James Schuyler Papers
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2005
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
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Descriptive Summary
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: James Schuyler Papers
Creator:
Schuyler, James
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0078
Physical Description:
13 Linear feet
(29 archives boxes, 4 card file boxes, 1 flat box, 5 map case folders)
Date (inclusive): 1947-1991
Abstract: Papers of James Schuyler (1923-1991), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and member of the New York School circle of poets and painters.
A New York City resident since 1950, Schuyler moved among prominent artists and writers of the period and worked as an art
critic and associate editor for
Art News from 1955 to circa 1962, and in the Museum of Modern Art beginning in 1957. He published his first novel,
Alfred and Guinevere, in 1958 and continued a distinguished career, publishing twelve books of poetry and two additional novels, including
A Nest of Ninnies with John Ashbery. Schuyler's collection of poems entitled
The Morning of the Poem won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981. The bulk of the materials date between 1950 and 1970, with a second field of concentration
in the late 1980s, and include correspondence with contemporary writers and visual artists, including John Ashbery, Frank
O'Hara, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, Ron Padgett, and Anne Waldman. Also included are manuscripts
and typescripts;
Art News materials; notebooks; diaries; miscellaneous subject files; and rare audio recordings.
Languages:
English
.
Restrictions
Original media formats are restricted. Viewing/listening copies are available for researchers.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of James Schuyler, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and member of the New York School circle of poets and painters. A New
York City resident since 1950, Schuyler moved among prominent artists and writers of the period and worked as an art critic
and associate editor for
Art News from 1955 to circa 1962, and in the Museum of Modern Art beginning in 1957. He published his first novel,
Alfred and Guinevere, in 1958 and continued a distinguished career, publishing twelve books of poetry and two additional novels, including
A Nest of Ninnies with John Ashbery. Schuyler's collection of poems entitled
The Morning of the Poem won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981. The bulk of the materials date between 1950 and 1970, with a second field of concentration
in the late 1980s, and include correspondence with contemporary writers and visual artists, including John Ashbery, Frank
O'Hara, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, Ron Padgett, and Anne Waldman. Also included are manuscripts
and typescripts;
Art News materials; notebooks; diaries; miscellaneous subject files; and rare audio recordings.
Accessions Processed in 1992
Contains manuscripts or typescripts for most of Schuyler's works, in addition to abundant correspondence, especially with
painters, poets, and writers of the New York School circle.
Arranged into eight series: 1) ORIGINAL FINDING AID, 2) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 3) CORRESPONDENCE, 4) WRITINGS, 5) WRITINGS
OF OTHERS, 6) SUBJECTS, 7) AUDIO TAPE RECORDINGS, and 8) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.
Accession Processed in 1993
This substantive accession provides a wealth of biographical information, and includes correspondence from Schuyler's lovers
and closest friends, initially withheld from the collection.
Arranged into five series: 9) CORRESPONDENCE, 10) WRITINGS, 11) PHOTOGRAPHS, 12) OTHER WRITERS, and 13) MISCELLANEOUS.
Biography
Born on November 9, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, James Marcus Schuyler experienced a peripatetic childhood. His family lived
for a time in Downer's Grove, a suburb of Chicago, then Washington, D.C., and later Chevy Chase, Maryland. His parents divorced
early in Schuyler's childhood and he remained with his mother and step-father. At the age of twelve, his family moved to Buffalo,
New York, and two years later to East Aurora, a suburb outside of Buffalo.
Schuyler attended Bethany College in West Virginia from 1941 to 1943. There he pursued interests in history, architecture,
and literature. During World War II, in 1943, he joined the U.S. Navy. He spent the next two years on a destroyer in the North
Atlantic, protecting convoys. He remained in the Navy after the war.
In 1947, Schuyler moved to the Isle of Ischia in Italy for two years. There he lived in the rented house of W.H. Auden, whom
he had met in New York. Schuyler served as Auden's secretary, typing the manuscript for Auden's book
Gnomes and Auden's translation of Jean Cocteau's "Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde." Schuyler also attended the University of Florence
at this time, and he began writing poetry. Although he returned to New York briefly, an inheritance allowed him the financial
independence to return to Florence in mid-1950.
Schuyler began writing seriously in the late 1940's, but an important breakthrough in his career came in 1951. As a result
of his correspondence with Howard Moss, Moss published Schuyler's poem "Salute", written in the hospital in White Plains,
New York. Moss later published three of Schuyler's short stories in the magazine
Accent along with a poem entitled "Three Penny Opera" by Frank O'Hara. At a party, Moss introduced Schuyler to Frank O'Hara and
John Ashbery, who had been Moss's schoolmates at Harvard.
Schuyler soon became involved with the so-called New York School of writers and artists. By 1951, he and Frank O'Hara shared
an apartment on 49th Street, where they were later joined by John Ashbery after Ashbery's return from France. Schuyler worked
for a while at a bookshop on 54th street and later, with the financial assistance of a friend, devoted himself to writing
what would become his first novel,
Alfred and Guinevere. By 1955 he was working for the magazine
Art News as an art critic and associate editor. His colleagues at
Art News included John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, and Elaine De Kooning. For this journal Schuyler reviewed exhibitions
and wrote articles. By 1957 he was also working for the Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Circulating Exhibitions.
Schuyler's writing career expanded greatly in the mid-1950s and 1960s. He wrote the libretto for Paul Bowles' recording entitled
A Picnic Cantata (1955) and two off-broadway plays,
Presenting Jane (1952) and
Shopping and Waiting (1953). In 1958 he published his first novel,
Alfred and Guinevere, a book about children and their perceptions. Then came two collections of verse,
Salute (1960) and
May 24th or So (1966).
Between 1961 and 1973, Schuyler lived with the Fairfield Porter family in Southampton, Long Island, and moved among New York
poets and painters, including Fairfield Porter, Kenward Elmslie, Ron Padgett, and Joe Brainard. He collaborated with Kenward
Elmslie on the off-broadway play
Unpacking the Black Trunk (1965).
Collaborating with John Ashbery, Schuyler published the novel
A Nest of Ninnies in 1969. Begun early in their relationship, the novel is a satire on suburbanites and their lifestyles. This work appeared
at the same time as Schuyler's first major collection of poetry
Freely Espousing (1969).
Schuyler's productivity reached a zenith during the 1970s, with the publication of numerous collections of poems including
The Crystal Lithium (1972);
A Sun Cab (1972);
Penguin Modern Poets 24, with Kenneth Koch and Kenward Elmslie (1973);
Hymn to Life (1974);
Song (1976);
The Fireproof Floors of Witley Count: English Songs and Dances (1976); and The Home Book: Prose and Poems 1951-1970 (1977). Schuyler also produced his third novel entitled
What's for Dinner, published in 1978. His last work of the decade was
The Morning of the Poem (1980), for which he received a Pulitzer Prize.
Although well-known and successful by the early 1980s, Schuyler turned to a life of reclusion as poor health and financial
difficulties hindered his writing. He continued to live in New York City, and published two collections of poetry:
A Few Days (1985) and
Selected Poems (1988).
In addition to a Pulitzer Prize for
The Morning of the Poem, Schuyler received the Longview Foundation award (1961), the Frank O'Hara Prize (1969), two National Academy for the Arts
grants (1969, 1972), an American Academy award (1977), and an Academy of American Poets fellowship (1983).
"James Schuyler's is a poetry of perception, the recognition of shapes out of the indiscriminate sensory field," wrote George
Butterick in
Contemporary Poets (1985). "Reading him," wrote Butterick, "there is a sense of focusing field glasses; always the sharper image results...Schuyler
is determined to possess the natural world without a lapse into symbolism. Nature is not to be quarreled with, nor confused
with human needs. The world is distinguishable among its parts as well as from the observing narrator. He has tried life and
it fits; life matches art..."
Schuyler died on April 12, 1991.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Preferred Citation
James Schuyler Papers, MSS 78. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1989, 1992.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Diaries -- 20th century
Gay men -- United States -- Poetry
American poetry -- 20th century
Gay men -- United States
Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 -- Correspondence
Merrill, James, 1926-1995 -- Correspondence
Wieners, John, 1934-2002 -- Correspondence
Padgett, Ron, 1942- -- Correspondence
Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Correspondence
Elmslie, Kenward -- Correspondence
Guest, Barbara -- Correspondence
O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966 -- Correspondence
Freilicher, Jane, 1924-2014 -- Correspondence
Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994 -- Correspondence
Dash, Robert -- Correspondence
Button, John -- Correspondence
Waldman, Anne, 1945- -- Correspondence
Porter, Fairfield -- Correspondence
Schuyler, James -- Archives
Accessions Processed in 1992
Box 1, Folder 1
Original Finding Aid
General
Produced by Raymond Foye, a close friend and "archivist" for James Schuyler. It consists of a list of folder titles, in most
cases generated by Foye, with detailed descriptions of the materials which he inventoried.
Box 1, Folder 2
Articles about James Schuyler
1983
General note
Hillringhouse, Mark. "An Interview with James Schuyler."
Box 1, Folder 3
Articles about James Schuyler
1960
General note
Moore, Marianne. "The ways our poets have taken in fifteen years since the war." NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE
Box 1, Folder 4
Articles about James Schuyler
1960
General note
Moss, Howard. "James Schuyler: Whatever Is Moving." Edited photocopy
Box 1, Folder 8
Pulitzer Prize Certificate
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 3) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and thereunder chronologically. The materials date from
1948 to 1987, with the greatest concentration of letters from the 1950s and 1960s. Included is extensive correspondence with
many prominent writers and visual artists including Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest,
Fairfield Porter, Ron Padgett, and Anne Waldman. Many of the letters are detailed, carefully written, and of great literary
merit in themselves. Correspondence with publishers about specific publications is located with manuscript materials under
individual titles in the series WRITINGS.
Box 1, Folder 9
Miscellaneous correspondents, A to Z
Box 1, Folder 10
Academy of American Poets
1983
Box 1, Folder 12
American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters
1982
Box 1, Folder 19
Berkson, Bill
1967 - 1969
Box 2, Folder 1
Berrigan, Sandy and Ted
1964 - 1982
Box 2, Folder 2
Blaine, Nellie
1959 - 1968
Box 2, Folder 4-7
Brainard, Joe
1964 - 1983
Box 2, Folder 9
Burckhardt, Edith
1958 - 1961
Box 2, Folder 11
Burckhardt, Rudy
ca. 1950
Box 2, Folder 13
Carnegie Fund for Authors
1982 - 1983
Box 2, Folder 15
Clark, Thomas
1966 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 16
Coolidge, Clark
1971 - 1972
Box 2, Folder 20
DiCapua, Michael
1964 - 1967
Box 2, Folder 21
Droll, Donald
1958 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 22
Elmslie, Kenward
1964 - 1980
Box 2, Folder 25
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, Inc.
1979
Box 3, Folder 1
Frankenthaler, Helen
1960
Box 3, Folder 2
Freilicher, Jane
1963 - 1975
Box 3, Folder 5
Groffsky , Maxine
1967 - 1982
Box 3, Folder 6
Guest, Barbara
1960 - 1975
Box 3, Folder 7
Guston, Philip and Musa
1969
Box 3, Folder 11
Heilemann, Charles
1949 - 1950
Box 3, Folder 14
Katz, Alex, Ada, and Vincent
1960 - 1971
Box 3, Folder 15
Koch, Kenneth, Janic and Katherine
1957 - 1981
Box 3, Folder 17
LeSueur, Joseph
1965 - 1971
Box 3, Folder 19
Marvin Josephson Associates, Inc
1967 - 1968
Box 3, Folder 20
Matthews, Harry
1960 - 1980
Box 3, Folder 21
Merrill, James
1961 - 1969
Box 3, Folder 22
Montgomery, George
1957 - 1965
Box 3, Folder 23
Moynihan, Anne
1966 - 1969
Box 3, Folder 24
Museum of Modern Art (fellow employees)
1957 - 1961
General note
Correspondence with Kynaston McShine, Alvin Novak, Ed Potoker
Box 3, Folder 25
Myer, John Bernard
1961 - 1968
Box 3, Folder 26
National Endowment in the Arts
1985
Box 3, Folder 27
THE NEW YORKER
1971 - 1982
General note
See also WRITINGS - POETRY - Miscellaneous poems submitted to THE NEW YORKER
Box 3, Folder 28
North, Charles and Paula
1973 - 1983
Box 3, Folder 29
Novak, Alvin
ca. 1975-1760
General note
See CORRESPONDENCE - Museum of Modern Art
Box 3, Folder 30
O'Hara, Frank
1956 - 1961
Box 3, Folder 33
P.E.N. American Center
1982
Box 3, Folder 35
Poets Foundation
1960 - 1968
Box 3, Folder 38
Porter, Elizabeth
1967 - 1971
Box 3, Folder 39
Porter, Fairfield and John
1956 - 1973
Box 3, Folder 40
Porter, Katie
1956 - 1969
Box 3, Folder 41
Pousett-Dart, Richard
1960
Box 3, Folder 42
Pulitzer Prize Board
1981
Box 3, Folder 44
Ridenour Family
1956 - 1975
Box 4, Folder 2
Waldman, Anne
1968 - 1972
Box 4, Folder 4
Wieners, John
1959 - 1965
Box 4, Folder 6
Winkfield, Trevor
1968 - 1973
Box 4, Folder 7
YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE
1969
WRITINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 4) WRITINGS: Arranged into six subseries: A) Poetry B) Prose, C) Journal Articles and Reviews, D) Diaries, E) Notebooks,
and F) Notes.
A) Poetry: The largest subseries of WRITINGS, including published and unpublished works. The materials are arranged alphabetically
under a combination of descriptive title, published title, and author's title. Included in this subseries are materials for
Schuyler's Pulitzer Prize winning book
The Morning of the Poem, as well as
The Crystal Lithium, A Few Days, Freely Espousing, and
The Home Book: Prose and Poems, 1951-1970. Includes typescripts with holograph revisions, although there are abundant examples of holograph manuscripts. A large portion
of poems were originally organized by Schuyler in folders titled "miscellaneous." These folders have been grouped in a sub-subseries
as "miscellaneous collected poems" and reorganized alphabetically by title, or for untitled poems, by first line. Although
these folders contain some published poems, most are unpublished.
B) Prose: Includes materials for
Alfred and Guinevere, Early in '71, What's for dinner?, and
A Nest of Ninnies. The notes and manuscripts for
A Nest of Ninnies provide numerous examples of the method of Schuyler's collaboration with Ashbery. Also includes shorter prose works, including
prose fragments and leaves, which are located at the beginning of the subseries under "miscellaneous prose."
C) Journal Articles and Reviews: Materials related to Schuyler's work for
Art News during the late 1950s and early 1960s. These materials include annotated typescript drafts for feature articles on artists,
reviews of exhibitions, and pocket-size notebooks with original notes created during assignments and interviews. Among the
artists represented in the
Art News materials are Joe Brainard, Paul Georges, Fairfield Porter, and Ludwig Sander.
D) Diaries: Two early diaries are included here, one dated 1955 and the other undated. Later Schuyler diaries remained in
the author's possession.
E) Notebooks: A variety of items written or collected by Schuyler, including poems, prose works, recipes, newspaper clippings,
and messages. The notebooks are organized chronologically. They often relate to a particular place (e.g. "Calais, Vermont")
or a time period.
F) Notes: Folders containing miscellaneous groups of notes.
Box 4, Folder 8
Collabs with Helena Hughes
1980
Box 4, Folder 9
Collage poem for Kenward Elmslie
1970
Box 4, Folder 10
CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Typescript sent to the printer with printer's annotations
Box 4, Folder 11
CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Typescript poems with holograph revisions
Box 4, Folder 12
CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Photocopy of typescript
Oversize MC-038, Folder 01
CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Galleys
Box 4, Folder 14
CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Reviews
Box 4, Folder 15
Ducal Days, also titled as Shrine Exit
General note
Numerous versions with holograph revisions and annotations
Box 4, Folder 16
FEW DAYS - Original typescript with corrections and additions (before editing)
Box 4, Folder 17
FEW DAYS - First and second version (photocopy and typescript)
Box 4, Folder 18
FEW DAYS - Photocopy of revised typescript
Box 4, Folder 19
Fireproof Floors of Whitley Court
General note
Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 4, Folder 20
FREELY ESPOUSING - Correspondence with Doubleday
1968 - 1969
Box 4, Folder 21
FREELY ESPOUSING - Holograph with typescript first drafts
Box 5, Folder 1
FREELY ESPOUSING - Working drafts
Box 5, Folder 2
FREELY ESPOUSING - Complete typescript with revisions
Box 5, Folder 3
HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Typescripts of poems
1951 - 1970
General note
With holograph revisions
Box 5, Folder 4
HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Typescript of prose
1951 - 1970
General note
Entitled "The Home Book"
Box 5, Folder 5
HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Typescript with holograph revisions
1951 - 1970
General note
Of a prose piece entitled "Current Events"
Box 5, Folder 6
HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Photocopy of corrected typescript
Box 5, Folder 7
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Typescript and holograph notes
Box 5, Folder 8
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Typescript and holograph notes
Box 5, Folder 9
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Holograph note
Box 5, Folder 10
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Edited typescript
Box 5, Folder 11
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Photocopy of typescript
Box 5, Folder 12
Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Photocopy of PARIS REVIEW appearance of work
Box 5, Folder 13
Miscellaneous collected poems
1950s
General note
Includes: Beautiful Outlook, Sestina, A Grave, Palisades, In the cafe I sat and Watched the rain, I do not always understand
why at you say, and: August, smelling of ripe grapes and afternoon.
Box 5, Folder 14
Miscellaneous collected poems
1975 - 1976
Box 5, Folder 15
Miscellaneous collected poems - From a yellow binder
Box 5, Folder 16
Miscellaneous collected poems - Including "After the feast"
Box 5, Folder 17
Miscellaneous collected poems - THE NEW YORKER, submissions
General note
Typescript with holograph annotations
Box 5, Folder 18
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems
ca. 1957-1960
Box 5, Folder 19
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems
ca. 1975-1982
Box 5, Folder 20
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems
General note
Folder of miscellaneous poems
Box 5, Folder 21
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems
General note
Folder of miscellaneous poems
Box 5, Folder 22
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems
General note
Folder of miscellaneous poems
Box 5, Folder 23
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems
General note
Folder of miscellaneous poems
Box 5, Folder 24
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems
General note
Written in "Whether schlepping books after-class detention," typescript
Box 5, Folder 25
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems
1985
General note
Written in collaboration with Jonathan Leake .
Box 5, Folder 26
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled A-F
Box 5, Folder 27
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled G-L
Box 5, Folder 28
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled M-R
Box 5, Folder 29
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled S-Y
Box 6, Folder 1
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled A-H
General note
Arranged alphabetically by first line
Box 6, Folder 2
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled I-P
General note
Arranged alphabetically by first line
Box 6, Folder 3
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled R-Y
General note
Arranged alphabetically by first line
Box 6, Folder 4
Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled
General note
Miscellaneous poem fragments
Box 6, Folder 5
MORNING OF THE POEM - Typescripts with holograph revisions
Box 6, Folder 6
MORNING OF THE POEM - Typescripts with holograph revisions
Box 6, Folder 7
MORNING OF THE POEM - Miscellaneous typescripts of poems
Box 6, Folder 8
MORNING OF THE POEM - First draft typescript
Box 6, Folder 9
MORNING OF THE POEM - Early selections of poems by "David"
Box 6, Folder 10
MORNING OF THE POEM - Early selections of poem by "David"
Box 6, Folder 11
MORNING OF THE POEM - "Payne Whitney Poems"
General note
Two pages of galley with revisions
Box 6, Folder 12
MORNING OF THE POEM - Corrected typescript with printer's notes
Box 6, Folder 13
MORNING OF THE POEM - Original blues
Oversize MC-038, Folder 02
MORNING OF THE POEM - Galleys
Box 6, Folder 14
MORNING OF THE POEM - Review
Oversize MC-038, Folder 03
PENGUIN MODERN POETS 24 - Galleys
General note
Edition devoted to the poetics of James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, and Kenward Elmslie
Box 6, Folder 15
Poem - "This beauty that I see"
Box 6, Folder 17
Torcello
General note
Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 6, Folder 18
Treasury of Birthday Thoughts
Box 6, Folder 19
Within the Dome with Ron Padgett, written at Great Spruce Head Island
Box 6, Folder 21
Untitled, unpublished prose
Box 6, Folder 22
ALFRED AND GUINEVERE - Correspondence with publishers and agents
1955 - 1968
General note
Includes correspondence with Brandt & Brandt, David Higham Associates, Ltd, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, Harcourt, Brace and Company,
Inc., HARPER'S BAZAAR.
Box 6, Folder 23
ALFRED AND GUINEVERE - Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7, Folder 1
ALFRED AND GUINEVERE - Pencil sketches for illustrations
Box 7, Folder 3
Bombshell - for Frank O'Hara
General note
Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7, Folder 4
Brunch
General note
Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7, Folder 5
Duet
General note
Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7, Folder 7
Epithalamion
General note
Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7, Folder 8
Fall - For Frank O'Hara, ca. 1960
General note
Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7, Folder 9
Frank at Night
1952
General note
Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7, Folder 10
Gallons of Coffee
General note
Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7, Folder 12
I don't need your pity, I just don't feel like anything - a pageant
General note
Typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7, Folder 15
Meeting to Part
General note
Typescript with revisions
Box 7, Folder 16
NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery
1968 - 1969
General note
Correspondence with E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.
Box 7, Folder 17
NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery
General note
Notebook containing approximately 30 holograph pages by Schuyler and Ashbery, illustrating alternate method used in composing
the novel
Box 7, Folder 18-19
NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery - Miscellaneous manuscript leaves
Box 7, Folder 20
NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery - Final typescript
Box 7, Folder 21
NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery - Contract
1968
Box 7, Folder 22
Notes on abstract painting
Box 7, Folder 23
One thing may not lead to another
1967
General note
Typescript with revisions
Box 7, Folder 25
Poet and Painter Overture - notes on poetry in Don Allen's NEW AMERICAN POETRY
Box 7, Folder 26
They too are Drifting Uptown in a Bus
General note
ca. 1952, typescript with revisions
Box 7, Folder 28
Untitled typescript
General note
Mrs. Henry Kitzberg, the laughing Charlotte of the class of '13
Box 7, Folder 29
Vita for Fairfield Porter
General note
Typescript and holograph notes
Box 7, Folder 30
What about the Glovers?
General note
Typescript with revisions
Box 7, Folder 31
WHAT'S FOR DINNER? - Original typescript with holograph revisions
Box 7, Folder 32
WHAT'S FOR DINNER? - Typescript beginning with holograph revisions
Box 7, Folder 33
WHAT'S FOR DINNER? - Final Typescript
Journal Articles and Reviews
Box 7, Folder 34
Articles on artists - Blaine, Nell
General note
"The View from 210 Riverside Drive," Typescript
Box 7, Folder 35
Articles on artists - Brainard, Joe
General note
"Joe Brainard: Quotes and Notes," typescript
Box 7, Folder 36
Articles on artists - Freilicher, Jane
General note
Typescript with revisions
Box 7, Folder 37
Articles on artists - Georges, Paul
General note
Typescript with revisions
Box 7, Folder 38
Articles on artists - Kline, Franz
General note
"As American as Franz Kline," typescript with revisions
Box 7, Folder 39
Articles on artists - Porter, Fairfield
General note
"An Aspect of Fairfield Porter's Paintings," typescript with revisions
Box 7, Folder 40
Articles on artists - Sander, Ludwig
General note
Typescript with revisions
Box 7, Folder 41
Articles on artists - Tawney, Lenore
General note
Typescript with revisions
Box 8, Folder 1
Reviews of artist's exhibitions
1955 - 1960
General note
Typescript drafts
Box 8, Folder 2
Review of ANTHOLOGY OF MEXICAN POETRY
General note
Work complied by Samuel Beckett and published by Evergreen Press, typescript with revisions
Box 8, Folder 5
Compositions
1959
General note
Contains extensive holograph notes on interviews with Alex Katz, Paul George (unpublished), and Ludwig Sander for ART NEWS
Box 8, Folder 6
Compositions - Paul Georges interview continued
1959
Box 8, Folder 7
Schooltime - notes on painter and poet Joe Brainard
1965
Box 8, Folder 8
Green note book - includes notes on painter Paul Burlin
Box 8, Folder 10
Unfinished novel, written in holograph by Schuyler and Ashbery
1970
Box 8, Folder 11
Red memo book - includes long prose work On the Train to Buffalo
1970
Box 9, Folder 1
Yellow memo book - with notes and poems
1971
General note
Including "Ida," "Marjorie Steward," "The Dew Drop Inn," "Janis Letho," "On awakening," "Diary," "July 8,1971," and "Beautiful
Funerals."
Box 9, Folder 2
Copper-colored note book - Contains poems
1971
Box 9, Folder 3
Stenographer's notes book from hospital in Waterbury, Vermont
1971
General note
Contains poems "Roxy, a Sunday Blues," "Rosy Rock," and "Daily Planet."
Box 9, Folder 4
Compositions - contains poems
1971
Box 9, Folder 5
Compositions
1971
General note
"Calais, Vermont," contains poem entitled "Brain Washed"
Box 9, Folder 6
Compositions - Suffolk Psychiatric Hospital
1972
General note
Contains poem with first lines "the withholding tax"
Box 9, Folder 8
Schooltime - contains unpublished poems
1971
Box 9, Folder 9
Two brown note books
1977
General note
Contains notes and the poems "Smothered in fox grape leaves," and "In the after-dinner lull"
Box 9, Folder 10
Compositions - D. L. & Other Dreams, contains the Howard Grinsberg scene
Box 9, Folder 11
College ruled - contains several pages of poem titles and newspaper clippings
Box 9, Folder 14
Notes on Frank O'Hara's poems
WRITINGS OF OTHERS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 5) WRITINGS OF OTHERS: Writings of other authors, collected by Schuyler. Among these materials is a poem entitled "To
Jimmy" by Frank O'Hara, poems by Kenneth Koch, and a manuscript by Ludwig Sander about Sander's painting.
Box 9, Folder 16
Acconci, Vito Hannibal. "Double Bubble," ca. 1966
Box 9, Folder 18
Button, John - program of a recital
Box 9, Folder 19
Feldman, Morton - In Search of an Orchestration, music composition
Box 9, Folder 20
Koch, Kenneth - Pleasure of Peace
Box 9, Folder 21
Koch, Kenneth - November 19th or So
General note
Typescript poem for Schuyler's birthday
Box 9, Folder 22
Meyers, John - The Poets of the New York School
General note
Photocopy with annotations by Schuyler
Box 9, Folder 23
Moore, Marianne - Grantie and Steel
Box 10, Folder 4
Sander, Ludwig
General note
Writing on his own painting
SUBJECTS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 6) SUBJECTS: A number of folders have been arranged alphabetically into the SUBJECTS series. Included are miscellaneous
financial records, appointment and telephone books, announcements for poetry readings, memorabilia, and articles about gardening.
Materials related to grants and financial aid, dating from the early 1980s, are organized under the granting institutions.
An item of interest is a collection of phone messages Schuyler took while housesitting for Kenward Elmslie.
Box 10, Folder 5
49 SOUTH
General note
A literary magazine edited by Schuyler from 49 South Main Street, Southampton, including submissions of poems by various authors
Box 10, Folder 6
Announcements, readings, etc.
1969
Box 10, Folder 7
ANTHOLOGY OF NEW YORK POETS - Contract
Box 10, Folder 8
Appointment and phone books
1975
Box 10, Folder 9
Books and records receipts
Box 10, Folder 10
CAPS - Creative Artists Public Service Program
1982
Box 10, Folder 11
Cartoons
General note
Collaboration by F. Porter, Anne Porter, Lizzie Porter, and Schuyler
Box 10, Folder 12
Elmslie, Kenward - Messages for K.E. taken by Schuyler at Elmslie's house
1971
Box 10, Folder 13
English exam entitled Practical criticism
Box 10, Folder 14
Financial Records - Chase Manhattan Bank
1960
Box 10, Folder 15
Financial Records - Guaranty Trust Company of New York
1947 - 1948
Box 10, Folder 16
Financial Records - Manufacturers Trust Company
1958 - 1961
Box 10, Folder 17
Financial Records - Miscellaneous materials
Box 10, Folder 18
Financial Records - Museum of Modern Art - Pay receipts
1959 - 1961
Box 10, Folder 19
Financial Records - Security National Bank
General note
ca. 1968-1973
Box 11, Folder 1
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Box 11, Folder 2
Joke recipes for magazine put out by Carol Gallup
Oversize MC-038, Folder 04
Box 11, Folder 4
LOCUS SOLUS
General note
Prospectus to John Ashbery and Harry Mathews suggesting what Locus Solus should be
Box 11, Folder 5
Longview Foundation, Inc.
Box 11, Folder 6
Medicaid application guidelines
Box 11, Folder 9
N.E.A. grant applications
1984
Box 11, Folder 10
New York Foundation for the Arts grant materials
AUDIO TAPE RECORDINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 7) AUDIO TAPE RECORDINGS: Reel-to-reel (with audiocassette back-ups) tapes of Schuyler reading his work. Included are
selections from
Freely Espousing, The Crystal Lithium, and
The Morning of the Poem, in addition to other works. These are especially valuable in light of Schuyler's reluctance to read in public.
Box 12, Folder 1
The Cenotaph, The Night, Letter Poem 3, The Crystal Lithium
between 1970 and 1985
The Cenotaph, The Night, Letter Poem 3, The Crystal Lithium
Box 12, Folder 3
Korean Mums and other poems
between 1974 and 1982
Korean Mums and other poems
Box 12, Folder 4
Reading from Freely Espousing and Crystal Lithium
between 1970 and 1985
Reading from Freely Espousing and Crystal Lithium
General
From Freely Espousing, includes: February, Faberge, Now and Then, Buried at Springs, Salute. From Crystal Lithium, includes:
Empathy and New Year, In Earliest Morning, An East Window on Elizabeth Street, Scarlet Tanger.
Box 12, Folder 5-9
Morning of the Poem - Parts 1-5
1981 September 23
Morning of the Poem
Box 12, Folder 10-12
Hymn to Life - Parts 1-3
1981 December
Hymn to Life
ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES
Box 13, Folder 1
Originals of preservation photocopies
Box 13, Folder 2
Originals of preservation photocopies
Box 13, Folder 3
Originals of preservation photocopies
Box 13, Folder 4
Originals of preservation photocopies
Accession Processed in 1993
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 9) CORRESPONDENCE: Because the bulk of the added correspondence dates from 1988 to 1991, when Schuyler was at the height
of his artistic powers, exchanges with important writers help reflect Schuyler's mature vision. Hundreds of widely-dated postcards,
also initially withheld, help document the quality and the activity of the friendship which surrounded Schuyler. Many of Schuyler's
correspondents are known painters and poets. Among the major correspondents are Tom Carey, Helena Hughes, Anne Dunn, and Joe
Brainard.
Box 14, Folder 3
AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW - Arthur Vogelsang
1989
Box 14, Folder 4
Arion Press - Andrew Hoyem
1984
Box 14, Folder 6
Ashbery, John
1966 - 1990
Box 14, Folder 8
Berkson, Bill
1969 - 1990
Box 14, Folder 9
Berrigan, Sandy
1967 - 1968
Box 14, Folder 10
Berrigan, Ted
1963 - 1982
Box 14, Folder 11
Brainard, Joe
1965 - 1991
Box 14, Folder 12
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
1989
Box 14, Folder 14
Brownstein, Michael
1972 - 1982
Box 14, Folder 15
Burckhardt, Edith
1958 - 1969
Box 14, Folder 16
Burckhardt, Rudy
1957 - 1985
Box 14, Folder 21
Carcanet Press, Ltd.
1987 - 1990
Box 14, Folder 22
Carey, Harry, Jr. (Dobe)
1981 - 1988
Box 14, Folder 27
Corbett, William
1988 - 1991
Box 15, Folder 2
Creative Artists Public Service Program
1982
Box 15, Folder 6
De Noyelles, Bill
1986 - 1990
Box 15, Folder 7
DENVER QUARTERLY (Donald Revell)
1989 - 1990
Box 15, Folder 13
Einzinger, Erwin
1988 - 1990
Box 15, Folder 14
Elmslie, Kenward
1965 - 1989
Box 15, Folder 18
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.,
1967 - 1990
Box 15, Folder 19
Ferguson, Anne Marie
1971
Box 15, Folder 20
Foye, Raymond
1986 - 1991
Box 15, Folder 21
Freilicher, Jane
1957 - 1985
Box 15, Folder 26
Golde, Morris
1970 - 1990
Box 15, Folder 27
Grace Tea Company, Ltd.
1990 - 1991
Box 16, Folder 1
Groffsky, Maxine (Maxine Groffsky Literary Agency)
1975 - 1990
Box 16, Folder 2
Guest, Barbara
1958 - 1990
Box 16, Folder 5
Haberman, Daniel
1971 - 1988
Box 16, Folder 6
Henry, Gerrit
1985 - 1987
Box 16, Folder 7
Hillringhouse, Mark
1982 - 1991
Box 16, Folder 8
Hughes, Helena
1981 - 1991
Box 16, Folder 14
Katz, Alex & Ada
1968 - 1988
Box 16, Folder 15
Katz, Vincent
1963 - 1989
Box 16, Folder 16
Kermani, David
1987 - 1988
Box 16, Folder 17
Kernan, Nathan
1990 - 1991
Box 16, Folder 21
Koch, Kenneth
1964 - 1988
Box 17, Folder 1
Larry, Michael
1979 - 1981
Box 17, Folder 2
Landsman's Bookshop Ltd.
1970 - 1991
Box 17, Folder 5
Longview Foundation, Inc.
1961 - 1962
Box 17, Folder 8
Masters, Greg
1982 - 1985
Box 17, Folder 9
Mathews, Harry
1971 - 1984
Box 17, Folder 10
McCann, Sister Jacqueline (aka Mother John Cantius)
1967-1970
Box 17, Folder 11
McClatchy, Sandy
1987 - 1990
Box 17, Folder 12
McCourt, Jimmy
1980 - 1989
Box 17, Folder 13
Moore College of Art
1977 - 1978
Box 17, Folder 17
Myles, Eileen
1985 - 1990
Box 17, Folder 19
NEW AMERICAN WRITING, Maxine Chernoff, Paul Hoover
1988 - 1990
Box 17, Folder 21
Newgarden, Albert
1989 - 1991
Box 17, Folder 22
North, Charles
1971 - 1990
Box 18, Folder 2
Ousley, John Douglas
1989 - 1991
Box 18, Folder 7
Park, Darragh
1975 - 1990
Box 18, Folder 9
Pettet, Simon
1987 - 1991
Box 18, Folder 11
Poetry Center
1988 - 1990
Box 18, Folder 12
Poetry Project
1967 - 1991
Box 18, Folder 13
Polach, Frank
1978 - 1991
Box 18, Folder 16
Porter, Fairfield
1956 - 1967
Box 18, Folder 17
Porter, Katherine
1956 - 1970
Box 18, Folder 19
Random House, Inc.
1985 - 1986
Box 18, Folder 20
Residenz Verlag
1988 - 1991
Box 19, Folder 1
Richie, Eugene
1988 - 1989
Box 19, Folder 2
Ridenour family, Schuyler's family name
Box 19, Folder 5
Schjeldahl, Peter
1965 - 1972
Box 19, Folder 6
Schuyler, James
1987 - 1990
Box 19, Folder 9
Stern, Richard
1965 - 1990
Box 19, Folder 11
Talbott, Harold
1980 - 1982
Box 19, Folder 12
Thomson, Virgil
1985 - 1986
Box 19, Folder 14
Trinidad, David
1985 - 1991
Box 19, Folder 15
Trinidad, David
1985 - 1991
Box 19, Folder 18
Virga, Vincent
1987 - 1990
Box 19, Folder 20
Waldman, Anne
1970 - 1989
Box 19, Folder 22
Watershed Foundation
1985 - 1989
Box 19, Folder 24
Winkfield, Trevor
1968 - 1988
Box 19, Folder 27
Young, Geoffrey
1981 - 1989
Box 19, Folder 29
Zavatsky, Bill
1977 - 1990
Box 19, Folder 31
Unidentified & miscellaneous correspondence
Box 20, Folder 10
G Major Quintet, Opus Posthumous
1988
Box 20, Folder 12
Horse-Chestnut Trees and Roses
1985
Box 20, Folder 13
Ilk: a Scottish word meaning...
1988
Box 20, Folder 15
Let's All Hear It for Mildred Bailey!
1985
Box 20, Folder 21
My Cat, the cat . . .
1988
Box 20, Folder 24
On the Dresser
1985 - 1987
Box 20, Folder 30
Rainy Night in Georgia
1985
Box 20, Folder 42
White Boats, Blue Boats
1989
Box 20, Folder 45
Poems: collaboration with Tom Carey
Box 20, Folder 47
Poems on Hold
1984 - 1989
Prose Fiction and Collaborations
Box 21, Folder 2
IN COUNTRY WEXFORD, with Helena Hughes
Box 21, Folder 3
IN COUNTRY WEXFORD, with Helena Hughes
Box 21, Folder 5
Small Crimes, with Tom Carey
Box 21, Folder 6
WHAT'S FOR DINNER?, pp. 13-18
Box 21, Folder 9
Article on Paul Burlin, painter
Box 21, Folder 10
Article on Anne Dunn, painter
1989
Box 21, Folder 11
Article on Darragh Park, painter
Box 21, Folder 12
ART NEWS reviews and notices
Box 21, Folder 13
Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler, Vol. I
Box 21, Folder 14
Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler, Vol. II
Box 21, Folder 15
Notes toward an art review (unidentified)
Box 21, Folder 16
Introduction to Marc Cohen, 12 TON BRIDGE (poems)
Box 22, Folder 2
Journal pages
1968 - 1969
Box 22, Folder 3
Journal pages
1968 - 1969
Box 22, Folder 6
Journal pages
1984 - 1985
Box 22, Folder 16
Loose journal pages and miscellaneous notes
PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 11) PHOTOGRAPHS: Schuyler's unrecognized skill as a photographer shows itself in the prints and contact sheets which
comprise part of the photography series. The recurrence of certain photographic subjects--flowers, still lifes, gardens, landscapes,
sunlit rooms--reminds us that Schuyler's poetry, in which similar subjects predominate, is part of an encompassing aesthetic
of which each part is, in a sense, incomplete. The community of painters and poets of whom Schuyler was a part seems implicit
in Schuyler's work itself, which searches for a pictorial character independent from language. Pictorial arrangements more
often found in photography, or in painting, or even in domestic decoration or design, typify Schuyler's best writing, which
in turn sublimates them in delicate musical phrases.
Arranged in two subseries: A) Photographs Taken by James Schuyler; B) Photographs Taken by Others.
Photographs Taken By James Schuyler
Box 23, Folder 1
Miscellaneous subjects, prints
Box 23, Folder 2
Miscellaneous subjects, color contact sheets
Box 23, Folder 3
Miscellaneous subjects, black and white contact sheets
Box 23, Folder 4
Miscellaneous subjects, black and white contact sheets
Box 23, Folder 5
Fairfield Porter and family
Oversize MC-038, Folder 05
14 contact sheets, with portraits of Fairfield Porter; portraits of Schuyler
1984-1989
Photographs Taken By Others
Box 23, Folder 10
Andrew Lord's ceramics, negative
Box 23, Folder 11
Eileen Myles [by Robert Mapplethorpe], print
Box 23, Folder 13
Fairfield Porter and family
Box 23, Folder 15
Photographs of friends and relations, prints
Box 23, Folder 16
Alex Katz Paints a Picture
General note
c. 1962, photograph by Rudy Burckhardt, with note, print
Box 23, Folder 18
AS MAINE GOES BY, photograph book by John McKee
Box 24, Folder 1-5
Photographs of paintings by Fairfield Porter
Box 24, Folder 6
Fairfield Porter: miscellaneous material
Gift Books and Manuscripts sent by James Schuyler
Box 25, Folder 1
Tom Carey, The Paul Clown Show, play, TSc
Box 25, Folder 2
Bill Corbett, Don't Think: Look, page proofs
Box 25, Folder 3
Millicent Dillion, She is in Tangier, play, TSc
Box 25, Folder 5
Harry Mathews, Selected Declarations of Dependence
Box 25, Folder 8
David Lehman, Operation Memory, page proofs
Box 25, Folder 9
Ron Padgett, The Big Something, page proofs
Box 25, Folder 10
Simon Pettet, Lyrical Poetry, page proofs
Box 25, Folder 11
David Trinidad, Hand Over Heart, poems, TSc
Box 25, Folder 12
David Trinidad, Hand Over Heart, poems, TSc
Box 25, Folder 13
Trevor Winkfield, NATIVITY
1974
Box 26, Folder 1
Bill Berkson
General note
History of Rhythm and Blues, for Jimmy Schuyler on his birthday, November 9, 1969, Collage, water-color, ink
Box 26, Folder 2
Joe Brainard, handmade Happy Birthday card
General note
Collage, felt-tip pen, assemblage
Box 26, Folder 3
Kenward Elmslie - Summer Trash, commemorating Schuyler's birthday
1970
General note
Paste-in, ink, felt-tip pen on construction paper
Reviews of Books by James Schuyler
Box 26, Folder 4
Steve Abbott on SELECTED POEMS
Box 26, Folder 6
John Ashbery on WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Box 26, Folder 7
W. H. Auden on A NEST OF NINNIES
Box 26, Folder 8
Paul Breslin on THE MORNING OF THE POEM
Box 26, Folder 9
Dennis Cooper on A FEW DAYS
Box 26, Folder 10
William Corbett on SELECTED POEMS
Box 26, Folder 11
Douglas Crase on A FEW DAYS
Box 26, Folder 12
Dennis Donoghue on THE MORNING OF THE POEM
Box 26, Folder 13
Irvin Ephrenpreis, on John Ashbery's SELF PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR
General note
With reference to JS
Box 26, Folder 14
Mark Ford on A NEST OF NINNIES
Box 26, Folder 15
Robert von Hallberg on THE MORNING OF THE POEM
Box 26, Folder 16
Wayne Koestenbaum on A FEW DAYS
Box 26, Folder 17
James McCourt, Strange Attraction: Exaltation and Calculation in the Poetry of JS
Box 26, Folder 18
James McCourt, screen treatment of WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
General note
American Playhouse teleplay
Box 26, Folder 19
Eileen Myles on James Schuyler
Box 26, Folder 20
Alice Notley, reviews of WHAT'S FOR DINNER? and THE MORNING OF THE POEM
Box 26, Folder 21
Even Ottenberg on WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Box 26, Folder 22
Eugene Richie on SELECTED POEMS
Box 26, Folder 23
Stephen Spender on WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Box 26, Folder 24
Edmund White on THE MORNING OF THE POEM
Box 26, Folder 25
Edmund White on James Schuyler
Box 26, Folder 26
English review of A NEST OF NINNIES
Box 26, Folder 27
Miscellaneous reviews and notices
Box 26, Folder 28
James Schuyler with Raymond Foye
Box 26, Folder 29
XXIST CENTURY, No. 1., with Schuyler-Foxe interview
1991 - 1992
Box 26, Folder 30
James Schuyler with Brad Gooch
Box 26, Folder 31
James Schuyler with Mark Hillinghouse
Musical Setting of Poetry by James Schuyler
Box 26, Folder 32
Gerald Busby, What Ails My Fern? Program, letter
Box 26, Folder 33
Ned Rorem, The Schuyler Songs, programs
MISCELLANEOUS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 13) MISCELLANEOUS: The miscellaneous series documents the charming, accessible side of the aesthetic which informs
Schuyler's writing. Newspaper clippings, old calling cards, tintypes of anonymous faces, Victorian stickers, flower cards,
Christmas scenes, calling cards, and other lovely objects, show us that conventional and even sentimental beauty may accompany
the most serious thinking, perhaps as its anodyne. Schuyler's cards and curiosities also speak of gay identity, with its sense
of the value of marginal things, its outcast status, and its necessary intransigence at social or cultural perimeters. The
miscellaneous series also contains beautiful gift books made by Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, and Bill Berkson. Lavishly
constructed birthday cards attest to the persistence and fidelity of Schuyler's friendships. Schuyler's friendships signify
gay sensibility in another way, turning inevitable quarrels into comedies, and thereby maintaining a lasting sense of coterie.
The miscellaneous series and correspondence series together document the life of that community of friends which came to generate
so much art and writing.
Box 27, Folder 1
Society of St. Francis: Little Portion Friary, correspondence
1957 - 1991
Box 27, Folder 2
Church of the Incarnation, New York, correspondence and miscellaneous papers
Box 27, Folder 3
Miscellaneous Christian material
Box 27, Folder 5
Appointment calendar
1988
Box 27, Folder 6
Appointment calendar
1989
Box 27, Folder 7
Appointment calendar
1990
Box 27, Folder 8
Appointment calendar
1991
Readings given by James Schuyler
Box 27, Folder 10
Dia Art Foundation reading responses
1988
Box 27, Folder 11
Worksheets, contents lists of recording by JS
General note
Tape recordings of readings by JS, see separation sheet at end of register
Box 27, Folder 12
COLLABS, with Helena Hughes, cover papers
Box 27, Folder 13
MORNING OF THE POEM, cover papers
Box 27, Folder 14
Miscellaneous publishing contracts
Box 28, Folder 1
Academy of American Poets, for distinguished poetic achievement
1983
Box 28, Folder 2
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, citation, with press release
Box 28, Folder 3
National Book Critics Circle Nomination
1980
Box 28, Folder 4
Pulitzer Prize, invitation to recipients
1990 December 8
Box 28, Folder 7
Doctor's letters concerning Schuyler's schizo-affective disorder
Box 28, Folder 13
University of the State of New York certificate of literacy
1945 October 11
Box 28, Folder 14
Trust fund documents
ca. 1982-1988
Box 29, Folder 3
Women's shoes, sensible, spike-heeled
Box 29, Folder 4
Carlton stuff, comic strips
Box 29, Folder 6
NEW YORKER articles about jazz musicians, Art Tatum, Peggy Lee
Box 29, Folder 13
Pictures of handsome young men
Box 29, Folder 17
Articles and catalogues concerning gardening
Box 29, Folder 18
Unidentified collage, with movie stars
Albums and Other Material
Box 30, Folder 1
Surprise Model Picture Book
Box 30, Folder 3
Pansy album, with several original art works pasted in by Brainard, Porter, Park
Box 30, Folder 4
Calling cards, prayer cards, Christmas scenes
Box 30, Folder 5
Snapshot album, annotated
Snapshot album
Box 30, Folder 6
Most Beautiful Postcard in the World
Box 30, Folder 10
From Faure's 2nd Piano Quartet, black and white photograph of watercolor
Box 30, Folder 12
Millie the Model: The Most Gorgeous Girl in All the World
1965
General note
Marvel Comics, Special Queen Size Annual
Box 30, Folder 13
Card and Autograph Album [Flowers]
Box 31, Folder 1
Old photographs, old cards, old portrait cases, tintypes
Box 32, Folder 1
Postcards and tintypes
General
Includes family portrait tintypes, pamphlets, ephemera, and postcards.
Oversize FB-053-01
James Schuyler's typewriter
