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Invitation to reception for "The World below the Window: Poems 1937-1997" by William Jay Smith. The reception takes place April 22, 1998 in New York City.

Prospectus for William Jay Smith's book, "The World below the Window." The book is a collection of Smith's poems throughout the career. An order form is on the bottom of the prospectus.

Autograph and typescript drafts with extensive corrections of "The Bootleg Business" from Army Brat by William Jay Smith.

May Swenson to Elizabeth Bishop, September 25, 1963. Swenson thanks Bishop for the Samba record that she sent to her. Swenson suggests that Bishop write articles about South American Jazz for The New Yorker or Esquire. She asks if Bishop if she has…

Elizabeth Bishop to May Swenson, October 3, 1963. Bishop tells Swenson that both she and Lota had bouts of illness recently. Bishop went to a hospital to recuperate and she sent some of the information given to her from the hospital on a card. …

Typescript draft with extensive corrections of "Finding the Proper Equivalent: On Translating the Poetry of Andrei Voznesnsky" by William Jay Smith, circa 1971-1972.

Autograph draft of “The Centaur” by William Jay Smith with autograph annotations by Tennessee Williams. During his years at Washington University, Smith and his friends, Clark Mills McBurney and Williams, formed their own poetry group.

"The Torches of Florence" by Andrei Voznesensky and translated by William Jay Smith.Collected inAntiworlds: Poems by Andrei Voznesenskyedited by Patricia Blake and Max Hayward, 1966.

Typed drafts of "The Mobile in the Back of the Smithsonian. Some of the drafts have autograph annotations,

Typed and autograph draft of "Riding the 'A'" Some drafts contain handwritten annotations.