Box 3
Container
Contains 25 Collections and/or Records:
Notebooks, 1957-1967 and undated
Series — Multiple Containers
2
Scope and Contents
Series II, Notebooks, is arranged chronologically. The notebooks, dated by Gunn, span from April 1956 to Summer 1967. They include manuscript and typescript drafts of poems, notes regarding poems and publications, and journal entries. Prior to processing, most of the notebooks contained loose materials. To prevent further damage, those materials were separated, their original location was recorded on them, and they were placed in folders corresponding to the notebooks from which they were...
Publications, 1957-1971
Series — Box: 3
3
Scope and Contents
Series III, Publications, includes three autographed copies of The Explorers (dated 1968 thru 1969), a copy of "A Fair in the Woods" (1971), two holiday greeting cards containing "Poem After Chaucer" (1971), and three issues of the Poetry Book Society Bulletin, containing articles written by Gunn (1957, 1967, 1971) and one issue of Yale Review containing the article "Voices of Their...
Correspondence, 1956-1972 and undated
Series — Box: 3
4
Scope and Contents
This series contains signed typescript and manuscript letters. There are two Gunn letters to Donald Davie. The Davie file also includes an unsigned and undated typed copy of Gunn's "An Amorous Debate," on which Gunn recorded his comments on that work and on his long poem "Misanthropos." There are also two letters from Donald Hall to Gunn and a letter from Norman Scwires that Gunn inscribed "My first fan letter from a stranger." Finally there is an undated letter from Tony Tanner that is a...