ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Title
Historical and Literary Manuscripts Collection

Collection Number
SC 100

OCLC Number
122687676

Creator 
Various

Provenance 
Purchased by Stony Brook University in 1969-1970. Accruals added by the department through the early 1990s.

Extent,Scope, and Content Note 
The collection is comprised of 3.6 cubic feet of historical and literary manuscripts and documents, including single items and small groups of materials of local, national, and world interest (ca. 1819-1989). Folder contents include letters, correspondence, articles, stories, plays, and legal materials.

Arrangement and Processing Note
Processed by Kristen J. Nyitray, with the assistance of Scott Leski, July 2002.  Finding aid updated April 2019. The collection is arranged alphabetically by author.

Languages
English, Spanish

Restrictions on Access
The collection is open to researchers without restriction.

Rights and Permissions 
Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission where needed prior to publication.  

Citation 
[Item], [Box], Historical and Literary Manuscripts Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries.

Historical Note
When the Special Collections Department opened its doors in 1969, there was already established the solid beginnings of a manuscript collection. Several members of the English Department had encouraged the purchase of a number of collections, which eventually led toward the establishment of the department. Roger H. Guedalla and George Quasha were among the people who had been instrumental in purchasing a Modern Literature collection, which contained books and manuscripts focusing on the extraordinary group of authors and poets who had been involved with Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Many of these manuscripts are now housed in this collection and include original materials by Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Fielding Dawson.

Ernesto Cardenal's correspondence with translator Jonathan Cohen focuses mainly on issues related to Cohen's translations of his book, Oración por Marilyn Monroe y otros poemas (Ediciones La Tertulia, 1965; "Prayer for Marilyn Monroe and Other Poems") and El estrecho dudoso (Ediciones Cultura Hispanica, 1966; "The Supposed Strait"), plus his as-yet unpublished 1973 documentary/reportage poem "Viaje a Nueva York" ("Trip to New York"), as well as subsequent translations of poems written during the period of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua. Cohen's translations were published in three collections of Cardenal's poetry in English: Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems (New Directions, 1980), From Nicaragua, with Love (City Lights, 1986), and Plurivese: New and Selected Poems (New Directions, 2009).

Subjects
American literature.
English literature.
Long Island (N.Y.) -- History.
United States -- History.
New York (State) -- Long Island.
United States.

INVENTORY

Box 1

Author: Adler, Polly
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 2

Author: Aiken, Conrad Potter
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 5

Author: Aiken, Conrad Potter
Document: Literary magazine contributions
Number of Items: 3 folders

Author: Anthony, Susan Brownell
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 1

Author: Barrett, James
Document: Letter
Number of Items: 1

Author: Baty, Gaston
Document: Le Vrai Theatre Populaire
Number of Items: 1

Author: Besant, Annie (Wood)
Document: Letter, 1889 to James Drummond
Number of Items: 1

Author: Billington, Ray Allen
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 3

Author: Binyon, Laurence
Document: Letter
Number of Items: 2

Author: Blanck, Jacob Nathaniel
Document: Letter, 1944 October 10
Number of Items: 1

Author: Bradlaugh, Charles
Document: Letter, 1881, to R.J. Duff
Number of Items: 1

Author: British Columbia University
Document: Poetry Seminar English 410. Summer, 1963
Number of Items: 1 Folder

Author: Buckstone, John Baldwin
Document: Letter from Baldwin
Number of Items: 1 Folder

Author: Cage, John
Document: Letter to Ruben Weltsch
Number of Items: 1

Author: Cardenal, Ernesto
Document: Letters 1973-1974
Number of Items: 1 Folder

Author: Cardenal, Ernesto
Document: Letters 1975-1976
Number of Items: 1 Folder

Author: Cardenal, Ernesto
Document: Correspondence 1977, 1981, 1982, 1984
Number of Items: 1 Folder

Author: Cardenal, Ernesto
Document: Viaje a Nueva York
Number of Items: 1 Folder

Author: Cardenal, Ernesto
Document: Viaje a Nueva York/Trip to New York
Number of Items: 1 Folder

Author: Chance, Janet
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 1 Folder

Author: Chapman, Robert William
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 1 Folder

Author: Clifton, Robert Bellamy
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 1 Folder

Box 2

Author: Cole, Cornelius
Document: Letter 1873
Number of Items: 1

Author: Corso, Gregory
Document: Immutable Moods: Mutation of the Spirit
Number of Items: 3

Author: Corso, Gregory
Document: There is Yet Time
Number of Items: Folder 1 of 3

Author: Corso, Gregory
Document: There is yet Time
Number of Items: Folder 2 of 3

Author: Corso, Gregory
Document: There is yet Time
Number of Items: Folder 3 of 3

Author: Corso, Gregory
Document: Death of a Beautiful Boy
Number of Items: 1

Author: Cowley, Malcolm
Document: Conrad Aiken: starting from Savannah
Number of Items: 1 Folder, 19 pc

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: An American Sense
Number of Items: 6

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Divers Press Brochure
Number of Items: 1
Author: Creeley, Rob
ert
Document: The Dress
Number of Items: 1

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: The Finger 1968
Number of Items: 1

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: For Joel 1966
Number of Items: 3

Author: Creely, Robert
Document: The invitation, 1962
Number of Items: 1

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 1

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letter, 1957 to Harold Briggs
Number of Items: 1

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letter, 1967 to Maria Bunting
Number of Items: 1

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letter, 1967 to Tom Clark
Number of Items: 1

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letters, 1955 to Fielding Dawson
Number of Items: 17

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letters, 1956 to Fielding Dawson
Number of Items: 15

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letters, 1958, 1960, 1961, to Fielding Dawson
Number of Items: 7

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letters, 1962, to Fielding Dawson
Number of Items: 5

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letters, 1963, to Fielding Dawson
Number of Items: 7

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letters, 1964, 1965, to Fielding Dawson
Number of Items: 7

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letters, 1060, to Fielding Dawson
Number of Items: 9

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letter 1966 to Ed Sanders
Number of Items: 1

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Letters, 1963-1964 to Aram Saroyan
Number of Items: 4

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Mazatlan: Sea
Number of Items: 1

Author: Creeley, Robert
Document: Postal Card, 1955 to David Schaff
Number of Items: 1

Box 3

Author: Dawson, Fielding
Document: Drawing. 1960
Number of Items: 1

Author: Dawson, Fielding
Document: 2 TLS & 4 MSS
Number of Items: 9

Author: Dawson, Fielding
Document: Letters, 1962-1964
Number of Items: 19

Author: Dawson, Fielding
Document: Printed Ephermera 1975
Number of Items: 3

Author: Dawson, Fielding
Document: Thread Typescript
Number of Items: Folder 1 of 5

Author: Dawson, Fielding
Document: Thread
Number of Items: Folder 2 of 5

Author: Dawson, Fielding
Document: Thread
Number of Items: Folder 3 out of 5

Author: Dawson, Fielding
Document: Thread Letters
Number of Items: Folder 4 out of 5

Author: Dawson, Fielding
Document: Thread
Number of Items: Folder 5 through 5

Author: Dickey, James
Document: Deliverance Pamphlets
Number of Items: 1

Author: DiPrima, Diane
Document: Untitled Play
Number of Items: 1

Author: Dos Passos, John
Document: Postal Card, October 6, 1959
Number of Items: 1

Author: Duncan, Robert Edward
Document: Faust Foutu 1968
Number of Items: 1

Author: Duncan, Robert Edward
Document: Letter, 1965 to Alan & Diane Marlowe
Number of Items: 1

Author: Duncan Robert Edward
Document: Letter, 1962, to LeRoi Jones
Number of Items: 1

Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman)
Document: Letters, Folder 1 of 9 to Creeley Robert
Number of Items: 6

Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman)
Document: Letters to Creeley, Robert, Folder 2 out of 9
Number of Items: 7

Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman)
Document: Letters to Creeley, Robert 1956-1957 Folder 4 out of 9
Number of Items: 3

Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman)
Document: Letters of Divers Press Folder 5 out of 9
Number of Items: 2

Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman)
Document: Letters to Olson, Contance, Folder 6 out of 9
Number of Items: 2

Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman)
Document: Letters to Rice, Dan, Folder 7 out of 9
Number of Items: 6

Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman)
Document: Letters to Barnett, Rosset, Folder 8 out of 8
Number of Items: 1

Author: Duval, Elga (Liverman)
Document: Letters to Jonathon, Williams, Folder 9 out 9
Number of Items: 2

Author: East End Supervisors Association
Document: Minutes, 1972-1975
Number of Items: Incomplete

Author: Eigner, Larry
Document: Letters to Louis and Stephanie 1969
Number of Items: 11

Author: Eigner, Larry
Document: Letters to Louis and Stephanie Rowan
Number of Items: 3

Author: Eigner, Larry
Document: Letters to Carl Weissner 1966-1968
Number of Items: 29

Author: Eigner, Larry
Document: Look at the Park. Ca. 1958
Number of Items: 1

Author: Eigner, Larry
Document: Postal card, 1967, to Diane DiPrima
Number of Items: 1

Author: Everson, William
Document: A fragment for the birth of God
Number of Items: 2

Author: Everson, William
Document: Invitation to the first profession
Number of Items: 2

Author: Everson, William
Document: Letter, 1953 to Edward Naumburg
Number of Items: 1

Author: Everson, William
Document: Letter, ca. 1967 to Jack Shoemaker
Number of Items: 1

Author: Everson, William
Document: Letter to Mrs. Jean Forest
Number of Items: 1

Author: Everson, William
Document: Postal card to Mr. & Mrs. R. Hawley
Number of Items: 1

Author: Everson, William
Document: The Rose of Solitude
Number of Items: 47

Author: Ficke, Arthur Davison
Document: Miscellaneous letters
Number of Items: 4

Box 4

Author: Foulis, Sir James Bart
Document: Letter, 1894 to Cornelius Hallen
Number of Items: 1

Author: Fry, Donald K., ED.
Document: The Beowulf poet. (Business Correspondence, clips)
Number of Items: 1

Author: Fry, Donald K.ED.
Document: The Beowulf poet, Blomfield; Bloomfield
Number of Items: 8

Author: Fry, Donald K. ED.
Document: The Beowulf poet, George Clark
Number of Items: 8

Author: Fry, Donald K. ED.
Document: The Beowulf poet, Rosemary Cramp
Number of Items: 6

Author: Fry, Donald K. ED.
Document: The Beowulf poet, Robert P. Creed
Number of Items: 11

Author: Fry, Donald K. ED.
Document: The Beowulf poet, Lumiansky, Magoun, Resnais
Number of Items: 6

Author: Fry, Donald K., ED.
Document: The Beowulf poet, Kenneth Rexroth
Number of Items: 3

Author: Fry, Donald K., ED.
Document: The Beowulf poet, J.R.R. Tolkien
Number of Items: 10

Author: Fry, Donald K., ED.
Document: The Beowulf poet, Richard Wilbur
Number of Items: 4

Author: Fry, Donald, K., ED.
Document: The Beowulf poet, Brian Wildsmith
Number of Items: 1

Author: Garnett, Porter
Document: Letter, 1922, recommending O. Alfred Dickman
Number of Items: 1

Author: Garnett, Porter
Document: Note to O. Alfred Dickman
Number of Items: 1

Author: Ginsberg, Allen
Document: Kaddish, a dramatic mass
Number of Items: 1

Author: Ginsberg, Allen
Document: Letter, 1957, to Don Allen
Number of Items: 1

Author: Ginsberg, Allen
Document: Miscellaneous Letters
Number of Items:

Author: Greenwood, Sir Granville George
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 1

Author: Harcourt, Brace and Company, N.Y.
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 1

Author: Hollo, Anselm
Document: Letter, 1966, to Cavan
Number of Items: 1

Author: Huter, Carl S.
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 3

Author: Jernick, Thomas L.
Document: Certificate of Election, 1971
Number of Items: 1

Author: Jernick, Thomas L.
Document: Town Word Columns, 1972-74
Number of Items: 1

Author: Jones, Leroi
Document: The Baptism
Number of Items: 1 folder

Author: Jones, Leroi
Document: Slave Ship
Number of Items: 1folder

Author: Jones, Leroi
Document: The Toilet
Number of Items: 1 folder

Author: Jute-Glossary of terms
Document: Folder 1 of 3
Number of Items:

Author: Jute Glossary of terms
Document: Folder 2 or 3
Number of Items:

Author: Jute Glossary of terms
Document: folder 3 of 3
Number of Items:

Box 5

Author: Kanepa, Jean
Document: La Poesia de Pablo Neruda
Number of Items: 1

Author: Kanepa, Jean
Document: La Poesia de Pablo Neruda
Number of Items:

Author: Kelly, Robert
Document: Letters to Louis and Stephanie Rowan, 1967-1970
Number of Items: 13

Author: Kemble, John Mitchell
Document: Letter, 1856
Number of Items: 1

Author: Kidder, Frederic
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 2

Author: Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von
Document: Letter, 1799
Number of Items: 1

Author: Krim, Seymour
Document: Clipping, letter, broadside
Number of Items: 4

Author: Lamantia, Philip
Document: Erotic poems 1946
Number of Items: 1

Author: Law, Thomas Graves
Document: Letter, 1894, to Cornelius
Number of Items: 1

Author: Leicester, Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of,
Document: Letters
Number of Items:

Author: Levertov, Denise
Document: Letters, 1962-63 to Gordon Lish
Number of Items: 2

Author: Lyautey, Louis Hubert Gonzalve
Document: Letters
Number of Items:

Author: Macy, Elizabeth C.
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 1

Author: McClure, Michael
Document: The Blossom or Billy the Kid
Number of Items: 1

Author: McClure, Michael
Document: The Blossom or Billy the Kid
Number of Items: 1

Author: McClure, Michael
Document: Dream Table 1965
Number of Items: 1

Author: McClure, Michael
Document: Lobe, key, stilled, 1966
Number of Items: 1

Author: Malanga, Gerard
Document: Letter, 1963, to Diane DiPrima
Number of Items: 1

Author: Martineau, Harriet
Document: Letter, 1839
Number of Items: 1

Author: Masefield, John
Document: Letters
Number of Items:

Author: Mason, Lewis Duncan
Document: Letters and Tracts from John Abbey, Folder 1 of 3
Number of Items: 20

Author: Mason, Lewis Duncan
Document: Letters and tracts, Letters C-W Folder 2 of 3
Number of Items: 22

Author: Mason, Lewis Duncan
Document: Letters and tracts Folder 3 of 3
Number of Items: 12

Author: Mayo, Lawrence Shaw
Document: Letter, 1932, to Clift R. Clapp
Number of Items: 1

Author:
Document: Mexican Manuscript 1725
Number of Items: 1

Author: Moore, George Henry
Document: ALS New York, 10 Nov 1866
Number of Items: 1

Author: Nash, Ogden
Document: The Coelacanth 1970
Number of Items: 3

Author: Nash, Ogden
Document: Colts 1965?
Number of Items: 10

Author: Nash, Ogden
Document: Letter, 1929, to Henry James Forman
Number of Items: 1

Author: Neruda, Pablo
Document: Coral de ano nuevo
Number of Items: 2 copies

Author: Neruda, Pablo
Document: Letter, 1965
Number of Items: 1

Author: Neruda, Pablo
Document: Oda a la estacion mapocho
Number of Items: 1

Author: Neruda, Pablo
Document: Poem from Las uvas y el viento
Number of Items: 4

Author: Neruda, Pablo
Document: Que despierte el lenador
Number of Items: 1

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: Letters, 1960, to Hubert Crehan
Number of Items: 3

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: Letters to Fielding Dawson
Number of Items: 2

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: Letters to Fielding Dawson
Number of Items:

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: Letter to Anselm Hollo 1960
Number of Items: 1

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: Letter to LeRoi Jones
Number of Items: 1

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: Letter to Bruce Loder 1966
Number of Items: 1

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: Letter to Alan S. Marlowe 1966
Number of Items: 1

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: Letter to Ed Sanders 1964
Number of Items: 1

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: Place; & names
Number of Items: 1

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: Postal card, to Carolina Bk. Co 1956
Number of Items: 1

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: A special view of history, Spring 1956
Number of Items: 26

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: ???? Notes
Number of Items: 1

Author: Olson, Charles
Document: A work 1962
Number of Items: 1

Box 6

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: correspondence
Number of Items: 11

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Baily, Harvey
Number of Items: 1

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Corman, Sidney
Number of Items: 6

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Corman, Sidney - galley and proof
Number of Items: 2

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Eigner, Larry
Number of Items: 13

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Eigner, Larry Galley
Number of Items: 1

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Eshleman, Clayto - galley and proof
Number of Items: 2

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Kelly, Robert
Number of Items: 5

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: McClure, Michael
Number of Items: 13

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: MacLow, Jackson
Number of Items: 1

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Olson Toby
Number of Items: 4

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Rothenberg, Jerome
Number of Items: 2

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Rothenberg, Jerome Galley & Proof
Number of Items: 1

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Tucker, Harvey Galley & Proof
Number of Items: 1

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Villiers Publications
Number of Items: 11

Author: Pierre Press
Document: Wakoski, Diane
Number of Items: 3

Author: Pierrepont Press
Document: Wakoski, Diane Galley & Proof
Number of Items: 1

Author: Pomeroy, George
Document: Mr. George Pomeroy in ye curr with Samuel Pomeroy Esq.
Number of Items: 1

Author: Pound, Ezra Loomis
Document: note, n.d.
Number of Items:1

Author: Compiled by Lawrence Clark Powell
Document: Around the World in Sixty Books
Number of Items:

Author: Priestly, John Boynton
Document: Autograph
Number of Items: 1

Author: Prynne, Jeremy Halward
Document: Letter to R. Hawley 1965
Number of Items: 1

Author: Robinson, Lennox
Document: Letters to Mrs. Robert Cushman (Grace E.B.) Murphy, 1950
Number of Items: 3

Author: Rogers, Bruce
Document: Letters to O. Alfred Dickman 1948-1954
Number of Items: 10

Author: Roosevelt, Theodore, President of U.S.
Document: facsimile of letter 
Number of Items: 1

Author: Rushmore, Arthur Wisner
Document: Letter to Dickman
Number of Items: 1

Author: Sanhueza, Juan
Document: La colleccion "Pablo Neruda"
Number of Items: 5

Author: Schieffelin, George McKay
Document: Letters
Number of Items:

Author: Shaker Book Shop, Cleveland
Document: Letters
Number of Items: 1

Author: Sketchbook
Document: Gift of Henry Levien
Number of Items:

Author: Snyder, Gary
Document: Letter to Ed Sanders 1964
Number of Items:

Author: Somlyo, Gyorgy
Document: Pablo Neruda
Number of Items: 1

Author: Spicer, Jack
Document: Homage to Creeley
Number of Items: 1

Box 7

Author: Stampfer, Judah
Document: Fathers and Children 1/2
Number of Items:

Author: Stampfer, Judah
Document: Fathers and Children 2/2
Number of Items:

Author: Stampfer, Judah
Document: The Tragic Engagement Folder 1 of 2
Number of Items: 216

Author: Stampfer, Judah
Document: The Tragic Engagement Folder 2 of 2
Number of Items: 216

Author: Standard, Paul
Document: Letter, April 6, 1935
Number of Items: 1

Author: Stravinskii, Igor Fedorovich
Document: Letter 1966
Number of Items: 9

Author: Sutherland, Ivan Lorin George
Document: The Maori People Today  
Number of Items: 1

Author: Sutherland, Ivan Lorin George
Document: The Maori People Today 
Number of Items: 1

Box 8   

Author:
Document: Transportation and Shipping Glossary
Number of Items: Folder 1 of 2

Author:
Document: Transportation and Shipping
Number of Items: Folder 2 of 2

Author: Trenholm, George F.
Document: Correspondence with O. Alfred Dickman, 1938
Number of Items: 1

Author: Warhol, Andy
Document: Reel Two
Number of Items: 1

Author: Washington, George, President of U.S.
Document: Letters (facsimile)
Number of Items: 1

Author: Webb, John E.
Document: Letter to Howard Woolmer 1963
Number of Items: 1

Author: Whalen, Philip
Document: Letter to Ed Sanders 1964
Number of Items: 1

Author: Whalen, Philip
Document: Letters to Henry Wenning 1963
Number of Items: 2

Author: Weiners, John
Document: Ace of Pentacles, 1963
Number of Items: 14

Author: Weiners, John
Document: La Cara. N.D.
Number of Items: 1

Author: Weiners, John
Document: Juvenilia. N.D.
Number of Items: 1

Author: Weiners, John
Document: Letter to Alan S. Marlowe 1964
Number of Items: 1

Author: Weiners, John
Document: Letter to Leonard Cohen 1967
Number of Items: 1

Author: Weiner, John
Document: Letters and poems to David Meltzer
Number of Items: 5

Author: Weiners, John
Document: A Magical Indulgence
Number of Items: 1

Author: Weiners, John
Document: Tuesday 7:00 PM 1962
Number of Items: 1

Author: Weiners, John
Document: Twilight in the Boston suburbs
Number of Items: 1

Author: Whaler, James 
Document: Notes found in the book The Negro by W.E.B. Du Bois
Number of Items: 1 

Author: Whaler, James 
Document: Notes and clippings found in the book The Life and Work of John Williamson Nevin (1889) 
Number of Items: 5 

Author: Wrighten, James
Document: Letter to J.W. Dodd
Number of Items: 1

Author: Zukofsky, Louis
Document: Letter to Jack Shoemaker 1967
Number of Items: 1