Paul Blackburn Papers
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2005
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
spcoll@ucsd.edu
Descriptive Summary
Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Paul Blackburn Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0004
Physical Description:
22 Linear feet
(51 archives boxes, 2 card file boxes and 1 flat box)
Date (inclusive): 1919 - 1971
Abstract: Papers of Paul Blackburn, an American poet, translator, editor, and literary agent. Blackburn was the author of nineteen books
of poetry published between 1955 and 1980, the last six appearing posthumously. He translated the work of such writers as
Pablo Picasso, Federico Garcia Lorca and Julio Cortazar, and served as Cortezar's agent. He was also a contributing editor
of the
Black Mountain Review and the poetry editor of
The Nation for a short time. Over half of the collection is composed of photographs and correspondence. The correspondence relates to
both personal and professional matters, and consists not only of letters received by Blackburn, but also of many copies of
his own letters. Among the prominent correspondents are Julio Cortazar, Charles Reznikoff, Ezra Pound, Octavio Paz, Charles
Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Blackburn's mother, Frances Frost. The collection also includes manuscripts and
typescripts of poems, prose and translations dated from the 1940s through the early 1970s and materials relating to the business
aspects of Blackburn's career, including contracts, reading schedules and some business correspondence.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of Paul Blackburn, an American poet, translator, editor, and literary agent. Over half of the collection is composed
of photographs and correspondence which document his life and literary career. The correspondence relates to both personal
and professional matters, and consists not only of letters received by Blackburn, but also of many copies of his own letters.
Among the prominent correspondents are Julio Cortazar, Charles Reznikoff, Ezra Pound, Octavio Paz, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg,
Robert Creeley, and Blackburn's mother, Frances Frost. The collection also includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems,
prose and translations dated from the 1940s through the early 1970s and materials relating to the business aspects of Blackburn's
career, including contracts, reading schedules and some business correspondence. Although some family documents such as photographs
date from the early 1900s, the bulk of the materials relate directly to Blackburn's life and date from the early 1940s to
the early 1970s.
Separation Note: Books, journals and audiorecordings received in the 1973 accession of the Paul Blackburn Papers have been
separated from the collection and added elsewhere to the library's holdings. To identify audiorecordings he owned, conduct
an author search in ROGER on the term "Blackburn, Paul former owner," then click on the "Limit the Search" button, and in
the "Material type" box select "Records/Tapes" from the pull-down menu.
The collection is arranged in eight series: 1) ORIGINAL POETRY, 2) TRANSLATIONS, 3) PROSE AND INTERVIEWS, 4) POETRY/TRANSLATION
BUSINESS, 5) PERSONAL AND FAMILY MATERIALS, 6) EPHEMERA, 7) CORRESPONDENCE, and 8) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.
Biography
Born in Saint Albans, Vermont, November 24th, 1926, Paul Blackburn influenced contemporary literature through his poetry,
translations and the encouragement and patronage he offered to fellow poets. His parents, William Gordon Blackburn and Frances
Frost (also a poet, novelist and author of children's books) separated when Blackburn was three. He was cared for primarily
by his maternal grandparents until he was fourteen, when his mother took him back to New York City to live with her in Greenwich
Village. He began writing poetry in his late teens under her encouragement.
Just after enrolling in New York University in 1945, Blackburn joined the army in hopes of being sent overseas. The war ended
shortly thereafter however, and he served as a laboratory technician in Colorado. In 1947 he returned to NYU, and subsequently
transferred to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1949, graduating in 1950.
It was during his college years that Blackburn first came under the influence of Ezra Pound. While at the University of Wisconsin
he began corresponding with Pound, and hitchhiked to Washington D.C. several times to visit him at St. Elizabeth's Hospital.
Via Pound, he came in to contact with Cid Corman, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer and Jonathan Williams. Through
this contact came an ancillary involvement with the first two issues of Olson's magazine,
Black Mountain Review, and consequent, the inexact [erroneous?] inclusion of Blackburn in the Black Mountain school of poets. Blackburn neither
attended the college, not taught there, and as Edith Jarolim points out in her intoduction to the Collected Poems, "Blackburn
always opposed the division of poets into schools and did not like the role of Black Mountain poet into which he was cast
by Donald Allen's anthology
The New American Poetry (1960). He embraced all types of poetry, citing the value of "all work, if you work 'em right." (E. Jarolim in
The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn, 1985)
It was Pound as well, who pointed Blackburn in the direction of Provencal poetry, and he studied the languages of Provence
while at the University of Wisconsin. His work on Provencal translations intensified following the 1953 publication of a slim
selection of the translations and with a Fulbright Fellowship in 1954 to study Provencal language and literature in France.
This vein of his work continued for the rest of his life and didn't see full publication until after his death because he
was never quite satisfied with it.
Blackburn was also well-known for his translations from Spanish of the epic Poem for the Cid, Lorca, a book of Pablo Picasso's
poems, and of contemporary South American writers such as Octavio Paz and his friend Julio Cortazar.
In addition to the poetry and the translating, Blackburn played an important part in the poetry community, helping fledgling
poets develop, and providing emotional support and opportunities to read for both unknown and established writers at the various
reading series with which was involved. He was central in organizing readings that offered work from the Beats, the New York
School, the Deep Image Poets, and the Black Mountain Poets. Clayton Eshleman has written, "Many, not just a few, but many
poets alive today are beholden to him for a basic artistic kindness, for readings, yes, and for advice, but more humanly for
a kind of comradeship that very few poets are willing to give." The readings he ran were progenitors to the Poetry Project
at St. Marks Church on the Bowery.
Up until the mid-1960s Blackburn supported himself by various print-shop, editorial and translating jobs, including a short
stint as poetry editor of
The Nation. Some of his early jobs included working in-house on encyclopedias, and writing free lance reviews. By the mid-1960s Blackburn
began receiving offers of teaching positions, and in 1965, 1966 and 1967 he directed workshops at the Aspen Writers' Conference.
He was Poet-In-Residence at City College of New York in 1966-67. A Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 enabled him to return to
Europe to work on his translations and poetry. Upon returning to the U.S. he supported himself through reading tours and teaching
at the State University of New York at Cortland.
Blackburn was married three times: to Winifred Grey McCarthy from 1954 to 1958; Sara Golden from 1963 to 1967; and to Joan
Diane Miller in 1968, with whom he had his son, Carlos T. Blackburn died in 1971 of the esophageal cancer.
During his lifetime Blackburn published thirteen books of poetry:
The Dissolving Fabric (1955),
Brooklyn Manhattan Transit: A Bouquet for Flatbush (1960),
The Nets (1961),
16 Sloppy Haiku and a Lyric for Robert Reardon (1966),
Sing Song (1966),
The Reardon Poems (1967),
The Cities (1967),
In. On. Or About the Premises (1968),
Two New Poems (1969),
The Assassination of President McKinley,
Three Dreams and an Old Poem,
Gin: Four Journal Pieces (1970), and
The Journals: Blue Mounds Entries (1971); and 5 major works of translations:
Proensa (1953),
Poem of the El Cid (1996), Julio Cortazar's
End of the Game and Other Stories (1967), Pablo Picasso' s
Hunk of Skin and Julio Cortazar's
Cronopios and Famas.
Nine other books of poetry were published posthumously:
Early Selected y Mas: Poems 1949-1966 (1972),
The Journals,
Halfway Down the Coast (1975),
By Ear (1978),
Against the Silences (1980),
The Selection Of Heaven (1980),
The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn (1985),
The Selected Poems(?) and
The Parallel Voyages (1987); and 2 works of translation:
Proensa: An Anthology of Troubador Poetry (1978) and
Lorca/Blackburn: Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca Chosen by Paul Blackburn (1979).
For a complete bibliography see Kathleen Woodward,
Paul Blackburn: A Checklist (San Diego: Archive for New Poetry, University of California, San Diego, 1980).
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Preferred Citation
Paul Blackburn Papers, MSS 0004. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Restrictions
Boxes 52 and 53 contain fragile originals that may be used only with permission of the Director of Special Collections & Archives.
Preservation photocopies of these items are available in the collection.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1973.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographic prints -- 1960-1969
Photographic prints -- 1970-1979
Photographic prints -- 1950-1959
American poetry -- 20th century
Provençal poetry -- Translations into English
Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978 -- Correspondence
Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008 -- Correspondence
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Correspondence
Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998 -- Correspondence
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970 -- Correspondence
Lowenfels, Walter, 1897-1976 -- Correspondence
Wakoski, Diane -- Correspondence
Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931- -- Correspondence
Raworth, Tom -- Correspondence
Randall, Margaret, 1936- -- Correspondence
Allen, Donald, 1912-2004 -- Correspondence
Frost, Frances Mary, 1905-1959 -- Correspondence
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 -- Correspondence
Cortázar, Julio -- Correspondence
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997 -- Correspondence
Loewinsohn, Ron -- Correspondence
Jiménez-Landi, Antonio -- Translations into English
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Translations into English
Blackburn, Paul, 1926-1971 -- Archives
Eshleman, Clayton -- Correspondence
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 -- Correspondence
Kelly, Robert, 1935- -- Correspondence
Hamady, Walter -- Correspondence
Corman, Cid -- Correspondence
ORIGINAL POETRY
Scope and Content of Collection
SERIES 1) ORIGINAL POETRY: Manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and related materials. The majority of these papers were
collected from notebooks which Blackburn usually dated; the material is arranged chronologically by those dates. The notebooks
often reveal Blackburn's location at the time that he was working on that material; e.g., folder 4.11 is titled "Fragile,
mostly Europe." This series includes both unpublished work and early versions of work that was published later.
Box 1, Folder 1
TSS originally in loose-leaf binder labelled by Blackburn "October 1945 - October 1946"
Box 1, Folder 2
TSS originally in loose-leaf binder
1945 October - ca. 1950
Box 1, Folder 3
TSS in black loose-leaf binder with poems and some Provencal translations
1949 - 1951
Box 1, Folder 4
TSS in grey loose-leaf binder with poems and some Provencal translations
1949 - 1951
Box 1, Folder 5
TSS, 19 drafts of "The Innocents Who Fall Like Apples"
1949 - 1950
Box 1, Folder 6
TSS, transferred from other (non-poetry) materials
ca. late 1940s and early 1950s
Box 1, Folder 7
TSS unmarked folders
1953 - 1956
Box 1, Folder 8
TSS originally in folder marked by Blackburn "mostly 1954-57"
Box 1, Folder 9
MSS from notebook from Toulouse
1955 - 1956
General note
Containing notes on Provencal language and literature.
Box 1, Folder 10
Xeroxes of MSS in Toulouse notebook no. 6, June-Aug. 1955
General note
See Series II, Provencal translations.
Box 1, Folder 11
Xeroxes of MSS in Toulouse notebook no. 7, June-Aug. 1995/ March 1956
General note
See Series II, Provencal translations.
Box 1, Folder 12
Xeroxes of MSS in Toulouse notebook no. 8, Nov. 1955 - Feb. 1956
General note
See Series II, Provencal translations.
Box 1, Folder 13
Xeroxes of MSS in Toulouse notebook no. 9, late 1956 - July 1957
General note
See Series II, Provencal translations.
Box 1, Folder 14
TSS and MSS originally in folder marked by Blackburn
1954 - 1958
General note
"Early notebook sheets and worksheets/mostly Europe."
Box 2, Folder 1
2 early 1950s poems found loose among Blackburn ephemera
Box 2, Folder 2
7 TSS, early to mid-1950s
Box 2, Folder 3
9 TSS, early to mid-1950s
Box 2, Folder 4
24 TSS, most written in Europe ca. 1954-1957
Box 2, Folder 5
13 TSS, early to mid-1950s
Box 2, Folder 6
Carbon of
The Double-Axe
General note
Unpublished collection of 35 TSS, most written in Europe and compiled in 1956. (see 2.13 for original TS).
Box 2, Folder 7
MS of
South
General note
Unpublished collection of 30 TSS, most written in Europe and compiled in 1957.
Box 2, Folder 8
Rexograph publication, undated, of
Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit
General note
Translation by Agusti Bartra of "Meditation on the BMT" into Spanish. Also three dittoes of "Meditation on the BMT," with
poems by Robert Kelly and Gary Snyder.
Box 2, Folder 9
"Night Song for Two Mystics," TS
Box 2, Folder 10
TSS and some MSS originally in folder labelled "carbons of early poems 1951-8, by Blackburn. Part I
Box 2, Folder 12
Miscellaneous TSS and one MS of late 1950s poems.
General note
Includes TS of
The Dissolving Fabric,
Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, and Cabras ( an unpublished collection of 53 poems).
Box 2, Folder 13
TS of
The Double-Axe, unpublished 1956 collection
Box 2, Folder 14
Misc. mid to late 1950s TSS and MSS
Box 2, Folder 15
TSS, mid to late 1950s, originally in folder labelled "Finish!" by Blackburn
General note
This group in sub-folder marked by Blackburn "already done." Part 1 of 2: see also 4.9.
Box 2, Folder 16
PP of "The Signals" (
Big Table 1), "Cabras" and "A Permanence" (
New Directions 16)
Box 2, Folder 17
TSS originally in unmarked black dissertation binder, ca. mid-1950s to 1961
General note
Part 3 of 4: see also 6.7, 10.3, and 10.5.
Box 2, Folder 18
TSS and MSS originally in folder labelled "English Dept LIU" by Blackburn
1958 - 1962
Box 3, Folder 1
TSS and MSS originally in folder labelled "Fragile, mostly Europe" by Blackburn
General note
This group was in sub-folder marked by Blackburn "done/fragile," ca. mid-1950s to mid-1960s. Part 1 of 3: see also 3.2 and
4.11.
Box 3, Folder 2
TSS lists of poems, 1950s through early 1960s, labelled "scopes" by Blackburn
General note
Part 3 of 3: see also 3.1 and 4.11.
Box 3, Folder 3
TSS originally in folder labelled "1960" by Joan Blackburn
General note
Includes one mid-1950s TS.
Box 3, Folder 4
Notebook labelled by Blackburn "Readings 1961"
General note
Includes MSS from 1961-1963, addresses, and itinerary and expense list from poetry reading tour.
Box 3, Folder 5
TSS originally in folder marked by Joan Blackburn "1961-62"
Box 3, Folder 6
Unbound copies of
The Nets (Trobar, 1961)
Box 3, Folder 7
TSS and MSS transcriptions of dreams
ca. 1958-1966
Box 3, Folder 8
MSS in small blue and white notebook
1962
Box 3, Folder 9
MSS in notebook labelled "Poems 1962" by Blackburn
Box 3, Folder 10
MSS in notebook labelled "Spring 1963-December 1963" by Blackburn
General note
Also includes addresses, expense lists and schedules for poetry readings.
Box 3, Folder 11
TS, "The Selection of Heaven", sections 1-10
Box 3, Folder 12
Eight copies of "Robert Schiller: Exhibition of Photographs;" a pamphlet
General note
Also includes Blackburn poem "The Subject Becomes Object/Subject" (November 1963).
Box 3, Folder 13
TSS originally in unmarked black dissertation binder
General note
May be collection of poems published in serials ca. 1958-1963. Part 2 of 4: see also 2.17, 6.6, and 6.8.
Box 4, Folder 1
MSS in notebook labelled "January 1964" by Blackburn
ca. 1963 November to 1964 Summer
General note
Includes addresses, lists of poems submitted, dream transcriptions.
Box 4, Folder 3
TSS originally in folder labelled "1963-64" and "110 Thompson St"
General note
By Joan Blackburn.
Box 4, Folder 4
MSS in notebook labelled "Spring 1964-Nove 1964" by Blackburn
General note
Includes many transcriptions of Provencal poetry and notes on history of the troubadors, addresses, dream transcriptions,
and notes on publications.
Box 4, Folder 5
7 TSS submitted to Essence Records, 1964, and recording contract
Box 4, Folder 6
TSS originally in dissertation binder, unmarked - Part I
ca. early to mid-1960s
Box 4, Folder 7
Part II of 4.6
General note
Includes some late 1960s poems.
Box 4, Folder 8
TSS originally in unmarked folder, misc. early through mid-1960s
Box 4, Folder 9
TSS originally in folder labelled "Finish!" by Blackburn
General note
Mostly early-mid 1960s with some late 1950s. Part 2 of 2: see also 2.15.
Box 4, Folder 10
TSS originally in folder marked in known hand "clean copies for marketing"
General note
Overwritten by Blackburn "leave"; ca. 1961-1965.
Box 4, Folder 11
TSS and MSS originally in folder labelled "Fragile, mostly Europe" by Blackburn
General note
This group in unmarked sub-folder, ca. 1961-1965 with some earlier and later poems. Part 2 of 3: see also 3.1 and 3.2.
Box 4, Folder 12
TS for
Sing Song (Caterpillar, 1966)
Box 4, Folder 13
MSS in notebook labelled "Nov 1964 to November 1965" and "The City" by Blackburn
General note
Also includes introductions and schedules for readings, addresses and submission lists.
Box 4, Folder 14
TSS originally in folder labelled "a selection from a book called Recognitions: the cities"
General note
By Blackburn.
Box 5, Folder 1
TSS and MSS in unlabelled collection of mostly
Cities poems
General note
Includes poems omitted from Grove edition and drafts of introductions and dedication to
The Cities.
Box 5, Folder 2
TSS originally in folder labelled "Paul Blackburn/In, On, or About the Premises"
General note
By Blackburn.
Box 5, Folder 3
MSS list of poems to be included in
The Cities
General note
Indicates omissions from the Grove edition.
Box 5, Folder 4
Black dissertation binder containing MS of
The Cities - Part I
Box 5, Folder 7
TSS originally in unmarked folder, mostly early to mid 1960s
General note
Also some 1950s and late 1960s.
Box 5, Folder 8
TSS and MSS in notebook labelled "November 1965 - November 1966" by Blackburn
General note
Includes dream transcriptions, addresses, expense lists, submissions lists, and medical information.
Box 5, Folder 9
TSS and MSS originally in folder labelled "Marketing" by Blackburn
General note
And over that "leave;" ca. 1964-1966 with some late 1950s and early 1960s.
Box 5, Folder 10
TSS originally in folder labelled "take and work" by Blackburn
General note
And "7th St. but no years" by Joan Blackburn; ca. 1964-1966.
Box 5, Folder 11
TSS and MSS originally in folder labelled "In the Works" one the side
General note
And "leave" on the front by Blackburn; ca. early to mid-1960s.
Box 5, Folder 12
TSS and MSS originally in folder labelled "1965-66" by Joan Blackburn
Box 6, Folder 1
TSS and MSS originally found loose in cartons - Part I
General note
Ca. early to mid-1960s with some 1950s and early 1970s.
Box 6, Folder 3
TSS and MSS found among other Blackburn papers
General note
Mostly fragments or unpublished; ca. early to late 1960s.
Box 6, Folder 4
MSS in notebook labelled "Compost and Uriah" by Blackburn
ca. 1965 June to 1966 April
General note
Also includes addresses, lists for readings, expense lists, dream transcriptions, chronology of early childhood events (1930),
drafts of translations of Picasso's
Hunk of Skin, and Provencal research notes.
Box 6, Folder 5
MSS in notebook labelled "November 1966-7" by Blackburn
General note
Also includes call slips from the N. Y. Public Library, one photo of Blackburn, addresses, submission lists, expense list
for divorce trip to Juarez, and translations of Picasso's
Hunk of Skin.
Box 6, Folder 6
TSS originally in unmarked black binder
ca. 1965-1967
General note
Part 1 of 4: see also 2.17, 3.13, and 6.8.
Box 6, Folder 7
TSS originally in folder labelled "Poems marketed" by Blackburn
ca. 1964-1967
Box 6, Folder 8
TSS originally in unmarked black binder
ca. 1966-1967
General note
Part 4 of 4: see also 2.17, 3.13, and 6.6.
Box 6, Folder 9
PP of
The Reardon Poems (Perishable Press, 1967)
Box 6, Folder 10
Partial list of subscribers for
The Reardon Poems
Box 6, Folder 11
List of poems on tapes
ca. 1958-1967
Box 6, Folder 12
MSS in unlabelled notebook
ca. 1966-1967
General note
Also includes two journal entries.
Box 6, Folder 13
MSS in notebook labelled "June 1967-February 1968" by Blackburn
General note
Also includes journal entries, addresses and expense lists.
Box 7, Folder 1
MSS in notebook labelled "Nov. 1967 (7th St.)/ The Pyrenees (end of March)/The Alps (end of April)"
General note
By Blackburn. Poems are from the
Journals. Also includes addresses, phone numbers, and one expense list.
Box 7, Folder 2
MSS in unlabelled notebook containing
Journals poems
General note
Also includes notes on Provencal, list of women (not in Blackburn's hand), and a few addresses; ca. Nov. 1967 with one dated
July 1970.
Box 7, Folder 3
TSS, "The Selections of Heaven" nos. 1-17 originally in folder stamped "Barbara"
General note
1 complete copy of the poems with multiple copies of sections 1, 2 and 3, 4, 16, and 17.
Box 7, Folder 4
TSS in black dissertation binder labelled "S" (Sara) by Blackburn
General note
Ca. late 1950s and one from 1968 regarding relationship with Sara Blackburn. TS for
Against the Silences (Permanent Press, 1980).
Box 7, Folder 5
TSS and MSS originally in folder labelled "Sara" by unknown hand
General note
Many poems duplicate those of 7.4. Also includes some letters and journal entries about Sara.
Box 7, Folder 6
TSS and MSS - Part I
ca. mid to late 1960s
Box 7, Folder 8
TS of "The Crossing" rejected by
The New Yorker
Box 7, Folder 9
MSS in notebook labelled "February 1968" by Blackburn
General note
Includes poems collected in
The Journals (Black Sparrow, 1975) and
Half-Way Down the Coast (Mulch, 1975), some addresses and notes on Provencal.
Box 7, Folder 10
Xerox MSS of "Accepting the Gift" from "Mayo '68" notebook
Box 7, Folder 11
MSS in notebook
General note
Labelled "Barcelone 1968/ New York, Fall-Winter/ Boqueron, Puerto Rico/ Jan. 1969" by Blackburn. Includes poems mostly from
The Journals, addresses, phone numbers, transcripts of and notes on Provencal texts, budget lists, and catalogue of signs of labor for
Carlos' birth.
Box 7, Folder 12
MSS in notebook labelled "1969" by Blackburn
General note
Includes poems mostly from
The Journals, two translations from Chinese, addresses, lists of people to receive copies of "A McClure Poem," and two MSS by other poets.
Box 7, Folder 13
MSS originally in folder labelled by Joan Blackburn "hand-written orig"
General note
And by Robert Kelly "PB ms poems, first drafts, 1969-71".
Box 7, Folder 14
TSS of poems collected in
Three Dreams and an Old Poem (University Press of Buffalo, 1970)
General note
Also includes two xeroxes of completed TS.
Box 8, Folder 1
TSS and MSS originally in folder labelled "Europe" by Joan Blackburn
General note
And "European worksheets, drafts, finished versions" by Robert Kelly. Mostly late 1967-1968 poems collected in THE JOURNALS.
Box 8, Folder 2
TSS and MSS
General note
Ca. 1966-1968, with some from 1950s and early 1960s.
Box 8, Folder 3
TSS and MSS
ca. 1967-1968
Box 8, Folder 4
4 Rexographs of "From the November Journal"
General note
Also includes 5 xeroxes of "A McClure Poem" (numbered and signed), one xerox of "Take a room/ in New York" from inside cover
of Blackburn's copy of
End of the Road.
Box 8, Folder 5
TSS originally in folder labelled "1969" by Joan Blackburn
General note
Includes some prose poems and one dream transcript.
Box 8, Folder 6
MSS in notebook with a few travel notes and addresses
ca. 1969 Spring
Box 8, Folder 7
MSS in small brown notebook
ca. 1970-1971
General note
Contains poems from
The Journals, including
Blue Mounds Entries (Perishable Press, 1971), addresses, phone numbers, and expense lists.
Box 8, Folder 8
MSS in small brown and orange notebook
ca. 1970 Spring to 1971 July
General note
Some addresses and phone numbers.
Box 8, Folder 9
PP of
Gin (Perishable Press, 1970)
General note
Labelled "Gin galleys from Walter" by Blackburn.
Box 8, Folder 10
TSS and MSS in folder labelled by Robert Kelly
General note
1970 MSS and drafts, worksheets of
The Journals.
Box 8, Folder 11
Three mimeographs of "The Beautiful Killers"
General note
One TS of "Journal: December 11, 1969" (here untitled) on back of title page of Cortazar's
Cronopios and Famas (see series II).
Box 8, Folder 12
MSS in large red and blue notebook
1971 June
General note
Also includes a newspaper clipping.
Box 8, Folder 13
MSS in green "Composition Book" with one note
General note
Only date in book is 22 June 1971.
Box 8, Folder 14
MSS in notebook labelled "June 1971" by Blackburn
ca. 1971 June-August
General note
Also includes some journal entries, addresses, phone numbers, record of laetrile treatments, parody of Robert Bly (written
in notebook by George Kimball), expense lists, prose introduction to book of Robert Vas Dias' poetry, and expense list in
hand other than Blackburn's.
Box 8, Folder 15
Xeroxes of misc. poems from
The Journals
ca. 1967-1971
General note
Probably made by Robert Kelly.
Box 8, Folder 16
TSS originally in folder labelled by Robert Kelly "Cortland 1971, drafts 7 worksheets"
General note
Mostly 1971 poems from
The Journals.
Box 8, Folder 17
TSS originally if folder labelled by Robert Kelly "Halwy Down the Coast and end of Journals"
Box 9, Folder 1
Lists of poems to be included in
Early Selected y Mas (Black Sparrow, 1972)
General note
Also order and publication information. One list in an unknown hand.
Box 9, Folder 2
TSS and MSS originally in folder labelled "Summer 1971 (Michigan)/ drafts and miscellany"
General note
By Robert Kelly. Also includes poetry festival schedule, copies of prescription for and notes on doctor's use of laetrile.
Box 9, Folder 3
TS and 17 photocopies of "Alice's Restaurant"
General note
Noted by Robert Kelly on original folder to have been "written and distributed at the Festival at Grant Valley State College
in July 1971."
Box 9, Folder 4
TS of
Halfway Down the Coast with letter from Harry Lewis, Mulch Press
Box 9, Folder 5
Black dissertation binder containing TS of
The Journals
TRANSLATIONS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 2 )TRANSLATIONS: Arranged by the original language and the name of the author. This series contains not only formal
translations, but related materials such as notes on foreign languages and lists of translations as well. Within each subseries
the work is arranged chronologically. The first subseries is titled "Provencal Translations" and consists primarily of materials
taken from ten notebooks titled "Toulouse." These notebooks are dated from 1954 through 1964 and contain translations, notes
and expense lists. The subseries titled "Blackburn's Provencal File" contains an alphabetical file that Blackburn compiled
of his translations. Subsequent subseries are arranged according to the work or author translated and deal successively with
his translations of Proensa, The Cid, and work by Julio Cortazar, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Picasso, Antonio Jimenez Landi,
Octavio Paz, Herberto Padilla, Nicolas Guillen, Eduardo Escobar, Javier Heraud, and Leandro Katz. The series concludes with
a collection of work in foreign languages, translations of Blackburn's work into foreign languages, and miscellaneous translations
into English. Correspondence related to translations can be found in the series POETRY/TRANSLATION BUSINESS.
Provencal Translations, ca. 1950-1957
Box 9, Folder 6
Toulouse notebook no. 1, ca. October 1954 following
General note
French study notes of Paul and Freddie Blackburn.
Box 9, Folder 7
Toulouse notebook no. 2, ca. December 1954 following
General note
Class notes on Occitan language and literature.
Box 9, Folder 8
Toulouse notebook no. 3, ca. January 1955 following
General note
Notes on language and history of the troubadors.
Box 9, Folder 9
Toulouse notebook no. 4, ca. February 1955 following
General note
Mostly language notes with some. Also includes a newspaper clipping.
Box 10, Folder 1
Toulouse notebook no. 5, ca. April 1955 following
General note
Notes on Occitan language and history with a few troubador and Lorca translations.
Box 10, Folder 2
Toulouse notebook no. 6, ca. June-August 1955 following
General note
Mostly expense lists, some notes on troubador verse forms, vocabulary lists and a few original poems.
Box 10, Folder 3
Toulouse notebook no. 7, ca. June-August 1955 following March 1956
General note
Some history and language notes, several translations and some original poems.
Box 10, Folder 4
Toulouse notebook no. 8, ca. November 1955-February 1956
General note
Language and history notes, one journal entry, prose piece on De Born, and some original poems.
Box 10, Folder 5
Toulouse notebook no. 9, ca. late 1956-July 1957
General note
Many expense lists, some class notes, troubador translations, and some original poems.
Box 10, Folder 6
Toulouse notebook no. 10, undatable
General note
Expense lists, addresses of hotels in Europe, and many notes in hand other than Paul's or Freddie's.
Box 10, Folder 7
Xeroxes of Provencal MSS, originally in loose-leaf binder labelled "MSS Biblioteque Nationale" by Blackburn
General note
SEE OVERSIZED MATERIALS, SECTION VIII, FOR MICROFILMS FROM BIBLIOTEQUE NATIONALE.
Box 10, Folder 8
Xeroxes of Provencal MSS originally in unmarked loose-leaf binder
General note
Presumably also from Biblioteque Nationale.
Oversize FB-071-01
Microfilms of Provencal manuscripts from the Biblioteque Nationale
Box 11, Folder 1
Notes on Provencal MSS describing materials in 8.17 and 9.1
General note
Also some correspondence with Biblioteque Nationale, call slips from Vatican Library and libraries in Florence.
Box 11, Folder 2
Troubador translations originally found loose among Blackburn's undergraduate papers
Provencal Translations, Mid to Late 1950s
Box 11, Folder 3
Materials labelled by Blackburn - Part I
General note
"As of Sept. 57: all adjunctive Occitan material: versions prose bits, articles, odd texts and Catalan ditto." Includes MSS,
TSS, and published materials.
Box 11, Folder 5
Translations found among miscellaneous papers, mostly from Europe
General note
Some TSS and MSS.
Box 11, Folder 6
Misc. translations found loose in box of Provencal materials
General note
Includes table of contents for Blackburn's collections of troubador translations. Mostly TSS.
Box 11, Folder 7
TSS found in front of (but not bound in with) black dissertation binder
Box 11, Folder 8
Black dissertation binder labelled "P" (Provencal) by Blackburn
General note
Contains troubador anthology with notes by reader Ramon Guthrie and his report on the collection. See also 19.11.
Box 11, Folder 9
Misc. Provencal translations in unmarked folder - Part I
General note
Some TSS and MSS.
Blackburn's Provencal File
Box 12, Folder 2
Occitan notes of a general nature
General note
Also includes carbons of Blackburn letters to editors and publishers, MS of "A Sad Story" (prose,
Black Mountain Review, Summer 1955), and TSS.
Box 12, Folder 3
Materials for Vol. II, Occitan
General note
Misc. TSS and translations.
Box 12, Folder 4
Occitan Texts / Unused (inc. comp. Sordello edtn)
General note
TSS and MSS of transcribed texts.
Box 12, Folder 5
Institute for Advanced Study
General note
Carbons of assorted translations. Originals were presumably sent to the Institute.
Box 12, Folder 6
Occitan Texts / Used (outside editions)
General note
Transcriptions with notes by Blackburn about correct readings. Also includes carbon of letter to Biblioteque Nationale and
two translations.
Box 12, Folder 7
Unlabelled misc. materials
General note
Mostly De Born translations but also include lists of poems, introduction to Latin American poetry reading, and notes on texts.
Box 12, Folder 8
Occitan / prose-trys [sic], notes to the poems, articles already completed etc
General note
Includes submissions lists, resume, a few translations (mostly Europe materials).
Box 12, Folder 9
Blackburn's alphabet file of translations - Part I: A-C
General note
Assorted TSS filed under name of troubador, sometimes alphabetically by first name, sometimes by last.
Box 13, Folder 5
Translations originally in folder labelled "PB's Provencal" (by George Economou [?] )
General note
Paginated TS of
Proensa with holograph notes by Blackburn and Economou.
Box 13, Folder 6
Carbons of late, ca. 1967 and after, translations
General note
Includes notes and vitas.
Box 13, Folder 7
Translations originally in envelope labelled "xerox of Provencal
General note
[title continues] (incomplete- -Vidal Marcabru Bertran? missing)" by Joan Blackburn. Includes most of PROENSA.
The Cid and Julio Cortazar's poetry
Box 13, Folder 8
May 1965 notebook with some holograph drafts of translation of
The Cid
Box 14, Folder 1
Unbound TS of
The Cid with holograph corrections
Box 14, Folder 2
Black dissertation binder containing TS of
The Cid
Box 14, Folder 3
Publisher's carbon of
The Cid TS
Box 14, Folder 4
Four pamphlets (in Spanish) of Cortazar's poetry
General note
Preludios y Sonetos (1944-1957);
Circumstancia (Argentian, Europa, 1945-1956);
Razones de la Colera (Buenos Aires, 1950-1951);
Resumen en Otono (undated, n.p.), all inscribed and signed by Cortazar.
Box 14, Folder 5
Misc. TSS tranlations of Cortazar's poetry
Cortazar's
End of the Game
Box 14, Folder 7
5 TSS, "House Taken Over" - One with notes by Cortazar
Box 15, Folder 2
2 TSS, "The Idol of the Cyclades" - One with notes by Cortazar
Box 15, Folder 3
4 TSS, "Letter to a Young Lady in Paris" - One with notes by Cortazar
Box 15, Folder 4
1 TS, "A Yellow Flower" - Notes by Cortazar
General note
Also first page of draft of another MS.
Box 15, Folder 5
3 TSS, "Continuity of Parks" - One with notes by Cortazar
Box 15, Folder 6
3 TSS, "Bestiary"
General note
One xerox of
New Directions version and one TS with notes by Cortazar.
Box 15, Folder 7
4 TSS, "The Night Face Up"
General note
Also 1 pp for
The New Yorker.
Box 15, Folder 8
3 MSS, "The Gates of Heaven" - One with notes by Cortazar
Box 15, Folder 9
"Blow-Up" with notes by Cortazar, but no Blackburn TS
Box 15, Folder 11
3 TSS, "At Your Service"
General note
One with notes by Cortazar and letter from Princeton attached.
Box 15, Folder 14
Reviews of
End of the Game and Other Stories
Box 15, Folder 15
3 TSS, "The Blocked Door"
General note
One with notes by Cortazar (perhaps intended for inclusion in
The End of the Game).
Box 15, Folder 16
3 TSS, "Alechinsky County," one in Spanish
General note
Cortazar introduction to 1968 art show. 1 copy of pamphlet included.
Box 15, Folder 17
Unidentified materials found among
End of the Game TSS
General note
Notes by Cortazar to an unknown story and incomplete MSS of two unknown stories.
Translations of Cortazar's
Cronopios and Famas
Box 15, Folder 18
Spanish texts of "The Instructions Manual" (Manual de Instrucciones")
General note
And "Unstable Stuff" ("Material Plastico").
Box 15, Folder 19
February 1968 notebook with MSS of translations - Part I
General note
From "The Instructions Manual," "Usual Occupations," and "Unstable Stuff."
Box 16, Folder 2
Misc. TSS from "The Instruction Manual"
Box 16, Folder 3
Photocopies of numbered TSS from "Unusual Occupations."
Box 16, Folder 4
Misc. TSS and 1 MSS from "Unstable Stuff"
General note
One in Spanish.
Box 16, Folder 5
Misc. TSS of "Cronopios and Famas" (Series IV)
General note
Also includes drafts of biographical statements about Cortazar, introduction to the book, some correspondence regarding reprinting
of stories from book, photocopy of stories in
New Directions, two collages (by Cortazar [?] ), and two photos of Cortazar.
Box 16, Folder 6
Drafts of jacket copy for
Cronopios and Famas
Box 16, Folder 7
TS carbon of
Cronopios and Famas
General note
Includes additional, original TS of series IV.
Box 16, Folder 8
Photocopy TS of
Cronopios and Famas
Box 16, Folder 9
PP of a number of Cortazar cronopio stories and of his story "Meeting" (not translated by Blackburn)
General note
Published in a Friendship Press anthology. Also contains permissions letter regarding these stories.
Box 16, Folder 10
Reviews of
Cronopios and Famas
Box 16, Folder 11
Misc. Cortazar materials
General note
2 lists of submissions of Cortazar pieces, one MS, one TS, two carbons of Blackburn's "cronopio" story "Collecting the Mail"
(
Floating Bear, 1962), TS of another, untitled "cronopio" story by Blackburn, "cronopio" story "Fortunate Escape from a Sinister City" by
RK (Robert Kelly), and signed pamphlet introducing an art show (in Spanish) by Cortazar.
Box 16, Folder 12
Reviews and articles about Cortazar books published in America
General note
Those not translated by Blackburn.
Box 16, Folder 13
M.A. thesis by F. F. Dean, introducing and translating four Cortazar stories
Box 16, Folder 14
Translations of Cortazars "Silvia" by Gregory Rabassa
General note
TS and photocopy.
Translations of Lorca, Picasso, and Landi
Box 17, Folder 1
Early Lorca materials
General note
TS of Lorca poems in Spanish, some early translations (Europe, 1950s), xerox of translations published in
Chicago Review, clippings of pieced published in
The Nation. See also 10.1.
Box 17, Folder 2
Pieces originally in folder labelled "Lorca Translations" by Blackburn
General note
Includes misc. poems, many rough drafts, some MSS, many early (Europe 1950s) versions.
Box 17, Folder 3
Complete TSS of Lorca poems, 1960s, originals and copies
Box 17, Folder 4
Lorca translations from the 1960s
General note
Mostly poetry but also the prose piece "Puppet Theatre" (with Spanish text). See also 19.4.
Box 17, Folder 5
Misc. TSS and MSS of Pablo Picasso's
Hunk of Skin (City Lights, 1968)
General note
See also 6.4 and 6.5.
Box 17, Folder 6
Pieces originally in folder labeled "Picasso's Hunk of Skin" by Blackburn
General note
Complete TS unbound. Includes also Spanish text with holograph notes by the author of the forward to the book, Cela. See also
6.4, 6.6, 18.11, and 18.12.
Box 17, Folder 7
TS of
The Treasure of the Muleteer and Other Tales by Antonio Jiménez-Landi (Doubleday,1974)
General note
Paginated with many holograph corrections.
Box 17, Folder 8
Later draft of TS of
Treasure of the Muleteer
General note
Paginated and with table of contents.
Box 17, Folder 9
PP of
Treasure of the Muleteer
Box 17, Folder 10
PP of
Treasure of the Muleteer
Oversize FB-071-04
Pasted up camera ready copy of
Treasure of the Muleteer by Antonio Jiménez-Landi
General note
Translated by Blackburn.
Translations of Paz, Padilla, Guillen and Others
Box 17, Folder 11
7 TSS of Octavio Paz's "Wind from All Compass Points"
Box 17, Folder 12
2 TSS of Paz's "Vrindiban," 2 TS of "To My Friend Swaminathan, the Painter"
General note
And a copy of the pamphlet introducing the art show (Bombay, 1965) that includes this poem.
Box 17, Folder 13
Spanish text of Paz's "Madurai" and Blackburn's translation of it
General note
Spanish text and English of two Paz poems by other translators. Program for Paz reading at Poetry Center at which Blackburn
read the above three poems.
Box 18, Folder 1
Notebook with MSS translations of Paz's "Eagle or Sun"
General note
And Herberto Padilla's "Important Occasions" (July 1970) and "Travellers".
Box 18, Folder 2
Spanish texts of Padilla's "Important Occasions" (Las Grandes Ocasiones) and "Travellers" (Viajeros)
General note
And TSS of Blackburn's translations; copy of letter commissioning these translations for
The New York Review of Books and photocopies of newspaper clippings about Padilla; TS of Padilla's "Postcard to the U.S."; photocopies of galley proofs
of the two Padilla poems in the
N.Y. Review; photocopies of proofs of Blackburn's translations Jaime Sabines' "Bach's Music Moves Curtains" and "Smashed" (for the
Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Poets).
Box 18, Folder 3
PP of Spanish text and translations of Nicolas Guillen's "Balada de los Abuelos"
General note
Also includes ("Ballad of the Two Grandfathers") and "Guadalupe, W. I." (also another, untitled piece that may not be a Blackburn
translation) for Pa'lante; TSS of Guillen's "Soldiers in Abyssinia," "Royal Ebony," "Sensemaya," and "Mi Patria Es Dulce por
Fuera".
Box 18, Folder 4
Spanish texts and translations of various untitled poems by Eduardo Escobar
Box 18, Folder 5
Translations of Javier Heraud's "The Flies," "The Art of Poetry," and "Word of the Guerilla Fighter"
Box 18, Folder 6
Translation of untitled poem by Leandro Katz
Box 18, Folder 7
Augusti Bartra's "Demeter" (prose) translated by Elinor Randall
Misc. Translations and Adaptations
Box 18, Folder 8
Various TSS translations, mostly Spanish, some French; mostly poetry with some prose; ca. 1960s
General note
Also some letters regarding these translations.
Box 18, Folder 10
TSS of Leonardo Froes' "Upon Hanging a European Work of Art in a Brazillian House"
General note
Includes a literal translation by another translator and Portugese text of the poem. Also includes 1969 letter acknowledging
the translation.
Box 18, Folder 11
Misc. TSS translations, poetry and prose, from the Spanish, Brazilian, Chinese
ca. 1960s
General note
Adaptations; file included some MSS literal translations by others.
Box 18, Folder 12
TSS translations and adaptations in black dissertation binder
General note
Including some texts in their original languages. Spanish, French, Mozarabe, Chinese, Portugese, Russian. Some published materials.
Box 18, Folder 13
Translations of Blackburn poems into other languages, mostly Spanish and German
General note
Also includes translations of Larry Eigner and Robert Creeley poems and list of other American writers for a German anthology.
Translations of other Blackburn poems are scattered throughout series I.
PROSE AND INTERVIEWS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 3) PROSE AND INTERVIEWS: Fiction and non-fiction work. There are reviews of a number of books, including Hugh Kenner's
The Poetry of Ezra Pound and Robert Creeley's
Le Fou. Two transcripts of interviews are also included, along with a short story and a synopsis for a screenplay. The series also
contains miscellaneous readers' reports, recommendations and notes on articles for Funk and Wagnall's
New International Yearbook.
Box 19, Folder 1
TSS of reviews and articles
General note
"Das Kennerbach" (review of Hugh Kenner's THE POETRY OF EZRA POUND), NEW MEXICO QUARTERLY, Summer 1953 (TS here without title);
"The Roles of Childhood" (review of Ramon Sender's BEFORE NOON), NATION, 19 April 1958; Statement for the Paterson Society,
25 March 1961; "The International Word," NATION, 21 April 1962 (here titled "Modern poetry - - notes from the underground");
"The Grinding Down," KULCHUR, Summer 1963 (two drafts). See also 16.11 for "Collecting the Mail" and 20.7 for "A Sad Story."
Box 19, Folder 2
TSS of journal entries ca. 1945-1949
General note
One piece is the source for the poem "The Birds." Materials originally in with undergraduate papers from N.Y.U. and Univ.
of Wisconsin.
Box 19, Folder 3
2 TSS of Blackburn's 1952 review of Robert Creeley's LE FOU
Box 19, Folder 4
Misc. TSS, ca. 1954-1959
General note
Includes short story (written in Europe ca. 1955), statement on poetics, two drafts of "Destruction is a Woman," and synopsis
for a screen play.
Box 19, Folder 5
Misc. TSS, ca. 1958-1962, originally in folder labelled by Blackburn "ordered work/prose"
General note
Includes mostly reader's reports, some translations of legal documents, notes on articles for Funk and Wagnall's New International
Yearbook.
Box 19, Folder 6
3 TSS of "What's New: an interim report on the socio-literary uses of the mimeograph machine"
General note
One draft marked for printer. Intended for NATION but never published. Ca. 1963 [?].
Box 19, Folder 7
Misc. reviews, reader's reports, recommendations for fellowships, mid-1960s through 1971
General note
See also 20.13 for unpublished "cronopio" story, and notebooks in series I for other prose MSS.
Box 19, Folder 8
Transcript of 31 May 1959 "Eye on New York"
General note
Television show interview with Blackburn and Galway Kinnell.
Box 19, Folder 9
Transcript of 8 January 1970 interview with Blackburn by Joshua Stoller, NYC
POETRY/ TRANSLATION BUSINESS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 4) POETRY/TRANSLATION BUSINESS: Materials are divided into three categories: the first dealing with royalties, contracts,
permissions, and reading tours for Blackburn's own work; the second containing correspondence concerning the literary estate
of Frances Frost; and the third relating to Blackburn's duties as Julio Cortazar's agent.
Box 19, Folder 11
Poetry-related correspondence, lists of readings, addresses, financial statements, etc
ca. 1955-1959
Box 19, Folder 12
File on "Provencal Songbook"
General note
Blackburn's collection of troubador poetry, accepted by MacMillan in 1958 but never published. Includes correspondence with
Emile Copouya, M. L. Rosenthal, Ramon Guthrie, John Ciardi, and some carbon Blackburn letters.
Box 19, Folder 13
Poetry and translation related correspondence, permissions, announcements of readings, etc
1960 - 1963
Box 19, Folder 14
Materials originally in folder labelled by Blackburn "Reading Tour - - Spring 1961" (for the Paterson Society)
General note
Includes receipts, schedules, printed statements on poetics for the Paterson Society by Blackburn, LeRoi Jones, Robert Creeley,
Denise Levertov, Ed Field, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, Jonathan Williams. Also letters relating to tour, some of which
have been retained here in xerox while the originals are located in the correspondence section.
Box 20, Folder 1
Poetry correspondence, announcements, etc. - Part I
ca. 1964-1966
General note
Includes some carbons of Blackburn letters.
Box 20, Folder 3
Reading schedules, lists of poems accepted for
The Nation
General note
Blackburn was poetry editor from January to June 1962. Also includes poetry mailing lists, ca. 1962-1966.
Box 20, Folder 4
Materials relating to Aspen Writer's Workshop
1965 - 1968
General note
Includes letters from Robert Vas Dias, newsletters, stationary, etc.
Box 20, Folder 5
Three contracts (duplicates) from Grove Press for
The Cities
1966 October
Box 20, Folder 6
Assorted flyers, announcements of readings, poetry records, books, etc
ca. early to mid-1960s
Box 20, Folder 7
Materials relating to 1967 poetry tour of colleges in the south
General note
Originally in folder labelled by Blackburn "Paperwork on the Southern swing (complete)." Includes receipts, reading schedules,
dittoes of poems, etc.
Box 20, Folder 8
Cape Goliard Press file for
In. On. Or About the Premises
General note
Includes correspondence, royalty statements, etc.
Box 20, Folder 9
Correspondence, permissions, etc. - Part I
ca. 1967-1969
Box 20, Folder 11
Correspondence 1970 and after, including some posthumous permissions by Joan Blackburn
Box 20, Folder 12
Black Sparrow Press file for
Early Selected y Mas
General note
Includes correspondence with John Martin, materials relating to book, etc.
Box 21, Folder 1
Correspondence relating to literary estate of
General note
Frances Frost, Blackburn co-executor (with N. Carr Grace).
Box 21, Folder 2
Contract making Blackburn agent for Cortazar
General note
Also reader's report on
Los Premios (
The Winners) for Pantheon, editor's (Sara Blackburn) recommendation for publication, contract with Pantheon for
Los Premios, and other materials surrounding publication of the novel, 1961.
Box 21, Folder 3
Royalty statements, contract for
Rayuela (
Hopscotch)
ca. 1964-1965
General note
Contract for collection of short stories (here titled "Letters to Mama" and later published as
End of the Game and Other Stories, reissued as
Blow-Up and Other Stories), royalty statements, permissions, etc.
Box 21, Folder 4
Correspondence, royalty statements, etc.
1966 - 1967
Box 21, Folder 5
Contract for
Cronopios and Famas, correspondence, royalty statements, etc
Box 21, Folder 6
Correspondence, royalty statements, etc
ca. 1969
Box 21, Folder 7
Correspondence, royalty statements, etc
ca. 1970 and after
General note
Includes some correspondence with Joan Blackburn.
PERSONAL AND FAMILY MATERIALS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 5) PERSONAL AND FAMILY MATERIALS: A range of materials detailing Blackburn's activities from 1944 through 1971. The
materials not only shed light on his private life, but provide a wealth of information relating to his family history. The
early sections contain such items as diplomas, notebooks, resumes, and job applications. The second part of the series is
made up of photographs relating to Blackburn's own activities and to his family's background. Some of the pictures of his
family date back to the early 1900s. Arranged chronologically.
Box 21, Folder 8
Diplomas
General note
From Haaren High School, NYC (June 1944) and University of Wisconsin, Madison (June 1950).
Box 21, Folder 9
Parasitology sketch book
General note
Likely from Blackburn's days as army lab technician, 1946.
Box 21, Folder 10
New York University notebook (1947-1948 [?])
General note
With notes on Greek grammar and vocabulary.
Box 22, Folder 1
New York University notebook (Fall 1947 [?])
General note
With French and German language notes, notes on English history and philosophy. Also contains a few diary entries and one
poem. See 1.6.
Box 22, Folder 2
Undergraduate notes, handouts, etc
General note
Mostly University of Wisconsin, some New York University.
Box 22, Folder 3
Fall 1950 transcript from Univ. of Wisconsin
General note
Also includes notes and papers from N.Y.U., including one on Pound's Canto II for M. L. Rosenthal.
Box 22, Folder 4
Family history, written down by John Blackburn (grandfather)
ca. 1949-1950
General note
Later transcribed by Paul Blackburn. Original holograph and photocopy of the history, original and carbon of Blackburn's transcription.
Box 22, Folder 5
Misc. personal business materials, 1951 and after, mostly relating to Europe (1954-1957)
General note
Includes international driver's license, teaching and study notes from the University of Toulouse, list of books owned (for
shipping), correspondence with the bank of Tangiers, etc.
Box 22, Folder 6
Blackburn's application for a Guggenheim fellowship
1955
Box 22, Folder 7
Insurance receipts
1957 - 1958
Box 22, Folder 8
Application for treatment at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute
1959
General note
Letter applying for treatment.
Box 22, Folder 9
Carbons of job application letters
1957 - 1958
Box 22, Folder 10
Materials relating to estate of Amos Frost - Part I
1958 - 1960
General note
Blackburn's maternal grandfather, d. 1958. Includes carbons of Blackburn's letters to lawyers, obituaries, etc.
Box 22, Folder 12
Receipts, income tax forms
1956 - 1960
Box 23, Folder 1
Driver's license, bank book, library card
1959 - 1962
Box 23, Folder 2
Application for D. H. Lawrence fellowship, surrounding correspondence
1961 - 1962
Box 23, Folder 4
Papers, correspondence, relating to Blackburn's divorce from Freddie Blackburn
1963
Box 23, Folder 5
Receipts, tax materials - Part I
1962 - 1963
Box 23, Folder 7
Receipts, tax materials - Part I
1963 - 1964
Box 23, Folder 9
Materials relating to 19 E. 7th St. apartment
1963 - 1967
General note
Leases, insurance forms, etc.
Box 23, Folder 10
Unemployment insurance: forms, passbook, social security card
1964 - 1965
Box 23, Folder 11
Receipts for psychotherapy
1965
Box 23, Folder 13
Job and fellowship applications, filled-out biographical information forms for CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS series
Box 23, Folder 14
Tax forms and receipts - Part I
1965
Box 23, Folder 16
Receipts and W-2 forms - Part I
1966
Box 23, Folder 18
Fellowship, editing, and teaching related materials
1963 - 1971
General note
Mostly flyers announcing award requirements, schedules for classes, also teacher evaluations at Cortland.
Box 24, Folder 1
Application, acceptance notice, correspondence surrounding Guggenheim fellowship
1967
Box 24, Folder 4
Datebook, mostly Europe
1968
Box 24, Folder 5
Application and acceptance letter
General note
State Univ. of New York research grant (1970) and application for National Endowment of the Humanities grant (June 1971 -
- includes resumes, photocopies of published translations).
Box 24, Folder 6
1970 calendar with appointments written in [?]
Box 24, Folder 7
Papers relating to teaching at the New School (1970) and Cortland (1970-1971)
Box 24, Folder 8
Life insurance forms and correspondence about laetrile with clippings
1971
Box 24, Folder 10
Black and white family photographs from early 1900s through 1946 - Part I
Box 25, Folder 4
Album of black and white photographs - Part I
ca. early to mid-1960s
General note
Of Blackburn, Sara Blackburn, and various friends, mostly taken in New York City.
Box 25, Folder 10
Album of black and white photographs - Part I
early 1960s
General note
Most of poetry readings at Le Metro and Les Deux Megots, NYC.
Box 26, Folder 4
Assorted photographs of friends and family - Part I
General note
Black and white and color, mostly mid to late 1960s.
EPHEMERA
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 6) EPHEMERA: Miscellaneous materials including pamphlets, newspaper clippings, proofs of poems, and materials found
in Blackburn's books.
Oversize FB-071-03
Oversize photographs, originals and reproductions
Box 26, Folder 11
Programs and schedules for reading held for Ezra Pound's 78th birthday, at Le Metro
General note
Program organized by Sam Newberry and Paul Blackburn.
Box 27, Folder 1
Copy of prospectus for and parts of Sam Newberry's mimeograph anthology "A Mosaic Portrait of Ezra Pound"
General note
With holograph note to Blackburn and corrections on the mimeographs.
Box 27, Folder 2
Assorted pamphlets, newspaper and magazine clippings of materials by or relating to Pound
General note
Also includes xerox of letter from John Kaspar to Cid Corman (see clippings for context).
Box 27, Folder 3
Materials relation to Rochelle Owens
General note
Four programs for
Belch, two programs for
Futz, program for
The String Game, and assorted clippings of reviews, etc.
Box 27, Folder 4
Proofs of poems published in
The Nation while Blackburn was poetry editor
General note
January to June 1962, with holograph corrections by Blackburn.
Box 27, Folder 5
Assorted dittoes, photocopies, and offprints of articles and poems, scripts of the following plays
General note
Gertrude Stein's "What happened," performed at Judson Poets' Theatre; Blackburn's (partial) script of Joel Oppenheimer's
Great American Desert, performed at Judson Memorial Church; Robert Kelly's
The Well Wherein a Deer's Head Bleeds, Hardware Poets Theatre Production; and partial script of unidentified play, with holograph annotations.
Box 27, Folder 6
Assorted programs, announcements of readings, art shows, concerts, and books - Part I
Box 27, Folder 8
Assorted clippings from newspapers and magazines - - photographs, cartoons, articles, etc
Box 27, Folder 9
Announcements of readings, shows, invitations, etc. - Part I
Box 28, Folder 2
Part IV (27.9)
General note
Mostly play bills.
Box 28, Folder 3
Part V (27.9)
General note
Mostly announcements for openings at art galleries.
Box 28, Folder 4
Part VI (27.9)
General note
Mostly announcements of poetry readings, including some magazine clippings of poems, some dittoed and photocopies.
Box 28, Folder 5
Part VII (27.9)
General note
Including statements on poetry by Gilbert Sorrentino, Ed Dorn, Edward Field, and Clayton Eshleman (on Cesar Vallejo).
Box 28, Folder 6
Assorted newspaper and magazine clippings, mostly relating to literary matters - Part I
Box 28, Folder 8
Clippings of
New York Post series on "The Beat Generation"
1959
Box 28, Folder 9
Programs, announcements of poetry readings, etc.
Box 28, Folder 10
Galley proofs of Carol Berge's
From a Soft Angle
Box 28, Folder 11
Galley proofs of Charles Reznikoff's
By the Waters of Manhattan
Oversize FB-071-02
Posters for Smithson and Bolles shows
Box 28, Folder 12
Associated Press and United Press International photographs with captions - Part I
1959 - 1960
Box 29, Folder 2
Political pamphlets and fliers - Part I
Box 29, Folder 3
Part II (29.2)
General note
Including two TS of fliers written by Paul and Sara Blackburn.
Box 29, Folder 4
Pamphlets on Puerto Rican culture, bibliography of Puerto Rican writers
Box 29, Folder 5
Assorted postcards (blank), cards and art reproductions
Box 29, Folder 6
Publicity photographs and brochures from American airlines
Box 29, Folder 7
Assorted maps and travel brochures - Part I
Box 29, Folder 9
Assorted pamphlets, brochures, labels, fliers, receipts, order forms, business cards, scrap notes, etc. - Part I
Box 30, Folder 5
Framed landscape, originally with estate of Amos Frost papers
General note
See 22.10 and 22.11.
Box 30, Folder 6
Misc. materials found in Blackburn's books - Part I
General note
[Hill, Raymond;
Anthology of Troubadors].
Box 30, Folder 7
Part II (30.7)
General note
Horovitz, Michael;
Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain.
Box 30, Folder 8
Part III (30.7)
General note
Blackburn, Paul tr.;
Poem of the Cid.
Box 30, Folder 9
Part IV (30.7)
General note
Blackburn, Paul;
Proensa.
Box 30, Folder 10
Part V (30.7)
General note
Creeley, Robert;
For Love.
Box 30, Folder 11
Part VI (30.7)
General note
Dictionnaire D'Ancien Francais.
Box 30, Folder 12
Part VII (30.7)
General note
Irby, Kenneth;
Relation.
Box 30, Folder 13
Part VIII (30.7)
Gereral note
Salvat, Abbe Joseph;
Grammaire Occitane.
Box 30, Folder 14
Part IX (30.7)
General note
Kelly, Robert;
Armed Descent.
Box 30, Folder 15
Part X (30.7)
General note
Smart, Christopher;
The Works of Horace.
CORRESPONDENCE AND MANUSCRIPTS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 7) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged into three subseries, this material constitutes the bulk of the collection. Each of the
subseries is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
A) Family: Includes copies of letters sent by Blackburn. Each folder contains the letters of a single correspondent, and the
correspondent is identified in the container list.
B) General: These letters offer a wide range of insights into Blackburn's personal life and work.
C) Miscellaneous: Primarily unidentified correspondence, including a large number of Christmas cards and postcards.
Box 30, Folder 16
Blackburn, Richard (paternal uncle), to Paul Blackburn. 4 ALs
Box 30, Folder 17
Blackburn, Richard to William Blackburn. 1 ALs (with photographs and R of back from William to Paul)
Box 30, Folder 18
Blackburn, Freddie (Winifred Grey, first wife) to Paul Blackburn. 2 ALs (with friend Gwen), 2 TL, 2 AR, 1 TR, 5 hand-drawn
cards, 2 signed cards
Box 30, Folder 19
Blackburn, Freddie to Frances Frost and N. Carr Grace. 1 TL, 1 APCs
Box 30, Folder 20
Blackburn, Freddie to Alfred Grey (father). 1 TL, with typed enc
Box 30, Folder 21
Blackburn, Freddie. 7 MSS
Box 30, Folder 22
Blackburn, Gloria (half-sister, paternal). 5 ALs, 2 APCs, 1 D
Box 30, Folder 23
Blackburn, Hannah and John (paternal grandparents). 6 ALs (HB), 1 ALs (JB), 1 card signed by both
Box 30, Folder 24
Blackburn, Jean (sister). 2 ALs, 1 music composition
Box 30, Folder 25
Blackburn, Paul to Freddie Blackburn. 1 ALs, 2 TLs, 3 TL
Box 30, Folder 26
Blackburn, Paul to Jean Blackburn. 1 TL (unsent), 1 carbon
Box 31, Folder 1
Blackburn, Paul to William Blackburn. 3 TLc
Box 31, Folder 2
Blackburn, Paul to Amos Frost. 1 ALs, 6 TLs
Box 31, Folder 3
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, 1944. 3 ALs, 1 TL, 1 APCs
Box 31, Folder 4
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, 1945. 4 ALs, 3 TLs, 2 T, 2 DS, 2 D
Box 31, Folder 5
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, 1946. 15 ALS, 7 TLs (inc. 1 TSc), 1 T, 1 DS
Box 31, Folder 6
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, 1946. 4 ALs, 11 TLs, 1 TL, 2 APCs, 2 D
Box 31, Folder 7
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, 1947. 1 ALs, 11 TLs, 1 APCs, 2 T, 3 D
Box 31, Folder 8
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, 1949. 2 ALs, 20 TLs, 9 APCs, 1 TPc, 1 photo, 1 TS
Box 31, Folder 9
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, 1950. 2 ALs, 12 TLs, 1 APCs, 5 photos, 2 D
Box 31, Folder 10
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, 1954. 11 TLs, 3 TL, 1 APCs, 1 birthday card hand-drawn by Freddie
Box 31, Folder 11
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, 1955. 11 ALs, 1 AL, 9 TLs, 4 TL, 3 APCs, 4 APC, 1 card hand-drawn by Freddie, 1 drawing
by FB
Box 32, Folder 1
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, 1956. 9 ALs, 2 AL, 16 TLs, 4 TL, 1 APCs, 1 photo, 1 hand-drawn card by FB, 3 D
Box 32, Folder 2
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, 1957. 1 ALs, 9 TLs, 4 TL, 2 D
Box 32, Folder 3
Blackburn, Paul to Frances Frost, undated. 1 ALs, 1 TLs, 1 TL, 1 APCs
Box 32, Folder 4
Blackburn, Paul to Noreen Carr Grace. 2 ALs, 1 TLs, 1 ALs with part typed
Box 32, Folder 5
Blackburn, Sara (Golden, second wife). 12 ALs, 4 TLs, 2 TL, 1 APCs, 2 R, 1 hand-made cards (1 signed), 2 TS, 1 MS, 1 D, 1
photocopy of letter to Octavio Paz
Box 32, Folder 6
Blackburn, William Gordon (father). 14 ALs, 25 TLs, 1 ALs with part typed, 1 R
Box 32, Folder 7
Frost, Amos, 1940-1945 (maternal grandfather). 25 TL (2 with Jean Blackburn)
Box 32, Folder 8
Frost, Amos, 1942-1947. 15 TL, 1 card with TN
Box 32, Folder 9
Frost, Amos, 1948-1955. 32 TL
Box 32, Folder 10
Frost, Amos. Ephemera, cards from others given to PB
Box 32, Folder 11
Frost, Frances to PB, 1942. 1 ALs, 9 TLs, 1 TL
Box 32, Folder 12
Frost, Frances to PB, 1944. 13 TLs, 6 D
Box 32, Folder 13
Frost, Frances to PB, 1945. 2 ALs, 17 TLs, 1 TPCs, 23 D
Box 32, Folder 14
Frost, Frances to PB, 1946. 2 ALs, 24 TLs, 14 D
Box 33, Folder 1
Frost, Frances to PB, 1946. 1 ALs, 19 TLs, 11 D, 1 Ds
Box 33, Folder 2
Frost, Frances to PB, 1946. 20 TLs, 1 D (also 1 ALs from "Chappie" encl. in Sept. 10 TLs)
Box 33, Folder 3
Frost, Frances to PB, 1946. 1 ALs, 12 TLs, 1 Ds, 6 D, 1 photo (also 1 ALs from "Dode" and 1 from Aung Agnes encl. in Nov.
24 TLs)
Box 33, Folder 4
Frost, Frances to PB, 1947. 1 ALs, 19 TLs, 1 TNs, 1 Ds, 12 D (also 1 TLs from "Peter" encl. in Jan. 11 TLs)
Box 33, Folder 5
Frost, Frances to PB, 1954-1957. 1 ALs, 38 TLs
Box 33, Folder 6
Frost, Frances to PB, 1958-1959. 2 TLs
Box 33, Folder 7
Frost, Frances to PB, undated. 1 TL
Box 33, Folder 8
Golden, Leanne (Sara Blackburn's sister). 1 ALs, 1 D
Box 33, Folder 9
Grace, Noreen Carr (Frances Frost's friend). 15 ALs, 5 TLs (1 carbon of letter to and one from "Frederick"), 2 APCs, 1 R,
1 TSc of Thurber poem
Box 33, Folder 10
Grey, Alfred (Freddie Blackburn's father). 3 ALs, 6 TLs, 6 TL
Box 33, Folder 11
June, Pearl (PB's maternal grandmother) 1959-1971. 25 ALs, 1 R on TLs to Pearl June from "Ruth"
Box 33, Folder 12
June, Pearl, undated. 11 ALs, 2 cards (1 signed, 1 with R enc.)
Box 33, Folder 13
Taber, Edna (paternal cousin). 1 ALs
Box 33, Folder 14
Aunt Agnes (paternal [?]). 1 ALs
Box 34, Folder 2
Abrams, Sam. 8 TLs, 2 APCs, 1 D, 5 MS
Box 34, Folder 4
Allen, Donald (PB replies are in Donald Allen archive). 21 TLs, 1 TPCs, 1 D
Box 34, Folder 6
Alexander, D. 3 ALs, 2 TLs
Box 34, Folder 7
Anselm, Felix. 2 ALs, 1 TLs, 1 MS
Box 34, Folder 8
Antin, David and Eleanor. 1 TLs, 1 Tc, 1 D
Box 34, Folder 11
Aster, Sidney. 2 TLs, 1 Rc
Box 34, Folder 14
Baker, Helen and Buck. 7 TLs, 15 MS
Box 34, Folder 16
Barker, Richard. 2 TLs, 11 MS
Box 34, Folder 17
Bartra, Agusti. 3 ALs, 8 TLs, 2 APCs, 1 MS
Box 34, Folder 21
Bell, Richard. 1 ALs, 10 TLs, 1 MS
Box 34, Folder 23
Berge, Carol (see also series VIII). 1 ALs, 25 TLs, 14 MS
Box 34, Folder 25
Bialy, Harvey. 1 TLs, 1 TPCs
Box 34, Folder 27
Blackburn, Paul. Assorted carbons and unsent letters
1947-1951
Box 34, Folder 28
Blackburn, Paul
1954-1959
Box 34, Folder 29
Blackburn, Paul
1960-1969
Box 34, Folder 30
Blackburn, Paul
1970-1971
Box 34, Folder 33
Bly, Robert. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 34, Folder 36
Boffey, Peter. 1 TLs, 5 MS
Box 34, Folder 38
Bolles, Robert. 3 ALs, 1 TLs, 1 APCs
Box 34, Folder 44
Bottone, Anthony. 1 ALs, 1 APCs
Box 34, Folder 46
Bowering, George. 2 ALs, 1 TLs, 3 MS
Box 34, Folder 48
Bradley, Van Allen. 2 TLs
Box 35, Folder 1
Brafman, Allen. 3 Als, 5 TLs
Box 35, Folder 2
Brandstein, Natalie, 1945. 18 ALs, 4 TLs, 1 APCs, 1 TPCs
Box 35, Folder 3
Brandstein, Natalie, 1946. 25 ALs, 7 TLs (inc. 1 TS), 3 APCs, 1 TPCs, 1 card
Box 35, Folder 4
Brandstein, Natalie, 1947. 13 ALs, 12 TLs, 1 TPCs, 6 APCs, 1 NS, 1 T
Box 35, Folder 5
Brandstein, Natalie, 1948-1952. 16 Als, 9 TLs, 4 APCs, 1 card
Box 35, Folder 7
Braun, Henry. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 35, Folder 8
Bremser, Ray and Bonnie. 2 TLs
Box 35, Folder 9
Bronfman, Larry. 69 TLs, 2 TL, 1 D, 1 MS; 1 Rc, and 1 one unmailed R
Box 35, Folder 11
Burns, Robert Grant. 4 TLs
Box 35, Folder 12
Busby, C. R. 1 TL (published in
Hudson Review with rebuttal by PB
Box 35, Folder 13
Butler, Bill. 1 TLs, 1 MS
Box 35, Folder 15
Byrd, Bobby. 10 ALs, 19 TLs, 1 TPCs, 1 MS
Box 35, Folder 17
Calhoun, Douglas. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 35, Folder 21
Caplan, Ron. 1 ALs, 4 TLs
Box 35, Folder 22
Capouya, Emile (see also 25.2). 1 Als
Box 35, Folder 23
Carpentier, Hortense. 8 TLs
Box 35, Folder 24
Carroll, Paul, 1953. 20 TLs
Box 35, Folder 25
Carroll, Paul, 1954-1956. 6 ALs, 24 TLs
Box 35, Folder 26
Carroll, Paul, 1957-1958. 2 ALs, 21 TLs
Box 35, Folder 27
Carroll, Paul. 12 ALs, 12 TLs, 1 TPCs, 1 ALs from PC's wife and 1 TLs from PC to Simon Perchik; 1 R unmailed
Box 35, Folder 28
Carroll, Paul. 40 MS, 2 rexographs, 1 ditto
Box 36, Folder 6
Cohen, Barbara. 9 ALs, 8 TLs, 4 MS
Box 36, Folder 7
Cohen, Robert David. 9 ALs, 8 TLs, 4 MS
Box 36, Folder 9
Cole, Sheila. 6 TLs, 1 TPCs, 1 carbon to Simon Perchik
Box 36, Folder 11
Coleman, Victor. 1 ALs, 5 TLs
Box 36, Folder 13
Collom, Jack. 1 TLs, 1 MS
Box 36, Folder 14
Condit, David. 1 ALs, 6 MS
Box 36, Folder 19
Corman, Cid, 1951. 16 TLs
Box 36, Folder 20
Corman, Cid, 1952. 2 ALs, 10 TLs, 1 APCs
Box 36, Folder 21
Corman, Cid, 1953. 1 ALs, 16 TLs, 5 APCs, 4 TPCs
Box 36, Folder 22
Corman, Cid, 1954-1955. 3 ALs, 12 TLs, 1 TPs
Box 36, Folder 23
Corman, Cid, 1956-1962. 13 TLs, 1 APCs
Box 36, Folder 24
Corman, Cid, 1963-1971. 6 TLs, 2 TPCs, 1 note from Corman's mother; 1 Rc and 1 R unmailed
Box 36, Folder 28
Cortazar, Julio, 1958-1962. 4 ALs, 27 TLs, 1 NS
Box 36, Folder 29
Cortazar, Julio, 1963-1965. 25 TLs, 8 TLsc, 1 author's questionnaire, 1 ALs
Box 36, Folder 30
Cortazar, Julio, 1966-1969. 2 Als, 22 TLs, 1 APCs
Box 36, Folder 31
Cortazar, Julio, 1970-1971. 4 ALs, 11 TLs, 1 copy of letter to Toby Olson
Box 36, Folder 32
Cortazar, Julio from Paul Blackburn. 15 TLc, 2 TL unmailed
Box 36, Folder 33
Cortazar, Julio from Sara Blackburn. 6 TLSc, 1 TLc
Box 36, Folder 34
Creeley, Robert, 1950. 8 TLs
Box 36, Folder 35
Creeley, Robert, 1951. 25 TLs, Oct. 17 typed on letter from Richard Aldington to Creeley and incl. RC's "The Party"
Box 36, Folder 36
Creeley, Robert, 1952. 14 TLs
Box 37, Folder 1
Creeley, Robert, 1954-1958. 22 TLs, 1 TPCs, 1 TLs from Ann Creeley
Box 37, Folder 2
Creeley, Robert, 1959-1970. 2 ALs, 35 TLs, 7 APCs, 8 APCs, 1 N
Box 37, Folder 3
Creeley, Robert. 5 MS, TSc of RC's introduction to reprint of
Black Mountain Review; 2 R, 1 R unmailed
Box 37, Folder 4
Cresswell, George (Churchy). 24 ALs
Box 37, Folder 5
Cuatrecasas, Gil. 1 Als, 3 TLs, 1 APCs
Box 37, Folder 9
Dawson, Fielding. 2 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 37, Folder 11
Degnan, June Oppen. 1 TLs
Box 37, Folder 12
De Loach, Allen and Joan. 1 ALs, 5 TLs (Allen) 1 ALs, (Joan)
Box 37, Folder 13
De Longchamps, Joanne. 1 TLs
Box 37, Folder 16
Dicker, Harold. 3 ALs, 6 TLs, 3 MS
Box 37, Folder 17
Dorfman, Ellie. 12 ALs, 1 TLs. (see also 25.4)
Box 37, Folder 19
Dotton, Thomas. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 37, Folder 20
Doubrovsky, Jeffrey. 2 ALs
Box 37, Folder 22
Dowden, George. 1 ALs, 2 TLs
Box 37, Folder 27
Duncan, Robert. 8 ALs, 4 TLs, 1 TPCs
Box 37, Folder 31
Economou, George. 2 ALs, 4 TLs, 1 MS
Box 37, Folder 34
Eigner, Larry. 10 TL (1 signed), 3 TPC, 127 MS
Box 37, Folder 35
Enslin, Ted. 16 TLs, 1 MS
Box 37, Folder 37
Eshleman, Clayton, 1960. 4 ALs, 1 APCs, 1 TPCs
Box 38, Folder 1
Eshleman, Clayton, 1961. 20 TLs, 1 TPCs, 2 NS
Box 38, Folder 2
Eshleman, Clayton, 1962. 18 TLs, 1 APCs, 3 TPCs, 1 TLs from Robert Hatch to CE, 1 TLs from CE to Robert Hatch
Box 38, Folder 3
Eshleman, Clayton, 1963. 1 ALs, 14 TLs, 1 APCs, 1 TPCs
Box 38, Folder 4
Eshleman, Clayton, 1964. 1 ALs, 9 TLs, 2 APCs, 1 TPCs
Box 38, Folder 5
Eshleman, Clayton, 1965. 3 ALs with 2 TSc, 10 TLs
Box 38, Folder 6
Eshleman, Clayton, 1966. 4 ALs, 13 TLs (one with note in another hand), 1 APCs, 1 TPCs, 1 NS, copy of grant application
Box 38, Folder 7
Eshleman, Clayton, 1967-1968. 2 ALs, 5 TLs
Box 38, Folder 8
Eshleman, Clayton, 1969-1971. 1 ALs, 11 TLs, 1 TLs to Joan Blackburn, 1 APCs
Box 38, Folder 9
Eshleman, Clayton. Ephemera
Box 38, Folder 10
Eshleman, Clayton from PB. 1 R, 3 Rc
Box 38, Folder 13
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 3 ALs, 18 TLs, 2 TPCs, copy of TLs to Howard Moss
Box 38, Folder 21
Franks, David. 2 ALs, 7 TLs, 1 APCs, 1 TPCs, 33 MS
Box 38, Folder 22
Fraser, Kathleen. 2 TLs (1 to W. S. Merwin at
The Nation)
Box 38, Folder 25
Freeman, Elaine. 2 ALs, 2 TL, 48 MS
Box 38, Folder 26
French, William. 3 TLs, 3 TS
Box 38, Folder 27
Galt, Lisa. 1 ALs, 1 APCs, 3 MS
Box 38, Folder 30
Geller, Dr. S. 1 ALs, 6 TLs, 1 TL
Box 38, Folder 32
Gerber, Irving, DDS. 2 TLs
Box 39, Folder 1
Gerth, Hans, HI, Anne, and Julia. 80 TL (mostly unsigned) from various members of the family, 1 ALs from Anne, 2 ALs from
Julia, 7 ALs from HI, 1 TPCs from HI, various enc., also Blackburn's holograph chronology of events leading to HI's suicide
(which inspired the poem "The Dissolving Fabric"), 1 AR, never mailed, from Blackburn to the Gerths
1949 - 1953
Box 39, Folder 2
Gerth, Hans, HI, Anne and Julia. 5 ALs, 12 TLs, 1 rexograph signed Xmas letter, 1 signed offprint of article by Gerth
1954 - 1972
Box 39, Folder 4
Ginsberg, Allen. 4 ALs, 3 APCs, 2 MS (2nd 27 pp., untitled, signed with enclosed note)
Box 39, Folder 7
Geodicke, Mrs. Victor. 1 TLs
Box 39, Folder 10
Goldwasser, Noe. 1 TLs, 1 MS
Box 39, Folder 11
Goodman, Lila. 1 ALs, 1 TLs, 1 TL with resume, 1 MS
Box 39, Folder 14
Greene, Jonathan. 14 TLs, 1 TPCs, 3 MS
Box 39, Folder 15
Greene, Sue. 1 ALs, 2 TLs
Box 39, Folder 18
Grinberg, Miguel. 2 ALs, TLs
Box 39, Folder 19
Grossinger, Richard. 10 TLs, 2 Rc
Box 39, Folder 21
Hall, Barry. 1 ALs, see also 20.8
Box 39, Folder 22
Hamady, Walter. 35 Als, 4 TLs, 1 D, 2 MS (2nd sheaf of 15 poems)
Box 39, Folder 23
Hamalian, Leo. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 39, Folder 24
Hamed, Mustafa Ben. 1 ALs
Box 39, Folder 25
Hanson, Ken. 1 ALs, 7 TLs, 1 MS, see also 25.4
Box 39, Folder 26
Harriman, John C. 1 APCs, 1 MS
Box 39, Folder 27
Harris, Marguerite. 1 ALs, 3 TLs, 5 MS
Box 39, Folder 31
Haswell, Alice and Dick. 2 ALs, 6 TLs, 1 MS, 1 D
Box 39, Folder 38
Hilberg, Conrad. 2 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 39, Folder 40
Hillaire, Christiane. 10 ALs
Box 39, Folder 41
Hitchcock, George. 1 ALs, 2 TLs
Box 39, Folder 43
Hollo, Anselm. 1 ALs, 10 TLs, 2 D (1 carbon resume), 13 MS
Box 39, Folder 44
Holzman, Seymour. 1 ALs, 1 APCs
Box 39, Folder 47
Horowitz, Michael. 1 ALs, 3 TLs
Box 39, Folder 48
Hutton, Don. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 39, Folder 53
Irby, Ken. 4 ALs, 2 TLs, 2 MS
Box 40, Folder 2
Jacobs, Sydney. 1 ALs, 1 AL, 4 TLs, 9 TL, 2 MS
Box 40, Folder 3
Jacobs, Sherry. 1 TLs, 1 MS
Box 40, Folder 4
Jacobsen, Josephine. 1 ALs
Box 40, Folder 6
Jarrett, Dennis. 13 TLs, 7 MS
Box 40, Folder 7
Jarvik, Barbara. 20 ALs, 6 TLs
Box 40, Folder 9
Jerome, Judson. 1 ALs, 2 TLs
Box 40, Folder 13
Jones, Jeanetta. 1 ALs, 6 TLs, 2 TPCs, 1 MS
Box 40, Folder 15
Junkius, Donald. 1 ALs, 1 MS
Box 40, Folder 21
Katz, Evi and Leandro. 1 ALs, TLs, 1 APCs
Box 40, Folder 24
Kelly, Joby. 2 ALs, 6 TLs, 1 TL, 1 D
Box 40, Folder 25
Kelly, Robert. 23 ALs, 29 TLs, 4 D, 6 MS
Box 40, Folder 26
Kemp, Lysander. 1 ALs, 9 TLs, 1 MS
Box 40, Folder 30
Keys, John. 3 ALs, 5 TLs, 1 TL, 1 MS
Box 40, Folder 31
Kimball, George. 2 ALs, 7 TLs, 1 D, 1 MS, incl. tax returns and corres. between Kimball and NY phone co
Box 40, Folder 33
King, Marthan and Basil. 1 Als, 1 TLs
Box 40, Folder 35
Kinter, Bill. 4 ALs, 2 TLs, 2 APCs, 1 MS, 1 Rc
Box 40, Folder 39
Klimpt, Werner. 11 ALs, 3 TLs, 1 APCs
Box 40, Folder 40
Koller, James. 6 ALs, 7 TLs
Box 40, Folder 41
Kowit, Steve. 1 TLs, 1 MS
Box 40, Folder 42
Kray, Elizabeth. 6 TLs, 2 APCs, 1 TPCs, 1 TLc to NEH, 1 TLc to Robert Creeley, 2 Rc
Box 41, Folder 3
Lash, Kenneth. 1 ALs, 8 TLs
Box 41, Folder 4
Lattimore, Sandy. 1 ALs, 1 MS
Box 41, Folder 6
Laughlin, James. 4 TLs, 1 Ds
Box 41, Folder 10
Leonardos, Stella. 6 ALs, 3 TLs
Box 41, Folder 11
Levertov, Denise. 9 ALs, 2 TLs, 3 APCs, 2 Rc
Box 41, Folder 14
Lewis, Harry. 3 ALs, 4 MS, see also 9.4
Box 41, Folder 15
Linick, Anthony. 2 ALs, 2 TLs, 2 TPCs
Box 41, Folder 21
Loeb, Howard. 4 ALs, 1 TLs, 2 MS
Box 41, Folder 22
Loewinsohn, Ron. 4 ALs, 10 TLs, 1 MS
Box 41, Folder 23
Lorca, Concepcion Garcia. 2 ALs
Box 41, Folder 24
Lowenfels, Walter. 9 TLs, 6 D, 5 MS, see also 20.11
Box 41, Folder 32
McCloskey, Mark. 5 ALs, 2 TLs, 4 MS
Box 41, Folder 33
McClure, Michael. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 41, Folder 35
MacDiarmid, Hugh (Norman MacCaig). 1 D
Box 41, Folder 36
MacGregor, Robert. 10 TLs
Box 41, Folder 37
McGuire, Paula and Bill. 1 ALs, 3 TLs, 5 APCs
Box 41, Folder 39
Mac Low, Jackson. 4 ALs, 1 TLs, 4 MS
Box 41, Folder 40
MacReynolds, David. 2 TLs
Box 41, Folder 45
Marshall, Margaret. 1 TLs
Box 41, Folder 47
Martin, John. 3 TLs, see also 21.1
Box 41, Folder 49
Masserman, Morris H. 1 TLs
Box 41, Folder 50
Matsuura, Mr. Naomi. 1 TLs, 1 MS
Box 41, Folder 56
Merwin, W. S. 1 ALs, 2 MS
Box 41, Folder 58
Micheline, Jack. 1 ALs, 1 MS, 1 signed cartoon drawing
Box 42, Folder 1
Morris, James Ryan. 1 TLs
Box 42, Folder 2
Morris, Richard. 1 ALs, 5 TLs, 1 TL, 1 TPCs
Box 42, Folder 3
Moss, Howard. 19 TLs, 1 Rc
Box 42, Folder 4
Mottram, Eric. 1 ALs, 1 TL, 1 D
Box 42, Folder 5
Newberry, Sam D. 5 ALs, 6 TLs, 1 MS, see also 27.1
Box 42, Folder 9
Nusser, Helen. 2 ALs, 1 MS
Box 42, Folder 10
Olson, Charles. 4 ALs, 6 TLs, 5 TL, 2 T, 2 D
Box 42, Folder 12
Olson, Toby. 8 TLs, 16 MS
Box 42, Folder 13
Oppenheimer, Joel. 4 TLs, 1 APCs, 5 MS
Box 42, Folder 16
Ossman, David. 7 TLs, 1 TPCs, 3 MS
Box 42, Folder 18
Paiewonsky-Conde, Edgar. 2 TLs, 1 MS
Box 42, Folder 22
Patai, Daphne (McDaniel). 8 ALs, 11 TLs
Box 42, Folder 24
Payne, John. 1 TLs, 14 MS
Box 42, Folder 25
Paz, Octavio. 5 ALs, 10 TLs, 2 MS
Box 42, Folder 27
Perchik, Simon. 1 ALs, 2 TLs, 6 MS
Box 42, Folder 31
Phillips, Elisabeth. 1 ALs
Box 42, Folder 32
Phillips, William Jr. 1 TLs, 1 MS
Box 42, Folder 39
Pound, Ezra. 6 ALs, 7 TL, 1 AP, 1 TPC, 1 D
Box 42, Folder 40
Pritchard, Norman H. 1 ALs
Box 42, Folder 41
Quinn, Sister Bernetta. 9 ALs, 4 TLs, 1 offprint of article with R
Box 43, Folder 1
Rabassa, Gregory. 3 TLs, 1 Rc
Box 43, Folder 3
Rainier, Dachine. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 43, Folder 5
Randall, Elinor. 1 TLs, 1 Rc
Box 43, Folder 6
Randall, Margaret. 17 TLs
Box 43, Folder 7
Rane, Margaret. 17 ALs, 2 TLs
Box 43, Folder 8
Ransom, John Crowe. 1 ALs
Box 43, Folder 10
Raworth, Tom. 10 ALs, 5 TLs, see also 20.8
Box 43, Folder 12
Reardon, Eunice. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 43, Folder 15
Reynolds, Tim. 22 TLs, 13 MS
Box 43, Folder 16
Rice, Dan. 2 birth announcements signed
Box 43, Folder 17
Rifkin (Lezak [?]) Iris. 2 ALs, 2 TLs, 2 MS
Box 43, Folder 18
Rivera, William. 5 TLs, 1 MS
Box 43, Folder 21
Rosenblatt, Joel. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 43, Folder 22
Rosenthal, M. L. 16 ALs, 6 TLs, see also 19.11
Box 43, Folder 24
Rothenberg, Jerome. 4 ALs, 4 TLs, 1 TPCs, 3 MS
Box 43, Folder 25
Rowan, Louis. 3 ALs, 3 TLs
Box 43, Folder 26
Rubenstein, Carol. 4 TLs, 1 TLs to Paul Carroll re: PB, 12 MS
Box 43, Folder 29
Rumaker, Michael. 4 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 43, Folder 30
St. Martin, Hardie. 1 ALs, 1 TLs, 1 MS
Box 43, Folder 36
Saverlander, Wolfgang. 1 TLs
Box 43, Folder 37
Schaff, David. 2 ALs, 2 TLs, 1 MS
Box 43, Folder 39
Schenker, Donald. 4 TLs, 9 TL, 15 MS
Box 43, Folder 40
Schiller, Robert. 4 ALs, 2 TLs, 1 D
Box 43, Folder 46
Schwerner, Armand. 2 ALs, 1 TLs, 3 MS
Box 43, Folder 52
Shedd, Margaret. 1 ALs, 2 TLs
Box 43, Folder 53
Shepard, Flola. 1 TLs, 1 T
Box 43, Folder 54
Sinclair, John. 1 ALs, 6 TLs
Box 43, Folder 55
Skinner, Knute. 3 TLs, 2 D
Box 44, Folder 2
Smith, F. G. Walton. 1 TLs
Box 44, Folder 4
Snyder, Gary. 4 ALs, 4 TLs, 1 D
Box 44, Folder 8
Sorrentino, Gil. 3 ALs, 9 TLs, 3 D, 3 MS
Box 44, Folder 9
Souchon, Dr. Edward. 1 TLs
Box 44, Folder 11
Speciner, Sandra J. 1 TLs
Box 44, Folder 13
Squirru, Rafael. 3 ALs, 6 TLs, 2 D
Box 44, Folder 14
Stahl, Jayne Lyn. 2 TLs, 1 MS
Box 44, Folder 15
Stark, Brad. 4 ALs, 1 TLs, 2 TL, 1 D
Box 44, Folder 17
Stewart, Cathy. 4 ALs, 8 TLs, 5 MS
Box 44, Folder 22
Sutherland, Elizabeth. 5 TLs
Box 44, Folder 25
Sward, Robert. 2 ALs, 32 TLs, 21 MS
Box 44, Folder 28
Tarn, Nathaniel. 2 ALs, 2 TLs
Box 44, Folder 29
Thayler, Carl. 2 ALs, 6 TLs, 7 MS
Box 44, Folder 36
Tucker, Harvey. 1 ALs, 1 TLs, 2 MS
Box 44, Folder 39
Valenty, Lili. 2 ALs, 2 TLs
Box 44, Folder 40
Van Aelstyn, Ed. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 44, Folder 43
Vas Dias, Robert. 3 ALs, 6 TLs, 5 MS
Box 44, Folder 44
Verkuil, Nancy, 4ALs, 11TLs
Box 44, Folder 45
Victor, Micheline. 2 TLs, 1 MS
Box 44, Folder 50
Wainhouse, Austryn. 1 TLs
Box 45, Folder 1
Wakoski, Diane. 3 ALs, 10 TLs
Box 45, Folder 4
Waldman, Anne. 1 ALs, 2 TLs
Box 45, Folder 6
Wang, David Raphael. 3 TLs, 1 D, 4 MS
Box 45, Folder 8
Warren, Robert Penn. 1 TLs
Box 45, Folder 10
Weinberger, Tony. 1 ALs, 1 TLs
Box 45, Folder 22
Williams, Jonathan. 9 TLs, 4 TPCs, 3 Jargon booklists with TNS, 1 with R, 1 without note, 1 MS
Box 45, Folder 24
Williams, Galen. 3 ALs, 4 TLs, 3 Ds
Box 45, Folder 31
Zukofsky, Louis. 10 ALs, 1 TLs, 3 MS
Box 45, Folder 32
Miscellaneous and unidentified letters - Part I
Box 45, Folder 35
Misc., identified and not, Christmas cards
Box 45, Folder 36
Misc. envelopes and addresses
Box 45, Folder 37
Unidentified MSS and MSS from various writing workshops taught by PB - Part I
Box 46, Folder 1
Poems from writing workshop students - Part I
Box 46, Folder 3
Poems typed up by Blackburn of his students for writing workshop at City College
Box 46, Folder 4
Misc. and unidentified original art pieces, mostly sketches
MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 8) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS: Arranged into four subseries.
A) Photocopies of Publications: Compiled by Kathleen Woodward. This subseries begins with a chronological arrangement of Blackburn's
published poems and is followed by copies of non-fiction prose, poems from anthologies, and translations, all arranged chronologically.
B) Dissertation on Blackburn: Edith Jarolim's dissertation on Blackburn, later published by Perseus Press.
C) Indexes: Two card indexes, one of Blackburn's published work, the other of his unpublished work.
D) Originals of Preservation Photocopies
Photocopies of Publications
Box 46, Folder 5
PB's published poems; compiled by Kathleen Woodward - Part I
1951
Box 47, Folder 4
Part XXI (46.5)
General note
Poems published after 1971.
Box 47, Folder 5
Part XXII (46.5)
General note
Undated poems.
Box 47, Folder 6
Xeroxes of essays, reviews, and interviews which appeared in serials
Box 47, Folder 8
Translations from Provencal - Part I
1952 - 1965
Box 47, Folder 9
Part II (47.8)
1968 - 1969
Box 48, Folder 1
Xeroxes of translations from Chinese
Box 48, Folder 2
Translations of Spanish from serials
Box 48, Folder 3
Translations of Spanish from anthologies
Dissertation on Blackburn
Box 48, Folder 4
Xerox typescripts of Edith Jarolim's edition of PB's collected poetry - Part I
General
First accepted as a Ph.D. dissertation at New York University in 1984 and subsequently published by Perseus Press in 1985.
Box 50, Folder 1
Card index of PB's published work
Box 51, Folder 1
Card index of PB's unpublished work
Originals of Preservation Photocopies
Box 52
Fragile materials
Conditions Governing Access
Restrictions Apply
Box 53
Fragile materials
Conditions Governing Access
Restrictions Apply