Kenward Elmslie Papers
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2019
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Business Number: 858-534-2533
Fax Number: 858-534-5950
spcoll@ucsd.edu
Descriptive Summary
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Kenward Elmslie Papers
Creator:
Elmslie, Kenward
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0521
Physical Description:
81.2 Linear feet
(127 archives boxes, 18 records cartons, 10 card file boxes, 10 flat boxes, and 2 map case folders)
Physical Description:
1.09 GB
of digital files
Date (inclusive): 1901-2011
Abstract: Papers of Kenward Elmslie, a writer, performer, editor and publisher associated with the New York School. Elmslie's lyrics
and libretti for operas and musicals,
Miss Julie (1965),
Lizzie Borden (1966),
The Sweet Bye and Bye (1966),
The Grass Harp (1972), and
The Seagull (1974), brought a contemporary style to the language of musical theatre. The collection documents his literary career and
personal life, with the bulk of the material spanning the period from 1965-2000.
Languages:
English
.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of Kenward Elmslie, a writer, performer, editor and publisher associated with the New York School. The collection documents
Elmslie's personal life and career from the 1930s through the 2000s and includes correspondence, personal and working journals
and notebooks, drafts, revisions, original submissions, and edited galleys for most of his published writings, and much unpublished
material. Correspondence is a large and significant part of the collection, and includes letters exchanged with composers
Jack Beeson, John Latouche, Claibe Richardson, Thomas Pasatieri and Ned Rorem, and graphic artists Joe Brainard, Donna Dennis
and Kenneth Tisa. The production files of Z Magazine and Z Press contain correspondence and manuscripts of writers and artists
including John Ashbery, Jean Boulte, Joe Brainard, Ian Hamilton, Steve Gianakos, Joanne Kyger, Harry Matthews, Ron Padgett,
James Schuyler, Anne Waldman, and Marjorie Welish. There are a substantial number of photographs including formal portraits
and snapshots depicting Elmslie, his friends and colleagues, his travels and interests, as well as albums containing photographs
of members of the Pulitzer and Elmslie families in the early decades of the twentieth century. Also represented are pre-publication
drafts by other poets and writers and manuscripts and miscellaneous materials by Joe Brainard and John Latouche.
Accession Processed in 2005
Arranged in ten series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) PERFORMANCE/THEATRE WORKS, 3) WRITINGS, 4) PHOTOGRAPHS, 5) BIOGRAPHICAL, 6)
Z PRESS PRODUCTION FILES, 7) JOE BRAINARD MATERIAL, 8) JOHN LATOUCHE MATERIAL, 9) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, and 10) MISCELLANEOUS.
Accessions Processed in 2019-2020
Arranged in eight series: 11) BIOGRAPHICAL, 12) CORRESPONDENCE, 13) WRITINGS, 14) JOE BRAINARD MATERIAL, 15) WORK BY OTHERS,
16) MISCELLANEOUS, and 17-18) AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS.
Biography
Kenward Gray Elmslie was born in New York City on April 27, 1929, to William Gray Elmslie, a British businessperson, and
Constance Pulitzer, daughter of newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer. His early childhood was spent in Colorado Springs, Colorado,
and he attended preparatory schools in Virginia, Ohio and Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1950 with a B.A. in
literature and began his writing career as a lyricist and librettist, writing witty and melodic songs in collaboration with
several composers.
His published work for the musical theatre includes
The Sweet Bye and Bye (1966) and
Lizzie Borden (1966), music by Jack Beeson;
Miss Julie (1965), music by Ned Rorem, and three works with composer Thomas Pasatieri,
The Seagull (1974),
Washington Square (1976), and
Three Sisters (1986). Elmslie also wrote both the book and lyrics for a musical,
The Grass Harp (1972) based on Truman Capote's 1951 novel. In 1993, Elmslie wrote and subsequently performed
Postcards on Parade his one-man conceptual musical play incorporating Elmslie's collage works with performance art and his love of postcards.
In 1954 Elmslie began to publish stories, short plays and verse in little magazines and gather them into collections including:
Pavilions (1961),
Power Plant Poems (1967),
The Champ,
Album (1969),
Circus Nerves (1971),
Motor Disturbance (1971),
Orchid Stories (1973),
Tropicalism (1975),
Topiary Trek (1977),
Moving Right Along (1980),
Sung Sex (1990),
Champ Dust (1994),
Bare Bones (1995), and
Routine Disruptions: Selected Poems & Lyrics (1998).
Alice Notley in her review of
Routine Disruptions for
Jacket Magazine wrote, "Elmslie has never done what he was supposed to, and after the nearly forty years this book represents, his poetry
can be seen to be unique. You do keep reading the poems, not because they're part of an ongoing discussion as to What Poetry
Should Be Right Now, but because they continue to be unpredictable and unlike (other poetry) and lifelike (weird, patterned,
tender.)"
In addition to his theatrical partnerships, Elmslie also collaborated with several artists over the course of his career including
projects with his partner, Joe Brainard such as
The Baby Book (1965),
The 1967 Gamebook Calendar (1967),
The Champ (1968),
Shiny Ride (1972),
1984 Comics (1983),
Sung Sex (1989), and
Pay Dirt (1992); with Donna Dennis on
26 Bars; with Ken Tisa on
Bimbo Dirt (1982) and
Palais Bimbo Snapshots (1982), with Trevor Winkfield on
Cyberspace (2000), among others.
In 1973 Elmslie became the editor of Z Press which annually published the eponymous
Z Magazine - included titles Z (1973), ZZ (1974), ZZZ (1974), ZZZZ (1974), ZZZZZ (1976), and ZZZZZZ (1977). Z Press also published literary
works by Elmslie as well as John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Jean Boulte, Joe Brainard, Ian Finlay, Steve Gianakos, Joanne Kyger,
Harry Matthews, Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, Anne Waldman and Marjorie Walsh, among others.
Elmslie became a member American Guild of Authors and Composers, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
(ASCAP) and the Dramatists' Guild. His
Power Plant Sestina (1967) received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and
Motor Disturbance (1971) received the Frank O'Hara Award. John Ashbery commenting about Elmslie's life said, "Kenward Elmslie has led an extraordinarily
diverse and rich writing career. Master showman, poet, novelist, librettist and 'performance artist,' Elmslie is one of the
unforgettable writers of our time."
For a chronology of Elmslie's life, bibliographic information for his work and an extensive interview, see William C. Bamberger,
Kenward Elmslie: A Bibliographical Profile. Bamberger Books, 1993.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Preferred Citation
Kenward Elmslie Papers, MSS 521. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 2000, 2019-2021.
Restrictions
Boxes 92-94 contain delicate originals that have been preservation photocopied. Permission is required from the director of
Special Collections & Archives to access these boxes. Original media formats in series 17) and 18) are restricted. Viewing/Listening
copies may be available for researchers.
Related Materials
Joe Brainard Letters. MSS 703. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Joe Brainard Archive. MSS 5. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Unprocessed Additions
This collection has additional unprocessed materials not described in this finding aid. See the UC San Diego Library
catalog record to view the acquisition dates and extent of unprocessed additions.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American poetry -- 20th century
Z Press -- Archives
Gizzi, Peter -- Correspondence
Fraser, Kathleen, 1935- -- Correspondence
Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002 -- Correspondence
Di Prima, Diane -- Correspondence
Messerli, Douglas, 1947- -- Correspondence
Elmslie, Kenward -- Archives
Mayer, Bernadette -- Correspondence
Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Correspondence
Lauterbach, Ann, 1942- -- Correspondence
Berkson, Bill -- Correspondence
Kyger, Joanne -- Correspondence
Berrigan, Ted -- Correspondence
Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994 -- Correspondence
Waldman, Anne, 1945- -- Correspondence
Chernoff, Maxine, 1952- -- Correspondence
Schuyler, James -- Correspondence
Porter, Fairfield -- Correspondence
Clark, Tom, 1941- -- Correspondence
Padgett, Ron, 1942- -- Correspondence
Corbett, William, 1942- -- Correspondence
Latouche, John, 1914-1956 -- Archives
Accession Processed in 2005
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically within folders. There are two subseries:
A) General Correspondence and B) Family Correspondence. Correspondence related to specific Elmslie works, Z Press and the
Joe Brainard and John Latouche material may be found throughout the collection.
A) General Correspondence: Documents the collaborative nature of much of Elmslie's writing and his support of the art, music
and literary communities of the 1950s through 1990s. Correspondents include writers John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Maxine Chernoff,
Diane Di Prima, Kenneth Koch, Joanne Kyger, Bernadette Mayer, Eileen Myles, James Schuyler, and Anne Waldman; artists Joe
Brainard, Donna Dennis, Kenneth Tisa; composers Jack Beeson, Thomas Pasatieri, Claibe Richardson, Ned Rorem, and others. Many
were aware of Elmslie's interest in postcards and sent humorous and unusual examples. Elmslie often kept copies of his own
letters, sent and unsent, and these are located at the end of the General Correspondence subseries.
B) Family Correspondence: Letters by Elmslie's father, William Gray Elmslie to his wife Constance and to his son. There are
also letters from Elmslie's sisters, Vivien and Cynthia, and from aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews.
Box 1, Folder 2
Abbott, Keith
1973 - 1980
Box 1, Folder 4
Academy of American Poets
1967 - 1972
Box 1, Folder 5
Adler, Stella
1967 - 1985
Box 1, Folder 7
Ailanthus Press (Cynthia Savage)
1981
Box 1, Folder 9
Albee, Edward
1960 - 1971
Box 1, Folder 11
Alderson, Brooke
1975 - 1978
Box 1, Folder 12
Allen, Donald
1979
General note
Also undated note.
Box 1, Folder 13
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (Matthew Coles)
1995 - 1998
Box 1, Folder 14
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation - Lesbian and Gay Rights Project (William B. Rubenstein)
1992 - 1995
Box 1, Folder 16
Andre, Michael
1975 - 2001
Box 1, Folder 17
Andrews, Bruce
1974 - 1982
Box 1, Folder 19
Antin, Eleanor
1971 - 1973
Box 1, Folder 20
Apolinar, Danny
1961 - 1962
Box 1, Folder 21
ARSHILE (Mark Salerno)
1997 - 1998
Box 1, Folder 22
Ashbery, John
1969 - 1998
Box 2, Folder 1
Bamberger, Bill
1984 - 1998
Box 2, Folder 3
Bamberger, Janet
1993 - 1994
Box 2, Folder 4
Banks, Russell
1973 - 1981
Box 2, Folder 5
Barkdusk, Tony
1958 - 1973
Box 2, Folder 7
BARNEY (Jack Skelley)
1981 - 1987
Box 2, Folder 8
Barr, Richard
1960 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 9
Barthelme, Donald. Undated
Box 2, Folder 10
Basse, Anthony
1951 - 1961
Box 2, Folder 13
Beeson, Miranda
1978 - 1990
Box 2, Folder 15
Bellamy, Dodie
1996 - 1998
Box 2, Folder 16
Belwin Mills Publishing Corporation
1975 - 1979
Box 3, Folder 1
Bennett, John
1969 - 1979
Box 3, Folder 2
Berkson, Bill
1964 - 1996
Box 3, Folder 3
Berkson, Lynn
1976 - 1995
Box 3, Folder 4
Berlin, Lucia
1995 - 1998
Box 3, Folder 6
Berrigan, Sandy
1966 - 1994
Box 3, Folder 7
Berrigan, Ted and Alice
1965 - 1973
Box 3, Folder 8
Bett, Stephen
1978 - 1982
Box 3, Folder 9
Beyond Baroque Foundation
1983 - 1987
Box 3, Folder 12
BLACK BOX (Elizabeth Wray)
1975 - 1980
Box 3, Folder 13
Black Sparrow Press (John Martin)
1972 - 1975
Box 3, Folder 14
Blagojevic, Slobodan and Hamdya Demirovic
1990 - 1996
Box 3, Folder 15
Boosey and Hawkes, Inc
1967 - 1988
Box 4, Folder 1
Brainard, Howard and Marie
1994
General note
Parents of Joe Brainard.
Box 4, Folder 2
Brainard, Joe
1964 - 1991
Box 4, Folder 4
Brainard, John
1978 - 2004
Box 4, Folder 5
Britton, Burt
1975 - 1979
Box 4, Folder 6
Britton, Donald
1979 - 1993
Box 4, Folder 7
BROOKLYN REVIEW (Robert Thompson)
1985
Box 4, Folder 9
Brown, Lee Ann
1988 - 1998
Box 4, Folder 10
Brown, Robert
1972 - 1979
Box 4, Folder 11
Brownstein, Michael and Elizabeth Fox
1965 - 1994
Box 4, Folder 12
Burckhardt, Rudy and Yvonne Jacquette
1970 - 1997
Box 5, Folder 1
BURNING DECK (Rosmarie Waldrop)
1979 - 1992
Box 5, Folder 2
Burns, Barbara
1986 - 1995
Box 5, Folder 7
Camp, Pauline and Harold
1989 - 1996
Box 5, Folder 8
Card-A-Way Shop (Mrs. Ella Marsh Leighton)
1971 - 1973
Box 5, Folder 10
Carey, Thomas
1671 - 1986
Box 5, Folder 11
Carroll, Paul
1960 - 1972
Box 5, Folder 12
Chaloner, David
1971 - 1981
Box 5, Folder 13
Cherington, Mary. Undated
Box 5, Folder 14
Chernoff, Maxine
1963 - 1990
Box 5, Folder 15
Chernoff, Maxine
1991 - 1994
Box 5, Folder 16
Chernoff, Maxine
1995 - 1998
Box 6, Folder 1
Chernoff, Maxine. Undated
Box 6, Folder 3
Ciam, Sally and Wynn Chamberlain
1965 - 1968
Box 6, Folder 5
Cloud House Poetry Archive
1996 - 1997
Box 6, Folder 8
Codrescu, Andrei
1967 - 1979
Box 6, Folder 11
Columbia University Press
1968
Box 6, Folder 12
CONJUNCTIONS (Brad Morrow)
1983 - 1998
Box 6, Folder 13
Cooper, Dennis
1979 - 1984
Box 6, Folder 14
Corbett, Arden
1993 - 1998
Box 6, Folder 15
Corbett, Bill
1971 - 1981
Box 6, Folder 16
Corbett, Bill
1982 - 1992
Box 7, Folder 1
Corbett, Bill
1993 - 1998
Box 7, Folder 3
Corn, Alfred and Sandy McClatchy
1982 - 1988
Box 7, Folder 4
Crabtree, Lee
1971 - 1972
Box 7, Folder 5
Crase, Douglas
1973 - 1980
Box 7, Folder 9
Darling, Francis
1956 - 1959
Box 7, Folder 11
Davidson, Michael
1985 - 1986
Box 7, Folder 13
Deanovich, Connie
1994 - 1999
Box 7, Folder 15
Dempsey, Jack
1956 - 1974
Box 7, Folder 16
Dennis, Donna
1971 - 2001
Box 7, Folder 17
Di Prima, Diane
1956 - 1997
Box 7, Folder 18
Dixon, Pearl (Mrs. Frederick Dixon)
1972 - 1977
Box 7, Folder 20
Douglas, Mitch
1971 - 1974
Box 8, Folder 1
Dowell-Slatt, Coleman
1959 - 1968
Box 8, Folder 2
Drennan, Bessie
1953 - 1958
Box 8, Folder 7
Edith C. Blum Art Institute
1985 - 1986
Box 8, Folder 8
Elliot, William
1969 - 1979
Box 8, Folder 9
Emily Lowe Gallery
1972 - 1975
Box 8, Folder 10
Ennis, Edward
1964 - 1983
Box 8, Folder 12
Eshleman, Clayton
1995 - 1998
Box 8, Folder 14
Eye and Ear Theater, Inc.
1979 - 1986
Box 8, Folder 17
FIGURES (Geoffrey Young)
1984 - 1988
Box 8, Folder 18
Finlay, Ian Hamilton and Sue
1975 - 1978
Box 8, Folder 19
Follett Publishing Company
1967 - 1971
Box 8, Folder 20
Ford, Charles Henry
1965 - 1980
Box 8, Folder 22
Fowler, Matthew
1996 - 1998
Box 8, Folder 23
Foye, Raymond
1984 - 1988
Box 8, Folder 24
Franco, Michael Pinto and Isabel
1994 - 1997
Box 8, Folder 25
Frank, Benno D.
1967 - 1968
Box 8, Folder 26
Frank O'Hara Foundation
1969 - 1971
Box 8, Folder 27
Fraser, Kathleen
1975 - 1996
Box 8, Folder 28
Freedberg, Kate
1967 - 1996
Box 8, Folder 29
Freedberg, Nathaniel
1973-1991
Box 9, Folder 1
Freilicher, Jane
1970 - 1998
Box 9, Folder 2
Friedman, Ed and Lori
1986 - 2001
Box 9, Folder 3
Friedman, Michael
1976 - 2001
Box 9, Folder 4
Fulmer, Frederick
1978 - 1994
Box 9, Folder 6
Garrison, Elizabeth
1988 - 1993
Box 9, Folder 8
Gianakos, Steve
1981 - 1985
Box 9, Folder 10
Ginsberg, Allen
1977 - 1981
Box 9, Folder 11
Giorno Poetry Systems Institute, Inc.
1974 - 1979
Box 9, Folder 12
Gizzi, Peter and Liz
1988 - 2007
Box 9, Folder 14
Godfrey, John
1969 - 1994
Box 9, Folder 15
Gold, Arthur and Robert Fizdale
1963 - 1969
Box 9, Folder 16
Golde, Morris
1960 - 2001
Box 9, Folder 18
Gordon, Alice
1985 - 1994
Box 9, Folder 19
Gotham Book Mart
1970 - 1990
Box 9, Folder 20
Graf, Herbert
1969 - 1971
Box 9, Folder 21
Greene, Tinker
1978 - 1980
Box 9, Folder 22
Groffsky, Maxine
1962 - 1975
Box 10, Folder 1
Grooms, Lizzy and Red
1979 - 1984
Box 10, Folder 3
Guest, Barbara
1968 - 1996
Box 10, Folder 5
Hall, Adrian
General note
1971 and 1979
Box 10, Folder 7
Hampson, David and Anne
General note
1987 and 1994.
Box 10, Folder 9
Hashey, Jan and Yasuo and Minagawa
1979 - 1997
Box 10, Folder 12
Hazan, Jane and Joe and Elizabeth
1960 - 1993
Box 10, Folder 14
Henry, Gerrit
1972 - 1986
Box 10, Folder 15
Higgins, Dick
1974 - 1979
Box 10, Folder 17
Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art
1987
Box 10, Folder 18
Hoover, Paul (Oink Press)
1974 - 1997
Box 10, Folder 19
Hornick, Lita
1963 - 1971
Box 10, Folder 20
HOUSE AND GARDEN (Alice Gorden)
1986
Box 10, Folder 21
Hudspith, Vicki
1972 - 1990
Box 10, Folder 23
International Creative Management (Mitch Douglas)
1975 - 1992
Box 10, Folder 24
International Famous Agency (Mitch Douglas)
1974
Box 10, Folder 25
IRIDESCENCE (Michael Sheppard and Andrea Giannetti)
1988
Box 10, Folder 27
Jargon Society, Inc. (Jonathan Williams)
1975 - 1997
Box 11, Folder 3
Kamarck, Larry
1970 - 1971
Box 11, Folder 4
Katz, Alex and Ada
1966 - 1994
Box 11, Folder 5
Kaufmann [?], Joel
1976 - 1979
Box 11, Folder 8
Kermani, David
1974 - 1979
Box 11, Folder 9
Kernan, Nathan
1993 - 2004
Box 11, Folder 10
Killian, Kevin
1994 - 1998
Box 11, Folder 12
Kiross, Patrick
1959 - 1969
Box 11, Folder 14
Koch, Kenneth
1963 - 1992
Box 11, Folder 16
Kyger, Joanne
1968 - 1997
Box 11, Folder 18
Lally, Michael
1974 - 1985
Box 11, Folder 19
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
1988 - 1990
Box 12, Folder 1
Lansing, Gerrit
1915 - 1969
Box 12, Folder 2
Lansing, Gerrit
1970 - 2004
Box 12, Folder 4
Latouche, John
1955 - 1957
Box 12, Folder 5
Lauterbach, Ann
1973 - 1988
Box 12, Folder 6
Lauterbach, Ann
1989 - 1997
Box 12, Folder 7
LaVoie, Steven Paul (FAMOUS)
1975 - 1978
Box 12, Folder 8
Le Seuer, Joe
1966 - 1977
Box 12, Folder 9
Lehman, David
1978 - 2003
Box 13, Folder 2
Leonard, Peter
1979 - 1990
Box 13, Folder 4
Levitz, Annabel
1975 - 1998
Box 13, Folder 6
Living Theatre (Julian Beck)
1961 - 1962
Box 13, Folder 7
Lustig, Shelley
1970 - 1997
Box 13, Folder 8
Lyon, Catherine
1975 - 1982
Box 13, Folder 10
Maas, Willard
1959 - 1968
Box 13, Folder 11
MacGinnes, Mac
1978 - 1998
Box 14, Folder 1
Machiz, Herbert
1956 - 1965
Box 14, Folder 3
Malanga, Gerard
1952 - 1977
Box 14, Folder 5
Martin, Harry
1952 - 1971
Box 14, Folder 6
Mathews, Harry
1962 - 1995
Box 14, Folder 7
Mayer, Bernadette
1976 - 1997
Box 14, Folder 8
McCloskey, Mark
1961 - 1969
Box 14, Folder 9
McNaughton, Duncan
1993 - 1994
Box 14, Folder 10
Meyer, Thomas
1966 - 1997
Box 14, Folder 11
Mikolowski, Ann and Ken
1981 - 1997
Box 14, Folder 12
Miller, Paul Stephen
1977 - 1980
Box 14, Folder 13
MISSISSIPPI REVIEW (Frederick Barthelme)
1978 - 1980
Box 14, Folder 16
Moore, Douglas and Emily
1956 - 1969
Box 14, Folder 18
Morel, Daphne
1960 - 1967
Box 14, Folder 22
MOTHER (David Moberg)
1964
Box 14, Folder 23
Movimento Freudiano Internazionale (Armando Verdiglione)
1981
Box 14, Folder 25
Museum of Modern Art
1967 - 1981
Box 14, Folder 26
Museum of the City of New York
1968 - 1981
Box 14, Folder 28
Myles, Eileen
1976 - 1982
Box 14, Folder 30
National Endowment for the Arts
1975 - 1979
Box 14, Folder 31
National Portrait Gallery
1995 - 1996
Box 15, Folder 1
Nations, Opal
1974 - 1976
Box 15, Folder 4
NEW CENSORSHIP (Ivan Suvanjieff)
1991 - 1995
Box 15, Folder 5
New York Lyric Opera Company
1979 - 1980
Box 15, Folder 6
Nicholson, Susan
1995 - 1998
Box 15, Folder 8
North, Charles
1969 - 1994
Box 15, Folder 10
O-BLEK (Peter Gizzi)
1987 - 1990
Box 15, Folder 12
Oldenburg, Patty
1971 - 1973
Box 15, Folder 13
Olson, Charles
1959 - 1960
Box 15, Folder 15
OPERA JOURNAL
1974 - 1976
Box 15, Folder 16
Owen, Maureen
1971 - 1977
Box 16, Folder 2
Padgett, Wayne and Siobhan
1978 - 1997
Box 16, Folder 3
Pally, Maggie
1967 - 1994
Box 16, Folder 4
PARIS REVIEW (Jonathan Galassi)
1978 - 1981
Box 16, Folder 5
Park, Darragh
1975 - 1994
Box 16, Folder 6
PARNASSUS: POETRY IN REVIEW (Herbert Leibowitz)
1978 - 1984
Box 16, Folder 9
Pasatieri, Thomas
1972 - 1985
General note
Includes black-and-white photograph.
Box 16, Folder 10
Penguin Books, Ltd.
1972 - 1974
Box 16, Folder 11
Perkins, Helvetia
1955 - 1982
Box 16, Folder 12
Perry, Maggie
1956 - 1958
Box 16, Folder 13
Peterfreund, Emanuel
1968 - 1970
Box 16, Folder 14
Pew, Mrs. Thomas W. (Florence)
1974 - 1980
Box 16, Folder 15
Placid, Dempsey, R.M.
1954 - 1988
Box 16, Folder 16
Playwright's Center (David Moore, Jr.)
1975 - 1994
Box 16, Folder 18
Poetry Center
1970 - 1990
Box 16, Folder 19
Poetry Project
1974 - 1998
Box 17, Folder 2
Porter, Fairfield
1954 - 1972
Box 17, Folder 3
Psacharopoulos, Nikos
1973 - 1977
Box 17, Folder 7
Richardson, Claibe
1963 - 1998
Box 17, Folder 8
Richardson, Helen
1970 - 1972
Box 17, Folder 9
Roca, Octavia
1979 - 1981
Box 17, Folder 10
Rock and Rock (attorneys)
1970 - 1974
Box 17, Folder 11
Rodefer, Stephen
1987 - 1997
Box 17, Folder 13
Rosenburg, David
1970 - 2002
Box 17, Folder 14
Rosenthal, Mrs. Sigmund
1952 - 1953
Box 18, Folder 1
S. Fischer Verlag
1959 - 1966
Box 18, Folder 2
Sansegundo, Ruth
1971 - 1979
Box 18, Folder 3
Schjeldahl, Peter
1972 - 1983
Box 18, Folder 4
Schuyler, James
1962 - 1988
Box 18, Folder 8
Shapiro, David
1978 - 1980
Box 18, Folder 9
Sheppard, Michael
1972 - 1990
Box 18, Folder 12
Smith, Maureen
1975 - 1977
Box 18, Folder 13
Snell, Donald
1971 - 1972
Box 18, Folder 14
Southgate, Patsy
1974 - 1994
Box 18, Folder 15
Stinehour Press
1975 - 1981
Box 18, Folder 18
Suddler, Donald
1979 - 1985
Box 18, Folder 19
Sun and Moon Press (Douglas Messerli)
1977 - 1997
Box 18, Folder 20
Szuba, Andrezej
1982 - 1987
Box 18, Folder 22
Tampubolon, Jimmy
1982 - 1996
Box 19, Folder 1
Taylor, Steven
1984 - 1998
Box 19, Folder 3
Thomas, Richard
1975 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 4
Thomson, Virgil
1965 - 1971
Box 19, Folder 7
Toothpaste Press (Alan Kornblum)
1975
Box 19, Folder 10
Towle, Rachel
1972 - 1981
Box 19, Folder 13
Tucker, Chuck
1961 - 1969
Box 19, Folder 17
United States Senate and House of Representatives
1968 - 1998
General note
Eugene J. McCarthy, Winston Prouty, John M. Murphy, Patrick J. Leahy, Robert T. Stafford, Neal J. Houston, and James M. Jeffords.
Box 19, Folder 18
University of California, San Diego. Mandeville Department of Special Collections
1986 - 1987
Box 19, Folder 19
University of Michigan
1971 - 1973
Box 19, Folder 20
UNMUZZLED OX (Michael Andre)
1974 - 1997
Box 19, Folder 22
Van Dyke, Henry
1972 - 1975
Box 19, Folder 25
Vermont Council on the Arts (Ellen Lovell)
1969 - 1989
Box 19, Folder 26
Vermont Folklife Center
1989 - 1990
Box 20, Folder 3
Wakoski, Diane
1965 - 1969
Box 20, Folder 4
Waldman, Anne
1969 - 1979
Box 20, Folder 5
Waldman, Anne
1981 - 2001
Box 20, Folder 6
Waldman, Frances
1968 - 1980
Box 20, Folder 7
Waldrop, Keith
1977 - 1978
Box 20, Folder 8
Walker, Janet
1978 - 1994
Box 20, Folder 10
Watershed Foundation
1977 - 1994
Box 20, Folder 12
Watten, Barrett (THIS magazine)
1984 - 1985
Box 20, Folder 13
Weeks, Ralph and Elsie
1956 - 1989
Box 21, Folder 2
Welish, Marjorie
1978 - 1985
Box 21, Folder 3
Welt, Bernard
1977 - 1994
Box 21, Folder 5
Wieners, John
1969 - 1970
Box 21, Folder 6
Williamstown Theatre
General note
1967 and 1973
Box 21, Folder 7
Wilson, Robert
1991 - 1998
Box 21, Folder 8
Winch, Terence
1975 - 1985
Box 21, Folder 9
Winkfield, Trevor
1967 - 1996
Box 21, Folder 11
Woodland Pattern Book Center
1996
Box 21, Folder 16
Young, Geoffrey
1973 - 1996
Box 21, Folder 18
Zaslove, Arne
1978 - 1994
Box 21, Folder 19
Zavatsky, Bill
1970 - 1975
Box 21, Folder 20
Zivancevic, Nina
1988 - 2001
Box 23, Folder 2
Letters by Kenward Elmslie to others, A - I
General note
Most undated typescripts.
Box 23, Folder 3
Letters by Kenward Elmslie to others, J - W
General note
Most undated typescripts.
Box 23, Folder 4
Messages and notes to Kenward Elmslie from others
General note
Most undated and handwritten.
Box 23, Folder 5
Unidentifiable letters and postcards
Box 24, Folder 1
Elmslie, Alexandra (niece)
1961 - 1998
General note
Includes handwritten "Freaks throughout the World" by Alexandra and Kenward Elmslie, dated July 8, 1962.
Box 24, Folder 2
Elmslie, Jean (Mrs. William Elmslie)
1956 - 1981
Box 24, Folder 3
Elmslie, Joyce
1958 - 1965
Box 24, Folder 4
Elmslie, K.G. (Ken)
1988 - 1989
General note
English branch of Elmslie family. Kenward G. Elmslie referred to as his namesake.
Box 24, Folder 5
Elmslie, Vivien (sister)
1952 - 1973
Box 24, Folder 6
Elmslie, Vivien (sister)
1975 - 1997
Box 24, Folder 8
Elmslie, William Gray (father)
1906 - 1915
Box 24, Folder 9
Elmslie, William Gray (father)
1952 - 1955
Box 24, Folder 10
Gardiner, Mary (aunt)
1957 - 1960
Box 24, Folder 11
Jacob, Mrs. Charles R. (Aunt Gladys)
1957 - 1977
Box 25, Folder 1
Lansing, Mrs. Charles (Aunt Alice)
1952 - 1973
Box 25, Folder 2
Moore, Mrs. William S. (Auntie)
1956 - 1966
Box 25, Folder 3
Pulitzer, Constance Helen
1901
Box 25, Folder 4
Pulitzer, Joseph
1911 - 1986
Box 25, Folder 5
Pulitzer, Mrs. Ralph (Aunt Peggy)
1954 - 1972
Box 25, Folder 6
Russe, Vivien
1959 - 1998
Box 25, Folder 8
Russe, Willie
1991 - 1998
Box 25, Folder 9
Webb, Gerald B.
1913
General note
Constance Pulitzer's physician.
Box 25, Folder 10-11
Weir, Cynthia (sister)
1946 - 1953
Box 25, Folder 12-13
Weir, Cynthia (sister)
1954 - 1961
Box 26, Folder 1-2
Weir, Cynthia (sister)
1962 - 1965
Box 26, Folder 3-5
Weir, Cynthia (sister)
1966 - 1971
Box 26, Folder 6-8
Weir, Cynthia (sister)
1972 - 1979
Box 27, Folder 1-3
Weir, Cynthia (sister)
1980 - 1996
Box 27, Folder 10
Weir, Gordon and Susie
1953 - 1997
Box 28, Folder 1
Weir, Jim and Rosalind (nephew)
1964 - 1975
Box 28, Folder 3
Miscellaneous family correspondence
PERFORMANCE/THEATRE WORKS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 2) PERFORMANCE/THEATRE WORKS: Arranged chronologically in three subseries: A) Published Works, B) Unpublished Works
and C) Announcements and Flyers.
A) Published Works: Arranged by year of publication, given in parentheses, then alphabetically by title within a single year.
The material for each title is arranged in order of production. Related correspondence, if any, is first, followed by folders
that may contain notes and outlines, work-in-progress files, drafts, and proofs. Collateral material, such as music scores,
photographs or illustrations, is next, followed by advertisements, programs and reviews. In those instances where a sound
or film recording was made of a work, material related to these formats concludes the section.
B) Unpublished Works: Arranged alphabetically by title or first line and contains handwritten, typescript, paste-up, and photocopied
texts.
C) Announcement and Flyers: Arranged chronologically and contains a variety of promotional formats-- newspaper and magazine
advertisements, mailings and posters-- for performances and readings of works by Elmslie.
Box 28, Folder 4
List of performances of works by Kenward Elmslie
1955 - 1972
General note
Typescript list giving title of work, date of performance, place, and number of performances.
Box 28, Folder 5
Lists, "Published Plays and Librettos," and "Published Songs" by Kenward Elmslie
1965 - 1974
General note
Typescript lists with publishers and dates.
Box 28, Folder 6
LOVE WISE (1959)
General note
Lyrics for music by Marvin Fisher. Written for "The Ticklish Acrobat," an unproduced work. Typescript drafts with handwritten
annotations.
Box 28, Folder 7
FAR ISLAND (1961)
General note
Lyrics, for music by Ned Rorem. Handwritten page.
Box 28, Folder 8
MISS JULIE (1965)
General note
Typescript synopsis with annotations.
Box 28, Folder 9
MISS JULIE (1965)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescript draft scenes with annotations.
Box 28, Folder 10
MISS JULIE (1965)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescript draft scenes with annotations.
Box 28, Folder 11
MISS JULIE (1965)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Typescript outlines and drafts of Act 1 and Act 2.
Box 28, Folder 12
MISS JULIE (1965)
General note
Typescript draft libretto and copies of Elmslie's May 20 and May 23, 1965[?] letters to Rudel.
Oversize FB-328, Folder 1
MISS JULIE (1965). Vocal score by Ned Rorem
1968
Box 28, Folder 13
MISS JULIE (1965). Program and promotional material
1965 - 1979
General note
Includes contact sheet with names of production staff, and pamphlet listing works by Ned Rorem.
Box 28, Folder 14
MISS JULIE. Reviews
1979 - 1980
General note
Photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles.
Box 28, Folder 15
HIGHLIGHTS FROM MISS JULIE. Recorded album
1979
General note
Production and promotional material with paste-ups, page proofs, reviews, and postcards from Ned Rorem.
Box 28, Folder 16
LIZZIE BORDEN (1966)
General note
Synopsis, "As yet untitled." Typescript with handwritten annotations.
Box 28, Folder 17
LIZZIE BORDEN (1966)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescript draft scenes with annotations.
Box 28, Folder 18
LIZZIE BORDEN (1966)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescript draft scenes.
Box 29, Folder 1
LIZZIE BORDEN (1966)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Typescript draft scenes.
Box 29, Folder 2
LIZZIE BORDEN (1966). Programs, reviews and promotional material
1967 - 1991
Box 29, Folder 3
LIZZIE BORDEN (1966). Scrapbook
1966
General note
Program, newspaper and magazine clippings, telegrams, and ticket stubs (preservation photocopy).
Oversize FB-328, Folder 2
LIZZIE BORDEN (1966). Scrapbook
1966-1967
General note
Scrapbook with programs, newspaper clippings, reviews, and correspondence regarding LIZZIE BORDEN, MISS JULIE and miscellaneous
concert performances.
Oversize FB-328, Folder 3
LIZZIE BORDEN (1966). Vocal score by Jack Beeson
1966
General note
Draft [?]. Includes sheet music for "Abbie's Bird Song."
Box 29, Folder 5
SWEET BYE AND BYE (1966)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescript and handwritten draft scenes and an article on Billy Graham from TIME, October
25, 1954.
Box 29, Folder 6
SWEET BYE AND BYE (1966)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescript and handwritten draft scenes.
Box 29, Folder 7
SWEET BYE AND BYE (1966)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Typescript draft scenes.
Box 29, Folder 8
SWEET BYE AND BYE (1966)
General note
Typescript draft and synopsis.
Box 29, Folder 9
SWEET BYE AND BYE (1966)
General note
Spiral bound typescript dated April 19, 1960.
Oversize FB-328, Folder 4
SWEET BYE AND BYE (1966). Vocal score manuscript by Jack Beeson - Act 1
1966
Oversize FB-329, Folder 1
SWEET BYE AND BYE (1966). Vocal score manuscript by Jack Beeson - Act 2
1966
General note
Handwritten draft for Act 2.
Box 29, Folder 10
SWEET BYE AND BYE (1966). Program, promotional material and reviews of the recorded album
1957 - 1974
Oversize FB-329, Folder 2
SWEET BYE AND BYE (1966). Scrapbook
1966 - 1967
General note
Program, tickets, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and black-and-white photographs. Also contains newspaper clipping on
"The Automobile Graveyard."
Box 29, Folder 11
ALASKA (1971). Lyrics for music by Lee Crabtree
1971
General note
Typescripts with annotations and "Certificate of Registration of a Claim to Copyright," March 13, 1971.
Box 30, Folder 1
CITY JUNKET (1972). Correspondence
1970 - 1987
Box 30, Folder 2
CITY JUNKET (1972). Outlines, notes, synopsis and production history
1974 - 1978
Box 30, Folder 3
CITY JUNKET (1972). Notebook
1972
General note
Brief notes on scenes.
Box 30, Folder 4
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescripts and photocopies of draft scenes.
Box 30, Folder 5
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescripts, photocopies and handwritten notes.
Box 30, Folder 6
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Typescripts and photocopies of scenes.
Box 30, Folder 7
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 4. Typescripts and photocopies of scenes.
Box 31, Folder 1
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 5. Typescript, photocopies and notes.
Box 31, Folder 2
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Working draft number one. Typescript and paste-up texts.
Box 31, Folder 3
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Working draft number two. Photocopy of typescript.
Box 31, Folder 4
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Working draft number three. Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 31, Folder 5
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Working draft number four. Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 31, Folder 6
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Photocopy of final [?] working draft and a cover.
Box 31, Folder 7
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Final [?] draft for publication sent to William Bamberger. Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 31, Folder 8
CITY JUNKET (1972)
General note
Sheet music for "The General Fong Song" and "The Woolworth Song." Music by Kenward Elmslie [?], arrangement by Roger Trefousse.
Photocopies.
Box 31, Folder 9
CITY JUNKET (1972). Notes for a reading at Rice University, March 7
1974
General note
Also contains color photocopies of visual material by Larry Rivers and Diane Molinari and black-and-white photographs of John
Ashbery, Kenward Elmslie, Ruth Kligman, Clarice Rivers, and unidentified others.
Box 31, Folder 10
CITY JUNKET (1972). Programs and promotional material
1972 - 1974
Box 31, Folder 11
CITY JUNKET (1972). Reviews
1981 - 1987
General note
Clippings from newspapers and magazines.
Box 32, Folder 1
GRASS HARP (1972). Correspondence
1963 - 1971
Box 32, Folder 2
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescript outline and typescript and handwritten drafts of lyrics and scenes.
Box 32, Folder 3
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescript and handwritten notes and draft scenes.
Box 32, Folder 4
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Typescript and handwritten notes and draft scenes.
Box 32, Folder 5
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 4. Typescript and paste-up drafts.
Box 32, Folder 6
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 5. Typescript and handwritten draft scenes and notes.
Box 33, Folder 1
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 6. Handwritten list of characters and songs, typescript outline and typescript draft scenes.
Box 33, Folder 2
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 7. Typescript synopsis, printed excerpts from Truman Capote's descriptions of characters, typescript
draft lyrics and dialogue.
Box 33, Folder 3
GRASS HARP (1972)
1972
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 8. Typescript draft scenes.
Box 33, Folder 4
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 9. Handwritten notes, typescripts and paste-up drafts.
Box 33, Folder 5
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 10. Typescripts and paste-up drafts.
Box 33, Folder 6
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 11. Typescript list of characters, scenes, and musical numbers, and typescript draft scenes.
Box 34, Folder 1
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 12. Typescript draft scenes.
Box 34, Folder 2
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 13. Time log for Acts 1-3 on December 26-28, in rehearsal [?]. Handwritten and typescript draft
scenes.
Box 34, Folder 3
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 14. Typescripts and paste-up draft scenes.
Box 34, Folder 4
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 15. Typescripts and handwritten draft scenes.
Box 34, Folder 5
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 16. Typescript list of musical numbers and typescript draft scenes.
Box 35, Folder 1
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 17. Typescripts and paste-up drafts.
Box 35, Folder 2
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 18. Typescript and paste-up drafts.
Box 35, Folder 3
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 19. Handwritten, typescript and paste-up drafts.
Box 35, Folder 4
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 20. Handwritten, typescript and paste-up drafts.
Box 35, Folder 5
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 21. Handwritten, typescript and paste-up drafts.
Box 35, Folder 6
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Typescript draft with paste-up sections and handwritten page of revisions and corrections.
Box 36, Folder 1
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Typescript draft inscribed "Claibe's copy."
Box 36, Folder 2
GRASS HARP (1972)
General note
Typescript final [?] draft with annotations.
Box 36, Folder 3
GRASS HARP (1972). Bound and paperback librettos published by Samuel French
1971
General note
Two copies with annotations and cut out sections.
Box 36, Folder 4
GRASS HARP (1972). "Synopsis and Three Scenes"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 36, Folder 5
GRASS HARP (1972). Revisions for the York Theatre Staged Reading, March 19-20
1994
General note
Photocopies of revised text and faxed pages.
Box 36, Folder 6
GRASS HARP (1972). Revised texts
1994
General note
Photocopy with annotations and October 14 letter from J. Randall Hugill.
Box 36, Folder 7
GRASS HARP (1972). Photocopies of revised texts
1994 - 1995
Box 36, Folder 8
GRASS HARP (1972). Revised text and lyrics, "Dark Night of My Soul"
1996
General note
Typescripts.
Box 37, Folder 1
GRASS HARP (1972). Advertisements for performances in newspapers and magazines
1972 - 1994
Box 37, Folder 2
GRASS HARP (1972). Programs and promotional material
1972 - 1994
General note
Includes black-and-white and color photographs of cast members and a theatre lobby.
Box 37, Folder 3
GRASS HARP (1972). Reviews
1966 - 1994
General note
Clippings from newspapers and magazines.
Oversize FB-330, Folder 1
GRASS HARP (1972). Scrapbook
1971 - 1973
General note
Newspaper clippings, programs, reviews, tickets, and photographs of productions.
Box 37, Folder 4
GRASS HARP (1972). Original Cast Recording
1972
General note
Recording time log with song titles and track times, promotional material for album and undated review of the recording by
Larry Thomas.
Box 37, Folder 5
GRASS HARP (1972). Camera Three Presents "Songs from the Grass Harp"
1977
General note
Typescript scripts with annotations, program introduction, rehearsal schedule, and memoranda from CBS Television.
Box 37, Folder 6
GRASS HARP (1972). Screenplay
1977 - 1978
General note
Typescript and paste-up draft.
Box 37, Folder 7
GRASS HARP (1972). Screenplay
1977 - 1978
General note
Typescript and letter from Mitch Douglas, International Creative Management, October 2, 1978.
Box 37, Folder 8
GRASS HARP (1972). Screenplay
1978
General note
Copy of typescript in bound in International Creative Management covers.
Box 38, Folder 1
SEAGULL. Correspondence
1972 - 1982
Box 38, Folder 2
SEAGULL (1974)
General note
Typescript synopsis and typescript draft with annotations.
Box 38, Folder 3
SEAGULL (1974)
General note
Typescript draft with revisions.
Box 38, Folder 4
SEAGULL (1974). A Belwin Mills Libretto
1974
General note
Published copy with annotations.
Oversize FB-329, Folder 3
SEAGULL (1974)
General note
Vocal score by Thomas Pasatieri.
Box 38, Folder 5
SEAGULL (1974). Programs and promotional material
1972 - 1982
Box 38, Folder 6
SEAGULL (1974). Reviews
1972 - 1982
General note
Clippings from newspapers and magazines.
Box 38, Folder 7
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976). Correspondence
1976 - 1977
Box 38, Folder 8
James, Henry. WASHINGTON SQUARE. Signet Classics Edition
1964
General note
Two paperback copies with underlining.
Box 38, Folder 9
James, Henry. WASHINGTON SQUARE. Signet Classics Edition
1964
General note
Cut-up pages with annotations.
Box 38, Folder 10
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976)
General note
Typescript synopsis and descriptions of characters.
Box 38, Folder 11
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescript and handwritten notes and drafts.
Box 39, Folder 1
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescript draft scenes.
Box 39, Folder 2
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Handwritten and typescript notes and draft scenes.
Box 39, Folder 3
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 4. Handwritten outline and typescript draft scenes.
Box 39, Folder 4
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 5. Typescript and photocopies of draft scenes.
Box 39, Folder 5
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 6. Typescript and photocopies of draft scenes.
Box 39, Folder 6
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976)
General note
Typescript draft with revisions.
Box 39, Folder 7
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976)
General note
Typescript drafts with revisions by unidentified reader.
Box 40, Folder 1
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976). A Belwin Mills Libretto
1976
General note
Published copy with annotations.
Box 40, Folder 2
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976). Contact sheet and rehearsal schedule for New York Lyric Opera Production
1977
General note
October 14-23.
Box 40, Folder 3
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976). Programs and promotional material
1976 - 1977
Box 40, Folder 4
WASHINGTON SQUARE (1976). Reviews
1974 - 1979
General note
Clippings from newspapers and magazines.
Box 40, Folder 5
RARE MEAT: A CABERET REVIEW (1979)
General note
Typescript of recording script, distributors catalogues from Watershed Tapes and Poetry on Tape and a review by David Beaudouin.
Box 40, Folder 6
KENWARD ELMSLIE VISITED (1982). Recorded album
1982
General note
Contract agreements for performers, recording session and distribution of album, typescript texts, performer biographies and
head shots, and proof for album cover.
Box 40, Folder 7
POETRY IN MOTION (1983)
General note
Reviews and promotional material for a videotaped version of the film by Ron Mann.
Box 40, Folder 8
STAGE-DUO (1983)
General note
With Anne Waldman. Typescript draft and cover with annotations, a press release dated August 15, 1983, announcing a performance
and newspaper clippings.
Box 40, Folder 9
LOLA (1984). Recorded album
1984
General note
Synopsis and lyrics, galley proof for album sleeve, lists of recording costs, and distribution agreement.
Box 40, Folder 10
PALAIS BIMBO LOUNGE SHOW (1987). Correspondence
1986 - 1987
Box 40, Folder 11
PALAIS BIMBO LOUNGE SHOW (1987). St. Mark's production, April 14
1987
General note
Typescript and notes.
Box 40, Folder 12
PALAIS BIMBO LOUNGE SHOW (1987). Ritz performance material, June 13
1987
General note
Typescripts, list of titles performed and time log.
Box 40, Folder 13
PALAIS BIMBO LOUNGE SHOW (1987)
General note
Undated. Color photographs of performers on stage.
Box 40, Folder 14
PALAIS BIMBO LOUNGE SHOW (1987). Recorded album
1984 - 1987
General note
Contracts, invoices, copyright registration, and correspondence.
Box 41, Folder 1
THREE SISTERS (1986). Correspondence
1978 - 1986
Box 41, Folder 2
THREE SISTERS (1986). "Synopsis of a Libretto To Be Written by Kenward Elmslie"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 41, Folder 3
THREE SISTERS (1986)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Handwritten outline, notes and typescript draft scenes.
Box 41, Folder 4
THREE SISTERS (1986)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescript draft scenes.
Box 41, Folder 5
THREE SISTERS (1986)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Typescripts and photocopies of draft scenes.
Box 41, Folder 6
THREE SISTERS (1986)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 4. Handwritten and typescript draft scenes.
Box 41, Folder 7
THREE SISTERS (1986)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 5. Typescript and paste-up draft scenes.
Box 41, Folder 8
THREE SISTERS (1986)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 6. Typescript and photocopies of draft scenes.
Box 42, Folder 1
THREE SISTERS (1986)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 7. Photocopies of typescript Act 1 and Act 2.
Box 42, Folder 2
THREE SISTERS (1986)
General note
Draft for printer. Typescripts, photocopies and paste-up draft.
Box 42, Folder 3
THREE SISTERS (1986)
General note
Page proofs and "Certificate of Copyright Registration," September 26, 1985.
Box 42, Folder 4
THREE SISTERS (1986). Opera Columbus production material, March 13 and 15
1986
General note
Contact sheets, set sketches, black-and-white photographs of performers and scenes.
Box 42, Folder 5
THREE SISTERS (1986). Opera Columbus programs and promotional material, March 13 and 15
1986
Box 42, Folder 6
THREE SISTERS (1986). Reviews
1978 - 1986
General note
Clippings from newspapers and magazines.
Box 42, Folder 7
THREE SISTERS (1986). Recorded album production material
1985 - 1988
General note
Contract agreements for recording and distribution of album, correspondence and invoices. Also a review of the recording by
Charles Ward, April 1988.
Box 42, Folder 8
AREA J (1991). Adaptation of "Judy's" from 26 BARS
General note
Typescripts, performance material and reviews.
Box 42, Folder 9
SELECTED LYRICS [OF] KENWARD ELMSLIE (1991)
General note
Typescripts and photocopies of draft selection.
Box 42, Folder 10
SELECTED LYRICS [OF] KENWARD ELMSLIE (1991)
General note
Paste-up page proof.
Box 42, Folder 11
POSTCARDS ON PARADE (1993)
General note
Photocopy of text for printer with corrections.
Box 43, Folder 1
POSTCARDS ON PARADE (1993)
General note
Photocopy of page proofs with annotations, cover design and numbered cut-outs of text.
Box 43, Folder 2
POSTCARDS ON PARADE (1993). Performance material, July 30
1994
General note
Typescript introductory remarks, paste-up text, tape cues, program, and correspondence.
Box 43, Folder 3
POSTCARDS ON PARADE. 50 Signed Reprocollages (1994)
General note
Photocopies, cut-outs and price list.
Box 43, Folder 4
POSTCARDS ON PARADE (1993). At the Woodland Pattern Book Center, April 20
1996
General note
Typescript "Viewer/Listener Guide," promotional brochure and flyer, installation information, and correspondence.
Box 43, Folder 5
POSTCARDS ON PARADE (1993). Announcements, flyers and reviews
1993 - 1997
Box 43, Folder 6
Adagio of Hortense Charleston: A Monologue
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 43, Folder 7
Advice to the Lovelorn
General note
Undated. Three notebooks with lyrics, dialogue, notes, drawings. Also loose typescript page with paragraphs from Elmslie's
"Weather of Ripeness" (1954).
Box 43, Folder 8
Advice to the Lovelorn
1952
General note
Typescript drafts.
Box 43, Folder 9
Angriest Young Man
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 43, Folder 10
Art of the Mime
General note
Undated. Typescript draft.
Box 43, Folder 11
Automobile Graveyard lyrics
1961
General note
Undated. "Hung Up," "I Got the Hurts," "Kicky," "The 'Now You Tango'," and "Swing Merry-Go-Round."
Box 43, Folder 12
Avocado Tree: A One-Act Play
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 43, Folder 13
Bed People
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 43, Folder 14
Beggar's Holiday: A Parallel in Tempo to John Gay's THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
1950
General note
[?] "Additional dialogue and lyrics by Kenward Elmslie." Typescript draft.
Box 43, Folder 15
Beyond Baroque and "Woodstock." Performance material
1984 - 1985
General note
Typescript list of works performed, time log, typescript text and sheet music for Elmslie's lyrics, "Who'll Prop Me Up in
the Rain?"
Box 43, Folder 16
Bop 'n' Schlock: Pop Culture as Mom Muse
1987
General note
December 6. "A Demo by Maxine Chernoff and Kenward Elmslie." Typescript introduction and announcements.
Box 43, Folder 17
Candy Gram Song
General note
Undated. Lyrics by Kenward Elmslie, music by Claibe Richardson. Typescript.
Box 43, Folder 18
Caravan to Mecca: A Musical Comedy in Three Acts. Cleveland, Ohio, performance, June
1951
General note
Typescript libretto and typescript program.
Box 43, Folder 19
Chaillot/Crazy Lady
1960
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescript draft scenes.
Box 44, Folder 1
Chaillot/Crazy Lady
1960
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescripts and handwritten draft scenes.
Box 44, Folder 2
Chaillot/Crazy Lady
1960
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Typescripts and handwritten draft scenes.
Box 44, Folder 3
Chaillot/Crazy Lady
1960
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 4. Typescripts and handwritten draft scenes.
Box 44, Folder 4
Chaillot/Crazy Lady
1960
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 5. Typescript and paste-up draft scenes.
Box 44, Folder 5
Chaillot/Crazy Lady
1960
General note
Act 1 and Act 2. Typescript draft with handwritten changes.
Box 44, Folder 6
Chaillot/Crazy Lady
1960
General note
Typescript and paste-up draft and correspondence.
Box 44, Folder 7
Chaillot/Crazy Lady
1960
General note
Typescript draft.
Box 45, Folder 1
Chaillot/Crazy Lady
1960
General note
Typescript in soft cover.
Box 45, Folder 2
Concert Songs
General note
Undated. Typescripts for "Double Feature: Said Anita," "Italy," "Moonsong," "Love Song," "Song About Belinda," and "Song for
Fosca."
Box 45, Folder 3
Crystal Palace Cantata
General note
Undated. Typescript and handwritten notes.
Box 45, Folder 4
Day with Mr. Music
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 45, Folder 5
Death House
1950
General note
Handwritten notebook pages and drawings.
Box 45, Folder 6
Falling Star: A Musical Fantasy in One Act
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 45, Folder 7
Family Album
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 45, Folder 8
First Soldier's Tale: Synopsis
General note
Undated. Typescript draft scenes and lyrics "adapted by Elmslie from the Ramuz text."
Box 45, Folder 9
Flower Sketch: Dialogue by Kenward Elmslie and Paul Sand
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 45, Folder 10
Gas Song
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 45, Folder 11
Havanaland
1991
General note
Typescript and correspondence with Danya Krupska, July-August, regarding project for a musical adaptation of Graham Greene's
OUR MAN IN HAVANA.
Box 45, Folder 12
Kenward's Song
General note
Undated. Handwritten chord notations in music notebook.
Box 45, Folder 13
Lifeshine Flock
1954
General note
Handwritten and typescript synopsis of Act One.
Box 45, Folder 14
Lola. Correspondence
1979 - 1982
General note
Includes a color photograph of Claibe Richardson dated March 24, 1982.
Box 45, Folder 15
Lola. Research on historical character
1979 - 1985
General note
Photocopied excerpts from various sources on Lola Montez' background and context, with subject headings by an unidentified
researcher.
Box 45, Folder 16
Lola. Research on historical character
1979 - 1985
General note
Handwritten outlines, lists of songs and typescript synopsis.
Box 45, Folder 17
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescript outline, typescript and handwritten draft scenes.
Box 45, Folder 18
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescript and paste-up scenes.
Box 46, Folder 1
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Typescript and handwritten draft scenes.
Box 46, Folder 2
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 4. Handwritten and paste-up scenes.
Box 46, Folder 3
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 5. Typescript and paste-up draft scenes.
Box 46, Folder 4
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 6. Typescript and handwritten draft scenes.
Box 46, Folder 5
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 7. Typescript draft scenes and notecards.
Box 46, Folder 6
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 8. Typescript draft scenes.
Box 47, Folder 1
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Work-in-progress file, sections 9 and 10. Typescript and paste-up scenes.
Box 47, Folder 2
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 11. Typescript synopsis and draft scenes.
Box 47, Folder 3
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Typescript and paste-up draft.
Box 47, Folder 4
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Typescript final draft.
Box 47, Folder 5
Lola
1979 - 1985
General note
Typescript libretto.
Box 47, Folder 6
Lola. Partial vocal score by Claibe Richardson
1979 - 1985
Box 47, Folder 7
Lola. Production and performance material
1979 - 1985
General note
Contact sheet, rehearsal and performance schedules, scene breakdown, production and recording agreements, and biographies
of performers David Carroll, Jack Dabdoub, Christine Andreas, and Judy Kaye.
Box 47, Folder 8
Lola
1981 - 1982
General note
Programs, promotional material and reviews.
Box 47, Folder 9
Lonely Girl
General note
Undated. Lyrics by Kenward Elmslie, music by Frederick Beyer.
Box 47, Folder 10
Lyrics: Did It Begin as Blue. A Play by Gerrit Lansing and Kenward Elmslie
General note
Undated. Typescripts.
Box 48, Folder 1
Moving Day: A Play in One Act
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 48, Folder 2
Naropa Institute Performance, July 23
1988
General note
Compilation of paste-up and photocopied material includes "Who'll Prop Me Up in the Rain," "Meat" and "Quark's Report."
Box 48, Folder 3
Nightclub Material
General note
Undated. Compilation of typescript and handwritten material and notes includes "Beautiful Strangers," I Don't Wanna Go to
Washington," "Cairo Mama," "Culture," and untitled work.
Box 48, Folder 4
Night Emerald
1989
General note
Work-in-progress on Oscar Wilde. Handwritten outline, typescript and paste-up sections.
Box 48, Folder 5
Orchid Factory in a Crisis
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 48, Folder 6
Palais Bimbo. Draft version one
1984 - 1987
General note
Typescript and paste-up text.
Box 48, Folder 7
Palais Bimbo. Draft version two
1984 - 1987
General note
Typescript and paste-up text.
Box 48, Folder 8
Palais Bimbo. Draft version four
1984 - 1987
General note
Typescript, photocopies and paste-up text.
Box 48, Folder 9
Palais Bimbo. Draft version four
1984 - 1987
General note
Typescript, photocopies and paste-up text with performance notes.
Box 48, Folder 10
Palais Bimbo. Draft version five
1984 - 1987
General note
Photocopy and paste-up text with annotations.
Box 48, Folder 11
Palais Bimbo. Production material
1984 - 1987
General note
Contact sheets, biographies for Donna Dennis, Daniel Levans, Steve Taylor, Kenneth Tisa, and Arne Zaslove.
Box 48, Folder 12
Palais Bimbo: From Poem to Video. A Demo
1987
General note
Handwritten, photocopy and paste-up text, introductory remarks, and drawing of stage set-up.
Box 48, Folder 13
Palais Bimbo Videotape Script
1987
General note
Typescript and cut-and-paste text with a photocopy of handwritten sheet music for "Schlock and Sleaze," lyrics by Kenward
Elmslie, music by Steven Taylor.
Box 48, Folder 14
Palais Bimbo. Announcements, flyers and a program
1984 - 1987
Box 48, Folder 15
Palais Bimbo. Review for COVER ARTS NEW YORK
1987
General note
Summer. By Elinor Nauen and Johnny Stanton.
Box 48, Folder 16
Plan Ahead
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 48, Folder 17
Please Enter Me
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 48, Folder 18
Purlieu: An Intimate Extravaganza
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 48, Folder 19
Quark's Report. Performance material
1989
General note
Typescript and program.
Box 49, Folder 1
Reading with Ruth Ford
1989
General note
Typescript introduction, list of titles and readers' names and photocopy of "Spite Fence Memo."
Box 49, Folder 2
Rebel Voices Speak Again. Performance material, April 27
1996
General note
Typescript of the "Smithson Script" by Elmslie, program, pamphlet, "Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s," and correspondence.
Box 49, Folder 3
Rose Tatoo: A Musical
1983
General note
Typescript list of scenes and musical numbers and typescript and paste-up draft text of adaptation of the Tennessee Williams
play.
Box 49, Folder 4
Saint Lucia: A Play
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 49, Folder 5
Scenario for Colette's CHERI
General note
Undated. Typescript pages with handwritten annotations.
Box 49, Folder 6
Sea Mirage
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 49, Folder 7
Snyder Gray, Completed Scenes
General note
Undated. Handwritten draft.
Box 49, Folder 8
So Am I
General note
Undated. Lyrics by Kenward Elmslie, music by Jim Brown. Handwritten vocal part.
Box 49, Folder 9
Solar Dust
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 49, Folder 10
Strange As a Dream
General note
Undated. Lyrics by Kenward Elmslie, music by Frederick Beyer. Handwritten piano and vocal score.
Box 49, Folder 11
Sun Ape
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 49, Folder 12
Thirty-Love: A Musical Farce
1955
General note
Three notebooks and loose notes.
Box 49, Folder 13
Thirty-Love: A Musical Farce
1955
General note
Work-in-progress file. Typescript and handwritten draft scenes.
Box 49, Folder 14
Thirty-Love: A Musical Play
1955
General note
Typescript draft.
Box 49, Folder 15
Thirty-Love: A Musical Play
1955
Oversize FB-327, Folder 8
Thirty-Love: A Musical Play. Vocal score by Donald Fuller
1955
General note
Handwritten score and rehearsal parts for "Tears, Tears, Tears," "When I Was a Kid" and "Where Have You Been All My Life."
Box 49, Folder 16
Ticklish Acrobat
1958
General note
Handwritten notes.
Box 49, Folder 17
Ticklish Acrobat
1958
General note
Typescript synopsis and work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescript draft scenes.
Box 49, Folder 18
Ticklish Acrobat
1958
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescript draft scenes.
Box 49, Folder 19
Ticklish Acrobat
1958
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Typescript draft.
Box 50, Folder 1
Ticklish Acrobat
1958
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 4. Typescript draft.
Box 50, Folder 2
Ticklish Acrobat
1958
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 5. Typescript draft.
Box 50, Folder 3
Ticklish Acrobat
1958
General note
Typescript draft.
Box 50, Folder 4
Ticklish Acrobat
1958
General note
Lyrics, "I've Never Felt This Way Before" and "Siesta." Typescript.
Box 50, Folder 5
Willie the Weeper
1951
General note
With John Latouche. Typescript lyrics.
Box 50, Folder 6
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
Handwritten and typescript outlines, notes and list of characters.
Box 50, Folder 7
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescript synopsis, typescript draft scenes and an unsigned critique of Act 2.
Box 50, Folder 8
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescript and paste-up scenes.
Box 50, Folder 9
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
"Version 3." Typescript drafts.
Box 50, Folder 10
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
"Version 19." Typescripts and paste-up draft.
Box 50, Folder 11
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
"Version 20." Typescript and paste-up draft.
Box 50, Folder 12
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
"Version 34." "Revised 4/18/68." Typescript draft.
Box 51, Folder 1
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
"Version 35." Typescript draft.
Box 51, Folder 2
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
"Version 37." Typescripts and paste-up draft.
Box 51, Folder 3
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
"Version 45." Typescript and paste-up draft with annotations.
Box 51, Folder 4
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
"Version 50." Typescript draft.
Box 51, Folder 5
Yellow Drum
1968 - 1969
General note
"Cast Breakdown." List of characters, correspondence from Elmslie to producer Kermit Bloomberg and photocopy of an article
by Lewis Funk, March 16, 1969.
Box 51, Folder 6
You Never Knew
General note
Undated. Lyrics by Kenward Elmslie, music by Jim Brown. Handwritten vocal part.
Box 51, Folder 7
Untitled play
General note
Undated. "List of Scenes," "Images, Events and Ideas."
Box 51, Folder 8
Readings from A NEW FOLDER at the Living Theatre, June 12
1959
General note
Typescript list of works read and the names of readers.
Box 51, Folder 9
Events calendars and FM radio schedule
1960 - 1969
Box 51, Folder 10
Events calendars, flyers and newspaper announcements
1970 - 1979
General note
Contains paste-ups for flyers.
Box 51, Folder 11
Events calendars, flyers, mailings, and newspaper announcements
1980 - 1989
Box 51, Folder 12
Events calendars, flyers, newspaper announcements, and press release
1990 - 1999
Box 51, Folder 13
Events calendars, flyers, newspaper and magazine articles and a poster
General note
Undated material.
Box 51, Folder 14
Scrapbook
1960 - 1980
General note
Flyers, newspaper clippings and typescript critique by Ted Berrigan of selections from Elmslie's PAVILIONS.
WRITINGS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 3) WRITINGS BY ELMSLIE: Arranged in six subseries: A) Journals and Notebooks, B) Published Poetry and Prose in Collections,
C) Published Poetry and Prose in Journals, D) Miscellaneous Published Writings, E) Unpublished Writings, and F) Handmade Books
and Scrapbooks.
A) Journals and Notebooks: Elmslie's personal and working journals and notebooks (1937-1965). The journals are arranged chronologically
and the undated notebooks alphabetically by topic.
B) Published Poetry and Prose in Collections: Arranged chronologically by publication date of each work, given in parentheses.
It begins with Elmslie's lists of his published books, catalogs and announcements of his books, and Elmslie's chronological
files of finished work. Titles of collections are capitalized, followed by publication date and titles of individual texts
with date of first publication.
C) Published Poetry and Prose in Journals: Arranged chronologically by date of publication, given in parentheses, and contains
typescripts, paste-ups and photocopies.
D) Miscellaneous Published Writings: Arranged chronologically by date of publication and contains a blurbs and introductions
for the work of others, reviews and the autobiographical essay, "Libretto Land" (1982).
E) Unpublished Writings: Arranged alphabetically by title or first line and contains typescripts and some handwritten drafts.
Unidentified work is located at the end of the subseries. Some pieces may have been published in alternative versions.
F) Handmade Books and Scrapbooks: Arranged chronologically, spanning the period 1961-1975. The books and scrapbooks contain
collages of items from Elmslie's theatre work, such as ticket stubs, programs, and flyers, as well as clippings, correspondence,
photographs, and texts from Elmslie's writings. Many of them of them were gifts to Joe Brainard.
Box 52, Folder 1
Journal, October 30 - December 29
1937
General note
"My Travels Abroad." Handwritten entries describing a family trip from Denver to New York, Europe and North Africa.
Box 52, Folder 2
Journal
1950 - 1960
General note
Loose pages with handwritten and typescript entries, lists of activities, appointments, and accounts of dreams.
Box 52, Folder 3
Journal, April 17 - May 14
1951
General note
Bound notebook with handwritten entries.
Box 52, Folder 4
Journal, March 19, 1952 - May 14
1956
General note
Bound "Record" with handwritten entries. Includes black-and-white photograph of Elmslie, drawings and postcard on inside front
cover.
Box 52, Folder 5
Journal, August 14, 1956 - July
1957
General note
Loose pages with handwritten pages and undated typescript, "Diary of a Trip."
Box 52, Folder 6
Journal, August 29, 1958 - February 22
1959
General note
Bound notebook with handwritten entries and laid-in typescript pages. Includes copies of Elmslie's letters to others.
Box 52, Folder 7
Journal, October 15 - November 4
1959
General note
Loose typescript pages.
Box 52, Folder 8
Journal
1959 - 1960
General note
No dates given. Loose pages with typescript entries describing activities and dreams.
Box 52, Folder 9
Journal
1960
General note
January 2 - January 22. Loose typescript pages.
Box 53, Folder 1
Journal, July 9, 1960 - January 6
1961
General note
Bound volume with handwritten entries.
Box 53, Folder 2
Journal
1961 - 1966
General note
"Work Journal." Dates of submissions, acceptances and rejections of work, with income received.
Box 53, Folder 3
Journal
1964 - 1965
General note
Handwritten loose pages and undated "Diary of Worries," typescripts with title "November and December and January, 1966,"
and list of resolutions titled "Autumn Dedication."
Box 53, Folder 4
Notebook
1954
General note
October 10. Notes on drug-related and other crimes, grocery list, and doodles.
Box 53, Folder 5
Notebook
1960
General note
May. "Songs." Notes, ideas for lyrics and doodles. Includes a typescript and handwritten list, "a Bestiary, of descriptions
of animal behavior, followed by anti-moral statements."
Box 53, Folder 6
Notebooks
1960
General note
November. "Idea Book," a dated, titled notebook two untitled notebooks with to-do lists, names, jottings.
Box 53, Folder 7
Notebooks
General note
Undated. "Practical Ideas." Brief notes, lists of names, doodles, and dream narratives.
Box 53, Folder 8
Notebook
General note
Undated. [Pyschoanalysis?] Notes, sketches and ideas for lyrics. Includes typescript page, "Joe Brainard."
Box 53, Folder 9
Notebook
General note
Undated. [Reading tour schedule?]
Box 53, Folder 10
Notebook
General note
Undated. "Travel Book for Kenward Elmslie." Handmade, illustrated gift booklet for Elmslie, with his entries on a trip to
Mexico.
Box 53, Folder 11
Notebook
General note
Undated. Travel notes, descriptions, names and addresses in Europe and Mexico.
Box 54, Folder 1
Notebook
General note
Undated. Travel notes and museum visits.
Box 54, Folder 2
Notebook
General note
Undated. Travel notes on trip to Bali, December 15-30.
Box 54, Folder 3
Notebooks
General note
Undated. Various names, telephone numbers and doodles.
Box 54, Folder 4
Notebooks
General note
Undated. Various names, notes, telephone numbers, lists, and doodles.
Box 54, Folder 5
Notebooks
General note
Undated. Various names, to-do lists, telephone numbers, and doodles.
Box 54, Folder 6
Notebooks
General note
Undated. Various names, telephone numbers and brief notes.
Box 54, Folder 7
Notebooks
General note
Undated. Various names, notes, lists, telephone numbers, and doodles.
Box 54, Folder 8
Notebooks
General note
Undated. Various names, doodles, notes, and telephone numbers.
Published Poetry and Prose Collections
Box 55, Folder 1
Published Poems, Published "Bokes" and Stories
1956 - 1979
General note
Elmslie's lists of his published works. Typescript and handwritten lists giving year of publication and name of journal or
publisher.
Box 55, Folder 2
Publishers catalogues and announcements listing works by Kenward Elmslie
1972 - 1995
Box 55, Folder 3
Poems
1956 - 1967
General note
Elmslie's collection of his work during this period. Typescripts and paste-up final [?] drafts.
Box 55, Folder 4
Poems
1968 - 1972
General note
Elmslie's collection of his work during this period. Typescripts and photocopies of final [?] drafts.
Box 55, Folder 5
Poems
1973 - 1974
General note
Elmslie's collection of his work during this period. Typescripts and photocopies of final [?] drafts.
Box 55, Folder 6
Poems
1975 - 1976
General note
Elmslie's collection of his work during this period. Typescripts and photocopies of final [?] drafts with some annotations.
Box 55, Folder 7
Poems
1977 - 1979
General note
Elmslie's collection of his work during this period. Typescripts, photocopies and a handwritten final [?] draft.
Box 55, Folder 8
Poems
1989
General note
Elmslie's collection of his work during this period. Typescripts, photocopies and a paste-up final [?] draft.
Box 55, Folder 9
PAVILIONS (1961). "Spa Incident"
1959
General note
Typescript drafts and a page from A NEW FOLDER.
Box 55, Folder 10
PAVILIONS (1961). "Fringe People"
1960
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 11
PAVILIONS (1961). "Alabama"
1960
General note
Handwritten and typescript drafts and a page from POETRY.
Box 55, Folder 12
PAVILIONS (1961). "Communique for Orpheus"
1961
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 13
PAVILIONS (1961). "Adele the Vaudeville Martinet"
1960
General note
Typescripts. Includes set of the "Adele Songs" ("Hoedown for Fat Adele," and "Blue Adele in the Sun Parlor.")
Box 55, Folder 14
PAVILIONS (1961). "Fruit, a Song Cycle"
1960
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 15
PAVILIONS (1961). "Venice"
1961
Box 55, Folder 16
PAVILIONS (1961). "Pavilions"
1961
Box 55, Folder 17
PAVILIONS (1961). "Ancestor Worship"
1961
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 55, Folder 18
PAVILIONS (1961). "Fishwives, Miscegenate"
1961
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 19
PAVILIONS (1961). "Donnybrook Fair"
1961
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 20
PAVILIONS (1961). "Nurses"
1961
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 21
ANTHOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL LYRICS (1962)
General note
With Ruth Yorck. Typescripts of translations from 11th and 12th century German lyrics.
Box 55, Folder 22
BABY BOOK (1965)
General note
With Joe Brainard. Typescript and advertisement.
Box 55, Folder 23
BABY BOOK (1965)
General note
With Joe Brainard. Handwritten mock-up. [By Joe Brainard?]
Box 55, Folder 24
1967 GAME CALENDAR (1967)
General note
With Joe Brainard. Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 25
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Florida Hillocks"
1963
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 55, Folder 26
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Experts at Veneers"
1962
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 55, Folder 27
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Circus Nerves and Worries"
1962
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 55, Folder 28
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Cave In"
1962
Box 55, Folder 29
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Kamasutra"
1962
General note
Typescripts, photocopy, and printed page.
Box 55, Folder 30
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Dustbowl"
1964
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 31
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Flaming Creatures"
1967
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 32
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Shirley Temple Surrounded by Lions"
1962
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 33
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Poem for Joe Brainard"
1965
General note
Typescript and photocopies.
Box 55, Folder 34
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Verandahs"
1965
General note
Typescript and photocopies.
Box 55, Folder 35
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Dirge"
1965
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 55, Folder 36
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Picnic"
1967
General note
Typescript and photocopies.
Box 55, Folder 37
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "History of France"
1966
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 55, Folder 38
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Island Celebration"
1967
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 39
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Power Plant Sestina"
1966
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 40
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Japanese City"
1967
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 41
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967). "Travelogue"
1967
General note
Typescripts.
Box 55, Folder 42
POWER PLANT POEMS (1967)
General note
Loose pages of the first printing of the C Press edition and two typescript pages of annotations and corrections.
Box 56, Folder 1
CHAMP (1968)
General note
With Joe Brainard. Typescript. Also an undated review by Roger Sauls, a publisher's announcement and a paste-up of a flyer.
Box 56, Folder 2
ALBUM (1969). "Families in Iowa"
1969
General note
Typescript and printed version from THE BEAT SCENE.
Box 56, Folder 3
ALBUM (1969). "The Depot"
1964
Box 56, Folder 4
ALBUM (1969). "Life Mirrors: The Lost Instrument"
1965
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 5
ALBUM (1969). "Black Capsule"
1967
General note
With Joe Brainard. Page from THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER.
Box 56, Folder 6
ALBUM (1969). "Barbie and Ken"
1965
Box 56, Folder 7
ALBUM (1969). "Criss-Cross"
1968
General note
Typescripts and photocopy.
Box 56, Folder 8
ALBUM (1969). "Beautiful Strangers"
1967
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 9
ALBUM (1969). "While Parents Sleep"
1967
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 10
ALBUM (1969). "My Heart Is Calling"
1968
Box 56, Folder 11
ALBUM (1969). "Phantom Light"
1968
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 12
ALBUM (1969). "Calm Yourself"
1969
General note
Photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 13
ALBUM (1969). "Enter Madame"
1969
General note
Photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 14
ALBUM (1969). "Triple Trouble"
1968
General note
Photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 15
ALBUM (1969). "Going Highbrow"
1969
Box 56, Folder 16
ALBUM (1969). "Memory Expert"
1969
General note
Typescript and photocopy.
Box 56, Folder 17
ALBUM (1969). "College Rhythms"
1968
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 18
ALBUM (1969). "Yodels"
1966
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 19
ALBUM (1969). "Rapid Fenders"
1969
General note
Typescripts. A second version is titled "The Life of Lady Byron."
Box 56, Folder 20
ALBUM (1969). "Marbled Chuckles in the Savannahs"
1962
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 21
ALBUM (1969). "Piazza of the Bananas"
1963
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 22
ALBUM (1969). "Melodramas"
1960
General note
Typescripts and a printed version.
Box 56, Folder 23
ALBUM (1969). "Blimps"
1969
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 24
ALBUM (1969). "Babs [First Smile]"
1969
Box 56, Folder 25
ALBUM (1969). "Peaches Littlejohn"
1968
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 26
ALBUM (1969). "Alaska Blues"
1964
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 27
ALBUM (1969). "Vaudeville for Jean Harlow"
1964
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 28
ALBUM (1969). "1961"
1968
General note
Typescript and photocopy.
Box 56, Folder 29
ALBUM (1969). "Marry Me"
1969
Box 56, Folder 30
ALBUM (1969). "Narrative"
1969
General note
Typescript, photocopy and paste-up.
Box 56, Folder 31
ALBUM (1969). "Song"
1965
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 32
ALBUM (1969). "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood"
1966
General note
With Joe Brainard. Page from THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER [?].
Box 56, Folder 33
ALBUM (1969). "Piping the Indicator"
1967
General note
With Joe Brainard. Page from THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER [?].
Box 56, Folder 34
ALBUM (1969). "Users"
1963
General note
Typescripts. Title varies, "Scenario for Television," "Interview," and "Case History."
Box 56, Folder 35
ALBUM (1969). "Warm Winter"
1965
General note
Typescript and photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 36
ALBUM (1969). "Glittering Skyline"
1969
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 37
ALBUM (1969). "They"
1968
General note
Photocopies of typescripts and a printed version.
Box 56, Folder 38
ALBUM (1969). "White Attic"
1967
General note
Typescripts and "Certificate Registration of a Claim to Copyright," 1971, for Elmslie and Lee Crabtree.
Box 56, Folder 39
ALBUM (1969). "Bungalows I and II"
1969
General note
Photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 40
ALBUM (1969). "Sorties"
1966
General note
Typescripts and a photocopy.
Box 56, Folder 41
ALBUM (1969)
General note
Draft compilation for the ALBUM (1969) collection. Typescripts and a page from a galley proof. Also a newspaper clipping of
announcement of publication.
Box 56, Folder 42
CIRCUS NERVES. Correspondence
1969 - 1972
General note
Includes publishing contract, copyright information and Elmslie's comments and changes to a galley proof.
Box 56, Folder 43
CIRCUS NERVES (1971). "City of My Dinge World, Venice"
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 44
CIRCUS NERVES (1971). "Arrival"
1969
General note
Photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 45
CIRCUS NERVES (1971). "Work Room"
1968
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 46
CIRCUS NERVES (1971). "Hornet"
1968
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 47
CIRCUS NERVES (1971). "November 25"
1968
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 48
CIRCUS NERVES (1971). "November 27"
1970
Box 56, Folder 49
CIRCUS NERVES (1969). "Easter for Joe"
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 50
CIRCUS NERVES (1971). "Entry"
Box 56, Folder 51
CIRCUS NERVES (1971). "Ashtray Offer"
1970
Box 56, Folder 52
CIRCUS NERVES (1971). "Halloween Loop"
1970
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 53
CIRCUS NERVES (1971). "First Frost"
1970
Box 56, Folder 54
CIRCUS NERVES (1971). "Walking Whip in Stockbridge"
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 55
CIRCUS NERVES (1971)
General note
Draft compilation for the CIRCUS NERVES (1971) collection. Typescripts and photocopies of texts. Also front cover and publisher's
announcement.
Box 56, Folder 56
GIRL MACHINE (1971)
General note
Draft compilation of photocopies and paste-up texts. Also contains cover, title page and verso, and publication announcement.
Box 56, Folder 57
MOTOR DISTURBANCE. Correspondence
1971 - 1978
General note
Includes announcement of publication, publisher's catalogue and typescripts for a publisher's blurb.
Box 56, Folder 58
MOTOR DISTURBANCE (1971). "Permanent Heyday"
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 56, Folder 59
MOTOR DISTURBANCE (1971). "Feathered Dancers"
1968
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 60
MOTOR DISTURBANCE (1971). "Another Island Groupage"
1963
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 61
MOTOR DISTURBANCE (1971). "Duo-Tang"
1968
General note
Typescripts.
Box 56, Folder 62
MOTOR DISTURBANCE (1971). "Small Soda"
Box 56, Folder 63
MOTOR DISTURBANCE (1971). "Junk Fish"
1970
Box 57, Folder 1
MOTOR DISTURBANCE (1971)
General note
Final draft [?] Photocopies.
Box 57, Folder 2
MOTOR DISTURBANCE (1971)
General note
Galley proof.
Oversize FB-331, Folder 1
MOTOR DISTURBANCE (1971)
General note
Paste-up for cover.
Box 57, Folder 3
MOTOR DISTURBANCE (1971)
General note
Manuscript returned to Elmslie after publication.
Box 57, Folder 4
MOTOR DISTURBANCE (1971). Announcements and reviews
1971 - 1978
Box 57, Folder 5
SHINY RIDE (1972)
General note
With Joe Brainard. Photocopies.
Box 57, Folder 6
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescript drafts and handwritten notes.
Box 57, Folder 7
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescripts and handwritten drafts.
Restrictions
Some documents in this folder are illegible due to water damage. Do not attempt to separate pages (Library Preservation, 2019).
Box 57, Folder 8
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Typescript and handwritten drafts.
Restrictions
Some documents in this folder are illegible due to water damage. Do not attempt to separate pages (Library Preservation, 2019).
Box 58, Folder 1
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 4. Typescript drafts.
Restrictions
Some documents in this folder are illegible due to water damage. Do not attempt to separate pages (Library Preservation, 2019).
Box 58, Folder 2
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 5. Typescript drafts.
Restrictions
Some documents in this folder are illegible due to water damage. Do not attempt to separate pages (Library Preservation, 2019).
Box 58, Folder 3
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
Photocopy of typescript of final [?] draft. Part 1.
Box 58, Folder 4
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
Photocopy of typescript of final [?] draft. Part 2.
Box 58, Folder 5
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
"Setting copy." Typescript marked for printer. Part 1.
Box 58, Folder 6
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
"Setting copy." Typescript marked for printer. Part 2.
Box 58, Folder 7
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
Final galley proof.
Box 59, Folder 1
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
Foundry proof.
Box 59, Folder 2
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
Page proof. Part 1.
Box 59, Folder 3
ORCHID STORIES (1973)
General note
Page proof. Part 2.
Box 59, Folder 4
ORCHID STORIES (1973). Reviews
1973
Box 59, Folder 5
PENGUIN MODERN POETS 24: KENWARD ELMSLIE, KENNETH KOCH, JAMES SCHUYLER (1974)
General note
Galley proofs and cover.
Box 59, Folder 6
TROPICALISM (1975). "Spite Fence Memo"
1974
General note
Typescripts.
Box 59, Folder 7
TROPICALISM (1975). "Winter Life"
1974
Box 59, Folder 8
TROPICALISM (1975). "Time Lags"
1974
General note
Typescripts.
Box 59, Folder 9
TROPICALISM (1975). "Easter for Anne, 1973"
1973
General note
Typescripts.
Box 59, Folder 10
TROPICALISM (1975). "At the Controls"
1974
Box 59, Folder 11
TROPICALISM (1975). "Another Easter for Joe, 1975"
1975
Box 59, Folder 12
TROPICALISM (1975). "Meat"
1972
General note
Typescripts.
Box 59, Folder 13
TROPICALISM (1975). "Official Serums"
1974
General note
Typescripts.
Box 59, Folder 14
TROPICALISM (1975). "Middle Class Fantasies"
General note
Typescripts.
Box 59, Folder 15
TROPICALISM (1975)
General note
Draft compilation of texts. Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 60, Folder 1
TROPICALISM (1975)
1975
General note
Final typescript draft.
Box 60, Folder 2
TROPICALISM (1975)
General note
Photocopy with corrections.
Box 60, Folder 3
TROPICALISM (1975)
General note
Master proof.
Box 60, Folder 4
TROPICALISM (1975)
General note
Galley proof with corrections.
Box 60, Folder 5
TROPICALISM (1975)
General note
Page proofs and cover.
Box 60, Folder 6
TROPICALISM (1975). Announcements and reviews
1975 - 1978
Box 60, Folder 7
ALPHABET WORK (1977)
General note
Draft compilation of typescript and photocopied texts.
Box 60, Folder 8
ALPHABET WORK (1977). Reviews
1977 - 1984
Box 60, Folder 9
TOPIARY TREK (1977). "Bob and Wheel"
1975
Box 60, Folder 10
TOPIARY TREK (1977). "May Day"
Box 60, Folder 11
TOPIARY TREK (1977). "Siamese Standpipe"
Box 60, Folder 12
TOPIARY TREK (1977). "Mashed Earth"
Box 60, Folder 13
COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT (1979). Announcement and review
1977 - 1979
Box 60, Folder 14
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Morning Entry/Summer Morning Entry"
General note
Typescripts, photocopy and clipping as published in THE COUNTRY JOURNAL, October 17-23, 1975.
Box 60, Folder 15
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Saga of Skunk's Misery/History of Gospel Hollow"
General note
Typescripts.
Box 60, Folder 16
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Easter for Joe ('77)"
1977
Box 60, Folder 17
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Force of Habit"
1976
Box 60, Folder 18
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1976). "Ocean City"
1976
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 60, Folder 19
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Time Study/Time Study Threnody"
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 60, Folder 20
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Green Scoop"
1978
Box 60, Folder 21
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Micronesia"
1976
Box 60, Folder 22
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Monster Worship I"
1977
Box 60, Folder 23
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Monster Worship II"
1977
Box 60, Folder 24
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Two Postcard Stories"
1973
General note
Photocopies.
Box 60, Folder 25
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Songbag"
1974
General note
Photocopies.
Box 60, Folder 26
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Bang-Bang Tango"
1977
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 60, Folder 27
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Scimitar for Brenda Lewis"
1968
General note
Handwritten draft, typescripts and photocopy.
Box 60, Folder 28
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "One Hundred I Remembers"
1972
General note
Typescripts and a photocopy. Includes the selection, "Fifty I Remembers."
Box 60, Folder 29
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Easter Poem for Joe ('79)"
Box 60, Folder 30
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Porn Dream/Porn Poem for Patty"
1978
General note
Typescripts.
Box 60, Folder 31
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Avenue of the Frozen Rainbows"
1976
Box 60, Folder 32
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Stance"
1979
General note
Typescripts.
Box 60, Folder 33
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Communications Equipment"
1978
General note
Typescripts.
Box 60, Folder 34
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Night Thoughts"
1979
General note
Typescripts.
Box 60, Folder 35
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "August"
1981
General note
Typescripts.
Box 60, Folder 36
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "Squatter in the Foreground"
1978
General note
Typescripts.
Box 60, Folder 37
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980). "In the Sky"
1979
Box 61, Folder 1
MOVING RIGHT ALONG (1980)
General note
Page proofs with corrections and front cover.
Box 61, Folder 2
BIMBO DIRT (1982)
General note
Performance texts for "Bimbo Dirt Night" and William Corbett's review of the published work.
Box 61, Folder 3
PALAIS BIMBO SNAPSHOTS (1982)
General note
Typescript and paste-up captions.
Box 61, Folder 4
26 BARS (1987). Correspondence
1981 - 1987
Box 61, Folder 5
26 BARS (1987). Memorandum of Agreement, September 1
1983
General note
With Donna Dennis, artist, and Z Press, publisher. Typescript.
Box 61, Folder 6
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 1. Typescripts and paste-up drafts.
Box 61, Folder 7
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 2. Typescripts and paste-up drafts.
Box 61, Folder 8
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 3. Typescripts and paste-up drafts.
Box 61, Folder 9
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 4. Typescripts and paste-up drafts.
Box 61, Folder 10
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 5. Typescripts and paste-up drafts.
Box 61, Folder 11
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 6. Typescripts and paste-up drafts.
Box 62, Folder 1
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 7. Typescript and paste-up drafts.
Box 62, Folder 2
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Work-in-progress file, section 8. Typescripts, photocopies and paste-up texts.
Box 62, Folder 3
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Final draft. Typescript and paste-up text.
Box 62, Folder 4
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Typescript for printer and correspondence.
Oversize FB-330, Folder 2
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Galley proof. Part 1.
Oversize FB-331, Folder 2
26 BARS (1987)
General note
Galley proof. Part 2.
Box 62, Folder 5
26 BARS: A COLLABORATION (1987)
General note
"Tales by Kenward Elmslie, Drawings by Donna Dennis." Published copy, cut up and annotated for performance [?].
Box 62, Folder 6
26 BARS: A COLLABORATION (1987)
General note
Black-and-white photographs of Donna Dennis' drawings.
Box 62, Folder 7
26 BARS: A COLLABORATION (1987)
General note
March 3. Guest Book for exhibition of Donna Dennis drawings. Photocopies.
Box 62, Folder 8
26 BARS: A COLLABORATION (1987). Announcements and reviews
1987 - 1989
Box 62, Folder 9
SUNG SEX (1990). "Nov. 17"
1987
Box 63, Folder 1
SUNG SEX (1990)
General note
Draft compilation of typescript and photocopied texts and excerpts from other Elmslie works. Also typescript broadside, "Mindless
Bliss."
Box 63, Folder 2
SUNG SEX (1990)
General note
Typescripts and photocopies.
Box 63, Folder 3
SUNG SEX (1990). Announcements and reviews
General note
Includes photocopy of article, "Sects and Language," by Craig Owens.
Box 63, Folder 4
PAY DIRT! (1992)
General note
With Joe Brainard. Compilation of text and drawings. Photocopies, correspondence and cover.
Box 63, Folder 5
PAY DIRT! (1992)
General note
With Joe Brainard. Photocopies.
Box 63, Folder 6
CHAMP DUST (1994)
General note
With Joe Brainard. Draft compilation of texts, typescripts and paste-up.
Box 63, Folder 7
CHAMP DUST (1994)
General note
With Joe Brainard. Galley proof with corrections.
Box 63, Folder 8
BARE BONES (1995)
General note
Typescripts, photocopies of photograph of Joe Brainard and correspondence from William Bamberger.
Box 63, Folder 9
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998). Correspondence
1997 - 1998
Box 63, Folder 10
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
Paste-up draft with font and margin corrections.
Box 63, Folder 11
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
Photocopy of paste-up draft with corrections.
Box 64, Folder 1
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
Paste-up draft with spacing corrections. Part 1.
Box 64, Folder 2
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
Paste-up draft with spacing corrections. Part 2.
Box 64, Folder 3
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
Photocopy of draft with corrections. Part 1.
Box 64, Folder 4
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
Photocopy of draft with corrections. Part 2.
Box 64, Folder 5
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
Photocopy of draft with corrections.
Box 64, Folder 6
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
Photocopy of draft with corrections.
Box 65, Folder 1
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
"Coffee House Press uncorrected ms". Spiral bound.
Box 65, Folder 2
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
Copies of cover design and correspondence.
Box 65, Folder 3
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
Page proofs with corrections.
Box 65, Folder 4
ROUTINE DISRUPTIONS (1998)
General note
Final versions of text on six 3.5"x5" floppy diskettes.
Box 65, Folder 5
NITE SOIL (2000)
General note
Notebook with paste-up cards with text.
Box 66, Folder 1
IN THE SKY: SELECTED POEMS
General note
Undated. Draft paste-up compilation of previously published work.
Box 66, Folder 2
IN THE SKY: SELECTED POEMS
General note
Undated. Photocopy of draft compilation of previously published work.
Published Poetry and Prose in Journals/Anthologies
Box 66, Folder 3
Weather of Ripeness (1954)
General note
Handwritten and typescript drafts and notes.
Box 66, Folder 4
Letter from El Dorado (1956)
General note
Typescripts.
Box 66, Folder 5
Armagnac or the Visitor (1959)
General note
With Bill Berkson. Typescript. See also "Three Collaborations, 1. Armagnac Or the Visitor" in subseries 3E.
Box 66, Folder 6
Destiny in October Cities (1960)
General note
Typescripts and translation into German by an unidentified translator.
Box 66, Folder 7
Europe (1962)
General note
Typescripts.
Box 66, Folder 9
Solar Rebus (1962)
General note
Typescripts.
Box 66, Folder 11
Depends on How You Look at Your Life (1968)
Box 66, Folder 12
Persistent Gnats (1968)
General note
Photocopy of typescript.
Box 66, Folder 13
2nd Best Flashback (1968)
General note
Photocopy of typescript.
Box 66, Folder 14
Why Did They Kill Scenes (1968)
General note
Photocopies of typescript.
Box 66, Folder 16
Goon Beauty (1970)
General note
Typescripts and photocopy.
Box 66, Folder 17
Little Radio Edna (1970)
General note
Typescript and drawing.
Box 66, Folder 18
Marrakesh (1971)
General note
Typescripts.
Box 66, Folder 20
Legend of Orgasm Tool (1972)
Box 66, Folder 21
One Night Stand (1972)
General note
Typescripts.
Box 66, Folder 22
Open Secret (1972)
General note
With Joe Brainard. Typescript and paste-up with illustrations and captioned photographs of unidentified protagonists.
Oversize FB-327, Folder 6
Almost Heaven (1973)
General note
August 30. With Joe Brainard, Michael Brownstein and Anne Waldman. Printed broadside.
Box 66, Folder 25
City Life (1974)
General note
Typescripts.
Box 66, Folder 26
Some Haikus (1975)
General note
"Lend-a-Hands Haiku," and "Sho Biz." Typescripts.
Box 66, Folder 27
Scimitar for Eileen (1978)
General note
April 22. Typescript.
Box 66, Folder 28
Barf, an Excited Wall of Birds (1979)
General note
Typescripts.
Box 66, Folder 30
Four Bars from 26 BARS (1984)
General note
Draft selections. Photocopies and typescript.
Box 66, Folder 31
Four Bars from 26 BARS (1984)
General note
Photocopy of journal BARNEY, no. 4. Includes "A Tribute to Kenward Elmslie" by Michael Silverblatt.
Miscellaneous Published Writings
Box 66, Folder 32
My Fifty Favorite Musicals (1967)
General note
Typescript and handwritten notes.
Box 66, Folder 33
Kenward's Party Pate: Secret Recipe Plus How to Get Rid of Resultant Insomnia (1971)
General note
May 9. Newspaper clipping from THE HERALD.
Box 66, Folder 34
Old Folk's Machine: I Longed to Leave "70 Girls 70" (1971)
General note
May 2. Review for THE HERALD. Photocopy of clipping and a typescript draft.
Box 66, Folder 35
Plunkety-Plunk, Clunk, Clunk, Hiss, Boo, Bah! (1971)
General note
April 25. Review for THE HERALD. Typescript draft.
Box 66, Folder 36
Who Are the Ghosts in This Place? (1971)
General note
March 18. Review of FOLLIES for the HERALD. Photocopy of clipping and typescript drafts.
Box 66, Folder 37
Dear Country Journal (1975)
General note
October 10-16. Letter to the editor regarding John Latouche's work. Clipping.
Box 66, Folder 38
Libretto Land (1982)
General note
Work-in-progress file. Typescripts, photocopies and paste-up text.
Box 66, Folder 39
Libretto Land (1982)
General note
Photocopy of final [?] draft and page proofs.
Box 66, Folder 40
Libretto Land: Suggested Exercises
General note
Undated. Handwritten and typescript text. Also flyer and announcement for the "Playwrights' Platform Seminar" given by Elmslie,
October 2, 1982.
Box 66, Folder 41
NEW FACES OF 1952: POEMS AND PROSE BY MAXINE CHERNOFF (1985)
1985
General note
Blurb for Chernoff's book printed on the publisher's announcement.
Box 66, Folder 42
Tribute to Robert W. Holton (1985)
General note
Brochure announcing the National Institute for Music Theater Robert Holton Fellowship.
Box 66, Folder 43
Introductions for work by Larry Fagin, David Shapiro, Anne Waldman, and Lewis Warsh
General note
Undated. Typescripts.
Box 66, Folder 44
Review of Dance Works by Yvonne Rainer and Fred Herko Presented at the Maidman Playhouse, March 5
General note
Year not given. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 1
About the Picture
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 2
Alex Katz
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 3
Always Walking to the Movies..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 4
American Song
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 5
Ancient Radios
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 6
And When He Dies in Middle Age..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 7
Andrew's Eating an Apple is the Funniest Thing..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 8
Announcements, Lettered in the Pale Purple of the Bill-of-Fare Hektograph..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 9
April '61
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 10
April in NYC
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 11
Arms and Legs Coated with White Cow-Dung for a Sunday Dance
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 12
Attic
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 13
Auden-Elmslie Interview
General note
Undated. Transcript of interview with W.H. Auden. Revised and unrevised typescripts. Also typescript list of seven works by
others.
Box 67, Folder 14
August 1st
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 15
Autumn Melody
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 16
Baby Sayings
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 17
Back to Bakst
1976
General note
March 11, 1976. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 18
Ballad
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 19
Ballad of a Last Loving Letter from a Son in the Deathhouse
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 20
Ballad of Nostalgia
General note
Undated. Typescript and handwritten drafts.
Box 67, Folder 21
Ballad to a Boy
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 22
Barbados and Trinidad
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 23
Basket Case (Full of Memories)
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 24
Bard Lecture
1996
General note
Typescript and flyer.
Box 67, Folder 25
B.B
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 26
Beauty Part
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 27
Berlin Story
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 28
Birthday Story
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 29
Blind President Ogles Pedestrians
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 30
Blond Young Man and Old Gray Man
General note
Undated. Handwritten draft.
Box 67, Folder 31
Bra Her Bra Her Bra Bra
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 32
Bride Wore Red
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 33
Buck Naked
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 34
Bus Full of Black Men
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 35
Bus Terminal
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 36
Cage of Shadows
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 37
Cave of the Wind
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 38
Centennial of Melville's Birth
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 39
Changes
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 40
Chanukah for Bella Stella
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 41
Chinese Creep
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 42
Christmas Eve Poem (for Joe)
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 43
Christmas Poem
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 44
Clean Break
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 45
Closets
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 46
Cock War
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 47
Collaborations, Kenward Elmslie and Steven Hall
General note
Typescript and photocopies. "Dear Edna May Oliver," "Ozone Island," "Red Grooms", "Star", "Sunday in Seattle," "To Delia."
Box 67, Folder 48
Collage
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 49
Comics in Chicago
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 50
Coming Up on Scherzo..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 51
Company Fink
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 52
Correspondence
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 53
Cross Word Puzzles and Word Games
General note
Undated. Typescript and handwritten notes.
Box 67, Folder 54
Curious Cobwebs/Country Life
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 55
Dad's Scissors
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 56
Day the Charlestons Moved from Manhattan
General note
Undated. Typescript. See also "Moving Day, and "The Day the Charlestons Moved" in this subseries.
Box 67, Folder 57
Dear Mrs. Ryan
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 58
Definition of Alabama in the Spring
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 59
Deviates
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 60
Diners' Service
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 61
Distance
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 62
Dixie Cups
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 63
Dogs
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 64
Dr. Leonard Gibson Had Decided to Establish a Branch Coat for a Pillow..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 65
Driblet
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 66
Drug Card
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 68
Ego Message
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 69
End This Summer
General note
Typescripts.
Box 67, Folder 70
Enormous Sense of Relief-- Post-Take-Over..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 71
Entry Variation
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 72
Eternal Happiness Seaweed
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 73
Excursions
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 74
Fairy Tale for a Girl
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 75
Fear of Scissors
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 76
Fig for Ron Gorchov
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 77
Five A.M
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 78
Flower Poem
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 79
Folklorists
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 80
Follicles
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 81
Food Values
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 82
For Cynthia
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 83
Form #1
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 84
Fragonard
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 85
Frankie and Johnny
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 86
Free Man
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 87
Fuck the Fuck Ode Ode
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 88
Fuck the Suck of the Cock of the Dock..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 89
Furnished Rooms
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 90
Games
General note
Undated. Handwritten notes.
Box 67, Folder 91
Gay Boy
General note
Undated. With Joe Brainard.
Box 67, Folder 92
Gays in Haiti/Gays in Power
General note
Undated. Typescript. Also titled "Haiti," "Homosexuality in Haiti," and "Mutt and Jeff."
Box 67, Folder 93
George Washington is Coming
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 94
Georgette
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 95
Get Yourself Together With..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 96
Gift Between Two Friends is Strong..
General note
Undated. Handwritten.
Box 67, Folder 97
Gingerbread Darling Part I and Part II
General note
Undated. Handwritten with drawings by Joe Brainard.
Box 67, Folder 98
Glamorous Strangers
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 99
God Police and Testy Political Light Ups
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 100
Goldenrod Puzzle
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 101
Great Steep
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 102
Green Bird Lyrics
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 103
Hand in Glove
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 104
Happy Birthday (Poem for Cici)
1962
Box 67, Folder 105
Happy Homosexuals
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 106
Happy Returns of the Night
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 107
Harvey Girls
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 108
Heavenly the Prize Fighter, Though Embattled..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 67, Folder 109
Help Exchanges
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 1
Hi There, Mont Blanc/Beach Boy
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 2
Hicky Mountain
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 3
Hill Talk
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 4
Hippies
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 5
His Damp Balls Lay on His Leg..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 6
History of Vermont
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 7
Hmmmm...The Howitzers Disguised as "Heh-Heh Geese"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 8
Home and You
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 9
Homosexual Coitus
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 10
Hot Property
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 11
How Can I Win You?
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 12
How Fortunate Mr. Coke Is to Have His Name Tucked Away Out of Sight..
General note
Undated. Typescript drafts with revisions.
Box 68, Folder 13
Hyacinth Song
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 14
I Can Give You
General note
Undated. Photocopy.
Box 68, Folder 15
I Don't Gussy Myself Up in Chinchilla Pelts..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 16
I Don't Wanna Go to Washington
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 17
I Should Be Calling a Singer..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 18
I Watch the Neon Light Blink..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 19
I Wonder Why We Americans Don't Do This?
General note
Undated. Handwritten with stamped designs by [?] Joe Brainard.
Box 68, Folder 20
I'll Be Your Babe You Be My Pard
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 21
Important Message from All the Uncles
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 22
Imprisoned in St. Louis
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 23
In All My Years
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 24
Incandescence on a Fecund Isle
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 25
Innocence, Lost Innocence, Acceptance of Lost Innocence..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 26
Inter-Twinin'
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 27
It's Evening Now..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 28
Jack, Plump, Not Polite..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 29
January Deadlock
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 30
January Poem
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 31
Jean Harlow Song
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 32
Jerky Strains of the Still-Fashionable York Were Taxing the Capacities..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 33
Jissom Splattered on the Carport..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 34
Joe by Kenward Elmslie
General note
Undated. Comic panel with paste-up text by Joe Brainard.
Box 68, Folder 35
Julius Monk Material
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 36
July
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 37
Keeping Cool
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 38
Kennedy [:] Lyndon, Do You Really Think What You're Saying is..
General note
Undated. Typescripts.
Box 68, Folder 39
Labour Day
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 40
Lady Ambassador
General note
Undated. Form letter rewritten with James Schuyler.
Box 68, Folder 41
Lemon and a Star
1960
General note
October 22, 1960. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 42
Letter to a Vague Young Man
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 43
Letter to Joe's Plant
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 44
Letter to Kenneth Koch
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 45
Lettera 32 Poem
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 46
Levee into the Soiree
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 47
Light Up Poem
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 48
Little Lyric of the Night Crawlers
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 49
Little Man
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 50
Little Odd
General note
Undated. Handwritten text.
Box 68, Folder 51
Looks Can Kill Looks Are Deceiving
General note
Undated. Handwritten pages.
Box 68, Folder 52
Lord Minted..
General note
Undated. Handwritten text.
Box 68, Folder 53
Lotions
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 54
Love Police
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 55
Lovely Lent..
General note
Undated. Typescript, with drawing by Joe Brainard.
Box 68, Folder 56
Love's Game Completed
General note
Undated. Typescript. Written in collaboration with Ruth Yorck.
Box 68, Folder 57
Lutheran Love
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 58
Magnanimous Influenza
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 59
Making Up for Lost Ardor
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 60
March 11th
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 61
Margaret McKean: The Masquerade
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 62
Masochism in Miami
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 63
Mattress on the Sidewalk..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 64
Memory #1. Mayfair Club Dance and Shirley Booth
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 65
Midget Threnody
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 66
Midtown Half-Killed
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 67
Mildred and the Night Crawlers
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 68
Minnie Must Go
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 69
Minute Monologue
General note
Circa 1950. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 70
Miss Moon O'Tool
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 71
Miss O'Brien Takes the Stand
1946 - 1950
Box 68, Folder 72
Mistook a City of the Dead for a Field of Bee-Hives..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 73
Monster at Several Removes
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 74
Monster Worship
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 75
Moolah
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 76
Moon Canals
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 77
More Easter for Joe
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 78
More Eats
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 79
Morning Love
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 80
Mornings Are a Cinch...Yes...Just Get Up..
General note
Undated. Handwritten text with drawings by Joe Brainard.
Box 68, Folder 81
Movement
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 82
Moves
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 83
Movie Song
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 84
Moving Day and the "Day the Charlestons Moved"
General note
See aslo "The Day the Charlestons Moved from Manhattan" in this subseries.
Box 68, Folder 85
Mrs. Bean Glaceed the Cake..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 68, Folder 86
Mrs. Emery: Sotte! De Quoi Vivrons-Nous?
General note
Undated. Handwritten text with drawing by Joe Brainard.
Box 68, Folder 87
Mrs. Sandstrom Glanced Out the Window..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 2
Murder Story
1953
General note
Typescript, handwritten notes and notebook about a murder case in Michigan.
Box 69, Folder 3
My Black Hat Berry..
General note
Undated. Typescript with drawing by Joe Brainard.
Box 69, Folder 4
My Lady Friend
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 5
Negroes in the Men's Room
General note
Undated. Handwritten.
Box 69, Folder 6
Neither Man Nor Woman Nor Memory of..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 7
New in Blue
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 8
New Year Work
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 9
Night Crawlers
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 10
Night Lens
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 11
Night of the Brown Beer/Die Nacht der Braunen Biere
General note
Undated. English and German typescript texts by Elmslie [?].
Box 69, Folder 12
Nipples Grow Erect..
General note
Undated. Typescript, with drawing by Joe Brainard.
Box 69, Folder 13
Notebook Poems
General note
Undated. Typescripts. First work is "The 2nd Best Flashback," published in ALBUM (1969).
Box 69, Folder 14
Notes for Stories (For Fiction) (For Short Stories)
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 15
Nuns Drinking Song #2
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 16
October Welcome
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 17
O'Henry Twist
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 18
Old Time Bohemian
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 19
On an Isle Named Martha's Vineyard..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 20
On Your Birthday There Was Snow in Central Park..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 21
Oneword Trilogy
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 22
Opaque Countryside
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 23
Orgy Rooms, Sniffles, Rasping Coughs, Sores, Bedbugs..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 24
O'Seas Sonnet
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 25
Other Scenes
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 26
Others Are Coming
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 27
Out of Red River: Eleven O' Clock..
General note
Undated. Handwritten text.
Box 69, Folder 28
Overgrown Roads Retain Water-And-Mirror Mirages Around Here..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 29
Pain Must Go to Doctor..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 30
Painful Peace
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 31
Pardon My Face, and the Rest of Me..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 32
Parque
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 33
Pear Brandy
General note
Undated. Typescript and handwritten drafts.
Box 69, Folder 34
Pearl
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 35
Performance notes
General note
Undated. Handwritten observations on posture, facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice, and movement. Includes typescript
cue notes with titles of works and the names of readers for the Kent Tavern event, "Poetry Small Talk."
Box 69, Folder 36
Personalities
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 38
Pix
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 39
Poem
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 40
Poem for Tony
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 41
Poem of Despair
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 42
Poem Selection
General note
Undated. Photocopies and typescript.
Box 69, Folder 43
Poem to April
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 44
Poems of Horror and Suspense
General note
With Bill Berkson.
Box 69, Folder 45
Point A Invaded Paris that Spring of the Famine..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 46
Popcorn
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 47
Population Control
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 48
Postcard Work
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 49
Pre-December
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 50
Progress Report
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 51
Pursuit
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 53
Questionnaire of an Incompetent Marxist
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 54
Quits
General note
Undated. Typescripts with drawing and an annotation.
Box 69, Folder 55
Radios
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 56
Raymond was a White-Headed Boy..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 57
Recapitulations
1956
General note
Typescript. Critique of productions at the Karamu Theatre.
Box 69, Folder 58
R.F.D
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 59
Robert Creeley Journal
1966
General note
Photocopies of typescript and handwritten pages by Joe Brainard, Ron and Pat Padgett.
Box 69, Folder 60
Rocky Mountains
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 61
Roundelay
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 62
Run, Little Boy
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 63
Sagaponak
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 64
Saturday Night and Other Poems
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 65
Savvy Wad
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 66
Say Zoo-Zoo to the Grocery boy
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 67
Scene
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 68
Second Toot
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 69
See
General note
Undated. Handwritten.
Box 69, Folder 70
Seven Events
General note
Typescripts with annotations.
Box 69, Folder 71
Sexual Anxiety
General note
Fourth of July. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 72
Shakespeare Sonnet 32A
General note
Undated. Typescripts. Also contains David Rosenburg's signed typescript "Shakespearen Sonnet 32A".
Box 69, Folder 73
Shaky Pair
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 74
Shmeggegy for Stella
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 75
Silenus-Madness
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 76
Simple Life
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 77
Snowfall
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 78
Snow Poem #1, #2 and #3
1966
General note
January 30. Typescripts.
Box 69, Folder 79
Sole Surviving Poplar Looks Bushier
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 80
Sonnet for Ted
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 81
Sorrows
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 82
State Foods Sonnet
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 83
Stockbridge Mass
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 84
Stockholm Threnody
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 85
Stolen Dream
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 69, Folder 86
Story of Stones and Spring
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 1
Stranger With the Special Face
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 2
Stu
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 3
Stud Cream
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 4
Summer Morning
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 5
Survey of Columbia
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 6
Sweet Flag
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 7
Ten Best Orchids
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 8
Thank You for Having Me in Heaven..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 9
Thaw Scene
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 10
This Fondest Embassy, Though Embattled..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 11
This Machine Is Officially On..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 12
Those Wonderful Thirties
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 13
Three Collaborations
General note
Undated. Typescript. 1. "Armagnac Or the Visitor" (with B. Berkson); 2. "At the Foot of Chiapas" (with Kenneth Koch); 3. "Pearl"
(with Bill Berkson). See also "Armagnac Or the Visitor" in subseries 3C.
Box 70, Folder 14
Tower House Publications 1969-1970-1971 (My Favorite Quotations From)
1969 - 1971
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 15
Travel Plans
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 16
Travelogue #2
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 17
Trees in Turmoil
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 18
Trinidad Enters..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 19
Trouble With Extase
General note
Undated. Typescript and handwritten drafts.
Box 70, Folder 20
Turn Off the Lights in the Pentagon..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 21
TV News
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 22
Twelve Doors
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 23
Two K's Poem
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 24
Two Sniffs
General note
Undated. Handwritten draft.
Box 70, Folder 25
Veneers..
General note
Undated. Also titled "Some Veneers," "Veneer at Twilight," and "A Veneer or Two." Typescripts.
Box 70, Folder 26
Vestige of a Black Astronaut Joke
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 27
View Pains
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 28
Vigilante Country
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 29
Virgin Islands
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 31
Waiting for the Food to Arrive, Music on Loud. Doctor on Bed..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 32
War Race
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 33
Warbler
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 34
Warning
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 35
Wasp Notations
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 36
Water Cures Love
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 37
Weather Control
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 38
Weekend Theories
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 39
Whatever Happend to Baby Jane
General note
Undated. Typescript draft, paste-up and photocopies.
Box 70, Folder 40
Where is My Sonny
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 41
Whisperings in Church
General note
Undated. With Joe Brainard. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 42
White Arm
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 43
White Car
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 44
White-In Poems
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 45
Why Can't I Find Love
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 46
Widow of Memphis
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 47
Wolfies
General note
Undated. Typescript with handwritten additions and corrections.
Box 70, Folder 48
Wonder Woman..
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 49
Zim Ta Cum
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 70, Folder 50
Unidentified fragments of texts
General note
Undated. Typescripts and handwritten texts.
Box 70, Folder 51
Untitled, unidentified group of typescript drafts
Box 70, Folder 52
Untitled, unidentified sequence of typescripts
Handmade Books and Scrapbooks
Box 70, Folder 53
Weekend Book
1961
General note
Pamphlet of San Francisco restaurant menus with cut-outs, postcard photographs of Native Americans and handwritten text.
Box 70, Folder 54
Day
1966
General note
October 2. Collage album with paste-up text, drawings, cartoons, dried plants, and photographs of Joe Brainard and Frank O'Hara
Box 70, Folder 55
Japanese City Poems
1966
General note
Monday, March 21. Handmade book with paste-up text and photographs of Elmslie.
Box 70, Folder 56
Labor Day Leaves
1967
General note
Handmade collage pamphlet with pressed plants, cut-outs and punch-tape text.
Oversize FB-334, Folder 1
Album for Joe
1970 January 12
General note
Contains flyers, paste-up text, cartoons, programs, tickets, receipts, clippings, postcards, invitations, and photographs
of Elmslie, Joe Brainard and Frank O'Hara.
Box 71, Folder 1
Boke for Joe
1970
General note
December 31. Scrapbook with excerpts of Elmslie texts, cards with pictures of film and theatre people, cut-up envelopes, and
a photograph of Elmslie.
Box 71, Folder 2
Terrific Afternoon
1970
General note
Handmade booklet with photographs of Elmslie, typescript text and newspaper clipping.
Box 71, Folder 3
Untitled scrapbook
1970 - 1971
General note
Contains correspondence, tickets, receipts, photographs of Elmslie, Larry Rivers, Marrakesh and New York City.
Box 71, Folder 4
One Hundred I Remembers
1971
General note
December 24. Album with paste-up text.
Box 71, Folder 5
Album for Joe: Happy Easter for Joe
1973
General note
Collage album with paste-up text, drawings, ticket stubs, and photographs.
Box 71, Folder 6
Happy New Year Book
1973
General note
Notebook with photographs, paste-up, handwritten and typescript text, and drawings.
Box 71, Folder 7
New Year Greetings from Kenward for Joe
1975
General note
December 31. Handmade booklet with typescript and paste-up texts and collages.
Box 71, Folder 8
Birthday Letter for Joe
General note
Undated. Notebook with handwritten entries.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 4) PHOTOGRAPHS: Arranged in five subseries: A) Kenward Elmslie, B) Elmslie and Others, C) Elmslie and Pultizer Families,
D) Other People, and E) Miscellaneous Photographs.
A) Kenward Elmslie: Formal and informal portraits, 1950-1990.
B) Elmslie and Others: Photographs of Elmslie with friends, colleagues and family members.
C) Elmslie and Pulitzer Families: Albums with family travel scenes from the early decades of the 20th century in California,
Colorado, Maine, and Europe. There are also loose photographs with family members and travel scenes.
D) Other People: Photographs of Elmslie's friends and colleagues, notably John Ashbery, Joe Brainard, and James Schuyler.
E) Miscellaneous Photographs: Mostly black-and-white images of Elmslie's dogs and a variety of other animals, his property
in Vermont, buildings and scenes encountered in his travels, signed studio photographs of Ethel Merman, Pola Negri and Shirley
Temple.
Box 71, Folder 9
Kenward Elmslie
1950 - 1990
General note
Formal and informal black-and-white and color photographs.
Kenward Elmslie and Others
Box 71, Folder 10
Kenward Elmslie with family members
1960 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white and color photographs.
Box 71, Folder 11
Kenward Elmslie with others
1960 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white and color photographs.
Box 71, Folder 12
Kenward Elmslie with Whippet, Andy Warhol Studio
General note
Undated. Black-and-white photographs and photocopies of Elmslie with a dog. Also pamphlets, "The Andy Warhol Museum," (1994)
and "The Films of Andy Warhol." (1994)
Elmslie and Pulitzer Families
Oversize FB-333, Folder 1
Elmslie and Pulitzer families and friends
1910 - 1930
General note
Album. Travel scenes in Colorado, New Mexico and Europe.
Oversize FB-333, Folder 2
Elmslie and Pulitzer families and friends
1916 - 1931
General note
Album. Travel scenes in California, Colorado and Maine.
Box 72, Folder 1
Elmslie family
1910 - 1930
General note
Album. The Colorado Springs home under construction, Ralph Pulitzer and unidentified others.
Box 72, Folder 2
Elmslie family travels in Europe
1910 - 1930
General note
Album. Constance Pultizer Elmslie, monuments and scenery.
Box 72, Folder 3
Elmslie family travel and activities
1910 - 1930
General note
Album. Travels, picnic and scenery.
Oversize FB-327, Folder 4
Constance Helen Pulitzer (Mrs. William Elmslie)
1919
General note
Wedding portrait and photograph of painting of Vivien Elmslie (daughter).
Box 72, Folder 4
Constance Helen Pulitzer (Mrs. William Elmslie) and others
1910 - 1937
General note
Black-and-white photographs.
Box 72, Folder 5
Elmslie and Pulitzer family members
1920 - 1950
General note
Black-and-white photographs.
Box 72, Folder 6
Elmslie family members
1960 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white photographs.
Box 73, Folder 1
Ashbery, John
1970 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white photographs and negatives.
Box 73, Folder 2
Brainard, Joe
1940 - 1980
General note
Formal and informal black-and-white and color portraits. Also photographs of artwork.
Box 73, Folder 4
Kligman, Ruth
1980
General note
Black-and-white photograph.
Box 73, Folder 5
Koch, Kenneth
1970 - 1980
Box 73, Folder 6
Lansing, Gerrit and Harry [?]
1960 - 1970
General note
Black-and-white formal and informal portraits and snapshots.
Box 73, Folder 7
Latouche, John
1940 - 1956
General note
One black-and-white portrait and article with photograph of portrait painted by Pavel Tchelitchew donated by Elmslie.
Box 73, Folder 8
Meyer, John
General note
Undated. Black-and-white photograph.
Box 73, Folder 9
O'Hara, Frank
1963 - 1997
General note
Black-and-white photographs taken by Elmslie, agreement with the University of Chicago Press for use, one negative, and correspondence.
Box 73, Folder 10
Olson, Charles
General note
Undated. Black-and-white photographs.
Box 73, Folder 11
Schuyler, James
1960 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white photographs.
Box 73, Folder 12
Snell, Donald
1970
General note
Black-and-white head shot.
Box 73, Folder 13
Waldman, Anne and Lewis Warsh
1970 - 1980
General note
Formal black-and-white portrait and snapshot.
Box 73, Folder 14
Yorck, Ruth
1950 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white photographs.
Box 73, Folder 15
Unidentified couples and groups
1950 - 1960
General note
Black-and-white and color prints and negatives.
Box 73, Folder 16
Unidentified men
1950 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white photographs. Part 1.
Box 73, Folder 17
Unidentified men
1950 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white photographs. Part 2.
Box 73, Folder 18
Unidentified women
1950 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white formal and informal portraits and snapshots, some in color.
Miscellaneous Photographs
Box 73, Folder 19
Animals
1960 - 1990
General note
Black-and-white and color snapshots of birds, cats, deer, dogs, and llamas.
Box 73, Folder 20
Animals. Whippoorwill and other whippets
1960 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white photographs.
Box 74, Folder 1
Artworks
General note
Undated. Unidentified. Negatives.
Box 74, Folder 2
Buildings and landscapes
General note
Undated. Black-and-white photographs.
Box 74, Folder 3
Buildings and landscapes. Vermont
General note
Undated. Black-and-white and color snapshots and negatives.
Box 74, Folder 4
Demonstration against the death penalty and execution of Caryl Chessman
1960
General note
May. Black-and-white photographs.
Box 74, Folder 5
Graffiti
1960 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white photographs.
Box 74, Folder 6
Theatre scenes and people
1930 - 1980
General note
Black-and-white photographs. Signed studio photographs of Ethel Merman, Pola Negri and Shirley Temple.
Box 74, Folder 7
Travel. Gloucester Castle, England
General note
Undated. Black-and-white photographs.
Box 74, Folder 8
Travel. Europe
General note
Undated. Black-and-white photographs.
Box 74, Folder 9
Travel. Mexico and Central America
General note
Undated. Black-and-white photographs.
Box 74, Folder 10
Travel. United States. New Orleans
General note
Undated. Black-and-white photographs.
BIOGRAPHICAL
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 5) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL: Arranged in three subseries: A) General, B) Address Books and C) Appointment Calendars.
A) General: Material arranged alphabetically and documents Elmslie's private life and public career in school report cards,
passports and travel documents, membership cards, biographical sketches prepared for WHO'S WHO volumes, articles about Elmslie
in newspapers and magazines, a handwriting analysis, and an astrological chart. There are four interviews, notably the 1964
handwritten text with Elmslie and Joe Brainard interviewing each other.
B) Address Books: Address books, business cards and handwritten names, telephone numbers.
C) Appointment Calendar: Arranged chronologically, spans the period 1959-1995, and contains bound and loose leaf daily and
monthly calendars with annotations.
Box 74, Folder 11
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
1961 - 1985
General note
Almanac, "Articles of Association," contract agreement, and membership cards.
Box 74, Folder 12
Amsterdam Trip
1983
General note
April. Correspondence, itinerary, maps, and notes regarding Elmslie's appearance on a Dutch television program with host Adriaan
van Dis.
Box 74, Folder 13
Articles about Kenward Elmslie and his work
1970 - 1981
General note
Magazine and newspapers articles by Michael Andre, William Bamberger, Bill Davis, R.D. Eno, Gerrit Henry, Shelley Lustig,
Susan Margolis, Larry Rumley, and Michael Silverblatt.
Box 74, Folder 14
Astrological chart for Kenward Elmslie
General note
Undated. A form with handwritten entries and the "Monthly Evening Sky Map" for March-April, 1946.
Box 74, Folder 15
Biographical sketches and WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA, WHO'S WHO IN THE EAST forms
1960 - 1977
General note
Typescripts and forms. Some biographical sketches include a "Critical Comments" section with excepts from blurbs and reviews
of Elmslie's work.
Box 74, Folder 16
Hearing
1956
General note
October 11. With Hearing Officer George M. Brook. Typescript question and answer testimony on Elmslie's professional tenancy
renter's status.
Box 74, Folder 17
Interview
1964
General note
November 17. Joe Brainard interviews Kenward Elmlie and Kenward Elmslie interviews Joe Brainard. Handwritten and typescript
pages.
Box 74, Folder 18
Interview
1976
General note
Summer/Fall. Interviewed by Winston Leyland for GAY SUNSHINE. Typescript, photocopy and newspaper clipping about publication
of a volume of GAY SUNSHINE interviews.
Box 74, Folder 19
Interview
1983
General note
July. Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard interviewed by Stuart Ross for MONDO HUNKAMOOGA: A JOURNAL OF SMALL PRESS REVIEWS.
Box 74, Folder 20
Interview, August
1990
General note
Interview by William C. Bamberger published in Bamberger's KENWARD ELMSLIE: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE, 1993. Typescript draft
and typescript with corrections.
Box 75, Folder 1
L.G.E
1950
General note
Analysis of Elmslie's handwriting by Shirley Green [?] Typescript.
Box 75, Folder 2
Licenses, permits, membership cards
1950 - 1980
General note
Includes a Selective Service "Certificate of Acceptability" dated November 20, 1950, and miscellaneous material.
Box 75, Folder 3
Molar with fillings in blue envelope
General note
Undated. Printed address: 228 East 68th Street, New York, 21, New York.
Box 75, Folder 4
Naropa Institute, Summer
1988
General note
Employment agreement, brochures and course schedule.
Box 75, Folder 5
National Endowment for the Arts Composer/Librettist Fellowship Grant
1977 - 1978
General note
Correspondence, forms, report, and excepts from Elmslie's work CITY JUNKET and THE THREE SISTERS.
Box 75, Folder 6
Passports, United States of America
1948 - 1965
General note
Includes miscellaneous travel documents and vaccination records.
Box 75, Folder 7
Pulitzer Family clipping file
1930 - 1984
General note
Five newspaper clippings mentioning various members of the Pulitzer family and a business card for Dr. Henry F. Pulitzer of
London, England.
Box 75, Folder 8
School report cards
1942 - 1946
General note
Grade reports and evaluations from the Hawken Upper School, Cleveland, Ohio (1942-1943) and St. Mark's School, Southborough,
Massachusetts (1943-1946).
Box 75, Folder 9
Securities portfolio valuation as of November 14
1955
General note
Contains bank and insurance cards.
Box 75, Folder 10
United States Information Agency. American Participant Program, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1989
General note
Correspondence, receipts, translations of work by Elmslie, handwritten notes, and typescript of Elmslie's "Evaluation Report
for the U.S.I.A."
Address Books and Appointment Calendars
Box 75, Folder 11
Address Books
1950 - 1979
Box 75, Folder 12
Addresses, printed cards and handwritten notes
1950 - 1980
Box 75, Folder 13
1959
General note
Entries on visits to England and Germany and names, addresses and appointments.
Box 76, Folder 1
1959
General note
May-December. Appointments, names, grocery lists.
Box 76, Folder 2
1959-1960
General note
Typescript entries with handwritten annotations.
Box 76, Folder 3
1960
General note
Entries on submissions of poems, work in progress.
Box 76, Folder 4
1961
General note
Appointments and submission of work.
Box 76, Folder 5
1962
General note
Commercial desk diary with artwork cover by Elmslie [?].
Box 76, Folder 6
1962
General note
Date for submissions and rehearsals.
Box 76, Folder 7
1963
General note
Appointments.
Box 77, Folder 1
1963
General note
Diary with extensive entries.
Box 77, Folder 2
1964
General note
Appointments and travel log.
Box 77, Folder 3
1965
General note
Appointments and rehearsal dates.
Box 77, Folder 4
1965
General note
Commercial diary with artwork cover by Elmslie [?]. Appointments, rehearsal and performance dates.
Box 77, Folder 5
1966
General note
Commercial desk diary with artwork cover. Appointments, rehearsals, submissions.
Box 77, Folder 6
1967
General note
Appointments.
Box 78, Folder 1
1969
General note
January 1-22, loose pages with extensive entries.
Box 78, Folder 2
1969 [?]
General note
Appointments, travel diary in England and Italy.
Box 78, Folder 3
1970
General note
Loose notes, lists, dental appointments, and outline of memorial service for Bill Clow, April 6.
Box 78, Folder 4
1971
General note
Appointments, submissions, rehearsals.
Box 78, Folder 5
1972
General note
Appointments.
Box 78, Folder 6
1974
General note
Appointments and per diem travel expense receipts.
Box 78, Folder 7
1975
General note
Appointments, rehearsals and performances.
Box 79, Folder 1
1976
General note
Appointments, travel and Z Press business.
Box 79, Folder 2
1977
General note
Appointments.
Box 79, Folder 4
1978
General note
Appointments.
Box 79, Folder 5
1979
General note
Appointments and schedule of readings.
Box 79, Folder 6
1983
General note
May. Typescript travel and readings schedule with contact names and addresses.
Box 79, Folder 7
1987
General note
Appointments.
Box 80, Folder 1
1988
General note
Financial information.
Box 80, Folder 2
1994
General note
Appointments and receipts.
Box 80, Folder 3
1994
General note
Appointments.
Box 80, Folder 4
1995
General note
Appointments.
Z PRESS PRODUCTION FILES
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 6) Z PRESS PRODUCTION FILES: Arranged in four subseries: A) Correspondence, B) Z MAGAZINE, C) Z Press Books, and D)
Miscellaneous Material.
A) Correspondence: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically within folders. It contains letters by John
Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ian Finlay, Ann Lauterbach, Trevor Winfield, and others.
B) Z MAGAZINE: Typescript drafts, paste-ups and page proofs for four years of the literary magazine, issues ZZZ through ZZZZZZ,
1974-1978. Some drafts and proofs have corrections or printers' marks.
C) Z Press Books: Drafts, proofs, material for covers or illustrations for seventeen writers and artists. Among them, John
Ashbery (THREE PLAYS, 1978), Joe Brainard (TWENTY NINE MINI ESSAYS, 1978), Ron Padgett (TULSA KID, 1980), James Schuyler (HOME
BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1977), and Anne Waldman (CABIN, 1981).
D) Miscellaneous Material: Financial material, flyers and announcements promoting events sponsored by Z Press and a clippings
file with reviews of Z Press events and publications.
Box 80, Folder 7
Berkson, Bill
1974 - 1975
Box 80, Folder 11
Finlay, Ian Hamilton
1977
General note
June 29. Includes black-and-white photograph.
Box 80, Folder 13
Granville-Smith, Maureen
1974 - 1975
Box 80, Folder 14
Inland Book Company, Inc., (David Wilk)
1983 - 1986
Box 81, Folder 1
Lally, Michael
1974 - 1977
Box 81, Folder 3
Lauterbach, Ann
1974 - 1977
Box 81, Folder 5
Winch, Terrence
1975 - 1977
Box 81, Folder 7
Unidentified correspondents
Box 81, Folder 8
ZZZ MAGAZINE
1974
General note
Typescript marked up for printer.
Box 81, Folder 9
ZZZ MAGAZINE
1974
General note
Paste-up with titles only.
Oversize FB-332, Folder 1
ZZZ MAGAZINE
1974
General note
Page proofs with corrections.
Box 81, Folder 10
ZZZZ MAGAZINE
1976
General note
Typescript draft with corrections.
Box 81, Folder 11
ZZZZ MAGAZINE
1976
General note
Typescript, contents lists and paste-up dummy.
Box 81, Folder 12
ZZZZ MAGAZINE
1976
General note
Paste-up. Part I.
Box 81, Folder 13
ZZZZ MAGAZINE
1976
General note
Paste-up. Part II.
Oversize FB-332, Folder 2
ZZZZ MAGAZINE
1976
General note
Page proofs with corrections.
Box 82, Folder 1
ZZZZZ MAGAZINE
1977
General note
Typescripts and photocopies of draft for printer.
Box 82, Folder 2
ZZZZZ MAGAZINE
1977
General note
Photocopied typescript draft for printer.
Box 82, Folder 4
ZZZZZ MAGAZINE
1977
General note
Page page proofs.
Box 82, Folder 5
ZZZZZZ MAGAZINE
1978
General note
Photocopied typescript draft for printer.
Box 82, Folder 6
ZZZZZZ MAGAZINE
1978
General note
Production material.
Box 82, Folder 7
ZZZZZZ MAGAZINE
1978
General note
Photocopy and draft.
Oversize FB-332, Folder 3
ZZZZZZ MAGAZINE
1978
General note
Page proofs.
Box 83, Folder 1
Abbott, Keith. 12 SHOT: A PHOTOPOEM (1975)
Box 83, Folder 2
Ashbery, John. THREE PLAYS (1978)
General note
Page proof and cover.
Box 83, Folder 3
Ashbery, John and James Schuyler. A NEST OF NINNIES (1975)
1975
General note
Miscellaneous proofs, cover boards, lists of corrections and correspondence.
Box 83, Folder 4
Ashbery, John and James Schuyler. A NEST OF NINNIES (1975)
General note
Page proofs.
Box 83, Folder 5
Berkson, Bill. LUSH LIFE (1984)
General note
Typescript draft for printer with corrections, galley proof and page proof.
Box 83, Folder 6
Boulte, Jean. TWELVE VERMONT POSTCARDS (1981)
General note
Production material, color keys and color photocopies.
Oversize MC-149, Folder 04
Boulte, Jean. TWELVE VERMONT POSTCARDS (1981)
General note
Photostat plates.
Box 83, Folder 8
Brainard, Joe. TWENTY NINE MINI ESSAYS (1978)
General note
Galley proof, page proof, and correspondence.
Box 84, Folder 1
Brownstein, Michael. STRANGE DAYS AHEAD (1975)
General note
Galley proof, page proof and cover.
Box 84, Folder 2
Burckhardt, Rudy. MOBILE HOMES (1980)
General note
Typescript and paste-up draft, corrections and correspondence.
Box 84, Folder 3
Burckhardt, Rudy. MOBILE HOMES (1980)
General note
Galley proofs.
Box 84, Folder 4
Bye, Reed. BORDER THEME (1981)
General note
Page proofs.
Box 84, Folder 5
Denby, Edwin. MILTIE IS A HACKIE (1973)
General note
With Rudy Burckhardt. Title page and announcements [?].
Box 85, Folder 1
Finlay, Hamilton Ian. HEROIC EMBLEMS (1977)
General note
Printing blocks for illustrations.
Box 86, Folder 1
Finlay, Hamilton Ian and Ron Costley. HEROIC EMBLEMS (1977)
General note
Page proofs.
Oversize MC-149, Folder 05
Gianakos, Steve. STEVE GIANAKOS (1981)
1981
General note
Page proofs.
Box 86, Folder 3
Kyger, Joanne. THE WONDERFUL FOCUS OF YOU (1980)
General note
Page proofs.
Box 86, Folder 4
Matthews, Harry. SELECTED DECLARATIONS OF DEPENDENCE (1977)
General note
Photocopy of typescript and illustration.
Box 86, Folder 5
Matthews, Harry. SELECTED DECLARATIONS OF DEPENDENCE (1977)
General note
Master proofs.
Box 86, Folder 6
Matthews, Harry. SELECTED DECLARATIONS OF DEPENDENCE (1977)
General note
Page proofs.
Box 86, Folder 7
Padgett, Ron. THE TULSA KID (1980)
General note
Typescript draft from printer.
Box 86, Folder 8
Padgett, Ron. THE TULSA KID (1980)
General note
Galley proof with corrections. Part 1.
Box 86, Folder 9
Padgett, Ron. THE TULSA KID (1980)
General note
Galley proof with corrections. Part 2.
Box 87, Folder 1
Schuyler, James. THE HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 (1977)
General note
Galley proof and front cover.
Box 87, Folder 2
Waldman, Anne. CABIN (1981)
General note
Page proofs.
Box 87, Folder 3
Welish, Marjorie. TWO POEMS (1981)
General note
Page proofs.
Box 87, Folder 4
Announcements, brochures, cover designs, price lists
1970 - 1990
General note
Drafts and paste-ups.
Box 87, Folder 5
Catalogues and publication nnnouncements
1975 - 1980
Box 87, Folder 6
Distributors' invoices and inventories
Box 87, Folder 7
Inventory and sales tables
1983 - 1985
General note
Typescripts.
Box 87, Folder 8
Poetry events
1975 - 1995
General note
Announcements in newspapers.
Box 87, Folder 9
Poetry event. Flyers and press releases
1975 - 1995
General note
Printed flyers and paste-ups for Vermont readings by Rudy Burckhardt, Reed Bye, Elmslie, Ann Lauterbach, Ron Padgett, Sue
Haldman, and others. Some flyers have photographs.
Oversize FB-327, Folder 5
Z Press Poetry Fest
1980 - 1990
General note
[?] Poster for a reading by Rudy Burckhardt, Ron Padgett and Ann Lauterbach, Elmslie, Anne Waldman and Reed Bye.
Box 87, Folder 10
Reviews of Z Press events and publishing activity
General note
Newspaper and magazine clippings.
JOE BRAINARD MATERIAL
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 7) JOE BRAINARD MATERIAL: Arranged in three subseries: A) Correspondence, B) Artwork and Writings, and C) Miscellaneous
Material.
A) Correspondence: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically within folders. It contains letters from family
members.
B) Artworks and Writings: Arranged alphabetically by title and contains handwritten and typescript texts, drawings and sketches,
journal entries for the spring/summer of 1969. There are handwritten drafts and a corrected galley proof for Brainard's book,
I REMEMBER (1968 and 1970).
C) Miscellaneous Material: Arranged alphabetically by subject and contains publicity material for his exhibitions and readings,
article about him and his work, drawings and sketches, and an early award for his painting.
Box 87, Folder 12-13
Brainard, Howard L.
1966 - 1977
Box 88, Folder 2
Shelby Hogg White Family Association
1965 - 1966
Box 88, Folder 4
A-Z unidentified correspondents.
Box 88, Folder 5
And the Morning in an Igloo
General note
Undated. Photocopies of drawing and text.
Box 88, Folder 6
Autobiography
General note
Undated photocopy of typescript.
Box 88, Folder 7
Believing As I Do That "Realism"..
General note
Handwritten notes for course and curriculum vitae.
Box 88, Folder 9
Casualness of the Soft Collar..
General note
Undated. Handwritten with drawing.
Box 88, Folder 10
Dear Little Potted Plant
General note
Undated. Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 11
Do You Know Why Some Raincoats Are Called Mackintoshes?
General note
Undated. Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 12
E is for Elmslie
General note
Undated. Ink drawings in panels.
Box 88, Folder 13
Eating Grass
1964
General note
Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 14
Everything to You! (1976)
General note
April. Cover of WILSON LIBRARY BULLETIN.
Box 88, Folder 15
Exciting Novel of Romance and Intrigue and True Love
1977
General note
Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 16
GRASS HARP flyer
General note
Undated. Sketches, photograph and negative. Has example for color and paper, "Many Happy Returns" cover for Ted Berrigan.
Box 88, Folder 17
Hinson's Go to the Fair
General note
Undated. Typescript and handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 18
I Like
1963
General note
Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 19
Joe the Man
General note
Undated. Typescript. Also typescript protest poem, undated.
Box 88, Folder 20
I REMEMBER
General note
1968 [?]. Handwritten pages with changes and notes.
Box 88, Folder 21
I REMEMBER (1970)
General note
Galley proof for the Angel Hair edition with corrections.
Box 88, Folder 22
I REMEMBER. Selections
General note
Undated. Limited publication with article by Bill Reed, "A Grocery List of the 1950s".
Box 88, Folder 23
Intersection
1963
General note
Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 24
Introduction
General note
Undated. Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 25
JOE BRAINARD'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT
General note
Undated. Published drawing and text.
Box 88, Folder 26
Joe Brainard's Laws
General note
Undated. Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 27
Journal, May 9 - August 3
1969
General note
Handwritten pages, originally torn in half then clipped together in chronological order.
Box 88, Folder 28
Lazy Day
General note
Undated. Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 29
Life Better
General note
Undated. Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 30
Long Short Story
General note
Undated. Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 31
Love Song for Mrs. Boas by Ruth Landshoff Yorck
1965
Box 88, Folder 32
Maine
General note
Undated text with drawing.
Box 88, Folder 33
Mother's Love is a Blessing
1963
General note
Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 34
New Baby Was Born
1965
General note
May 23. Birth announcement.
Box 88, Folder 35
Notebook
General note
Undated. Handwritten texts, "O.K. then...," "Dear Fuckface...," "White and Dusty Men," and "Fruit".
Box 88, Folder 36
People of the World: Relax!
General note
1969 [?]. Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 37
Poem
1963
General note
Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 38
Saturday, December the 11th
1965
General note
Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 39
Selected Writings
1971
General note
Photocopy of typescript.
Box 88, Folder 40
Shenandoah
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 88, Folder 41
Some Notes on Doing THE SEAGULL Cover
1974
General note
Handwritten with drawings, photograph and postcard.
Box 88, Folder 42
V
General note
Undated. Handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 43
With Xmas Greetings and Loads of Cheer Cheer Cheer Cheer Cheer Cheer for Kenward Kenward Kenward
1964
General note
[?] Signed "Love, Jimmy and Joe." Album of magazine advertisements and stamps with added handwritten text.
Box 88, Folder 44
Announcements and flyers for exhibitions and readings by Joe Brainard
1970 - 1990
Box 88, Folder 45
Articles and reviews
1960 - 1990
General note
Newspaper clippings about Joe Brainard and his work.
Box 89, Folder 1
Drawings, sketches and collage material
1964 - 1965
General note
Also name tags and Oklahoma Young Democrats membership card.
Box 89, Folder 2
Lists and notes
General note
Undated. Handwritten pages.
Box 89, Folder 3
Scholastic Award for Achievement in Art
1960
General note
Joe Brainard, Oils. Wood and metal plaque.
JOHN LATOUCHE MATERIAL
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 8) JOHN LATOUCHE MATERIAL: Includes correspondence (arranged alphabetically within one folder), writings and music,
and miscellaneous material.
Box 89, Folder 5
BALLAD OF BABY DOE (1958). Flyer, program and article by A. R. Smith
1956 - 1993
Box 89, Folder 6
GOLDEN APPLE (1954). Programs and poster
1954 - 1972
Box 89, Folder 7
Journal, August 16 - October 9
1943
Box 89, Folder 8
List of songs by John Latouche
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 89, Folder 9
Notebook
1950 - 1953
General note
Bound with handwritten entries and sketches. Also loose sheets with handwritten and typescript lists, notes.
Box 89, Folder 10
Notebook
1950 - 1956
General note
Notes and lyrics for the GOLDEN APPLE and the ETERNAL EVE.
Box 89, Folder 11
Notebook
General note
Undated. Initials JL and sealing wax on cover. No contents.
Box 89, Folder 12
Notes and drawings
1940 - 1956
General note
Handwritten notes and ink drawings.
Oversize FB-327, Folder 7
RIDING HOOD REVISITED (1956). Vocal score
General note
Copy of handwritten score with annotations.
Box 89, Folder 13
Sleep Rhyme for Ken and To Ken Asleep
General note
Undated. Handwritten and typescript texts.
Box 89, Folder 14
Vocal Scores. "At Home in Your Heart," "Be Discriminatory," "Blue Countries," "Jack L'Eventreur,"
General note
Also "Legitimate," "Star Song," and "World of Our Own." Undated. Handwritten and published texts.
Box 89, Folder 15
Review of "Ballad of John Latouche"
General note
1956 [?]. Unsigned typescript review and elegy.
Box 89, Folder 16
Hotel and auto cards
1950 - 1956
WRITINGS OF OTHERS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 9) WRITINGS OF OTHERS: Arranged alphabetically by author's name and title of work. It contains typescripts and photocopies
of work by John Ashbery, David Rosenberg, James Schuyler, Lewis Warsh, and Trevor Winkfield, among others. There is also a
transcript of a interview by John Hollander of W. H. Auden from the early 1960s.
Box 90, Folder 1
Ashbery, John. "The Case of the Reluctant Polymath"
1980
General note
January 28. Article about Rudy Burckhardt in NEW YORK MAGAZINE. Also an undated typescript, "Trevor Winkfield is a Young English
Artist Living in New York...".
Box 90, Folder 2
Berkson, Bill. "Roots"
1973
General note
April 31. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 3
Berkson, Bill. "Twenty Stories High"
1969
General note
February. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 4
BLUE RIG
General note
Undated. Number Two. Edited by Sand Project Press. Works by Ted Berrigan, Tom Raworth, and John Stanton.
Box 90, Folder 5
Corbett, Bill. "Poem in December"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 6
De Leeuw, Randall. FICTITIOUS ALOYSIUS GETS IT ON
1975
General note
Accordion fold chapbook with captioned drawings.
Box 90, Folder 7
Guest, Barbara. "Let Us Give Up Our Trips"
1965
General note
October. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 8
Hoffman, Byrd. "Deafman Glance"
1971
Box 90, Folder 9
Hollander, John. Interview of W.H. Auden
1962
General note
[?]. Typescript with annotations and March 12, 1962, letter from Don Hall and "Maggie" [?].
Box 90, Folder 10
J.C. "Triptych 1"
1977
General note
[?]. Photocopies of photographs.
Box 90, Folder 11
Kierkegaard, Soren. "Diapsalmata" from EITHER/OR
General note
Undated. Typescript transcription.
Box 90, Folder 12
Koch, Kenneth. "The Artist"
General note
Undated. Mimeograph.
Box 90, Folder 13
Katz, Vincent Isaac. "November, 1967"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 14
Lansing, Gerrit. "In the Light of the Tinctures"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 15
Lansing, Gerrit. "Working the Lower Red Field"
1969
General note
Printed broadside.
Box 90, Folder 16
Lyrics by Others File
General note
Undated. Elmslie's typescript transcriptions of lyrics by E. Denby, G. Gershwin and Lerner and Lowe.
Box 90, Folder 17
Mackenzie, Edward. "English Seaside Series: Introduction"
1993
General note
August - September. Typescript and newspaper articles.
Box 90, Folder 18
Meyer, Tom. "On Being a Blond No Longer"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 19
Notley, Alice. "For Kenward: A Happy Birthday"
General note
Undated. Handwritten and typescript drafts.
Box 90, Folder 20
O' Hara, Frank. "The General Returns from One Place to Another"
1964
General note
Spiral bound photocopy with Elmslie's [?] annotations. Elmslie listed as the General in a 1991 production directed by Arnold
Weinstein.
Box 90, Folder 21
O'Hara, Frank. Four poems published in THE IOWA DEFENDER, November 4
1968
General note
"Les Luths," "Prospero,"Joe's Jacket," and "Poem." With introduction by Ted Berrigan. Also two printed pages with O'Hara's
"On Rachmaninoff's Birthday" and "The Day the Lady Died", and a clipping about O'Hara's work.
Box 90, Folder 22
Padgett, Ron. "Tans"
1968
General note
February 28. Typescript with map as cover.
Box 90, Folder 23
Rosenberg, David. "Frontal Nudity"
1972
Box 90, Folder 24
Rosenberg, David. "April 4," "Baudelaire: Les Bijoux," "June 12," "The Necessity of Poetry," "Rivers"
General note
Also, "Shakespearean Sonnet #29" "Shakespearean Sonnet #30," "Shakespearean Sonnet #31," "Soft Pages," and "Violence." Undated.
Typescripts.
Box 90, Folder 25
Schiff, Harris. "Among the Cliff Dwellers"
1971
General note
April 27. Handwritten text.
Box 90, Folder 26
Schuyler, James. "Letter Poem #3"
General note
Undated. Photocopy.
Box 90, Folder 27
Schuyler, James. "Fireproof Floors of Witley Court"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 28
Schuyler, James. "Now and Then"
1967
General note
September - October. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 29
Schuyler, James. "Shrine Exit"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 30
Warsh, Lewis. "Landscapes"
1969
General note
August. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 31
Winkfield, Trevor. "Leeds: An Autobiography"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 32
Winkfield, Trevor. "Picassio"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 33
Winkfield, Trevor. "Sports and Pastimes" [by Erik Satie.]
General note
Undated. "Translated from the French by Trevor Winkfield." Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 34
Towle, Tony. "Poets, Inc."
1967
General note
October, 11. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 35
Unidentified. "Aide -Memoire for March 15th"
1964
General note
Typescript. Signed Michael.
Box 90, Folder 36
Unidentified. "At the Club"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 37
Unidentified. "The Bluet," "From the Next," "Standing and Watching," "The Green Door Sunset," "The Day"
1972
General note
Also, "Evening." Photocopies.
Box 90, Folder 38
Unidentified. "Blud!"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 39
Unidentified. "The Family of Man"
General note
Undated. Photocopy of typescript.
Box 90, Folder 40
Unidentified. "Give Me Flowers While I Live"
General note
Undated. Signed Kitty. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 41
Unidentified. "The New Spirit"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 42
Unidentified. "Night and Day"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 43
Unidentified. "Questions and Answers"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 44
Unidentified. "Spontaneous Bruises," "September Night" and "Blue Skies"
General note
Undated. Typescripts and photocopy.
Box 90, Folder 45
Unidentified. "To Kenward on His Birthday: A True Intergalactic Winnie-the-Pooh"
General note
Undated. Signed Tanday [?] Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 46
Unidentified. "The Yoni and the Commissar"
General note
Undated. Typescript.
Box 90, Folder 47
Unidentified
General note
Undated, untitled writings. Handwritten texts.
MISCELLANEOUS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 10) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL: Arranged alphabetically by topic and brings together material that sheds light on Elmslie's
cultural, domestic and political activities and interests. It contains a clippings file, collage material, an album of postcards,
and two scrapbooks with World War II era clippings.
Box 90, Folder 48
Announcements, brochures, flyers, and programs for the exhibitions and performances of works by others
1960 - 1990
Box 90, Folder 49
Clippings file
1936 - 1996
General note
Newspaper and magazine articles on crimes, events and politics. Includes a September, 1936, SILVER SCREEN article on Shirley
Temple and brochure on monologist Lillian Loth Koch, ca. 1939.
Box 91, Folder 1
Collage material
General note
Undated. Bookplate, printed cartoons and magazine illustrations, fabric scraps, labels, and napkins.
Box 91, Folder 2
Dog breeding documents
1959 - 1967
General note
Pedigree registration certificates, licenses for whippets "Whippoorwill" and "Rossignol."
Box 91, Folder 3
Drawings and doodles by Kenward Elmslie
Box 91, Folder 4
Guest lists
General note
Undated. Typescript and handwritten lists of names to receive invitations and tickets to events and performances.
Box 91, Folder 5
Hamilton College reading
1978
General note
November 15. Four student papers reviewing Elmslie's performance at Hamilton College.
Box 91, Folder 6
Hotel Register, December 25, 1976 - April 31
General note
Names and addresses of visitors to Elmslie's home in Calais, Vermont.
Box 91, Folder 7
Men's Clubs
1970 - 1980
General note
Complimentary pass and flyer. Also Chick Publications cartoon tract, "The Gay Blade," by J.T.C.
Box 91, Folder 8
Milwaukee Postcard Fair
1996
General note
April 19. Brochure, correspondence, list of items, and color photographs of Kenward Elmslie with Susan Nicholson.
Box 91, Folder 9
Political activism brochures and flyers
1965 - 1974
General note
"March on Washington," "A Tribute to Eugene J. McCarthy," and flyers for rallies to protest against Richard M. Nixon.
Oversize FB-335, Folder 2
Postcard album
1930 - 1968
General note
European art and architecture, scenes of the western United States and South American scenes and people.
Oversize FB-334, Folder 2
Scrapbook
1940 - 1944
General note
Clippings from illustrated news magazines showing progress of World War II campaigns, newspaper clippings about Gertrude Lawrence
and newspaper advertisements for "Lady in the Dark" with Ginger Rogers.
Oversize FB-335, Folder 1
Scrapbook
1943 - 1944
General note
Newspaper and illustrated magazine clippings on World War II campaigns, Gertrude Lawrence and Vivien Leigh.
Box 92-94
Originals of preservation photocopies
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Accessions Processed in 2019-2021
BIOGRAPHICAL
Scope and Content of Series
Series 11) BIOGRAPHICAL: Arranged alphabetically, additional materials that document Elmslie's private and public life. Includes
address books, appointment books, biographical notes for publications, portraits of Elmslie and photographs from stage productions,
transcripts of interviews, and published reviews of his work.
Box 95, Folder 2
Biographical sketches prepared for articles and other publications
Folder 3
Supporting biographical and website documentation
2001
Box 95, Folder 3-4
Photographs
General note
Includes portraits of Elmslie and a small selection of photographs from various performances and productions.
Box 155, Folder 14
Photographs of Elmslie and family
1995-2010
Box 95, Folder 5
Reviews
1986-2005
General note
Reviews and critical commentary about Elmslie's work. Includes reviews for Palais Bimbo Lounge Show, The Seagull, LingoLand,
Miss Julie, 26 Bars, Postcards on Parade (book), The Grass Harp, Routine Disruptions, and "Recent Work of Kenward Elmslie"
by William Corbett.
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 12) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically within folders, correspondence documents
Elmslie's writing career and his support of artistic, musical and literary communities. Notable correspondents include Stella
Adler, John Ashbery, Lucia Berlin, Maxine Chernoff, James Morgan, Ron Padgett, Claibe Richardson, Ned Rorem, Kenneth Tisa
and others. Also included are exchanges with family members, including voluminous correspondence primarily consisting of postcards,
cards, and letters written by Elmslie to niece, Vivien Russe and her husband, Willie Russe. Other correspondence include letters
with several literary presses, such as Black Sparrow Press, Skanky Possum, and Sun and Moon Press. A substantial amount of
unidentified or informally addressed incoming and outgoing correspondence to Elmslie, including typescript drafts, cards and
postcards, are filed under his name in "E." Correspondence dates from 1967-2011.
Box 95, Folder 8
Adler, Stella
1982-1984, undated
Box 95, Folder 9
Ashbery, John
2001-2006
General note
Contains correspondence to and from David Rosenberg with "Group-Portrait in a Vermont Kitchen," by David Rosenberg.
Box 95, Folder 12
Bamberger, Bill
1991-2005, undated
Box 95, Folder 13
Bathos Journal (Daniel Mosher)
1997-1999
Box 95, Folder 15
Belwin Mills Publishing Corporation
1975-1976
Box 95, Folder 16
Benjamin, Dyke and Marianne (Lazard Asset Management)
1998-2003
Box 95, Folder 17
Berkson, Bill
1998-2004
General note
Contains correspondence and mock-ups regarding "Serenade," a joint work with Joe Brainard.
Box 95, Folder 18
Berlin, Lucia (Loosha)
1995-2004
General note
Contains an "I Remember" poem written for Berlin.
Box 96, Folder 1-2
Black Sparrow Press (John Martin)
1967-1972
General note
Regarding the publications of "The Champ" and "Circus Nerves."
Box 96, Folder 5
Boulte, Jean
1980-2005, undated
Box 96, Folder 6
Brainard, Joe
1987-1993, undated
Box 96, Folder 8
Brownstein, Michael
2006
General note
Regarding the sale of a Joe Brainard watercolor.
Box 96, Folder 9
Burckhardt, Rudy and Yvonne Jacquette
1982-2005
Box 96, Folder 11
Camp, Pauline and Harold
1996-2010, undated
General note
Includes photographs.
Box 96, Folder 12
Chernoff, Maxine
1970-1971
Box 96, Folder 13
Chernoff, Maxine and Paul Hoover - Postcards and greeting cards
1983-2006
General note
Includes photographs and poetry by Chernoff.
Box 97, Folder 1-2
Chernoff, Maxine and Paul Hoover
1983-2006
General note
Includes photographs and poetry by Chernoff.
Box 97, Folder 3
Clark, Jeff
1999-2002, undated
Box 97, Folder 4
Coles, Matthew (American Civil Liberties Union)
1996-2006
Box 97, Folder 5
Conjunctions literary journal
1986-1990
Box 97, Folder 6
Corbett, William
1980-2004
Box 97, Folder 8
Deanovich, Connie
1997-1999
Box 97, Folder 9
Doubleday publisher (Susana Peschiera and others) regarding
Orchid Stories
1968-1973
Folder 1
Correspondence - Outgoing letters by Elmslie
1998-2003
General note
11 PDF files of outgoing letters typed by Elmslie on his home computer and saved in ongoing logs. Files have titles such as
"1998 Vermont letters" and "2001 Summer letters."
Box 153, Folder 1
Elmslie, Kenward - Postcards to niece, Vivien (Weir) Russe
1968-1976
Box 153, Folder 2-7
Elmslie, Kenward - Letters, cards and postcards to niece, Vivien Russe and her husband Willie Russe
1990-1997
Box 154, Folder 1-7
Elmslie, Kenward - Letters, cards and postcards to niece, Vivien Russe and her husband Willie Russe
1998-1999
Box 155, Folder 1-7
Elmslie, Kenward - Letters, cards and postcards to niece, Vivien Russe and her husband Willie Russe
2000-2006
Box 103, Folder 1-2
Elmslie, Kenward - Unidentified outgoing correspondence
Box 103, Folder 3
Elmslie, Kenward - 70th birthday cards sent to Elmslie
1999 April
Box 103, Folder 4-7
Elmslie, Kenward - Unidentified incoming correspondence
Box 98, Folder 1-2
Elmslie, Vivien (Viv)
1969-2006, undated
General note
Elmslie's sister. Includes one photograph.
Box 98, Folder 5
Ex-Yu Pen (Pen Center of Writers in Exile from former Yugoslavia)
undated
Box 98, Folder 8
First Identity Magazine (Lee Chapman)
1999-2000
Box 98, Folder 10
Fox, Elizabeth
1982-1983, undated
Box 98, Folder 11
Freedberg, Kate
1969-2003, undated
Box 98, Folder 13
Granary Books
1999-2001
General note
Includes correspondence from Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh and others.
Box 98, Folder 17
Hacha Piedra Letters (George and Elizabeth)
1959-1965
Box 98, Folder 18
Hampson, David and Anne
1997, 1999
Box 98, Folder 21
Hudspith, Vicki
1982-1999
Box 99, Folder 5
Kornblum, Allan (Coffee House Press)
2001
Box 99, Folder 6
Krusoe, Jim (Santa Monica College)
undated
Box 99, Folder 9
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Incorporated (Kevin Cathcart)
1993-1997
Box 99, Folder 11
Lauterbach, Ann (Anni)
1974-2004, undated
General note
Includes a watercolor painting for Elmslie's birthday.
Box 99, Folder 12
Leahy, Patrick (United States Senate)
2001-2003
Box 99, Folder 13
Leon, Oscar
1995, undated
Box 99, Folder 14
Levine, Rhoda
1999-2002, undated
Box 99, Folder 16
Lewallen, Constance (Berkeley Art Museum)
2001-2002
Box 99, Folder 17
Lewis Cooper, Brenda
1983-1999
Box 99, Folder 18
Liu, Timothy
1999
General note
Editor of "Homotextual" poetry anthology.
Box 99, Folder 19
Livingston, Chip
2004-2006, undated
General note
Includes drafts of "Straight Acting," and "Heliconias."
Box 99, Folder 20
Lustig, Shelley
1999-2005
Box 99, Folder 24
Mike and Dale's Younger Poets
1997-1998
Box 99, Folder 25
Mikolowski, Ken
1992-2003
General note
Includes the short poem, "Gone," by Mikolowski.
Box 99, Folder 26
Moore, David Jr.
1996-2002, undated
Box 99, Folder 27
Morgan, Bill
2003
General note
Regarding Allen Ginsberg's correspondence.
Box 99, Folder 28
Morgan, James (Jim/Jimbo)
1999-2006, undated
Box 100, Folder 3
New American Writing (NAW)
1997, 2000
Box 100, Folder 4
Nichols, Travis
2006
General note
Regarding Wave Books poetry tour.
Box 100, Folder 5
North Clow, Mary
2001-2005, undated
Box 100, Folder 8
O'Hara, Maureen (Frank O'Hara Foundation)
1997-2002
Box 100, Folder 9
Olson, Kirby
1982-2006
General note
Includes biographical information on Elmslie with a short review of
Lingoland: A Musical.
Box 100, Folder 11
Padgett, Ron
1995-2007
General note
Includes correspondence from wife, Patricia Padgett and son, Wayne Padgett.
Box 100, Folder 12
Parrish, Dan
1991-1994
General note
Includes photograph of Dan Parrish.
Box 100, Folder 13
Penguin Books Ltd.
1971-1973
Box 100, Folder 14
The Poetry Project (Anselm Berrigan)
1997-2006
Box 100, Folder 15
Poetry Society of America
1983-2000
Box 100, Folder 17
Publishing correspondence
1969, undated
Box 100, Folder 20
Richardson, Claiborne (Claibe)
1981-2000
Box 100, Folder 22
Rubenstein, William (ACLU)
1990-1992
Box 100, Folder 23-24
Russe, Vivien (Vivy)
1995-2005, undated
General note
Contains artwork by Russe.
Box 155, Folder 9
Russe, Vivien (Vivy) and Willie Russe - Alternative Press correspondence
1994-1999
Box 100, Folder 25
Russe, Willie
1997-2002, undated
Box 101, Folder 2
Schiff, Harris
2009
General note
Includes birthday poems and letter.
Box 101, Folder 3
Schuyler, James (Jimmy)
1999
Box 101, Folder 4
Sikelianos, Eleni (The Poetry Project)
1998-1999
Box 101, Folder 5
Silver, Alain (Bay Cities)
1990
Box 101, Folder 6
Skanky Possum Press (Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith)
1999-2007
General note
Regarding the publication of
Blast from the Past and Spilled Beans, also includes some personal correspondence.
Box 101, Folder 7
Snyder, Elsie
1983, undated
Box 101, Folder 8
Sun and Moon Press (Douglas Messerli, Director)
1992-1999
Box 101, Folder 9
Swets van Middhlar, Cornelius Wolfram (C.W.)
1995-2003
General note
Contains "Outback Taunt," with annotations by and photograph of C.W.
Box 101, Folder 11
Tampubolon, Jimmy
1983-2007
Box 101, Folder 12
Taylor, Steven and family
1995-2006
Box 101, Folder 18
Velsey, Don
2004-2005, undated
Box 101, Folder 20
Waldman, Anne and Reed Bye
1995-2000, undated
General note
Includes "Let's Get This Letter off the Pike," by Elmslie and "Colorado Salutes its Native Son," by Waldman for Elmslie's
birthday.
Box 101, Folder 21
Waldrop, Rosmarie
1985-2000
Box 101, Folder 22
Weinstein, Arnold
1985-1993
Box 102, Folder 1
Weir, Chester (nephew) and Kate
1999-2011, undated
Box 102, Folder 2
Weir, Cynthia (sister)
1982-1996
Box 155, Folder 8
Weir, Cynthia "Cici" (sister) - Photocopies of Elmslie correspondence
1979-1985
Box 102, Folder 3
Weir, Gordon and Susie (and family)
1998-2002, undated
Box 102, Folder 4
Weir, William and Margaret (and family)
1998-2005
Box 102, Folder 5
Weissberger and Harris, Counselors at Law (for author Ruth Goetz)
1975
General note
Regarding copyright of
The Heiress, and
Washington Square.
Box 102, Folder 6
The White House (Carter Administration) - Invitation and program for dinner
1979
Box 102, Folder 9
Winkfield, Trevor
1998-2006
Box 102, Folder 11
Yorck, Ruth
1963, undated
Box 102, Folder 12
York Theatre Company
2005
General note
Includes letters from Julio Soler and Producing Artistic Director, James Morgan.
Box 102, Folder 13
Young, Geoffrey
1976-1994
Box 102, Folder 15
Zivancevic, Nina
1996-2002
WRITINGS BY ELMSLIE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 13) WRITINGS: Include drafts of Elmslie's working and personal journals, notebooks, drafts and proofs of his published
writings, collages and unpublished material. Arranged in four subseries: A) Performance/Theatre Works, B) Published Work,
C) Poetry, Prose, Collages and Other Writings, and D) Journals.
A) Performance/Theatre Works: Arranged chronologically, materials includes scripts, libretti, vocal scores and music to live
theatricals including operas, musicals and other performance works. Highlights include
Lizzie Borden (1965) with later performance materials from 1996-1999,
The Grass Harp (1972) with later production materials from 1994-2003, and
Postcards on Parade (1993) with production materials from 1995-2000. Also included are some related correspondence, programs, posters and Elmslie's
own production notes. Digital files in this series were originally on two CDs and one DVD-R. Content includes a draft of
LingoLand in PDF format, and tracks in .wav format from the musical production, kept in original performance order.
B) Published Work: Arranged chronologically, materials primarily include typescript drafts, correspondence relating to publications,
and other supporting materials of Elmslie's books of poetry not already represented in the earlier accession.
C) Poetry, Prose, Collages and Other Writings: Arranged alphabetically, includes primarily undated drafts, paste-ups, notes
and related materials including some of his later works such as
Sung Sex (1992),
Champ Dust (1994),
Bare Bones (1995),
Adventure in the Vermont Woods, For C. W. (1997),
Routine Disruptions (1998),
Nite Soil (2000) and
Blast From the Past (2000). Also included is Elmslie's introduction to mother, Constance Pulitzer Elmslie's diary, and an assortment of collages
and small artworks created by Elmslie.
D) Journals
Performance/Theatre Works
Box 102, Folder 16
The Ticklish Acrobat (1959)
General note
Early drafts of the musical play. Book and lyrics by Kenward Elmslie, music by Ned Rorem, based on the play by Robert Hivnor.
Box 102, Folder 17-18
Crazy Lady: A Musical Play (1959)
General note
Drafts of play with annotations. Book and lyrics by Kenward Elmslie, music by Claibe Richardson.
Box 102, Folder 19
Miss Julie: An Opera in Two Acts (1965)
General note
Undated complete draft and Boosey & Hawkes published script. Based on the play by August Strindberg. Music by Ned Rorem, with
libretto by Kenward Elmslie.
Box 104, Folder 1-7
Lizzie Borden: An Opera (1965)
General note
Early drafts of libretto (with annotations) under the title
Lizzie: A Family Portrait in 3 Acts. Libretto by Kenward Elmslie, based on a scenario by Richard Plant. Music by Jack Beeson; Boosey & Hawkes published libretto,
reviews, programs and other performance materials for productions from 1996-1999.
Box 104, Folder 8
The Sweet Bye and Bye (1966)
General note
Libretto by Kenward Elmslie, music by Jack Beeson. Undated complete draft.
Box 104, Folder 9-10
City Junket (1972)
General note
Later draft of five scenes from the play; programs from staged reading at Grant Recital Hall, Brown University in 1990, and
Poets Theatre Jubilee reading, 2002; original undated typescript draft of play.
Box 104, Folder 11-17
The Grass Harp (1972)
General note
Elmslie's musical adaption of the Truman Capote novel, originally titled, "The Yellow Drum.") Correspondence and contract
agreements from 1968-2002, programs and publicity for 1994-2003 performances including Square 1 Theatre Company; Elmslie's
anecdotes in "Some I Remembers: The Grass Harp"; and "I Trust the Wrong People" sheet music. Draft from 1994-1995, dedicated
to Joe Brainard.
Oversize FB-460, Folder 6
The Grass Harp (1972) - Sheet music/score for "It Takes All Kinds"
Box 105, Folder 1
The Seagull (1974)
General note
Libretto by Elmslie, music by Thomas Pasatieri. Based on the play by Anton Chekov.
Box 105, Folder 2
The Alphabet Work (1977)
General note
By Kenward Elmslie, drafts and correspondence with Bernard Welt of Titanic Books.
Box 105, Folder 3-4
Kenward Elmslie Visited (1982)
General note
Typescript texts of song lyrics with handwritten edits and draft of spoken script and notes for recording of songs.
Box 105, Folder 5-6
Lola, A Musical (1984)
General note
By Kenward Elmslie and Claibe Richardson. Based on the life of Lola Montez. Correspondence, page proofs for CD, and proofs
for book of the musical.
Box 105, Folder 7
Three Sisters (1986)
General note
By Kenward Elmslie, music by Thomas Pasatieri, based on the play by Anton Chekhov. Correspondence, performance agreement,
diagram of stage, and draft of Act II.
Oversize FB-460, Folder 8
Three Sisters (1986)
General note
An opera in two acts, libretto by Kenward Elmslie, music by Thomas Pasatieri, score.
Box 105, Folder 8-10
Palais Bimbo, A Cabaret Revue (1987)
General note
Music by Steven Taylor, words by Kenward Elmslie and visuals by Joe Brainard. Contract agreement, materials for Naropa performance
(1991) and other readings, and sketches by Ken Tisa.
Oversize FB-460, Folder 2
Palais Bimbo, A Cabaret Revue (1987) - Scores for: Air, Bang Bang Tango, Bio, Eggs, Meat, Sin in the Hinterlands, Sneaky Pete, The Woolworth Song
Oversize FB-460, Folder 3
Palais Bimbo, A Cabaret Revue (1987) - Orchestrations by Steven Taylor for: Bio, Girl Machine, Meat, The Palais Bimbo Spa, and Sneaky Pete
Box 105, Folder 11-13
Night Emerald (1989) - Early drafts, notes, correspondence
General note
A musical play based on the life of Oscar Wilde.
Box 106, Folder 1-3
Night Emerald (1989) - Research, libretto outline and script
Box 106, Folder 4-14
Postcards on Parade (1993)
General note
A musical play with book and lyrics by Kenward Elmslie and music by Steven Taylor. Cover design for book of the musical, cover
and liner notes for accompanying CD, and flyers for York Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Company, Naropa, University of
Minnesota and The Poetry Project performances, 1998-2000; correspondence and agreements, 1995-2000; slide cues.
Box 107, Folder 1-12
Postcards on Parade (1993)
Box 108, Folder 1-3
Postcards on Parade (1993) - Partial drafts with revisions
Folder 6
Postcards on Parade supporting material
Box 108, Folder 4
Taking a Chance on Love (1999)
General note
Drafts of Elmslie's poem
Touche's Salon in Act II, and playbill for York Theatre Company's Off-Broadway performance.
Box 108, Folder 5-9
LingoLand: A Musical (2005)
General note
Poetry and lyrics for six-person Off-Broadway revue. Includes director's notes, flyers, errata, playbill, correspondence,
master draft copy dated 2006, and an undated draft.
Box 108, Folder 10
LingoLand: A Musical
2006 January 2
General
Track listing for digital sound recording of the musical, Acts I and II
Folder 1-21
LingoLand: A Musical - Digital sound recording of the musical, includes Act I
2006 January 2
General note
January 2, 2006 edit.
Folder 1-32
LingoLand: A Musical - Digital sound recording of the musical, includes Act II
2006 January 2
General note
January 2, 2006 edit.
LingoLand: A Musical - Digital documents
ca. 2003-2005
General
Supporting documentation in PDF, including script, excerpts, and "Cajun Vitrine" summary.
Oversize FB-332, Folder 4
LingoLand: A Musical (2005) - Poster for York Theatre Company performance
Oversize FB-460, Folder 1
Adele Songs, They, The World's in a Bad Bad Way, Sewerville, Nobody Dreams of Me, Valnetino, Petroleum, Every Morning, Angelica,
Who Knows?, The Stranger with the Special Face, The Candygram Song, and the Beauty Part - Scores/Sheet music
Oversize FB-332, Folder 4
Alaska, Petroleum, The Stranger with the Special Face, The Crazy Old Lady Mazurka, Miss Got Rocks, Spit N' Whittle, and an
untitled piece, sheet music/vocal scores
1971, undated
Oversize FB-460, Folder 4
And I Was There, Brazil, One Thing in Particular, Who'll Prop Me Up in the Rain? - Sheet music
Oversize FB-460, Folder 5
General Fong Song, by Elmslie, arrangement by Roger Trefouse - Sheet music
Box 109, Folder 1
Hollywood Koffee Klatch Fragment script, with notes and text for other spoken word performances
Oversize FB-460, Folder 7
One Night Stand, lyrics by Elmslie, music by Claibe Richardson - Sheet music/copy of original score
Oversize FB-332, Folder 5
Untitled [Wishing you a glorious 4th of July] stage production collage
Oversize FB-460, Folder 9
What do I do now?
General note
Lyrics by Elmslie, music by Claibe Richardson. Copy of original score.
Box 109, Folder 2
Tropicalism (1975) - Marked copy of book used for poetry reading
Box 109, Folder 3-6
26 Bars (1987)
General note
Visuals by Donna Dennis, words by Kenward Elmslie, music by Steven Taylor. Original paste-up of text and visuals for book.
Box 109, Folder 7
Sung Sex (1989) - First revised draft of book and correspondence
Box 109, Folder 8-10
Champ Dust (1994)
General note
Program for event. Words by Kenward Elmslie, drawings by Joe Brainard, featuring "Postcards on Parade" highlights with music
by Steven Taylor. Also includes "Champ Dust Smegma" and "Champ Dust Spinoff," collages deconstructed from
Champ Dust (1994); and 10 postcard collages by Kenward Elmslie, published by The Alternative Press.
Box 109, Folder 11-15
Routine Disruptions (1998)
General note
Reviews, correspondence regarding publication of book and final edits; publishing agreement; marked copies of two books (with
some marginalia) used for poetry readings; songs and scenes from Routine Disruptions and Postcards on Parade for Two Act performance.
Box 155, Folder 11
Routine Disruptions
1997 August 29
Box 110, Folder 1-3
Nite Soil (2000)
General note
Mock-ups for poem and collage postcards, published by Granary Books; correspondence, titles list for postcards; recording
information and reviews.
Oversize FB-332, Folder 6
Nite Soil (2000)
1997-2002
General note
Includes
Blast from the Past cover design, portrait of Elmslie by Ken Tisa; Fifties Probe materials (describing memories of John Ashbery and New York);
The Alternative Press Poetry Postcards Series 4, Elmslie postcard enlargement. Prints 2, 3, and 7 for
Nite Soil.
Box 110, Folder 4-11
Blast from the Past (2000)
Box 111, Folder 1-5
Cyberspace (2000)
General note
By Kenward Elmslie and Trevor Wakefield. Published by Granary Books.
Box 111, Folder 6-7
Snippets (2002)
General note
By Kenward Elmslie and Trevor Wakefield. Page proofs of book.
Box 111, Folder 8
Agenda Melt (2004) - Marked copy of book with author's marginalia, used for poetry reading
Poetry, Prose, Collages and Other Writings
Box 111, Folder 9
Adventure in the Vermont Woods, for C. W.
1997
General note
Draft. Included in Special Issue, Fifth Anniversary of
Mirage #4/Period[ical].
Box 155, Folder 10
Adventure in the Vermont Woods, for C. W.
1997
General
Signed copy sent to Vivien Russe.
Box 111, Folder 10
Alabama, poem by Elmslie published in Via Rome, p. 29
1960
Box 111, Folder 11
The Aleutians: For Ruth Yorck (copy of a play)
Box 111, Folder 12
Alexander the Great
General note
Typescript draft of poem with handwritten annotations.
Box 111, Folder 15
Babe Dwarf (poem for Jean Boulte)
Box 111, Folder 16
Barbie and Ken at the Wednesday Club
Box 111, Folder 18
Beauty Maestro (poem for Jean Boulte)
Box 111, Folder 19
Bop and Buy
General note
Inspired by "der und die" by Ernst Jandl, typescript draft.
Box 111, Folder 20
Calais Palace Welcome (for VW)
Box 111, Folder 21
Christmas Letter and Age Plaint (for Ken and Ann Mikolowski)
Box 111, Folder 23
The Crystal Palace, draft with revisions
Box 111, Folder 26
Fiscal Nonsense (poem for Jimmy Tampubolon)
Box 112, Folder 1
Gaps, from
Orchid Stories in Just Friends: A Magazine, issue #2
Box 112, Folder 5
Hosp
General note
Inspired by "Hosi," by Ernst Jandl.
Box 112, Folder 7
The Infernal Machine
General note
By Jean Cocteau. Translated by Ruth Yorck and Kenward Elmslie. Typescript draft of script arranged for the American stage.
Box 112, Folder 8
Irons in the Fire performance - Artwork for cover, production list
2003
General note
Includes Bill Berkson, Lucia Berlin, Joe Brainard, Maxine Chernoff, Diane Di Prima, Barbara Guest, Ron Padgett, and The Seagull.
Accompanying VHS tapes include recordings of Lucia Berlin and Barbara Guest.
Box 155, Folder 12
Introduction to Elmslie's mother's published diary
undated
Box 112, Folder 9
Jakarta Night Arrival, poem
Box 112, Folder 10
Jiffy Lark (for Jeff Clark)
1999
Box 112, Folder 11
Love Letter (poem for Ken Tisa)
Box 112, Folder 12
Memory Ghosts and Murders, script
Box 112, Folder 14
No Liquor in the House (for The Drawing Center's anthology)
2001
Box 112, Folder 16
Panopticon for Calamity Winifred
Folder 4
Poems
1999-2003
General note
3 PDF files of poems typed by Elmslie on his home computer.
Box 112, Folder 18
Russian Bananas (for Anni)
Box 112, Folder 19
Rummage Sale (poem for CW)
Box 112, Folder 20
Scimitar for Brenda Lewis, collage and poem
1965 March 21
Box 112, Folder 21
Sin in the Hinterlands, lyrics
Box 112, Folder 22
Sky Boys
1999
General note
To be published by First Intensity.
Box 112, Folder 23
Snippets, A Revue
General note
By Kenward Elmslie, music by Bruce Coughlin and David Bishop, visuals by Joe Brainard. Draft of musical play.
Box 112, Folder 24
Spilled Beans: A Conversation
General note
By Kenward Elmslie and Mary Kite, drawings by Joe Brainard. Typescript drafts of dialog with edits.
Box 112, Folder 26
Squeegee Bijoux of '99: A Revue
1998
General note
Words by Kenward Elmslie, visuals by Joe Brainard, Donna Dennis, Kenward Elmslie and Ken Tisa, music by Steven Taylor. Draft
of lyrics and programs for Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art performance.
Box 112, Folder 27
Sun Porch Niche
General note
For Rommelo Yu, Chris Broshears, and Andreas Schimmelpfennig.
Box 112, Folder 29
Tongue of Fire
2005 September 23
Box 112, Folder 30
Translations
General note
Early translations of Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Peter Hartling, Giacomo Leopardi, Phillippe de Thaun by Elmslie and Ruth Yorck.
Box 112, Folder 31
Unpacking the Black Trunk: A Play in One Act
General note
By James Schuyler and Kenward Elmslie. Typescript draft copy of play.
Box 112, Folder 32
The Wednesday Club
General note
Typescript draft pages of collaboration with James Schuyler.
Box 112, Folder 33
"Wie die Charles von Manhattan wegzogen,"
Du & Ich German LGBTQ magazine
1955 July
General note
"How Charles moved away from Manhattan." Article/dialog written by Elmslie.
Box 112, Folder 34
What's in it For Me?
General note
From Beggar's Holiday, based on a lyric by John Latouche. Typescript draft of play.
Box 113, Folder 1-5
Collage originals and "reprocollages" by Elmslie
General note
Includes various untitled collages.
Box 155, Folder 13
Collages by Elmslie sent to niece, Vivien Russe
1996-1999
Box 113, Folder 6-9
Miscellaneous poems
General note
Includes "Poem for Joe Brainard," and "Celebration for Claibe."
Box 113, Folder 10
Submissions for publication
1999
General note
Contribution for the Things That Are Scary section of "Fence."
Box 113, Folder 11
Early writings
General note
Various typescript drafts.
Box 114, Folder 1-5
Blood glucose journals - Bound notebooks, with artful free-form doodles and daily notes
undated
Folder 2
Journals
1999-2001
General note
4 PDF files of typed journal entries.
JOE BRAINARD MATERIALS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 14) JOE BRAINARD MATERIAL: Includes collages, correspondence and materials relating to exhibitions and other events
celebrating the work of Elmslie's partner, artist Joe Brainard.
Box 115, Folder 1
Joe Album, A Pressed Wafer Collage [copy]
Box 115, Folder 2
Dedication for Joe's Room, Michael Callen/Audre Lorde Community Health Center, with correspondence
1999
Box 115, Folder 3
Drawing of Joe Brainard by Kenward Elmslie
General note
Included in Blast from the Past.
Box 115, Folder 4
Drawing of Kenward Elmslie by Joe Brainard
Box 115, Folder 5
Homage to Joe Brainard outline
Box 115, Folder 6
Joe Brainard: A Retrospective, Exhibition at Berkeley Art Museum
2001 February-May
General note
Includes correspondence regarding loan of artwork and flyers for various Brainard exhibitions.
Box 115, Folder 7
Joe Brainard memorial materials
1997
General
Includes flyers and promotional material for Retrospective at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Poetry Project remembrance and other
materials.
Box 115, Folder 8
Kenward Elmslie interview by Joe Brainard
1964
Box 115, Folder 9
Letter to Joe - Short poem
Box 115, Folder 10
May Dye
General note
Unpublished typescript draft of short work by Brainard and other material relating to the life of Brainard.
Box 115, Folder 11
Rosy's Dilemma and other comics (facsimile)
undated
Box 115, Folder 12
Presentation artwork
General note
Mounted prints of postcards or artwork by Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard. Includes "Sex in Suburbia" and others.
Box 115, Folder 13
Prevallet, Kristin. "Poetry and the Artful Presence of Materials: Joe Brainard at PS1," with Kenward Elmslie interview
undated
Box 115, Folder 14-15
Untitled graphic art/comics
WORKS BY OTHERS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 15) WORK BY OTHERS: Arranged alphabetically. Includes a small collection of postcards and broadsides by The Alternative
Press, handmade cards with poems by Anne Waldman, a draft of "Letter from Paris" by Joanne Kyger and James Fagin, "Wing" by
Kathleen Fraser, as well as a few other select poems by Elmslie's friends.
Box 115, Folder 16-18
The Alternative Press postcards and poetry series
1996-1997, undated
General note
Includes limited edition poems on cards and broadsides by Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, Anne Waldman, and others.
Box 115, Folder 19
Bye, Reed and Anne Waldman. Typescript draft of "The Secret of the Waterfall: A Domestic Visitation"
1983
Box 115, Folder 20
Clark, Jeff. "Little J.C. in a Conflict of Towers"
Box 115, Folder 21
Fraser, Kathleen. "Wing" poem series
1994
Box 115, Folder 22
Godfrey, John. "Kenward Elmslie Birthday Drawing" poem
Box 115, Folder 23
Gooch, Brad. "The Writer"
Box 115, Folder 24
Good, Philip and Bernadette Mayer. Untitled poem
2007 January 1
General note
First line: "Spitzer is the 3rd least 'snowiest'."
Box 115, Folder 25
Kyger, Joanne and Larry Fagin. Draft letter from Paris
1966
Box 115, Folder 26
Various artists - Artwork for Elmslie, some for birthday celebration
Box 115, Folder 27-28
Waldman, Anne
1969-1970
General note
"Please fix this furnace: Some country works," "Let's get this show on the road! Or The Collective Amnesia," and "It's Christmas,"
poems for Kenward Elmslie.
Box 115, Folder 29
Watkins, Ben - Photographs
1985-1990
Box 115, Folder 30
Yorck, Ruth - Two works and photograph
1962-1963, undated
Box 115, Folder 31
Yorck, Ruth - Unknown Soldier, signed broadside card for Elmslie
1965-1966
Box 115, Folder 32
Unknown writer, poetry drafts
MISCELLANEOUS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 16) MISCELLANEOUS: Includes programs, announcements and ephemera and flyers from poetry readings and other events,
scripts for Elmslie's talks, materials relating to his participation in the Naropa Institute Summer Writing Program, acknowledgments
of Elmslie's philanthropic activities and other miscellaneous materials.
Box 115, Folder 33
Art object inventory at Greenwich Ave.
1984
Folder 7
Brown University lecture and performance
2000 March 20
Box 116, Folder 2-3
Buffalo gig - Elmslie's script for talk in Buffalo, NY
Box 116, Folder 4
Buffalo script for New York City reading
2007
Box 116, Folder 5-11
Donations - Letters and acknowledgements of Elmslie's philanthropic activities
1985-2009
Box 116, Folder 12
The New York Poets II: An Anthology
2005
General note
Elmslie was a contributor to this anthology. Includes correspondence, reviews, and edited proofs.
Box 116, Folder 13
Flyers and performance schedule - Materials from Kenward Elmslie's 70th and 75th Birthday Bashes
1999, 2004
Box 116, Folder 14-15
Flyers, postcards, and announcements for poetry events, art exhibits and appearances
Box 155, Folder 15
Flyers, postcards, and announcements for poetry events, art exhibits and appearances
1990-1999
Box 116, Folder 16
Gab-Fest script - A talk about
LingoLand: A Musical
Box 116, Folder 17
Ginsberg, Allen signed poetry reading flyer
Box 116, Folder 18-21
I Remembers
General note
Various "recollection poems" Elmslie wrote for poetry readings, performances, and other events.
Box 116, Folder 22
Kenward Elmslie dream notes
Box 116, Folder 23
The Kenward Elmslie Show: A Radio Retrospective of Songs, Poems, and Plays - Flyers and show production list
1978
Box 116, Folder 24
Kenward Elmslie's World - Interview by Robert Wilder Blue for US Opera Web
2003
Box 116, Folder 25
Letters to Loosha project for Lucia Berlin
Box 117, Folder 1
List of publications
1997-2001
Box 117, Folder 2
Miscellaneous collages by Elmslie
Box 117, Folder 3
Mutiny at the Bathhouse: A Conversation with Kenward Elmslie - "Reflex" interview by Kirby Olson
1993 September-October
Box 117, Folder 4
Naropa collaboration, incomplete draft
Box 117, Folder 5
Naropa Institute Summer Writing Program - Itinerary and schedules
1993, 2001
Box 117, Folder 6
National Endowment for the Arts Music Advisory Panel meeting materials
1975-1976
Folder 8
Performances
2000-2003
General note
PDF queue scripts for Librettoland (Naropa collaboration), MIT, and Poetry Project (with Bill Berkson) "gigs."
Box 117, Folder 8
Pulitzer Prize dinner program and guest list
1966 May 10
Box 117, Folder 9
Reading manuscript for Elmslie's reading at Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Box 117, Folder 11
Showstoppers talk given by Elmslie
undated
Box 117, Folder 12
The New York Poets - Kaufman Center and the New York Festival of Song, featuring Elmslie
2003 October 15
Box 117, Folder 13
Three Chandeliers (Set II), print by unknown artist
Box 117, Folder 14
Transcription - The Diary of Constance Pulitzer, a selection read by Elmslie for an event
Folder 10
Transcription (PDF) - The Diary of Constance Pulitzer
Box 117, Folder 15
Travel itinerary and journal pages
Box 117, Folder 16
Various cards - Memberships, etc.
Box 118
T-shirt - Four designs from Elmslie's collages
AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 17) AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS: Materials date from 1963 to 2002 and include recordings of Elmslie's operas, plays, poetry
readings, radio interviews and other events. Highlights include recordings of
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show,
City Junket and Elmslie singing various individual songs from his operas as well as reading his own poetry.
Many recordings could not be viewed or listened to at the time of processing due to volume and, in some cases, format. Descriptions
were transcribed from the containers. However, many poetry-related recordings were digitized in 2023-24 and can be accessed
by clicking on the links in the finding aid. Other recordings require advance notice to arrange for access.
Arranged by format in three subseries: A) Audiocassettes, B) Reel-to-Reel and LPs (recordings are on reels unless otherwise
noted), and C) Videos.
Box 119, Folder 1
"Air" performance, by Steven Taylor, song by Kenward Elmslie
undated
Box 119, Folder 2
Alaska Blues, Woolworth Song, Figmill Piano
undated
Box 119, Folder 3
Anne Jacobsen, Steven Taylor
undated
Box 119, Folder 4
Bang Bang Tango: Kenneth Deifik performance ("en estereo vocal on right channel")
undated
Bang Bang Tango: Kenneth Deifik performance
Box 119, Folder 5
Bang Bang Tango (MOMA), Lola in Vermont
undated
Bang Bang Tango (MOMA), Lola in Vermont
Box 119, Folder 6
Bathhouse vocal samples
1993 January 3
General note
Includes the voices of Hillary Spector, Ellen Boyce, Chris O'Connor and Faye B. Summers.
Box 119, Folder 8
Beyond Baroque
1982 November 6
Kenward Elmslie reading at Beyond Baroque
Box 119, Folder 9
Bio, Movies in my Head, Air
undated
Kenward Elmslie sings: Bio, Movies in my Head, Air
Box 119, Folder 10
Bio - Song and vocal by Kenward Elmslie, harmonica by Kenneth Deifik
undated
Bio - Song and vocal by Kenward Elmslie, harmonica by Kenneth Deifik
Box 119, Folder 11-12
Readings at Books & Co.
1980 February 22-29
Readings at Books & Co.
Box 119, Folder 13
Cajun Vitrine performance, Steven Taylor
undated
Box 119, Folder 14
City Junket essential effects for performance
undated
City Junket essential effects for performance
General note
1) "Transistor" voice - Act one, scene four. 2) "Garden Factory" - Act one, scene seven. 3) Distant Siren - Act three, Scene
one. 4) Loud Siren - Act three, scene one.
Box 119, Folder 15
City Junket - John Ashbery "Museum Speech" and Sneaky Pete
undated
City Junket - John Ashbery "Museum Speech" and Sneaky Pete
Box 119, Folder 16
City Junket museum speech (Chicago Jimmy) - 1. Who'll Prop Me Up? 2. A Perfect Night
1976 November
City Junket museum speech (Chicago Jimmy)
Box 119, Folder 17
City Junket - New York Cultural Center performance
1974
City Junket - New York Cultural Center performance
General note
Side A: Overture through Act 2, scene 2 (The Hotel Room). Side B: Scene 3 - "The Exposition" to conclusion "Furtive Edna."
Box 119, Folder 18
City Junket - Perfect night, end of reading
undated
City Junket - Perfect night, end of reading
Box 119, Folder 20
Eggs - Music only, no vocals
undated
Box 119, Folder 21
"Eggs," "Bang Bang Tango" ["my version"], and "The Woolworth Song"
undated
Kenward Elmslie - "Eggs," "Bang Bang Tango" ["my version"], and "The Woolworth Song"
Box 119, Folder 22
Experts at Veneers (piano only)
undated
Box 119, Folder 23-25
Kenward Elmslie - Girl Machine
undated
Kenward Elmslie - Girl Machine
General
Includes first mix, from the record, and performance copy.
Box 119, Folder 24
Girl Machine, from the record
1998
Box 119, Folder 25
Girl Machine (NNR), performance copy
1985 March 16
Box 119, Folder 26
Hotel Firbank Spa, by Kenward Elmslie
1996 April 14-15
Kenward Elmslie - Hotel Firbank Spa
Box 119, Folder 27
Kenward Elmslie and Tony Greco rehearsing (informal) - Includes "Air" and "1967 Game Calendar"
undated
Box 119, Folder 28
Kenward Elmslie at the Church Street Center, Burlington, VT
1979 September 7
Kenward Elmslie at the Church Street Center, Burlington, VT
Box 119, Folder 29
Kenward Elmslie interview: Don and Newly Preciozi
1992 December 11
Box 119, Folder 30
Kenward Elmslie live performance
undated
Box 119, Folder 31
Kenward Elmslie on KPFA, Berkeley (Tinker Greene)
1980 March 25
Kenward Elmslie on In The American Tree - KPFA, Berkeley (Tinker Greene)
Box 119, Folder 32
Kenward Elmslie reading and singing poems and song at The Poetry Room
undated
Kenward Elmslie reading and singing poems and song at The Poetry Room
Box 119, Folder 33
Kenward Elmslie reading at the Smolin Gallery in New York City
ca. 1963
Kenward Elmslie reading at the Smolin Gallery - New York City
Box 119, Folder 34
Kenward Elmslie singing
undated
Box 119, Folder 35
LA Postcard Queen (practice tape) Steven Taylor vocals
1993 January 7
Box 120, Folder 1
Libretto Land - "They"
undated
Box 120, Folder 2
Libretto Land (for Columbia College: Chicago)
1984 May 3
Box 120, Folder 3
Lines: National Series, Kenward Elmslie workshop
1985
Lines: National Series, Kenward Elmslie workshop
Box 120, Folder 4
Lola: A Musical, "A New Life"
undated
Box 120, Folder 5
Love letter vocal practice by Kenward Elmslie
undated
Box 120, Folder 6
Love Letter with Ken Deifik
undated
Box 120, Folder 7
Madonna's Milk Bar - Kenward Elmslie performance
undated
Box 120, Folder 8
Madonna's Milk Bar - Practice session
undated
Box 120, Folder 9
Movies in My Head (piano)
undated
Box 120, Folder 10
Movies in My Head
undated
General note
Song and vocal by Kenward Elmslie, harmonica by Kenneth Deifik; The Woolworth Song/General Fong Song (vocal by Kenward Elmslie
and arranged by Roger Treyfousse).
Box 120, Folder 11
New Langton Arts - San Francisco
1984 October 9
Kenward Elmslie at New Langton Arts - San Francisco
Box 120, Folder 12
"Night Emerald," by Elmslie and Taylor, six songs
undated
Box 120, Folder 13
"Oink" Benefit - Chicago
1984 May 3
Box 120, Folder 14
"Our Man in Havana"
undated
General note
Seven songs with commentary. Music by Irvin Graham, commentary and introduction.
Box 120, Folder 15
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show - II
1986 April 14
General note
Includes: And I Was There, Beauty Secrets, Brazil, One Night Stand, Eggs, Bang-Bang Tango, Palais Bimbo Spa, Steel Genius:
Scene A) Woolworth Song B) A Perfect Night, and Reach Out.
Box 120, Folder 16
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show - Madonna's Milk Bar to Sneaky Pete
undated
General note
Side A: Bio, Judy's Rap, Beauty Secrets, Big Bar, Rumpus Room, One Night Stand, Puce Parrot, Eggs, Who'll Prop Me Up, Fujiyama,
Air and I Was There, Hurricane Update, Bang-Bang Tango, and Vivi's. Side B: Madonna's Milk Bar, Meat, Palais Bimbo Spa, Love
Letter, Sneaky Pete.
Box 120, Folder 17
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show - Finale: Girl Machine
undated
Box 120, Folder 18
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show - Seattle
undated
General note
Side A: Bio, Sin in the Hinterlands, Air, Eggs, Who'll Prop Me Up, They, Meat, Girl Machine, Bang-Bang Tango, Palais Bimbo
Spa, Brazil, Sneaky Pete. Side B: The Woolworth Song.
Box 120, Folder 19
[Palais] Bimbo Dirt & Bang Bang Tango, versions
undated
Box 120, Folder 20
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show (home)
undated
Box 120, Folder 21
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show - Performance of end of Act I, complete Act II
undated
Box 120, Folder 22
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show
1986
General note
Recorded by Jimmy Tampubolon for Joe Brainard. Side 1: Girl Machine, Air, Who'll Prop Me Up in the Rain, Eggs, Bio, Meat,
Sin in the Hinterlands, The Palais Bimbo Spa. Side 2: Love letter, Sneaky Pete.
Box 120, Folder 23
Palais Bimbo Spa by Kenward Elmslie, vocals by Steven Taylor
undated
Box 120, Folder 24
Philadelphia reading (with Kenneth Deifik)
undated
Kenward Elmslie - Philadelphia reading (with Kenneth Deifik)
Box 120, Folder 26
Postcards on Parade, at Granary Books, Act I only
1993 April 8
Box 120, Folder 27
Postcards on Parade - Live performance
undated
Box 120, Folder 28
Postcards on Parade: A Musical Play - 10 songs
undated
Box 120, Folder 29
Rare Meat - Kenward Elmslie (WTC-132)
1977
Rare Meat - Kenward Elmslie (WTC-132)
Box 120, Folder 30
The Seagull - Act II (outside)
undated
Box 120, Folder 31
Sin in the Hinterlands - Kenward Elmslie
undated
Sin in the Hinterlands - Kenward Elmslie
Box 120, Folder 32
Sin in the Hinterlands - Vocal
undated
Box 120, Folder 33
Slow Awakener (No can take leak...)
undated
Box 120, Folder 34
Spit 'n Whittle/Where's My Sister?/You Fry
undated
Box 121, Folder 1
Playback! Song with vocals by Kenward Elmslie
undated
Box 121, Folder 2
St. Mark's poetry project - Kenward Elmslie and Steven Taylor
1984 February 22
St. Mark's Poetry Project - Kenward Elmslie and Steven Taylor
Box 121, Folder 3
St. Mark's reading. Piano: Tony Greco
1974 February 20
St. Mark's Poetry Project - Kenward Elmslie
Box 121, Folder 4
Three Sisters - Act 1, scenes 1-2, recorded by Jimmy Tampubolon
undated
Box 121, Folder 5
Three Sisters - On Morning Edition, National Public Radio
1986
Box 121, Folder 6
Various performers doing Elmslie songs; Rare Meat
1986
Box 121, Folder 7
White Attic (vocals by Kenward Elmslie) - Alaska
undated
Box 121, Folder 8
Zaniest Fair [Pair?] (Amsterdam version)
undated
Box 122, Folder 1-2
26 Bars - Amazon Club-Last Chance
Box 122, Folder 3
26 Bars - Nouvelle Kiwis 'n Art-Top o' Silo
Box 122, Folder 4-5
26 Bars - Underground Disco-Zanzibar
Box 122, Folder 6
Madonna's Milk Bar - Complete version with vocals
Box 122, Folder 7
Madonna's Milk Bar - Performance version without vocals
Box 122, Folder 10-12
Three Sisters - Production recording for Z Press (A/B, C and D on 3 reels)
Box 122, Folder 13
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show (Kenward Elmslie and Steven Taylor) - Master of 16 tracks
1987 April 6
Box 123, Folder 1-4
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show (possibly at Naropa University) - Performance reels 1-4
1987 April 11
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show - Performance reels 1-4
Box 123, Folder 5
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show - Performance Master
1985 April 9
Box 123, Folder 7
Instrumental compiled master - They, Candy Gram, I Trust the Wrong People, and One Night Stand
1981 November 22
Box 123, Folder 8
Instrumental compiled master - Beauty Secrets, The One and Only Person in the World, The Richest Man in the World, Brazil
1981 November 22
Box 123, Folder 9
Tones at top - Who'll Prop Me Up in the Rain, Bang Bang Tango, Eggs
1981 November 22
Tones at top - Who'll Prop Me Up in the Rain, Bang Bang Tango, Eggs
Box 123, Folder 10
Candy Gram - Instrumental version
1981 November 22
Box 123, Folder 11
Tones at tail - Beauty Secrets, One Night Stand, The One and Only Person in the World, Brazil, They
1981 November 23
Box 123, Folder 12
Beauty Secrets - Instrumental and vox version
1981 November 24
Box 123, Folder 13
Beauty Secrets, One Night Stand, The One and Only Person in the World, Brazil
1981 November 24
Box 123, Folder 14-17
Washington Square, reels 1-4
Box 123, Folder 18
Washington Square - The Lyric Theatre, New York (Kenward Elmslie and Thomas Pasatieri)
Box 124, Folder 2
Alaska
Alaska - Instrumental with Elmslie singing
Box 124, Folder 3
City Junket - Performance at the New York Cultural Center
1974 May 2
City Junket - Performance at the New York Cultural Center
Box 124, Folder 4
Reading: Southampton College. Kenward Elmslie with Kenneth Deifik
1980 February 28
Reading: Southampton College. Kenward Elmslie with Kenneth Deifik
Box 124, Folder 7
Sin in the Hinterlands
Sin in the Hinterlands - Kenward Elmslie
Oversize OM-1, Folder 14
Three Sisters - Test pressing/recording on two LP records
1986 September 11
General note
Includes oversized opera program or album cover with liner notes. Recorded from original reel-to-reels in Box 122 folders
10-12.
Box 125, Folder 1
26 Bars - Live at Naropa Institute
Box 125, Folder 2
Allen Ginsberg memorial + Father Death Blues, Ah Sunflower, and Nurse's Sons
1997
General note
Recorded by Cloud House Poetry Archive (SS Kush), San Francisco Temple Emanu-El. Includes VHS cover design.
Box 125, Folder 3
City Junket
2002
General note
New Langston Arts, directed by Mac McGinnis. Recorded by Cloud House Poetry Archive (SS Kush).
Box 125, Folder 4
City Junket - Part 1 (master on Sony U-Matic)
undated
Box 125, Folder 5
City Junket - Part 2 (master on Sony U-Matic)
undated
Box 125, Folder 6-7
Irons in the Fire - Barbara Guest, tapes 1-2
2002 May 2
Box 125, Folder 8-10
Irons in the Fire - Lucia Berlin, tapes 1, 3-4
2002 April 5
Box 125, Folder 11
Kenward Elmslie - Mills College, Oakland
2002 February 12
General note
Introduction by Steven Ratcliffe. Recorded by Cloud House Poetry Archive (SS Kush).
Box 125, Folder 12
Kenward Elmslie - San Francisco Poet Museum
2002 February 6
General note
Introduction by Aaron Shurin with Q+A. Recorded by Cloud House Poetry Archive (SS Kush).
Box 125, Folder 13
Kenward Elmslie at San Francisco State University, Poetry Center
1990 March 1
Box 125, Folder 14
Kenward Elmslie at St. Marks, reading
1988 May
Box 125, Folder 15-17
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show - 3 VHS labelled "Tapes #1-12"
1987 May 13
Box 125, Folder 18
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show - Rough edit master
undated
Box 125, Folder 19
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show - Seattle
undated
Box 125, Folder 20
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show - J. West recording
undated
Box 125, Folder 21
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show and Night Emerald, by Kenward Elmslie and Steven Taylor - Naropa Institute performance
1991 July 23
Box 125, Folder 22
Radio Thin Air - The Kenward Elmslie Show, produced by Mitch Corber
1990 April 27
AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS - 2020 ADDITIONS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 18) Additional audiovisual recordings donated shortly after series 17) was processed in 2019; they compliment other
tracks already included in the collection. Many recordings could not be viewed or listened to at the time of processing due
to volume and, in some cases, format. Descriptions were transcribed from the containers. However, many poetry-related recordings
were digitized in 2023-24 and can be accessed by clicking on the links in the finding aid. Other recordings require advance
notice to arrange for access.
Arranged in three subseries by format: A) Reel-to-reel, B) Videos, and C) Audiocassettes (no further arrangement within subseries).
A) Reel-to-Reel: Open tape recordings on standard 1/4" tape, unless otherwise stated in the description. Some recordings are
professional-quality masters.
B) Videos: Standard VHS cassettes, unless otherwise noted.
C) Audiocassettes: Cassette tapes of performances, revues, and individual songs; at the very end of the series are three digital
recordings on mini-CD.
Three Sisters - Z Press Master 2" tapes on 10.5" reels
1986
Box 134
Miscellaneous recordings - 10.5" reels
1981 November
General note
13 reels, including: Kenward Elmslie Visited; The One and Only Person in the World; Candy Gram; Beauty Secrets; I Trust the
Wrong People.
Box 135
Painted Smiles - Master 1" tapes on large cores
1984
Box 136
Kenward Elmslie Visited - Z Press Master 2" tapes on 10.5" reels
1981
Box 137
Kenward Elmslie Visited - Z Press Master 2" tapes on 10.5" reels
1981
Box 138, Folder 1-2
Kenward Elmslie Visited - Z Press Master 2" tapes on 10.5" reels
1981
Box 139
Miss Julie (2) and Palais Bimbo (9) - 10.5" reels and cores
1979-1981
Box 140, Folder 1-4
Sin in the Hinterlands
1984
Box 140, Folder 6
Kenward Elmslie Visited
1984
Box 140, Folder 7
One Night Stand, Beauty Secret, and Shuffle the Cards with Steven Marooshes on piano
undated
Box 142, Folder 4-6
City Junket
ca. 1974
City Junket
Box 142, Folder 7
La Follie
undated
General note
Music by Claiborne Richardson and lyrics by Kenward Elmslie. On outside of box, "Crazy Lady."
Box 143, Folder 4
Poetry reading at 98 Greene St. loft - Elmslie and Lee Crabtree
undated
Poetry reading at 98 Greene St. Loft - Elmslie and Lee Crabtree
Box 143, Folder 5
Arthur Seigal singing Latouche; Act I of Sweet Bye and Bye
undated
Box 144, Folder 1
Untitled, with music by Taylor and words by Elmslie
undated
Box 144, Folder 2
Palais Bimbo performance narration
1987 April 29
Box 144, Folder 3
Chaillot "Angelica"
undated
Box 144, Folder 4-5
Adele - Steber and Rorem-Flanagan concert
undated
Box 144, Folder 6-7
Sweet Bye and Bye
undated
Box 138, Folder 3-4
City Junket - Master and copy on Sony 720mm videotape
Box 145, Folder 1
26 Bars, Naropa - Raw, unedited footage
1988 July 19
Box 145, Folder 3
Blasts from the Past
2002 August 6
Box 145, Folder 4
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show excerpted from New City Theatre performance
undated
Box 145, Folder 5
Palais Bimbo Lounge Show, New City Theatre, Seattle (unedited)
1986 May 12
Box 145, Folder 6
Homemade media show (cable) feat. Palais Bimbo Lounge Show and Nat Ayer
1986 July 2
Box 145, Folder 7
Palais Bimbo lecture/reading at Naropa, with Elmslie and Steven Taylor
1988 July 21
Box 145, Folder 9
Palais Bimbo and Night Emerald at Naropa, with Elmslie and Steven Taylor
1991 July 23
Box 145, Folder 11
Postcards on Parade - Elmslie performs at the St. Johnsbury, VT Athenaeum with intro. by William Corbett
1995 August
Box 145, Folder 12
Elmslie/Taylor Postcards
1993 April 8
Box 145, Folder 13
Postcards on Parade, Brown University
1993 September 22
Box 145, Folder 14
Postcards on Parade, unedited Act I
1995 August 9
Box 145, Folder 15
Postcards on Parade, unedited Act II
1995 August 9
Box 145, Folder 16
The Grass Harp - York Players
undated
Box 145, Folder 17
Songs from The Grass Harp, Camera 3
1977 May 20
Box 145, Folder 18
The Grass Harp, Phoenix Rising Theatre, North Hollywood
1980 January 28
Box 145, Folder 19
Radio Thin Air, Kenward Elmslie Show
1990 April 27
Box 145, Folder 21
Naropa reading with Elmslie and Steven Taylor
2001 July 13
Box 145, Folder 22
Ballad for Americans, Golden Apple, Grass Harp, and Pacific Overtures
undated
Box 145, Folder 25
Bobbie Hawkins live in San Diego
1985 June
Box 145, Folder 26
Elmslie - Who'll Prop Me Up in the Rain from Poetry in Motion (Sony mini digital video)
undated
Box 145, Folder 27-29
Irons in the Fire - Diane Di Prima
2002 October 29
Box 145, Folder 30-31
Irons in the Fire - Ron Padgett
2002 November 20
Box 146, Folder 1-4
Irons in the Fire - Ron Padgett
2002 August 7
Box 146, Folder 5
Irons in the Fire - Lonnie
2002 October 11
Box 146, Folder 6-7
Irons in the Fire - Bill Berkson
2002 October 3
Box 146, Folder 8-10
Irons in the Fire - Maxine Chernoff
undated
Cloud House Poetry Archives recordings
Box 147, Folder 1
Elmslie in Champ Dust, a solo revue featuring highlights from Postcards on Parade at SFAI, with intro. by Bill Berkson
1994 November 9
Box 147, Folder 2
Tom Clark, Joe Elegy, Jay DeFeo, Robin Blasé and Ladoh in special tape made for Elmslie
undated
Box 147, Folder 3
Elmslie reading at the Poetry Center, San Francisco
1990 March 1
Box 147, Folder 4
Elmslie - Small Press Traffic
1997 January 10
Box 147, Folder 5
Edmund Berrigan - Small Press Traffic, first reading
1997 October 3
Box 147, Folder 6
Ed Dorn - Holloway Poetry Series, Maude Fife Room at UC Berkeley
1997 October 30
Box 147, Folder 7
Eileen Kaufman, Ruth Weiss - Women of the Beat Generation I
1997 February 26
Box 147, Folder 8
Diane di Prima - Women of the Beat Generation II
1997 February 26
Box 148, Folder 13-14
Bookworm, with Michael Silverblatt (KCRW)
1997, 1999
Kenward Elmslie on Bookworm, with Michael Silverblatt (KCRW)
Box 148, Folder 29-31
Recordings for performance at Naropa
Recordings for performance at Naropa
Box 148, Folder 32
Bill Berkson and Kenward Elmslie
1969 December 7
Bill Berkson and Kenward Elmslie reading
General note
Described by Ron Padgett as "probably Poetry Project."
Box 148, Folder 33-34
Poetry Project group reading
1991 May 2
Poetry Project group reading
Box 149, Folder 5-6
Kenward Elmslie in: Champ Dust: A Solo Review
1994 November 9
Kenward Elmslie in: Champ Dust: A Solo Review
Box 149, Folder 11-12
The Grass Harp - Rehearsals
Box 149, Folder 13
The Grass Harp - WQXR live program
Box 149, Folder 27-30
One Night Stand (and other songs)
Box 149, Folder 32-34
Kenward Elmslie song set Small Press Traffic at New College (Bare Bones, Elegy for Joe, and others)
1997 January 10
Box 150, Folder 34
Bombay Gin Benefit / One Night Stand with Anne Waldman
1990 October 19
Bombay Gin Benefit
Box 151, Folder 1-3
Happy New Year / I Remember
Kenward Elmslie - Happy New Year / I Remember
Box 151, Folder 4
Kenward Elmslie - Night Emerald performance
Kenward Elmslie - Night Emerald performance
Box 151, Folder 6-9
Beyond Baroque readings
1982
Kenward Elmslie Beyond Baroque and other locations - readings and performances
Box 151, Folder 10
Kenward Elmslie singing (home recording)
Box 151, Folder 11-12
Floozies (from The Grass Harp)
Box 151, Folder 15
Orchid Stories
Kenward Elmslie reading from "Orchid Stories"
Box 151, Folder 24
Elmslie - Various songs
1981 November 24
General note
Includes Beauty Secrets, One Night Stand, The One and Only, Brazil, Candy Gram, and more.
Box 151, Folder 27
Night of my Soul
1994-1995
Box 151, Folder 29
Elmslie set 2, Bartos
1998 November 12
Box 151, Folder 30
Oink live benefit performance with Steven Taylor
Box 151, Folder 34
Improvs with Lee Crabtree and Kenward Elmslie
Improvs with Lee Crabtree and Kenward Elmslie
Box 152, Folder 4
Iridescence sampler / Blind Witness News - Barry McBride, Yusef Lateef, Kenward Elmslie
1988
Box 152, Folder 5
KE with Steven Taylor at St. Mark's Church
1984 February 22
Kenward Elmslie with Steven Taylor at St. Mark's Church
Box 152, Folder 6
Interview with Don and Newly Preciosi
1992 December 11
Box 152, Folder 7
KE and Claiborne Richardson "ramble"
Kenward Elmslie and Claiborne Richardson "ramble"
Box 152, Folder 9-10
Postcards on Parade (R-60 DAT mastering audiocassettes)
Box 152, Folder 11-12
Elmslie interviews (3" Sony digital audio recordable mini-discs)
Elmslie interviews
