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John Malcolm Brinnin papers supplement

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Poet and biographer John Malcolm Brinnin was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on September 13, 1916, to John A. Brinnin and Frances Malcolm Brinnin. When he was young his family moved to Detroit, Michigan. Brinnin graduated from the University of Michigan in 1942 and within a year entered graduate school at Harvard University.

Brinnin, who was also a critic, anthologist, and teacher, taught at Vassar, Boston University, the University of Connecticut, and Harvard. He was Director of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Poetry Center (the 92nd Street Y) in New York City during one of the Center's most successful periods (1949-1956).

Brinnin was the first person to bring Welsh poet Dylan Thomas to the United States and was responsible for all of Dylan Thomas's reading tours in this country. Brinnin's best known work, Dylan Thomas in America, published in 1955, provides a personal memoir of Dylan Thomas's trips to America as Brinnin observed them, and carries a moving account of the period of Thomas's death in 1953. Dylan Thomas in America was made into the 1964 Broadway play, Dylan. Brinnin later narrated a motion picture, The Days of Dylan Thomas.

John Malcolm Brinnin published a number of collections of poems. Brinnin's first collection of verse, The Garden is Political, was published in 1942. Subsequent collections of poems include The Lincoln Lyrics (1942), No Arch, No Triumph (1945), The Sorrows of Cold Stone (1951), and Selected Poems of John Malcolm Brinnin (1963). Skin Diving in the Virgins, and Other Poems (1970) was Brinnin's final collection of published poetry, although he continued to tinker with a number of abandoned poems until his death.

In 1955 the Poetry Society of America awarded Brinnin its Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Poetry. Following the publication of his Selected Poems in 1963, Brinnin was awarded the Centennial Medal for Distinction in Literature by his alma mater, the University of Michigan.

In addition to writing poetry, Brinnin edited a literary journal, Signatures (1936-1938), and compiled several anthologies of modern poetry. Brinnin's two popular works on transatlantic travel, The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic (1971) and Beau Voyage: Life Aboard the Last Great Ships (1981), reflect his lifelong love of travel, particularly crossing the Atlantic on luxury liners.

John Malcolm Brinnin authored biographies of Gertrude Stein (The Third Rose, 1959) and Truman Capote (Truman Capote: Dear Heart, Old Buddy, 1986). His work, Sextet (1981), included biographical sketches of Truman Capote; Henri Cartier-Bresson; Elizabeth Bowen; Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell; Alice B. Toklas; and T. S. Eliot. In addition, he wrote a critical work on William Carlos Williams.

John Malcolm Brinnin died at his home in Key West, Florida, on June 25, 1999.

Evory, Ann (ed.) Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series, Volume 1. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1981. page 72. Quartermain, Peter (ed.) Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 48: American Poets, 1880-1945, Second Series. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1986. pages 52-57. Stewart, Barbara. "John Malcolm Brinnin, Poet and Biographer, Dies at 81," The New York Times. 1998 Jun 30.

The Supplement to the John Malcolm Brinnin Papers comprises thirteen linear feet of material spanning the dates [1800s]-1998 (bulk dates 1935-1998). Most of the collection consists of letters to Brinnin; poems, a memoir, journals, and articles written by Brinnin; and personal documents, such as a passport, birth certificate, medical and hospice information, draft notice, photographs, and college diploma. However, the supplement also includes books or manuscripts written by other authors and friends, artwork, clippings, computer software, travel brochures and itineraries, and audiovisual material related to Brinnin.

There are six series in the Supplement: I. Correspondence, II. Writing by Brinnin, III. Writing by others, IV. Photographs, negatives, and slides, V. Printed material, and VI. Personal papers.

Most of the letters in the Series I. Correspondence, are written to John Malcolm Brinnin, although a few are addressed to his longtime companion, Bill Read; his mother, Frances Brinnin; or to his friends, Howard Moss and James Merrill. There is also a folder of letters, postcards, or drafts of letters written by Brinnin to Caitlin Thomas, Bill Read, John Thompson, and his mother. The letters in the supplement add to the holdings for several correspondents found in the original collection, such as James Merrill, Richard and Charlee Wilbur, and Kimon Friar.

The correspondents reflect the wide range of friendships Brinnin cultivated and maintained, from renowned composer Leonard Bernstein to college classmates such as Bowden Broadwater and Ankey Larrabee (Crumley). Among his correspondents were such poets and writers as John Ashbery, Henri Cole, Kimon Friar, Anthony Hecht, James Merrill, Howard Moss, Denise Levertov, and Richard Wilbur.

The topics of conversation in these letters are as varied as the individuals writing: from personal health to current writing projects, from travel plans to congratulatory notes to Brinnin on recent publication. The most substantial groups of letters are all from Brinnin's close friends, Rita Essayan, Kimon Friar, Ankey Larrabee (Crumley), James Merrill, and the Wilburs.

The Larrabee letters elucidate Brinnin's Bennington College, Vermont connection. Ankey Larrabee was a classmate of Brinnin's at Bennington during the summer 1940, when Brinnin held a scholarship to study modern dance. What began as a crush on Brinnin developed into a close friendship. The letters reflect Larrabee's outrageous sense of humor and creative talent.

The letters from poet Richard Wilbur and his wife Charlee reflect details of their lives, including health concerns, travel plans, reports of their children and grandchildren, and Richard Wilbur's poetry. Richard Wilbur sent a number of poems to Brinnin for comment.

In addition to the personal correspondence, the first series includes a folder of business correspondence related to several of Brinnin's writing projects, a folder containing letters from unidentified correspondents, and a folder of pending or "final correspondence" (maintained as it came from the estate). The letters, notes, cards, and faxed messages of love and support sent to John Malcolm Brinnin during his final months of life, as well as Brinnin's list of persons he wished to contact and things he wanted to complete during that time are collected in this folder.

Series II. Writing by Brinnin, is dominated by Brinnin's journals and drafts of a memoir which Brinnin did not complete. From 1943 until several days before his death, Brinnin kept a journal of his daily life. The journal, which began as an appointment book during his teaching appointment at Vassar, multiplied into one hundred and thirty-five volumes available in this collection. An additional two journals (years) are missing from the collections and occasionally pages are missing from a journal. The only period of time when nothing was recorded in the journals was during the hospitalization of Dylan Thomas in 1953. A summary description of the contents of the journals is available in the subseries note on page 26 of this finding aid.

As early as the 1950s Brinnin began compiling material for a memoir. In 1965 Brinnin recorded in his journal, "Abandon memoir project, at least for some years." However, Brinnin continued to return to the project and was working on the memoir in the months prior to his death.

The drafts which are available in this supplement chronicle in detail Brinnin's life from birth to about 1953. The 1950s-1990s are represented by a few drafts, notes, and chronologies; none of which are comprehensive. The last working title for the memoir was "A Passing of Papers," for which Brinnin had written a "Prolegomenon." The memoir is provides enormous insight into Brinnin's life and work and priorities. Whereas his journals can be almost cryptic, his memoir is clear and revealing.

In these drafts he details his childhood and family life, including his sister's death when he was twelve years old and its effect on his family; his teenage years; and his work with Walter Reuther in the fledgling United Auto Workers in Detroit. His collegiate days at the University of Michigan, Bennington, and Harvard are depicted, introducing Kimon Friar, John Thompson, William Auden, the Wilburs, Truman Capote, Arthur Miller, and a host of others. The years of his directorship at the Poetry Center are chronicled in rich detail, with Brinnin reflecting on the demeanor and presentations of the poets he engaged for readings. The memoir is particularly substantial with regard to Dylan Thomas.

His memoir also reveals his thoughts about his journals. At one point in his memoir (F143), following an entry for April 5, 1951, Brinnin writes: "As journal entries continued to tell mainly what I did, I developed a secondary language of nuance and silence to remind me what I felt. A code I had myself devised, it could not be cracked simply because no one else was aware of its function, much less its purpose. Booby-trapped with declarative sentences about the pain in my joints that would keep me hunched and crab-like for days, or about the ulcerous eruptions that plagued my nights, this language might satisfy a casual reader without ever revealing that it was designed to deflect rather that inform..."

The second series is completed by a group of autograph and typescript drafts of poems; a notebook listing Brinnin's poetry submissions, readings, and awards for the period of 1935-1946; and several folders of material regarding Dylan Thomas in America or Brinnin's books on passenger ships.

Series III. Writing by Others includes the work of poets, novelists, or friends. Manuscripts of poems by Craig Arnold, Leonard Bernstein, Jane Brooks, Daniel Hall, and Nash Rosenblatt are available in the series. Poems by Richard Wilbur, Irving Feldman, Howard Moss, and Leonard Bernstein are also present among the letters of these individuals which are found in Series I. John O'Shea's story about Truman Capote, Philip Gerber's biographical essay regarding Brinnin, Richard Wilbur's eulogy for Brinnin, and typescript chapters of James Merrill's memoir, A Different Person, are also part of the series.

The travel journals of Bill Read, kept between 1951 and 1976, and six volumes of John H. Thompson's diaries (1939-1964) complete the series. Bill Read's five journals chronicle his trips to Europe. Entries in the journals list purchases and expenses, describe scenery and artwork he observed, detail meals eaten and an occasional recipe, and record information about new friends. The first diary (F8) contains a vivid account of Read's and Brinnin's visit with Dylan and Caitlin Thomas in Wales in 1951.

The entries in Thompson's journals vary from brief summaries of a day's activities to detailed descriptions of particular events, such as trips to New York City. A particularly close friend of Brinnin's who went to school with him in Ann Arbor and with whom he co-edited Signatures, their letters, conversations, and visits are frequently recorded in detail. In fact there are paper markers in the journals indicating that Brinnin acquired Thompson's journals as reference material for his memoirs.

Almost three hundred photographs, thirty contact sheets, as well as numerous negatives and slides comprise Series IV. The photographs are a mix of images taken by professional photographers, such as Rollie McKenna, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Michel Sima, and amateur snapshots. The photographs include images of Brinnin alone, Brinnin with others, other individuals (friends and poets), Dylan Thomas and his family or environs, Brinnin family photographs, and photographs of artwork and landscapes. Of particular note are the portrait images of Dylan Thomas (these complement the Thomas photographs found in the original Brinnin Papers) and other poets taken by Rollie McKenna; Michel Sima's images of modern artists; and Cartier-Bresson's images of Frank Lloyd Wright, Max Ernst, and Robert Flaherty.

Series V. Printed material includes books (many of which are inscribed by their authors to Brinnin), journals and magazines, programs, brochures, catalogs, and clippings. The series includes books of poetry from James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Tram Combs, and Richard Wilbur; as well as novels by John Hersey. The books have been removed from the collection and cataloged for Special Collections, with call numbers noted when available.

Many of the journals and magazines include poems or articles written by Brinnin or by his close friends, such as James Merrill or Kimon Friar. Among the programs, catalogs, and brochures are works by Rollie McKenna, C. R. Grigg, and John H. Thompson; as well as material related to Dylan Thomas.

The clippings and tear sheets provide samples of Brinnin's poetry, articles, or reviews as published in various newspapers or magazines. The file of obituaries suggests some of the personal loses Brinnin endured over his lifetime.

Series VI. Personal papers encompasses such items as Brinnin's birth certificate and notice of draft classification, his University of Michigan diploma, a passport, a guest book for his 70th birthday celebration, and his final journal and medical records. Several ephemeral items and realia reflect Brinnin's personal interests, such as his fountain pen and nibs used for his beautifully calligraphic letter writing, information about the game of anagrams, and material related to world travel. A video tape of an interview with Brinnin, conducted in Key West during the 1990s, reveals other elements of Brinnin's personality and interests.

Brinnin's active participation in such organizations as the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Key West Literary Seminar and Festival, and the Poetry Center is documented with programs, clippings, and correspondence. Among the miscellaneous items is a photocopy of an eighteen-page cartoon in which Brinnin is a central character.

The distinguishing documents in this supplement to the John Malcolm Brinnin Papers are Brinnin's journals and the drafts of his memoirs. These reveal much about the life, work, and character of John Malcolm Brinnin, as well as the individuals and life events he encountered.

The supplement to the papers of John Malcolm Brinnin begins with box number 48; this continues the box numbering sequence begun in the original collection of papers.

The material in the supplement is arranged in six series beginning with Series I. Correspondence, which is arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically within each folder.

Series II. Writing by Brinnin includes four subseries: 1) journals, 2) memoir, 3) poetry, and 4) published material. The journals and drafts of the unfinished memoir are arranged in chronological order. The poetry is arranged alphabetically by the title of each poem and the published material is in rough chronological order.

Series III. Writing by others is arranged alphabetically by writer.

Series IV. Photographs, negatives, and slides, is divided into several categories: images of Brinnin alone, Brinnin with others, images of other individuals, images of Dylan Thomas and his family or environs, family photographs, photographs by Sima, photographs of artwork and landscapes, negatives, and slides. Photographs are arranged chronologically in each folder.

Series V. Printed material includes four subseries: 1) books, 2) journals and magazines, 3) programs, offprints, brochures, and catalogs, and 4) clippings and tear sheets. The first three subseries are arranged in alphabetical order by author or title (in the case of the journals and magazines). Clippings and tear sheets are arranged in chronological order within each folder.

Series VI. Personal papers has five subseries: 1) personal and family documents, 2) material related to Brinnin's personal interests, 3) material related to Brinnin's participation in organizations, 4) interview or readings by Brinnin, and 5) miscellaneous material. Material is arranged chronologically within each folder.

Boxes 1-34, 36-47: Shelved in SPEC MSS manuscript boxes Box 35: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (17 inches) Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (32 inches)

Purchase, 1999.

Finding aid encoded by Lauren Connolly, November 2015. Further encoding by Tiffany Saulter, July 2016.

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University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2015 November 2
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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Includes letters written to John Malcolm Brinnin, a few letters to Bill Read, and some written to James Merrill, Howard Moss, or Frances Brinnin. Also includes a folder of letters written by Brinnin.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by sender.

Aaron, Daniel, 1975 Jan 29.
Box 48 Folder F1
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed.

Abrahams, William (Billy), 1986 Dec 18.
Box 48 Folder F2
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Albee, Edward, 1987 Dec 12.
Box 48 Folder F3
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed.

Alexander, Shana, 1995.
Box 48 Folder F4
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed.

Anderson, Robert, [n.d.].
Box 48 Folder F5
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed.

Ashbery, John, 1986-1987.
Box 48 Folder F6
Scope and Contents

Two Autograph Cards Signed and one Typed Letter Signed regarding writing an introduction to Brinnin's The Third Rose.

Belitt, Ben, 1985 Aug 26.
Box 48 Folder F7
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Bernstein, Leonard, 1986-1988.
Box 48 Folder F8
Scope and Contents

Two Autograph Letters Signed, each written in verse form to Brinnin.

Bishop, Elizabeth, [1978 Oct 9].
Box 48 Folder F9
Scope and Contents

Autograph Card Signed to Mrs. Frances Brinnin.

Blas, Marie Claire, 1989 Oct 16.
Box 48 Folder F10
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed.

Brazeau, Peter, 1982 Sep 18.
Box 48 Folder F11
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed to Mrs. Frances Brinnin.

Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1948-1996.
Box 48 Folder F12
Scope and Contents

Includes postcards, letters, or drafts of letters from Brinnin to Caitlin Thomas, Bill Read, his mother, John Thompson, Mrs. Nelson Smith, and others. Also includes correspondence regarding apartment rentals in Venice and miscellaneous notes.

Broadwater, Bowden, 1988-1989.
Box 48 Folder F13
Scope and Contents

Four Autograph Letters Signed.

Brock-Broido, Lucie, 1991 Nov 14.
Box 48 Folder F14
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Brooks, Cleanth, 1965 Aug 10.
Box 48 Folder F15
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed regarding negative reaction to Brinnin's book on Dylan Thomas.

Buckman, Gertrude (Mrs. Delmore Schwartz), 1985-1987.
Box 48 Folder F16
Scope and Contents

Five Typed Letters Signed.

Burton, Philip H., 1983-1990.
Box 48 Folder F17
Scope and Contents

Six Autograph Letters Signed plus a program for the memorial service for Burton.

Claiborne, Craig, 1981 Nov 17.
Box 48 Folder F18
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed regarding Sextet.

Clarke, Gerald, 1982-1995.
Box 48 Folder F19
Scope and Contents

Eight letters and one printed invitation, with some references to Truman Capote.

Cole, Henri, 1988-1995.
Box 48 Folder F20
Scope and Contents

Eighteen letters and cards.

Combs, Tram, 1961 Nov 3.
Box 48 Folder F21
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Congdon, Kirby, 1998 Apr 20.
Box 48 Folder F22
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed.

Cooper, Jilly, 1991 Feb 22.
Box 48 Folder F23
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Corn, Alfred, 1977.
Box 48 Folder F24
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed and one Typed Card Signed.

Cox, V. Christopher, 1981 May 13.
Box 48 Folder F25
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

D'Arezzo, Daniel, 1989-1997.
Box 48 Folder F26
Scope and Contents

Four Typed Letters Signed and photocopies of six drafts of poems by Howard Moss.

Davenport, Guy, 1981 Jun 7.
Box 48 Folder F27
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Davies, Walford, 1997.
Box 48 Folder F28
Scope and Contents

Two Typed Letters Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed regarding publications of the work of Dylan Thomas.

Davison, Peter, 1992 Jun 26.
Box 48 Folder F29
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Dean, Leonard F., 1964, Jan 8.
Box 48 Folder F30
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed regarding teaching at the University of Connecticut, plus a reprint of Dean's article, "Richard Wilbur's New Poems," which Dean inscribed to Brinnin.

Decazes, Eli, 1982 Aug 24.
Box 48 Folder F31
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Note Signed.

Deren, Maya, 1948 Mar 24.
Box 48 Folder F32
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed to Bill Read, with a photograph titled "Meshes of the Afternoon," both of which were laid in a copy of Deren's An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (removed and cataloged for Special Collections). Also includes a photocopied Typed Letter.

Diamond, David, 1981 Oct 4.
Box 48 Folder F33
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed.

Dillard, Annie, [1993] Mar 3.
Box 48 Folder F34
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed.

Doughty, Howard, 1949 March 20.
Box 48 Folder F35
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed regarding a crisis at Yaddo.

Dove, Rita, 1995 Nov 28.
Box 48 Folder F36
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed, with an enclosed photograph of Dove and Brinnin. Also includes Brinnin's copy of a letter inviting Dove to judge the annual Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.

Eberhart, Richard, 1964 Aug 7.
Box 48 Folder F37
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed from Eberhart to Bill Read.

Ellis, Frank and Connie, 1973.
Box 48 Folder F38
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed.

Essayan, Rita (Goulbankina), 1973-1977.
Box 48 Folder F39
Scope and Contents

Fifty-six letters and cards written to Brinnin and Read, plus a photograph of Essayan and a letter from her son informing them of her sudden death.

Fazio, Francesco, 1996 Nov 22.
Box 48 Folder F40
Scope and Contents

One faxed Typed Letter Signed with attached acknowledgment page.

Feldman, Irving, 1971-1990.
Box 48 Folder F41
Scope and Contents

Five letters and cards, plus seven poems (some of which are signed and dated).

Ferris, Paul, 1985.
Box 48 Folder F42
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One Typed Letter Signed to Brinnin and a copy of a letter from Ferris to Liz Reitell, which has comments by Reitell in the margins. Both letters are regarding a biography Ferris is researching concerning Dylan Thomas.

Field, Edward, [1977] Jun 8.
Box 48 Folder F43
Scope and Contents

One Typed Card Signed.

Finkelstein, Caroline, 1997.
Box 48 Folder F44
Scope and Contents

Two Typed Letters Signed.

Fitzgerald, Penny (Mrs. Robert), 1985 Feb 13.
Box 48 Folder F45
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed.

Foerster, Richard, 1996.
Box 48 Folder F46
Scope and Contents

Two Typed Letter Signed and one Autograph Card Signed, plus copies of correspondence with The New Criterion.

Francois, Andre, 1987.
Box 48 Folder F47
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed, one Typed Letter Signed, and one Autograph Card Signed regarding Brinnin's book, Arthur the Dolphin.

Friar, Kimon, 1940-1989.
Box 48 Folder F48
Scope and Contents

Twenty-eight letters from Friar to Brinnin, discussing their relationship, writing projects, health, and mutual friends. Also includes a reprint of Friar's article, "The Medusa-Mask." For the bulk of Friar's correspondence with Brinnin see manuscript collections 103 and 257.

Gaulin, Kenneth, 1992-1997.
Box 48 Folder F49
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed and one faxed letter.

Gilmore, Sylva, 1993.
Box 48 Folder F50
Scope and Contents

Two Typed Letters Signed.

Giroux, Robert, 1989-1991.
Box 48 Folder F51
Scope and Contents

Three Typed Letter Signed regarding editing an edition of Elizabeth Bishop's letters.

Gregory, Havard, 1977 May 23.
Box 48 Folder F52
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed regarding The Dylan Thomas Society.

Halberstam, David, 1981 Dec 31.
Box 48 Folder F53
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed regarding Sextet.

Hardwick, Elizabeth, 1992 Mar 11.
Box 48 Folder F54
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed.

Harmon, Charlie, 1977-1991.
Box 48 Folder F55
Scope and Contents

Two Typed Letter Signed, plus one Autograph Card Signed, all regarding Leonard Bernstein or his death.

Harrison, Gilbert A., 1980 Dec 20.
Box 48 Folder F56
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed.

Harrison, Jim, 1989 Mar.
Box 48 Folder F57
Scope and Contents

Autograph Note Signed on a copy of Harrison's poem, "Small Poem."

Hazzard, Shirley, 1986-1988.
Box 48 Folder F58
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One Autograph Card Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed. The postcard also includes an Autograph Note Signed from Francis Steegmuller.

Hecht, Anthony, 1989-1998.
Box 48 Folder F59
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Three Typed Cards Signed, four Typed Letters Signed, and one Autograph Card Signed. Also includes three letters from Helen Hecht (wife). Most of the letters regard the Amy Lowell Travel Fellowships.

Hersey, John and Barbara, 1989-1992.
Box 48 Folder F60
Scope and Contents

Two Autograph Letters Signed and one Typed Letter Signed from John Hersey, as well as three letters from Barbara Hersey.

Heyen, William, 1986 Mar 23.
Box 48 Folder F61
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed

Hills, Rust, 1986 May 16.
Box 48 Folder F62
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed.

Hooten, Peter, 1984-1990.
Box 48 Folder F63
Scope and Contents

Five Autograph Cards Signed and one Typed Letter Signed.

Howes, Barbara, 1971 Dec.
Box 48 Folder F64
Scope and Contents

Autograph Note Signed on a printed Christmas poem by Howes, titled "Evening: Crown Point."

Hughes, Ted, 1991 Nov 25.
Box 48 Folder F65
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed regarding Elizabeth Bishop and declining to attend the seminar.

Huxtable, L. Garth, 1972 Apr 16.
Box 48 Folder F66
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Jackson, David, 1983 May 12.
Box 48 Folder F67
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Kalstone, David, 1965-1986.
Box 48 Folder F68
Scope and Contents

Six Autograph Letters Signed, one Autograph Card Signed, one Typed Letter Signed, one telegram, and an invitation to a memorial tribute to Kalstone in 1986.

Kaufelt, Lynn and David, [1982 Apr 7].
Box 48 Folder F69
Scope and Contents

One printed invitation.

Kazantzis, Judith, [n.d.].
Box 48 Folder F70
Scope and Contents

One watercolor and one ink and watercolor drawings, one inscribed to Brinnin.

Kidde, Wilson Hand, 1997 Nov 6.
Box 48 Folder F71
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Kirchwey, Karl, 1988 Jul 27.
Box 48 Folder F72
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Kohn, Raymond F., 1965 Jul 28.
Box 48 Folder F73
Scope and Contents

One telegram.

Scope and Contents

Includes letters to Brinnin, James Merrill, Connie Smith, and Howard Moss.

1940.
Box 48 Folder F74
Physical Description

13 letters.

1941.
Box 48 Folder F75
Physical Description

20 letters

1942-1943.
Box 48 Folder F76
Physical Description

6 letters.

1945-1946.
Box 48 Folder F77
Physical Description

11 letters and postcards, and one illustration.

1947-1949.
Box 48 Folder F78
Scope and Contents

Including one letter from William Crumley to Larrabee, to which Larrabee added a note and forwarded to Brinnin.

Physical Description

17 letters and postcards.

1950-1951.
Box 48 Folder F79
Physical Description

13 letters and postcards.

[n.d.] or [n.y.].
Box 48 Folder F80
Physical Description

40 letters and postcards, plus two drawings.

1945-1952.
Box 48 Folder F81
Scope and Contents

One postcard has a photograph of Howard Moss attached.

Physical Description

10 letters and postcards

Lash, Joseph P., 1979 Dec 26.
Box 48 Folder F82
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Laughlin, James, 1968 Sep 24.
Box 48 Folder F83
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Lauritzen, Peter and Lady Rose, [1998 Jul 17].
Box 48 Folder F84
Scope and Contents

Printed invitations to a party.

Levertov, Denise, [1975]-1986.
Box 48 Folder F85
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed, one Autograph Card Signed, and one Autograph Letter Signed written on verso of a printing of Levertov's poem "to the reader." The poem and letter are addressed to Bill Read.

Lurie, Alison, 1995 July 5.
Box 48 Folder F86
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Matthews, William, 1970.
Box 48 Folder F87
Scope and Contents

Two Autograph Letters Signed.

Maxwell, William, 1983 May 16.
Box 48 Folder F88
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

McClatchy, J. D. (Sandy), 1976-1993.
Box 48 Folder F89
Scope and Contents

Six Typed Letters Signed and one Typed Card Signed.

McKenna, Rollie, 1988.
Box 48 Folder F90
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed, plus a fax asking Brinnin to call McKenna.

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, clippings, poems written by Merrill, and material related to his death.

1981-1985.
Box 48 Folder F91
Scope and Contents

Eight Autograph Cards Signed and two Typed Cards Signed. Also includes two versions of Merrill's poem "Losing the Marbles," which is dedicated to Brinnin. Both are inscribed to Brinnin. Also includes a canceled check.

1986-1995.
Box 48 Folder F92
Scope and Contents

Twelve ACSs, three TCSs, two ALSs, and two TLSs. Also includes: Merrill's printed poem, "Vol. XLIV, No. 3," (inscribed), two photographs of Merrill, and photocopied typescripts of Merrill's poems, "Nine Lives," "Volcanic Holiday," "Quatrains for Pegasus," and "Self-Portrait in Tyvek (TM) Windbreaker." Two of the poems are inscribed to Brinnin. Merrill's booklet

Eight Bits (inscribed to Brinnin) has been removed and cataloged for Special Collections.
[n.d.].
Box 48 Folder F93
Scope and Contents

Three ANSs, plus a list of corrections for an unidentified work, a note with Merrill's telephone number in the hospital, and an autograph poem by Brinnin. Also includes a signed four-line verse by Merrill for Brinnin's birthday, and three poems by Merrill: "Blow Voyage?" "To a Pocket Calculator" (inscribed to Brinnin), and "Bronze."

Obituaries, memorial service programs, articles about Merrill, 1995-1996.
Box 48 Folder F94
Scope and Contents

Includes a signed photocopy of Allan Gurganus's eulogy, correspondence related to Merrill's will (with a portion of the will included), and letters from Sandy McClatchy and Melissa Hammerle regarding memorials.

Methfessel, Alice, 1981-1992.
Box 48 Folder F95
Scope and Contents

Two Typed Letters Signed and one Autograph Card Signed, regarding travels and mutual friends.

Miller, Charlie, 1980-1988.
Box 48 Folder F96
Scope and Contents

Eleven TLSs and one ALS (which is written on the verso of a photocopy of Miller's TLS to "Paul." One TLS is typed on the verso of a copy of Miller's poem, "Timekeepers," and another is typed on the verso of a typescript of his poem, "The Lighthouse at Cabo Tigre."

Mills, Margaret M., 1982-1988.
Box 48 Folder F97
Scope and Contents

Two Typed Letters Signed regarding American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters business.

Milstein, Richard S., 1997.
Box 48 Folder F98
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed.

Morris, Jan, [1984 Mar 30].
Box 48 Folder F99
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed.

Mortimer, Penelope, 1988-1995.
Box 48 Folder F100
Scope and Contents

Includes two Typed Letters Signed, one Autograph Card Signed, and a clipping.

Moss, Howard, 1970-1988.
Box 48 Folder F101
Scope and Contents

Nine Typed Letters Signed, two Autograph Cards Signed, and one Typed Card Signed, plus correspondence and program for Moss's memorial service and information regarding Moss's will.

Mullen, William, 1994-1997.
Box 48 Folder F102
Scope and Contents

Three Typed Letters Signed, plus one typescript poem "Enchanted Rock."

Myers, John Bernard, 1978-1984.
Box 48 Folder F103
Scope and Contents

Eight Autograph Letters Signed, about travels, visits and companion Arthur Cady.

Neiman, Catrina, 1981 Jun 27.
Box 48 Folder F104
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed regarding "The Legend of Maya Deren."

Nevelson, Louise, 1984 Oct 30.
Box 48 Folder F105
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Note Signed, plus a related note from Diana MacKown.

O'Shea, John, 1984-1994.
Box 48 Folder F106
Scope and Contents

Nine Autograph Letters Signed and two Typed Letters Signed, some of which discuss Truman Capote.

Pecile, Jordan, 1998 Mar 21.
Box 48 Folder F107
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed, plus a clipping.

Perkins, Jill T., 1994 Jun 3.
Box 48 Folder F108
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed from the daughter of John Thompson, granting permission to quote from Thompson's journals.

Perry, Lynn (Miller), 1997-1998.
Box 48 Folder F109
Scope and Contents

Two Autograph Letters Signed regarding a book of poetry by Charlie Miller.

Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1982 Mar 11.
Box 48 Folder F110
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Poirier, Richard, 1975 Apr 30.
Box 48 Folder F111
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed.

Porter, Joe Ashby, 1972 Sep 11.
Box 48 Folder F112
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed.

Pritchett, Dorothy, [n.y.] Sep 5.
Box 48 Folder F113
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Purdy, Harry, 1939 Jul 13.
Box 48 Folder F114
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed regarding his first book and getting a job.

Quinn, Alice, 1998 May 22.
Box 48 Folder F115
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Read, Bill, 1971-1978.
Box 48 Folder F116
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed to Brinnin and three documents related to his will.

Reeve, Franklin, [1982] Apr 24.
Box 48 Folder F117
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed.

Reitell, Liz (Smith), 1955-1988.
Box 48 Folder F118
Scope and Contents

Four Autograph Letters Signed and one Autograph Card Signed, regarding her work and travels, Brinnin's book on Dylan Thomas, and visiting Wales.

Rich, Adrienne, 1992 Feb 25.
Box 48 Folder F119
Scope and Contents

One Autograaph Card Signed.

Robinson, John, 1948.
Box 48 Folder F120
Scope and Contents

Two Typed Letters Signed.

Roethke, Beatrice, [n.d.].
Box 48 Folder F121
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Rorem, Ned, 1983-[1996].
Box 48 Folder F122
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed, one Autograph Card Signed, and one flyer with an autograph note by Rorem.

Rosten, Norman, [n.d.].
Box 48 Folder F123
Scope and Contents

Five Autograph Letters Signed and one Typed Letter Signed, plus a clipping of Rosten's obituary.

Salter, Mary Jo, 1992 May 14.
Box 48 Folder F124
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Sanchez, Thomas, 1983.
Box 48 Folder F125
Scope and Contents

Two Autograph Letters Signed.

Sanger, Peter, 1992.
Box 48 Folder F126
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed and one Typed Letter Signed.

Schwartz, Lloyd, 1982 Dec 5.
Box 48 Folder F127
Scope and Contents

Autograph note on a series of fourteen poems by Schwartz titled "Fourteen People."

Scully, James, 1970-1993.
Box 48 Folder F128
Scope and Contents

Six Typed Letters Signed and one Autograph Card Signed regarding poetry, poets, San Francisco, and Elizabeth Bishop.

Secrest, Meryle, 1992 Jan 9.
Box 48 Folder F129
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed regarding a book on Leonard Bernstein.

Seidenberg, Charles M., 1993-1998.
Box 48 Folder F130
Scope and Contents

Two Typed Letters Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed, all regarding income taxes, plus forms regarding 1993 income taxes.

Shepherd, Richard, 1989-1998.
Box 48 Folder F131
Scope and Contents

Two Autograph Letters Signed, one Autograph Card Signed, and one Autograph Note Signed. Shepherd was a member of the British Parliament (House of Commons).

Silber, John R., 1977 May 31.
Box 48 Folder F132
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Smith, Gordon, 1934-1936.
Box 48 Folder F133
Scope and Contents

Transcript of thirteen letters from Smith to Brinnin and one letter from Smith's sister to Brinnin (1947).

Smith, Virginia B., 1982 Jan 5.
Box 48 Folder F134
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed regarding the Elizabeth Bishop papers at Vassar.

Spark, Muriel, [1992 Apr 22].
Box 48 Folder F135
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed.

Spenser, Elizabeth, 1983-1989.
Box 48 Folder F136
Scope and Contents

Five Typed Letters Signed and two Autograph Letters Signed.

Spires, Elizabeth, 1997-1998.
Box 48 Folder F137
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed regarding working as a selector (with Henri Cole and Brinnin) for the Amy Lowell award.

Stallworthy, Jon, 1984-1985.
Box 48 Folder F138
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed.

Stamos, Theodoros, 1967 Oct 7.
Box 48 Folder F139
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed

Starbuck, George, 1971.
Box 48 Folder F140
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed.

Stevens, Holly (Stephenson), 1963-1989.
Box 48 Folder F141
Scope and Contents

Seven Autograph Cards Signed, four Autograph Letters Signed, and one Typed Letter Signed, regarding family, visits, etc.

Stitt, Peter, 1991 Nov 20.
Box 48 Folder F142
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Strand, Mark, 1992.
Box 48 Folder F143
Scope and Contents

Two Typed Letters Signed.

Swenson, May, 1988-1989.
Box 48 Folder F144
Scope and Contents

Two Typed Letters Signed regarding travels and Brinnin's book on Truman Capote.

Taylor, Peter and Eleanor, [n.d.].
Box 48 Folder F145
Scope and Contents

Two Autograph Cards Signed.

Thompson, John H., 1957 Dec 24.
Box 48 Folder F146
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Card Signed, written by Thompson to Mrs. Brinnin.

Tillinghast, Richard, 1978-1980.
Box 48 Folder F147
Scope and Contents

One Autograph Letter Signed and one Typed Letter Signed.

Towns, Jeff, 1996.
Box 48 Folder F148
Scope and Contents

One ALS to Brinnin and one ACS to "Tom." Also include a brochure regarding the "Jeff Town Collection" related to Dylan Thomas and a business card.

Vance, Bill, 1997.
Box 48 Folder F149
Scope and Contents

Two Autograph Cards Signed.

Vendler, Helen, 1983-1989.
Box 48 Folder F150
Scope and Contents

Five Autograph Cards Signed, one Autograph Letters Signed and two Autograph Notes Signed.

Viela, Tony, 1997-1998.
Box 48 Folder F151
Scope and Contents

Three Typed Letters Signed, one Autograph Notes Signed, and two Autograph Cards Signed. Also includes a photocopy of a photograph of Dylan Thomas and Liz Reitell, a brochure regarding a Dylan Thomas celebration in 1998, and three photographs (two of Thomas's home as it appears in 1998 and one of memorial plaque in Westminster Abbey). Viela interviewed Brinnin regarding Thomas.

Walcott, Derek, [n.d.].
Box 48 Folder F152
Scope and Contents

Autograph note with address.

Scope and Contents

Letters regarding daily life, writing, travels, health, and family. Charlee was Brinnin's confidant for over fifty years. Also includes typescripts of poems by Richard Wilbur.

1983-1986.
Box 48 Folder F153
Scope and Contents

Nine TLSs, four ALSs, two ACSs. Also includes an inscribed copy of Richard Wilbur's printed greeting and poem, "Hamlen Brook" (1982) and an eleven-line verse handwritten by Wilbur for Brinnin's 70th birthday, signed and with caricature of Brinnin on the bottom.

1987-1991.
Box 48 Folder F154
Scope and Contents

Nine Autograph Letters Signed and five Autograph Cards Signed.

1992-1998.
Box 48 Folder F155
Scope and Contents

Six Typed Letters Signed, one Autograph Letter Signed, three Autograp Cards Signed, and one Typed Card Signed. Includes two poems by Richard Wilbur: "At Moorditch" and "For C."

[n.d.].
Box 48 Folder F156
Scope and Contents

Three Typed Letters Signed, one Autograph Letter Signed, three Autograph Cards Signed, and three Autograph Notes Signed. Also includes clippings, some autograph notes by Richard Wilbur, a copy of the printed "A Christmas Hymn," and six poems by Richard Wilbur. Poems include: "Cayo Hueso," "On Freedom's Ground," "This Pleasing Anxious Being," "Zea," "The Catch," and "A Finished Man."

Williams, Jonathan, 1982.
Box 48 Folder F157
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed and one Typed Card Signed.

Williams, Joy, 1984-1998.
Box 48 Folder F158
Scope and Contents

Seven Typed Letters Signed and twelve Autograph Cards Signed regarding travels, teaching, Key West, and Yaddo.

Wolfson, Mitchell, Jr., 1988-1998.
Box 48 Folder F159
Scope and Contents

Includes two calendars for Wolfson, and clippings.

Wolkowsky, David, 1985-1993.
Box 48 Folder F160
Scope and Contents

One invitation and a letter from Brinnin to Wolkowsky in which he asks questions regarding Truman Capote. Wolkowsky has written replies to each question and added a postscript of greeting.

Woolmer, Howard, 1998 Feb 22.
Box 48 Folder F161
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letters Signed regarding Brinnin's papers.

Wreden, Byra J., 1998 Mar 28.
Box 48 Folder F162
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

Wright, David, 1985 Jul 22.
Box 48 Folder F163
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed regarding his earlier review of Dylan Thomas in America.

Wright, William, 1988 Sep 15.
Box 48 Folder F164
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed regarding a controversy with John Hersey.

Young, Timothy, 1998 Feb 24.
Box 48 Folder F165
Scope and Contents

One Typed Letter Signed.

"Final correspondence", 1998.
Box 48 Folder F166
Scope and Contents

A folder of letters, cards, notes, and faxed correspondence from Brinnin's friends written during the last months of his illness. Arranged in chronological order. Includes letters from the Wilburs, Joy Williams, Rose Lauritzen, John Hohnsbeen, Angela Greatorex, Judith Kazantzis, Leonard Dean, K. M. Kuhn, Vince Sweeney, Walter Augustin DeMilly III, Tony Viela, Bill Mullen, Charles Seidenberg, Jane O'Reilly, Shirley Ratterree, Jane B. Phillips, Thomas O. Stratton, and Rollie McKenna. Also includes a letter by Brinnin, and a list of people to contact and things to do, plus a poem from Kirby Congdon.

Miscellaneous business correspondence, 1943-1998.
Box 48 Folder F167
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence regarding Brinnin's papers at the University of Delaware, "New Arts Week End" at Stephens College (1948), the motion picture

Dylan (1964), a reader's report on Brinnin's Sextet (1980), a revision of Elements of Literature, permissions to quote from Dylan Thomas is America and The Selected Poems of John Malcolm Brinnin, and several invitations. Also include ten business cards, a program for a symposium at Sweet Briar College (1950), a receipt for Stamos's painting, "The Bier," and the mortgage for Duxbury, Massachusetts property.
Unidentified letters, 1904-1998.
Box 48 Folder F168
Scope and Contents

Nineteen cards or letters, including three photographs, from unidentified individuals. Includes a postcard sent in 1904 which depicts the Boston Public Library.

Scope and Contents

Includes personal journals, drafts toward an unfinished memoir, poetry, articles, and material toward published books.

Scope and Contents

Between 1943 and 1998 Brinnin faithfully kept a personal journal. One hundred and thirty-seven of Brinnin's journals, recorded in a variety of record books, ledgers or diaries, survive in this collection. The last journal, which includes Brinnin's notes written during the final month of his life, is found in Series VI. Personal papers with related material.

Brinnin numbered his first one hundred and one journals. The remaining journals bore a range of dates written on the inside cover but were not numbered. The numbering sequence for journals 102-137 has been continued for identifying purposes, with these numbers placed in brackets. Two journals, #11 (1948 Jan 1-Jun 2) and #100 (1983 Oct 27-1984 Apr 2), are missing. These journals were not received by the University of Delaware Library. The pages torn out of journals 21-31 were used in writing of Dylan Thomas in America. In most cases these pages have been replaced in the journals.

The journal entries usually take the form of brief statements, accompanied by times, shopping lists, or daily expenses noted in the margins. Frequently the entries included exhaustive lists of individuals included at gatherings Brinnin attended, such as conferences or parties. Entries record his annual cycle of migration: Spring in Cambridge, Summer in Venice, Italy, and Winter in Key West, Florida, as well as his regular transatlantic travels. At the end of most volumes is a list of names of persons whom Brinnin met during that year and who are mentioned in that volume.

The contents of the entries include the mundane details of life: when he rose, whether sleep was assisted, his meals, work (in later years whether he worked on his memoirs, e.g. noting "fair wordage" or "less than minimal work"), household chores, teaching regimen, and shopping lists. The highlights of each day, such as phone calls received or made, visitors, correspondence received, meals with others, and travel plans, are also recorded. The journals also contain accounts the Brinnin's health struggles, with cancer and his treatment for alcoholism.

Brinnin recorded his reactions to world events such as the assassination of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, to Presidential elections (e.g. Nixon's election is "a depressing and embarrassing fact"), the Apollo 11 moon walk, Watergate, the Rosenberg's execution, watching the Halley-Bopp comet in 1997, Princess Diana's death and funeral. Games of scrabble, trivial pursuit, and anagrams (with seasonal scores recorded), movies viewed, and television programs watched (the Beatles and the Academy Awards) are also part of the record.

The journals chronicle his life as a teacher, poet, biographer, and traveler. One discovers his passion for travel, particularly ship voyages and his life with his partner of over 30 years Bill Read (who died in 1978). Among the entries are glimpses of the extraordinary people he knew, including Jean Garrique, Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, Dylan Thomas, Howard Moss, Richard Wilbur, Delmore Schwartz, Leonard Bernstein, Anne Sexton, Octavio Paz, Shel Silverstein, Katherine Anne Porter, Elizabeth Bowen, Kay Boyle, "Scotty" Fitzgerald, and Martha Graham. Details of meetings or interviews with Robert Frost, Sean O'Faolain, C. Day Lewis, and Truman Capote are entered.

Journal #1, 1943 Sep 3-1944 Mar 16.
Box 49 Folder F1
Journal #2, 1943 Mar 16-1944 Aug 10.
Box 49 Folder F2
Journal #3, 1944 Aug 11-1945 Jan 11.
Box 49 Folder F3
Journal #4, 1945 Jan 12 - Jun 9.
Box 49 Folder F4
Journal #5, 1945 Jun 10 - Nov 3.
Box 49 Folder F5
Journal #6, 1945 Nov 4-1946 Mar 30.
Box 49 Folder F6
Journal #7, 1946 Apr 19-Sep 14.
Box 49 Folder F7
Journal #8, 1946 Sep15-1947 Feb 8.
Box 49 Folder F8
Journal #9, 1947 Feb 9-Jul 6.
Box 49 Folder F9
Journal #10, 1947 Jul 7-Dec 31.
Box 49 Folder F10
(Journal #11 - missing).
Journal #12, 1948 Jun 3-Oct 28.
Box 49 Folder F12
Journal #13, 1948 Oct 29-1949 Mar 24.
Box 49 Folder F13
Journal #14, 1949 Mar 25-Aug 21.
Box 49 Folder F14
Journal #15, 1949 Aug 22-1950 Feb 25.
Box 49 Folder F15
Journal #16, 1950 Feb 26-Jul 22.
Box 49 Folder F16
Journal #17, 1950 Jul 23-Dec 16.
Box 49 Folder F17
Journal #18, 1950 Dec 17-1951 Jun 30.
Box 49 Folder F18
Journal #19, 1951 Jul 1-Nov 27.
Box 49 Folder F19
Journal #20, 1951 Nov 28-1952 Apr 26.
Box 49 Folder F20
Journal #21, 1952 Apr 27-Sep 22.
Box 49 Folder F21
Journal #22, 1952 Sep 23-1953 Mar 17.
Box 49 Folder F22
Journal #23, 1953 Mar 18-Aug 13.
Box 49 Folder F23
Journal #24, 1953 Aug 14-1954 Feb 7.
Box 49 Folder F24
Journal #25, 1954 Feb 8-Aug 2.
Box 50 Folder F25
Journal #26, 1954 Aug 4-1955 Jan 23.
Box 50 Folder F26
Journal #27, 1955 Jan 24-Jul 24.
Box 50 Folder F27
Journal #28, 1955 Jul 25-Dec 24.
Box 50 Folder F28
Journal #29, 1955 Dec 25-1956 May 23.
Box 50 Folder F29
Journal #30, 1956 May 24-Oct 12.
Box 50 Folder F30
Journal #31, 1956 Oct 13-1957 Mar 9.
Box 50 Folder F31
Journal #32, 1957 Mar 10-Aug 1.
Box 50 Folder F32
Journal #33, 1957 Aug 3-Dec 22.
Box 50 Folder F33
Journal #34, 1957 Dec 23-1958 May 11.
Box 50 Folder F34
Journal #35, 1958 May 12-Oct 4.
Box 50 Folder F35
Journal #36, 1958 Oct 5-1959 Feb 28.
Box 50 Folder F36
Journal #37, 1959 Mar 1-Jul 20.
Box 50 Folder F37
Journal #38, 1959 Jul 21-Nov 29.
Box 50 Folder F38
Journal #39, 1959 Nov 30-1960 Apr 19.
Box 50 Folder F39
Journal #40, 1960 Apr 20-Sep 18.
Box 50 Folder F40
Journal #41, 1960 Sep 19-1961 Feb 25.
Box 50 Folder F41
Journal # 42, 1961 Feb 26-Jul 18.
Box 50 Folder F42
Journal #43, 1961 Jul 19-Dec 8.
Box 50 Folder F43
Scope and Contents

Inside front cover: "replacement for lost journal." Many of the dates have blank pages.

Journal #44, 1961 Dec 9-1962 Apr 27.
Box 50 Folder F44
Journal #45, 1962 Apr 28-Sep 14.
Box 50 Folder F45
Journal #46, 1962 Sep 15-1963 Feb 6.
Box 50 Folder F46
Journal #47, 1963 Feb 7-Jun 30.
Box 50 Folder F47
Journal #48, 1963 Jul 1-Nov 18.
Box 50 Folder F48
Journal #49, 1963 Nov 19-1964 Apr 7.
Box 50 Folder F49
Journal # 50, 1964 Apr 8-Aug 25.
Box 51 Folder F50
Journal #51, 1964 Aug 26-1965 Jan 2.
Box 51 Folder F51
Journal #52, 1965 Jan 3-May 23.
Box 51 Folder F52
Journal #53, 1965 May 24-Oct 12.
Box 51 Folder F53
Journal #54, 1965 Oct 13-1966 Mar 2.
Box 51 Folder F54
Journal #55, 1966 Mar 3-Jul 21.
Box 51 Folder F55
Journal #56, 1966 Jul 22-Dec 11.
Box 51 Folder F56
Journal #57, 1966 Dec 12-1967 May 12.
Box 51 Folder F57
Journal #58, 1967 May 13-Sep 30.
Box 51 Folder F58
Journal #59, 1967 Oct 1-1968 Feb 20.
Box 51 Folder F59
Journal #60, 1968 Feb 21-Jul 8.
Box 51 Folder F60
Journal #61, 1968 Jul 9-Nov 28.
Box 51 Folder F61
Journal #62, 1968 Nov 29-1969 Apr 19.
Box 51 Folder F62
Journal #63, 1969 Apr 20-Sep 10.
Box 51 Folder F63
Journal #64, 1969 Sep 11-1970 Jan 31.
Box 51 Folder F64
Journal #65, 1970 Feb 1-Jul 24.
Box 51 Folder F65
Journal #66, 1970 Jul 25-1971 Jan 2.
Box 51 Folder F66
Journal #67, 1971 Jan 3-Jun 8.
Box 51 Folder F67
Journal #68, 1971 Jun 9-Nov 22.
Box 51 Folder F68
Journal #69, 1971 Nov 23-1972 Apr 13.
Box 51 Folder F69
Journal #70, 1972 Apr 14-Sep 29.
Box 51 Folder F70
Journal #71, 1972 Sep 30-1973 Feb 18.
Box 51 Folder F71
Journal #72, 1973 Feb 19-Aug 7.
Box 51 Folder F72
Journal #73, 1973 Aug 8-1974 Jan 15.
Box 51 Folder F73
Scope and Contents

Laid in newspaper clipping.

Journal #74, 1974 Jan 16-May 21.
Box 51 Folder F74
Journal #75, 1974 May 22-Oct 10.
Box 52 Folder F75
Journal #76, 1974 Oct 11-1975 Mar 1.
Box 52 Folder F76
Journal #77, 1975 Mar 2-Jul 19.
Box 52 Folder F77
Journal #78, 1975 Jul 20-Dec 9.
Box 52 Folder F78
Journal #79, 1975 Dec 10-1976 Apr 28.
Box 52 Folder F79
Journal #80, 1976 Apr 29-Oct 5.
Box 52 Folder F80
Journal #81, 1976 Oct 6-1977 Feb 24.
Box 52 Folder F81
Journal #82, 1977 Feb 25-Jul 16.
Box 52 Folder F82
Journal #83, 1977 Jul 17-Dec 6.
Box 52 Folder F83
Journal #84, 1977 Dec 7-1978 Apr 30.
Box 52 Folder F84
Journal #85, 1978 May 1-Sep 23.
Box 52 Folder F85
Journal #86, 1978 Sep 24-1979 Feb 12.
Box 52 Folder F86
Journal #87, 1979 Feb 13-Jun 18.
Box 52 Folder F87
Journal #88, 1979 Jun 18-Nov 8.
Box 52 Folder F88
Journal #89, 1979 Nov 9-1980 Mar 31.
Box 52 Folder F89
Journal #90, 1980 Apr 1-Aug 17.
Box 52 Folder F90
Journal #91, 1980 Aug 18-Oct 27.
Box 52 Folder F91
Journal #92, 1980 Oct 28-1981 Mar 19.
Box 52 Folder F92
Journal #93, 1981 Mar 20-May 31.
Box 52 Folder F93
Journal #94, 1981 Jun 1-Oct 21.
Box 52 Folder F94
Journal #95, 1981 Oct 22-1982 Mar 15.
Box 52 Folder F95
Journal #96, 1982 Mar 16-Jul 25.
Box 52 Folder F96
Journal #97, 1982 Jul 26-Dec 15.
Box 52 Folder F97
Journal #98, 1982 Dec 16-1983 May 21.
Box 52 Folder F98
Journal #99, 1983 May 22-Oct 26.
Box 52 Folder F99
(Journal 100 [1983 Oct 27 - 1984 Apr 2] is missing).
Journal #101, 1984 Apr 3-Aug 22.
Box 52 Folder F101
Journal [#102], 1984 Aug 23-1985 Jan 28.
Box 52 Folder F102
Journal [#103], 1985 Jan 29-Jul 7.
Box 53 Folder F103
Journal [#104], 1985 Jul 8-Dec 13.
Box 53 Folder F104
Journal [#105], 1985 Dec 14-1986 May 4.
Box 53 Folder F105
Journal [#106], 1986 May 5-Sep 21.
Box 53 Folder F106
Journal [#107], 1986 Sep 22-1987 Feb 12.
Box 53 Folder F107
Journal [#108], 1987 Feb 13-Jul 5.
Box 53 Folder F108
Journal [#109], 1987 Jul 6-Sep 15.
Box 53 Folder F109
Journal [#110], 1987 Sep 16-1988 Feb 5.
Box 53 Folder F110
Journal [#111], 1988 Feb 6-Jun 23.
Box 53 Folder F111
Journal [#112], 1988 Jun 25-Nov 9.
Box 53 Folder F112
Journal [#113], 1988 Nov 10-1989 May 7.
Box 53 Folder F113
Journal [#114], 1989 May 8-Oct 11.
Box 53 Folder F114
Journal [#115], 1989 Oct 12-1990 Mar 3.
Box 53 Folder F115
Journal [#116], 1990 Mar 4-Jul 31.
Box 53 Folder F116
Journal [#117], 1990 Aug 1-Dec 2.
Box 53 Folder F117
Journal [#118], 1990 Dec 3-1991 Apr 28.
Box 53 Folder F118
Journal [#119], 1991 Apr 29-Sep 13.
Box 53 Folder F119
Scope and Contents

Notes and financial notations laid in.

Journal [#120], 1991 Sep 14-1992 Feb 22.
Box 53 Folder F120
Journal [#121], 1992 Feb 23-Jul 14.
Box 53 Folder F121
Journal [#122], 1992 Jul 15-Oct 12.
Box 53 Folder F122
Journal [#123], 1992 Oct 13-1993 Mar 2.
Box 53 Folder F123
Journal [#124], 1993 Mar 3-Jul 29.
Box 53 Folder F124
Journal [#125], 1993 Jul 29-Dec 18.
Box 53 Folder F125
Journal [#126], 1993 Dec 19-1994 May 8.
Box 53 Folder F126
Journal [#127], 1994 May 9-Nov 19.
Box 53 Folder F127
Journal [#128], 1994 Nov 20-1995 Apr 12.
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Journal [#129], 1995 Apr 13-Jul 30.
Box 54 Folder F129
Journal [#130], 1995 Jul 31-Dec 21.
Box 54 Folder F130
Scope and Contents

Financial notes laid in.

Journal [#131], 1995 Dec 22-1996 May 13.
Box 54 Folder F131
Journal [#132], 1996 May 14-Oct 15.
Box 54 Folder F132
Journal [#133], 1996 Oct 15-1997 Mar 8.
Box 54 Folder F133
Journal [#134], 1997 Mar 9-Aug 2.
Box 54 Folder F134
Journal [#135], 1997 Aug 3-Dec 23.
Box 54 Folder F135
Journal [#136], 1997 Dec 24-1998 May 15.
Box 54 Folder F136
(Journal [#137], 1998 May 16 - Jun 17 - See final papers - Series VI, F9).
Scope and Contents

Drafts of a memoir which Brinnin never completed.

Manuscript #1, [1950s].
Box 54 Folder F137
Scope and Contents

Memoir regarding the Poetry Center, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke, and Katherine Anne Porter.

Manuscript #2, 1946 .
Box 54 Folder F138
Scope and Contents

One typescript regarding Brinnin's 1946 journey with Cartier-Bresson and three copies of a typescript regarding the Palazzo Barbaro (Venice) in the 1990s.

Manuscript #3, [1946-1954].
Box 54 Folder F139
Scope and Contents

Draft pages.

Scope and Contents

Computer-generated typescript with autograph revisions, without page numbers. Roughly arranged in chronological order by the time period discussed in the draft.

Birth to 1938.
Box 54 Folder F140
1939-1946 Jun.
Box 54 Folder F141
1946 Jul-1949.
Box 54 Folder F142
1950-1953.
Box 54 Folder F143
[ca. 1990-1998].
Box 54 Folder F144
Scope and Contents

Includes a photocopy of "A Matter of Passing Papers."

Scope and Contents

Arranged generally in chronological order.

"Prolegomenon".
Box 54 Folder F145
Childhood to college.
Box 54 Folder F146
Chronology of events and people, 1930-1946.
Box 54 Folder F147
[1930s].
Box 54 Folder F148
[1940s].
Box 54 Folder F149
[1950s].
Box 54 Folder F150
[1960s].
Box 54 Folder F151
Scope and Contents

Typescript pages and chronology.

[1970s].
Box 54 Folder F152
Scope and Contents

Typescript pages and chronology through 1982

[1980s-1990s].
Box 54 Folder F153
Scope and Contents

Includes typescript, clippings, notes, and letters.

Miscellaneous notes, [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F154
Scope and Contents

Autograph, typescript and photocopies of notes.

Excerpts of correspondence with Howard Moss, 1940-1948.
Box 55 Folder F155
Notes, chronological lists, and draft memoir pages regarding Elizabeth Bishop, [1951-1980].
Box 55 Folder F156
Copy 1, Part 1.
Box 55 Folder F157
Copy 1, Part 2.
Box 55 Folder F158
Copy 2, Part 1.
Box 55 Folder F159
Copy 2, Part 2.
Box 55 Folder F160
Notebook of submissions, readings, awards, and poems in print, 1935-1946.
Box 55 Folder F161
Scope and Contents

An Autograph notebook which lists poems Brinnin submitted for publication, awards and prizes received, readings and lectures given, poems included in anthologies, and his poems in print. The lists include titles, dates, amounts paid for accepted poems, and names of magazines.

Arrangement

Arranged in alphabetical order by title or first line if no title is indicated.

Scope and Contents

Includes typescript and autograph drafts, most bearing extensive autograph revisions. Some drafts are also signed, bear notations about the meter of the lines, or bear unrelated notes or financial calculations.

"Albergo Paradiso e Commericale", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F162
"A Benediction", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F163
"Dachau", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F164
Scope and Contents

Includes undated postcards and brochures about Dachau, including Nico Rost's "Concentration Camp Dachau."

"The Dreaming Animals", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F165
"Fete Champetre 1925", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F166
"Hushed by Your Great News", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F167
"It Was Over, I Cut Out", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F168
"Middle Age: A Chinese Restaurant", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F169
"My Father, My Son", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F170
"New From the Islands", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F171
"Reading Othello in Venice", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F172
"That Gull", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F173
"To Johnny S. Lynch...", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F174
"With Theodoros Stamos gathering leaves", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F175
Brinnin's study of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," , [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F176
Contract regarding Dylan Thomas in America, The Third Rose, and two volume of Brinnin's literary memoir, 1963 Aug 15.
Box 55 Folder F177
Uncorrected page proofs for Dylan Thomas in America, 1988 Sep 2.
Box 55 Folder F178
Scope and Contents

Proofs for the preliminary material to the 1988 edition. Includes an attached note from the publisher and autograph corrections by Brinnin.

Correspondence and notes related to the copyright assignment for these books, 1981-1998.
Box 55 Folder F179
Autograph notes taken critiquing the facilities and services on different cruise ships, [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F180

Scope and Contents

See also the correspondence section for poems by Richard Wilbur, Irving Feldman, Howard Moss, and Leonard Bernstein.

Poems, [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F1
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of nineteen poems by Arnold.

"Christmas in Berlin '89", 1990 [Jan 1].
Box 55 Folder F2
Scope and Contents

Typescript photocopy of a poem by Bernstein. Inscribe to Brinnin by Bernstein, plus envelope. Also four transcripts of the poem made by Brinnin.

Untitled birthday poem, 1986 Sep.
Box 55 Folder F3
Scope and Contents

Three-page autograph poem in celebration of Brinnin's 70th birthday as written by Jane Brooks, decorative boards and signed.

"John Malcolm Brinnin," [n.d.] and "A Kind of Exorcism: A Conversation with John Malcolm Brinnin," , [1971].
Box 55 Folder F4
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of the

Dictionary of Literary Biography article written by Gerber. Inscribed to Brinnin by Gerber. Also an offprint of "A Kind of Exorcism."
Poems, [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F5
Scope and Contents

Five typescript poems by Hall.

Chapters from A Different Person: a memoir, [1970s].
Box 55 Folder F6
Scope and Contents

Typescript photocopy of chapters 1-14 of Merrill's memoir. This manuscript varies from the final published version and bears a few autograph revisions by Merrill.

"The Little Tippler", 1984 Sep 1.
Box 55 Folder F7
Scope and Contents

Photocopied typescript of a eulogy for Truman Capote by O'Shea.

Scope and Contents

Five travel journals kept by Read chronicling trips to Europe, most with Brinnin. Each trip was numbered. These journals contain notes for trips #2-5 and 9-18. The journals include financial notes and lists of purchases, descriptions of artwork, scenery, people met, travel, and meals. Includes some recipes, lists of books read, and bibliographic information regarding books to order after his return home.

1951 Jul 12-Sep 12.
Box 55 Folder F8
Scope and Contents

Trip #2 to Europe. Includes information on the acquiring of the Sima photographs found in F12 of Series IV. Includes a description of Read's and Brinnin's visit with Dylan and Caitlin Thomas in Wales.

1953 Aug 12-Sep 15 .
Box 55 Folder F9
Scope and Contents

Trips #3-4, both to Europe. With decal and financial notes laid in.

1958 Jun 5-Sep 27.
Box 55 Folder F10
Scope and Contents

Trip #5 to Europe.

Trip #9, 1966 May 12-Jun 2.
Box 55 Folder F11
Trip #10 , 1970 Aug 22-Sep 6.
Box 55 Folder F11
Trip #11, 1971 Jul 23-Aug 24.
Box 55 Folder F11
Trip #12, 1972 May 17-Jun 11.
Box 55 Folder F11
Trip #13, 1972 Aug 23-31.
Box 55 Folder F11
Trip #14 , 1973 May 19-Jun 14.
Box 55 Folder F11
Trip #15, 1973 Aug 26-Sep 9.
Box 55 Folder F11
Scope and Contents

With laid in notes describing a trip to St. Thomas in December.

Trip #16, 1974 May 22-Jun 19.
Box 55 Folder F12
Trip #17 , 1975 May 15-Jun 12.
Box 55 Folder F12
Trip #18, 1976 May 25-Jun 21.
Box 55 Folder F12
"Acrostic", [n.d.].
Box 55 Folder F13
Scope and Contents

Photocopied typescript of a poem by Rosenblatt, inscribed to Brinnin.

Scope and Contents

Six volumes of diaries kept by Thompson record the daily activities and thoughts of Thompson. Entries for some days are brief summaries, while others are detailed descriptions of particular events, travels, or conversations occurring on that day, from scores of football games watched, to details of lectures attended to family life. The diaries include (the left-hand pages) notes about or quotes from books read, details of plays attended, vocabulary words, poems. Some notes, letters, and drawings are laid in and occasionally a map or clipping is pasted in. Information about letters, conversations, visits with Brinnin are described throughout. There are notes in the journals indicating that Brinnin had read and was planning to use references from these journals for his memoirs.

1939 Sep 1-1944 Aug 31.
Box 55 Folder F14
1944 Sep 1-1946 Aug 31.
Box 56 Folder F15
1946 Sep 1-1950 Jun 17.
Box 56 Folder F16
1954 Jan-1958 Feb 28.
Box 56 Folder F17
Scope and Contents

The first entries in this diary are summaries for entire months of January, April, and May of 1954. Beginning in June Thompson returns to daily entries. Laid in material includes several letters, a program based on the stories of Dylan Thomas, and the draft of a letter from Thompson to Brinnin.

1958 Mar 1-Dec 31.
Box 56 Folder F18
Scope and Contents

Includes laid and pasted in material from Thompson's trip to Europe with Brinnin, such as letters and postcards sent to his wife, photographs of Thompson in England and of his return, clippings, and ephemera related to the trip.

1959 Jan 1-1964 Dec.
Box 56 Folder F19
Scope and Contents

Includes laid or pasted in material such as clippings, notes, and draft letters.

Scope and Contents

See also Series I, F153-156 for poems written by Wilbur which he included in letters to Brinnin.

[Eulogy] for Brinnin, [1998 Jun 22].
Box 56 Folder F20
Scope and Contents

Faxed typescript of Richard Wilbur's eulogy for John Malcolm Brinnin.

[Untitled poem], [n.d.].
Box 56 Folder F21
Scope and Contents

Photocopied typescript of a one-page untitled poem by an unidentified writer. The first line of the poem reads: "Rapture, he lets the words reorganize." Bears one autograph note, "rotten spot identified by JMB," next to a circled word in the poem.

Photographs of John Malcolm Brinnin, [1933]-1997.
Box 56 Folder F1
Scope and Contents

Includes contact sheets, portrait photographs, a metal plate engraving, and snapshots. Many of the photographs were taken by Rollie McKenna.

Physical Description

16 contact sheets, 1 slide, 20 photographs

Scope and Contents

Includes portrait photographs and snapshots, as well as contact sheets. Individuals pictured with Brinnin are Barbara and John Hersey, Charlee and Richard Wilbur, Bill Read, Rita Dove, Jean Stafford, Lauren McIver, Lloyd Frankenberg, Howard Moss, Truman Capote, James Merrill, Seymour Lawrence, David Wolkowsky, Leonard Bernstein, John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bowen, Noel Coward, Richard Eberhart, Lady Caroline Blackwell (Mrs. Robert Lowell), Phillip Caputo, Jane O'Reilly, Liz Lear, Joseph Lash, William Mansfield, Charles Simic, and James Scully. There are also a number of photographs which include Brinnin and unidentified individuals. See also Series I. F36 for a photograph of Brinnin and Rita Dove which was enclosed in a letter from Dove.

1950s-1960s.
Box 56 Folder F2
Physical Description

Five contact sheets and 16 photographs

1970s-1990s.
Box 56 Folder F3
Physical Description

One contact sheet and 34 photographs

Photographs taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1947.
Box 56 Folder F4
Scope and Contents

Portrait photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright, Max Ernst, and Robert Flaherty taken during the summer of 1947. These photographs appear in Brinnin's chapter on Cartier-Bresson in

Sextet. Physical Description

3 photographs

Photographs taken by R. (Rollie) Thorne McKenna, 1950s.
Box 56 Folder F5
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell (inscribed), W. H. Auden, Truman Capote, David Gascoyne, Howard Moss, Elizabeth Bowen, Kathleen Raine, T. S. Eliot, and Anne Sexton. Some of these photographs appear in Brinnin's

Twentieth Century Poetry, Sextet, and Truman Capote. Physical Description

1 contact sheet and 34 photographs

Snapshots, studio portraits, and tear sheets, 1916-1962.
Box 56 Folder F6
Scope and Contents

Includes images of Bill Read, Theodoros Stamos, Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., Richard and Charlee Wilbur, Ned Rorem, John H. Thompson, Anna Doherty (inscribed), Peggy Guggenheim, F. O. Matthiessen, Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Maya Deren, Sidney Toler (inscribed), Edith Sitwell, Katherine Anne Porter, Louis Untermeyer, Edwin O. Behrendt, William Carlos Williams, Rollie McKenna, and J. A. Ritchie. There are also photographs of unidentified individuals. See also Series I. F39 for a photograph of Rita Essayan.

Physical Description

39 photographs and 4 tear sheets

Portrait photographs of Dylan Thomas, ca. 1940-1953.
Box 56 Folder F7
Scope and Contents

Many of these photographs were taken in the 1950s by Rollie McKenna.

Physical Description

11 photographs and 1 flyer

Photographs of Dylan and Caitlin Thomas, ca. 1940-1953.
Box 56 Folder F8
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs taken by Rollie McKenna, several of which appear in Brinnin's

Dylan Thomas in America and McKenna's Portrait of Dylan. Physical Description

9 photographs

Photographs of Dylan Thomas and John Malcolm Brinnin, 1951-1953.
Box 56 Folder F9
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs by Rollie McKenna (several appear in Portrait of Dylan) and some snapshots.

Physical Description

8 photographs and 1 negative

Photographs of Dylan Thomas with others and his home, 1950s.
Box 56 Folder F10
Scope and Contents

Most of the photographs were taken by Rollie McKenna and some appear in Portrait of Dylan.

Physical Description

8 photographs

Photographs related to Under Milk Wood, 1953 May.
Box 56 Folder F11
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the rehearsal and performance of Thomas's

Under Milk Wood on May 14, 1953. Physical Description

3 photographs

Photographs by Michel Sima, [1950s].
Box 56 Folder F12
Scope and Contents

Twenty-nine photographs of artists as taken by Michel Sima and list of photographs. Many appear in his book, Faces of Modern Art. Includes photographs of Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Maurice Utrillo, Zadkine, and others.

Physical Description

29 photographs

Family photographs, 1800s-1930s.
Box 56 Folder F13
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of John Malcolm Brinnin as a boy; his sister, Margaret; his parents, John T. Brinnin and Frances Malcolm; his maternal grandparents; homes where the Brinnins lived; extended family; and family friends. Some photographs are unidentified. Includes one tintype.

Physical Description

69 photographs and 17 negatives

Miscellaneous photographs of artwork, architecture, or scenery, [n.d.].
Box 56 Folder F14
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of houses in Great Village, Nova Scotia (where Elizabeth Bishop was born) and Italy.

Physical Description

11 photographs and 4 postcards

Negatives, [1950s-1960s].
Box 56 Folder F15
Scope and Contents

Includes images of Dylan Thomas and family, Brinnin, Bill Read, Howard Moss, Elizabeth Bishop, John Thompson, and other unidentified persons

Physical Description

172 negatives

Slides, 1972-[1990s].
Box 56 Folder F16
Scope and Contents

Includes images of Brinnin, Bill Read, and other unidentified persons. Also twelve slides of Elizabeth Bishop's childhood home and town, Great Village in Nova Scotia.

Physical Description

18 slides

Ashbery, John. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: poems. New York: The Viking Press, 1975.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribes to Brinnin by Ashbery. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3501 .S475 S4 1975 c.2.

Ashbery, John. Shadow Train: poems. New York: The Viking Press, 1981.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Ashbery. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3501 .S475 S5 1981b.

Bishop, Elizabeth. Questions of Travel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Bishop. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3503 .I785 Q4x 1965 c.2.

Combs, Tram. briefs. Franklin, New Hampshire: The Hillside Press, 1966.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed by Combs to JMB (#235 of 425 copies). A second copy is #201. Removed for cataloging for Special Collections.

Communications between Grandin Conover and James Scully. [The Massachusetts Review, 1970 Aug].
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Poetry Signature Six. Removed for cataloging for Special Collections.

Deren, Maya. An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film. Yonkers, New York: The Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed by Deren to Bill Read. With letter and photograph from Deren to Read laid in. This is #9 of the "Outcast" series of chapbooks. Removed for cataloging for Special Collections.

Early, Eleanor. And This Is Boston! (And Seashore and Country Too). Second edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Jean Stafford's copy, with a few marginal markings. Removed for cataloging for Special Collections.

Hersey, John. Antonietta: a novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Hersey. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3515 .E7715 A85 1991.

Hersey, John. Blues. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Hersey. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3515 .E7715 B58 1987.

Hersey, John. Fling and Other Stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Hersey. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3515 .E7715 F55 1990.

Hersey, John. Life Sketches. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Hersey. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec CT120 .H435 1989.

Macmillan, Margery L. Stopping Places: Along Duxbury Roads. Duxbury, Mass.: The Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, 1991.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Macmillan. Removed for cataloging for the main library stacks.

Magowan, Robin and Mark Magowan (eds.) JM: a remembrance. New York: Academy of American Poets, 1996.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by David [Jackson]. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3525 .E6645 Z68 1996.

A Memorial Service for John Bernard Myers. [s.l.]: The Grey Art Gallery, 1987.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

With program laid in. Removed for cataloging for Special Collections.

Merrill, James. Braving the Elements. New York: Atheneum, 1972.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Merrill. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3525 .E6645 B7x 1972 c.2.

Merrill, James. The Changing Light at Sandover. New York: Atheneum, 1982.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Merrill. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3525 .E6645 C48 1982 c.2.

Merrill, James. A Different Person: a memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Merrill. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3525 .E6645 Z464 1993.

Merrill, James. Divine Comedies: poems. New York: Atheneum, 1976.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Merrill. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3525 .E6645 D5 1976 c.2.

Merrill, James. Eight Bits. Key West: [n.p.], 1986.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin. Removed for cataloging for Special Collections.

Merrill, James. From the Cutting-room Floor. [Omaha, Nebraska]: The University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1983.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by "DJ and JM." Number 23 of 290 copies. Removed for cataloging for Special Collections.

Merrill, James. JM - RW, 7 December 1989. New York: Sea Cliff Press, 1990.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Twenty-four copies printed. Removed for cataloging for Special Collections.

Merrill, James. Late Settings. New York: Atheneum, 1985.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Merrill. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3525 .E6645 L3 1985 c.2.

Merrill, James. Mirabell: books of number. New York: Atheneum, 1978.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Merrill. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3525 .E6645 M5 1978 c.2.

Merrill, James. Peter. Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Deerfield Press and Dublin, Ireland: The Gallery Press, 1982.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Merrill. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3525 .E6645 P47 1982 c.2.

Merrill, James. Scripts for the Pageant. New York: Atheneum, 1980.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Merrill. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3525 .E6645 S3 1980 c.2.

Merrill, James. The Yellow Pages. Cambridge, Mass.: Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Merrill. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3525 .E6645 Y4 c.2.

Paz, Octavio. Children of the Mire. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Paz. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PN1161 .P3x 1974.

Racine, Jean. Andromache. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Translated by Richard Wilbur. Inscribed to Brinnin by Wilbur. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PQ1890 .A38 1982.

Tillinghast, Richard. The Keeper. Cambridge, Mass.: Pym-Randall Press, 1968.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

#65 of 100 numbered editions, signed by Tillinghast. Removed for cataloging for Special Collections.

Walcott, Derek. Omeros. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Walcott. Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PR9272.9 .W3 O44 1990 c.2.

Wilbur, Richard. More Opposites: poems and drawings. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3545 .I32165 M67 1991.

Wilbur, Richard. New and Collected Poems. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.
Box 57
Scope and Contents

Removed and cataloged for Special Collections: Spec PS3545 .I32165 N49 1988.

Arrangement

Arranged in alphabetical order by title.

Abitare (No. 311), 1992 Oct.
Box 57 Folder F1
Volume 3, Number 4, (1943 Sum).
Box 57 Folder F2
Scope and Contents

Brinnin's poem, "Observatory Hill"

Volume 4, Number 1, (1943 Aut).
Box 57 Folder F2
Volume 4, Number 2, (1944 Wtr).
Box 57 Folder F2
Volume 4, Number 3 , (1944 Spr).
Box 57 Folder F3
Scope and Contents

Ankey Larrabee piece.

Volume 4, Number 4, (1944 Sum).
Box 57 Folder F3
Volume 5, Number 1, (1944 Aut).
Box 57 Folder F3
Volume 6, Number 3, (1946 Spr).
Box 57 Folder F3
Scope and Contents

Brinnin's poem, "Marianne Moore's"

American Poetry Review (Volume 7, Number 5), 1978 Sep-Oct.
Box 57 Folder F4
American Prefaces (Volume 8, Number 1), 1942 Aut.
Box 57 Folder F5
American Way (Volume 24, Number 22), 1991 Nov 15.
Box 57 Folder F6
Scope and Contents

Includes Rollie McKenna's photographs and quotes from Brinnin.

Angry Penguins, 1944 Aut.
Box 57 Folder F7
Antaeus (Number 52), 1984 Spr.
Box 57 Folder F8
Number 60, (1985 Wtr).
Box 57 Folder F9
Scope and Contents

Inscribed by Peter Sanger.

Number 91 , (1992 Fall).
Box 57 Folder F9
Architectural Digest, (Volume 50, Number 12), 1993 Dec .
Box 57 Folder F10
Scope and Contents

Dylan Thomas home.

Atlantic (Volume 196, Number 4), 1955 Oct.
Box 57 Folder F11
Scope and Contents

Includes Brinnin's article, "Dylan Thomas in Wales."

Boulevard (Volume 6, Numbers 2 & 3), 1991 Fall.
Box 57 Folder F12
California Quarterly (Volume 1, Number 1), 1951 Aut.
Box 57 Folder F13
Circle (Number 7-8), 1946.
Box 57 Folder F14
College Verse (Volume 9, Number 5), 1940 Mar.
Box 57 Folder F15
Scope and Contents

Includes three poems by Brinnin

New series volume 16, Number 2, (1989 Fall-1990 Wtr).
Box 57 Folder F16
New series volume 17, Number 1, (1990 Spr-Sum).
Box 57 Folder F16
Contemporary Poetry and Prose, 1936 May.
Box 57 Folder F17
Scope and Contents

Includes a story and poems by Dylan Thomas.

Delos (Volume 3, Number 2), 1990 Fall.
Box 57 Folder F18
Dialectics: a Marxist Literary Journal (Number 5), [1938].
Box 57 Folder F19
Diogenes (Volume 1, Number 3), 1941 Aut.
Box 57 Folder F20
The Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin (Volume 2, Number 1), 1993 Sum.
Box 57 Folder F21
Scope and Contents

Issue regarding the Key West Seminar honoring Elizabeth Bishop.

Etc.: a Review of General Semantics (Volume 1, Number 1), 1943 Aug.
Box 57 Folder F22
Foreground (Volume 1, Number 1), 1946 Wtr.
Box 57 Folder F23
Scope and Contents

Includes Brinnin's poem, "The Sorrows of Cold Stone."

Volume 1, Number 2, (1940 New Year issue).
Box 57 Folder F24
Volume 1, Number 3 , (1940 Spr).
Box 57 Folder F24
Scope and Contents

Includes poems by Dylan Thomas

Volume 2, Number 1 , (1943).
Box 57 Folder F24
Scope and Contents

Four poems by Brinnin

Volume 2, Number 4 , (1947 Sum).
Box 57 Folder F24
Get Organized: stories and poems about trade union people, 1939.
Box 57 Folder F25
The Gettysburg Review (Volume 2, Number 2), 1989 Spr.
Box 57 Folder F26
The Harvard Advocate (Volume C, Number 3-4), 1966 Fall.
Box 57 Folder F27
Hound & Horn (Volume 7, Number 3), 1934 Apr-May.
Box 57 Folder F28
The Island (Number 4), 1966 Fall.
Box 57 Folder F29
The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (Number 16), 1990 Sum.
Box 57 Folder F30
Volume 2, Number 1, (1940 Wtr).
Box 58 Folder F31
Volume 3, Number 4, (1941 Aut).
Box 58 Folder F31
Volume 6, Number 2 , (1944 Spr).
Box 58 Folder F32
Scope and Contents

Two poems by Brinnin

Volume 7, Number 1, (1946 Wtr).
Box 58 Folder F32
Key West Review (Volume 2, Numbers 1-2), 1989 Fall-Wtr.
Box 58 Folder F33
Scope and Contents

Brinnin is a contributing editor.

Maclean's. Volume 111, Number 22, (1998 Jun 1).
Box 58 Folder F34
Scope and Contents

With note attached.

Mademoiselle., (1954 Feb).
Box 58 Folder F35
Scope and Contents

"Dylan Thomas and His Village" + DT

Physical Description

(2 copies)

The Medusa. Volume 1, Number 1 , (1946 Fall).
Box 58 Folder F36
Scope and Contents

Edited by James Merrill + poems by Merrill and Kimon Friar

New Mexico Quarterly. Volume 20, Number 3, (1950 Aut) .
Box 58 Folder F37
Number 17 , (1935 Oct-Nov).
Box 58 Folder F38
Number 21, (1936 Jun-Jul).
Box 58 Folder F38
Number 22, (1936 Aug-Sep).
Box 58 Folder F38
Volume 62, Number 3, (1986 Mar 10) .
Box 58 Folder F39
Physical Description

2 copies

Volume 69, Number 1, (1993 Feb 22).
Box 58 Folder F40
Volume 71, Number 3 , (1995 Mar 13).
Box 58 Folder F40
Volume 71, Number 5 , (1995 Mar 27).
Box 58 Folder F40
Origenes. Volume 1, Number 2, (1944).
Box 58 Folder F41
Our Time. Volume 1, Number 2, (1941 Apr).
Box 58 Folder F42
Partisan Review. Volume 16, Number 5, (1949 May).
Box 58 Folder F43
PM Daily. Volume 2, Number 124 , (1941 December 8).
Box 58 Folder F44
Volume 49, Number 4, (1937 Jan).
Box 58 Folder F45
Scope and Contents

Dylan Thomas poem

Volume 49, Number 6, (1937 Mar).
Box 58 Folder F45
Volume 50, Number 3 , (1937 Jun).
Box 58 Folder F45
Volume 51, Number 3 , (1937 Dec).
Box 58 Folder F45
Volume 52, Number 1 , (1938 Apr).
Box 58 Folder F46
Volume 53, Number 3, (1938 Dec).
Box 58 Folder F46
Volume 54, Number 1 , (1939 Apr).
Box 58 Folder F46
Volume 54, Number 2 , (1939 May).
Box 58 Folder F46
Volume 54, Number 6 , (1939 Sep).
Box 58 Folder F47
Scope and Contents

Two poems by Brinnin

Volume 55, Number 1 , (1939 Oct).
Box 58 Folder F47
Volume 55, Number 4 , (1940 Jan).
Box 58 Folder F47
Volume 55, Number 5, (1940 Feb).
Box 58 Folder F47
Volume 56, Number 6, (1940 Sep).
Box 58 Folder F48
Scope and Contents

Poem by Brinnin

Volume 57, Number 1, (1940 Oct).
Box 58 Folder F48
Volume 57, Number 2 , (1940 Nov).
Box 58 Folder F48
Volume 57, Number 4, (1941 Jan).
Box 58 Folder F48
Volume 59, Number 2 , (1941 Nov).
Box 58 Folder F48
Scope and Contents

Poem by Brinnin

Volume 60, Number 2 , (1942 May).
Box 58 Folder F49
Scope and Contents

Poem by Brinnin

Volume 61, Number 3 , (1942 Dec).
Box 58 Folder F49
Scope and Contents

Review by Brinnin

Volume 62, Number 6, (1943 Sep).
Box 58 Folder F49
Volume 63, Number 2 , (1943 Nov).
Box 58 Folder F49
Scope and Contents

Brinnin awarded a prize

Volume 63, Number 4 , (1944 Jan).
Box 58 Folder F50
Volume 65, Number 4, (1945 Jan).
Box 58 Folder F50
Volume 65, Number 5 , (1945 Feb).
Box 58 Folder F50
Scope and Contents

Dylan Thomas poem

Volume 67, Number 4 , (1946 Jan).
Box 58 Folder F51
Volume 67, Number 5, (1946 Feb).
Box 58 Folder F51
Scope and Contents

Three poems by Brinnin

Volume 69, Number 1 , (1946 Oct).
Box 58 Folder F51
Scope and Contents

Three poems by Brinnin

Volume 69, Number 2, (1946 Nov).
Box 58 Folder F51
Volume 69, Number 3 , (1946 Dec).
Box 58 Folder F51
Scope and Contents

Two copies

Volume 70, Number 1 , (1947 Apr).
Box 58 Folder F52
Volume 70, Number 3, (1947 Jun).
Box 58 Folder F52
Volume 72, Number 3, (1948 Jun).
Box 58 Folder F52
Volume 75, Number 5 , (1950 Feb).
Box 58 Folder F52
Scope and Contents

Four poems by Brinnin

Poets and Writers Volume 16, Issue 5 , (1988 Sep-Oct).
Box 59 Folder F53
Scope and Contents

Brinnin's article, "Remembering Howard Moss."

Quarterly Review of Literature. Volume 1, Number 3, (1944 Spr).
Box 59 Folder F54
Scope and Contents

Includes a poem by Brinnin.

Volume 53, Number 1 , (1945 Wtr).
Box 59 Folder F55
Scope and Contents

Includes a poem by Brinnin.

Volume 55, Number 3 , (1947 Sum).
Box 59 Folder F55
Volume 1, Number 1 , (1936 Spr).
Box 59 Folder F56
Scope and Contents

Edited by JMB and John Thompson

Volume 1, Number 2 , (1936 Aut).
Box 59 Folder F56
Scope and Contents

Ankey Larrabee's copy

Volume 1, Number 3 , (1937-1938 Wtr).
Box 59 Folder F56
Scope and Contents

Ankey Larrabee's copy

Travel Leisure. Volume 24, Number 12 , (1994 Dec).
Box 59 Folder F57
Scope and Contents

Includes an article regarding Key West.

Trinity Review. Volume 8, Number 3 , (1954 May).
Box 59 Folder F58
Scope and Contents

Brinnin's article on Wallace Stevens.

Vassar Views Number 68, (1982 Jun).
Box 59 Folder F59
Scope and Contents

Article about Elizabeth Bishop (with photo of Brinnin).

Vice Versa. Volume 1, Number 1 , (1940 Nov-Dec).
Box 59 Folder F60
Number 120, (1945 Wtr).
Box 59 Folder F61
Scope and Contents

Includes a poem by Brinnin.

Number 121, (1945 Spr).
Box 59 Folder F61
Scope and Contents

Includes an article by Brinnin.

Number 123, (1945 Aut).
Box 59 Folder F61
Yaddo News, (1998 Wtr).
Box 59 Folder F62
Scope and Contents

Includes an article regarding Truman Capote in which Brinnin is quoted. Removed to oversize.

The Yale Review. Volume 81, Number 1 , (1993 Jan).
Box 59 Folder F63
Artists at Large: photographs by Rollie McKenna. Manchester, New Hampshire: The Currier Gallery of Art, 1982.
Scope and Contents

Exhibition catalog with preface by Brinnin and includes image of Brinnin with Eudora Welty.

Bernstein at 70! Tanglewood., 1988, Aug 25.
Box 59 Folder F64
Scope and Contents

Copy also cataloged for the main library stacks.

C. R. Grigg: ten years 1980-1990, [s.l.: s.n., 1991].
Box 59 Folder F65
Scope and Contents

Copy also cataloged for the main library stacks.

Dartmouth & Halifax 1992 Visitor guide. Special edition of Where Halifax/Dartmouth, 1992.
Box 59 Folder F66
Scope and Contents

(Volume 46, Number 6)

Dylan. Program for Sidney Michaels's new play, featuring Alec Guinness. .
Dylan Thomas: word and image. [Swansea, Wales], s.n., 1995.
Scope and Contents

Exhibition based on the Jeff Towns/Dylans Bookstore Collection.

Montebello: L'le de san Michele. Venice, Italy: Delegation de'Action Culturelle, 1996.
Box 59 Folder F67
Scope and Contents

Exhibition catalog inscribed by artist Roger de Montebello to Brinnin.

Porter, Joe Ashby. "Bone Key," offprint from Yale Review, [n.d.].
Box 59 Folder F68
Scope and Contents

Inscribed to Brinnin by Porter.

Stephanie Sanchez: paintings. Santa Monica, California: Tatistcheff Gallery, Inc., 1990.
Box 59 Folder F69
Scope and Contents

Exhibition catalog inscribed to Brinnin.

Thompson, John H. Bio-biblio-graphiti of James Joyce Gulled from the Pages of Finnegans Wake. New York: The Poetry Center, [1950].
Box 59 Folder F70
Scope and Contents

With a flyer for a Dylan Thomas program laid in. Two copies removed and cataloged for Special Collections and main library stacks. Two copies remain in the collection.

Articles, poetry, or reviews written by Brinnin, 1958-1975.
Box 59 Folder F71
Scope and Contents

Several items removed to oversize.

Reviews of books written by Brinnin, 1972-1986.
Box 59 Folder F72
Articles which contain interviews with Brinnin or mention him or his writing, 1957-1997.
Box 59 Folder F73
Scope and Contents

Includes clippings regarding Dylan and Caitlin Thomas and Brinnin's views on poetry and poets.

Obituaries of poets and friends, 1963-1998.
Box 59 Folder F74
Articles regarding writers and friends, 1966-1997.
Box 59 Folder F75
Miscellaneous clippings, 1964-1996.
Box 59 Folder F76
Scope and Contents

Includes articles on Venice, smoking, death, the Kennedy assassination, and other topics.

John Malcolm Brinnin's Canadian certificate of birth, 1892-1982.
Box 59 Folder F1
Scope and Contents

Certificate of birth issued in 1982, plus a memorial card for Maggie Malcom (died 1892 Jan 10) and a page listing Malcom family births (possibly torn from a family Bible).

Brinnin's notice of classification, 1945 Oct 19.
Box 59 Folder F2
Scope and Contents

Brinnin's draft classification of 4A was issued by the Washtenaw County (Michigan) Selective Service Board.

University of Michigan diploma for a Bachelor of Arts degree, 1942 Feb 19.
Box 59 Folder F3
Scope and Contents

Diploma in cover.

Guest book from Brinnin's 70th birthday party, 1986 Sep 19.
Box 59 Folder F4
Scope and Contents

Hosted by Kay Kuhn in Norwell, Massachusetts. Includes a copy of the invitation, signatures of the guests who attended and notes of regret from friends who were unable to attend. Regrets from Philip Burton, Denise Levertov, Ralph Ellison, George Starbuck, and Peter Stansky. Guests included Jim Scully, Richard Wilbur, Rollie McKenna, Robert Pounder, Howard Moss, and James Merrill.

Passport, 1993 Jul 12.
Box 59 Folder F5
Medical report, 1991 Sep 10.
Box 59 Folder F6
Scope and Contents

Computer printout of Brinnin's medical history and recent laboratory test results.

Cremation order for Frances Brinnin, 1992 May 28.
Box 59 Folder F7
Scope and Contents

Faxed form signed by Brinnin authorizing the cremation of his mother.

Computer diskettes of Brinnin work, 1995-1996 and [n.d.].
Box 59 Folder F8
Scope and Contents

Four computer diskettes. Two of the diskettes are unlabeled and the other two use Claris/Macwrite programs.

Final journal and records kept by Brinnin prior to his death, 1998 May 16-Jun.
Box 59 Folder F9
Scope and Contents

Brinnin's journal details his final month, as well as financial calculations, a list of questions for his doctors, blank checks, uncancelled postage stamps, Brinnin's library card, a photograph of Bill Read, the medical records kept by the Visiting Nurse Association and Griswold Special Care, and Brinnin's medical directive.

Information regarding anagrams and Scrabble, 1998.
Box 59 Folder F10
Scope and Contents

Includes distribution lists for letters in the game of anagrams, which Brinnin played and enjoyed throughout his life. His diary indicate the number of games won at each session and occasionally a cumulative total for a season in Key West.

Postage stamps, [n.d.].
Box 59 Folder F11
Scope and Contents

Uncancelled postage stamps depicting passenger ships and the artwork of Alexander Calder.

Brinnin's fountain pen with nibs, [n.d.].
Box 59 Folder F12
Scope and Contents

Brinnin's calligraphic writing was admired by many.

Postcards, [n.d.].
Box 60 Folder F13
Scope and Contents

Unused postcards depicting Venice, passenger ships, works of art, St. Thomas (Virgin Islands), and Florence. Also includes a postcard used to advertise Brinnin's

Dylan Thomas in America.
Material related to traveling, 1958-1998.
Box 60 Folder F14
Scope and Contents

Includes travel brochures for cruises, information on vacation rentals, a booklet regarding British Airways's Concorde, hotel envelopes, a map and guide to South Miami, and a brochure for the exhibit "Rapallo Letteraria," in 1994.

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1978-1996.
Box 60 Folder F15
Scope and Contents

Includes invitations and programs.

"The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, 11th Annual Key West Literary Seminar", 1993.
Box 60 Folder F16
Scope and Contents

Includes clippings, program, and other printed material related to the seminar or to Elizabeth Bishop. Brinnin was instrumental in organizing and moderating this seminar.

Key West Literary Seminar and Festival, 1986-1997.
Box 60 Folder F17
Scope and Contents

Programs for seminars related to Tennessee Williams and "Literature in the Age of AIDS."

United Auto Workers flyers, [1935].
Box 60 Folder F18
Scope and Contents

According to his unpublished memoir, Brinnin met Walter Reuther in Detroit during the formation of the United Auto Workers. At the age of nineteen Brinnin did office work and distributed flyers. His memoir chronicles the first sit-down strike in Detroit.

Westminster Abbey unveiling and dedication of a memorial to Dylan Thomas, 1982 Mar 1.
Box 60 Folder F19
Scope and Contents

Program and ticket for the dedication service which Brinnin attended. He has annotated the program with his comments.

YM & YWHA of New York - The Poetry Center, [1950]-1989.
Box 60 Folder F20
"John Malcolm Brinnin" video cassette, [1990s].
Box 60 Folder F21
Scope and Contents

Video cassette of an interview with Brinnin in Key West, Florida. Brinnin comments on his decision to live in Key West, Truman Capote, his works on passenger ships, writers living in Key West, and Dylan Thomas. The interview is obviously edited with live shots of Brinnin intermixed with images of his books and is approximately five minutes in length.

Audio cassette of Brinnin reading his poetry for Boston's radio show "Sunday Anthology", [1970s].
Box 60 Folder F22
Scope and Contents

Hosted by Valerie Henderson, the show features Brinnin reading poems from his

Selected Poems and Skin Diving in the Virgins. The show was produced while Brinnin was a professor at Boston University.
The Holy Bible - The S. S. Teacher's Edition, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, [n.d.]), [n.d.].
Box 60 Folder F23
Scope and Contents

There is no indication as to the owner. Some penciled markings are found in the margins.

Dust jackets and cartoons by others, 1980-1992.
Box 60 Folder F24
Scope and Contents

Includes a dust jacket for Stephen McCauley's The Easy Way Out, a portion of the dust acket for Peter De Vries's Consenting Adults and a photocopy of an eighteen-page cartoon which includes Brinnin.

WriteMove II, 1995.
Box 60 Folder F25
Scope and Contents

Diskette and user's manual.

ClarisWorks and MacWrite Pro, 1993-1994.
Box 60 Folder F26
Physical Description

Six diskettes.

Apple Color Style Writer 2500, [n.d.].
Box 60 Folder F27
Physical Description

Three diskettes.

Macintosh, [n.d.].
Box 60 Folder F28
Physical Description

Five diskettes.

Apple StyleWriter II, [n.d.].
Box 60 Folder F29
Physical Description

Four diskettes.

Print, Suggest