al, 1974-1979.
Box 33a
Folder 4
Avon Books, 1969.
Box 33a
Folder 5
Chapbook Foundation, 1968.
Box 33a
Folder 6
Collegedale Bindery, 1966.
Box 33a
Folder 7
The Galley Sail Review, 1986.
Box 33a
Folder 8
Quartet, 1967-1974.
Box 33a
Folder 9
Transylvania College, 1972-1986.
Box 33a
Folder 10
Twayne Publishers, 1965.
Box 33a
Folder 11
Payne, Virgil F. (Payne's father): (includes John's birth certificate), 1962-1973.
Box 33b
Folder 1
Payne, Virgil F., 1974-1976.
Box 33b
Folder 2
Payne, Virgil F.: (includes memorial for Dorothy Payne), 1977-1978.
Box 33b
Folder 3
Payne, Virgil F., 1979-1981.
Box 33b
Folder 4
Letters to Virgil and Dorothy Payne from John, 1967-1968.
Box 33b
Folder 5
Letters to Virgil and Dorothy Payne from John, 1969-1972.
Box 33b
Folder 6
Letters to Virgil and Dorothy Payne from John, 1973-1975.
Box 33c
Folder 1
Letters to Virgil and Dorothy Payne from John, 1976.
Box 33c
Folder 2
Scope and Contents
Series 13: Photographs, contains photographs mostly of Payne's nieces and nephews and various photographs that were included with correspondence. Also included are some photographs taken in Italy.
Photographs enclosed with correspondence, 1959-1986.
Box 34
Folder 1
Photographs, 1956-1967.
Box 34
Folder 2
Photographs, 1947-1967.
Box 34
Folder 3
Photographs, 1957-1978.
Box 34
Folder 4
Destry, undated.
Box 34
Folder 5
Italy: Folder 1, undated.
Box 34
Folder 6
Italy: Folder 2, undated.
Box 34
Folder 7
Scope and Contents
Series 14: Artwork and ephemera, includes several types of ephemera, including Gold Bond Stamps and accompanying booklets. Gold Bond Stamps were a type of stamp given out at grocery stores, which were then pasted into books and traded in for different types of merchandise. They became popular during the 1930s and were around through the 1970s. Also included in the series are postage stamps and a few miscellaneous items such as the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket. This series also includes Payne's own artwork, mostly watercolors on small pieces of canvas board. There is also one box of art exhibit posters and postcards for events that Payne was invited to. Also included is a poster presented to Payne by the East Lansing Society of John Payne.
Gold Bond stamps, undated.
Box 35
Folder 1
Postage stamps, undated.
Box 35
Folder 2
Post cards, stationary, undated.
Box 35
Folder 3
Miscellaneous (includes an Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket, a matchbook from Wesson, ticket stubs from various theatres, and a plastic bag from Marlboro Bookshop), 1958; undated.
Box 35
Folder 4
Payne's artwork, undated.
Box 36
Folder 1
Artwork by others, undated.
Box 36
Folder 2
Art exhibit posters/postcards, 1960-1986.
Box 37
Folder 1
Payne's artwork, undated.
Box 38
Folder 1
Poster presented to Payne by "The East Lansing Society of Friends of John Payne Presents this gift in the spirit of deepest friendship, " signed by Bob Wright, Fern Wright, Fred Reeve, Maude Shapiro, Ken Macrorie, Milt Rokeach, Muriel Rokeach, Florence Hickok, Ben Hickok, Nora Landmark, Dorothy Heilman, Art Heilman, Maggie Kahn, Larry Kahn, Thera Stovall, Laura Strandness, Ben Strandness, undated.
Box 39
Folder 1
Scope and Contents
Series 15: Magazines and journals, contains various publications that do not contain any of Payne's work, though many published his work in previous or subsequent issues.
Peace Corp Volunteers (has an article on Dr. Virgil F. Payne and Dorothy Payne), 1964.
Box 40
Folder 1
The Tattler (National Federation of Federal Employees) announces Dr. Virgil F. Payne's (Payne's father) nomination, 1957.
Box 40
Folder 2
Catalogs, 1970-1986.
Box 40
Folder 3
Miscellaneous, undated.
Box 40
Folder 4
Scope and Contents
Series 16: Supplies, includes supplies like letterhead paper and blank forms. Also included are some owner's manuals.
Paper: Letterhead, undated.
Box 41
Folder 1
Blank Avon Reports, undated.
Box 41
Folder 2
Owner's manuals, undated.
Box 41
Folder 3