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

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…

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

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

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

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 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.

Typed letter, signed from Reed Whittemore to Howard Nemerov, April 28, 1958.

Reed Whittemore to Nemerov, January 28, 1957. Whittemore writes to Nemerov to inform him that Nemerov's publisher, University of Chicago Press, has requested that Whittemore write a book that the publisher has given guidelines for. Whittemore…

Typed draft with extensive corrections of "Texts for Nothing" written in Ussy, France by Samuel Beckett, December 7, 1966. "Texts for Nothing" comprises thirteen short prose pieces and published in STORIES AND TEXTS FOR NOTHING.