1. "Matinees for David Kalstone." Ink, bond.
2. "4 The fallen cake." Ink, pencil, bond.
3. "7 You and I, caro, seldom." Bond.
4. "José who ruined himself. Matinées F. S." Draft paper, ink, pencil, pencil sketch.
4 Verso. "Plato would have." Draft paper, ink, pencil.
5. "Dear Mrs. Livingston." Ink, bond.
5 Verso. "I rise to the old ruse." Pencil.
6. "Dear Mrs. Livingston." Draft paper, pencil, ink.
6 Verso. "A gray maid servant let me in." Draft paper, ink.
7. "I think the soul is female." Draft paper, pencil, ink.
7 Verso. "On invisible strings." Draft paper, ink.
8. "A gray maidservant let[s] me in." Ink, pencil, bond.
9. "MATINES for David Kalstone." Bond.
10. "We love the good." Ink, pencil, bond.
11. "MATINEES for David Kalstone." Pencil, bond.
12. "We love the good." Pencil, bond.
13. "You and I, caro, seldom." Pencil, bond.
14. "The fallen cake." Pencil, bond.
15. "The fallen cake . . . Avid duets about the, <risen> price of meat." Ink, penci. bond.
16. "<5> The fallen cake." Bond.
17. "<5> 4 We love the good." Pencil, bond.
18. "A gray maidservant lets me in." Draft paper. Ink. pencil.
19. "Hilariously Dr Scherer." Draft paper.
19 Verso. "The curtain falls upon a sleeper wrapped." Draft paper, pencil.
20. "29.v. Some days, we find a favorite scene." Draft paper, ink, pencil.
21. "Sometimes in lives of great composers." Draft paper, ink, notes in pencil.
21 Verso. "5. You and I, David." Draft paper, ink, pencil.
22. "5. (27 & ) 28. v. 68. You and I, David, <Caro>, seldom." Draft paper, ink, pencil.
22 Verso. "You & I David seldom." Draft paper, pencil.
23. "27. v. 68. And the wind has themes." Draft paper, ink.
23 Verso. "You and I caro seldom." Draft paper, pencil.
24. "4. You and I, David." Draft paper, pencil.
24 Verso. "28. v. 6. Also we are apt to know the score." Draft paper, ink.
25. "Old favorites arranged." Draft paper, pencil.
25 Verso. "On records or arranged." Draft paper, pencil.
26. "The A love scene done, we cut to a tableau." Draft paper, pencil, four pencil sketches.
27. "5. Avid discussion of <duets as to> the price of meat." Draft paper, pencil.
28. Dear Mrs. Livingston. Pencil, bond.
29. "Dear Mrs Livingston." Draft paper, pencil.
29 Verso. "For the records or transcriptions." Draft paper, pencil.
30. "In all the Lives of Great Composers." Draft paper, pencil.
30 Verso. "In which a kneeling figure will enquire." Draft paper, pencil.
31. "A gray maidservant lets me in." Draft paper, pencil.
32. "After the dentist I dreamed of Alberich." File card, ink.
32 Verso. "The soul coughs blood & sings." File card, ink.
33. In my dream the dentist was a bland." File card, ink.
33 Verso. "Dream of the Dentist putting gold into a tooth." File card, ink.
34. "II. Hilariously Dr Scherer took the guise." Draft paper, ink, pencil.
35. "III (or I?) Lives of the Great Composers." Draft paper, pencil. List of order of poems.
36. "IV. When Jan Kiepura sang His Handsomeness." Draft paper, ink, pencil.
36 Verso. "Drink poison, totter." Draft paper, ink, pencil.
37. "V. We love the good, said Plato?" Draft paper, pencil.
38. "VI. penultimate one: personal." Draft paper, pencil, ink.
38 Verso. "Leila's Aunt." Draft paper, pencil. Pencil sketch.
39. "Hilariously Dr Scherer." Ink and pencil, bond.
39 Verso. "'Music was his very life.'" Ink, pencil, bond.
40. "'His life was music.'" Draft paper, ink, pencil.
41. "Or turn the cliché inside out." Ink, pencil, bond.
42. "Lives of the great composers." Draft paper, pencil.
43 Verso. "20 years pass." Draft paper, pencil. Four ink sketches.
44. "Home to eliminate the orangeade." Envelope, ink, pencil.
45. "Lives of the Great Composers. Draft paper, ink, pencil. Two ink sketches. Notes on sonnet order.
45 Verso. "tell her for tomorrow." Draft paper, ink, pencil.
47. "In 'Lives of the great composers." Draft paper, pencil, ink. One ink sketch.
47 Verso. "In 'Lives of Great Composers." Draft paper, pencil.
48. "When Jan Kiepura sang his Handsomeness." Draft paper, pencil.
49. "A gray maid servant." Pencil, bond. Note on sonnet order.
49 Verso. "The havoc wrought upon a young person's." Pencil, bond.
50. "recapture. facet. tacit." Draft paper, ink, pencil.
50 Verso. "When Jan Kiepura sang the Duke." Draft paper, ink, pencil.
51. "Flesh hugs <its> shaved plush." Pencil, bond.
The manuscripts are in the order Merrill placed them in before sending to Special Collections, Washington University.