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Autograph manuscript poem "An Inscription On A Groto of Shells".

Correspondence between Gerald Strauss (faculty advisor for Bloomsburg State College student literary magazine) and mid-century American poets, including Robert Bly, Patrick Bowles, John Ciardi, Henri Coulette, William Dickey, Donald Finkel, Thom Gunn, Donald Hall, Michael Hamburger, Robert Huff, Donald Justice, X. J. Kennedy, Philip Levine, Sean Lucy, Howard Moss, Howard Nemerov, David Ray, Alan Stephens, Charles Tomlinson, David Wagoner, Richard Wilbur.

Collection includes all drafts, including handwritten, through final versions of Thompson's published work including the book reviews, essays, stories and poems in nine of the most prominent journals of the time.