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"Sickness Is Truth," "Bacon Looks at Iowa State Teachers College," and "Iowa Dirge" by Mona Van Duyn from The Pen, Volume XIV, Number 2 (March 1942).

"Mrs. Richsmeier Meets a Crisis," "This Sky," "O'Neill and Adams Face Multiplicity," and "Credo" by Mona Van Duyn from The Purple Pen, Volume XIV, Number 1 (November 1941). Van Duyn's first publication.

"The Bell" by Mona Van Duyn from The Kenyon Review, Volume VII, Number 4 (Autumn 1945). Van Duyn's first published short story.

Typescript and autograph drafts of "To Poets' Worksheets in the Air-Conditioned Vault of a Library" by Mona Van Duyn. Published in the CARLETON MISCELLANY, Fall 1965 and collected in TO SEE, TO TAKE (1970).

Typescript draft with published press release of Mona Van Duyn's 1971 National Book Award in Poetry acceptance speech for her book, To See, To Take, March 4, 1971.

Typescript draft with minimal corrections of "Late Loving" by Mona Van Duyn. Published in Near Changes (1990), "Late Loving" celebrates Van Duyn's nearly fifty-year marriage to Jarvis Thurston.

Typescript draft with no corrections of "Paratrooper" by Mona Van Duyn. Published in the Kenyon Review, Volume 6, Number 3 (Summer 1944) and collected in Valentines to the Wide World(1959).

Autograph and typescript drafts with corrections of "For May Swenson" by Mona Van Duyn. Published in Poetry(January 1991) and collected in Firefall (1993).

"The Talker" by Mona Van Duyn from The New Republic, Volume 164, Issue 2930 (February 20, 1971) and collected in Poems, 1965-1973.

Draft of autograph letter from Mona Van Duyn to her publisher at Atheneum, Harry Ford, concerning revisions and additions to her forthcoming book, TO SEE, TO TAKE (circa 1970). This letter represents a portion of a larger collection of spiral…