Guide to the May Sarton Collection
Guide to the May Sarton Collection
Collection number: D1955.1
Ella Strong Denison LibraryLibraries of The Claremont Colleges
Claremont, California
- Processed by:
- Special Collections Staff
- Date Completed:
- 2005
- Encoded by:
- Kelley Wolfe Bachli
Biography / Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Manuscripts
"Death and the Turtle" (1964) from A Private Mythology
"The Design of the Novel" [typed and signed]
"A Light Left On" (1953) from The Land of Silence [ typed and handwritten plus signed typed finished version]
"Nativity" [handwritten and one photocopy]
"On Being Given Time" (1953)
"Palm" [typed and handwritten]
"These Images Remain" (1953) from Land of Silence [typed and handwritten
"The Writing of a Poem"
Correspondence
To Dorothy Drake
postcard, Sunday, Feb 24, 19-
postcard, June 5, London, No Date postcard, July 19, [1957], Brussels
postcard, April 10, 1955
Typed Letter Signed, January 30, 1955, Cambridge, MA
Typed Letter Signed, March 1, 1955, Cambridge, MA
Typed Letter Signed, March 23, 1955, Cambridge, MA
Typed Letter Signed, Easter Day, 1955, Cambridge, MA
Typed Letter Signed, March 6, 1956, Cambridge, MA
Typed Letter Signed, February 14, 1957, Cambridge, MA
Typed Letter Signed, February 4, 1958, Cambridge, MA
Typed Letter Signed, Sept. 2, 1961, Munsonville, MA with Autograph Letter Signed enclosure
Typed Letter Signed, July 15, 1962, Cambridge, MA
Typed Letter Signed, June 30, 1966, Munsonville, NH
Typed Letter Signed, February 20, 1967, Munsonville, NH
From Dorothy Drake
typed draft, February 24, 1955
typed draft, March 6, 1959
3 envelopes [no letters enclosed]: M[a]r[ch] 15, 1957, Apr[il] 3, 1957, Dec[ember] 10, 1957
Marion Ewing
postcard, April 2, 19--, Honolulu
postcard, July 15, 19--, Belgium
Elsa Gidlow [excerpt, photocopy; origin unknown]
Marion Winne [letters found in MW's books of May Sarton]
Autograph Letter Signed, [n. d. ], Nelson [NH]
Typed Letter Signed, February 7, 1968, Nelson, NH
autograph card, signed, [No Date]
autograph card, signed, [No Date]
L.A. Times clipping, [May 18, 1975]
"Christmas, 1974" [New York Times, December 24, 1974]
Christmas poems [broadsides, most inscribed and signed by May Sarton]
"A Recognition" 1962
"Reflections by a Fire" 1958 "Minting Time" 1957
"Of Friendship at Christmas" 1952
"Letter to an Indian Friend" No Date
"A New Year Poem" 1942 "Celebrations" 1943
"The Birthday" 1946
"Beautiful Upon the Mountains" 1946
"The Invisible Bridges" 1948
"New Year Poem, 1948"
"New Year Poem, 1950"
"The Tree" 1951
"On Being Given Time" 1953
"Nativity" 1954
"Lifting Stone: A Painting by Katherine Sturges" 1955
"A Celebration" 1956
"A Flower-Arranging Summer" 1960
"The Beautiful Pauses" 1961
"The House in Winter" 1963
[Notes on May Sarton by Dorothy Drake; No Date]
Pamphlets
"An Informal Portrait of George Sarton," by May Sarton. Reprinted from The Texas Quarterly [inscribed and signed by May Sarton] Autumn, 1962
"May Sarton, Lecture Subjects..."
"In Memoriam" by May Sarton. Brussells: ... Willy Godenne [inscribed and signed by May Sarton] No Date
"Poet in Residence" by May Sarton. Carbondale, IL: reprinted by the English Dept. of Southern Illinois University 1948
[mailing envelope]
The Leaves of the Tree, by May Sarton. Mt. Vernon, Iowa: Cornell College Chapbook Number 22, 1950. [inscribed to Jean Dominique by May Sarton, July 1950]
Typescripts of poems "The Work of Happiness," "Truth," "New Mexico"
Bibliography of works by May Sarton
Itinerary for Scripps College visit, 1957
Magazine and Journal publications
Poems except where noted:
Poetry, Vol. LXVIII, no. 11, "Theme and Variations"
Writing Today, Number 3 (Summer 1946), "The Tortured"
Poetry, Vol. 74, no. 5 (August 1949), "Songs I, II, " "Humpty Dumpty"
The Cornhill, No. 1012 (Summer 1957), "Reflections on a Double Mirror" signed, "Annunciation"
Pennsylvania Literary Review, Vol. 8, no. 2 (1957), "Winter Light," "Simple Fugue," "March in New England," "Elegy for Kathleen Ferrier" "The Problems and Delights of Revision" The Writer[photocopy of essay] December 1966
Poems
The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 42, no. 3 (Summer 1966): "Of The Muse," "Absence Or Presence," "The Cold Night," "Letters to Myself," "Easter Morning," "Jonah," "An Elegy," "A Word from Limbo," "After a Shock" The Cornhill, No. 1014 (Winter 1957/58), "The North (A Poem)" The Berkeley Review, Vol. 1 no. 2 (Spring 1957), "From a Train," "Fore Thought"
The Hudson Review, Vol. IX no. 1 (Spring 1956), "The Phoenix," "The Frog, That Naked Creature"
The Beloit Poetry Journal, Vol. 1 no.1 (Fall 1950): guest editor, May Sarton, "The Stone Resists"
Voices, A Journal of Poetry, No. 151 (May-August 1953), "A Bunch of Roses," "On a Winter Night"
Voices, A Journal of Poetry, No. 154 (May-August 1954), "The Action of the Beautiful"
The New Yorker "Profiles" [essays] 1954-1955
Clippings of articles and poems by/about May Sarton:
New York Herald Tribune, November 19, 1950: "The Stone Resists" The Atlantic, April 1957, "Spring Day"
New Hampshire Profiles, May 1964, "Home of the Month" featuring May Sarton's Nelson house
The Nation, August 18, 1956, review by May Sarton
The Husk, Vol. XXIX no.2 (December 1949), "The Just Exchanges"
Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. XXXII no. 12 (March 19, 1949), "Innumerable Friend"
Audience, Vol. IV no.2, "To the North"
News from Belgium and the Belgian Congo , Vol. V no. 43 (December 29, 1945), "Homage to Flanders"
The Reporter, June 27, 1957, "Sukiyaki on the Kona Coast" by May Sarton [essay] Woman, Vol. 24 no. 603, "The Paris Hat" [essay] journal very fragile
Magazine and journal articles by/about May Sarton
The NewYorker "Profiles" -- List of articles by May Sarton
Queen's Quarterly, A Canadian Review, Vol. LII no. 3 (Autumn 1945), "The Teachers" [poem]
The Writer, October 1955, "The Novelist and His Characters" pp. 335-337, 358. [essay] Family Circle, January 1969, "Homeward" column
Family Circle, November 1968, "Homeward" column
The New Yorker, Aug. 28, 1954, "A Wild Green Place" [essay] The Reporter, April 19, 1956, "Good-by to a World--Memories of Being Nineteen in Paris" [essay]
The Reporter, June 27, 1957, "Sukiyaki on the Kona Coast" with enclosure [essay] Harper's, April 1957, "My Father's Death" [poem]
Clippings--photocopies
Clippings--originals
Photographs of May Sarton (see also Scripps Archives photos "Guests/Visitors--May Sarton" taken at Denison Library when May Sarton visited Scripps)
portrait by Lotte Jacobi [No Date], signed by May Sarton on back
snapshot, Belgium 1953, sitting in chair, signed by May Sarton on back
portrait, [1953], by Peter Rossiter, looking right "886F" portrait, [1953], by Peter Rossiter, looking left "887F"
portrait, [ca. 1950], by Peter Rossiter, looking down, [copy?] "600F' portrait, 1950, by Peter Rossiter, looking down [original?]
Correspondence and Articles of May Sarton--Diane Divelbess gift
Correspondence
postcard, January 8, 19--, Nelson
autograph card, [No Date], St. Charles, MO
Autograph Letter Signed, April 1, 1957, Honolulu
"Dear May Sarton" 1959, one handwritten draft and one handwritten copy
Typed Letter Signed November 13, 1959, Cambridge, MA Typed Letter Signed., October 16, 1960, Nelson, NH
Typed Letter, "Dear Miss Divelbess" from the American Library Service, January 18, 1961., 'Dear Miss Divelbess" from the American Library Service, January 23, 1961
postcard, 'Dear Miss Divelbess" from the American. Library Service, January 26, 1961
postcard, "Dear Miss Divelbess" from the American. Library Service, February 1. 1961
postcard, 'Dear Miss Divelbess" from the American. Library Service, March 16, 1961
postcard, 'Dear Miss Divelbess" from the American. Library Service, July 7, 1961
Typed Letter Signed, December 30, 1961, Nelson, NH
Typed Letter Signed, December 29, 1962, Nelson, NH
"A Recognition" broadside, Christmas 1962, inscribed to DD and signed
Typed Letter Signed, February. 17, 1963, Nelson, NH
Typed Letter Signed., March 3, 1963, Nelson, NH
Typed Letter Signed, May 6, 1963, Cambridge, MA
"New Year Poem, 1950" broadside, May 1963, inscribed to DD and signed
Typed Letter Signed., November 3, 1963, Nelson [NH]
Typed Letter Signed., May 26, 1963, Nelson, NH
"The House in Winter" broadside, inscribed to DD and signed
Typed Letter Signed., January 1, 1964, Nelson [NH]
Typed Letter Signed., December 28, 1964, Nelson [NH]; also enclosed: 3 typed drafts of poems "An Elegy" November 28, 19--, Yaddo; "After a Shock" [No Date]; "A Word from Limbo, For My Students" Thanksgiving, 1964 at Yaddo; in envelope: one photo of Scrabble, May Sarton's cat; one holiday card, inscribed to DD from May Sarton; one Old Gold cigarette wrapper; one slip with handwritten notes [by DD?]
Typed Letter Signed, February. 20, 1965, Nelson [NH]
postcard to DD, September 23, 1965, from Beacon Hill Booksellers
postcard to DD, October 13, 1965, Beacon Hill Booksellers
Typed Letter Signed, August 16, 1966, Nelson, NH Typed Letter Signed., December. 30, 1966, Munsonville, NH
"A Flower-Arranging Summer" broadside, inscribed to DD and signed Typed Letter Signed., Sept. 24, 1967, Belgium
Typed Letter Signed, January 18, 1969, Nelson [NH], plus signed postcard
postcard, [December. 1973], York, ME
postcard, [Jan 11, 1977], York, ME
Typed Letter Signed, February 7, 1977, York [ME]
Typed Letter Signed, March 20, 1977, York
Typed Letter Signed, March 3, 1968, Nelson, NH
Typed Letter Signed, January 17, 1982, York
Typed Letter Signed, June 11 [1978]
Clippings
Magazine articles by May Sarton
New Poems by American Poets edited by Rolf Humphries. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. paperback, extremely brittle
"Summer Music"
"Prothalamium"
"Leaves Before the Wind"
"Transition"
Pamphlets not on May Sarton
An Exhibit of Productions from Stanbrook Abbey Press exhibit at UCLA in 1967
"Western Barbecue hosted by Metropolitan Water District of Southern California," 1965
"A Salute to Scripps College" commencement address by James A. Blaisdell No Date
Family Circle "Homeward" column June 1968, July 1968
Family Circle August 1968, September 1968
Family Circle October 1968, November 1968, December 1968, January 1969
Lear's article, October 1989, New Hampshire Profiles May 1964
"An Informal Portrait of George Sarton" reprint of The Texas Quarterly