Manuscripts
Addenda
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X. Addenda
Manuscripts
Materials chiefly related to Wallace Stevens' eldest sister, Elizabeth (Stevens) McFarland, and the Stevens family, including photographs, vital records, and some printed items that were donated by McFarland's daughter, Jane M. Wilson, in 1977.
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Hammer, Victor: Bookplates
Manuscripts
Box containing two plates from which Wallace Stevens' bookplates were made, with bookplates.
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III. Photographs
Manuscripts
Includes photographs of Wallace Stevens, his wife, Elsie Stevens, and their daughter, Holly Bright Stevens, as well as well as other family members, friends, and their homes. There is also a photograph album of a Stevens family trip to California and Arizona in 1923 (Folder 38) and a photograph album of members of Elsie Stevens' family (Box 82). Most of the dates for the photographs was provided by Elsie Stevens.
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I. Manuscripts
Manuscripts
The manuscripts consist both of works by others about or to Wallace Stevens, and manuscripts of Stevens' poems, essays, and speeches. The manuscripts by others include dedicatory poems to Stevens, essays about Stevens (e.g. by Robert M. Pack and Mary Bernetta Quinn), and adaptations and translations of Stevens' poems (e.g. by Renato Poggioli). This series also includes an academic notebook kept by Stevens' grandfather Benjamin Stevens (born 1808) in 1822 (WAS 3965, loose volume). Notable pieces include: Hermann Hesse, Zwölf Gedichte (12 autograph poems in German, presented by Hesse to Stevens, each with a watercolor drawing). (WAS 223, loose volume) [Hywel David Lewis], On Poetic Truth (an essay first published in Philosophy (July 1946), in Stevens' hand). (WAS 4093, in Box 66) The manuscripts by Stevens are both autograph and typewritten. When Stevens' secretary/stenographer prepared his typescripts, she made 3 copies: an original and 2 carbons. When a carbon copy exists along with the original typescript, it has been catalogued with the original unless it contains annotations or corrections by Stevens. Most of the manuscripts have been published in one of three places: 1) a published work of Stevens, 2) Opus Posthumous, ed. Samuel French Morse, 1957 or 3) Robert Buttel, Wallace Stevens: The Making of Harmonium, 1967. When assigning dates to manuscripts, evidence given by Morse, Buttel, J.M. Edelstein, Wallace Stevens: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1973, and the correspondence have all been weighed. Notable pieces include: Adagia: 2 notebooks of aphorisms. 33p. [1930?-1955]. (WAS 70, in Box 1) A Book of Verses: notebook of 20 early poems. 21p. June 1908. (WAS 24, in Box 2) Esthétique du Mal: early draft. 16p. [1944]. (WAS 4140, in Box 2) The Figure of the Youth as Virile Poet: early draft. 33p. [1943]. (WAS 4143, in Box 66: Oversize) Gloire du Long Disir, Idies: early draft. 23p. [1955]. (WAS 4151, in Box 3) Journals 1898-1899. 1 vol. (WAS 7, in Box 4) 1899-1900. 1 vol. (WAS 8, in Box 4) 1902-1904. 1 vol. (WAS 9, in Box 4) 1905-1912. 1 vol. (WAS 10, in Box 4) The Little June Book: notebook of 20 early poems. 21p. June 5, 1909. (WAS 25, in Box 6) Poetic Exercises of 1948: 2 commonplace notebooks. 4p. [1948]. (WAS 72, in Box 6) The typescript for Selected Poems, a book submitted to Alfred A. Knopf Inc. but never published. 200p. [1950]. (WAS 2997, in Box 7) Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: 2 commonplace notebooks. 44p. 1932-1953. (WAS 73, in Box 8)
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Correspondence, Wisconsin Players-Zeller, and miscellaneous
Manuscripts
The miscellaneous materials consist of: -----, Alice. 1 letter to Elsie Stevens, 1912 August 2. With a letter from Wallace Steven to Elsie on the envelope. (WAS 2054) Wallace Stevens financial records, correspondence, and financial notes (67 pieces), 1952-1955. (WAS 4090) Funeral register for Wallace Stevens, 1955 August 4, with a packet of acknowledgement cards from the funeral and a typewritten list of names. (WAS 4048)
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Addenda
Manuscripts
Collection is primarily made up of letters written to Stevens, his carbon copy replies, and autograph manuscripts and poems. Also included is an extensive collection of genealogical material, in form of letters, documents, typescripts, and photographs. Other individuals represented in the collection include: E. E. Cummings, Alfred A. Knopf, Robert McAlmon, Thomas MacGreevy, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, Jose Rodriguez Feo, and John Orley Allen Tate.
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