Browse Items (1587 total)

Typed letter signed 1 page from William Jay Smith to May Swenson dated September 19, 1975. Smith is asking Swenson for a recommendation for a Guggenheim fellowship.

Autograph signed letter 1 page from John Hollander to May Swenson dated September 14, 1970. Hollander comments on Swenson's book "Iconographs."

Broadside advertisement for the Washington University Performing Arts Area and Thyrsus presentation of Endgame by Samuel Beckett and directed by Halle Eichen. Sponsored by Washington University Drama Studio and the Student Union.

Poster advertisement for "Beckett at Eighty: A Celebration" sponsored by The University of Reading, May 9-June 7, 1986.

Typed letter signed 1 page from Daniel B. Shea to May Swenson dated March 16, 1981. Letter offers to have Swenson visit Washington University in St. Louis as a visiting Hurst Professor.

Autograph note signed 1 page from Louis Untermeyer to May Swenson dated February 3, 1955. Note includes recommendation letter Untermeyer wrote for Swenson for a Rockefeller grant.

Typed letter, signed from John Irving to Stanley Elkin, July 31, 1982.

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

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

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