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Postcard from Conrad Aiken to Isabella Gardner, April 6, 1956 inviting Gardner to lunch on the 14th (of April?). He addressed the postcard to 'Isabella McCormick'. Front of postcard has image of 'The Chinese Lantern' restaurant located in Washington,…

Autograph postcard signed 1 page from Herbert Leibowitz to May Swenson dated June 17, 1987. Postcard discusses Swenson's recent award from the Mac-arthur Foundation.

Autograph postcard signed 1 page from James Merrill to May Swenson dated January 4, 1983. Postcard includes brief updates on Merrill's life.

Autograph postcard signed 1 page from Mona Van Duyn to May Swenson dated June 19, 1987. Letter congratulates Swenson on receiving a MacArthur fellowship.

Postcard, typed with autograph: May Swenson to James Dickey, 1957: February 26; Swenson, from the editorial department of New Directions, rejected Dickey's "The Host" because it was submitted too late to be included in the issue. She suggested he…

Postcard from Richard Wilbur to Dickey, 1955: November 4; typed message to James Dickey; Wilbur gives Dickey permission to quote his poems.

Typescript draft of a précis of Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis, 1984.

Typescript draft of the preface for Iconographs by May Swenson, circa 1970. Autograph annotations are on several of the pages.

Typescript draft of the preface to The Charm by Robert Creeley, July 21, 1967.

Typescript draft of the preface to the 1990 edition by Thunder's Mouth Press of Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers by Stanley Elkin.