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Larry Eigner stories : eight manuscripts
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American poet Larry Eigner (Laurence Joel Eigner) was born August 7, 1927, in Lynn, Massachusetts. Although an injury at birth left Eigner palsied, the poet and writer spent his life describing the world around him, first from his glassed-in porch in a small town in Massachusetts and later from his home in Berkeley, California. Although most of his published work is poetry, he has also written a play, short stories, and prose.
"Larry Eigner." Contemporary Poets, 6th ed. (reproduced in Biography Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed June 2008).Biographical information also derived from the collection.
This small collection comprises the typescript manuscripts of eight short stories by the American poet Larry Eigner.
Four of the eight stories were published in Eigner's book of selected prose,
Country Harbor Quiet Act Around, and a fifth story, "Driving," was published in Things Stirring Together or Far Away. Three stories within the collection are apparently unpublished. Each typescript bears varying degrees of typeovers, notes, and holograph corrections. The undated manuscripts (circa 1968) include Eigner's typed address (23 Bates Road, Swampscott, Mass.) on the first page of each story.The manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 59, F0855: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.
Purchase, 2009.
Processed and encoded by Christopher La Casse, September 2009. Further encoded by George Apodaca, October 2015.
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- University of Delaware Library Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Finding Aid Date
- 2009 September 30
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The collection is open for research.
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Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, http://library.udel.edu/spec/askspec/
Collection Inventory
Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." Two typeovers, and one interlinear note about punctuation.
Physical Description8 items
Unpublished typescript on onion skin paper. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." Minimal holograph corrections, some typeover corrections.
Physical Description3 pp.
Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With marginal notes (typed), frequent typeovers.
Physical Description4 pp.
Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With typeovers and autograph corrections.
Physical Description21 pp.
Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With type-overs and lightly penciled marginal notes.
Physical Description2 pp.
Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With significant typeovers and holograph corrections in pen.
Physical Description12 pp.
Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." with significant typeovers and mss corrections.
Physical Description4 pp.
Unpublished typescript. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With significant typeovers and line omissions.
Physical Description4 pp.
Unpublished typescript of prose poem. Addressed in header with "23 Bates Road Swampscott, Mass." With significant typeovers and parenthetical note: "I'm in doubt as to just how to punctuate in much of this but I think the indentations are rather all right, arbitrary though they are."
Physical Description2 pp.