ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Title Historical and Literary Manuscripts Collection
Collection Number SC 100
OCLC Number 122687676
Creator Various
Provenance Purchased by Stony Brook University in 1969-1970. Accruals added by the department
through the early 1990s.
Extent,Scope, and Content Note The collection is comprised of 3.6 cubic feet of historical and literary manuscripts
and documents, including single items and small groups of materials of local, national,
and world interest (ca. 1819-1989). Folder contents include letters, correspondence,
articles, stories, plays, and legal materials.
Arrangement and Processing Note Processed by Kristen J. Nyitray, with the assistance of Scott Leski, July 2002. Finding
aid updated April 2019. The collection is arranged alphabetically by author.
Languages English, Spanish
Restrictions on Access The collection is open to researchers without restriction.
Rights and Permissions Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection
does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole
responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials
to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission
where needed prior to publication.
Citation [Item], [Box], Historical and Literary Manuscripts Collection, Special Collections
and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries.
Historical Note When the Special Collections Department opened its doors in 1969, there was already
established the solid beginnings of a manuscript collection. Several members of the
English Department had encouraged the purchase of a number of collections, which eventually
led toward the establishment of the department. Roger H. Guedalla and George Quasha
were among the people who had been instrumental in purchasing a Modern Literature
collection, which contained books and manuscripts focusing on the extraordinary group
of authors and poets who had been involved with Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
Many of these manuscripts are now housed in this collection and include original materials
by Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Fielding Dawson.
Ernesto Cardenal's correspondence with translator Jonathan Cohen focuses mainly on issues
related to Cohen's translations of his book, Oración por Marilyn Monroe y otros poemas (Ediciones
La Tertulia, 1965; "Prayer for Marilyn Monroe and Other Poems") and El estrecho dudoso (Ediciones
Cultura Hispanica, 1966; "The Supposed Strait"), plus his as-yet unpublished 1973
documentary/reportage poem "Viaje a Nueva York" ("Trip to New York"), as well as subsequent
translations of poems written during the period of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua.
Cohen's translations were published in three collections of Cardenal's poetry in English: Zero
Hour and Other Documentary Poems (New Directions, 1980), From Nicaragua, with Love (City
Lights, 1986), and Plurivese: New and Selected Poems (New Directions, 2009).
Subjects American literature. English literature. Long Island (N.Y.) -- History. United States -- History. New York (State) -- Long Island. United States.
INVENTORY
Box 1
Author: Adler, Polly Document: Letters Number of Items: 2
Author: Aiken, Conrad Potter Document: Letters Number of Items: 5
Author: Aiken, Conrad Potter Document: Literary magazine contributions Number of Items: 3 folders
Author: Anthony, Susan Brownell Document: Letters Number of Items: 1
Author: Barrett, James Document: Letter Number of Items: 1
Author: Baty, Gaston Document: Le Vrai Theatre Populaire Number of Items: 1
Author: Besant, Annie (Wood) Document: Letter, 1889 to James Drummond Number of Items: 1
Author: Billington, Ray Allen Document: Letters Number of Items: 3
Author: Binyon, Laurence Document: Letter Number of Items: 2
Author: Blanck, Jacob Nathaniel Document: Letter, 1944 October 10 Number of Items: 1
Author: Bradlaugh, Charles Document: Letter, 1881, to R.J. Duff Number of Items: 1
Author: British Columbia University Document: Poetry Seminar English 410. Summer, 1963 Number of Items: 1 Folder
Author: Buckstone, John Baldwin Document: Letter from Baldwin Number of Items: 1 Folder
Author: Cage, John Document: Letter to Ruben Weltsch Number of Items: 1
Author: Cardenal, Ernesto Document: Letters 1973-1974 Number of Items: 1 Folder
Author: Cardenal, Ernesto Document: Letters 1975-1976 Number of Items: 1 Folder
Author: Cardenal, Ernesto Document: Correspondence 1977, 1981, 1982, 1984 Number of Items: 1 Folder
Author: Cardenal, Ernesto Document: Viaje a Nueva York Number of Items: 1 Folder
Author: Cardenal, Ernesto Document: Viaje a Nueva York/Trip to New York Number of Items: 1 Folder
Author: Chance, Janet Document: Letters Number of Items: 1 Folder
Author: Chapman, Robert William Document: Letters Number of Items: 1 Folder
Author: Clifton, Robert Bellamy Document: Letters Number of Items: 1 Folder
Box 2
Author: Cole, Cornelius Document: Letter 1873 Number of Items: 1
Author: Corso, Gregory Document: Immutable Moods: Mutation of the Spirit Number of Items: 3
Author: Corso, Gregory Document: There is Yet Time Number of Items: Folder 1 of 3
Author: Corso, Gregory Document: There is yet Time Number of Items: Folder 2 of 3
Author: Corso, Gregory Document: There is yet Time Number of Items: Folder 3 of 3
Author: Corso, Gregory Document: Death of a Beautiful Boy Number of Items: 1
Author: Cowley, Malcolm Document: Conrad Aiken: starting from Savannah Number of Items: 1 Folder, 19 pc
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: An American Sense Number of Items: 6
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Divers Press Brochure Number of Items: 1 Author: Creeley, Rob ert Document: The Dress Number of Items: 1
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: The Finger 1968 Number of Items: 1
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: For Joel 1966 Number of Items: 3
Author: Creely, Robert Document: The invitation, 1962 Number of Items: 1
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letters Number of Items: 1
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letter, 1957 to Harold Briggs Number of Items: 1
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letter, 1967 to Maria Bunting Number of Items: 1
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letter, 1967 to Tom Clark Number of Items: 1
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letters, 1955 to Fielding Dawson Number of Items: 17
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letters, 1956 to Fielding Dawson Number of Items: 15
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letters, 1958, 1960, 1961, to Fielding Dawson Number of Items: 7
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letters, 1962, to Fielding Dawson Number of Items: 5
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letters, 1963, to Fielding Dawson Number of Items: 7
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letters, 1964, 1965, to Fielding Dawson Number of Items: 7
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letters, 1060, to Fielding Dawson Number of Items: 9
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letter 1966 to Ed Sanders Number of Items: 1
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Letters, 1963-1964 to Aram Saroyan Number of Items: 4
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Mazatlan: Sea Number of Items: 1
Author: Creeley, Robert Document: Postal Card, 1955 to David Schaff Number of Items: 1
Box 3
Author: Dawson, Fielding Document: Drawing. 1960 Number of Items: 1
Author: Dawson, Fielding Document: 2 TLS & 4 MSS Number of Items: 9
Author: Dawson, Fielding Document: Letters, 1962-1964 Number of Items: 19
Author: Dawson, Fielding Document: Printed Ephermera 1975 Number of Items: 3
Author: Dawson, Fielding Document: Thread Typescript Number of Items: Folder 1 of 5
Author: Dawson, Fielding Document: Thread Number of Items: Folder 2 of 5
Author: Dawson, Fielding Document: Thread Number of Items: Folder 3 out of 5
Author: Dawson, Fielding Document: Thread Letters Number of Items: Folder 4 out of 5
Author: Dawson, Fielding Document: Thread Number of Items: Folder 5 through 5
Author: Dickey, James Document: Deliverance Pamphlets Number of Items: 1
Author: DiPrima, Diane Document: Untitled Play Number of Items: 1
Author: Dos Passos, John Document: Postal Card, October 6, 1959 Number of Items: 1
Author: Duncan, Robert Edward Document: Faust Foutu 1968 Number of Items: 1
Author: Duncan, Robert Edward Document: Letter, 1965 to Alan & Diane Marlowe Number of Items: 1
Author: Duncan Robert Edward Document: Letter, 1962, to LeRoi Jones Number of Items: 1
Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman) Document: Letters, Folder 1 of 9 to Creeley Robert Number of Items: 6
Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman) Document: Letters to Creeley, Robert, Folder 2 out of 9 Number of Items: 7
Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman) Document: Letters to Creeley, Robert 1956-1957 Folder 4 out of 9 Number of Items: 3
Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman) Document: Letters of Divers Press Folder 5 out of 9 Number of Items: 2
Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman) Document: Letters to Olson, Contance, Folder 6 out of 9 Number of Items: 2
Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman) Document: Letters to Rice, Dan, Folder 7 out of 9 Number of Items: 6
Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman) Document: Letters to Barnett, Rosset, Folder 8 out of 8 Number of Items: 1
Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman) Document: Letters to Jonathon, Williams, Folder 9 out 9 Number of Items: 2
Author: East End Supervisors Association Document: Minutes, 1972-1975 Number of Items: Incomplete
Author: Eigner, Larry Document: Letters to Louis and Stephanie 1969 Number of Items: 11
Author: Eigner, Larry Document: Letters to Louis and Stephanie Rowan Number of Items: 3
Author: Eigner, Larry Document: Letters to Carl Weissner 1966-1968 Number of Items: 29
Author: Eigner, Larry Document: Look at the Park. Ca. 1958 Number of Items: 1
Author: Eigner, Larry Document: Postal card, 1967, to Diane DiPrima Number of Items: 1
Author: Everson, William Document: A fragment for the birth of God Number of Items: 2
Author: Everson, William Document: Invitation to the first profession Number of Items: 2
Author: Everson, William Document: Letter, 1953 to Edward Naumburg Number of Items: 1
Author: Everson, William Document: Letter, ca. 1967 to Jack Shoemaker Number of Items: 1
Author: Everson, William Document: Letter to Mrs. Jean Forest Number of Items: 1
Author: Everson, William Document: Postal card to Mr. & Mrs. R. Hawley Number of Items: 1
Author: Everson, William Document: The Rose of Solitude Number of Items: 47
Author: Ficke, Arthur Davison Document: Miscellaneous letters Number of Items: 4
Box 4
Author: Foulis, Sir James Bart Document: Letter, 1894 to Cornelius Hallen Number of Items: 1
Author: Fry, Donald K., ED. Document: The Beowulf poet. (Business Correspondence, clips) Number of Items: 1
Author: Fry, Donald K.ED. Document: The Beowulf poet, Blomfield; Bloomfield Number of Items: 8
Author: Fry, Donald K. ED. Document: The Beowulf poet, George Clark Number of Items: 8
Author: Fry, Donald K. ED. Document: The Beowulf poet, Rosemary Cramp Number of Items: 6
Author: Fry, Donald K. ED. Document: The Beowulf poet, Robert P. Creed Number of Items: 11
Author: Fry, Donald K. ED. Document: The Beowulf poet, Lumiansky, Magoun, Resnais Number of Items: 6
Author: Fry, Donald K., ED. Document: The Beowulf poet, Kenneth Rexroth Number of Items: 3
Author: Fry, Donald K., ED. Document: The Beowulf poet, J.R.R. Tolkien Number of Items: 10
Author: Fry, Donald K., ED. Document: The Beowulf poet, Richard Wilbur Number of Items: 4
Author: Fry, Donald, K., ED. Document: The Beowulf poet, Brian Wildsmith Number of Items: 1
Author: Garnett, Porter Document: Letter, 1922, recommending O. Alfred Dickman Number of Items: 1
Author: Garnett, Porter Document: Note to O. Alfred Dickman Number of Items: 1
Author: Ginsberg, Allen Document: Kaddish, a dramatic mass Number of Items: 1
Author: Ginsberg, Allen Document: Letter, 1957, to Don Allen Number of Items: 1
Author: Ginsberg, Allen Document: Miscellaneous Letters Number of Items:
Author: Greenwood, Sir Granville George Document: Letters Number of Items: 1
Author: Harcourt, Brace and Company, N.Y. Document: Letters Number of Items: 1
Author: Hollo, Anselm Document: Letter, 1966, to Cavan Number of Items: 1
Author: Huter, Carl S. Document: Letters Number of Items: 3
Author: Jernick, Thomas L. Document: Certificate of Election, 1971 Number of Items: 1
Author: Jernick, Thomas L. Document: Town Word Columns, 1972-74 Number of Items: 1
Author: Jones, Leroi Document: The Baptism Number of Items: 1 folder
Author: Jones, Leroi Document: Slave Ship Number of Items: 1folder
Author: Jones, Leroi Document: The Toilet Number of Items: 1 folder
Author: Jute-Glossary of terms Document: Folder 1 of 3 Number of Items:
Author: Jute Glossary of terms Document: Folder 2 or 3 Number of Items:
Author: Jute Glossary of terms Document: folder 3 of 3 Number of Items:
Box 5
Author: Kanepa, Jean Document: La Poesia de Pablo Neruda Number of Items: 1
Author: Kanepa, Jean Document: La Poesia de Pablo Neruda Number of Items:
Author: Kelly, Robert Document: Letters to Louis and Stephanie Rowan, 1967-1970 Number of Items: 13
Author: Kemble, John Mitchell Document: Letter, 1856 Number of Items: 1
Author: Kidder, Frederic Document: Letters Number of Items: 2
Author: Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von Document: Letter, 1799 Number of Items: 1
Author: Krim, Seymour Document: Clipping, letter, broadside Number of Items: 4
Author: Lamantia, Philip Document: Erotic poems 1946 Number of Items: 1
Author: Law, Thomas Graves Document: Letter, 1894, to Cornelius Number of Items: 1
Author: Leicester, Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of, Document: Letters Number of Items:
Author: Levertov, Denise Document: Letters, 1962-63 to Gordon Lish Number of Items: 2
Author: Lyautey, Louis Hubert Gonzalve Document: Letters Number of Items:
Author: Macy, Elizabeth C. Document: Letters Number of Items: 1
Author: McClure, Michael Document: The Blossom or Billy the Kid Number of Items: 1
Author: McClure, Michael Document: The Blossom or Billy the Kid Number of Items: 1
Author: McClure, Michael Document: Dream Table 1965 Number of Items: 1
Author: McClure, Michael Document: Lobe, key, stilled, 1966 Number of Items: 1
Author: Malanga, Gerard Document: Letter, 1963, to Diane DiPrima Number of Items: 1
Author: Masefield, John Document: Letters Number of Items:
Author: Mason, Lewis Duncan Document: Letters and Tracts from John Abbey, Folder 1 of 3 Number of Items: 20
Author: Mason, Lewis Duncan Document: Letters and tracts, Letters C-W Folder 2 of 3 Number of Items: 22
Author: Mason, Lewis Duncan Document: Letters and tracts Folder 3 of 3 Number of Items: 12
Author: Mayo, Lawrence Shaw Document: Letter, 1932, to Clift R. Clapp Number of Items: 1
Author: Document: Mexican Manuscript 1725 Number of Items: 1
Author: Moore, George Henry Document: ALS New York, 10 Nov 1866 Number of Items: 1
Author: Nash, Ogden Document: The Coelacanth 1970 Number of Items: 3
Author: Nash, Ogden Document: Colts 1965? Number of Items: 10
Author: Nash, Ogden Document: Letter, 1929, to Henry James Forman Number of Items: 1
Author: Neruda, Pablo Document: Coral de ano nuevo Number of Items: 2 copies
Author: Neruda, Pablo Document: Letter, 1965 Number of Items: 1
Author: Neruda, Pablo Document: Oda a la estacion mapocho Number of Items: 1
Author: Neruda, Pablo Document: Poem from Las uvas y el viento Number of Items: 4
Author: Neruda, Pablo Document: Que despierte el lenador Number of Items: 1
Author: Olson, Charles Document: Letters, 1960, to Hubert Crehan Number of Items: 3
Author: Olson, Charles Document: Letters to Fielding Dawson Number of Items: 2
Author: Olson, Charles Document: Letters to Fielding Dawson Number of Items:
Author: Olson, Charles Document: Letter to Anselm Hollo 1960 Number of Items: 1
Author: Olson, Charles Document: Letter to LeRoi Jones Number of Items: 1
Author: Olson, Charles Document: Letter to Bruce Loder 1966 Number of Items: 1
Author: Olson, Charles Document: Letter to Alan S. Marlowe 1966 Number of Items: 1
Author: Olson, Charles Document: Letter to Ed Sanders 1964 Number of Items: 1
Author: Olson, Charles Document: Place; & names Number of Items: 1
Author: Olson, Charles Document: Postal card, to Carolina Bk. Co 1956 Number of Items: 1
Author: Olson, Charles Document: A special view of history, Spring 1956 Number of Items: 26
Author: Olson, Charles Document: ???? Notes Number of Items: 1
Author: Olson, Charles Document: A work 1962 Number of Items: 1
Box 6
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: correspondence Number of Items: 11
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Baily, Harvey Number of Items: 1
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Corman, Sidney Number of Items: 6
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Corman, Sidney - galley and proof Number of Items: 2
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Eigner, Larry Number of Items: 13
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Eigner, Larry Galley Number of Items: 1
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Eshleman, Clayto - galley and proof Number of Items: 2
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Kelly, Robert Number of Items: 5
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: McClure, Michael Number of Items: 13
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: MacLow, Jackson Number of Items: 1
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Olson Toby Number of Items: 4
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Rothenberg, Jerome Number of Items: 2
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Rothenberg, Jerome Galley & Proof Number of Items: 1
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Tucker, Harvey Galley & Proof Number of Items: 1
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Villiers Publications Number of Items: 11
Author: Pierre Press Document: Wakoski, Diane Number of Items: 3
Author: Pierrepont Press Document: Wakoski, Diane Galley & Proof Number of Items: 1
Author: Pomeroy, George Document: Mr. George Pomeroy in ye curr with Samuel Pomeroy Esq. Number of Items: 1
Author: Pound, Ezra Loomis Document: note, n.d. Number of Items:1
Author: Compiled by Lawrence Clark Powell Document: Around the World in Sixty Books Number of Items:
Author: Priestly, John Boynton Document: Autograph Number of Items: 1
Author: Prynne, Jeremy Halward Document: Letter to R. Hawley 1965 Number of Items: 1
Author: Robinson, Lennox Document: Letters to Mrs. Robert Cushman (Grace E.B.) Murphy, 1950 Number of Items: 3
Author: Rogers, Bruce Document: Letters to O. Alfred Dickman 1948-1954 Number of Items: 10
Author: Roosevelt, Theodore, President of U.S. Document: facsimile of letter Number of Items: 1
Author: Rushmore, Arthur Wisner Document: Letter to Dickman Number of Items: 1
Author: Sanhueza, Juan Document: La colleccion "Pablo Neruda" Number of Items: 5
Author: Schieffelin, George McKay Document: Letters Number of Items:
Author: Shaker Book Shop, Cleveland Document: Letters Number of Items: 1
Author: Sketchbook Document: Gift of Henry Levien Number of Items:
Author: Snyder, Gary Document: Letter to Ed Sanders 1964 Number of Items:
Author: Somlyo, Gyorgy Document: Pablo Neruda Number of Items: 1
Author: Spicer, Jack Document: Homage to Creeley Number of Items: 1
Box 7
Author: Stampfer, Judah Document: Fathers and Children 1/2 Number of Items:
Author: Stampfer, Judah Document: Fathers and Children 2/2 Number of Items:
Author: Stampfer, Judah Document: The Tragic Engagement Folder 1 of 2 Number of Items: 216
Author: Stampfer, Judah Document: The Tragic Engagement Folder 2 of 2 Number of Items: 216
Author: Standard, Paul Document: Letter, April 6, 1935 Number of Items: 1
Author: Stravinskii, Igor Fedorovich Document: Letter 1966 Number of Items: 9
Author: Sutherland, Ivan Lorin George Document: The Maori People Today Number of Items: 1
Author: Sutherland, Ivan Lorin George Document: The Maori People Today Number of Items: 1
Box 8
Author: Document: Transportation and Shipping Glossary Number of Items: Folder 1 of 2
Author: Document: Transportation and Shipping Number of Items: Folder 2 of 2
Author: Trenholm, George F. Document: Correspondence with O. Alfred Dickman, 1938 Number of Items: 1
Author: Warhol, Andy Document: Reel Two Number of Items: 1
Author: Washington, George, President of U.S. Document: Letters (facsimile) Number of Items: 1
Author: Webb, John E. Document: Letter to Howard Woolmer 1963 Number of Items: 1
Author: Whalen, Philip Document: Letter to Ed Sanders 1964 Number of Items: 1
Author: Whalen, Philip Document: Letters to Henry Wenning 1963 Number of Items: 2
Author: Weiners, John Document: Ace of Pentacles, 1963 Number of Items: 14
Author: Weiners, John Document: La Cara. N.D. Number of Items: 1
Author: Weiners, John Document: Juvenilia. N.D. Number of Items: 1
Author: Weiners, John Document: Letter to Alan S. Marlowe 1964 Number of Items: 1
Author: Weiners, John Document: Letter to Leonard Cohen 1967 Number of Items: 1
Author: Weiner, John Document: Letters and poems to David Meltzer Number of Items: 5
Author: Weiners, John Document: A Magical Indulgence Number of Items: 1
Author: Weiners, John Document: Tuesday 7:00 PM 1962 Number of Items: 1
Author: Weiners, John Document: Twilight in the Boston suburbs Number of Items: 1
Author: Whaler, James Document: Notes found in the book The Negro by W.E.B. Du Bois Number of Items: 1
Author: Whaler, James Document: Notes and clippings found in the book The Life and Work of John Williamson
Nevin (1889) Number of Items: 5
Author: Wrighten, James Document: Letter to J.W. Dodd Number of Items: 1
Author: Zukofsky, Louis Document: Letter to Jack Shoemaker 1967 Number of Items: 1
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