Overview of the Collection
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Repository Name:
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University of Oregon Libraries
Special Collections & University Archives
1299 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1299 URL: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html
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Collection Number:
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Coll. 215
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Creator:
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Moore, Rosalie, 1910-
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Title:
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Rosalie Moore Papers
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Dates:
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1927-1986 (inclusive)
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Quantity:
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5 linear feet 8 containers, 11 free-standing volumes
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Languages:
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Collection materials are in
English.
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Summary:
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The Rosalie Moore Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, tearsheets, and published versions of literary work. The correspondence
includes personal correspondence, as well as and professional correspondence with various publishers. In addition to poetry, Moore's forte, the manuscripts contain
plays and children's stories written in collaboration with Moore's husband, Bill Brown. The collection also includes published versions of Moore's work.
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Biographical Note
Rosalie Moore was born Gertrude Elizabeth Moore in Oakland, California on October 8, 1910. She first ventured
into poetry as a teenager, with a poem protesting--in the grand high flown, "poetic" manner-- the building of the
Golden Gate Bridge. The poem was published in the Oakland Tribune. Since that time she has become a widely
published poet.
Rosalie Moore attended the University of California at Berkeley where she majored in English and graduated magna
cum laude with a B.A. in 1932; in 1934 she received her M.A. in English Literature, also at Berkeley. However, Moore
insists that her career as a poet really began several years later when she began attending the poetry-writing classes
of critic and writer Lawrence Hart in 1937. Hart, Jeanne McGahey, Moore, Robert Horan, and several other poets formed
a group known as the Activists who worked from the tenet that through accurate language and imagery a poem should give
the reader a corresponding experience.
In 1938 Rosalie Moore was awarded the University of Chicago's Charles H. Sergel award for poetic drama with her play
The Boar, now expanded and entitled The Calydonian Boar Hunt. She won the Albert Bender Award in literature in 1943,
and in 1949 received the Yale Series Younger Poet Award for her collection of poems The Grasshopper's Man (originally
titled "Journeys Toward Center"). Rosalie Moore also has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1950 and again in 1951.
Rosalie Moore's work has been published in many periodicals, including Accent, Furioso, The New Yorker, and
Saturday Review. Her books include, among others, The Grasshopper's Man and Other Poems, 1949; Year of the Children,
1977; a book of poems dealing with the Children's Crusade in Europe in 1212 A.D.; and Of Singles and Doubles, a collection
of poems published in 1979. Both Year of the Children and Of Singles and Doubles were published by Woolmer/Brotherson,
and Year of the Children was nominated for a Pulitzer award. With her husband, Bill Brown, she collaborated on a series
of children's books published by Coward-McCann, including The Forest Fireman, Whistle Park, The Boy Who Got Mailed,
Big Rig, and The Department Store Ghost. Two other books, Tickley and the Fox and The Hippopotamus That Wanted to
Be a Baby were published by Lantern Press.
In 1965 Rosalie Moore joined the faculty at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California, and taught basic writing
and creative writing classes until her retirement in 1976. Miss Moore is currently living in the San Francisco Bay
area and has three daughters and three grandchildren also living in Marin County.
Content Description
The Rosalie Moore collection consists primarily of correspondence, manuscripts, and published examples of her work.
The correspondence series is composed mainly of letters between Moore and her publishers concerning reprint rights to
her poems. Of special not are two letters from W.H. Auden concerning his introduction to Rosalie Moore's first published
volume, The Grasshopper's Man and Other Poems in the Yale Younger Poets Series. Other correspondents include Karl
Shapiro of Poetry (Chicago), John Ciardi of Saturday Review, Louis Untermeyer, Lawrence Hart, Hoanne McGahey Hart,
and extensive communication with both The New Yorker and Yale University Press.
The manuscripts in the collection include examples of many of Moore's poems, plays, and fictional writings. A manuscript
of The Grasshopper's Man can be found here. Also available in a manuscript for Moore's poem "Catalog", a popular poem
about cats that has been reprinted in many textbooks and anthologies. Play manuscripts include The Calydonian Boar Hunt.
Fiction manuscripts include "The Forest Fireman," a children's story co-written with Moore's husband, Bill Brown, and
several other children's stories by Bill and Rosalie Brown.
A large portion of the collection is devoted to published examples of Rosalie Moore's work in a wide variety of publications,
including The New Yorker, The Pacific Spectator, Poetry, and Voices. Also, a publication called Tuesdays, 1 to 3
(1978) contains poems written by Moore's students in her classes at College of Marin.
Book jackets, galley proofs, and tearsheets pertaining to Moore's published work are found in this collection, as
well as a collection of poetry anthologies containing examples of her work. Of special note is the book entitled
Learned and Leaved: A Tribute to Rosalie Moore. Written by colleagues at the Marin Poetry Center to honor Moore, it
contains a more precise biography than presented here.
Arrangement
Collection is organized into the following series: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Manuscripts; Series III. Tearsheets; Series IV.
Publications Containing Moore's Work; Series V. Package; Series VI. Free Standing Volumes.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access Collection is open to the public.
Collection must be used in Special Collections & University Archives Reading Room.
Restrictions on Use Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries.
Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the
Manuscripts Librarian in Special Collections & University Archives. The
reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Rosalie Moore Papers, Coll. 215, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.
Subjects
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
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| Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973--Correspondence |
| Brown, Bill, 1910- |
| Moore, Rosalie, 1910--Archives |
| Yale University Press |
| Authors, American--20th century |
| Children's stories, American--Authorship |
| Poetry--Authorship |
| Poets, American--20th century |
| Publishers and publishing--Correspondence |
| Verse drama--Authorship |
| Verse drama--Authorship |
| Book jackets |
| Galley proofs |
| Manuscripts for publication |
| Scrapbooks |
| Tear sheets |
| New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) |
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
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Series I:
Correspondence
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Container(s)
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Description
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The Academy of American Poets
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Accent Magazine
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Artists and Writers Press
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Associated American Artists
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Associated Educational Services Corporation
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Auden, W.H.
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Australian Broadcasting Commission
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Baldridge Reading and Study Skills
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Bank Street College of Education
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Barker, Eric
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The Beliot Poetry Journal
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Albert M. Bender Memorial Trust
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The Berkeley Playmakers
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The Berkeley Publishing Corporation
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Berkeley Review
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Biggerstaff, Frederic M.
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Boucher, Anthony
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Bretnor, Reginald
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Brown, La Verne Wilson
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Brown, William
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Bureau of New Plays
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Cadmus Books
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California State Library
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Cassell and Company
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Cassil, R.V
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The Cat Fanciers Association
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Chamberlain Era
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Chicago Tribune
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Children's Digest
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Children's Hour
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Ciardi, John (Saturday Review)
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Clovernook Home and School for the Blind
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Commonweal
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Coward-McMann
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Craig, Roderick
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Crispin, Edmund
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Crown Publishers
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Cummins, Dorothy
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D.C. Heath and Company
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Dun and Lapham
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G. Eggleston
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Etter, Paul
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The Economy Company
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Experiment
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Faber and Faber
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Fakuda, Ributaro
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Furioso
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Glide Publications
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Gold, Herbert
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Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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Harper and Row
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Harper, Michael
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Harper's Bazaar
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Hart, Lawrence
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Hartley, Wesley
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Hogan, William
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Holahan, Par
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Holmes, Barbara
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Houghton Mifflin Company
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Instructor
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Iroquis Publishing Company
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Ishmael
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Jeffers, Una
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Kelley, Margaret N.
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Kennedy, Leo
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L.W. Singer
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Laughlin, James
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Lawson, Todd
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The Leader
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Lehmer, Derrick
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Leo (Brother Leo the Less)
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Livre de Poche
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Licheniak, Lillian T.
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Longmans Green
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Macmillan Company
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Mademoiselle
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Magner, Gene
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Meeham, Francis (Brother Leo)
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Nathan, Leonard
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The Nation
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National Federation on the Arts and the Humanities
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National Poetry Association
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National Thanksgiving Association
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National Union of Christian Schools
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Necker, Claire
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Thomas Nelson and Sons
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New American Library
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The New Yorker
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The New Yorker
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New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation
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Norris, Kathleen
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O'Hara, F.H.
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The Pacific Spectator
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Pasadena Playhouse
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James D. Phelan Awards
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Phoenix Elementary Schools
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Poetry (Chicago)
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Poetry Awards
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Poetry Northwest
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Poetry Society of London
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Provost, Carl K.
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Quarterly Review of Literature
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Quinn, Kerker
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Rago, Henry
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Robertson, Russell
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Rodman, Seldon
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Root, Shelton A.
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Rauthrauff & Ryan, Inc.
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Scheville, James
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Scholastic Magazines, Inc.
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Scott, Foresman & Co.
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Shapiro, Karl (Prairie Schooner and Poetry, Chicago)
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Simon and Schuster
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Smisor, George T.
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Smith, Betty
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Smith, Willard
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Studio Bookstore
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Teitel, Nathan R.
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Tibbett, Lawrence
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Treasure Chest
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United States Information Agency
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Untermeyer, Louis
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Venture, Ken
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Vinal, Harold
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Weintraub, Helen K.
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Welch, Morris A.L.
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Whisnant, Charleen
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Wiley, Hugh
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Witt-Diamant, Ruth
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Wolfe, Reese
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Wright, Ted
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Yale University Press
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Unidentified Correspondents
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Series II:
Manuscripts
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Subseries A:
Poetry Collections
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The Grasshopper's Man (Original Title: Journeys Toward Center): Introduction by W.H. Auden
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The Grasshopper's Man - Prospectus for Houghton Mifflin
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The Grasshopper's Man - Draft
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Star Ascendent
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The Wheeze's Other Eye
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Subseries B:
Miscellaneous Poems
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Catalog
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Chicago Airport
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