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Robert A. Wilson collection
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The American bibliographer, bookseller, and collector Robert A. Wilson was born in 1922. For many struggling writers and poets of the latter half of the twentieth century, Wilson was a familiar presence. As the third proprietor of the Phoenix Book Shop in New York City, Wilson provided both encouragement and financial support to many writers. Wilson bought the Phoenix Book Shop in March 1962, which he maintained at 18 Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village until 1975, when he moved the shop around the corner to 22 Jones Street, finally closing its doors in mid-October 1988.
The Phoenix Book Shop was known for its selection of books by the avant-garde and contemporary writers of the 1950s and 1960s, stocking works by Edward Albee, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Michael McClure. Wilson's shop also specialized in modern first editions and literary manuscripts of writers such as W.H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Laura Riding, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Dylan Thomas.
Through the bookshop, Wilson published the work of many notable writers, including Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Bishop, and Richard Wilbur. During his twenty-six year tenure as the proprietor of the Phoenix, Wilson oversaw the publication of no less than forty-three volumes. Wilson himself was the author of bibliographies of Gregory Corso (1966), Denise Levertov (1972), and Gertrude Stein (1974, revised 1994), and works on the book trade and book collecting, such as
Faulkner on Fire Island (1979) and Modern Book Collecting (1980), The Phoenix Book Shop: a Nest of Memories (1997), and Seeing Shelley Plain (2001).Biographical information about the authors represented in this collection was obtained from the following sources: Carol Bergé. Biography Resource Center. http://galenet.galegroup.com (accessed 15 March 2007).[Individual author entries]. Contemporary Authors Online reproduced in Literature Resource Center. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC.Reed, Kenneth T. "Capote, Truman." American National Biography Online. February 2000. http://www.anb.org (accessed March, 23 2007)Wilson, Robert A. Seeing Shelley Plain. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 2001.Additional information derived from the collection.
The Robert A. Wilson collection comprises approximately 9 linear feet of correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, galleys, reviews, newspaper clippings, artwork, printed works, posters, flyers, catalogs, and other ephemera related to 36 prominent literary figures previously in the private collection of Robert A. Wilson (1922- ), the final owner of the Phoenix Book Shop in New York City (1962-1988).
Wilson's large personal library of published works by these authors is cataloged separately and housed with the printed holdings in Special Collections.
The Wilson collection is organized alphabetically by author. The correspondence for each author is organized chronologically and the manuscript and published materials are organized alphabetically by title. The best represented authors in the collection are Edward Albee, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Ezra Pound, and Laura Riding. The materials related to Ginsberg, McClure, and Riding reveal that Wilson developed personal friendships with many of the writers in his collection, and the collection contains many items inscribed by these authors to Wilson.
Nearly all the materials in the Albee series are inscribed by the author to Robert Wilson and include many play scripts, theatre programs, and publicity photographs of Albee and his plays. Items of particular interest include director Alan Schneider's heavily annotated play script of
The Ballad of the Sad Café, and cast member Irene Worth's play script of Listening with her autograph notes and underlining throughout. Additionally, the series contains a large number of periodicals with articles by or about Albee and his plays. The majority of the periodicals cover Albee's earlier works, such as Zoo Story (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962), Tiny Alice (1965), A Delicate Balance (1966), and his adaptation of Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Café (1963).The Bergé series consists of correspondence dating from 1992-2000, photographs, manuscripts, and ephemera related to Bergé's body of work.
Included in the Capote series is a variety of materials related to some of his best known works, most prominently
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Beat the Devil, and In Cold Blood. Of particular note are the items related to In Cold Blood in its many forms from serial to film, which include several items from Capote's editor at The New Yorker, Sandy Campbell, such as an archive of letters kept by Campbell, the New Yorker galley proofs, and rough copies of the issues in which the four installments of Capote's novel appeared in 1965. A variety of scripts and screenplays are contained in this series, both original works by Capote, copies of scripts from the filming of Breakfast at Tiffany's and Beat the Devil, as well as adaptations of his works by others. Other items related to the author's life and career are also featured, including news clippings covering Capote's 1966 Black and White Ball, photographs, a collection of printed blurbs by Capote, and other ephemera.Among the items of note in the Ginsberg series are Richard Eberhart's transcription of a 1956 Ginsberg letter concerning "Howl" and other poems, Ginsberg's autograph manuscript for
Scrap Leaves (1968), and a group of photographs both of and by Ginsberg, many with Ginsberg's autograph captions, and a clipping of Ginsberg's beard. Also, the series contains several oversized posters and ephemeral items related to readings and events. The manuscript items are noted with the entry number in Bill Morgan's The Works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994: a Descriptive Bibliography (1995), when available.The McClure series includes typescripts of several plays, the manuscript and artwork for
Little Odes (1961, 1968), a galley for Josephine (New Directions, 1980), several photographs, and a large group of correspondence, 1965-2002. Additionally, the series contains a number of posters and other ephemeral items for readings and performances, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, by McClure, many of which are inscribed by McClure to Wilson.The Ezra Pound series includes correspondence, photographs, periodicals and other publications, and ephemera. There are two publishing contracts for early works by Pound,
Exultations of Ezra Pound (1909) and Provença (1910). The correspondence includes letters from Pound to Elkin Mathews, Caresse Crosby, and René Taupin, as well as letters to Robert A. Wilson from Dorothy Pound, Olga Rudge, and Mary de Rachewiltz. Additionally, the series contains materials related to New Directions publisher James Laughlin's publication of Pound's rare Cantos 72-73 (1973).The Laura Riding series primarily comprises correspondence dating from the last ten years of her life, 1981-1991. A few typescripts and autograph manuscripts are also included.
The Corso series includes a letter from Corso to William S. Burroughs (1985 March 14) concerning a misunderstanding between the two writers, the typescript manuscript of "Events Not of the Ordinary," with Corso's autograph corrections, and a long unpublished manuscript of poems,
The Golden Dot.The Lanford Wilson series contains several autograph and typescript manuscripts with Lanford Wilson's autograph notes, and a number of inscribed scripts and early drafts of his work.
Other items in the collection include early photographs of Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg, three Orlovsky notebooks, and the typescript for
Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs, from 1957 to 1977 [1978] with Orlovsky's autograph corrections; galleys for Louise Bogan's translation of The Journal of Jules Renard (1964), which includes an autograph note in Glenway Westcott's hand; a series of photographs of Charles Olson and his family; and four long letters from Diane Wakoski.A number of the items are accompanied by Post-it notes bearing brief descriptions in Wilson's hand.
- Boxes 1-11, 13-21: Shelved in SPEC MSS manuscript boxes
- Boxes 12, 22-25: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (17 inches)
- Boxes 26-27: Shelved in SPEC VAULT MSS
- Box 28-30: Shelved in SPEC MSS record center cartons
- Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
- Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches)
- Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (32 inches)
- F21, F67, F145: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize galleys
- Removals: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize mapcases
- Box 4 F48B4, Box 29 F268A-F268D: Shelved in SPEC Media Videocassettes
Purchases and gifts from Robert A. Wilson, 2000-2011.
Processed by Gerald Cloud, November 2003 and revised by Maureen Cech, May 2007, Anita Wellner, 2012. Encoded by Lora J. Davis, September 2010, and revised by Jaime Margalotti, November 2012. Further encoding by Tiffany Saulter, April 2016.
Wilson's large personal library of published works by these authors is cataloged separately and housed with the printed holdings in Special Collections. These works can be found in our online public access catalog, DELCAT, by searching for the phrase, "Robert A. Wilson Collection."
People
- Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922-2016
- Adam, Helen, 1909-1993
- Albee, Edward, 1928-
- Andre, Michael
- Beam, Jeffery, 1953-
- Bergé, Carol, 1928-2006
- Berrigan, Daniel
- Berrigan, Ted
- Berry, Wendell, 1934-
- Berryman, John, 1914-1972
- Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970
- Booth, Philip, 1925-2007
- Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999
- Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992
- Broughton, James, 1913-1999
- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
- Congdon, Kirby
- Corso, Gregory
- Di Prima, Diane
- Everson, William, 1912-1994
- Gallup, Donald Clifford, 1913-2000
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
- Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986
- Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965
- Jess, 1923-2004
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941
- Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002
- Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
- LaVigne, Robert, 1928-2014
- Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997
- McClure, Michael
- Malanga, Gerard
- Mead, Taylor
- Micheline, Jack, 1929-1998
- Olson, Charles, 1910-1970
- Oppenheimer, Joel, 1930-1988
- Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010
- Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
- Purdy, James, 1914-2009
- Reynolds, Tim
- Riding, Laura, 1901-1991
- Sandy, Stephen
- Simpson, Louis, 1923-2012
- Smith, Patti
- Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015
- Steloff, Frances, 1887-1989
- Swenson, May
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Wakoski, Diane
- Whalen, Philip
- Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011
- Windham, Donald
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- University of Delaware Library Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Finding Aid Date
- 2010 September 15
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, https://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?askspec
Collection Inventory
1 card with envelope
Photographs; flyers; book jacket for Adam's
Selected Poems & Ballads (1975).The collection includes the following description: "All the letters in this file were written by Edward Albee to Howard Moss. They met when they lived in the same apt building on West 10th Street. The closeness of the relationship is underscored by the continuing spoofs in the letters with the many pseudonyms used to [sic] Albee to jest with Moss."
Invitation to a Christmas party on Edward Albee's stationery.
"Cool Yule..."
"This likeness of you | struck me..."
"Jonathan and I thought that..."
"I think it's possible..."
Physical Description1 page
"Dear Robert Wilson..." from Paul Hardy, Edward Albee's secretary.
Signed "D.H. Lawrence."
1 page
Posted from Bangkok.
1 p.
"La Bretagne en Couleurs" postcard.
"Nissan-Enserune" postcard.
Autograph note dates this letter "End of 1965."
Physical Description1 page
Includes two typescript poems, mentioned in the letter.
Physical Description1 page
2 pages
1 page
1 page
1 page
1 page
2 pages
1 page
2 pages
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
3 pages with envelope
3 pages with envelope
2 pp. with envelope
1 p.
2 pp.
2 pp.
1 p.
2 pp. with envelope
All letters are from Edward Albee.
1 page
"Bob: | I'll drop by..."
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
Letter discussing "a playwrights unit at the Cherry Lane Theatre," signed by Edward Albee, Richard Barr, and Clinton Wilder.
Physical Description1 page with envelope
1 page
1 page
with envelope
1 page
"Books are ready..."
1 page with envelope
From Edward Albee's secretary, Carl Capotorto.
Typescript with autograph corrections and printer's notes, originally published in the
Evergreen Review, May 1968.Typescript with autograph corrections in an unknown hand. Article eventually published under the title "Angry Playwright in a Soft Spell,"
Life Magazine, May 26, 1967. Physical Description24 pages
Menu for a dinner honoring Edward Albee, signed by Marisol, Howard Moss, Louise Nevelson, Anne Sexton, and others.
Typescript transcript of a WNBC forum on American theatre featuring Edward Albee, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Physical Description12 pages
Typescript of a short story signed by Edward Albee. Includes bookseller's description.
Physical Description6 pages
London: Heinemann. Typescript with autograph corrections.
Physical Description131 pages
Sheet music for an Opera in four scenes and prologue, based on the story by Herman Melville, music by William Flanagan. Signed by Edward Albee. Includes mailing envelope from Flanagan to Robert A. Wilson.
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Calendar, the month of August features
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?New York: William Morrow and Company. Advanced uncorrected proofs, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson. Includes Newquist's interview with Edward Albee and a typescript copy of Brooks Atkinson's introduction.
Play. Typescript copy inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson on the title page, and signed by cast member Jessica Tandy.
Physical Description79 pages
Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee and cast member George Maharis.
Play. Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson, heavily annotated with multiple interleaved revisions, stage directions, and other notes by director Alan Schneider(?). Also signed by cast member Colleen Dewhurst.
Physical Description137 pages
Two plays. Typescript copy inscribed by Edward Albee, "This copy is a first draft of these 2 interrelated | plays. The final version will have a greater | fragmentation and contrapuntalization of the | present material. | Donated to the library auction for peace | April 23, 1968. | Edward Albee | April 19, 1968. | NYC."
Physical Description61 pages
Play, adapted from Truman Capote's novel. Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Physical DescriptionAct I (bound in paper wrapper), 73 pages.; Act II, (unbound), 51 pages
Play. Typescript, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson on the title page. Includes 1 p Typed letter signed, from Edward Albee's assistant William Martin to Howard Moss, dated March 8, 1976.
Physical Description50 pages
Copy 2: typescript copy of an earlier draft.
Physical Description54 pages
Play. Carbon typescript with Edward Albee autograph note on the final page, "This carbon looks to be a rehearsal | copy of the script. | Edward Albee."
Physical Description132 pages
Play. Typescript copy with revisions and autograph corrections in an unknown hand. Inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson, and signed by cast members Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn.
Physical Description178 pages
Play. Typescript, signed by Edward Albee on the title page.
Physical Description199 pages
Play. Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson on the title page.
Physical Description134 pages
Play. Typescript copy previously belonging to cast member Irene Worth with her autograph notes and underlining throughout. Includes mailing envelope addressed to Irene Worth from Edward Albee.
Physical Description87 pages
Play, based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson on the title page.
Physical Description141 pages
Play, adapted from the novel by James Purdy. Typescript copy signed and dated "May 10, 1966" by Edward Albee, with a handbill from original production laid in.
Physical Description190 pages
Play. Typescript copy inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson, and signed by cast member Frank Langella. Includes interleaved revisions and autograph corrections in an unknown hand.
Physical Description104 pages
Play. Typescript copy inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson with autograph corrections in an unknown hand.
New York: Atheneum. Play. Long galleys inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize galleys
Filmscript photocopy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Physical Description209 pages
Play. Typescript copy, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Physical Description248 pages
Wollman Auditorium, Columbia University, New York, February 1979. Program, signed by Edward Albee.
Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, New York, 1968. Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Program, signed by Edward Albee.
Program, includes news clippings from the New York
Times.Program, signed by Edward Albee.
Program, signed by Edward Albee. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Happy Days.Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson and signed by cast members Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. Includes flyer for the same production also inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Program, a film from the play, signed by Edward Albee.
Program.
Signature Theatre Company, New York.
London: Apollo Theatre.
Program, signed by Edward Albee.
Program, signed by Edward Albee on the cover.
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey. Program.
Signature Theatre Company, Kampo Cultural Center, New York. Program.
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson and inscribed on the front cover by Irene Worth, who starred in the production. Includes a review by Max Lerner, "Who's Afraid of Edward Albee,"
New York Post, February 3, 1965, laid in.Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson. Presented with
A Flea in Her Ear by George Feydeau and Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Contains two reviews, "The Truth About Alice" and "The Games Alice Plays: a Transactional Analysis."
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Program, signed by Edward Albee.
Program, signed by Edward Albee on the cover.
Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Flyer and ticket order form.
Program for the premier, signed by Edward Albee on insert and again next to his photograph. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Krapp's Last Tape.Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson. Dated "Dec. 6, 1960" on the front cover. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Krapp's Last Tape.Program. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Krapp's Last Tape.Program, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Krapp's Last Tape.Program, signed by Edward Albee on the front cover. Presented with Samuel Beckett's
Krapp's Last Tape and Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.Festival program, featuring a lecture by Edward Albee March 22, 1967.
Edward Albee number, June 1961;
Tiny Alice feature, April 1965; Malcolm feature, February 1966.Ziegfield Theatre, New York. Article on Edward Albee "Stars of the Future," inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Majestic Theatre, New York. "Ad Libs on Theatre," by Edward Albee, signed by Edward Albee.
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York. "Playwright at Work" interview with Edward Albee, inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York.
Signed by Edward Albee, with mailing envelope form Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson and signed by Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso.
Inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson. Includes a pamphlet with the Dutch translation of the interview as published in
Streven magazine, June 1967.Tear sheets, interview with Edward Albee, inscribed by the interviewer Matthew Roudané.
Signed by Edward Albee.
Choate Academy newspaper including Edward Albee's earliest published writing. Includes hand list of Edward Albee's articles.
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Talk of the Town: "Unintimidated."
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
"In Praise of Short Plays," by Edward Albee.
"Fam and Yam: An Imaginary Interview."
"Off-Broadway as a Theatre Movement; Some Documents and Explorations."
"My Favorite Grandmother," by Edward Albee.
"Albee and Schneider Observe: 'Something's Stirring.'"
Talk of the Town: "Albee."
"Albee Makes the English Scene."
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Reviews of
The Death of Bessie Smith and The American Dream."Which Theatre is the Absurd One?" by Edward Albee.
"Theatre: the Absurd (5, 6)."
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Letter to the editor.
"Some Notes on Nonconformity."
"Game of Truth"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? reviewed."Edward Albee."
"'Coward, flop, pig' Marital Sweet Talk on Broadway."
"Carson McCullers and Edward Albee"
Cover story.
"Five Playwrights Talk about How They Got There."
"A Novel Beginning," except from Edward Albee's first novel.
"Albee on Lillian Ross," by Edward Albee.
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
"Who's Afraid of Edward Albee."
"Playwright and Play: the ballad of Edward Albee."
Theatre: "Albee in the Village," by William Flanagan.
"The Barrier of the Sad Café."
"What's the Matter with Edward Albee."
"Broadway's Hottest Playwright: Edward Albee."
"Who's Afraid of Edward Albee."
"New York is a Stage:
The Ballad of the Sad Café.""Edward Albee in Conversation with Michael Smith."
"Three for the Play."
"Albee: Anger between the Acts."
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Edward Albee interviewed.
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
"Where the Action is, or, Notes on the Future," by Edward Albee.
Theatre: "Who's Afraid of Success."
The Theatre,
Tiny Alice reviewed."Edward Albee's World of Chance."
"The Trouble with Alice,"
Tiny Alice reviewed.Cover story,
Tiny Alice.Cover story,
Tiny Alice."What Means Tiny Alice?"
"Françoise Sagan's France for Edward Albee."
"Norman Mailer and Edward Albee."
"Horrible Hamilton and Artless Albee."
"Talk about the Theatre," John Gielgud and Edward Albee.
"Albee and Barr Dissect Plays, Playwrights, Critics."
Edward Albee's review of
Icarus's Mother, by Sam Shepard."Edward Albee on
Tiny Alice " and a review of the play.Group letter on Soviet writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, signed by Edward Albee.
"Albee vs. Albee."
"The Night of the Brawl," Elizabeth Taylor cover story.
"Creativity and Commitment."
"Edward Albee Confronts Broadway, 1966."
"Theater:
A Delicate Balance.""
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Time and Place for Critical Engagement?""Angry Playwright in a Soft Spell."
Cover story.
"House in the Life of a Playwright."
"Triple Threat On, Off, and Off-Off Broadway."
Excerpt from
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"The Decade of Engagement," by Edward Albee.
"Very Nice for us All."
The Theatre: "Among the Dunes."
Interview with Edward Albee.
Letter to the editor.
Talk of the Town: "Revisited."
"Should Edward Albee Call it Quits?"
Letter to the editor.
Edward Albee profile.
"Albee Eats Manhattan."
One 3x5 and four 5x7 color photographs by Robert A. Wilson.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Malcolm, and Everything in the Garden. Physical DescriptionFive photographs
Four 8x10 black and white publicity photographs of Edward Albee, two of which are inscribed by Edward Albee to Robert A. Wilson.
Physical DescriptionFour photographs
Six photographs
Four photographs
Five photographs
Two photographs from the McCarter Theatre production. Includes autograph letter signed from Dan Bauer to Robert A. Wilson on McCarter Theatre stationery.
Physical DescriptionTwo photographs
Four photographs
Thirteen photographs, including stills from both the Broadway production and the Warner Brothers film production. Also includes one 8x10 photograph of six foreign editions of
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Physical DescriptionFourteen photographs
Alix Jeffry Photographic Archive of the Off-Broadway Theatre, 1952-1967. Illustrated with plates from the collection, including two Edward Albee plays.
Includes "A Tribute by Edward Albee."
Flanagan was a close friend of Edward Albee and the two collaborated on Edward Albee's
The Sandbox and the opera Bartelby.American Film Theatre promotional materials for a film series, including Edward Albee's
A Delicate Balance, starring Katherine Hepburn.Edward Albee mentioned as newly elected member.
Program and poster for the Caffe Cino production of David Starkweather's play.
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Promotional brochure for William Plumley's speaker series, featuring Edward Albee.
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Poster. Writer's Conference at University of North Dakota, March 19-23, 1979.
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
11 items
SPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Movie Poster.
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Promotional material from Warner Brothers.
Physical Description20 pages
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Various new clippings, mostly from the New York
Times and other New York City news papers, by or about Edward Albee.Columbia Records, 1963.
Physical Description4 records and booklet
Physical LocationSPEC Media
NY: Spoken Arts, Inc.
Physical LocationSPEC Media
New York, NY: Composers Recordings, Inc., [1963].
Physical LocationSPEC Media
1 page
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
The note is written at the end of a photocopy of an article, "Last Twentieth Century Ox."
Physical Description1 page with envelope
1 page
1 page
This is a piece regarding Gregory Corso who had died January 17, 2001.
Physical Description2 pages
1 item
1 item
1 item
1 item
10 pages
1 postcard
1 page
2 pages
1 page
Form letter regarding Bergé's proposed Deux Megots anthology of 1960s New York coffeehouse poets (referred to as "Light Years") and a list of participants/contributors to the volume.
Physical Description2 pages
Includes enclosed photocopies of CV, reviews and list of Bergé's books for sale.
Physical Description3 pages
1 page
2 pages with envelope
3 pages with envelope
Includes enclosed list of Deux Megots poets.
Physical Description1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
Includes enclosed Deux Megots list and photocopy of Bergé's entry in the 1991
Jazz Poetry Anthology, Indiana University Press, pp. 250-251. Physical Description3 pages
Includes enclosed list of Bergé's books and Deux Mergots list.
Physical Description2 pages
Includes enclosed list of Bergé's works.
Physical Description2 pages with envelope
Includes enclosed list of Bergé's books.
Physical Description2 pages with envelope
3 pages
1 page with envelope
Includes enclosed photocopies of reviews.
Physical Description2 pages
Includes enclosed photocopy of article.
Physical Description2 pages with envelope
1 page with envelope
2 pages with envelope
Includes enclosed letter regarding proposed manuscript for book on Deux Megots and a list of participating/contributing writers.
Physical Description2 pages with envelope
Includes a photocopy of "Who's Who in the World" article for Bergé.
Physical Description2 pages
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page
2 pages with envelope
Includes enclosed Deux Megots list.
Physical Description3 pages
1 page
1 page with envelope
1 page
Includes a two-page carbon typescript of an incomplete Wilson article.
Physical Description1 page
1 page with envelope
1 page
1 page
Includes Wilson's twelve-page article re: "The Phoenix" plus 3 pages of biographical and bibliographic information for "Light Years Anthology."
Physical Description1 page
Includes enclosed Deux Megots list.
Physical Description1 page
1 card with envelope
3 page with envelope
Includes enclosed photocopy of letter from Carol Bergé to Rodney Phillips of the New York Public Library, list of Bergé's works and CV.
Physical Description1 page
1 page with envelope
Carbon copy of typed letter from Robert A. Wilson to Peter Gizzi.
Physical Description1 page
Includes inscribed notecard.
Physical Description1 page
Includes enclosed typescript of preface to "Light Years."
Physical Description1 page with envelope
1 page
Includes typescript and a photocopy of the introduction to "Light Years." This draft of the introduction varies substantially from the final printed introduction which was written in 2006.
Physical Description1 page
1 postcard
2 pages with envelope
2 pages
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
Includes a photocopy of Bergé's letter to Bob Fleck regarding her proposed book, "Light Years."
Physical Description1 page with envelope
Publication announcement for Berge's book
Antics: Passionate Stories About Folks in the Antiques Trade Physical Description1 card
Four fair copy holograph manuscripts by Carol Bergé, signed and dated: "A Grey Song" (1961); "Of Roots and Sources" (1961); "The Cup" (1962); "The Shirt" (1962).
Four photographs of Carol Bergé, three with inscriptions on verso; ephemera includes a paste-up of a page/cover from Carol Bergé's
Center Magazine, material related to Deux Megots project, and Carol Bergé's CV, critics' blurbs, and list of Carol Bergé's books for sale.1 page
Letter and printed poem, "I draw a fish that stands..."
Physical Description2 pages
1 page
1 page with envelope
1 card
Includes typescript copy and pages photocopied from Daniel Berrigan's
False Gods, Real Men (1969) with Daniel Berrigan's note. Physical Description1 page with envelope
with envelope
card with envelope
Self folding envelope with typed poem and illustration by Daniel Berrigan.
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Written on a form letter signed by Daniel Berrigan.
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One publicity photo inscribed to Robert A. Wilson; ephemera includes newsletters, flyers, and form letters from Daniel Berrigan, several items concerning
Plowshares 8 Support Committee concerning an anti-nuclear weapons protest that Daniel Berrigan was involved in.Autograph envelope in Ted Berrigan's hand, addressed to Margaret Berrigan and a copy of "Ted Berrigan: An Annotated Checklist" draft by Aaron Fischer which includes a typed letter signed to Wilson (1996 January 27).
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Academy of American Poets poster announcing a reading by Berryman on April 27, 1967, at the Guggenheim Museum.
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"The elevator is not working..." A note Louise Bogan posted in her lobby for Robert A. Wilson.
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From William Jay Smith, Library of Congress, with New York
Times obituary.Three photographs of Bogan, sheet music for "To be Sung on the Water" (1969), news clippings, flyers, memorial service announcement, and other ephemera related to Bogan. Also, autograph notes in Bogan's hand concerning various reviews and literary works, 8 pages.
New York: George Braziller. Translated and edited by Bogan and Elizabeth H. Roget. Includes autograph note in Glenway Westcott's hand on the front and back covers and corrections to the text.
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Typescript manuscript by Janet Sternburg and Corinne Jacker. Includes Autograph letter signed to "Howard" from "Franklin" introducing the manuscript.
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Includes autograph manuscript fragment, 1 page
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Includes obituaries for Paul and Jane Bowles and an article discussing the film and re-release of Paul Bowles's
The Sheltering Sky.Boyle's reply written at the foot of a typed letter signed from Robert A. Wilson, includes Boyle's form letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson protesting the Vietnam War.
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"Robert | Did you notice..."
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"Dear Robert Wilson: I thank you for..."
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Birth announcement for James Broughton's daughter Serena Felicity Broughton.
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James Broughton's reply typed at the bottom of a typed letter signed from Robert A. Wilson.
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Invitation to James Broughton's memorial service from Joel Singer.
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Two photographs of James Broughton and one of James Broughton and Joel Singer, and an inscribed photo-postcard.
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Photocopy of autograph journal entry, Apr 9-11, 1975, 11 pp. Typed bibliography of James Broughton's works [circa. 1963]; two small drawings,
What Have We Here, undated, small chapbook designed by James Broughton; "Only When I," poem with illustration by Lee Katzenbach. Physical Description1 page
Flyers, postcards, news clippings, and other ephemera related to James Broughton.
Organized by play.
Deluxe souvenir program from the first production [1954], sheet music, "Vocal Selections from
House of Flowers" [1963], and "Vocal Selections from the off Broadway Musical House of Flowers [1968]. New edition for the revival production with photographs of the case and scenes.Correspondence between Wilson and Romulus Films concerning Wilson's request for a script of
Beat the Devil for a Capote bibliography. Also includes the customs slip with which Romulus Films shipped the script from London. The final letter of this group is addressed to Universal-International Pictures from Wilson requesting a copy of a script of The Innocents for the bibliography, citing his successful transaction with Romulus Films.This very detailed release script was compiled after the completion of the film, as there never was a complete script for it, due to Capote and director John Huston's heavy improvisation during filming. The script details scenes, number of frames per scene, number of feet of film used per scene, action, dialogue, sound effects, and includes some camera directions. Inscribed on title page "for Robert Wilson/Truman Capote."
Two pressbooks for the film, distributed by United Artists and Royal Films International.
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Mimeographed script made for the technical crew who assembles rough footage into final version of the movie. Very detailed descriptions of camera shots, action, sound and music, dialogue, locations of scenes that appear on each film reel and the length of footage used for each scene. Includes some corrections. Also accompanied by folder in which the script was housed, which bears penciled note in unknown hand, "Ira Wolf left this for you."
Includes pressbook and merchandising manual distributed by Paramount for the film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Also includes program for the musical adaptation by Edward Albee starring Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain.
Articles related to the film
Breakfast at Tiffany's and the musical adaptation starring Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain.This collection of letters, cards and other materials related to Garden City, Kansas, come from the archive of Capote's editor at
The New Yorker, Sandy Campbell, who, in checking facts for the serialization of the novel that ran in four installments in September-October 1965, corresponded with several citizens of Garden City. Items include postcards, flyers and other information related to Garden City; two original telegrams from Capote inviting Campbell to a New York party given in honor of the Deweys; letters from various legal officials with specific information about the case; letters answering editorial questions. Also included are letters and cards from Marie Dewey, wife of Alvin Dewey, the detective who broke the case; several cards from Violet Tate, whose husband Judge Roland Tate presided over Perry and Hickock's trial. Also included are several items from the postmistress of Garden City. Finally, an empty envelope from Capote's father, Arch Persons, and a photocopy of a four-page 1964 letter to Capote from Richard Hickock. Some of the items are undated or the date is unclear.Complete set of galley proofs for the serialization of
In Cold Blood that appeared in four consecutive issues of The New Yorker; includes numerous editorial marks in pencil. Included with the final set of proofs is the envelope in which the magazines were housed.Complete set of the rough copies of the four issues of
The New Yorker which contained the serialization of In Cold Blood that ran late September to early October 1965. Each issue stamped "rough copy" on the cover. Each issue is complete and bound, run for a final check before public release. Included with the final issue is the envelope in which the magazines were housed.Various news clippings related to the sensation surrounding Capote's most well-known work, including several articles concerning the debate between Capote and critic Kenneth Tynan.
Publicity pamphlet titled "Cold Facts" released for the 1967 film. Capote sent this pamphlet to
New Yorker editor Sandy Campbell. Includes accompanying envelope addressed to Campbell by Capote, with his signature in the return address.Set of 8 11x13" photo cards showing scenes from the 1967 film
In Cold Blood starring Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.Library of Congress Talking Book Solely for the Use of the Blind series. Set of 9 records. Produced by the American Foundation for the Blind, 1966. Read by Alan Hewitt.
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Uncorrected advance proofs. Cover label bears publication date of November 21, 1968, which conflicts with inside copyright information of 1967.
Signed, mimeographed typescript of Capote's adaptation of Henry James's
The Turn of the Screw. Signed on the title page by Capote. Marked "Last File Copy" on title page in unknown hand.Mimeographed script for ABC Television production. On the title page, Capote has written "No/TC," in response to Robert Wilson's query as to whether the autograph corrections that appear in pencil throughout the script were his.
Screenplay adapted for television by Eleanor Perry from Capote's short story of the same name. Revised pages dated May 10, 1967; autograph corrections in unknown hand.
Teleplay by Capote and Thomas W. Phipps from the novel by Vera Caspary. A detailed camera script that shows time tables for shooting, color coded sections for each shooting day. The script lists speaking and non speaking actors and descriptions of scenes, artists, directions for cameras to be used and accompanying sound effects.
Original screenplay by Capote and Robert MacBride. Unproduced and otherwise unpublished.
Photocopied typescript of Capote's final manuscript. Shows autograph corrections.
Acting script for a television performance which shows dialogue and stage directions. No notice of who adapted this piece or when is given on the script itself. Based on Capote's short story of the same name.
Typescript of an earlier version of
The Grass Harp, whose original title Capote restored before the opening of the show. Script by Kenward Elmsie. The script is inscribed on the title page to "Kenward—with Love from Chuck & Bruce" and is signed by Elmsie. Heavily corrected throughout.Mimeographed typescript of an original script by Capote for a never produced performance.
Includes articles related to
The Grass Harp, The Innocents, Laura, House of Flowers, and Unanswered Prayers.Numerous clippings about Capote's Black and White Ball, given November 28, 1966.
Several reviews of Capote's works, one by author John Fowles.
Ten photographs of Capote and scenes from film adaptations of his works. Includes photograph of a young Capote by Karl Bissinger, in which Capote is posed on the Columbus Circle subway stop stairs. The photographs include a still from Neil Simon's 1976 film
Murder by Death, in which Capote played a leading role. The photograph included here has Capote's back to the camera. A publicity photograph of Capote taken to accompany the release of Music for Chameleons is autographed. Also included are several small images of Capote mounted on cardstock.Press releases, envelopes, several of which bear Capote's own handwriting, reading announcements, one of which is autographed by Capote. One envelope is addressed to Sandy Campbell and bears Capote's signature in the return address; another, larger envelope bears Capote's writing "From Capote and Donald Windham" above a scratched-out address to his editor. On the back of envelope, Capote has printed an alternate title for
Answered Prayers, though the text is scratched out. It reads: "The Nigger Queer Kosher Café." Other materials include catalogues listing the location and prices of various Capote items, a program from a memorial service held for Capote, and a humorous letter and accompanying image from Capote's representative Andrew Wylie, producer of a novelty item "Hot Dice;" in this 1978 letter, Wylie refers to an accompanying image of Capote holding a pair of the dice: "Here at last for the whole world to see: Truman with cock in hand." Also includes flyers for The Grass Harp, a playbill for Tru, and the Max Schulman flyer parodying a Capote photograph.Variety of news clippings, publicity cards, flyers and materials that feature blurbs by Capote. Items of interest include an exhibition announcement for
Paintings of Greece by Maurice Grosser, in which Capote's name is misspelled; a flyer for Sandy Campbell's B; a wrap-around band for Jose Ackerley's autobiography; & a 1960 advertisement for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.Starring Alan Alda, Vic Morrow, and Billy Dee Williams. Directed by Tom Gries. Showcase Productions, Inc., 1987.
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Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida. Directed by John Huston. RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, undated.
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Starring Montgomery Clift and Jennifer Jones. Directed by Vittorio de Sica. The ABM Group, undated.
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Home recording.
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No. 52 of 100 copies.
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Two letters concerning publication of Corso's poems.
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Posted from Athens, Greece, with Gregory Corso's comments on publishing his work.
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Dated in pencil in an unknown hand (Robert A. Wilson?).
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2 pages with envelope
Series of postcards numbered 1-4 and mailed from Paris on the same day.
Physical Description4 cards
Letter to William S. Burroughs concerning a misunderstanding between the two writers. Also includes an autograph card signed (1998 March 20) from Bill Morgan to Wilson regarding the publication of Corso's
Ankh. Physical Description1 page
Drawing, ink on paper, 8.5"x11"
Typescript manuscript with Corso's corrections in two sections for the autobiographical essay that appeared in
Evergreen Review, August 1967, under the title "When I was Five Years Old I Saw a Dying Indian." Includes a 3 page section not appearing in the published essay, with autograph notes in Corso's hand and the address stamp of Evergreen Review. Physical Description15 pages
Typescript and autograph manuscript, unpublished, with "SAR with Corso, March 2 1984" and "Physicist" (on verso), drawings, ink on paper. Poem in several sections.
Physical Description105 pages
New York: New Directions, 1981. Rochelle Ratner's copy.
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize galleys
New York: New Directions, ND Paperbook 127, 1962. Inscribed to Robert A. Wilson from Corso, dated 1973. Includes mailing envelope.
Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize galleys
[New York: Death Press]. Galleys for a "shuffle poem."
Physical Description3 pages
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Typescript manuscript with autograph corrections, signed by Corso. Published by the Phoenix Book Shop as a holiday greeting. Fragment.
Physical Description1 page
"Champion" notebook, red cardboard covers.
Physical Description25 leaves
New York: creator unknown. Autograph manuscript, artwork, and layout sheets for Corso's collection of short poems, published December 1967.
Original painted sign, oil on board, used to advertise Corso's book
Gasoline. The sign was hung outside City Lights bookstore.This flyer for the Creeley reading was printed by Di Prima.
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Written on Dominican Priory stationery, signed "Brother Antoninus."
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1 page with envelope
[Waldport, OR: The Untide Press, 1944]. Artwork and dummy copy for Everson's private press book of poems. Includes woodblock prints and sketches for the final copy of the book.
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Concerning the deterioration of Donald Gallup's health.
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Regarding Donald Gallup's passing.
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Includes a presentation copy of an offprint of "Taste, Technique and Utility in Book Collecting," dated 1985. Inscribed by Donald Gallup to Robert A. Wilson: "For Robert A. Wilson/with Season's Greetings/D.C.G./1985." Also included is a clipping of Donald Gallup's obituary from
The New York Times, September 10, 2000.Letters from Allen Ginsberg to others, arranged chronologically.
Letter written from Paris, including a typed note from Gregory Corso.
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Allen Ginsberg to Richard Eberhart. Eberhart's typescript transcription of 2 page "summary" included with Allen Ginsberg letter to Robert Eberhart, "May 18, 1956, SF."
Physical Description2 pages
Includes Robert A. Wilson's note on the composition date of Allen Ginsberg's "Siesta at Xbalba."
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Allen Ginsberg proposes various steps to promote the legal use of marijuana.
Physical Description21 page with envelope
Form letter distributed in the names of Diane di Prima and Allen Ginsberg. Bears autograph note "This is not my prose- but for- I dunno- maybe Alan Marlowe wrote it," signed "Allen Ginsberg, Dec 8, 1966."
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Penciled note identifies recipient as Bob Rosenthal (Allen Ginsberg's secretary), but Allen Ginsberg bibliographer Bill Morgan suggests the letter is to Bob La Vigne. Includes photocopies of 5 manuscript poems, "Police State Blues," "After Thoughts," "Done, Finished with the Biggest Cock," "Kiss Ass," and "Prophecy."
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Posted from Australia.
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Allen Ginsberg's letter concerning Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg's view of "the drug problem in America." Inscribed by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson.
Physical Description4 pages
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Allen Ginsberg's letter supporting Abbie Hoffman, with Allen Ginsberg's later autograph (10/21/85). Also includes a typed letter from the Abbie Hoffman & Friends Defense Committee.
Physical Description3 pages
On the verso of a flyer for Peace Illumination Walk, New York City, December 23, [1974].
Physical Description1 page with envelope
Letter to Louis Ginsberg concerning rare books, forwarded to Robert A. Wilson by Allen Ginsberg, included Robert A. Wilson's post-it note.
Physical Description1 page with envelope
Allen Ginsberg's IOU to Robert A. Wilson.
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Announcement of Ginsberg's photographic exhibition.
Physical Descriptioncard with envelope
Announcement of a reading by Ginsberg, addressed by Allen Ginsberg (?).
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2 pages
Includes a photocopy of Perrizo's [unpublished] typed manuscript "Edie Kerouac Parker and the Birth of the Beat Generation" with Ginsberg's autograph corrections, 19 pages. Includes copies of additional comments on the manuscript from Carolyn Cassady, Henri Cru, John Montgomery, and others.
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On the verso of "Arrive" poem by John Wieners, 1984.
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Includes photocopy of Allen Ginsberg's envelope as well as Plymell's typed letter signed, 1989 December 18, 6 pages
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Photocopy of an autograph postcard.
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Allen Ginsberg's poem "Homework," 1980 appears on the verso.
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Announcement of a performance by Allen Ginsberg and the False Prophets on verso.
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2 pages
Addressed to Wilson (one to Phoenix Book Shop).
Includes correspondence from
Psychology Today magazine, P.E.N. American Center, and others. Physical Description4 items
All correspondence in this folder is addressed to Robert A. Wilson.
New clippings & envelope. Published letter signed by Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso to
Time magazine, 9 March 1959, and Art Buchwald's column concerning Allen Ginsberg and Fidel Castro, Chicago Sun Times 17 May 1961.2 pages
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Includes Morgan's summary of bibliographic entries of Allen Ginsberg's writings.
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Includes
Tikkun Conference schedule at which Allen Ginsberg was honored. Physical Description1 page and insert
Note from Leslie Ross, flyer, and a printing sample from Allen Ginsberg's
Honorable Courtship. Physical Description1 page
Letter concerning the auction of Allen Ginsberg's possessions at Sotheby's, signed by Bill Morgan and Bob Rosenthal.
Physical Description3 pages
Music manuscript. Lyrics in Allen Ginsberg's hand.
Physical Description2 pages
Typescript photocopy with Allen Ginsberg's autograph note, signed "N.Y.C. 9/22/85."
Physical Description13 pages
Open letter with autograph notes by Allen Ginsberg, inscribed by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson "10/21/85."
Poem. Autograph photocopy, dated "June 25, 1986."
Physical Description4 pages
Autograph lyrics with chord notations.
Physical Description1 page
Poem. Typescript copy with Allen Ginsberg's corrections, dated "March 15, 1970."
Physical Description2 pages
Press release form letter for the Paradise Defense Fund, signed by Allen Ginsberg.
Typescript copy, "Presentation to Conference on Life Cycle Planning," signed by Allen Ginsberg.
Lyrics with chord notations. Two verses written in Allen Ginsberg's hand, signed "Jim [Jackson] Peter Orlovsky & A Ginsberg."
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Poem. Typescript copy with Allen Ginsberg's corrections, dated "May 1968."
Physical Description2 pages
Autograph sheet (in Allen Ginsberg's hand?) for the cover of his book of poems published by Cherry Valley Editions, a small press run by Charles Plymell. (cf. Morgan A41)
Flyer for a reading by Allen Ginsberg, signed by Allen Ginsberg.
Poem. Typescript copy with Allen Ginsberg's autograph corrections, typed date of "April 6, 1982" with "Nov 1985" added in an unknown hand.
Physical Description1 leaf
Mantras, "for chanting at New School, NYC." Typescript and photocopies with Allen Ginsberg's added notes and signature.
Physical Description4 pages
Flyer, signed by Allen Ginsberg and American poet Robert Duncan.
Autograph photocopy of Allen Ginsberg's note for an exhibition of his photographs (with drawings and watercolors by Robert La Vigne), Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, November 18, 1996.
Physical Description4 pages
Erotic dialogue between Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. Typed manuscript with autograph corrections in two parts, dated "July 16, 61" and "July 29, 61."
Physical Description20 pages
Poems. Autograph manuscript of poems in Allen Ginsberg's hand composed 1962- 1967. The manuscript was reproduced in facsimile and published by The Poet's Press, Millbrook, New York in an edition of 150 copies signed and numbered by Allen Ginsberg. (cf. Morgan A11).
A group of notes, received correspondence, and other miscellaneous items bearing Allen Ginsberg's hand. Some items are dated "Nov 85" in an unknown hand, while others are stamped "SEP 7 1976." Approximately 20 items including a cancelled check written by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson, December 17, 1985.
"Document received from the hands of a living person [Gavin Arthur] & its authenticity vouched for by Allen Ginsberg," undated. Typescript manuscript of Arthur's essay concerning a meeting with British writer Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) with Allen Ginsberg's signature below his typed statement of authentication. Includes two notes in Robert A. Wilson's hand identifying Gavin Arthur, the grandson of US President Chester Alan Arthur (1830-1886), as the author. The essay was eventually published in
Gay Sunshine: A Journal of Gay Liberation 35 (Winter 1978); 29.Playbill for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's production featuring Allen Ginsberg's poetry accompanied by the music of Philip Glass. Playbill inscribed by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson "11/3/92." Also included is the BAM's 1991 performance schedule, which lists
Hydrogen Jukebox. Physical DescriptionTwo items
Includes two poems on printed postcards, "Homework," 1989 and "In the Benjo," 1992 (Morgan E344); tear sheet photocopy from
rallying point magazine of "Mock-Sestina: The Conspiracy Against Dr. Timothy Leary," 1973 (Morgan E79); and "Tompkins Park," 1989, from This is Important with Allen Ginsberg's autograph corrections. Allen Ginsberg's autographed introduction to " The Soft Machine," by William S. Burroughs, Olympia, December 1961.At the American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York City, May 15, 1972. photographs include Allen Ginsberg, Robert A. Wilson, Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky (1933- ), and Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney (1939- ).
Photographs by Allen Ginsberg include Jack Kerouac (1953) and Nanda Pivano & Alice Notley (1984), both inscribed; photograph of Allen Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Bob Dylan (1975); and a signed photograph of Allen Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Michael McClure (1965). Artwork for "A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley," by Allen Ginsberg and Robert La Vigne (1963, Morgan AA1), and a print from Wynn Chamberlain's
Chamberlain's Nakeds (1965). Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches)
Includes 11 postcards of Allen Ginsberg's photographs, three signed by Allen Ginsberg; set of four autograph poems written on postcards by Allen Ginsberg and Alice Notley, various other postcards and photographs of Allen Ginsberg and associates, many of which are inscribed and signed.
Includes bookmarks, flyers, and a cancelled check signed by Allen Ginsberg, Robert A. Wilson, and Gregory Corso. "A Memorial Tribute to Louis Ginsberg," May 20, 1979, signed by Allen Ginsberg; "A Tribute to Walt Whitman," March 26, 1992, signed by Allen Ginsberg, and others.
Typed itinerary for Allen Ginsberg's tour of universities in the United States and visit to Russia.
Flyers, brochures, book catalogs, postcards, exhibition catalogs, materials related to the Naropa Institute, and other items related to Allen Ginsberg. Includes a 1969 catalog for City Lights Books, a press release from the New York Committee to Legalize Marijuana concerning Allen Ginsberg, and several flyers for early readings and appearances.
Posters and large flyers for readings and events, includes full page New York
Times GAP advertisement featuring Allen Ginsberg. Physical LocationSPEC MSS oversize boxes (20 inches) and SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches)
Small poster for a November 26, 1963, reading by Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Mike McClure, and others. Robert A. Wilson's typed note is included.
Includes "Deadline Dragon Comix" (Morgan C1184); "Deeper into America;" and "Fear & Fearlessness." All three pieces are inscribed by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson.
T-Shirt. White cotton with black design by Allen Ginsberg.
London, England: Poetry London/Apple Magazine, undated.
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Alekos Records, 1981. Inscribed "for Ted Berrigan New Years' Day 1982 Allen Ginsberg."
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Blue Moon Records, 1982. Bears two inscriptions from Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson: 1). on side 2 of the record: "Allen Ginsberg 10/21/85 for Bob Wilson" and 2). on the record cover: "Allen Ginsberg 10/21/85 for Bob Wilson."
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Videocassette recording made by Robert Wilson
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Stored in a Phoenix Book Shop envelope with Robert A. Wilson's autograph note, "Ginsberg's beard | 1964."
Topics include the theatre production of
Kaddish (1972), censorship issues, Allen Ginsberg's archive at Stanford, and Allen Ginsberg's obituary from various sources. 24 items, including four periodicals related to Allen Ginsberg, Third Rail No. 8 inscribed by Allen Ginsberg to Robert A. Wilson.1 card
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One autographed publicity photograph [1980]; two photograph postcards of portrait drawings by Don Bachardy; two copies of
Playbill for Meeting at the River (1979) autographed by Isherwood & Don Bachardy, and I am a Camera (1951); also includes a flyer, book catalog, and one periodical. Phonograph removed to SPEC Media; Publicity poster removed to SPEC MSS oversized boxes; Early photograph, signed by Isherwood and the photographer, removed to SPEC MSS oversized boxes (20 inches).Written on Mrs. Randall Jarrell's stationery.
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Includes an autograph letter signed with envelope from Jarrell to Harris, which Harris dates as Fall of 1958 or Spring 1959.
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1 page with envelope
The Walter Reade, Jr./Joseph Strick Production.
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Performed by the Circle Repertory Company in New York.
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In the New York Public Library
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In the New York Public Library
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At the University of Texas, Austin.
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NY: American Theatre for Poets. Play. Inscribed by Koch to Robert A. Wilson.
Physical Description9 pages
This letter was a rejection of a short story Robert A. Wilson had submitted to
New Directions. In Robert A. Wilson's hand: "re: my submission of my short story called 'Water Color' [never published] Robert A. Wilson." Physical Description1 page with envelope
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1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
Ephemera includes four cards advertising symposia between 1981 and 2001 featuring James Laughlin and New Directions; one for a memorial service for James Laughlin. Also included is a photocopy of article from
Publisher's Weekly, November 22, 1985, titled "The Way It Was: James Laughlin and New Directions" by Miriam Berkley; and a photocopy of James Laughlin's obituary from The New York Times, November 14, 1997. Also includes six New Directions catalogs (1970-1999) and an announcement for a slide show re: Ezra Pound at the Grolier Club (1985).1 item
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Enclosed with the letter are typescripts of a resume, an "artist's statement," and "The Lion Preface" by Allen Ginsberg.
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Carbon typescript of Wilson's Levertov bibliography with autograph notes by Levertov on some pages, plus mailing envelope.
Includes a postcard from Levertov's son, Nikolai Gregor Goodman, a postcard announcing a memorial service for Levertov, two clippings of her obituary and a package label.
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"Dear Marshall & Bob, | Thought you might like..."
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"Bob & Marshall, | Just found some 1967..." Written on verso of flyer for
The Beard. Physical Description1 page
"Bob, This is the flyer..." Written on verso of a flyer for "Two McClures Sunny-Side up."
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"Dear Bob, | MICHAEL AND THE LIONS by Robert Wilson..."
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"Bob & Ken | Devour that lovely..." Written on verso of a flyer for McClure's reading at 544 Natoma.
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"Dear Bob, | All's well here at the Naropa Institute..."
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Greeting card with "Indian moon moths" addressed to Ken [Doubrava].
Physical Description1 card
Confirmation copy of McClure's telegram to
Life magazine. Physical Description1 page
1 page with envelope
1 card
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3 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 card
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1 page with envelope & news clipping
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1 page with envelope
Letter written at the foot of a photocopied review of McClure's play
Goethe: Ein Fragment. 4 pages of photocopied reviews. Physical Description1 page with envelope
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1 page with envelope
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Wedding of McClure's daughter, Katherine.
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Originally included two photographs of grandson James & [McClure's daughter] Jane, which have been moved to McClure photographs, F79.
Physical Description1 card with envelope
1 card
2 pages
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2 pages
Includes photograph, postcard, and news clipping related to the "River City Re-Union" in Lawrence, Kansas in September 1987. The postcard, addressed to Wilson, bears greetings and signatures of Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Andrei Codrescu, Michael McClure, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Perrizo, and Ed Sanders. Photograph includes: Creeley, Waldman, Codrescu, Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Edie Parker Kerouac.
Physical Description1 postcard
Verso contains a photocopy of a
Time magazine story on a Beat writer reunion. Physical Description1 page with envelope
3 pages with envelope
Written on the verso of an
American Poetry flyer. Physical Description1 page
In Amy Evans McClure's hand.
Physical Description1 card
Written on the verso of a flyer advertising a performance by McClure & Ray Manzarek.
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Note & news clipping.
1 card
Includes six autograph cards signed, one of which is from Joanna McClure, one typed card signed, and four brief autograph notes, all undated.
1 card with envelope
23 unmatched envelopes addressed to Robert A. Wilson from McClure.
Novel. Typescript copy with autograph corrections, "A new draft for a novel" in McClure's hand on title page, inscribed to Robert A. Wilson, and stamped with Helen Merrill's address.
Physical Description179 pages
Play. Typescript copy inscribed to Robert A. Wilson by McClure, including small drawing in McClure's hand.
Physical Description14 pages
Poem. Typescript copy.
Physical Description11 pages
New York: American Theatre for Poets Play. Typescript copy, signed by McClure.
Physical Description28 pages (missing page 26)
Play. Typescript copy inscribed by McClure for Robert A. Wilson on the title page.
Physical Description84 pages
Play. Typescript copy, with McClure's autograph note "Second Version" and signed by McClure.
Physical Description115 pages
Play. Typescript with McClure's corrections and a drawing on the first page, inscribed for Robert A. Wilson by McClure.
Physical Description19 pages
Newsletter. Typescript copy. Issue #14, edited by Diane Di Prima & LeRoi Jones. Includes McClure's "The Feast," signed by McClure.
Play. Typescript copy. Title page bears original drawing by McClure. Includes mailing envelope from McClure to Robert A. Wilson.
Physical Description105 pages
Play. Typescript copy, spiral bound in red wrappers. Title page bears original drawing, signed by McClure.
Physical Description80 pages
Play. Typescript copy and autograph drawing. Title page with drawing, inscribed by McClure "A reading copy of the first draft for Robert Wilson" in McClure's hand.
Physical Description108 pages
Small drawing and McClure's initials in ink on title page.
Physical Description9 pages
[New York: New Directions]. Autographed by McClure.
Physical Description39 pages
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Typescript copy with autograph corrections. Poem, signed by McClure.
Physical Description12 pages
Poems. Autograph manuscript in McClure's hand for Poet's Press facsimile edition. Artwork removed to SPEC MSS oversized boxes (20 inches).
Physical Description12 pages
McClure to Diane Di Prima concerning the Poet's Press edition of
Little Odes.Includes artwork with McClure's autograph notes.
Physical Description2 pages with envelope
1 page with envelope
Envelope includes a long autograph note in McClure's hand.
Physical Description2 pages with envelope
Play, typescript copy with autograph title page in McClure's hand inscribed to Robert A. Wilson by McClure. Includes original mailing envelope.
Physical Description34 pages
Play, typescript [mimeograph] in green ink with autograph notes in [McClure's] hand, signed on the title page. Includes a flyer from The New York Poet's Theatre, signed by McClure.
Physical Description9 pages
Play, typescript copy with "Version A | Aug. 30, 1979" and "New York Shakespeare Festival" on the cover page. Inscribed to Robert A. Wilson from McClure.
Physical Description86 pages
Play, typescript copy with the characters German Shepherd and Cactus. 49 pp. in blue paper binding, inscribed by McClure for Robert A. Wilson.
Physical Description49 pages
Typescript copy. Play, inscribed in ink to Robert A. Wilson by McClure.
Physical Description59 pages
Photocopies of poems, two in McClure's hand.
Physical Description3 pages
Three photographs of McClure and three of [grandson] James, one inscribed by McClure. One photo inscribed "For Phoenix- Very Best, Michael McClure"; New Directions publicity photo with horns and mustache added in ink, signed "Miguel."
Announcements for McClure's readings, plays, and performances, some of which are photocopies of autograph originals in McClure's hand. Most of these items include mailing envelopes addressed to Robert A. Wilson from McClure. Venues for readings and performances include the Great American Music Hall & the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, and the Bottom Line in New York. Also included are two items addressed to Diane Di Prima.
Poster for McClure's play at the Mandrake Theatre in Berkeley, California.
Programs, manuscript notes, flyers, news clippings, posters, ticket stubs, book catalogs, and a promotional packet from De Leon Artists (inscribed to Robert A. Wilson), including a photograph of McClure. Posters removed to SPEC MSS oversized boxes (20 inches). Also includes an undated announcement from Jargon Press for the publication of McClure's first book
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4 page
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5 pages with envelope
Enclosed is a photograph of Mead.
Physical Description3 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
Honors Mead and William Rand.
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Micheline to Mimi Redding.
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Autograph note in Olson's hand on Phoenix Book Shop envelope.
Physical Descriptionenvelope
Written on Black Mountain College stationery.
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Dated "1961" by Olson, but postmarked 1962.
Physical Description1 page with envelope
Olson's reply to Robert A. Wilson's typed letter signed, 1963 June 19.
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card
card
Nine photographs of Olson and family at Black Mountain College, one of Olson reading (1965), and one credited to Ann Charters (1968), inscribed by Olson.
Black Sparrow Press and Frontier Press catalogs listing Olson's publications.
Physical Description6 catalogs
Issues #42 and #52
Physical Description2 items
Performance poster for "Apollonius of Tyana," 1980; exhibition poster for "Beats & Others, Literary Photographs by Ann Charters," 1982.
Physical Description2 posters
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Also included: 2 Autograph note signed (undated) on New England College stationery, 1 unmatched envelope, and a printed "Season's Greetings" card.
Physical Description1 page with envelope
Posted from Israel to Orlovsky's mother, including an autograph note from Allen Ginsberg.
Physical Description4 pages with envelope
1 card
Typed manuscript with autograph corrections in Orlovsky's hand, bound in hard-backed notebook. Some pages are photocopies and others have text pasted down.
Physical Description130 pages
Autograph manuscript in Orlovsky's hand, with the note, "used Bill B cut up method."
Physical Description6 pages
Account book with carbon pages with drawings by Orlovsky, signed and dated "1967."
Includes pocket-sized notebook with autograph poem in Jack Kerouac's hand (cf. Robert A. Wilson's note), [1956]; large notebook dated "Oct. 19, 57" on the cover and inscribed to Robert A. Wilson with the date "Aug 9, 1988" inside the front cover; pocket notebook date "Feb 16, 66" includes a mantra in Allen Ginsberg's hand.
Includes photographs of Orlovsky and Ginsberg and unidentified others. Robert A. Wilson's note identifies the location of some of these photographs as "India," but they are in fact taken in Yosemite National Park.
Includes the drawing, "Peter Orlovsky Standing on a Bed," by Robert La Vigne, 1954, ink on paper (removed to SPEC MSS oversized boxes). Also includes, one photocopied drawing (by Robert La Vigne, 1954) and one mimeograph drawing (1959) and 2 flyers for readings.
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1 page
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From Ezra Pound to various correspondents, unless noted.
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Includes 1 page autograph contract with Elkin Mathews for the
Exultations of Ezra Pound (1909), signed by Ezra Pound. Physical Description4 pages
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1 page
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2 pages
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2 pages
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Written on Ezra Pound's Via Marsala, Rapallo stationery. See also the autograph letter to Caresse Crosby in this collection.
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"Are these people..." Single leaf.
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"Will you finish..." Two leaves.
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1 card
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1 card
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Written on Elkin Mathews, Publisher stationery.
Physical Description2 pages
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1 page
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Written on Hôtel du Périgord stationery. Mentions René Taupin, see letter to Taupin dated April 2 in this collection.
Physical Description2 pages with envelope
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1 page
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Includes clipping of Ezra Pound's "Love-Song to Eunoe" (Gallup C197), and a harsh review of Ezra Pound's poetry.
Physical Description1 page
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Includes correspondence between New Directions publisher and editor James Laughlin and the bookseller Ted Wilentz and a note in Robert A. Wilson's hand dated 26 June 1973, concerning the production and copyrighting of Ezra Pound's "Cantos 72-73," which Laughlin explains in an article written for the
Paris Review, no. 128 (1993), a photocopy of which is included here. Also includes copy 7 of 25 of the published pamphlet and copy 1 of 3 of a pirated facsimile edition (removed for cataloging in Special Collections). (Gallup A94) Physical LocationSPEC VAULT MSS
1 card
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Includes typed letter (copy) from James Laughlin to Vittoria Mondolfo, Burke Library, Hamilton College (Ezra Pound's alma mater).
Physical Description1 page with envelope
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1 page with envelope
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Form letter signed by various writers and critics response to
The Saturday Review of Literature's criticism of Ezra Pound receiving the 1949 Bollingen Prize. Physical Description1 page
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Includes photograph (circa 1958) of Ezra Pound sent by Dorothy.
Physical Description2 pages with envelope
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1 page with envelope
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1 page with envelope
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2 pages with envelope
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Calling card of Mary de Rachewiltz and an invitation in German and Italian for an exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of Ezra Pound's birth, held in Merano, Italy.
Physical DescriptionInvitation with envelope
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1 page with envelope
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1 page
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Typescript (carbon) contract for the Small, Maynard, and Company publication of Ezra Pound's
Provença, signed by Ezra Pound and witnessed by his father Homer Pound. Physical LocationSPEC VAULT MSS
Nine black and white photographs, four color photographs, two photographic reproductions, and one postcard of Ezra Pound, including photographs of Robert A. Wilson with Olga Rudge (inscribed to Robert A. Wilson) and Olga Rudge with Mary de Rachewiltz, her daughter by Ezra Pound. Others include Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Marshal G.M. Kearney, Gian Carlo Menotti, John Quinn, Vanni Scheiwiller, and John Wieners.
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Items arranged chronologically.
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News clipping of installment four of eleven. (Gallup D110)
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A photocopy of Ezra Pound's own copy of this work from the Venice library of Ezra Pound and Olga Ridge. Includes a 2 page typed letter signed from the bookseller Glenn Horowitz concerning Ezra Pound's personal library. (Gallup A39)
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"I Concerti di Febbraio," text in Italian for Rapallo concert series, signed by Ezra Pound. (Gallup E2p)
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Open letter from Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana, and Stephen Spender soliciting signatures for a petition supporting Ezra Pound during his internment at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. In English, French, and Spanish. Dated "Naples, Le 1er Decembre 1952."
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Bookseller's catalog, Robert A. Wilson's copy listing Ezra Pound's
A Lume Spento. See Goldwasser's census, PBSA, March 1989, page 40, (F220) for further details. Physical LocationSPEC VAULT MSS
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Prospectus (illustrated) from Galleria M'Arte, Milan, Italy for an artist's edition of Ezra Pound's
Homage illustrated by Fausto Melotti, from the series "Images and Words." Includes a 1 page typed letter signed with envelope from Luigi Majno, Galleria M'Arte. Physical LocationSPEC VAULT MSS
Exhibition catalog from the University of Rochester Library, Fall 1979. Inscribed to Robert A. Wilson by Peter Dzwonkoski, Head of Rare Books & Manuscripts at Rochester.
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Newsletter, The Academy of American Poets, Fall-Winter, 1981-1982. Includes facsimile letter from Ezra Pound to Mrs. Bullock, dated 23 August 1963, acknowledging the award he received in 1963 "for distinguished poetic achievement."
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"The Cantos (121-150) Ezra Pound." Tributes to Ezra Pound by various poets. Includes a prospectus for this special issue.
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Grolier Club Centennial Exhibition celebrating Ezra Pound's birth, most of the exhibition materials coming from Robert A. Wilson's collection. Includes Grolier Club invitation, with a portrait photograph of Ezra Pound by Alvin Langdon Coburn (1913), announcing the exhibition opening and lecture by Donald Gallup, October 15, 1985; an embossed invitation to James Laughlin's Grolier Club lecture on Ezra Pound, November 19, 1985; sixteen color photographs of the exhibition; and a typescript describing the items in the Grolier Club exhibition. Also included is the wood block used to emboss the Grolier Club invitation, which reproduces Gaudier-Bzreska's portrait of Ezra Pound.
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Cartoon, by 'Lloyd,' mounted on foam board.
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Includes brochures, flyers, announcements, and other ephemera related to Ezra Pound.
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Concert handbill (signed by Ezra Pound on verso) and a ticket for a performance by George Antheil, 19 Juin 1926, Théatre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.
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Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, March 28, 1983.
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Calling Cards (two items) for Ezra Pound (Via Marsala, Rapallo) and another for Mrs. Ezra Pound (no address).
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For Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear, dated April 18, [1914].
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New Directions ("Ezra Pound for President"), Vanni Scheiwiller, and Black Sparrow Press (Ezra Pound's blurb on George Oppen), "Edizioni di Vanni Scheiwiller 1952-1962 with Pound offerings, and New Directions (1969) with an excerpt from "Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII."
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[Exhibitions of Ezra Pound's editions, Merano, Italy tourist office].
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Academy of American Poets.
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At the University of Texas, 15-17 March 1967.
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For the exhibit The Letters of Ezra Pound to Mary Moore Cross, and other Ezra Pound materials.
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An excerpt from an October 1948 letter from the Pound-Willis Hawley Correspondence, Simon Fraser University Library.
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Dalian Books, London, England, with Ezra Pound portrait.
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Includes facsimile manuscript from
Pisan Canto LXXVI and photograph of "Hieratic Head" by Gaudier-Brzeska. Physical LocationSPEC VAULT MSS
Includes Basil Bunting's "Prince of Poets" remembrance of Ezra Pound.
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Rotterdam: Cold Turkey Press, 1975.
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Hanes Beef-T 100 % Cotton T shirt, LG 42/44. Also includes an announcement for an "Ezra Pound Doll."
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New York, NY: Caedmon Publishers, 1960.
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New York, NY: Applause Productions, Inc., 1968.
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Berkeley, CA: Fantasy Records, 1972.
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For related material see MSS 369, Robert A. Wilson collection related to James Purdy, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library.
Christmas postcard.
Physical Description1 card
Postcard with an untitled poem, "She came out of the mists of the morning," inscribed to Robert A. Wilson by Purdy.
Physical Description1 card
Typescript copy of Purdy's poem "It is July" (1999), inscribed to Robert A. Wilson.
Physical Description1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
2 pages with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 card
1 page with envelope
1 page
1 page
1 page
1 page
1 page
1 page with envelope
Includes 5 unmatched envelopes.
Physical Description1 page with envelope
Publication file for the Phoenix Book Shop publication of Reynold's poems, which includes manuscript, correspondence, and other materials related to
The Women Poem. See also general correspondence from Reynolds to Robert A. Wilson.All correspondence written by Tim Reynolds, unless otherwise noted.
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page
Reply from Loran Karsner at the Library of Congress, includes LC Catalog Card. Also includes an autograph letter signed from Alan Brilliant to Wilson with bibliographic information related to Reynolds.
Physical Description1 page
With Tim Reynolds's corrections in pencil and ink, 17 pages. Includes photostat copy of "The Women Poem" without Tim Reynolds's corrections, 10 pages.
With corrections and notes in red and blue ink. Title page has the autograph heading "Phoenix master copy" in blue ink.
Physical Description19 pages
With corrections in an unknown hand. Includes mailing envelope addressed to Robert A. Wilson from Tim Reynolds.
Physical Description18 pages
All letters addressed to Robert A. Wilson, unless otherwise indicated.
4 pages
2 pages with envelope
Includes autograph card signed, undated.
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4 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
Includes typed letter signed dated February 1982 referring to
Progress of Stories, 1982. Physical Description4 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
1 page with envelope
2 pages with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 card
Includes holograph index card with recipe.
Physical Description2 pages with envelope
Includes a copy of Robert A. Wilson's
Six Favorites to which this letter refers. Physical Description3 pages with envelope
3 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
Sent to Kenneth Doubrava, a friend of Robert A. Wilson.
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Signed "Laura Jackson."
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Sent to Kenneth Doubrava, a friend of Robert A. Wilson.
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1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
6 pages with envelope
Includes 2 photographs.
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4 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
4 pages with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page
with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
Includes news clipping from the
Cornell Alumni News. Physical Description3 pages with envelope
1 page with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages
1 page with envelope
1 card with envelope
1 page with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
2 pages
2 pages with envelope
2 pages with envelope
Written by Elizabeth Friedmann for Laura Riding.
Physical Descriptioncard with envelope
Written by Elizabeth Friedmann for Laura Riding. Includes a photocopy from
Newsweek, [January 6, 1987], p.52. Physical Description1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
Written by Elizabeth Friedmann for Laura Riding.
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1 page
Written by Elizabeth Friedmann for Laura Riding.
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Written by Elizabeth Friedmann for Laura Riding.
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Includes a news clipping of "Laura Riding at 90" from
PN Review, March-April 1991. Physical Description1 page with envelope
From Ted Wilentz, owner of the Eighth Street Bookshop in New York City, reporting Laura Riding's death.
Physical Description1 card
Includes a 2 page typed letter commenting on Robert A. Wilson's memoir of Laura Riding, and a photocopy of a typed manuscript (by Laura Riding?).
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Signed by Greg Smith.
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Concerning Laura Riding's publications. Also includes a typed transcript of a [1930] letter from Laura Riding to Gertrude Stein.
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Addressed to Robert A. Wilson from Laura Riding.
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7 items
Autograph manuscript signed by Laura Riding (1 leaf) and typed transcript with autograph corrections.
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Concerning the appraisal of her papers by Robert A. Wilson.
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For an unidentified work by Laura Riding.
Physical Description1 page
Typescript copy with autograph corrections in Laura Riding's (?) hand. This story was published in
Progress of Stories, 1982. Physical Description2 pages
Photocopy of the Seizin Press edition, with additional typed errata sheet.
Physical Description10 pages
Typescript copy with autograph correction is Laura Riding's hand.
Physical Description4 pages
Autograph manuscript.
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2 clippings, an announcement, and one newsletter concerning Laura Riding.
1 page with envelope
"Dear Bob: | Yes..."
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"Dear Bob, | The books will be..."
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Dear Bob, | Send the books along..."
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Dear Bob, | Just send the | books to me at..."
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See correspondence under 1973 February 12 for related letter.
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1 page with envelope
1 page
Simpson's note written on an typed letter signed from Robert A. Wilson dated 8 August 1973.
Physical Description1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page with envelope
1 page
2 envelopes
Includes a photograph inscribed by Simpson to Robert A. Wilson "13 Feb. 1963"; a news clipping; and a postcard advertising Simpson's
There You Are.1 page
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