Richard Hugo papers and other materials, 1940-1997

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Hugo, Richard, 1923-1982
Title
Richard Hugo papers and other materials
Dates
1940-1997 (inclusive)
Quantity
15.8 cubic feet (25 boxes)
3 vertical files
11 microfilm reels
1 film reel
1 audio cassette tape
1 oversize tube
Collection Number
3655
Summary
Poet, teacher, critic in Seattle, Washington, and Missoula, Montana
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Access to portions of the papers restricted. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Richard Hugo was born December 21, 1923 in Seattle and was raised in White Center, a working class district of Seattle. Hugo lived with his grandparents for most of his childhood and early adult life. He served as a bombardier in Italy during World War II. Following the war, Hugo attended the University of Washington, where he studied writing with Theodore Roethke. He earned a BA in 1948 and a MA in 1952. In 1959 Hugo, along with Carolyn Kizer, Earl Pritchard and Nelson Bentley, founded the literary magazine Poetry Northwest.

While continuing to write poetry, Hugo supported himself for 13 years by working for the Boeing Aircraft Company in various jobs, including that of a technical writer. In 1963 he left Boeing to revisit Italy. He returned to the United States in 1964 to accept a teaching position at the University of Montana, where he became Director of the Creative Writing Program in 1971, and where he continued to teach until his death.

During the last two decades of his life, Hugo's reputation as a writer grew with the publication of nine collections of poetry, three chapbooks, a collection of essays and a detective novel. He was twice nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1968, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded him a traveling grant which allowed him to revisit Italy. In 1976 he was appointed editor of the Yale Younger Poets Series. In 1977 Hugo received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, which allowed him to live in Scotland from 1977-1978. At various times he was a guest lecturer at the University of Iowa, University of Arkansas, University of Colorado, and University of Washington. Hugo survived the loss of a lung to cancer in 1980, but died of leukemia in Seattle on October 22, 1982.

Posthumous publications of Hugo's work include a chapbook, Sea Lanes Out; collected poems, Making Certain It Goes On; and a collection of autobiographical essays, The Real West Marginal Way.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Correspondence, literary manuscripts, publications, annotated books, photographs, personal documents, film and videotape.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The University of Washington does not currently own any rights under copyright in the materials contained in collection 3655. Some of the rights are owned by Melissa Hansen of Waldport, Oregon, who is the literary executor of Richard Hugo’s estate. Rights in works in Accession No. 3655-001 that were unpublished as of December 18, 2012 are assigned to Lois Welch of Missoula, Montana.

Alternative Forms Available

Part of this collection is also available on microfilm in Accession No. 3655-006. Microfilm may be borrowed through interlibrary loan. Items from this accession not filmed include galleys, page proofs, printer's copies and unedited typescripts of Hugo's books; journals and other publications, correspondence regarding permission to publish or reproduce Hugo's work, three dimensional objects and unannotated books.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Arranged in 10 accessions:

  • Accession No. 3655-001, Richard Hugo papers, 1942-1983
  • Accession No. 3655-005, Richard Hugo papers, 1971-1985
  • Accession No. 3655-006, Microfilm of Richard Hugo papers, 1942-1985
  • Accession No. 3655-007, Richard Hugo papers, 1959-1979
  • Accession No. 3655-008, Richard Hugo videotape, 1982
  • Accession No. 3655-009, Richard Hugo high school yearbook, 1940
  • Accession No. 3655-010, Richard Hugo fishing gear, circa 1950-1980
  • Accession No. 3655-012, Richard Hugo letters, 1963-1964
  • Accession No. 3655-013, Richard Hugo writings, 1949,1978
  • Accession No. 3655-014, Richard Hugo annotated Wallace Stevens book, 1945

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Accession No. 3655-001: Richard Hugo papers, 1942-1983 (bulk 1973-1982)Return to Top

11.08 cubic feet (21 boxes plus film, videotape, audiocassette, and 1 oversized vertical file)

Scope and Content: Correspondence, notebooks, literary manuscripts, publications, photographs, personal documents, film.

This accession mainly reflects the later period of Hugo's career, from the 1970s through 1982. Acquired from Hugo's widow, Ripley Hugo, it also includes publications and plaques acquired from her subsequently, typescripts and galleys from publisher W.W. Norton and correspondence photocopied from originals lent by Norton. Some of the outgoing letters are originals which were donated by their recipients. The poetry notebooks are undated, but cover the later period of Hugo's career; Ripley Hugo attempted to assign approximate dates to some of them.

The Poetry Collections series consists mainly of typescripts or galleys of Hugo's published collections. An unpublished "New Book," however, consists of typed drafts of poems, some of which show minor revisions and some of which never appeared in book form.

The Publications series consists of many, though not all, of the periodicals and a few monographs in which Hugo's poems and other writings appeared. The annotated books represent only a small part of his library.

The Yale Younger Poets series represents Hugo's work as editor of that series from 1977 to 1982. He selected the winner of the competition each year and wrote an introduction to the winner's book. The bulk of the series consists of drafts of Hugo's introductions.

The Ripley Hugo series is primarily papers of his widow concerning Hugo's posthumous publications.

Terminology:

  • Galleys: uncut printings of a publication, with page breaks not made, which may show author's corrections
  • Page proofs: facsimiles of pages as they will appear in publication
  • Printer's copy: printed or typed version, copy-edited with instructions for the printer

Arrangement: The original order of the correspondence in the University of Washington's collection was retained whenever an order was apparent, hence General Correspondence and Outgoing Letters are arranged chronologically while Incoming Letters are alphabetical. Poetry drafts are arranged in alphabetical order by the title of the poem as it was eventually published, with previous titles indicated in parentheses. Untitled poems were listed by first line. Many of the drafts were found folded inside the notebooks and some were in unrelated files; these have been incorporated into the order described. The material in the Poetry Collections series had been arranged and listed alphabetically since there was no apparent original order. Essays were arranged in the order they appeared in Hugo's two published collections, listed by published title. All versions were brought together although early versions sometimes differ considerably. Fragments remain because it was not always possible to piece together drafts. Preliminary or alternative titles of essays are indicated in parentheses. In the Yale Younger Poets series, the drafts of Hugo's introductions to the winners' books and related papers are grouped for each publication in the series, in the order that they were published.

Restrictions on Access: Certain series in the Hugo papers were closed or subject to restrictions on their use at the time of microfilming.

Rrestricted material was filmed on separate reels which will not be circulated until such time as each restriction is lifted or the material is opened for research use. The restricted material is listed on the inventory in sequence with the rest of the papers.

Acquisition Info: The bulk of the Richard Hugo papers were purchased from Ripley Hugo and were received in July 1985. Publications, plaques and additional material were added by Ripley Hugo in December 1985. Typescripts and galleys of Making Certain It Goes On and The Real West Marginal Way were received from W.W. Norton in January 1986. Norton also loaned their correspondence with Hugo for photocopying.

Separated Material: Box 21 containing material from the University of Montana (Missoula) Creative Writing Program under Hugo's direction was transferred to the University of Montana Archives, January 2019.

Processing Info: Processing completed in 1985-1986.

This accession is a merger of Accession Nos. 3655-001, 3655-002, 3655-003 and 3655-004.

Two books of poetry annotated by Richard Hugo: 1962 edition of Traveling through the Dark by William Stafford, and Words for the Wind by Theodore Roethke, 1965 edition were originally accession as 3655-004. These items can be found in box 18 of this accession (3655-001).

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 3655-001
Biographical features
3 items
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 1 (Accession No. 3655-006).
undated
Correspondence
1963-1983
Incoming letters
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 10 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Box/Folder Accession
1/2 3655-001
Bell, Marvin
1 item
1981
1/3 3655-001
DeFrees, Madeline
1 item
Scope and Content: with poem, typed draft, 2 pages
1982
1/4 3655-001
Guthrie, A. B.
1 item
1980
1/5 3655-001
Hall, Donald
3 items
1974-1982
1/6 3655-001
Hanson, Ken
3 items
1980-1982
1/7 3655-001
Harkness, Edward
3 items
Scope and Content: with 6 poems, typed draft, 9 pages
1977-1981
1/8 3655-001
Hellstrom, Lars Gustav
8 items
1979-1981
1/9 3655-001
Hersey, John
1 item
1977
1/10 3655-001
Kauffman, Stanley
7 items
1976-1981
1/11 3655-001
Kinnell, Galway
1 item
1980
1/12 3655-001
Kizer, Carolyn
1 item
1977
1/13 3655-001
Levine, Philip
5 items
1977-1981
1/14 3655-001
Moss, Howard
1 item
1982
1/15 3655-001
MacLean, Sorley (Somhairle MacGill-Eain)
2 items
1979-1980
1/16 3655-001
Montana State University, Bozeman
3 items
1982
1/17 3655-001
Patterson, Caroline E.
2 items
Scope and Content: with 4 poems, typed draft, 4 pages
1981-1982
1/18 3655-001
Root, William Pitt
1 item
1982
1/19 3655-001
Sexton, Anne
2 items
1963
1/20 3655-001
Sheep Meadow Press
3 items
1976-1977
1/21 3655-001
Skelton, Robin
2 items
1963
1/22 3655-001
Stafford, Kim
1 item
Scope and Content: with poem, typed draft/photocopy
1981
1/23 3655-001
Stafford, William
29 items
1959-1980
1/24 3655-001
Stitt, Peter
3 items
1981-1982
1/25 3655-001
Wagoner, David
4 items
Scope and Content: one letter closed
1980-1982
1/26 3655-001
Warren, Robert Penn
1 item
1980
1/27 3655-001
Wright, Annie
2 items
1980
1/28 3655-001
Wright, James
6 items
1964-1979
1/29 3655-001
Zimmer, Paul
3 items
1982
1/30-40 3655-001
A-Z miscellaneous
135 items
1961, 1972-1983
1/41 3655-001
Unidentified
3 items
1978-1982
Box/Folder Accession
1/42-44-2/1-2 3655-001
Outgoing letters to W.W. Norton and Company
142 items
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 1 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1972-1982
2/3-4 3655-001
General correspondence with W.W. Norton and Company (including John Benedict)
64 items
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 1 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1972-1982
2/5-17 3655-001
Outgoing letters
167 items
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 1 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1966-1982
2/18-27 3655-001
General correspondence
219 items
Digital Content/Other Formats: Most items available on microfilm reel 10 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1972-1982
3/1 3655-001
General correspondence regarding Sorley MacLean article
5 items
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 1 (Accession No. 3655-006).
General Notes: See also 13/8-11
1978
3/2 3655-001
General correspondence regarding permissions
52 items
1972-1982
Literary manuscripts
circa 1973-1986
Poetry notebooks
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 3 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Box/Folder Accession
3/3 3655-001
Notebook A
Scope and Content: Includes poems published in Lady In Kicking Horse Reservoir (1973), What Thou Lovest Well Remains American (1975), 31 Letters and 13 Dreams (1977)
before 1973?
3/4 3655-001
Notebook B
Scope and Content: Includes poems published in Lady In Kicking Horse Reservoir (1973), What Thou Lovest Well Remains American (1975), 31 Letters and 13 Dreams (1977)
before 1973?
3/5 3655-001
Notebook C
Scope and Content: Includes poems published in What Thou Lovest Well Remains American, 31 Letters and 13 Dreams, and White Center (1980)
circa 1973-1975
3/6 3655-001
Notebook D
Scope and Content: Includes poems published in 31 Letters, White Center, diary published as "The Upstate New York Poetry Circuit, " and other essays
circa 1974-1976
3/7 3655-001
Notebook E
Scope and Content: Includes poems published in White Center, and one from The Right Madness on Skye (1980)
circa 1975-1977
3/8 3655-001
Notebook F
Scope and Content: fragment
circa 1975
3/9 3655-001
Notebook G
Scope and Content: Includes poems published in The Right Madness, and Making Certain It Goes On (posthumous 1984)
1977 Summer -1978
3/10 3655-001
Notebook H
Scope and Content: Last notebook. Includes poems published in Making Certain It Goes On
circa 1981-1982
Poetry drafts
General Notes: 1 page per entry, unless otherwise noted
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 3 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Box/Folder Accession
4/1 3655-001
"Ashville"
Box/Folder Accession
4/1 3655-001
Autograph draft
2 pages
undated
4/1 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
undated
4/2 3655-001
"The Ballpark at Moiese"
Box/Folder Accession
4/2 3655-001
Autograph draft
6 pages
undated
4/3 3655-001
"Bear Paw"
Box/Folder Accession
4/3 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
4/4 3655-001
"The Braes"
1977-1978
Box/Folder Accession
4/4 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/5 3655-001
"The Cairn in Loch an Duin"
Box/Folder Accession
4/5 3655-001
Autograph draft
2 pages
undated
4/5 3655-001
Typed draft with revision
undated
4/6 3655-001
"Canal"
Box/Folder Accession
4/6 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/7 3655-001
"The Cloud Some Live in in a Book"
Box/Folder Accession
4/7 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/8 3655-001
"Confederate Graves in Little Rock"
Box/Folder Accession
4/8 3655-001
Typed draft
2 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
undated
4/8 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
undated
4/9 3655-001
"Dawn at Noon"
Box/Folder Accession
4/9 3655-001
Autograph draft
General Notes: 2 copies
undated
4/10 3655-001
"Death in the Aquarium"
Box/Folder Accession
4/10 3655-001
Autograph draft
2 pages
undated
4/11 3655-001
"Drift Fishing"
Box/Folder Accession
4/11 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/12 3655-001
"1805 Gratiot"
Box/Folder Accession
4/12 3655-001
Autograph draft
3 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
undated
4/12 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
undated
4/13 3655-001
"Elegy, in memory, Harold Herndon"
Box/Folder Accession
4/13 3655-001
Typed draft
undated
4/14 3655-001
"Flying, Reflying, Farming"
Box/Folder Accession
4/14 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/15 3655-001
"Fort Benton"
Box/Folder Accession
4/15 3655-001
Autograph draft
5 pages
General Notes: 4 copies
undated
4/15 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
undated
4/16 3655-001
"40, for Kathy Cooney"
Box/Folder Accession
4/16 3655-001
Typed draft
1982
4/17 3655-001
"From Altitude, the Diamonds"
Box/Folder Accession
4/17 3655-001
Autograph draft
2 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
undated
4/17 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
undated
4/18 3655-001
"George Stubbs at Yale"
Box/Folder Accession
4/18 3655-001
Autograph draft
5 pages
General Notes: 4 copies
undated
4/19 3655-001
"Getty"
Box/Folder Accession
4/19 3655-001
Autograph draft
4 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
undated
4/20 3655-001
"Glen Uig"
Box/Folder Accession
4/20 3655-001
Autograph draft
3 pages
General Notes: 3 copies
1977-1978
4/20 3655-001
Typed draft
2 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
1977-1978
4/20 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
1977-1978
4/21 3655-001
"Golden Wedding"
Box/Folder Accession
4/21 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/22 3655-001
"Green Stone"
Box/Folder Accession
4/22 3655-001
Autograph draft
2 pages
circa 1981-1982
4/22 3655-001
Typed draft
circa 1981-1982
4/23 3655-001
"Home Count"
Box/Folder Accession
4/23 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/24 3655-001
"How to Use a Storm (Stages of a Storm)"
Box/Folder Accession
4/24 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/25 3655-001
"Ideals"
Box/Folder Accession
4/25 3655-001
Autograph draft
5 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
undated
4/26 3655-001
"Imagining Delaware"
Box/Folder Accession
4/26 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/26 3655-001
Typed draft
undated
4/27 3655-001
"In Memory, James Wright"
Box/Folder Accession
4/27 3655-001
Typed draft
1978
4/27 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
1978
4/28 3655-001
"In this dark olive water one girl plays... "
Box/Folder Accession
4/28 3655-001
Autograph draft
6 pages
undated
4/29 3655-001
"Langaig"
Box/Folder Accession
4/29 3655-001
Autograph draft
3 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
1977-1978
4/30 3655-001
"Letter to Abse from America"
Box/Folder Accession
4/30 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
2 pages
undated
4/31 3655-001
"Letter to MacCaig from America"
Box/Folder Accession
4/31 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
4/32 3655-001
"Letter to Mantsch from Havre"
Box/Folder Accession
4/32 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/33 3655-001
"Letter to Scanlon from Whitehall"
Box/Folder Accession
4/33 3655-001
Autograph draft
2 pages
undated
4/34 3655-001
"Medical Report"
Box/Folder Accession
4/34 3655-001
Autograph draft
8 pages
General Notes: 4 copies?
undated
4/34 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
2 pages
undated
4/35 3655-001
"Open Country"
Box/Folder Accession
4/35 3655-001
Autograph draft
3 pages
General Notes: 3 copies
undated
4/36 3655-001
"The Other Beaverbank"
Box/Folder Accession
4/36 3655-001
Autograph draft
3 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
undated
4/37 3655-001
"Overlooking Yale"
Box/Folder Accession
4/37 3655-001
Autograph draft
3 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
undated
4/38 3655-001
"Piping to You On Skye From Lewis"
Box/Folder Accession
4/38 3655-001
Autograph draft
3 pages
General Notes: 3 copies
1977-1978
4/39 3655-001
"Pishkun Reservoir
Box/Folder Accession
4/39 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/40 3655-001
"Red Stone"
Box/Folder Accession
4/40 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/41 3655-001
"Salt Water Story"
Box/Folder Accession
4/41 3655-001
Autograph draft
8 pages
General Notes: 3 copies?
1981
4/42 3655-001
Typed annotated draft
2 pages
1981
4/42 3655-001
Typed draft
4 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
undated
4/43 3655-001
"A Snapshot of Uig (in Montana)"
Box/Folder Accession
4/43 3655-001
Autograph draft
3 pages
General Notes: 3 copies
undated
4/44 3655-001
"St. Clement's: Harris"
Box/Folder Accession
4/44 3655-001
Autograph draft
2 pages
1977
4/44 3655-001
Typed draft printer's copy
2 pages
1977
4/44 3655-001
Cover letter from The New Yorker
undated
4/45 3655-001
"St. John's Chapel"
Box/Folder Accession
4/45 3655-001
Autograph draft
2 pages
1977-1978
4/46 3655-001
"Third Birthday for Jessie and Joey On Stage"
Box/Folder Accession
4/46 3655-001
Autograph draft
2 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
undated
4/47 3655-001
"To give the dead a good view... "
Box/Folder Accession
4/47 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/48 3655-001
"To Women"
Box/Folder Accession
4/48 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
undated
4/49 3655-001
"The Towns We Know (and Leave Behind), the Rivers (We Carry With Us)"
Box/Folder Accession
4/49 3655-001
Autograph draft
5 pages
undated
4/50 3655-001
"When I'm convinced no harm could happen..."
Box/Folder Accession
4/50 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
4/51 3655-001
"When the moon is black we say no moon..."
Box/Folder Accession
4/51 3655-001
Autograph draft
3 pages
General Notes: 3 copies
undated
4/52 3655-001
"Where the House Was"
Box/Folder Accession
4/52 3655-001
Autograph draft
undated
Poetry collections
Scope and Content: Dates are the publication date of the collection.
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
1973
Box/Folder Accession
5/1 3655-001
Table of Contents, acknowledgements, notes
5 items
undated
What Thou Lovest Well Remains American
1975
Box/Folder Accession
5/2 3655-001
Typescript
50 pages
undated
5/3 3655-001
Typescript/photocopy
76 pages
Scope and Content: Includes poems not used
undated
31 Letters and 13 Dreams
1977
Box/Folder Accession
5/4 3655-001
Typescript
48 pages
undated
5/5 3655-001
Galley
23 pages
undated
5/6 3655-001
Printer's copy
56 pages
undated
The Right Madness of Skye
1980
Box/Folder Accession
5/7 3655-001
Typescript
40 pages
undated
5/8 3655-001
Printer's copy
41 pages
undated
Selected Poems
1980
Box/Folder Accession
5/9-5/10 3655-001
Page proofs
124 pages
undated
White Center
1980
Box/Folder Accession
5/11 3655-001
Typescript
59 pages
Scope and Content: Includes poems not used
undated
5/12 3655-001
Typescript
57 pages
undated
5/13 3655-001
Autograph draft (Table of Contents)
2 pages
undated
5/14 3655-001
Printer's copy
53 pages
undated
Sea Lanes Out
1983
Box/Folder Accession
5/15 3655-001
Typescript
20 pages
undated
Making Certain It Goes On
1984
Box/Folder Accession
6/1 3655-001
Typescript
31 pages
undated
6/2 3655-001
Typescript
36 pages
General Notes: Mostly photocopies
undated
6/3-4 3655-001
Uncorrected galley
214 pages
undated
6/5-6 3655-001
Galley
210 pages
undated
6/7-7/3 3655-001
Page proofs
616 pages
undated
7/4 3655-001
Typescript of index
42 pages
undated
Family Matters (unpublished -- Graywolf Press)
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 4 (Accession No. 3655-006).
undated
Box/Folder Accession
7/5 3655-001
Typescript
46 pages
undated
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
"New Book"
1 page unless otherwise noted
Scope and Content: Unpublished book. Many drafts annotated with publication information.
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 4 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
"After a Train Trip, One Town Remains"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
undated
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
7/6 3655-001
"The Age Ahead"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
7/6 3655-001
"Aging at Home"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
7/6 3655-001
"All We Know of This City"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
7/6 3655-001
"At Our Best"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
undated
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
7/6 3655-001
"Beaverbank"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft
undated
7/6 3655-001
"Belt"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
7/6 3655-001
"Bicentennial Canal"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
7/6 3655-001
"Bone Hunting"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft
undated
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
undated
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
7/6 3655-001
"Brief History"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft
undated
7/6 3655-001
"The Carnival Inside"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
7/6 3655-001
"Changes at Meridian"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
undated
7/6 3655-001
"China Decomposed"
Box/Folder Accession
7/6 3655-001
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"The Cloud Some Live in in a Book"
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"December 24, Alone"
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"Doing the House"
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"Dwelling"
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"1805 Gratiot"
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"Fairfield"
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"Fishtrap"
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"Five Shots in the Album"
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"Flying, Reflying, Farming"
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"From Altitude, The Diamonds"
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"Getty"
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"The Glider Over Boulder"
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"Graves"
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"Guns at Fort Flagler"
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"High Grass Prairie"
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"Horses at Cannon Beach"
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"Houses"
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"How Meadows Trick You"
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"How to Use a Storm"
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"Imagining Delaware"
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"In June"
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"Leaving the Dream"
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"Letter to Mantsch from Havre"
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"Letter to Simic from Boulder""
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"A Lithograph of the Breaks"
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"Longfellow Creek"
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"Medicine Bow"
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"Museum of Cruel Days"
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"Over Reaction"
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"Overlooking Yale"
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"Poem in October"
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"Prediction"
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"Repairing the House, the Church, Restoring the Music"
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"The River Now"
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"The Saltimbanques"
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"Salvation in Montana"
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"The Sandbanks"
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"Scene"
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"The Small Oil Left in the House We Rented in Boulder"
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"Snow Poem"
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"Sound Track Conditional"
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"Sources"
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"Squatter"
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"Thinking Montana"
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"To Women"
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"Wheel of Fortune"
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"Where Wylie Ends"
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"White Center"
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"Why Ici Will Not Be a Pig"
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With Melissa at the Shore
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VF:oversize
OS Vertical File 3655-001
Broadside of With Melissa at the Shore
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"With Ripley at The Grave of Albert Parenteau"
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Poems not included in Making Certain It Goes On
Box/Folder Accession
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40, for Kathy Cooney
Box/Folder Accession
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7/9 3655-001
Why Ici Will Not Be a Pig
Box/Folder Accession
7/9 3655-001
Page Proof
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Box Accession
8 3655-001
Short story--"In Those Days"
27 pages
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 11 (Accession No. 3655-006).
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Novels
Box Accession
8 3655-001
Untitled novel
207 pages
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 11 (Accession No. 3655-006).
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Death and the Good Life (Admit Impediments Then Kill)
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 4 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1981
Box/Folder Accession
9/1-3 3655-001
Autograph draft
100 pages
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9/4-6 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
158 pages
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9/7 3655-001
Autograph draft - miscellaneous pages
49 pages
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9/8-11 3655-001
Typescript
315 pages
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9/12 3655-001
Author's corrections
10 pages
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The Saltese Falcon
Scope and Content: Incomplete and unpublished
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 4 (Accession No. 3655-006).
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Box/Folder Accession
9/13 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
5 pages
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9/14 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
45 pages
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9/15 3655-001
Research material
14 pages
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Unpublished play - "You are Lake This Is"
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 4 (Accession No. 3655-006).
undated
Box/Folder Accession
9/16 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
36 pages
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Essays
Digital Content/Other Formats: Most available on microfilm reels 5-7 (Accession No. 3655-006).
The Triggering Town
1979
Introduction
Box/Folder Accession
10/1 3655-001
Autograph draft
3 pages
General Notes: 2 copies
undated
10/1 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
2 pages
undated
10/2 3655-001
Typescript
19 pages
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"Writing Off the Subject" ("Poetry in the Classroom")
Box/Folder Accession
10/3 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
9 pages
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10/4 3655-001
Typescript
11 pages
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10/4 3655-001
Photocopy
11 pages
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"The Triggering Town"
Box/Folder Accession
10/5 3655-001
Autograph draft ("Chorus Girls and Grain")
8 pages
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10/6 3655-001
Autograph draft ("The Imagination")
5 pages
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10/7 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
10 pages
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10/8 3655-001
Typescript
10 pages
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"Assumptions"
Box/Folder Accession
10/9 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
3 pages
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10/10 3655-001
Typescript
8 pages
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"Stray Thoughts on Roethke and Teaching"
Box/Folder Accession
10/11 3655-001
Autograph draft
11 page
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10/12 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
10 pages
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10/13 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
13 pages
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10/14 3655-001
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10 pages
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10/15 3655-001
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12 pages
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10/15 3655-001
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12 pages
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10/16 3655-001
Typescript
13 pages
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"Nuts and Bolts" ("Working and Revising")
Box/Folder Accession
10/17 3655-001
Autograph draft
5 pages
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10/18 3655-001
Autograph draft
20 pages
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10/19 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
20 pages
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10/20 3655-001
Typescript
23 pages
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10/20 3655-001
Typescript
20 pages
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"In Defense of Creative Writing Classes"
Box/Folder Accession
10/21 3655-001
Autograph draft
18 pages
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10/22 3655-001
Autograph draft/typed draft with revisions
24 pages
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10/23 3655-001
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12 pages
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10/24 3655-001
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16 pages
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10/25 3655-001
Typescript
19 pages
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"A Poet's Statement of Faith"
Box/Folder Accession
10/26 3655-001
Autograph draft ("How Poets Feel about Themselves")
10 pages
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10/27 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions ("Statement of Faith")
6 pages
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10/28 3655-001
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11 page
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10/29 3655-001
Typescript ("Statement of Faith") and notes
12 pages
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10/30 3655-001
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10 pages
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10/31 3655-001
Photocopy
4 pages
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"Ci Vediamo"
Box/Folder Accession
10/32 3655-001
Autograph draft
25 pages
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10/33 3655-001
Autograph draft/typed draft with revisions
26 pages
undated
10/34 3655-001
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29 pages
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"How Poets Make a Living"
Box/Folder Accession
10/35 3655-001
Autograph draft/typed draft with revisions ("The Dirty Poem Controversy")
20 pages
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10/36 3655-001
Autograph draft/typed draft
14 pages
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10/37 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
12 pages
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10/38 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
12 pages
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Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
12 pages
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Box/Folder Accession
10/39 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
11 page
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Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
11 page
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Box/Folder Accession
10/40 3655-001
Typescript
15 pages
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10/41 3655-001
Source material
5 pages
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The Triggering Town
Box/Folder Accession
10/42-43 3655-001
Printer's copy
146 pages
undated
The Real West Marginal Way
1986
item
1986
"The Real West Marginal Way"
Box/Folder Accession
11/1 3655-001
Autograph draft
9 pages
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11/2 3655-001
Autograph draft (fragment)
5 pages
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11/3 3655-001
Autograph draft (fragment)
19 pages
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11/4 3655-001
Autograph draft/typed draft with revisions
11 page
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11/5 3655-001
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11 page
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11/5 3655-001
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11 page
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11/6 3655-001
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26 pages
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11/7 3655-001
Typed draft
17 pages
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11/7 3655-001
Typed draft
25 pages
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11/8 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
17 pages
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11/8 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
26 pages
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11/9 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
17 pages
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11/9 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
26 pages
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11/10 3655-001
Fragments
10 pages
undated
"The St. James Lutheran 5"
Box/Folder Accession
11/11 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
16 pages
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11/12 3655-001
Typed draft
14 pages
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11/13 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions and note
15 pages
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11/14 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
14 pages
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11/15 3655-001
Typed draft/fragment
2 pages
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"The Anxious Fields of Play" ("The Harmless Fields of Play")
Box/Folder Accession
11/16 3655-001
Autograph draft
27 pages
undated
11/17 3655-001
Autograph draft/typed draft with revisions
31 page
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11/18 3655-001
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38 pages
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11/19 3655-001
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18 pages
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11/20 3655-001
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28 pages
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11/20 3655-001
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28 pages
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11/21 3655-001
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28 pages
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11/22 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
26 pages
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"How I Never Met Eudora Welty"
Box/Folder Accession
11/23 3655-001
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6 pages
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"Grandfather's Car"
Box/Folder Accession
11/24 3655-001
Autograph draft
33 pages
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11/25 3655-001
Typed draft
27 pages
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11/26 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
33 pages
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11/27 3655-001
Fragments
16 pages
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"The White Line"
Box/Folder Accession
11/28 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
7 pages
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11/29 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
10 pages
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"Catch 22, Addendum"
Box/Folder Accession
11/30 3655-001
Typed draft
15 pages
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"You Could Love Here"
Box/Folder Accession
11/31 3655-001
Autograph draft
20 pages
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"Those Days I Was and Wasn't Wallace Stevens"
Box/Folder Accession
11/32 3655-001
Autograph draft/fragment ("When I Was and When I Wasn't Wallace Stevens")
3 pages
undated
11/33 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
5 pages
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11/34 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
5 pages
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11/35 3655-001
Fragments
5 pages
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"Small Waters and Tiny Words"
Box/Folder Accession
12/1 3655-001
Autograph draft ("Houses and Homes")
5 pages
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12/2 3655-001
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5 pages
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12/3 3655-001
Typed draft ("Influences")
15 pages
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12/4 3655-001
Fragments
3 pages
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12/5 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions ("At The Edge of Things")
26 pages
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12/6 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy and notes ("At The Edge of Things")
31 page
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12/7 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
10 pages
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12/8 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
15 pages
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12/9 3655-001
Typed draft
14 pages
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"Self Interview"
Box/Folder Accession
12/10 3655-001
Autograph draft/typed draft with revisions
39 pages
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12/11 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
32 pages
undated
12/12 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
6 pages
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12/13 3655-001
Fragments
2 pages
undated
"The Problem of Success"
Box/Folder Accession
12/14 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
11 page
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12/15 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy (fragment)
5 pages
undated
"James Wright"
Box/Folder Accession
12/16 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
18 pages
undated
12/17 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions and notes
23 pages
undated
12/18 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
22 pages
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12/19 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
22 pages
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12/20 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions (fragment)
11 page
undated
The Real West Marginal Way undated
Box/Folder Accession
12/21-24 3655-001
Typescript
295 pages
undated
Reviews by Hugo
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 7 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Richard Garcia (for American Poetry Review)
Box/Folder Accession
12/25 3655-001
Autograph draft
Notebook and 4 pages
undated
"Heroes of the West" by William Kittredge
circa 1978
Box/Folder Accession
12/26 3655-001
Autograph draft, fragment, notes
12 pages
undated
12/27 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
4 pages
undated
12/28 3655-001
Typescript
9 pages
undated
, The Names of the Lost by Philip Levine (for American Poetry Review)
1977 May/June
Box/Folder Accession
13/1 3655-001
Autograph draft
11 page
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13/2 3655-001
Autograph draft
10 pages
undated
13/3 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
10 pages
undated
13/4 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
12 pages
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13/5 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
10 pages
undated
13/6 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
9 pages
undated
13/6 3655-001
Typescript
9 pages
undated
13/7 3655-001
Fragments, notes
23 pages
undated
13/7 3655-001
Unidentified letter
2 pages
undated
"World Without Peculiarity" by Sorley MacLean (for American Poetry Review)
1979 November/December
Box/Folder Accession
13/8 3655-001
Autograph draft
11 page
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13/9 3655-001
Autograph draft
24 pages
undated
13/10 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
16 pages
undated
13/11 3655-001
Fragments, notes
6 pages
undated
13/11 3655-001
Clipping
1 page
undated
, Handbook of Ornament by Michael Poage, and The Blind Horses by Ed Lahey ( for the Missoulan)
1980
Box/Folder Accession
13/12 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
4 pages
undated
13/13 3655-001
Typescript
5 pages
undated
13/13 3655-001
Clipping
2 pages
undated
Kim Stafford
Box/Folder Accession
13/14 3655-001
Autograph draft
2 pages
undated
In Broken Country by David Wagoner (for The Weekly)
1979
Box/Folder Accession
13/15 3655-001
Typescript
6 pages
undated
Miscellaneous essays
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 7 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Box/Folder Accession
3/16 3655-001
"Discovering Montana Students" ("Montana Students")
1982
Box/Folder Accession
3/16 3655-001
Typescript
3 pages
undated
3/16 3655-001
Clipping
1 page
undated
13/17 3655-001
"On Drugs"
Box/Folder Accession
13/17 3655-001
Autograph draft
9 pages
undated
"The Upstate New York Poetry Circuit, a 15 Day Diary"
General Notes: See also Notebook D
undated
Box/Folder Accession
13/18 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
15 pages
undated
13/19 3655-001
Typescript with revisions
59 pages
undated
Box/Folder Accession
13/19 3655-001
Unidentified fragments
2 pages
undated
Speeches
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 7 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1974-1982
Commencement address for Carroll College
1977 May 1
Box/Folder Accession
13/21 3655-001
Autograph draft
4 pages
circa 1977 May
13/22 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
7 pages
circa 1977 May
"Creative Writing: The New Responsibility"
Scope and Content: Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) keynote address
Box/Folder Accession
13/23 3655-001
Typescript
11 pages
undated
Eulogy for David Smith
1974 April
Box/Folder Accession
13/24 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy
1 page
circa 1974 April
Receiving honorary doctorate at Montana State University
1982 June
Box/Folder Accession
13/25 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
4 pages
circa 1982 June
13/25 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
4 pages
circa 1982 June
Box/Folder Accession
13/26 3655-001
Miscellaneous fragments
2 pages
undated
Box/Folder Accession
13/27 3655-001
Teaching notes
1 notebook and 2 pages
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 7 (Accession No. 3655-006).
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Interviews of Hugo
Digital Content/Other Formats: Most items available on microfilm reel 7 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1971-1982
Interview by Donna Gerstenberger
Scope and Content: Used in A Trout in the Milk: A Composite Portrait of Richard Hugo, 1982.
General Notes: Audiocassette tape
1971
Box/Folder Accession
13/28 3655-001
For Ohio Review
13 pages
Scope and Content: Self-interview, possibly not published
undated
13/29 3655-001
By William Kittredge for Northwest Review Books
8 pages
1982
13/30 3655-001
Miscellaneous clippings
7 items
1971, 1976
Writings of others
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Poetry of others
Digital Content/Other Formats: Most items available on microfilm reel 8 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Box/Folder Accession
13/31 3655-001
DeFrees, Madeline, "The Odd Woman"
Box/Folder Accession
13/31 3655-001
Typed draft
1 page
undated
13/32 3655-001
Miscellaneous
34 pages
Scope and Content: Mostly student work
Essays on Hugo
Digital Content/Other Formats: Most items available on microfilm reel 8 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Box/Folder Accession
13/33 3655-001
Miscellaneous essays
61 pages
undated
13/34 3655-001
"The Importance of Richard Hugo," a thesis by Michael Allen
102 pages
undated
13/35 3655-001
Hugo's correspondence with Michael Allen regarding thesis
31 pages
undated
13/36 3655-001
Student papers
38 pages
undated
13/37 3655-001
Grade school papers
2 pages
undated
Reviews of Hugo's work
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 8 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Box/Folder Accession
14/1 3655-001
Reviews of more than one book
6 pages
undated
14/2 3655-001
A Run of Jacks
21 pages
undated
14/3 3655-001
Five Poets of the Pacific Northwest
14 pages
undated
14/4 3655-001
Death of the Kapowsin Tavern
16 pages
undated
14/5 3655-001
Good Luck in Cracked Italian
3 pages
undated
14/6 3655-001
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
14 pages
undated
14/7 3655-001
What Thou Lovest Well Remains American
10 pages
undated
14/8 3655-001
31 Letters and 13 Dreams
13 pages
undated
14/9 3655-001
The Triggering Town
6 pages
undated
14/10 3655-001
Selected Poems
11 pages
undated
14/11 3655-001
White Center
8 pages
undated
14/12 3655-001
The Right Madness on Skye
12 pages
undated
14/13 3655-001
Death and the Good Life
33 pages
undated
14/14 3655-001
Making Certain It Goes On
9 pages
undated
Miscellaneous papers and ephemera
Digital Content/Other Formats: Most items available on microfilm reels 8 and 9 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1942-1982, undated
Box/Folder Accession
14/15 3655-001
Announcements and handbills
11 items
undated
box-folder-VF:oversize
14/16/OS Vertical File 3655-001
Broadsides and card
2 items
undated
Clippings
Box/Folder Accession
14/17 3655-001
Published copies of poems
7 items
undated
14/18 3655-001
Article by Hugo
1 item
undated
14/19-20 3655-001
About Hugo
54 items
undated
14/21 3655-001
About Herbert F. Hugo (stepfather)
3 items
undated
Box/Folder Accession
14/22 3655-001
Bibliographies
19 items
undated
box-folder-VF:oversize
14/23/OS Vertical File 3655-001
Awards
18 items
undated
Box/Folder
14/24 3655-001
Invitations
2 items
1980
14/25 3655-001
Notes
2 items
undated
14/26 3655-001
Dust jackets
4 items
undated
14/27 3655-001
Questionnaires -- W.W. Norton
5 items
undated
14/28 3655-001
Book contract
1 item
1980
Certificates
2 pages
Box Accession
19 3655-001
Plaques
2 items
undated
19 3655-001
Matches -- "White Center"
undated
Box/Folder
15/11 3655-001
Miscellany
10 items
undated
15/12 3655-001
Legal documents
5 items
1942-1982
15/13 3655-001
Military service records
18 items
undated
15/14 3655-001
Personal documents
5 items
undated
Photographs
Digital Content/Other Formats: Most items available on microfilm reel 9 (Accession No. 3655-006).
undated
Box/Folder Accession
15/1 3655-001
Hugo
23 prints, 5 negatives
undated
15/2 3655-001
Portraits of Hugo
Thomas Victor (photographer)
11 prints, 2 negatives
undated
VF:oversize
OS Vertical File 3655-001
Portraits of Hugo
2 oversize prints
undated
Box/Folder
15/3 3655-001
Snapshots of Hugo
7 prints, miscellaneous negatives
undated
15/4 3655-001
Hugo with others
28 prints, 3 negatives
undated
15/5 3655-001
Others
7 prints, 1 negative
undated
15/6 3655-001
World War II
8 prints, 1 negatives
undated
15/7 3655-001
Herbert F. Hugo
12 prints
undated
15/8 3655-001
Family
15 prints, 1 negative
undated
15/9 3655-001
Unidentified
4 prints, 2 slides
undated
15/10 3655-001
Miscellaneous
7 items
undated
Publications
1960-1983
By Hugo
Scope and Content: Works are listed under the name of the publication in which they appear
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
American Poetry Review
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
Letter to Garber From Skye
1979 November/December
16 3655-001
"On Sorley MacLean: World Without Peculiarity"
Scope and Content: Essay
1979 November/December
16 3655-001
"Ashville"
undated
16 3655-001
"Making Certain It Goes On"
undated
16 3655-001
"Red Stone"
undated
16 3655-001
"Gray Stone"
undated
16 3655-001
Antaeus
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Death in the Aquarium"
1981 Winter/Spring
16 3655-001
Anyart Journal
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"After a Train Trip, One Town Remains"
1977 Summer
16 3655-001
Atlantic Monthly
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Houses"
1977 January
16 3655-001
"Villager""
1979 February
16 3655-001
"The Right Madness On Skye"
1979 November
16 3655-001
"Distances"
1982 August
16 3655-001
"A Good View From Flagstaff"
1975 July
16 3655-001
"High Grass Prairie"
1976 June
16 3655-001
Crazyhorse
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Confederate Graves in Little Rock"
1982 April
16 3655-001
Creel
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Bone Hunting"
undated
16 3655-001
Cutbank 20: A Celebration of Dick Hugo
1983
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"At the Edge of Things"
Scope and Content: Essay
1983
16 3655-001
"Salt Water Story"
1983
16 3655-001
"Keen to Leaky Flowers"
1983
16 3655-001
"West Marginal Way"
1983
16 3655-001
"Death of the Kapowsin Tavern"
1983
16 3655-001
"What the Brand New Freeway Won't Go By"
1983
16 3655-001
"Maratea Porto: The Dear Postmistress There"
1983
16 3655-001
"Cataldo Mission
1983
16 3655-001
"Missoula Softball Tournament"
1983
16 3655-001
"Ghost in a Field of Mint"
1983
16 3655-001
"From Altitude, the Diamonds"
1983
16 3655-001
"Letter to Scanlon From Whitehall"
1983
16 3655-001
"The Small Oil Left in the House We Rented in Boulder"
1983
16 3655-001
"The Right Madness on Skye"
1983
16 3655-001
"Green Stone"
1983
16 3655-001
"Gold Stone"
1983
16 3655-001
"Gray Stone"
1983
16 3655-001
"Red Stone"
1983
16 3655-001
"Brown Stone"
1983
16 3655-001
"Blue Stone"
1983
16 3655-001
"The Upstate New York Poetry Circuit "
Scope and Content: Prose
1983
16 3655-001
"Making Certain It Goes On"
1983
16 3655-001
Dacotah Territory
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Living Alone"
1973 Summer/Fall
16 3655-001
"Places and Ways to Live"
1973 Summer/Fall
16 3655-001
december
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Politely Like Snakes in the Oats"
1961
16 3655-001
"A Map of the Peninsula"
16 3655-001
Duwamish Head
Scope and Content: Chapbook
1976
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Duwamish"
1976
16 3655-001
"Duwamish No. 2"
1976
16 3655-001
"Tahola"
1976
16 3655-001
"Between the Bridges"
1976
16 3655-001
"Hideout"
1976
16 3655-001
"West Marginal Way"
1976
16 3655-001
"Back of Gino's Place"
1976
16 3655-001
"No Bells to Believe"
1976
16 3655-001
"Neighbor"
1976
16 3655-001
"The Other Grave
1976
16 3655-001
"Duwamish Head"
1976
16 3655-001
Field
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Phoning From Sweathouse Creek"
1970 Spring
16 3655-001
"Drums in Scotland"
1970 Spring
16 3655-001
"Landscapes"
1973 Fall
16 3655-001
"Sneosdal"
1978 Spring
16 3655-001
Five Poets of the Pacific Northwest
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"In Stafford Country"
1964
16 3655-001
"Tahola"
1964
16 3655-001
"Ocean on Monday"
1964
16 3655-001
"Neighbor"
1964
16 3655-001
"Digging is an Art"
1964
16 3655-001
"The Way a Ghost Dissolves"
1964
16 3655-001
"The Blonde Road"
1964
16 3655-001
"Death of the Kapowsin Tavern"
1964
16 3655-001
"Hideout"
1964
16 3655-001
"The Other Grave"
1964
16 3655-001
"Fort Casey Without Guns"
1964
16 3655-001
"Duwamish Head"
1964
16 3655-001
Graham House Review
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Medicine Bow"
1976 Summer
16 3655-001
"Aging at Home"
1976 Summer
16 3655-001
"Letter to Matthews From Barton Street Flats"
1976 Summer
16 3655-001
"Changes at Meridian"
1977 Spring
16 3655-001
Hotzarouli
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"2433 Agnes, First Home, Last House in Missoula"
undated
16 3655-001
"Without Women"
undated
16 3655-001
Kayak 2
1 page
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"For a Northern Woman"
undated
16 3655-001
"One By Twachtman at the Frye"
undated
16 3655-001
"Maratea Antica"
undated
16 3655-001
"Lake Byron, Maybe Gordon Lord"
undated
16 3655-001
"Castel Sant' Angelo"
undated
16 3655-001
Montana Review
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Admit Impediments then Kill "
Scope and Content: Fiction
1979-1980 Fall/Winter
16 3655-001
New American Poetry
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Ocean on Monday
1973
16 3655-001
"Blonde Road"
1973
16 3655-001
"In Stafford Country"
1973
16 3655-001
New American Review #5"
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"A Map of Montana in Italy "
1969
16 3655-001
Christmas With Shepherds in Brefano"
1969
16 3655-001
New Collage
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Dead Guitars by Salvatore"
1972
16 3655-001
"Quasimodo" translated by Hugo
1972
16 3655-001
New England Review
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Piping to You on Skye From Lewis"
1979 Summer
16 3655-001
"Uig Registrar"
1979 Summer
16 3655-001
"Clachard"
1979 Summer
16 3655-001
New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Bannerman's Island"
1982 Fall/Winter
16 3655-001
"Poem for Zen Hoffman"
1982 Fall/Winter
16 3655-001
New Poetry of the American West
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg"
1982
16 3655-001
"What Thou Lovest Well Remains American"
1982
16 3655-001
"A Snapshot of Uig in Montana"
1982
16 3655-001
"Greystone Cottage"
1982
16 3655-001
"Turtle Lake"
1982
16 3655-001
"Open Country"
1982
16 3655-001
"Museum of Cruel Days"
1982
16 3655-001
New Republic
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Here, But Unable to answer"
1982 May 5
16 3655-001
New Yorker
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Scene"
1976 October 4
16 3655-001
"Leaving the Dream"
1978 July 24
16 3655-001
"Museum of Cruel Days"
1978 October 16
16 3655-001
"Saltwater Story
1982 November 15
16 3655-001
Pequod
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Dwelling"
1976 Winter
16 3655-001
Poets West
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Montana Ranch Abandoned"
1975
16 3655-001
Rain in the Forest, Light in the Trees: Contemporary Poetry From the Northwest
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Montesano Unvisited"
1983
16 3655-001
"What the Brand New Freeway Won't Go By"
1983
16 3655-001
"Duwamish"
1983
16 3655-001
"Museum of Cruel Days"
1983
16 3655-001
"A Snapshot of the Auxiliary"
1983
16 3655-001
"The Art of Poetry"
1983
16 3655-001
"Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg"
1983
16 3655-001
"The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir"
1983
16 3655-001
"Wheel of Fortune"
1983
16 3655-001
"In Your Fugitive Dream"
1983
16 3655-001
"In Your Dream After Falling in Love"
1983
16 3655-001
"In Your Dream on the Eve of Success"
1983
16 3655-001
"The Right Madness on Skye"
1983
16 3655-001
Rocky Mountain Magazine
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Where the House Was"
1981 September/October
16 3655-001
"O-Mok-See at Nine Mile"
1981 September/October
16 3655-001
"Green Stone"
1981 September/October
16 3655-001
"Elegy"
1981 September/October
16 3655-001
Seattle Review
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"The Other Beaverbank"
1978 Spring
16 3655-001
"Open Country"
1978 Spring
16 3655-001
"The Semi-Lunatics of Kilmuir"
1980 Spring
16 3655-001
"Culloden"
1980 Spring
16 3655-001
"George Stubbs at Yale"
1980 Spring
16 3655-001
"Glen Uig"
1980 Spring
16 3655-001
Seizure Magazine
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"Dixon"
1972 Spring/Summer
16 3655-001
Shenandoah
1 page
Box/Folder Accession
16 3655-001
"To Women"
1977 Fall
16 3655-001
"From Altitude, the Diamonds"
1977 Fall
16 3655-001
"Doing the House
1977 Fall
17 3655-001
The Sixties
Box/Folder Accession
17 3655-001
From: Mission to Linz"
1960 Fall
17 3655-001
Western Wind, an introduction to Poetry
Scope and Content: Excerpts from poems.
1974
17 3655-001
What is That Country Standing Inside You
Box/Folder Accession
17 3655-001
"A Map of the Peninsula"
1976
17 3655-001
"Back of Gino's Place"
1976
17 3655-001
"Holy Family"
1976
Box/Folder Accession
17 3655-001
Articles about Hugo
3 pages
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 9 (Accession No. 3655-006).
undated
Annotated books
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 9 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1962-1976
Box Accession
18 3655-001
Auden, W.H., The Dyer's Hand
1962
Box/Folder
18 3655-001
Five poets of the Pacific Northwest
1964
Box
18 3655-001
Fuchs, Daniel, The Comic Spirit of Wallace Stevens
1963
18 3655-001
Levine, Philip, The Names of the Lost
1976
18 3655-001
Montale, Eugenio, Selected Poems
1965
18 3655-001
Muir, Edwin, Selected Poems
1965
18 3655-001
Neruda, Pablo, Twenty Poems
1967
18 3655-001
Roethke, Theodore, Collected Poems
1965
18 3655-001
Roethke, Theodore, Words for the Wind
1965
18 3655-001
Stafford, William, Allegiances
1970
18 3655-001
Stafford, William, The Rescued Year
1966
18 3655-001
Stafford, William, Traveling Through the Dark
1962
Box Accession
18 and oversize 3655-001
Film and videotape
1976-1977
Box Accession
18 and oversize 3655-001
"Kicking the Loose Gravel Home" by Annick Smith
1976-1977
Yale Series of Younger Poets
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reels 9 and 10 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1977-1983
General correspondence
Box/Folder Accession
20/1 3655-001
Kunitz, Stanley
2 pages
1977
20/2 3655-001
Warren, Robert Penn
2 pages
1977
20/3-4 3655-001
Miscellaneous
73 pages
1977, 1980-1982
Subject series
Ramke, Bin, The Difference Between Night and Day
1978
Box/Folder Accession
20/5 3655-001
General correspondence
3 pages
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 10 (Accession No. 3655-006).
circa 1978
20/5 3655-001
Literary manuscripts
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 9 (Accession No. 3655-006).
circa 1978
Box/Folder Accession
20/6 3655-001
Edited typescript
63 pages
circa 1978
20/7 3655-001
Autograph draft of foreword by Hugo
6 pages
circa 1978
20/7 3655-001
Autograph draft of foreword by Hugo
8 pages
circa 1978
20/7 3655-001
Fragment of foreword
5 pages
circa 1978
20/8 3655-001
Foreword, typed draft and cover letter
6 pages
circa 1978
20/9 3655-001
Transcript of foreword
7 pages
circa 1978
Ullmann, Leslie, Natural Histories
1979
Box/Folder Accession
20/10 3655-001
Outgoing letter
1978
Literary manuscripts -- Hugo's introduction
Box/Folder Accession
20/11 3655-001
Autograph draft
5 pages
circa 1978
20/11 3655-001
Autograph draft
7 pages
circa 1978
20/11 3655-001
Fragment
2 pages
circa 1978
20/12 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
4 pages
circa 1978
20/12 3655-001
Typescript
6 pages
circa 1978
Davis, William Virgil, One Way to Reconstruct the Scene
1980
Box/Folder Accession
20/13 3655-001
General correspondence
2 pages
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 10 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1979
Literary manuscripts -- Hugo's Foreword
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 9 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Box/Folder Accession
20/14 3655-001
Autograph draft
6 pages
circa 1979
Fragments
3 pages
circa 1979
Box/Folder Accession
20/15 3655-001
Fragment of typed draft with revisions
2 pages
circa 1979
20/16 3655-001
Autograph draft of poem "All Day the Rain"
1 page
circa 1979
Bensko, John, Green Soldiers,
1981
Literary manuscripts -- Hugo's foreword
Box/Folder Accession
20/17 3655-001
Autograph draft
5 pages
circa 1981
20/17 3655-001
Autograph draft
6 pages
circa 1981
20/18 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
4 pages
circa 1981
20/19 3655-001
Typescript
5 pages
circa 1981
20/20 3655-001
Notes, fragments
8 pages
circa 1981
20/21 3655-001
Clipping of review
1 page
circa 1981
Wojahn, David, Icehouse Lights
1982
Box/Folder Accession
20/22 3655-001
General correspondence
2 pages
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 10 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1981-1982
Literary manuscripts -- Hugo's foreword
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 9 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Box/Folder Accession
20/23 3655-001
Autograph draft
5 pages
circa 1982
20/23 3655-001
Notes, fragment
3 pages
circa 1982
20/23 3655-001
Typed draft
4 pages
circa 1982
20/24 3655-001
Typescript
6 pages
circa 1982
20/24 3655-001
Clipping
1 page
circa 1982
Song, Cathy, Picture Bride
1983
Box/Folder Accession
20/25 3655-001
General correspondence
11 pages
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 10 (Accession No. 3655-006).
1982
Literary manuscripts -- Hugo's foreword
Digital Content/Other Formats: Also available on microfilm reel 9 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Box/Folder Accession
20/26 3655-001
Autograph draft
4 pages
circa 1982
20/27 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
5 pages
circa 1982
20/28 3655-001
Typed draft with revisions
9 pages
circa 1982
20/29 3655-001
Fragments
4 pages
circa 1982
20/30 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy with revisions
6 pages
circa 1982
20/31 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy and letter
7 pages
circa 1982
20/32 3655-001
Typed draft and letter
7 pages
circa 1982
20/33 3655-001
Typed draft/photocopy (edited) and letter
7 pages
Box/Folder Accession
20/34 3655-001
Dust jacket
1 page
circa 1982
20/34 3655-001
Newsletter
1 page
1982
Box/Folder Accession
20/35 3655-001
News release
1 page
1977
20/36 3655-001
Clippings
4 pages
1977-1978
item
1976-1985
Ripley Hugo
Digital Content/Other Formats: Most items available on microfilm reel 9 (Accession No. 3655-006).
Correspondence
Incoming letters
Box Accession
8 3655-001
Gerstenberger, Donna
1 page
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted. Contact Special Collections for more information.
1982
Box/Folder
20/37 3655-001
Hugo, Richard
2 pages
1976, 1978
20/38 3655-001
Norton (W.W.) and Company
35 pages
1982-1983
20/39 3655-001
Miscellaneous
7 pages
1983-1985
Box/Folder Accession
20/40 3655-001
Outgoing letters to Richard Hugo
3 pages
1980, undated
20/41 3655-001
General correspondence regarding Richard Hugo's publications
10 pages
1983-1985
Subject series
Box/Folder Accession
20/42 3655-001
Sea Lanes Out, Dooryard Press
9 pages
1982-1983
20/43 3655-001
Richard Hugo's estate
4 pages
1982, undated
Box/Folder Accession
20/44 3655-001
Invitation
1 item
1985

Accession No. 3655-004: Richard Hugo annotated books, 1962, 1965Return to Top

2 books

Scope and Content: Two books of poetry annotated by Richard Hugo: 1962 edition of Traveling through the Dark by William Stafford, and Words for the Wind by Theodore Roethke, 1965 edition.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Purchased from bookseller Glenn Horowitz, August 15, 1986.

Accession No. 3655-005: Richard Hugo papers, 1971-1985Return to Top

.21 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: Interviews, photocopied letters, poems of workshop participants, photographs and reminiscences of Hugo. Bulk of the accession regards Richard Hugo Poetry Workshop held at Seattle Central Community College, July 7-11, 1980.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Gift of Phyllis K. Collier, December 1, 1986

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 3655-005
Publication containing interviews with Richard Hugo
Scope and Content: Interview by Donna Gerstenberger, 1971 Interview by Phyllis K. Collier, 1980
1986
1/2 3655-005
Outgoing correspondence
Scope and Content: Photocopies of letters from Richard Hugo to Phyllis K. Collier
1981, undated
1/3 3655-005
Application procedures for poetry workshop
1980
1/4 3655-005
Participants' poems used at workshop
1979-1980, undated
Photographs
Box/Folder Accession
1/5 3655-005
Richard Hugo
: 4x5 photographs
1971, 1979
1/5 3655-005
Group photograph of poetry workshop participants
1980 July 11
Box/Folder Accession
1/6 3655-005
Reminiscences of participants in 1980 workshop
1985, undated

Accession No. 3655-006: Microfilm of Richard Hugo papers, 1942-1985Return to Top

2.88 cubic feet (11 microfilm reels (positive))

Scope and Content: Microfilmed literary manuscripts, poetry notebooks, correspondence, publications, photographs, personal documents.

This microfilm contains material from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections and from the University of Montana Mansfield Library. The University of Washington materials consist of nearly all of Accession No. 3655-001, described above. The films also include 17 notebooks borrowed from the University of Montana. The notebooks from the University of Montana's collection are undated but are Hugo's earliest, beginning with class notes from his student days at the University of Washington. In addition to the notebooks, the University of Montana loaned 18 loose pages of literary manuscripts (an essay and several drafts of a poem).

See note in accession 3655-001 for an explanation of terms used to describe different types of drafts or copies of works.

Arrangement: The notebooks from the University of Montana's collection are numbered 1 through 15; two are unnumbered. Though their order is thought to have been established by Hugo when he donated them, the notebooks may not be in correct chronological sequence.As the inventory to the microfilm generally follows the inventory to the Hugo papers in Accession No. 3655-001, the entire inventory is not repeated here. The following inventory lists only the University of Montana materials, which are not part of Accession No. 3655-001. University of Montana papers were added to the inventory and filmed preceding their University of Washington counterparts. A detailed inventory to the microfilms is available in Special Collections. All of the University of Montana materials have been noted as such on the inventory and identified as such on film. All other filmed materials are from the University of Washington Libraries.

Restrictions on Access: All restricted material was filmed on separate reels which will not be circulated until such time as each restriction is lifted or the material is opened for research use. The restricted material is listed on the inventory in sequence with the rest of the papers.

Processing Info: Filmed in April 1988 by Alpha Information Management .

The papers filmed from the University of Washington were processed in 1985 and 1986.

For the purpose of the microfilm edition, the archives at the University of Montana Mansfield Library loaned Richard Hugo papers from its collection. These consisted of 17 notebooks and several literary manuscripts which were donated to the University archives by Hugo in 1968. The University archives staff chose to leave loose manuscript pages in place in the Hugo notebooks, and these pages were filmed in the order that they appear in the notebooks.

Certain categories of material in the Richard Hugo papers (Accession No. 3655-001) were omitted from the microfilm. These include:

  • galleys, page proofs and printer's copies of Hugo's books
  • unedited typescripts of Hugo's books which appear to be identical to the printed text
  • journals and other publications
  • three-dimensional objects
  • correspondence regarding permission to publish or reproduce Hugo's work
  • unannotated books

Literary manuscripts were counted and listed by number of pages; all other series were counted and listed by number of items.

Separated Material: Reels 12 (both positive and negative), comprised of administrative correspondence from Hugo's chairmanship of the University of Montana Creative Writing Program and as faculty member, was transferred to the University of Montana (Missoula) Archives, January 2019 along with the originals (box 21 of accession 3655-001) from which they were filmed.

Container(s) Description Dates
Materials from University of Montana Mansfield Library
Reel Accession
1-3 3655-006
Literary manuscripts - poetry notebooks
Notebooks numbered 1-15, plus 2 unnumbered notebooks.
circa 1947-68
3 3655-006
Literary manuscripts - poetry drafts - "Snoqualmie October"
Reel Accession
3 3655-006
Autograph draft
2 pages
Scope and Content: Previous titles: "October Snoqualmie," "Salmon in October"
undated
Literary manuscripts - essay
Reel Accession
4 3655-006
"Stafford's Landscape"
Reel Accession
4 3655-006
Autograph draft
11 pages
undated
Reel Accession
9 3655-006
Publications -- articles about Hugo
3 pages
undated

Accession No. 3655-007: Richard Hugo papers, 1959-1979Return to Top

.21 cubic foot (1 box)

Scope and Content: This small accession consists primarily of Hugo's letters to Jerome Mazzaro, a younger Detroit poet, later a critic, and, at that time, editor of a literary journal, Fresco, published at the University of Detroit.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Processing Info: Processed in 1997.

Acquisition Info: Purchased from Charles Selugichi, Portland in 1988.

Container(s) Description Dates
Outgoing letters to Jerome Mazzaro
1959-1979
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 3655-007
1959 January 30
1959 January 30
1/1 3655-007
1960 September 20
1960 September 20
1/1 3655-007
1960 December 12
Scope and Content: Includes four foot fish drawing
1960 December 12
1/1 3655-007
1960
1960
1/1 3655-007
1961 March 7
1961 March 7
1/1 3655-007
1961 April 24
1961 April 24
1/1 3655-007
1961 June 20
1961 June 20
1/1 3655-007
1961
1961
1/1 3655-007
1962 October 12
1962 October 12
1/1 3655-007
1962 December 13
1962 December 13
1/1 3655-007
1964? May 4
1964? May 4
1/1 3655-007
1964 June 15
1964 June 15
1/2 3655-007
1965
1965
1/2 3655-007
1966 March 15
1966 March 15
1/2 3655-007
1978 December 6
1978 December 6
1/2 3655-007
1979 January 29
1979 January 29
1/2 3655-007
undated
3 items
undated
Box/Folder Accession
1/3 3655-007
List
1959-1979
1/4 3655-007
Fresco literary journal
Scope and Content: Volume 1, numbers 1-3
1961
1/4 3655-007
Writings of Richard Hugo
Box/Folder Accession
1/5 3655-007
"Dancer at Kozenkos"
Scope and Content: Typescript
undated
1/6 3655-007
Writings of others
Copy, 2 pages
Box/Folder Accession
1/6 3655-007
Sally Haley, "The Red Chair"
undated
1/6 3655-007
Michelle Ruso, "Bathers"
undated
1/6 3655-007
James McGarrell, "Summer Stairs"
undated
1/6 3655-007
Carl Morris, "Yellow Light"
undated
1/6 3655-007
Milton Wilson, "The Great Goot"
undated
1/6 3655-007
Jack Shadbolt, "Mosaic for Autumn"
undated

Accession No. 3655-008: Richard Hugo papers, 1982Return to Top

1 videocassette ; VHS

Scope and Content: VHS videotape of poetry reading on January 30, 1982. Hugo reads seven of his better known poems, including "What Thou Lovest Well Remains" and "Bear Paw."

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Onsite use only.

Acquisition Info: Gift of Lower Columbia College, June 15, 1989.

Accession No. 3655-009: Richard Hugo high school yearbook, 1940Return to Top

1 vertical file (1 volume; 112 pages)

Scope and Content: Hugo's high school yearbook, the West Seattle Kimtah, from West Seattle High School, with inscriptions by classmates, 1940. A poem by Hugo and a photograph of him and two other student poets appears on page 8; Hugo's portrait is on page 61 in the section with other juniors.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Gift of Ripley Hugo on August 1, 1995.

Accession No. 3655-010: Richard Hugo fishing gear, circa 1950-1980Return to Top

1 cubic foot (1 box and 1 oversize tube)

Scope and Content: Fishing creel, rod, reels, lures used by Hugo.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Gift of Ripley Hugo, May 29, 1996

Accession No. 3655-012: Richard Hugo letters to Michael Warren, 1963-1964Return to Top

.21 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: Three letters to Hugo's colleague and friend, Michael Warren, then at the University of Victoria (British Columbia), together with Warren's comments on the letters.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Gift of Michael Warren, March 22, 2001.

Accession No. 3655-013: Richard Hugo writings, 1949, 1978Return to Top

.21 cubic feet (1 box)

Scope and Content: "Poetry Writing" (64 pages) consist of poems by Hugo and others, prepared by Hugo as a class project for "English 61" and includes several comments by Theodore Roethke. "Statements of Faith" (9 pages) includes six holograph pages, numerous substantive corrections and an earlier title, "How Poets Feel About Themselves." "Statement of Faith" was later published in The Triggering Town.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Purchased from Thomas Goldwasser Rare Books, March 1, 2001.

Accession No. 3655-014: Richard Hugo annotated Wallace Stevens book, 1945Return to Top

1 vertical file (1 volume of 83 pages)

Scope and Content: Richard Hugo's copy of The Man with the Blue Guitar & other poems by Wallace Stevens, published in 1945 by Alfred A. Knopf. Hugo has extensively annotated the primary poem in the collection, "The Man with the Blue Guitar."

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Purchased from Glenn Horowitz, August 15, 2001

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • American poetry--Northwest, Pacific
  • American poetry--Northwestern States
  • Authors and publishers--United States--20th century
  • Authors, American--20th century
  • College teachers--Montana--Missoula
  • Creative writing (Higher education)--Montana--Missoula
  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
  • Poetry--Study and teaching
  • Poets, American--Montana--Archives
  • Poets, American--Washington (State)--Archives

Personal Names

  • Harkness, Edward--Correspondence
  • Hellström, Lars Gustav, 1915---Correspondence
  • Hugo, Richard, 1923-1982--Archives
  • Hugo, Ripley S.--Correspondence
  • Levine, Philip, 1928---Correspondence
  • Mazzaro, Jerome
  • Stafford, William, 1914-1993--Correspondence
  • Wagoner, David--Correspondence (600)
  • Wright, James Arlington, 1927-1980--Correspondence (600)

Corporate Names

  • University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.). Department of English
  • W.W. Norton & Company

Geographical Names

  • Northwest, Pacific--In literature

Occupations

  • Authors
  • College teachers
  • Poets

Titles within the Collection

  • Yale series of younger poets

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963 (creator)
    • Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 (creator)