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Johns was born Richard Johnson on October 29, 1904 in Lynn, Massachusetts. After dropping out of Classical High School in Lynn, Massachusetts, Johns worked at a number of odd jobs in the Boston and New York areas, while he pursued his interest in writing poetry. His first published poem, "Song Against Love," appeared in the first issue of the quarterly
Casanova Jr.'s Tales in 1926. Later his writing appeared in a number of small literary magazines, including Greenwich Village Quill, Bozart, and Opportunity: a journal of Negro life.Eventually Johns concluded that he did not have the creative continuity to write consistently excellent poetry, and although he continued to compose poems, he turned his primary attention to writing criticism and editing. His first published critique was of Frank Harris's
My Life and Love (1927), which appeared in the June 1927 issue of theGreenwich Village Quill.While he was working in New York, Johns studied comparative poetry and literary theory at Columbia and became acquainted with the publishing business through friendships with Stanley Rinehart, Edward Weeks, and George and Julie Rittenhouse. He also acquainted himself with a variety of little magazines, including
Contact, transition, The Little Review, Blues, Hound & Horn, and The Dial.By the Spring of 1929, after having analyzed the existing little magazines, Johns was convinced that he should initiate a quarterly which would display and promote the writings of native- born Americans, including the expatriates. His father, who had always supported his son's writing, provided a loan which financed the first year of publication.
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Pagany, Johns sought the support and editorial assistance of William Carlos Williams, inviting him to become a co-editor and contributor to Pagany. He also requested permission to use "Pagany" as the title of his magazine, explaining that the title derived from Williams's novel, A Voyage to Pagany (1928).A further explanation of the magazine's title was provided in the first issue of the
Pagany: "Pagus is a broad term, meaning any sort of collection of peoples from the smallest district or village to the country as an inclusive whole. Taking America as pagus, any one of us as the paganus, the inhabitant, and our conceptions, our agreements and disagreements, our ideas, ideals, whatever we have to articulate is pagany, our expression." (A Return to Pagany, p.50).Although Williams declined to be co-editor of
Pagany, he lent his support to the project by contributing his own work, including chapters of his novel White Mule (which was serialized in Pagany); soliciting writer-friends for contributions; reading and selecting manuscripts for inclusion in Pagany; and advising Johns on editorial aspects of the magazine.Sherry Mangan, editor of
Larus (whose unfilled subscriptions were absorbed by Pagany when Larus ceased), and Blues editor Charles Henri Ford also assisted Johns by encouraging the writers who contributed to their magazines to submit work to Pagany. Consequently, authors such as Kenneth Rexroth, Erskine Caldwell, Norman Macleod, Parker Tyler, Kathleen Tankersley Young, and Forrest Anderson contributed their work to Pagany. Gorham Munson and Ezra Pound also persuaded their colleagues to furnish Pagany with writing. Through Ezra Pound the work of Cocteau, Carnevali, H.D., and others became available.Johns sought to publish the best writing by Americans regardless of literary camp or political affiliations. The only exceptions to his "Americans only" policy were appearances of a translation of Jean Cocteau's "Laic Mystery" and the work of Georges Hugnet.
From the first issue in the Spring of 1930, until the final issue in February of 1933,
Pagany presented a remarkable sampling of the best American writing, especially in the realm of fiction. During those three years, Pagany's tables of contents contained the names of many prominent twentieth-century authors, including William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Mary Butts, Kenneth Rexroth, Dudley Fitts, Hilda Doolittle, John Dos Passos, Charles Henri Ford, Conrad Aiken, e.e. cummings, and Louis Zukofsky.Johns also included the work of writers who are not often remembered, but who wrote during the early Depression years, including Etta Blum, Peter Neagoe, Syd Salt, Moe Bragin, Tess Slesinger, and numerous others.
Pagany, like other little magazines, contributed to the growth, development, and recognition of many major writers. However, Johns did not hesitate to reject the work of noted writers when he believed the quality of the writing was inferior, including submissions by D.H. Lawrence, William Saroyan, and William Faulkner.Johns's stubborn devotion to good literature, his search for lively and expressive writing, and his refusal to be bound by commercial pressure, made
Pagany a publication of lasting value and one of the most important little magazines published during the early years of the Depression. However, by 1932 Johns had incurred substantial debt in his publishing venture. Only twelve issues of Pagany were published before the lack of funds forced Johns to cease publication in February 1933.In 1934 Johns married Veronica Parker, with whom he collaborated on a series of mystery novels, the first of which was
Hush Gabriel. Johns also began experimenting with photography and composing photo-essays. His photographs appeared in Coronet, U.S. Camera, and various weekly journals; as well as in the "Exhibition of Contemporary American Industrial Art" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1940.By the 1960s Johns had made his home in Cuttingsville, Vermont, where he continued his writing, photography, and work in horticulture, specializing in hybridizing flowers.
In 1969 Johns assisted Stephen A. Halpert in writing
A Return to Pagany, which documents the development of Pagany, through selections from Johns's correspondence and from works published in Pagany, complemented by a chronological narrative concerning the history of Pagany.Richard Johns died on June 17, 1970.
Halpert, Stephen (ed.) with Richard Johns. A Return to Pagany: the history, correspondence, and selections from a little magazine 1929-1932. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969.
The archive of the little magazine
Pagany: a native quarterly consists of 5.5 linear feet of material, which spans the dates 1925-1970, with the bulk of the material dating from 1929 to 1933. The collection includes Richard Johns's personal papers and all known surviving material related to the publication of Pagany (some letters and manuscript were destroyed in a 1932 fire or stolen from Johns's car the same year).The
Pagany-related material consists of correspondence, issues of Pagany, manuscripts submitted for publication (poems, literary criticism, stories, essays, and chapters of novels), an index, announcements, cancelled checks, layout drawings, and a copyright certificate.Comprising over one-half of the collection, the correspondence in Series I is primarily related to
Pagany and chronicles the development of the magazine, highlights the business details and the mechanics of running a literary journal, and provides information regarding the works-in-progress by some of the writers submitting material to Pagany. The letters also suggest the comradery and mutual support among some of the writers and particularly among the editors of several little magazines, especially among Johns, Sherry Mangan, and Charles Henri Ford. A small number of the letters concern the 1969 publication of A Return to Pagany and Johns's unsuccessful attempt in 1938-1939 to publish a magazine titled Zone.Extensive correspondence is present from Erskine Caldwell, Charles Henri Ford, Edward Dahlberg, Georges Hugnet, Robert McAlmon, Norman Macleod, Sherry Mangan, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky.
Approximately 100 letters from this collection were reproduced, in facsimile, in
A Return to Pagany, the informal narrative history of the magazine. Series V includes correspondence and publication material related to the publication of A Return to Pagany, which was edited by Stephen Halpert with the assistance of Richard Johns.The manuscripts in Series II and Series III suggest the types of creative writing submitted for publication in
Pagany. Most of the material is fiction, although poetry and critical articles are also present. Of the manuscripts published in Pagany (Series II), some are of particular interest, including the drafts of seven stories by Erskine Caldwell; a chapter from Edward Dahlberg's novel, From Flushing to Calvary; two extensive drafts of stories by Robert McAlmon; a story by H.D.; a critical essay by Ezra Pound; and eight chapters of William Carlos Williams's White Mule (serialized in Pagany). Williams later credited Johns's support and encouragement with motivating him to write White Mule (A Return to Pagany, p. 512).Present in Series III are over forty manuscripts which were submitted to Johns, but never published in
Pagany, including work by Forrest Anderson, Dudley Fitts, Georges Hugnet, Eugene Jolas, Robert McAlmon, William March and Louis Zukofsky.The announcements, an index, cancelled checks, and related publication material found in Series IV, further document the editorial and business operations of the magazine. Issues of
Pagany have been removed from the collection and housed in Special Collections printed collection at Spec AP 2 .P343.The collection also includes Johns's personal papers. Series VI consists of manuscripts of his writing (stories, essays, poems, a television script, a photo-essay, and an unpublished novel). Series VII includes a copy of his birth certificate, several announcements, and a few clippings which he collected which deal with little magazines, pornography, and literary figures.
- Boxes 1-20: Shelved in SPEC MSS manuscript boxes
- Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches)
Purchase, 1970.
Originally processed in 1970, reprocessed by Anita A. Wellner, 1993. Encoded by Thomas Pulhamus, February 2010. Encoded by Caitlin Farthing, 2013.
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- University of Delaware Library Special Collections
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- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
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- 2010 February 9
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Letters
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Type Letter Signed
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Letters
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Autograph Letter Signed
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Type Letter Signed
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Letters Note: Includes Zukofsky's autograph poem "The Sphinx" and a letter to Johns about a Guggenheim Fellowship for Zukofsky
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Arranged chronologically. Includes letters from James Taylor Adams, John Alroy, Paul D. Anderson, Paul Ernest Anderson, James Angleton, John Appleby, Antonio Asenjo, P.H.W. Bachmann, Harry Baldwin, George A. Ball, Alexandre Banger, Mary Barrett, Cornwall Barrington, Sylvia Chatfield Bates, J.M. Blanke, Eugen Boissevain, Wilson Borland, Karl Bowman, B.G. Braver-Mann, Bretano's Bookstore, William Brenton, Carlton Brown, Don Brown, Paul Brown, Bruce Humphries, Inc., Curtis Bruen, Elizabeth S. Bruner, Alexander Buchmann, Gloria Burke, John H. Burnett, Francis Butterworth, Richard Carver, Lincoln Caswell, Vladimir Moiseyevich Cherkasski, Albert E. Clements, Heinz Clusmann, Grant H. Code, Marion Code, Mollie Cohen, Barney Conal, Groff Conklin, Donald Cormack, John Cowles, Jane Snowden Crosby, Clement Crouch, Clifton Cuthbert, Constant de Horion, Angelo de Luca, Dorothy de Santillana, Aileen De Vilbiss, A. Diefenthaler, Jay Du Von, G.D. Eaton, Bertram Enos, Effingham Evarts, Barbs Farrell, Edward Farrell, Williard Firestone, Lincoln Fitzell, Leroy C. Fleischer, Frances Fletcher, John P. Fort, Fayna Foss, Donald Gallup, William Gibson, Robert Giroux, Elma Godchaux, Robert Godsoe, S. Gold, Philip Grann, Harold Greene, Virginia Gruppe, Ben Hamilton, Jennifer Hardy, Joseph Upper Harris, Henry Harrison, Albert B. Hart, James D. Hart, Ernest Hartsock, Harriet Teresa Hassell, John Hastings, S. Theodore Hecht, Jack V. Hems, Dorothy Hipp, Sprague Holden, Achilles Holt, Roy Temple House, Llwewllyn Howland, Marle Hoyleman, Sidney Hunt, W.M. Ivins, Una Jeffers, Oliver Jenkins, Eugene Joffe, Paul Johnston, Benjamin I. Jones, Henry B. Jones, J. Jones, Irving Kaden, Bunichi Kawaga, Joseph Kalar, Harry Kapustin, K. Kildare, Edward Kinkade, J. Tom Knight, Paul Koston, Fred Kuhlman, Kraus Reprints, Louise Lafitte, Ruth Lesh, Julien Levy, Seymour Link, Georges Linze, Seraph Llewellyn, John Loughborough, John Loyd, Marie Luhrs, Chung P. Lum, Marius Lyle, E.A. Lyngklip, Robert McBlair, Wilson McCarty, J.F. McGinnis, W. McGinnis, George McGrossen, Mavis McIntosh, Donal McKenzie, Alan Macneil, J.W. McWhinney, John Matthews, Milton S. Mautner, R. Maxham, Elizabet Mayer-Wolff, M.T. Meadows, Eva Mehlinger, Daniel Melcher, Milton Merlin, Fred R. Miller, Richard Miller, Robert Lee Moore, Nadonis Shawa White Eagle, G.H. Neiman, Starr Nelson, The New Yorker, J. O'Connor, Marion O'Donnell, Dan O'Flaherty, Marianne Parkes, F. Wallace Patch, Alan Frederick Pater, C.A. Permul, James H. Pershing, Anne Persov, Vladimir Pillin, David Platt, Sonja Prins, Joseph Rabinowitz, Louis Reed, Virginia Rice, Everett Riskin, John Roberts, J.S. Rodell, Marie Rodell, Robert Roe, John C. Rogers, Anton Romatka, Louis Rosenberg, Herbert Rosengren, Joseph Rosenstein, Cary Ross, Leroy Rumsey, Elizabeth Sarcka, Schepotieff, John Schneider, Herman Schware, Jack Sherby, Mitsugi Shibata, John Rogers Shuman, Southworth Press, Mattingly Spalding, Flora Sparkey, William Sparks, Leonard Spier, Doris Starr, William Starr, Alexander Mahan Sterling, Seymour Stern, Dorothy Sternberg, Ada Borden Stevens, Geoffrey Stone, Ruth Stout, Arthur Stratton, Dwight Strickland, M. Woolf Sunnard, Sidney Sward, C.A. Tackle, Augustus Tiberius, Floyd Tillery, Jessie Hope Timson, Bonita Toff, Thomas Tracy, Sherwood Trask, Imogen Van Duzen, Imogen, George Vanaman, Elias Tovar Velarde, Florence Vincent, Curt Wagner, R.B.N. Warriston, Radford Watkins, David Webb, Sam Weinstein, Franklin Wentworth, Alden Whitman, Wendell Wilcox, William Morris Agency, Huguley Williamson, Thomas Wilson, Jan Wittenber, Richardson Wright, Writers' War Board.
All items are undated unless otherwise noted. The volume and issue number in which each title appears is included in parenthesis
"Symbol." Typescript with autograph corrections
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"Sonnet Distors." Autograph, signed
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"Hotel For Sailors." Autograph, signed
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"The Summer Witches." Typescript with autograph corrections, signed
Physical Description9p
"No Retreat." Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description14p
"Post Mortem." Typescript with autograph corrections
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"Edge of the Nest." Typescript with autograph corrections and an autograph note on verso, incomplete
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"In a Half-Dream." Typescript
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"The New Tuxedo." Typescript.
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"No Groundhog's Life." Typescript.
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"Between Us." Typescript
Physical Description7p
"Tenth Declamation." Typescript with autograph revisions
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"Refreshment." Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description17p
"Scylla and Charybdis." Typescript with autograph corrections
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"The House Party." Autograph title page only
Physical Description1p
"After-Image." Typescript with autograph corrections
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"The Empty Room." Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description7p
"The First Autumn." Typescript with autograph corrections
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"Hours Before Eternity." Typescript early draft with autograph corrections
Physical Description11p
"Hours Before Eternity." Typescript final draft with autograph corrections
Physical Description15p
"Inspiration for Greatness." Typescript with autograph corrections
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"Warm River." Typescript with autograph corrections
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Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description15p
Typescript (carbon)
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Typescript with autograph revisions
Physical Description11p
Typescript with extensive autograph corrections
Physical Description37p
Typescript
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Three Typescript drafts of an excerpt from Dahlberg's novel,
Main St. Flushing to Calvary.Typescript
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Typescript with autograph corrections
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Typescript with autograph corrections
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Typescript
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Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description6p
Typescript
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Typescript
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Typescript
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Typescript with autograph revisions
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Typescript with autograph corrections, signed
Physical Description5p
Typescript(carbon) with autograph corrections, signed
Physical Description3p
Typescript
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Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description7p
Typescript
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Typescript with autograph corrections, used pseudonym Rhoda Peter
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Typescript
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Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description7p
Typescript
Physical Description3p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description4p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description9p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description8p
Autograph with corrections
Physical Description7p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description12p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description5p
Typescript
Physical Description3p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description3p
Typescript (carbon) with autograph corrections
Physical Description9p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description16p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description3p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description9p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description7p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description9p
Autograph, signed
Physical Description8p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description6p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description22p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description6p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description9p
Typescript with autograph corrections, combines two drafts, and includes two pages deleted from the final version
Physical Description24p
Typescript (carbon) with autograph corrections
Physical Description60p
Typescript with autograph corrections
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Typescript with autograph corrections, initialed
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Typescript with autograph corrections, dated 1929
Physical Description5p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description12p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description17p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description19p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description12p
Typescript
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Typescript
Physical Description5p
Typescript
Physical Description11p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description12p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description7p
Typescript with autograph corrections, signed
Physical Description12p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description8p
Typescript with corrections
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Typescript(carbon) with autograph corrections
Physical Description17p
Typescript
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Typescript with autograph corrections, using pseudonym Julian Shapiro
Physical Description40p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description16p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description9p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description3p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description12p
Typescript with autograph corrections, signed
Physical Description5p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description4p
Typescript with autograph corrections. Title page bears autograph note to Johns from Erskine Caldwell
Physical Description11p
Typescript, signed
Physical Description9p
Typescript with autograph corrections, signed
Physical Description17p
Typescript with autograph corrections. Includes pages numbered 1-4, 15-32, plus several unnumbered pages
Physical Description23p
Pages omitted (5-13)
Physical Description9p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description13p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description7p
Typescript with autograph corrections
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Typescript with autograph corrections
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Typescript with autograph corrections, signed. Two pages are numbered 11 and no page 12 is present
Physical Description16p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description12p
Typescript (carbon) with autograph corrections
Physical Description7p
Includes manuscripts submitted to Richard Johns for publication in
Pagany, but which were never published. All material is undated unless otherwise noted.Typescript with autograph corrections, signed
Physical Description2p
Typescript
Physical Description2p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description13p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description8p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description8p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description8p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description16p
Typescript
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Typescript with autograph corrections, signed
Physical Description6p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description3p
Typescript
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Typescript with autograph additions
Physical Description7p
Typescript with autograph revisions
Physical Description6p
Typescript, signed
Physical Description1p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description5p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description5p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description5p
Typescript with cover
Physical Description21p
Typescript
Physical Description6p
Typescript
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Typescript
Physical Description2p
Typescript (carbon) with title page (missing pages 9-13, 15, 19, 34)
Physical Description46p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description4p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description14p
Typescript
Physical Description9p
Autograph, signed
Physical Description1p
Autograph
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Typescript with autograph corrections, signed, with letter
Physical Description62p
Typescript
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Typescript
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Typescript
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Typescript
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Typescript
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Typescript(carbon)
Physical Description1p
Seven manuscripts
Physical Description33p
Copyright certificate for an issue of
Pagany, material concerning Larus, a broadside of "Old Pard" by Lewis McKenzie Turner (Salt House Press) Physical Description7p
Issues of
Pagany are available in the Special Collections printed collection at Spec AP 2 Physical DescriptionP343
Edited by Stephen A. Halpert with Richard Johns
Includes correspondence with Halpert, editors at Beacon Press, Mrs. William Carlos Williams, and Benjamin Appel. Also includes bills, a review list, a review, carbons of Johns's letters, and a copy of the contract with Beacon Press
Physical Description90p
Includes working outlines; ideas for an introduction; drafts of the order of material; photocopies of the introduction, chapter divisions, and acknowledgement; timetables; lists of contributors to
Pagany; a list of the correspondence included in A Return to Pagany; letters from Johns; an index to Pagany; announcements; and a Beacon Press catalogue Physical Description109p
Some of Johns's manuscripts are found in F304
Manuscripts are undated unless otherwise noted.
Typescript and Typescript (carbon)
Physical Description2 copies, 22p
Typescript with autograph corrections and Typescript
Physical Description2 copies, 53p
Typescript
Physical Description10p
Typescript and two Typescript (carbon)s
Physical Description3 copies, 54p
Photo-essay. Includes 11 photographs, a Type Letter (carbon)s from Johns to
Catholic Digest and Coronet, and Typescript and Typescript (carbon) drafts with autograph corrections of the text Physical Description41p
Typescript with few autograph corrections
Physical Description24p
Typescript (carbon)
Physical Description7p
Typescript with few autograph corrections and two Typescript (carbon)s
Physical Description3 copies, 69p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description15p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description1p
Typescript (carbon) and Typescript with autograph revisions, 2 copies
Physical Description21p
Television script, Typescript draft with title page and appended pages
Physical Description50p
Typescript and Typescript (carbon) initial pages
Physical Description10p
Typescript with autograph corrections draft
Physical Description171p
Typescript (carbon) with autograph corrections draft
Physical Description171p
Typescript and Typescript (carbon) versions, some with autograph corrections, also a Type Letter (carbon) from Johns to John Ciardi, and a clipping
Physical Description14p
Typescript with extensive autograph corrections
Physical Description126p
Typescript (carbon)
Physical Description49p
Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description22p
Autograph
Physical Description82p
Miscellaneous Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description60p
Miscellaneous Typescript with autograph corrections
Physical Description31p
Autograph, Typescript and Typescript (carbon) drafts
Physical Description21p
Typescript and Typescript (carbon) drafts, some with extensive autograph corrections
Physical Description5p
Typescript and Typescript (carbon) drafts
Physical Description3p
Typescript and Typescript (carbon) drafts, some bear extensive autograph corrections
Physical Description7p
Typescript and Typescript (carbon) drafts, one bears autograph corrections
Physical Description3p
"A Door To Be Closed"
Typescript bearing a few autograph corrections
Physical Description9p
Typescript and autograph notes and information
Physical Description37p
Typescript and autograph chronology and outlines
Physical Description21p
Typescript and Typescript (carbon) draft
Physical Description71p
Typescript and Typescript (carbon) drafts bearing autograph corrections, incomplete copies of the same draft
Physical Description61p
Typescript and Typescript (carbon) draft, 1964-1967 Incomplete
Physical Description98p
Typescript autograph corrections draft, Incomplete
Physical Description22p
Typescript with autograph corrections draft, Incomplete
Physical Description89p
Autograph, Typescript, and Typescript (carbon) questions and conclusions (carbon)
Physical Description89p