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William Jay Smith to Isabella Gardner, January 4, 1981. Smith thanks Gardner for her beautiful letter about his books. He speaks of his travels to Copenhagen and Moscow. He wishes that the new year holds many good things for Gardner.

Prospectus for Collected Translationsby William Jay Smith.

Typescript draft with extensive corrections of The Straw Market by William Jay Smith.

Proof of "Vermont Revisited" by William Jay Smith.

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

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.

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.

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