Browse Items (1587 total)

Autograph draft of "A Streetcar Named Smith" by William Jay Smith. Smith's reminiscence about his experiences aboard the French navy boat, La Gradiere, during World War II.

Autograph drafts with corrections of "The Torches of Florence" by Andrei Voznesensky and translated by William Jay Smith. Collected in Antiworlds: Poems by Andrei Voznesensky edited by Patricia Blake and Max Hayward, 1966.

Autograph elementary school exercise book containing drawings and childhood rhymes by William Jay Smith.

Framed photograph of William Jay Smith with Robert Frost at Smith's farm in Vermont, 1960.

Framed photograph of William Jay Smith, James Dickey, Josephine Jacobsen, Stanley Kunitz, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, and others, May 16, 1979.

Nemerov to Reed Whittemore, August 9, 1960. Nemerov tells Whittemore that he has decided not to take on the project of doing a book on Mann that he was contracted to do. He has returned the advance. He says that he does not like to commit himself…

Autograph letter, signed from Allen Tate to Howard Nemerov, September 14, 1948

Typescript and autograph drafts with corrections of "The Tin Can" by William Jay Smith. Collected in The Tin Can and Other Poems, 1966.

Typescript draft with minimal corrections of The Selected Writings of Jules LaForgue edited and translated by William Jay Smith.

Setting copy of Laughing Time by William Jay Smith, 1955.