Mark Van Doren papers, 1917-1976

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 A-Adler, M (1941)



Box 2 Adler, M (1942-)-Berryman (1939)



Box 3 Berryman (1940)-Butler



Box 4 Caldwell, Robert N. Letters to Mark Van Doren, 12 April 1950-25, February1952



Box 5 Caldwell, Robert N. Letters to Mark Van Doren, 26 February1952-28, September 1956



Box 6 Caldwell, Robert N. Letters to Mark Van Doren, 26 October 1956-27, June 1962



Box 7 Caldwell, Robert N. Letters to Mark Van Doren, 12, July 1962-1972


Box 7 RNC: To Dorothy & Mark Van Doren, 29, December 1969


Box 7 Caldwell, Stephen F. To Mark Van Doren; 3 letters


Box 7 RNC: miscellaneous, photographs, etc.



Box 8 C-Fitzgerald



Box 9 Fletcher-H



Box 10 I-L



Box 11 Lax, Robert: Correspondence



Box 12 Merton, Thomas: Correspondence



Box 13 M-P



Box 14 Q-Sh



Box 15 Sloan



Box 16 Sm-Tate, A (1937) (Tate on microfilm)



Box 17 Tate, A (1938-)-Tay (Tate on microfilm)



Box 18 Th-Va



Box 19 Vi-Z

Series II: Cataloged Manuscripts



Box 20 Cataloged Manuscripts A-Z



Box 86 "Shakespeare" (1939). Manuscript, in slipcase, typescript, with holograph corrections and revisions.

Inscribed: "From John Burrell, September 26th, 1948"

Added 2016. Accn number 2016.2017.M101

Located off site



Box 21 Lax, Robert: Cataloged Manuscripts



Box 22 Merton, Thomas: Manuscripts; Printed Material. Master negative microfilm of mss. available for making positive microfilm copies. 9/23/74 brc., 9/23/74

Series III: Poetry


Poetry Manuscripts:



Box 23 7 PM and Other Poems (1926) 45 manuscript poems in 13 numbered folders


Box 23 Now the Sky and Other Poems (1228) 60 manuscript peers in 23 numbered folders


Box 23 A Winter Diary and Other Poems (1935) 120 manuscript poems, in 42 numbered folders


Box 23 The Last Love and Other Poems (1937) 82 Manuscript poems in 36 numbered folders



Box 24 Sonnets I-XL, annotated by MVD & A. Tate


Box 24 4 poems annotated by A. Tate


Box 24 Jonathan Gentry; Pts. II & III (pt I is missing); in 3 folders


Box 24 Morning Worship & Other Poems; poems in composition book dated, 1956


Box 24 124 manuscript poems filed alphabetically


Box 24 Untitled Sonnet; Ode to Saints Helen & James Thurber; verse fragments


Manuscript books (bound):



Box 25 The Seven Sleepers, June -December 1941


Box 25 The Seven Sleepers, December 1941-September 1943


Box 25 The Seven Sleepers, 1944


Box 25 New poems, 1945


Box 25 New poems, 1945-August 1946


Box 25 Mortal Summer, 1947


Box 25 Spring Birth, 1948-August 1949


Box 25 Spring Birth, October 1949-January 1951



Box 26 Morning Worship, December 1954-January 1956


Box 26 Morning Worship, July 1956-December 1956


Box 26 Morning Worship, October 1957-January 1958


Published volumes with penciled revisions by MVD:


Box 26 Jonathan Gentry New York: Boni, 1931


Box 26 May field Deer New York: Holt, 1941


Poetry Typescripts:



Box 27 Jonathan Gentry


Box 27 A Winter Diary


Box 27 The Last Look & Other Poems


Box 27 The May field Deer, (3 folders)


Box 27 The May field Deer "New Edition", (2 folders)


Box 27 Mortal Summer-1st, 2nd, 3rd versions, (3 folders)


Box 27 Mortal Summer-odd pages, (2 folders)



Box 28 Anger in the Room


Box 28 Poems "rejected from Seven Sleepers"


Box 28 Poems "rejected from New Poems"


Box 28 Poems "rejected from Morning Worship"


Box 28 Agatha


Box 28 A Hint from Deitrich Knickerbocker…


Box 28 Simple Cymon-2 versions, (3 Folders)


Box 28 Poems published in various magazines


Miscellaneous poems:


Box 28 Collected Poems (1939) Folders 1-5



Box 29 Collected Poems (1939) (cont.) Folders 6-12



Box 30 The Happy Critic-Collected Narrative Poems



Box 31 Collected & New Poems (Manuscripts made up from cuttings from published volumes)



Box 32 Collected & New Poems (Manuscripts made up from cuttings from published volumes)



Box 33 "That Shining Place" (poem) (Manuscript & proofs)


Addenda-Gift of, 1966



Box 34 Collected and New Poems-variant versions, rejected poems (typescripts)


Box 34 Never Never Ask His Name (play)-ms., typescript and notes


Box 34 Poems, 1959-Ms. notebooks


Box 34 Short Stories, 1961-1963-3 manuscript books


Box 34 10 short stories-typescripts in separate folders


Prose:


Prose manuscripts:



Box 35 & 36 92 short stories, alphabetically arranged by title



Box 37 Notes for Shakespeare (1939)


Box 37 Notes for Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949)


Box 37 Notes on Collected Poems, (2 Folders)


Box 37 Notes for poems and stories, (6 folders)


Box 37 A Plain Account of…months spent in the Service of the United States during the Great War. Manuscript book


Box 37 Diary-3 ms. books


Box 37 Notes to the course "The Noble Voice"



Box 38 Autobiography, (7 folders)


Box 38 The Last Days of Lincoln, (3 folders)


Box 38 The Transients-notes for



Box 39 Don Quixote's Profession


Box 39 Dick & Tom & the Little Old Man (carbon)


Box 39 The Last Days of Lincoln (9 copies in 9 folders)



Box 40 The Noble Voice, (5 folders)


Box 40 Autobiography, (7 folders)


Box 40 Autobiography. Galley proofs, (2 folders)



Box 41 & 42 94 short stories in separate folders, alphabetically filed by title



Box 43 The Private Reader, (6 folders)


Box 43 Introduction to Cowper's Letters, (1 folder)


Box 43 An Introduction to Poetry, (3 folders)


Box 43 Best of Hawthorne (2 folders


Box 43 Nathaniel Hawthorne(5 folders)



Box 44 Collected Stories Vol I Typescript



Box 45 Collected Stories Vol II Typescript


Collected Stories Vol III:



Box 46 Printer's copy


Box 46 That Shining Place (Proofs)


Box 46 Miscellaneous manuscript material


The Weekend That Was:



Box 47 Mona Myself


Box 47 Never Never Ask His Name


Box 47 Typescripts & Notebooks. Notebooks containing drafts of poems & short stories



Box 48 Autobiography



Box 49 Typescripts of short stories (duplicates)


Miscellaneous manuscripts:



Box 50 Cataloged manuscripts, A-L



Box 51 Cataloged manuscripts, M-Z

Series IV: Arranged Correspondence



Box 52 Adler, Mortimer


Box 52 Arvin, Newton


Box 52 Aylward, Stephen


Box 52 Baker, Howard


Box 52 Boyd, Julian


Box 52 Buchanan, Scott


Box 52 Burrell, John


Box 52 Canellos, George


Box 52 Chambers, Whittaker


Box 52 Chiappe, Andrew


Box 52 Clark, Margaret


Box 52 Cohen, Walter


Box 52 Cosgrave, Esta


Box 52 Curiosa


Box 52 Davidson, Donald


Box 52 Deutsch, Babette


Box 52 Dupee, Frederick


Box 52 Edelman, Edward


Box 52 Ely, Gladys


Box 52 Fadiman, Clifton


Box 52 Ferril, Thomas


Box 52 Freeman, Douglas


Box 52 Frost, Robert


Box 52 Geuzman, George


Box 52 Ginsberg, Allen


Box 52 Giroux, Robert


Box 52 Haggin, B. H.


Box 52 Hamilton, Alexander Dinner


Box 52 Jeffers, Robinson


Box 52 Krutch, Joseph Wood


Box 52 Landeck, Amin



Box 53 Merton, Thomas


Box 53 Neff, Emery


Box 53 Nelson, Starr


Box 53 O'Gorman Ned


Box 53 Pickel, Margaret


Box 53 Porter, Katharine Anne


Box 53 Pratt, E. J.


Box 53 Robinson, E. A.


Box 53 Rosenthal, Henry M.


Box 53 Sackton, Ivria


Box 53 Saintsbury, George


Box 53 Samuel, Maurice


Box 53 Sandburg, Carl


Box 53 Senior, John


Box 53 Sloane, William


Box 53 Smith, Bradford


Box 53 Teale, Edwin Way


Box 53 Thomas, Rosemary


Box 53 Thurber, James


Box 53 Trilling, Lionel


Box 53 Villa, Jose Garcia


Box 53 Weaver, Raymond


Box 53 Young, Marguerite


Box 53 Zukofsky, Louis



Box 54 & 55 Correspondence with agent Nannine Joseph, 1963-1975

Series V: Arranged Correspondence



Box 56 A


Adams, F.B.


Alderblum


Alderfer, W.K.


Alden, J.


Alfano, C.T.


Ames, R.W.


Andrews, E.D.


Angle, P.


Arbolim, J.


Arms, R.H.


Asch, K.


Austouther, D


Box 56 Aylward, Stephen


Box 56 B


Bach, M


Bade, W.F.


Balakia, A


Bardwell, E.B.


Barnett, D.


Bate, W.J.


Beaty, D.


Beetles, C.


Bennett, S.J.


Berrien, L.


Besmer, D.


Bevans, M


Beyer, W.


Boie, M


Bokser


Booth, R.


Bose, B.


Bowles, F.


Bowser, R.W.


Brady, V.


Bradley, M.M.


Brammer, CM.


Breckenridge, A


Brinitzer, M.R.


Brooks, M


Brown, A.W.


Brown, D.


Buchanan, V & D.


Burke, W.H.


Butterfield, L.H.


Box 56 Bonazzi, H.


Box 56 Brook, G.


Box 56 C:


Call, R.


Cantieni, J.


Caras, R.


Carpenter, H.


Carr, D.


Carruth, H.


Chamberlain, L.H.


Chapman, F.S.


Clacyssens, A.E.


Clark, D.L.


Clendenin, J.


Coleman, K.V.


Coleman, S.C.


Collier, J.M.


Covin, J.C


Congdon, K.


Constantino, J.


Cooley, M


Cornwall Hollow Cemetery Assoc


Cox, S.


Cralle, M.B.


Crothers, G.


Crowe, W.R.


Cuppy, W.


Currier, L.


Curry, W.C.


Box 56 Carrier, C.V.



Box 57 Claire, W. F.


Box 57 Crossett, J.


Box 57 Crump, E. Elam, S. M.


Box 57 D


Dalven, R.


Damon, H.


Davidson, A.


Davies, M.C.


Deas, G.T.


De Bary, W.T.


Dell, S


Del Tredici


Dever, I.


Dilliard, I.


Dirks, S.B.


Dittler, E.L.


Dodds, J.


Donaldson, N.V.


Dorgan, C.


Downs, R.B.


Doyle, E.


Draxton, N.


Dubow, P.S.


Dulaney, N.T.


Box 57 Darkey, W.A.


Box 57 Dike, C.A.


Box 57 E


Eckstein, A.R.


[Eckstein, H.I.]


[Eomen, B]


Ehrlich, M


Epstein, B


Estabrook, M


Evarts, J.


Evert, W.B.


Box 57 Elam, S.M.


Box 57 F


Fackenthal


Fauror, I.N.


Ferguson, O.


Field, E.


Finkelstein, L.


Firestone, C.B.


Fontera, R.


Forbes, M.E.


Frank, G.


Friedman, H.


Fuller, M.


Box 57 G


Gainey, B


Gallagher, T.


Geffen, F.


Gelmartin, A.


Gifford, J.P.


Goodson, W.C.


Gore, R.T.


Gorrin, P.


Grady, R.


Graen, S.


Grean, S.


Griffen, J.


Grisez, Mrs. D.


Griswold, H.



Box 58 H


Hackett, F.S.


Hadas, G.


Hale, A.


Halliday, M.


Hancock, A.S.


Hannell, P.


Hanson, D.


Hapgood, C.


Harlow


Hastings, C.


Hatmaker, D.


Henderson, G.


Henry, D.D.


Henry, 0.


Herndon, Mrs. L


Hindus, M


Hinz, J.


Hoffman, D.


Hoffman, R.


Holden, D.


Holmes, P.V.


Horan, G.R.


Horn, M.


Horowitz, A.


Hotaling, D.


Hubbell, 0.


Hutchins, M.


Huvelle, C.H.


Box 58 Henrich,E.


Box 58 Hillyer,R.


Box 58 J


Jacobs, A.C.


Jacobs, Jane


Jacobsen, J.


Jennings


Jessup, P.C.


Jestes, D.A.


Jewett, I.A.


Jenson, B.


Joseph, N.


Box 58 K


Kaderli, E.L.


Kahn, S.J.


Kaufman, S.


Keene, Donald


Keith, J.


Kelleg [?] E.


Killiany, J.G.


Knecht, J.F.


Koenig, H.


Kouwenhoven, J


Kraus, H.


Kugeman, L.


Kuniholm, S.


Kurz, J.W.


Box 58 L


Landis, P.


Latham, A.


Ledbetter, J.


Ledley, W.


LeFebvre, G.


Levine, R.


Lewis, J.K.


Levy, W.T.


Ley, M.


Life, J.


Lingenfelter


Lipschultz, I


Locke, C.


Lohf, K.


Loir, G.


Longfield-Smith


Loth, D.


Lowry, M.


Box 58 M


McCann, C


McCleary, D.


McDonald, G.


McElroy, J.P.


McGillow, J.


MacGowan, K.


McKay, M.W.


McKnew, J.


Macleish, Archibald


Macleish, Mrs. W.H.


McMahon, F.H.


McNallen, J.D.


McWilliams


Maguire, C.


Mandelbaum, B.


Manheim, L.M.


Marksbury, H.


May bank, F.


May bar, P.L.


Mayer, M.


Mazzeo, H.


Mellquist, J.


Melnechuk, T.


Mergdorf, E


Merriam, E.


Merton, S.


Metcalfe


Miles, H.D.


Mill, D.


Miller, C.


Miller, W.


Millspaugh, C.A.


Moldavan, B.


Moler, R.


Monaco


Moore, J.G.


Moore, R.T.


Morris


Muse, W.H.


Mutch, G.E.


Box 58 McCartin, J.T.


Box 58 Meisel, F.H.


Box 58 Miller, B.


Box 58 Mitchell, L.D.


Box 58 Molarsky, D.


Box 58 N


Nathan, D.M.


Nebel, H.


Neider, C.


Nettles, J.E.


Nettleton, M


Newborg, K.


Nicolson, M.H.


"Nimmo Hill"


Norris, M.H.


Box 58 O


O'Brien, D.


O'Brien, Justin


Ogilivie, R.B.


Ohlhoff, H.


0lmstead, A.


Olsen, E.


Oppenheimer, J.J


Orcutt, E.


O'Shea, M.


Owen, Mrs. W.



Box 59 P


Paepcke, E


Parke, J


Perbuis


Perlberg, M.


Piel, P.


Porter, J.


Powers, O.K.


Prentice, T.M.


Pusey, N.


Box 59 R


Rainey, J.W.


Raphael, A.


Rascoe, B.


Rasky, H.


Remington, T.


Rice


Richards, P.L.


Riols, E.


Roberts, M.O.


Robinson, L.W.


Rongen, M.


Roskam, V.R.


Box 59 S


Sargent, R.


Schaumann


Schless, H.


Schmedtye, J


Schoenstein, R.


Scott, K.


Scott, W.


Scudder, T.


Sethness, C.H.


Seward, W.W.


Sherwin, R.V.


Shin, P.H.


Sisley, B.


Sloane, W.


Smith, A


Smith, J.J.


Sortwell


Steere, P.V.


Steeves, H.R.


Stein, S.


Steiner


Stern, E.B.


Stevens, M.L.


Stewart, H.


Stillman, B


Sturmer, E.


Sullivan, W.P.


Swartz, R.T.


Box 59 Simpson, W. G.


Box 59 Sloan, J.


Box 59 Smith, C. P.


Box 59 T-V


Tenall, J.


Tindall, W.


Tomlinson, A.


Tooni, I.


Valenti, L


Van Doren Family


Villard, J.


Vinson, J.


Virginia, M.


Vivas, E.


Von Abele, R.


Box 59 25th Anniversary Party-Correspondence


Box 59 25th Anniversary Party-Postcards


Box 59 Van Doren Family


Box 59 W-Z


Wagner, C.A.


WakefieId, Dan


Waldinger, E.


Walker, H.


Wang, A.


Wang J.


Watkins, E.


Watts, R.


Webber, R.A.


Weik, M.H.


Weisgal


Werenko, F.


Weseley, D.


West, R.


Westlein, P.


Whitney, B.


Wickenden, D.


Willey, B.


Williams, G.


Wins low, M.


Witwer


Wood, S.


Wright, F.


Young, H.


Young, J.


Young, V.


Zmuda


Zorbaugh, K.


Box 59 Miscellaneous and Unidentified

Series VI: Arranged Correspondence



Box 60 Arranged Correspondence (unorganized)



Box 61 Arranged Correspondence (unorganized)



Box 62 Arranged Correspondence (unorganized)



Box 63 Arranged Correspondence


Box 63 Mark Van Doren to Alan Tate (Photocopies of letters in Princeton University Library)

Series VII: Correspondence re Mark Van Doren's Books, (Includes clippings, reviews and related materials.) List of titles



Box 64 Anthologies


Box 64 Anthology of World Poetry


Box 64 Autobiography of America


Box 64 Autobiography



Box 65 Careless Clock


Box 65 Collected Poems


Box 65 Collected Stories Vols. 1-3


Box 65 Country Year


Box 65 Dialogue of MacLeish and Van Doren


Box 65 Dick and Tom



Box 66 Don Quixote's Profession


Box 66 Dryden


Box 66 Good Morning


Box 66 Happy Critic, The


Box 66 Hawthorne



Box 67 Home with Hazel


Box 67 Humanity Unlimited


Box 67 In that Far Land


Box 67 Introduction to Poetry


Box 67 Jonathan Gentry


Box 67 Last Days of Lincoln


Box 67 Last Boon, The



Box 68 Liberal Education


Box 68 Mann, Thomas


Box 68 May field Deer, The


Box 68 Morning Worship



Box 69 Mortal Summer


Box 69 Musical Settings-Recordings and tapes


Box 69 Narrative Poems


Box 69 New Poems


Box 69 Night of the Summer Soltice


Box 69 Noble Voice, The


Box 69 Nobody Say a Word


Box 69 Now the Sky


Box 69 Never, Never Ask His Name


Box 69 One Hundred Poems



Box 70 Our Lady Peace


Box 70 Private Reader, The


Box 70 Selected Poems


Box 70 Seven P. M.


Box 70 Seven Sleepers, The


Box 70 Shakespeare


Box 70 Short Stories of Mark Van Doren



Box 71 Somebody Came


Box 71 Soring Birth


Box 71 Spring Thunder


Box 71 That Shining Place



Box 72 Thoreau


Box 72 Three Plays


Box 72 Tilda


Box 72 Transients, The


Box 72 Windless Cabins


Box 72 Winter Diary A


Box 72 Witch of Ramoth

Series VIII: Arranged Correspondence



Box 73 Condolence letters



Box 74 Condolence letters



Box 75 Condolence letters

Series IX: Arranged Manuscripts



Box 76 Miscellaneous Manuscripts


Box 76 Dorothy Van Doren-folders 1-2


Box 76 Mark Van Doren-folders 1-3



Box 77 Mark Van Doren-folders 4-8


Box 77 Folders with titles



Box 78 Miscellaneous manuscripts


Box 78 Mark Van Doren-folders with titles


Box 78 Manuscript notes


Box 78 Mark Van Doren-documents & photographs


3 card files



Box 79 Tapes, films, phonograph records


Mark Van Doren on "Spoken Words", 1967-12-28



Box 2 Flat Boxes Tapes, films, phonograph records



Box 80 Van Doren Family Bible

Series X: Printed Materials



Box 81 Printed Materials



Box 82 Printed Materials



Box 83 Printed Materials



Box 84 Printed Materials



Box 85 Printed Materials