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Accession 1985-018

Box 1, folder 1

Business Correspondence Mel Berger, William Morris Agency (1981-83)

Box 1, folder 2

Business Correspondence Black Sparrow Press (1981-83)

Box 1, folder 3

Business Correspondence Marion Boyars, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd. (1981-83)

Box 1, folder 4

Business Correspondence Thomas McGonigle, Adrift (1981-83)

Box 1, folder 5

Business Correspondence Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions (1981-83)

Box 1, folder 6

Business Correspondence North Point Press (1981-83)

Box 1, folder 7

Business Correspondence Stanford (1982-83)

Box 1, folder 8

Miscellaneous Business Correspondence (1)

Box 1, folder 9

Miscellaneous Business Correspondence (2)

Box 2, folder 1

Personal Correspondence William Bronk 1966-82

Box 2, folder 2

Personal Correspondence Robert Creeley 1981-83

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 -- Correspondence
Box 2, folder 3

Personal Correspondence Coleman Dowell 1981-83

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Dowell, Coleman -- Correspondence
Box 2, folder 4

Personal Correspondence Larry Eigner 1983

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Eigner, Larry, 1927-1996 -- Correspondence
Box 2, folder 5

Personal Correspondence Denise Levertov 1982

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997 -- Correspondence
Box 2, folder 6

Personal Correspondence Jack O'Brien 1973-74

Box 2, folder 7

Personal Correspondence Jack O'Brien 1975-76

Box 2, folder 8

Personal Correspondence Jack O'Brien, 1977-78

Box 2, folder 9

Personal Correspondence Jack O'Brien, 1979

Box 2, folder 10

Personal Correspondence Jack O'Brien 1980

Box 2, folder 11

Personal Correspondence Jack O'Brien 1981

Box 3, folder 1

Personal Correspondence Jack O'Brien 1981

Box 3, folder 2

Personal Correspondence Jack O'Brien 1983

Box 3, folder 3

Personal Correspondence Michael Stephens, 1981-83

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Stephens, Michael -- Correspondence
Box 3, folder 4

Personal Correspondence Hubert Selby, Jr. 1972-83

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Selby, Hubert -- Correspondence
Box 3, folder 5

Personal Correspondence Students and Fans, 1979-83

Box 3, folder 6

Personal Correspondence Miscellaneous Correspondence 1980-83

Box 3, folder 7

Personal Correspondence Family letters from father 1973-81

Box 3, folder 8

Personal Correspondence Jesse (son) 1970

Box 3, folder 9

Personal Correspondence D. Cooke (daughter) 1980-82

Box 3, folder 10

Miscellaneous material

Box 4, folder 1

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral copy 1 (ts) with holographic revisions. (1 of 4)

Box 4, folder 2

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral copy 1 (ts) with holographic revisions. (2 of 4)

Box 4, folder 3

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral copy 1 (ts) with holographic revisions. (3 of 4)

Box 4, folder 4

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral copy 1 (ts) with holographic revisions. (4 of 4)

Box 4, folder 5

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral copy 2 (ts) with holographic revisions. (1 of 4)

Box 4, folder 6

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral copy 2 (ts) with holographic revisions. (2 of 4)

Box 4, folder 7

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral copy 2 (ts) with holographic revisions. (3 of 4)

Box 4, folder 8

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral copy 2 (ts) with holographic revisions. (4 of 4)

Box 5, folder 1

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral photocopies of galleys. (1 of 3)

Box 5, folder 2

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral photocopies of galleys. (2 of 3)

Box 5, folder 3

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral photocopies of galleys. (3 of 3)

Box 5, volume 1

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral Notebook (March 9 1978 - November 11 1981)

Box 5, volume 2

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral Notebook Blue Pastoral II

Box 6, folder 1

Manuscripts Crystal Vision - photocopy of final draft (1 of 3)

Box 6, folder 2

Manuscripts Crystal Vision - photocopy of final draft (2 of 3)

Box 6, folder 3

Manuscripts Crystal Vision - photocopy of final draft (3 of 3)

Box 6, folder 4

Manuscripts Ghost Talk (Crystal Vision) Holograph manuscript, final draft July 30, 1976

Box 6, folder 5

Manuscripts Notebook - A Pack of Lies (Ghost Talk) first draft. Notebook - Ghost Talk II

Box 7, folder 1

Manuscripts Aberration of Starlight - photocopy of final draft with MS notes.

Box 7, folder 2

Manuscripts The Light Fantastic unpublished MS

Box 7, folder 3

Something Said: Essays 1959-84 (1 of 3)

Box 7, folder 4

Something Said: Essays 1959-84 (2 of 3)

Box 7, folder 5

Something Said: Essays 1959-84 (3 of 3)

Box 7, folder 6

Manuscripts "Old" - manuscript + notes

Box 7, folder 7

notebooks

Box 8, folder 1

Kulchur 4 - misc. mss (1 of 3)

Box 8, folder 2

Kulchur 4 - misc. mss (2 of 3)

Box 8, folder 3

Kulchur 4 - misc. mss (3 of 3)

Box 8, folder 4

Manuscripts Mulligan Stew - typescript, revisions, and notes

Box 8, folder 5

Manuscripts Letters by Robert Duncan (ts)

Box 8, folder 6

Manuscripts What Religion Do Ants Have? (ts)

Box 8, folder 7

Manuscripts Steelwork (ts)

Box 8, folder 8

Manuscripts Blue Pastoral (typescript with revisions) - various pages

Box 8, folder 9

Short stories (1 of 2)

Box 8, folder 10

Short stories (2 of 2)

Box 8, folder 11

Manuscripts Pas de Deux by Hubert Selby, Jr. (ts)

Box 8, folder 12

Novelette and Other Prose by William Carlos Williams

Box 9, folder 1

Poems 1962-1975

Box 9, folder 2

Poems undated (1 of 2)

Box 9, folder 3

Poems undated (2 of 2)

Box 9, folder 4

Samuel David Newberry 12/08/1961-2/05/1962 Ezra Pound material

Box 9, folder 5

Selected Poems 1958-1980 photocopies and typescript (1 of 2)

Box 9, folder 6

Selected Poems 1958-1980 photocopies and typescript (2 of 2)

Box 9, folder 7

"Flawless Play Restored" authors ms

Box 10, folder 1

NEON #1

Box 10, folder 2

NEON #2

Box 10, folder 3

NEON #3

Box 10, folder 4

NEON #4

Box 10, folder 5

Supplement to NOW

Box 10, folder 6

NEON Obit Galleys

Box 10, folder 7

NEON Obit

Box 10, volume 8

Notebooks 1950-51 - Thoughts, Impressions, Jottings, et al; Being a potpourri of worthless information, observations, comments and other pieces of purely subjective thought

Box 10, volume 9

Notebooks 1961 - working notebook contains notes on The Sky Changes, Kulchur magazine, plays, etc. full with inserts

Box 10, volume 10

Notebooks 1966 - The Neighborhood Book; This is X; Steelwork, app. 70% full

Box 10, volume 11

Notebooks 1963-70 - journal notes on events, Hubert Selby, notes for fiction, full

Box 11, volume 1

Notebooks 1968-69 - notes for Imaginative Qualities of Small Things, Old, rumniations, poetry, full

Box 11, volume 2

Notebooks 1969 - notes for Imaginative Qualities of Small Things, full

Box 11, folder 3

Notebooks 1970-71 - coverless bound pages; notes for American Holiday, Bitter Aspic, In the Pale Nights, full

Box 11, volume 4

Notebooks 1971-72 New Book (working notebook for Mulligan Stew)

Box 11, volume 5

Notebooks New Book II, full

Box 11, volume 6

Notebooks New Book III, full

Box 11, folder 7

Notebooks New Book IV, 90% full

Box 11, folder 8

Manuscript "The Silver Swanne" by Coleman Dowell. Book jacket galley + photocopies

Box 11, folder 9

Notebooks Notes and clippings for New Book

Box 12, volume 1

Notebooks 1978 - Blue Pastoral I - full

Box 12, folder 2

Notebooks Blue Pastoral (raw material)

Box 12, volume 3

Notebooks Composition notebook - Last Rites, And What is So Rare?, A Pastoral, Bordertown, miscellaneous poetry, full

Box 12, volume 4

Notebooks Composition notebook - Pride and Tangle (Tangle and Pride), full

Box 12, volume 5

Notebooks Number Six - Aberration of Starlight, full with inserts of notes

Box 12, folder 6

Notebooks Miscellaneous notebook pages, approximately 50 pages

Box 13, folder 1

Magazines The Floating Bear issue #1 - #19 + special issue. (1 of 2)

Box 13, folder 2

Magazines The Floating Bear issue #20 - #37. (2 of 2)

Box 13, folder 3

Magazines Black Sparrow Press catalogues (1 of 2)

Box 13, folder 4

Magazines Black Sparrow Press catalogues (2 of 2)

Box 13, folder 5

Magazines Landscapes, Spring 1956

Box 14, folder 1

Miscellany Miscellaneous papers, gallery openings, book jackets

Box 14, folder 2

Miscellany Miscellaneous papers, book jacket designs

Box 14, folder 3

Miscellany Recommendation for Hettie Jones for Radcliffe College.

Box 15, folder 1

"Noose": vols. 1-11

Box 15, folder 2

"Noose": vols. 12-end

 

Accession 1999-207

Box 1

24 Class Roll Books; Periodicals: Canto, Sequoia, Poetry, Brooklyn College Alumni review, etc.: approx. 40 volumes

Box 2

Class notes, including student essays, lecture notes, etc.: 27 file folders

Box 3

Photocopied reading material handouts from class

Box 4

Student Papers, theses, fiction

Box 5

Stanford publications (The Mind's Eye, Stanford Humanities Review): approx. 20 volumes

Box 6

Paperback books, some with annotations from classes taught by Sorrentino: Joyce, Blake, Kafka, O'Brien, Creeley, Beckett, etc.

Box 7

Class files: approx. 20 file folders, and student manuscripts

Box 8

Books, of poetry: approx. 50 volumes

Box 9

Books of poetry and Poetry Reviews and Journals: approx. 30 volumes

Box 10

Novels and poetry books: approx. 30 volumes

Box 11

Poetry reviews and Journals: approx. 30 volumes

Box 12

Poetry reviews and Journals: approx. 50 volumes

Box 13

Poetry Reviews and Journals: approx. 35 volumes

Box 14

Poetry Reviews and Journals: approx. 50 volumes

Box 15

Poetry Reviews and Journals: approx. 35 volumes

Box 16

Poetry Reviews and books of poetry and novels: approx. 35 volumes

 

Box-level survey - Accessions 1990 - 2004

Scope and Contents

Box-level survey conducted during collection moves. Materials are unprocessed. Includes manuscripts (drafts at various stages), correspondence, course notes and teaching materials (Stanford literature courses), notes and ephemera.
 

Accession 1990-016

Box 25

MSS notebooks: Misterioso, Rose Theatre, Triad (Odd Number); Correspondence 1980s

Box 26

Manuscripts: Book III Trilogy (Misterioso), Rose Theatre, Odd Number (Triad), Something Said undated

Box 27

Manuscripts: A Beehive Arranged on Humane Principles, The Poem Supreme, Sea Caught in Roses; Book reviews and articles, correspondence, catalogs undated

 

Accession 1993-086

Box 30

Business and personal correspondence, postcards, syllabus, his bibliography 1981 - 1991

Box 31

Exhibition brochures, souvenir program, North Point Press catalog, Dalkey Press catalogs 1983-1993

 

Accession 1996-042

Box 32

Business correspondence 1992-1994

Box 33

Misc. personal correspondence/ business correspondence, fans & letters 1992-1994

Box 34

Red the Fiend drafts, publisher's draft and floppy disc 1994

Box 35

Drafts of articles, poetry, fiction, interviews, and one letter to the editor 1991

Box 36

Annoucements of publications, press catalogs and cultural programs 1983-1996

Box 37

Poster for Robert Creeley Archive Oct 1993 1993

Box 38

Prague Summer Writer's Workshop and Press Catalogs and Cultural Programs (OS) 1994-1995

Box 39

English Department Faculty Retreat questionnaire responses, newsletters and brochures 1991-1995

Box 40

Students dissertation drafts 1993-1994

Box 41

Other writers' drafts undated

Box 42

Donald Kozlosky, "The Euripus" [n.d.]; Michael Stephens, "Jigs and Reels" (1991) undated, 1991

Box 43

Offprints and papers by others 1964-1995

 

Accession 1998-100

Box 44

Publisher catalogs , poetry readings schedule, miscellaneous printed matter , Stanford Dept of English Newsletters, correspondence 1980s - 1990s

Box 29

Correspondence 1990s

Box 45

MS material, personal notebooks, daily calendar notebooks with long notation, signed published & annotated work by Sorrentino 1986-1996

Box 46

Manuscripts, proofs, correspondance with author colleages; novels and criticism 1988-1997

Box 47

Publisher and bookstore catalogs, literary newsletters 1973-1997

 

Accession 1999-207

Box 22

Stanford course files 1990s

Box 23

Manuscript: Ed Gueble "At Home in Ashes" , Tim Quirk " Napoleon in New Orleans", various student theses and dissertations undated

Box 24

Stanford course files 1982-1990s

 

Accession 2000-256

Box 20

Course evaluations, Manuscripts from colleagues; Sorrentino MSS: Untitled, 1990s

Box 21

Twelve Poems MSS, Under the Shadow MSS, Sales and royalty statements, magazines, catalogs, and annotated books undated

 

Accession 2001-347

Box 17

Little Magazine inventory (contents not present), faculty reports, publisher correspondence undated

Box 18

Sorrentino manuscripts, proofs and notebooks: Something Said, Little Casino, Poems, Painting the Moon, Steelwork, Gold Fools. Manuscripts from colleagues. undated

Box 19

Catalogs and annotated books undated

 

Accession 2004-243

Box 28

Manuscripts and proofs: The Moon in Its Flight, Painting the Moon, Little Casino 2000s

Box 48

Manuscripts from colleagues 1990s-2000s

Box 49

Manuscripts from colleagues 1990s

Box 50

Manuscripts and proofs: Little Casino 2000s

Box 51

Manuscripts and proofs: Little Casino 2000s

Box 52

Correspondence 2001–2003

Box 53

Chaplets; pamphlets and catalogs; Articles, reviews, and interviews (copies) 2000s

Box 54

Drafts and manuscripts: Creeley, They Put A Spell on You, Perdido, Arrangements - One O'Clock Jump, American Breakdown, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Weary Blues, Lost in the Stars, Gorgias, Subway, Life and Letters, Pastilles (Xerox copy of published work), A Strange Commonplace, The Moon in Its Flight (MS and Xerox) Undated

 

RESTRICTED: Student papers

RESTRICTIONS

Contents restricted until 2070. Contains student work, private correspondence and personal information.
Box 55

Student papers - RESTRICTED 1990s

Box 56

Student papers - RESTRICTED 1990s

Box 57

Student papers - RESTRICTED 1990s