Typescript and autograph drafts of "To Poets' Worksheets in the Air-Conditioned Vault of a Library" by Mona Van Duyn. Published in the CARLETON MISCELLANY, Fall 1965 and collected in TO SEE, TO TAKE (1970).
"Tony: Ending the Life," published in A Scattering of Salts, is an "expansive elegy for his friend" (Tony Parigory, who died in summer 1993 of AIDS), "and (it is all but explicit) himself." Merrill had been largely silent about his AIDS diagnosis but…
Typescript [photocopy] draft of "Torschlusspanik" by William Gaddis. Written for DeutschlandRadio, "Torschlusspanik" is a one-act monologue broadcast on March 3, 1999, three and a half months after Gaddis died. It is also the first 43 pages of…
Manuscript draft fragments of "Toy Beer," a short story written by Gass, with autograph draft of letter to Mona Van Duyn on verso, replying to her invitation for him to send manuscripts to the newly forming Modern Literature Collection at Washington…
Newspaper clipping of "Two Poets Share Bollingen Award" by Joseph B. Treaster from The New York Times, January 11, 1971. Announces Richard Wilbur and Mona Van Duyn as the recipients of the 1971 Bollingen Award administered by Yale University.