Finding aid for the Banyan Press archive, 1946-1986 900230A
Neil Hathaway and Emmabeth Nanol
Special Collections
2010
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
Business Number: (310) 440-7390
Fax Number: (310) 440-7780
reference@getty.edu
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Banyan Press archive
Creator:
Berryman, John, 1914-1972
Creator:
Cahoon, Herbert, 1918-2000
Creator:
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988
Creator:
Duncan, Harry
Creator:
Everson, William, 1912-1994
Creator:
Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005
Creator:
Gallup, Donald, 1913-2000
Creator:
Fredericks, Claude
Creator:
Steloff, Frances, 1887-1989
Creator:
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
Creator:
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
Creator:
Fredericks, Claude
Creator:
Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969
Creator:
Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995
Creator:
Simic, Charles, 1938-
Creator:
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964
Creator:
Werner, Arno, 1899-1995
Creator:
Graham, Ethel
Creator:
Howes, Barbara
Creator:
Malamud, Bernard
Creator:
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
Creator:
Saul, Milton
Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Creator:
Toklas, Alice B.
Creator:
Banyan Press
Creator:
Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Identifier/Call Number: 900230A
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
(13 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1946-1986
Abstract: Small press founded in 1946 by Claude Fredericks. Archive comprises a complete set of the publications, primarily poetry,
and other printed matter from The Banyan Press and Claude Fredericks (1946-1986). Also includes related correspondence, manuscripts,
account books, and reviews.
Physical Location: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the
catalog record for this collection. Click here for the
access policy .
Language of Material:
English
.
Scope and Content of Collection
The archive holds the complete set of 151 imprints from The Banyan Press and Claude Fredericks. Sixty-three imprints were
produced under Fredericks's name. Publications are primarily poetry and other items include broadsides, Christmas cards, stationery,
press announcements, and pamphlets.
Among the poets and other authors printed by the Press are John Berryman, Robert Duncan, Richard Eberhart, William Everson,
André Gide, Barbara Howes, Bernard Malamud, James Merrill, Thomas Merton, Charles Simic, Stephen Spender, and Gertrude Stein.
Reprints and translations include works by William Blake, Tristan Corbière, John Donne, Meister Eckhart, Francis of Assisi,
and Thomas Traherne. The Press occasionally printed books on commission from others, including from The Gotham Book Mart and
Jargon Books.
Private printing, especially for Christmas, stationery, announcements, invitations, and programs (for example for The Betty
Parsons Gallery and The Living Theatre) were common jobs under both imprints.
Included is related correspondence between Fredericks and writers (Eberhart, Howes, Marianne Moore, Edith and Osbert Sitwell,
Spender, Alice B. Toklas, Carl Van Vechten, among others), booksellers (Frances Steloff), librarians, bookbinders (Arno Werner),
stationers, and book reviewers. Overall, the correspondence offers a picture of the New York literary scene in the late 1940s.
The life of the Press is documented in limited business records (an account book, contracts, cancelled checks) as well as
reviews and articles about the Press, a long history of the Press by William Coakley and one by Barbara Cash as well as bibliographies
by J. D. Edelstein and others. Copies of other items designed but not printed by Fredericks are also present as well as 27
printer's typescripts and a limited number of galley proofs.
Arrangement
Arranged in six series: Series I. Complete run of the press, 1946-1986; Series II. Samples of publications designed by Fredericks,
ca. 1962-1965; Series III. Business records, 1946-1978; Series IV. Material about the Press, ca. 1961-1985; Series V. Printer's
manuscripts, 1947-1950; Series VI. Banyan ress correspondence,
Biographical/Historical Note
The Banyan Press was a small press founded in 1946 by Claude Fredericks and Milton Saul. In 1948 they moved their operation,
a single 10 inch by 14 inch Golding press, to Pawlet, Vermont. Most of the book design and press work was done by Fredericks.
Three or four items were designed by Saul, and one by Harry Prickett. Saul did most of the typesetting. All type was set by
hand except for one item, the introduction to The Poetry Center Presents (1947), which was printed from Linotype. After 1950
Fredericks ran the press alone under his own name, except for the period 1975-1978, when he was assisted by David Beeken.
Related Material
Claude Fredericks papers, circa 1850-1988, bulk 1961-1988. Accession no. 900230B.
Claude Fredericks journal and letters, circa 1916-1988. Accession no. 900230C.
Processing History
Neil Hathaway processed the collection in 1994. It was further processed by Emmabeth Nanol in 2010.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1990.
Preferred Citation
Banyan Press archive, 1946-1986, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 900230A.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa900230a
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Small presses -- Vermont
Ephemera
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
American poetry
American literature
Publishers and publishing -- Vermont
Printing -- Vermont
Book industries and trade -- United States
Book design -- Vermont
New York Public Library
Jargon Society
Grolier Club
Gotham Book Mart
Fredericks, Claude
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
Betty Parsons Gallery
Bennington College
Banyan Press
Complete run of The Banyan Press, Series I.
1946-1986
Physical Description:
5 box(es)
2.08 lin. ft.
Scope and Contents note
This series comprises the imprints of The Banyan Press and Claude Fredericks. The Banyan Press produced 74 imprints from 1946
to 1950 and 14 more from 1975 to 1978. Under his own name Claude Fredericks produced 59 imprints from 1953 to 1973 and four
more from 1980 to 1986. This series contains 151 imprints, some in multiple copies.
Among contemporary poets and authors whose works appear under these imprints are John Berryman, Robert Duncan, Richard Eberhart,
William Everson, André Gide, Barbara Howes, Bernard Malamud, James Merrill, Charles Simic, Stephen Spender, and Gertrude Stein
(including two previously unpublished novellas and three previously unpublished poems). Reprinting or translation of works
by earlier authors, including William Blake, Tristan Corbière, and John Donne, was done under both imprints. On occasion the
Press printed books on commission from other publishers, for instance the Gotham Book Mart and Jargon Books. Most exemplars
are signed and numbered or lettered where appropriate and where more than one kind of paper or cover was used for a publication,
multiple copies are included. John Berryman's "His Thoughts Made Pockets" is preserved in both a signed and lettered copy
and a numbered copy; the sermon of Meister Eckhart published in 1960 is preserved in three copies, one on each of the three
kinds of paper used to print it.
Private printing, especially Christmas printing, stationery, and announcements, invitations, and programs (e.g., for the Betty
Parsons Gallery and The Living Theatre) were common jobs under both imprints. Items from the Press were numbered by Fredericks.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically in 4 subseries.
The Banyan Press, Series I.A.
1946-1950
Physical Description:
74 items
Scope and Contents note
Seventy-four items (some in multiple copies) printed during the first period of The Banyan Press's activity. See also Subseries
I.C. for items produced when The Banyan Press imprint was revived in 1975.
box 1, folder 1
"Immaculate Conception," by Claude Fredericks,
December 1946
Scope and Contents note
18 copies on Heyle.
box 1, folder 2
Press stationery,
December 1946
box 1, folder 3
"The Twelfth Day of Christmas,"
December 1946
Scope and Contents note
39 copies on Heyle.
See also box 10, folder 10 for related materials.
box 1, folder 4
Press letter paper,
January 1947
box 1, folder 5
Stationery for the Foxwells,
January 1947
box 1, folder 6
"Concerning Man," by Gil Orlovitz,
March 1947
Scope and Contents note
350 copies on Ragston. Plus another copy of book cover.
See also box 1, folder 11 for press announcement and box 10, folder 20 for related materials.
box 1, folder 7
Press invoice,
March 1947
box 1, folder 8
Press labels,
March 1947
Physical Description:
3 copies
box 1, folder 9
Announcement, Betty Parsons Gallery group show,
May 1947
Scope and Contents note
1,000 copies.
box 1, folder 10
"Fragments," by Faye Laverne Prickett,
May 1947
Scope and Contents note
Designed by Harry Prickett. 400 copies on Ragston.
box 1, folder 11
Press announcements of Orlovitz, Smith, and Corbière,
1947
Scope and Contents note
1 for each author, plus order forms and envelope.
See also box 1, folders 6, 12 and 15 to 17 for materials relating to each author.
box 1, folder 12
"Poems," by William Jay Smith,
June 1947
Scope and Contents note
Plus offprint of title page. 500 copies on Ragston.
See also box 1, folder 11 for press announcement.
box 1, folder 13
Press compliments card,
June 1947
box 1, folder 14
Press review copy card,
June 1947
box 1, folder 15-17
"Poems," by Tristan Corbière, translated by Walter McElroy,
1947
Scope and Contents note
1,000 copies on Bethany, 60 copies on Dutch Charcoal. 200 copies in folio of "La Rapsode foraine" on Bethany. 2 copies - 1
on Bethany and 1 on Dutch charcoal - signed by translator, nos. I and 1; 2 offprints of title page; 1 copy of "La Rapsode
foraine."
See also box 1, folder 11 for press announcement and box 10, folder 3 for related materials.
box 1, folder 16
"La Rapsode Foraine..." on Bethany
box 1, folder 17
Dutch charcoal signed by translator
box 1, folder 18
Announcement, Betty Parsons Gallery, for John Stephan,
September 1947
Scope and Contents note
Plus envelope. 1,000 copies.
box 1, folder 19
Stationery for Milton Saul and Claude Fredericks,
September 1947
box 1, folder 20
Press flybills for both the Gotham Book Mart and H. E. Briggs,
September 1947
Scope and Contents note
1,600 copies.
box 1, folder 21
Announcement and invitation, Betty Parsons Gallery, for Hedda Sterne,
October 1947
Scope and Contents note
2,200 copies and 300 invitations. 1 copy of each.
box 1, folder 22
"The Poetry Center Presents," edited by Kimon Friar,
October 1947
Scope and Contents note
Unnumbered, plus offprint of title page.
350 copies on Courtlea.
See also box 10, folder 6 for related materials.
box 1, folder 23
Plate for Alfonso Ossorio,
December 1947
box 1, folder 24
Press statement,
December 1947
Container Summary: 2 items
Scope and Contents note
Plus envelope.
box 1, folder 25
Stationery for Vira Russell,
December 1947
box 1, folder 26
Christmas printing for Herbert Cahoon,
December 1947
Container Summary: 2 items
Scope and Contents note
Plus envelope.
box 1, folder 27
Announcement, Betty Parsons Gallery, for Herbert Ferber,
December 1947
box 2, folder 1
Press label,
December 1947
Physical Description:
2 copies
box 2, folder 2
Printing for Dollie Chareau,
December 1947
box 2, folder 3
Press discount card,
December 1947
Physical Description:
2 copies
box 2, folder 4
Press statement and invoice,
December 1947
Container Summary: 3 items
Scope and Contents note
One copy of each, plus envelope.
box 2, folder 5
"Returning to Vienna," by Stephen Spender,
December 1947
Scope and Contents note
Signed no. 1, plus offprint of title page.
500 copies.
See also box 2, folder 8 for press announcement.
box 2, folder 6
"Kisses Can," by Gertrude Stein,
December 1947
Scope and Contents note
No. 1, plus envelope. 48 copies.
box 2, folder 7
Christmas printing for Ruthven Todd: "For Stephen Spender,"
December 1947
Scope and Contents
See also box 10, folder 26 for related materials.
box 2, folder 8
Press announcement for "Returning to Vienna,"
December 1947
Container Summary: 3 items
Scope and Contents note
Press compliments card and discount card. 1 copy of each, plus envelope.
See also box 2, folder 5 for publication.
box 2, folder 9
"A Prayer," by John Donne,
December 1947
Scope and Contents note
No. 1. 120 copies on Tovil.
box 2, folder 10
"Blood on the Dining Room Floor," by Gertrude Stein,
March 1948
Scope and Contents note
Letter A, plus case & offprint of title page. 626 copies on Ruysdael.
box 2, folder 11
Press announcement of change of address,
March 1948
Physical Description:
2 versions
box 2, folder 12
"A Primitive Like an Orb," by Wallace Stevens, illustrated by Kurt Seligmann,
April 1948
Scope and Contents note
500 copies on Etruria. With three covers. 1 copy of each cover, plus offprint of title page and press announcement.
box 2, folder 13
Press stationery,
May 1948
Container Summary: 2 items
Scope and Contents note
Plus printed envelope.
box 2, folder 16
Press statement,
June 1948
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents note
Plus printed envelope.
box 2, folder 17
Press label,
June 1948
Physical Description:
3 copies
box 2, folder 18
Press postcard,
June 1948
box 2, folder 19
Press compliments card,
June 1948
box 2, folder 20
Press publications list, "A First List," with a preface by Carl Van Vechten,
July 1948
Scope and Contents note
2,000 copies on Etruria. Pamphlet with envelope, 3 versions of order card, discount card.
box 2, folder 21
Stationery for Mrs. Max Russell and Fannie Peterson,
1948
Scope and Contents note
With envelopes.
box 2, folder 22-23
"The Undersea Farmer," by Barbara Howes,
October 1948
Scope and Contents
See also box 10, folders 12 and 13 for related materials.
box 2, folder 22
Publication and offprint of title page
Scope and Contents note
250 copies on Arches 333. No.1.
box 2, folder 23
Press announcements
Scope and Contents note
2 copies, plus 1 envelope.
box 2, folder 24
"Four Songs of the Italian Earth," by Osbert Sitwell,
November 1948
Scope and Contents note
260 copies, all signed by Sitwell and press announcement. See also box 10, folder 23.
box 3, folder 1
Announcement for the Rices,
November 1948
box 3, folder 2
"Two (Hitherto Unpublished) Poems," by Gertrude Stein,
December 1948
Scope and Contents note
415 copies with two versions of title page. One each of nos. 1 & 210, with offprint of both title pages.
box 3, folder 3
Christmas printing for Anthony Harrigan,
December 1948
Scope and Contents note
53 copies on Heyle.
box 3, folder 4
Stationery for "DLR,"
December 1948
Scope and Contents note
Designed by Milton Saul.
box 3, folder 5
Press review copy card,
December 1948
box 3, folder 6
Press stationery,
January 1949
Scope and Contents note
With printed envelope.
box 3, folder 7-8
"Brotherhood of Men," by Richard Eberhart,
January 1949
box 3, folder 7
Publication and offprint of title page
Scope and Contents note
226 copies on Etruria, all signed by Eberhart. Signed, letter A.
box 3, folder 8
Press announcements
Scope and Contents note
2 versions of the former, plus envelope and 2 order forms.
box 3, folder 9
"Thanatopsis," by Herbert Cahoon,
March 1949
Scope and Contents note
206 copies on Hammer and Anvil. Letter A, plus offprint of title page.
See also box 10, folder 1 for related materials.
box 3, folder 10
"His Book of Days," for Timothy Rice,
March 1949
Scope and Contents note
Title page and epigraphs only.
box 3, folder 11
"Persephone," by André Gide, translated by Samuel Putnam and press announcements,
June 1949
Scope and Contents note
500 copies on Rives. Plus offprint of title page. Published by the Gotham Book Mart.
See also box 10, folder 9 for related materials.
box 3, folder 12
Certificates for the Southern Vermont Art Center,
August 1949
Scope and Contents note
1st, 2nd and 3rd place for Ogden Pleissner, Luigi Lucioni, and Robert Strong Woodward, respectively.
box 3, folder 13
"The Crystal Flowers of Florine Stettheimer" and "Compliments of Ettie of Stettheimer,"
September 1949
Scope and Contents note
250 copies on Rives. "Designed in exasperating collaboration with Ettie Stettheimer." Plus offprint of title page and card
for The Crystal Flowers. See also box 10, folder 24 for related materials.
box 3, folder 14
Christmas printing for Martha Johnson,
December 1949
Scope and Contents
See box 10, folder 15 for related materials.
box 3, folder 15
"The Birth of the Diatom," by Lindley Williams Hubbell,
December 1949
Scope and Contents note
100 copies on Rives. See box 10, folder 14 for related materials.
box 3, folder 16
Christmas printing for the Sauls,
December 1949
box 3, folder 17
"The Book of Thel," by William Blake,
December 1949
Scope and Contents note
135 copies on Etruria. Plus offprint of title page.
box 3, folder 18
Stationery for Mrs. Harvey Saul,
December 1949
box 3, folder 19
"Things As They Are," by Gertrude Stein and press announcements,
May 1950
Scope and Contents note
516 copies on Ingres d'Arches. Letter A, plus offprint of title page and envelope for press announcement.
Claude Fredericks, Series I.B.
1953-1973
Container Summary: 59 items (some with multiple copies)
Scope and Contents note
Subseries comprises pieces printed under the Claude Fredericks imprint during its early years. The imprint was revived in
1980; see Series I.D. The subseries contains 59 imprints, some in multiple copies.
box 4, folder 1
"Four Meditations from Traherne's Centuries,"
September 1953
Scope and Contents note
180 copies on Ingres d'Arches.
box 4, folder 2
Programs for The Living Theatre,
1954-1955
Scope and Contents note
For "The Age of Anxiety" (April 1954), "The Spook Sonata" (June 1954), "Orpheus" (September 1954), and "Phèdre" (Spring 1955).
See also box 10, folder 25 for related materials.
box 4, folder 3
Christmas printing for Martha Johnson,
August 1954
Scope and Contents
See box 10, folder 15 for related materials.
box 4, folder 4
"Short Stories," by James Merrill,
August 1954
Scope and Contents note
210 copies on Cobham, with envelope. Unsigned, no. 210; no envelope.
box 4, folder 5
"A Plan for the Sonnets of a Proposed Shakespeare,"
October 1954
Scope and Contents note
200 copies, with two different title pages and two different labels. Both title pages and both labels.
box 4, folder 6
Program and poster for "The Idiot King," by Claude Fredericks,
November 1954
box 4, folder 7
"Absolutely Bob Brown," by Gertrude Stein,
June 1955
Scope and Contents note
52 copies on Shogun, with errata sheet. Unsigned and unnumbered, plus envelope.
box 4, folder 8
Brochure for "The Porcelain Clay," by Howard Liebling,
September 1955
box 4, folder 9
"A Birthday Cake," by James Merrill,
September 1955
Physical Description:
4 copies
Scope and Contents note
"This is Claude's copy."
box 4, folder 10
Printing for The Green Parrot,
September 1955
box 4, folder 11
"A Passage from the Fioretti of St. Francis," translated by Claude Fredericks, (TO BE ADDED)
September 1955
Scope and Contents note
160 copies on Shogun.
box 4, folder 12
Printing for The Green Parrot,
July 1956
Scope and Contents note
Schedules and recipes.
box 4, folder 13
"My Father," by Dollie Chareau,
September 1956
Scope and Contents note
60 copies. No. 55.
See also box 10, folder 2 for related materials.
box 4, folder 14
"A Page from Bacon's Essays,"
September 1956
Scope and Contents note
180 copies. No. 2, plus attached label.
box 4, folder 15
"Love's Growth," by John Donne,
May 1957
Physical Description:
2 copies
box 4, folder 16
Printing for The Green Parrot,
July and November 1957
Scope and Contents note
Recipes; schedule.
box 4, folder 17
Pawlet menus,
August and November 1957
box 4, folder 18
Plan for a Grove Press Chekhov,
July 1957
box 13, folder 1
"Epigrams," by J. V. Cunningham,
October 1957
Scope and Contents note
1,000 copies on Mokuroku and 150 copies on Kochi. One copy on Mokuroku; two copies on Kochi, one signed and lettered b, the
other unsigned and unnumbered; with two versions of introductory folio.
See also box 10, folder 4 for related materials.
box 4, folder 19
Press announcement for "Letters,"
October 1957
Scope and Contents note
See also box 4, folder 23 for publications and box 10, folder 5 for related materials.
box 4, folder 20
Press stationery,
1957
Scope and Contents note
Contains cards, labels, letter paper and envelopes.
box 4, folder 21
"Poèmes," by Michael Gibson,
December 1957
Scope and Contents note
200 copies on Shogun, with two different covers. Two copies, one of each cover, with envelopes.
See box 10, folder 8 for related materials.
box 4, folder 22
"A Poem," by Anand Lall,
December 1957
Scope and Contents note
Letter b. 50 copies on Venezia. See box 10, folder 16 for related materials.
box 13, folder 2
Blake,
December 1957
Scope and Contents note
Number cxlii. 180 copies on Shogun, with labels.
box 4, folder 23
"A Limerick of Edward Lear's,"
June 1958
box 4, folder 24
"Letters," by Robert Duncan and insert,
August 1958
Scope and Contents note
450 copies on Arches and 60 copies on Shogun. One copy of each, Arches no. 178, Shogun no. 9.
See box 4, folder 17 for press announcements and box 10, folder 5 for related materials.
box 4, folder 25
Printing for The Green Parrot: recipes,
August 1958
box 4, folder 26
Stationery for Harold Farmer,
August 1958
box 4, folder 27
"Magnificat," by Claude Fredericks,
August 1958
Scope and Contents note
Set by Timothy Rice.
box 4, folder 28
Press Stationery,
September 1958
Scope and Contents note
Contains contracts, invoices and envelopes.
box 4, folder 29
"His Thoughts Made Pockets," by John Berryman,
December 1958
Scope and Contents note
526 copies on Niedeggen, with envelopes. 2 copies, one signed and lettered b; another copy, in paper wrappers, no. 2; no envelopes.
box 4, folder 30
Press announcement for "Pawlets" 1 and 2,
December 1958
Physical Description:
2 copies
box 4, folder 31
"Infant Joy," by William Blake,
December 1958
Physical Description:
2 copies
box 4, folder 32
Psalms 150 and 133,
December 1958
Scope and Contents note
180 copies on Fabriano.
box 13, folder 3
"Sunrise in Bed," by Claude Fredericks,
December 1958
Scope and Contents note
2 copies on Kochi.
box 4, folder 33
"Poems Written in Berlin," by Barbara Gibbs,
January 1959
Scope and Contents note
526 copies on Amalfi. 2 copies, one signed and lettered a; the other copy, in paper wrappers, no. 1.
See box 10, folder 7 for related materials.
box 4, folder 34
Plan for a New Directions Hayden Carruth,
July 1959
box 4, folder 35
"Two Poems," by Timothy Rice,
July 1959
Scope and Contents note
Set by Timothy Rice.
box 4, folder 36
Printing for The Green Parrot,
July 1960
Scope and Content note
Contains recipes.
box 4, folder 37
"My Father," by Dollie Chareau,
September 1960
Scope and Contents note
100 copies on Weimar. No. 3.
See also box 10, folder 2 for related materials.
box 4, folder 38
"Lines To Go With A Portrait," by Claude Fredericks,
December 1960
Scope and Contents note
2 copies on Fabriano.
box 5, folder 1
Sermon on "Beati pauperes spiritu," by Meister Eckhart, translated by R.B. Blakney,
December 1960
Scope and Contents note
220 copies on either Weimar, Umbria, and Kochi. One copy of each, two versions of cover.
box 5, folder 2
Printing for Ronald Brooks,
August 1961
box 5, folder 3
Announcement for the Wittens,
September 1961
box 5, folder 4
Bennington College Library bookplate,
September 1962
box 5, folder 5
"The Cantico of St. Francis," translated by Claude Fredericks,
December 1962
Scope and Contents note
195 copies on Kitakata & Shogun.
box 5, folder 6
Graduation announcement,
June 1964
box 13, folder 4
Concert poster,
August 1965
Scope and Contents note
Two versions.
box 5, folder 7
Invitation for the Blousteins,
September 1965
Scope and Contents note
Two kinds of paper, one copy of each.
box 5, folder 8
"The Blowing of the Seed," by William Everson and press announcement,
December 1965-January 1966
Scope and Contents note
218 copies on Kochi. Signed and lettered b.
box 5, folder 9
"On the Subject of Importance," by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.,
December 1966
Scope and Contents note
105 copies on Shogun. Two covers, a copy of each.
See box 10, folder 11 for related materials.
box 5, folder 10
Christmas printing for Frederick Buechner,
November 1967
Scope and Contents note
210 copies on Shogun.
box 5, folder 11
Invitation for Claude Fredericks,
June 1968
Scope and Contents note
50 copies on Kitakata.
box 5, folder 12
Program for The Trumbull Hill Players,
July 1970
Scope and Contents note
200 copies on Kochi.
box 5, folder 13
Invitation for the Delbancos,
August 1970
Scope and Contents note
100 copies on Kitakata.
box 5, folder 14
Invitation for Nora Montesinos,
May 1971
Scope and Contents note
100 copies on Shogun.
box 5, folder 15
"The Shadows Are Deep," by Gretchen Nickerson,
July-August 1973
Scope and Contents note
126 copies on Arches. No. 32. See also box 10, folder 18 for related materials.
box 5, folder 16-28
The Banyan Press, Series I.C.
1975-1978
Physical Description:
14 items
Scope and Contents note
Subseries holds pieces printed when The Banyan Press imprint was revived. See also Series I.A. for the earlier period of Banyan
Press activity.
box 5, folder 16
"A Sonnet of Shakespeare's,"
13-14 September 1975
Scope and Contents note
14 copies on Chinese block paper. Two copies, one without hand-drawn decorative initial.
box 5, folder 17
Menu for Gail Parker,
30 December 1975
Scope and Contents note
9 copies on Kochi.
box 5, folder 18
"An Account of My Hut" and press announcement,
January-March 1976
Scope and Contents note
290 copies on Masa for publication and 400 copies for press announcement on Masa. Plus slip cover and wood veneer cover.
box 5, folder 19
Press envelope and label,
January 1977
box 5, folder 20
"On the Solitary Life," by Guigo the Carthusian. Translated by Thomas Merton,
January 1977
Scope and Contents note
240 copies on Iyo. No. 1, plus printed manila envelope.
box 5, folder 21-22
"End of the Picaro," by Stephen Sandy,
January-February 1977
Scope and Contents note
40 copies on Japanese rice paper and 180 copies on Weimar. Nos. i (rice paper) & xxxiii (on Weimar), plus printed manila envelope.
See box 10, folder 21 for related materials.
box 5, folder 23
"Metamorphosis of 741," by James Merrill,
February-March 1977
Scope and Contents note
440 copies on Arches. No. 1, plus printed manila envelope.
box 5, folder 24
Press announcements for "Pawlets,"
March 1977
Scope and Contents note
Ca. 1,000 copies on Arches & rice paper. Three versions, plus envelopes.
box 5, folder 25
Stationery for Claude Fredericks and David Beeken,
March 1977
box 5, folder 26
"School for Dark Thoughts," by Charles Simic and press announcement,
January 1978
Scope and Contents note
235 signed copies of publcation on Weimar and circa 300 copies of press announcements on rice paper. Publication signed, no.
LVII. See box 10, folder 22 for related materials.
box 5, folder 27
"Two Fables," by Bernard Malamud,
March-June 1978
Scope and Contents note
320 signed copies on Arches. Inscribed to Claude Fredericks and David Beeken, no. 320, plus offprint of title page. See also
box 10, folder 17 for related materials.
box 5, folder 28
Stationery and business card for Bruce Beeken,
October 1978
Scope and Contents note
Designed by David Beeken. Plus printed envelope.
box 5, folder 29-32
Claude Fredericks, Series I.D.
1980-1986
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains pieces printed during the second period of activity of the Claude Fredericks imprint. See also Subseries
I.B. for the first years of this imprint. There are multiple copies of the four items produced under Fredericks's imprint.
box 5, folder 29
Stationery for Bernard Malamud,
May 1980
Scope and Contents note
3 versions. One copy of each, 2 copies of printed envelopes.
box 5, folder 30
Stationery for Bruce Beeken,
November 1980
Scope and Contents note
Plus printed envelope and announcement.
box 5, folder 31
Stationery for Bernard Malamud,
March 1985
Scope and Contents note
2 versions. One copy of each.
box 5, folder 32
Program for Malamud memorial,
May 1986
Samples of publications designed by Fredericks, Series II.
1946-1967
Physical Description:
0.83 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Series contains pieces designed, but not printed, by Fredericks, including issues of the Bennington College journal
Silo, other magazines, programs, and brochures.
Arrangement
Arranged topically.
Silo,
1962-1967
Scope and Contents note
Published copies of the 17 issues designed by Fredericks.
box 7, folder 1
Notes and correspondence relating to the publications
box 7, folder 2
Press advertisements,
1947-1948
box 7, folder 3
Magazines, programs and brochures,
1962-1965
box 7, folder 4
Presswork for Gemor Press,
1946
Scope and Contents
Includes two publications:
Rendezvous with Spain by Bernardo Clariana (translated by Dudley Fitts and illustrated by Julio de Diego) and
Nine Desperate Men by C.L Baldwin.
box 8
Business records, Series III.
1946-1959
Physical Description:
0.42 Linear Feet
Arrangement
Arranged topically.
Scope and Contents note
Includes some of The Banyan Press's business records from 1946 to 1959: account books, ca. 15 contracts, and other business
papers.
box 8, folder 4
Press receipts,
1957-1959
box 8, folder 5-6
Record account books,
1957-1958
box 9
Materials about the press, Series IV.
1946-1986, undated
Physical Description:
0.42 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Series includes materials that contain information about the Press include an article and a bibliography by J.M. Edelstein;
materials (including photographs and negatives) for exhibits that either covered fine printing or small presses in general
such as the one at The Grolier Club (1979) or specifically The Banyan Press/Claude Fredericks at Bennington College (1961,
1970, 1980), The New York Public Library (1980), and New York University (1985); and reviews of press books.
Arrangement
Arranged topically.
box 9, folder 1-2
Photographs of exhibition of the Banyan Press,
1985
box 9, folder 3
History and bibliography of the Banyan Press,
1946-1950
box 9, folder 5
Press checklists,
1946-1986
box 9, folder 6
Recipients of Christmas Printing,
1958-1960
box 9, folder 7-8
Reviews of press books,
1947-1952
box 9, folder 9
Notes for exhibitions at Bennington College,
1961-1980
box 9, folder 10
Press publicity,
1949-1982
box 10
Printer's manuscripts, Series V.
1946-1986, undated
Physical Description:
27 items
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Contents note
Twenty-seven printer's manuscripts are preserved. In a letter dated 16 October 1947, Fredericks mentions that he destroys
galley proofs, and only some 10 pages of galleys are preserved in the archive. Except for the finished printing (and perhaps
the authors' own mss.), these manuscripts are the only record of the printing process.
box 10, folder 1
Cahoon, Herbert,
1947-1949
Scope and Contents
See also box 3, folder 9 for related materials.
box 10, folder 2
Chareau, Dollie,
1956
Scope and Contents
See also box 4, folder 11 and folder 35 for related materials.
box 10, folder 3
Corbière, Tristan,
1946
Scope and Contents
See box 1, folder 15 for related materials.
box 10, folder 4
Cunningham, J.V.,
1947
Scope and Contents
See also box 13, folder 3 for related materials.
box 10, folder 5
Duncan, Robert,
1948-1949
Scope and Contents
See also box 4, folders 17 and 22 for related materials.
box 10, folder 6
Friar, Kimon and The Poetry Center Presents,
1947
Scope and Contents
See also box 1, folder 22 for related materials.
box 10, folder 7
Gibbs, Barbara,
1956-1957
Scope and Contents
See also box 4, folder 31 for related materials.
box 10, folder 8
Gibson, Michael,
1957
Scope and Contents
See box 4, folder 19 for related materials.
box 10, folder 9
Gide, André and Samuel Putnam,
1949
Scope and Contents
See also box 3, folder 11 for related materials.
box 10, folder 10
Harrigan, Anthony,
1948
Scope and Contents
See also box 3, folder 3 for related materials.
box 10, folder 11
Houghton, Anthony, Jr.,
1961
Scope and Contents
See box 5, folder 9 for related materials.
box 10, folder 12-13
Howes, Barbara,
1946-1950
Scope and Contents
See also box 2, folder 22 and 23 for related materials.
box 10, folder 14
Hubbell, Lindley Williams,
1949
Scope and Contents
See box 3, folder 15 for related materials.
box 10, folder 15
Johnson, Martha,
1949-1954
Scope and Contents
See also box 3, folder 14 and box 4, folder 2 for related materials.
box 10, folder 16
Lall, Anand,
1957
Scope and Contents
See box 4, folder 20 for related materials.
box 10, folder 17
Malamud, Bernard,
1980-1986
Scope and Contents
See box 5, folder 26 for related materials.
box 10, folder 18
Nickerson, Gretchen,
1967
Scope and Contents
See also box 5, folder 15 for related materials.
box 10, folder 20
Orlovitz, Gil,
1947
Scope and Contents
See box 1, folder 6 for related materials.
box 10, folder 21
Sandy, Stephen,
1977
Scope and Contents
See also box 5, folders 21 and 22 for related materials.
box 10, folder 22
Simic, Charles,
1975-1978
Scope and Contents
See box 5, folder 26 for related materials.
box 10, folder 23
Sitwell, Osbert,
1948
Scope and Contents
See also box 2, folder 24 for related materials.
box 10, folder 24
Stettheimer, Florine,
1949
Scope and Contents
See also box 3, folder 13 for related materials.
box 10, folder 25
Strindberg, August and The Living Theatre,
1954
Scope and Contents
See also box 4, folder 1 for related materials.
box 10, folder 26
Todd, Ruthven,
1947
Scope and Contents
See also box 2, folder 7 for related materials.
Banyan Press correspondence, Series VI.
1946-1952
Physical Description:
0.83 Linear Feet
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents note
Incoming (box 11) and outgoing letters (box 12, carbon typescripts of the originals, unsigned, by Claude Fredericks) are letters
regarding The Banyan Press from 1947 to 1952. They include correspondence with some of the poets and authors listed above
in Series I, most notably with Richard Eberhart, Barbara Howes, and Stephen Spender. Other important correspondents include
Herbert Cahoon, Marianne Moore, Edith and Osbert Sitwell, and Alice B. Toklas. There is also extensive correspondence with
Carl Van Vechten, Gertrude Stein's literary executor; Frances Steloff of the Gotham Book Mart, the bookbinder Arno Werner;
Ethel Graham of the Stevens-Nelson Paper Corp.; Harry Duncan of the Cummington Press; and Donald Gallup of Yale University's
library.
This correspondence offers a detailed picture of the literary scene centered in New York City in the late 1940s. (Correspondence
regarding Fredericks's printing and publishing after 1950 can be found in the correspondence files of the other two parts
of the Fredericks collection, 900230B and 900230C).
Incoming letters to The Banyan Press,
1946-1950
Scope and Contents note
Incoming letters to The Banyan Press including letters from:
4 Seasons Bookshop;
Adler, Elmer;
American Notes & Queries;
American Typefounders Corporation;
Aviles, Alonzo;
Ayres, L.S.;
Baker & Taylor;
Barer, Marshall;
Bechtold, Eugene;
Belitt, Ben;
Bères, Pierre;
Berryman, John;
Bogan, Louise;
Breit, Harvey;
Brennan, Joseph;
Cahoon, Herbert;
Carinie, Gordon;
Cecil, Robert;
College Book Exchange;
Crews, J.C.;
Dallip, Donald;
David Alber Associates;
Davidson, Gustav;
Duncan, Harry;
Eberhart, Richard;
Engle, Paul;
Fairbanks, Thomas Nast;
Farr, Linnea;
Farrelly, Sergius;
Feldman, L.D.;
Fernini, Vincent;
Fletcher, H.J.;
Fowler Insurance Agency;
Friar, Kimon;
Fudge & Company;
Golffing, Francis;
Gotham Book Mart, Inc.;
Graham, Ethel;
Gredor, Arthur;
Harrigan, Anthony;
Harris, Paul;
Hayes, Glenn;
Heyl, Lawrence;
Holmes, John;
House of Books;
Howes Smith, Barbara;
Hurlburt Paper Company;
Jackson, Joseph Henry;
Keynes, Geoffrey;
Laughlin, James;
Leavitt, David;
Ledden, Oral;
MacIntyre, C.P.;
Maier, Doro;
Maree, Jordan;
Maxwell, Lawrence;
McElroy, Walter;
Menin, A.I.;
Moore, Marianne;
Morgan, Frederick;
Morris, J.;
Morse, Marjory;
Nenz, Curt;
Orlovitz, Gil;
Partisan Review;
Pattison, Frederick;
Pauker, John;
Pilkington, Walter;
Polofsky, Oscar;
Publishers Weekly;
Ransom, Will;
Raymond, Noémi;
Red Door Bookshop;
Rice, Reymour;
Roger, W.R.;
Rosenberger, Colemen;
Rugg, Harold;
Sanchez, Eduardo;
Schoonderbeek, H.G.;
Seligmann, Kurt;
Sitwell, Edith;
Sitwell, Osbert;
Smith, William Jay;
Sokoloff, Noel;
Spender, Stephen;
Spodheim, René;
Standard, Paul;
Stark, Lewis;
Steloff, Frances;
Stettheimer, Ettie;
Taos Bookshop;
The American Academy of Poets;
The Nation;
The Ottawa Journal;
Time Magazine - John Myers;
Van Doren, Irita;
Van Vechten, Carl;
Vinal, Harold;
Von Ternes, Margit;
Vosper, Robert;
Werner, Arno;
Whittemore, Reed;
Whyte Bookshop;
Wiesenthal, Morris;
William, Jay.
box 12, folder 5-11
Outgoing letters for The Banyan Press,
1947-1952
