John Unterecker Papers

Collection Description

Date Range: 1961-1987
Size of Collection: 53 linear ft.(ca. 50,000 items in 127 boxes and 3 file card boxes)
Date of Acquisition: Gift of John E. Unterecker, 1966-1969; Purchase, 1977 and 1991.


BIOGRAPHY

Author, poet, and professor of English at Columbia University from 1958-1974 (M.A. 1948; Ph.D. 1956).

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SCOPE AND CONTENT

In three series: SERIES I (Boxes 1-3): Cataloged correspondence, boxes 1 & 1a; Cataloged manuscripts, documents, artwork, and photographs, box 1a; Arranged material re VOYGER, APPROACHES TO THE 20TH CENTURY NOVEL, Durrell and Marianne Moore, boxes 1b-3. SERIES II (Boxes 4-23): Research material for VOYAGER. SERIES III (Boxes 1-96): Correspondence, subject files, manuscripts, and printed materials.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, documents, subject files, audiotapes, and printed materials. The collection covers all of Unterecker's professional and artistic interests: his research for VOYAGER, APPROACHES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NOVEL, LAWRENCE DURRELL, as well as his correspondence with numerous academics, writers, and poets..

RESTRICTIONS ON USE AND/OR ACCESS

Permission to quote or publish must be obtained in writing from the Director of The Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Series I

Cataloged Correspondence

Box 1

Box 1a

Cataloged Manuscripts:

Cataloged Documents, Art, and Photographs

Cataloged Documents:

Portage County. Ohio. Probate Court.

Cataloged Art:

Cataloged Photographs:

Arranged Material

Box 1b:

Voyger notes, t.ms. and galley proofs

Box 2:

Correspondence, poroofs and manuscript of Approaches to the 20th Century Novel

Box 3:

Manuscript of Durrell
Forward to Nitchie's Marianne Moore Introduction to the Poetry

SERIES II

Voyager Correspondence Files

Correspondence Files relating to Voyager (Boxes 4-12) & Manuacript and Book Production Files (Boxes 13-23 and 3 file card boxes shelved after box 23)

Box 4

Box 5

Box 6

Box 7

Box 8

Box 9

Box 10

Box 11

Box 12

Voyager Manuscript and book production files

Box 13

Undated or ambiguous date letter file
Early letter file
Akron Information
UNterecker, John "A Piece of Pure Invention"
Notes on Columbia correspondence
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Giles, Paul "The Contents of The Bridge

Box 13a

Hart Crane lectures
Hart Crane walk (2 maps)
Horizon article discussion
In Search of Heart Crane (notes and drafts, publicity, correspondence, reviews, etc)
"Introduction to the Poetry of Hart Crane." t.ms.
Miscellaneous Crane materials
Hart Crane: addresses of correspondents
Notes on Crane poems
"The Poems of Hart Crane." t.ms.

Box 13b

Schultz, Susan M. "Hart Crane's Divided Voice" t.ms.
Voelcker, Hunce "Bridge" t.ms
Voyager (draft of acknowledgements; book distribution; errata, front matter; correcpondence; school records, etc)

Box 14

Hart Crane Broadcast on WBAI
Hart Crane photographs
Hart Crane drawings and photographs held by Richard Rychtarik
Acknowlegements.
In Search of Hart Crane (darfts of script; library sequence; passages from
Crane's books; etc)
Voyager (material deleted from final draft; uncut and unrevised final draft; original revised typescript)

Box 15

Voyager (original revised typescript, cont.)
Original galley pages 148-196 "The Architecture of The Bridge" (carbon of talk)
Review for Yale Review
"Notes on a poem by Hart Crane"

Box 15a

Audiotaopes:

"Documentary: The Last Days of Hart Crane" 2 copies
"Greitzer: 2nd interview"
"Invitation to Learning" T. S. Eliot
"Oscar Bernstein, July 1962"
"Poems of Hart Crane for Women's Chorus and Band"
"Poetry of Hart Crane: John Unterecker"
"Sue Brown, Peggy Baird"

Box 15b

Audiotapes

4 untitled tapes "Yeats Anthology Interview"
Voyager, Boxes 16-23

Box 16

Typescript (1)

Box 17

Typescript (2)

Box 18

Typescript carbon (1)

Box 19

Typescript carbon (2)
Miscellaneous manuscript re. Hart Crane

Box 20

Galley proofs (corrected)

Box 21

Galley proofs (1)

Box 22

Galley proofs (2)

Box 23

Galley proofs (3)
Three boxes containing card files: 1. Names and titles; 2. Chapter notes, 1-370; 3. Chapter notes, 371-end and Bibliography.

Series III

Arranged Correspondence

Box 1

Box 2

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Box 17

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Box 28

Box 29

Box 30

Box 31

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Box 34

Box 35

Box 36

Box 37

Box 38

Box 39

Box 40

Box 41

Box 42

Box 43

Box 44

Box 45

Box 46

Box 47

Box 48

Box 49

Poetry Manuscripts

Box 50

Abelard Perhaps and Perhaps Heloise
Accept
Address to the Beast of the Fable
Adventures in Star Travel
Afternoons
After the Birthday
After Three Years We Meet ...
Age 12
Album
Albumn
All These Sunsets
Ampurias, Spain
Anemones of Collioure
Animals, The
Anniversaries, Birthdays, Saints' Day
Anthem
Anti-Ghazal
Apology of midnight
Aprils
Arroyo: Flash Flood
At Renvyle
At the Edge
At the Rim of the Caldera
Atoll
Aubade of Sorts
August 22
Bartok Quartet
Bas-relief at Banyuls
Beach
Before Dawn
Beginnings (The Garden, The Apple, The Birth)
Below Decks
Below the Cliffs, Donegal
Bent Light
Betrayal, The
Birthday Poem (Dec. 29)
Birthday Poem (Jan. 17)
Blues for Two Voices
Bridge: Sligo
Brisk Afternoons
Bruises
Burn, The

Box 51

By Fire (formerly Anti-Ghazal)
Cabinet Meeting
Calendar Hymn
Calliandra Inaequilatera Rusby
Cameras
Canadian Summer: 1933
Canrnival at Amelie-les-Bains
Carrowkeel
Case for the Limited War
Catalan Farmer: Figueras, Spain
Caught
Caves, The
Celebratory Song to be Sung Halfway Through the Annual Spring Faculty
Dance
Chain Poems
Cities
Citizen of Another Climate
City Winter
Climbing: Ireland
Coastline
Cold's Three Visits
Collioure Afternoon
Collioure Wisteria
Configuration
Construction in Five Stanzas
Counterpoint for Tenor, Contralto, and Cymbals
Cross-Country
Dancers, The
Dark Song
Darke Theatre, The

Box 52

Dark Vineyard, The
December Event
December Snowstorm
Definition, The
Dialogue in February
Dialogue in November
Dialogue in Winter
Discarded Typewriter Ribbon: Writing Seminar: Maile Leaves
Discoveries, As Under Floodlights
Dolphin
Dream Window
Dreams
Dublin Evening: Afternoon Near Clifden
Edge (Coastline)
Elmwood Avenue...
End of Winter
Endings
English 3 (1938)
Envelope, The
Ephemeris for a Dark Time
Equinox
Erotic Poem #1
Evening: All of Our Sad Violins
Event
Exile
Explorer
Faces, The
Fall, The
Falling
Family
Fathers
Festival
Field/Wind/Cinder
First Trip to the Fun House in Crystal Beach
Fish
Five Cattle in an Evening Meadow
Five-Forty-two A.M.: Their Presence

Box 53

Flickerings
Flight Letter
For Julia
For M.H. Nicolson
Founds
Four Short Blunders From Beneath the Alogical Bus
Four Meditations From the Middle Ages
Fragments From an Autumn Journal
Fragments in the Form of an IOU
Friends, Lovers, at Pohoiki, Hawaii
Garden, The
Genesis
Get Lost, He Said
Getting Old
Ghana Evening With Three Friends...
Gift, The
Grafton Landscape
Groups of Five
Guardian
Guavas
Gunsight
Han Dynasty
Harbor
Hawaii, Near Apua Point
Hero, The

Box 54

Honolulu Zoo: October
Horoscope
Horses
Hospital: Post-Operative: 3
Hotels
I-Spy
In Five Minutes
In the Next Room
In the Studio
Indian Summer Midnight
Inhabitant
Interlude
Interlude at Eden
Interval
Interview
Invasion, The
Invention With Young Figures on a Dark Landscape
Invitation, The
Irish Winter
Island
Island in Autumn, The
Italian Sonnet...
January
January Crossing
January Fragment
January Invasions
January 23: Fragment
Joan of Arc Revisited
Journey
Kai's Sandcastle
Kitchen
Knotted Image
Lady and the Mortician, The Lake
Landscape With Cat and Dragonfly...
Landscape With Tall Figures Walking
Landscapes

Box 55

Language Barrier in Mexico City
Late
Lava
Lavatures
Letter From the Pier
Letter: October
Letter to a Firend's Loneliness
Lines for Ranchless Erik Wensberg
Listening to the Night
Long Afternoon, The
Long Distance
Long Light at Evening
Losses
Luxurious Seasons, The
March Landscape
Meditation on the Word
Message
Middle Ages, The
Midnight Geometry
Midnight Guava
Midnight Signature
Midnight Telephone...
Mid-Winter
Monumental Dancer
Morning
Morning Song
Mrs. Lutcher's Parrot

Box 56

Muse, The
Natural History
Navigator
Nearly Anonymous Figure...
Neither Hamlet, Laertes, Ophelia, Nor Horatio
New Bridge, The
Night
Night Letter
Night Piece
Nocturne
North of Collioure...
Not Going to the Reservation
Not Photographing James Wright as Santa Claus
Not Quite the Sun, Not Quite the Moon
Not Swimming Below the Cliff
Nothing Soft, Nothing Loved
November Changing
Now
Number 16: Plage a Trouville
Nursery Song
Oahu: Mid-day Concert in Orange Air
Obake Song

Box 57

Objects and Persons in the Room, The
October
Offhand Jazz from the Concert Hall
Opening Out -- For Stephanie Hicks Craib
Orations
Papayas, The
Passage
Passenger
Paul Fields, Summer, 1948
Pennsylvania Summer
Phaedra
Phew
Photographs
Physical
Poem (These Certain Things)
Poem for George in June 1988
Poem for George Weinheimer
Poem for Karen on August 29
Poem for Liam Miller, A
Poem in July
Points of View
Political Poem
Political Sonnet: The Werewolf
Political Statement
Porch
Portrait
Portraits, The
Praise
Prayer for the Lion, the Elk, the Bear, the Mole
Preparing the Seed Bed
Privacies
Problem in Construction
Process
Project for Autumn, A
Projection
Prospect of Five-Month-Old Females Awash

Box 58

Public Lecture
Quintet
Ragged Autumn
Rain Portrait
Reconstruction
Red Coat
Red Door
Rehearsals
Remembered Streetriders
Renewals
Return, The
Revisions: 1968
Rival
River: High Places
Rivers Is Stained, The...
River Song
Rivers, Roads, Blood Vessels
Roof, The
Room, The
Ruined Bridge Seen From a Plane
Rust-Colored Shirt, The
Sail, The
Sanderling
Scientist
Script
Scrub Peach Near Volcano, Hawaii: January
Search
Self-conscious Historian, The
Separate
September's Child
Shoreline
Six Twenty-six P.M.
Sleepers
Sleepless
Sodom
Song at drumholm
Song at End of Winter
Song for Denise, for Jolie, for Christie
Song for Emily
Song of the Giant of the Weather

Box 59

Songs...
Souterrain
Spanish Landscape
Spring Break-up
Stab at the Truth (Trying for Lost Darkness)
Start
Statement "I"
Statement "II"
Stevador
Still Life
Still Life: Hawaii
Still Life With Apple, Banana, and Two Guavas
Stone, The
Stone Beach: Connemara
Stone Burial
Stone of Ampurial, The
Stones at the Bottom of the Toy Box

Box 60

Summer
Summer Fragment
Sunday Schools
Swallows, the Windows, The
Swan Lake
Talking to the Darkness
Taste Like Salt; Brightness Like the Sea, A
Test, The
Thief
Thoughts on the Dissolution of the 11-year-old Tindall/Unterecker Seminar
Three
Three Figures on a Summer Landscape
Three Gratitudes and One Invocation from the Annual Midwinter Family
Tea
Three Pessimistic Poems
Three Rhymes for Everybody's Nursery
Three Short Poems Having to Do With Darkness
Tir Connaill
To John Donne
Torque
Toward
Toward Madeloc
Toward Morning
Transcript
Transformation
Travellers
True Waltz
Two Islands
Two Meditations From the Middle Ages
Two Trains (Noel Callow, Leaving)
Ulla Start, Spain
Unicorn Tapestry, The
Unidentified
Uninvited
Union Choir Service: Pennsylvania, June 22
Use For Summer and a Use For Sand, A
Valley, The
Variations

Box 61

Victory
Videotape: Eight Second Pause
Visit, The
Visitor
Volcano
Waiting
Warp
Washington Scene, The
Watchman
Waterfalls; Sea Arches; Roses
We Are In a Sea of Wild Flowers...
White Orchid
White Stone Beach, The
Who Let the Muzak Go Out of Our Mirage?
William Playing
Wind and Night Sky
Wind, Sky, and Sea
Wine

Box 62

Winter Leaves
Winter Night
Winter Poem
Winter Statements
Winter Storm
Winter Trees at Aiea
Within.Into.Inside.Under.Within...
Word, The
Yellow Laundry Soap, The, at...

OTHER MANUSCRIPTS

Box 62

Acting -- reviews
Addresses, records of publication, etc.
Addresses -- poetry
American Way -- ballet piece
American Way -- Hawaii piece
American Way -- photography and biography
American Way - poetry piece
American Way -- review (Bly, Wright, Orr)
American Way -- reviews
Anthology idea with Roger
Anthology Ideas (Jim Wise)
Article ideas and story ideas
Articles on my own poetry for Kentucky Poetry Review-- special issue
Articles
Articles -- The Architecture of the Bridge
Articles -- Evergreen Review
Articles -- "From Prison to Poetry" -- interview with Etheridge Knight
Article -- The President's Column -- Gloxina News
Articles -- Gloxina Society Columns
Articles -- HLAC Newsletter pieces
Article in Middlebury Campus -- 7/14/43
Article -- Ezra Pound encyclopedia piece (Harper's) 1974
Article -- tour
Article -- Yeats - New York Times
Auden as American
Biographical Statement -- Jack Unterecker

Box 63

Bishop, Elizabeth (2 folders)
Blurbs
Book mss. -- Conarroe Berryman
Book mss. -- Nelson Bly
Book mss. -- Orr Bly

Box 64

Book mss. -- Kidder Cummings
Book mss. -- Dance Sequence draft
Book mss. -- Dance Sequence ms. revisions
Book mss. -- Dance Sequence
Book mss. -- Dance Sequence -- publisher's copies and dominion
Book mss. -- Dance Sequence -- uncut
Book mss. -- Dance Sequence -- complete ms.
Book mss. -- Dark Vineyards, The

Box 65

Book mss. -- Dark Vineyards
Book mss. -- Dark Vineyards
Book mss. -- Dreaming Zoo, A
Book mss. -- Fifty-one Doors
Book mss. -- Forms of Modern British Fiction
Book mss. - -Hawaii anthology
Book mss. -- tentative Hawaii book
Book mss. -- I Learn By Going -- Heriman
Book mss. -- Hughes -- Onwachekwa Jemie

Box 66

Book mss. -- Lowell -- Rudman
Book mss. - -Merrill -- Moffett
Book mss. - -Objects and Persons in the Room, The
Book mss. -- Objects -- deletions and revisions

Box 67

Book mss. -- Objects -- exclusions from
Book mss. -- Objects -- draft ms.
Book mss. -- Objects -- original drafts
Book mss. -- Orr, Gregory - new book ms.
Book mss. -- Poetry Hawaii
" " -- Poetry Hawaii
" " -- Poetry Hawaii -- drafts
" " -- Poems of Living Hawaii -- accepted group
" " -- Poetry Hawaii -- records

Box 68

Book mss. -- Poetry Hawaii -- Typescript
" " -- " " -- early version
" " -- " "
" " -- " " -- preface
" " -- " " -- promotional meterial
" " -- Shoreline
" " -- " -- short version
" " -- "
" " -- Start -- original ms.
" " -- "
" " -- Stone -- first page proofs
" " -- " -- " " "
" " -- " -- early draft
" " -- " -- early draft -- incomplete
" " -- " -- ms. and permissons

Box 69

Book mss. -- Stone -- ms.
" " -- " -- ms, revisions
" " -- " -- ms.
" " -- Study of the Function..., A
" " -- Those Dying Generations (2 bound mss.)
" " -- Use for Summer and a Use for Sand, A

Box 70

Book mss. -- Use -- bound ms.
" " -- When the Winds Blow
" " -- Who Let the Music...
" " -- Yeats and Patrick McCartan -- 2 folders
" " -- Yeats -- drafts
" " -- Yeats: Twentieth Century Views
" " -- Reader's Guide to W.B. Yeats
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Dissertation Notes -- Yeats
Drafts -- Bishop Ms.
" Middle Ages, The
" Introductions
To Be Filed
Reader's Guide to W.B. Yeats Material

Box 71

Durrell Ms -- Durrell Conference
Durrell Mss. -- Durrell, Lawrence, etc.
Durrell mss. -- Durrell conference
East-West Conference
Essay mss. -- Durrell and Beckett piece
" " -- Eliot
" " -- GMA first draft
" " -- "The Irish Peasant"
" " -- "Of Father, Of Son"
" " --"Putting Together of William Butler Yeats"
" " -- "Response" -- re. Durrell
" " -- "Shape-changing of Contemporary Poetry"
" " -- "Shaping Force in Yeats' Plays, The"
" " -- Special Issue of Voyages
" " -- Yeats and Patrick McCartan

Box 72

Fiction Drafts
Fiction Inquest
Interview -- "To Kinnell, One's Self is One's Material"
Interview -- Liam Miller (two folders)
Modern British Anthology
National Book Award Citation
New York City Ballet book
Notes - Susanne Langer's Aesthetics class
Performance Poetry -- Concordium Hawaii
Performance Poetry -- Performance at Kokee
Performance Poetry -- Reading April 17, 1985
Performance Poetry -- Windward College
Play ms. - Lysistrata
Poems -- Unterecker

Box 73

Poems--Unterecker

Box 74

Poems--Unterecker
Poems sent to George and Bob
Poetry Circulation Records
Poetry -- possible chapbook - uncollected poems
Poetry -- pre 1944
Poetry - "Wine" and "Collioure" poems
Preface for Shapiro's Ashbery

Box 75

Prefaces--Conarroe's Berryman
Preface for Nelson's Bly
Preface for Kidder's Cummings
Preface for Ginsberg
Preface for Jemie book (2 folders)
Preface for Schlossberg's Imaginary Conversation with Einstein and
Beckett
Preface for Orr's Kunitz
Preface for Rudman's Lowell
Preface for Moffett's Merrill
Preface for Quinn's Pound
Preface for Weston's Stevens
Prose (2 folders)
Reviews (misc.)
Reviews -- Columbia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Review
Reviews -- Dembo's Hart Crane's Sanskrit Charge
Reviews -- Dream of Alcestis, The
Reviews -- Frumkin reading
Reviews -- Frumkin, Gene -- Clouds and Red Earth
Reviews -- Harris: Coole Park and Ballylee
Reviews -- Hart's Bridge
Reviews -- American Way -- "Imagining Mind..."
Reviews -- Krupot -- Woodsmen or Thoreau and the Indians
Reviews -- Lohf, Lewis, Leibowitz, Voelcker
Reviews -- Martin -- With Friends Possessed
Reviews -- McPherson -- Singing With the Owls
Reviews -- Murphy -- Prodigal Father
Reviews -- Murphy -- Yeats
Reviews -- New Leader
Reviews -- New York Times Nature Poetry Roundup
Reviews -- Parkinson -- Crane/Winters correspondence
Reviews -- Poetry Hawaii
Reviews -- Schwartz -- Hart Crane: an Annotated Critical Bibliography
Reviews -- Shapiro -- Ashbery

Box 76

Reviews -- Stewart -- The Open Water
Reviews -- Taylor -- Essays in Teaching
Reviews -- "Voices and Visions: Robert Frost"
Reviews -- Wood -- Bazaar
Statements -- Voyager
Text -- Goodbye Walls
Thomas, Dylan -- record cover piece

SUBJECT FILES

Box 76

Acting
Applications
Automobile Receipts and warrants
Awards and prizes
Biography -- old and out of date
Christmas cards -- homemade
Christmas cards -- 1954
Christmas card material
Conferences
Contests -- poetry
Contracts -- book
Contracts and permission fees
Contracts -- teaching
Course descriptions
Current biography
Editorial -- Poetry Pilot
Editors

Box 77

Education
Fellowships
France
Ghana
Grants -- ACLS -- 1972
Grants -- ACLS -- 1961, Guggenheim
Grants -- National Foundation Grant Applications
Hawaii -- Endangered species
Interviews
Kenya
Maps
Miscellaneous writings
Poetry publication record
Program notes
Publications sent to Roger Conover
Publication miscellany
Published prose -- annual lists

Box 78

Star Bulletin paper
Texas -- maps and brochures
Transparencies
Yeats, Joyce, Beckett book
Drawings
Documents
Photographs
Printed Materials

Box 79

Voyager (3 copies); August 22 (printed score); and a folder of Voyager reviews.

Boxes 80-88

Periodicals with contributions by Unterecker, A-Z

Boxes 89-91

Periodicals, unsorted, with contributions by Unterecker

Boxes 92-96

Books belonging to Unterecker