Finding Aid for May Sarton Papers, 1846-1995 bulk (1920-1995)

With additional markings in another hand and some original pages interleaved.

Marked on cover, "May's copy erasable. Copy III. Uncorrected"

Includes corrections made to typescript in Box 2, Folder 4.

May's folder of her shorter articles. Drafts and printed pieces are kept together by title. Some have correspondence with editors.

Some photocopies.

Includes 38 p. manuscript notes, several readers' reports and correspondence with agents and publishers about the novel.

With 3 p. of holograph notes, 1 blank postcard and and a TL to Jim Kate.

Typed title of manuscript "What I Would Not Part With" is crossed out and Sarton has written over it "Few Die Well." Begins, "Here is the Mss. as far as I have gone..."

Used as setting copy?

Came in folder marked "Kairos #1"--an early title. This draft covers 1993 July 25 - 1993 Oct. 23. May Sarton died July 16, 1995. At Eighty-Two was published posthumously in 1996.

In labelled binder; additional copy of the first 22 pages inserted at beginning.

This draft covers 1993 July 25 - 1993 Oct. 26. May Sarton died July 16, 1995. At Eighty-Two was published posthumously in 1996.

In folder marked "Primitive draft II."

Draft covers fall 1993. May Sarton died July 16, 1995. At Eighty-Two was published posthumously in 1996.

Typescript (corrected) in binder marked "#3"

Draft covers 1994 [Jan.] - 1994 June 5. May Sarton died July 16, 1995. At Eighty-Two was published posthumously in 1996.

With notes and insertions in several hands, 16 p.

Draft covers 1993 July 25 - 1994 July 12. May Sarton died July 16, 1995. At Eighty-Two was published posthumously in 1996.

This draft covers 1993 Aug. 4 - 1994 Oct. 6.

Pages numbered 123-403.

Draft covers 1993 Oct. 30 - 1994 Oct. 6. May Sarton died July 16, 1995. At Eighty-Two was published posthumously in 1996.

May Sarton died July 16, 1995. At Eighty-Two was published posthumously in 1996.

With card from the publisher W. W. Norton saying they have finished with the material.

Revised by author.

With revisions in another hand. Note on title page reads "Used by Nancy up to p. 98 and there is a cover letter from Frances "Here is the copy with my little piddlings."

With Sarton's autograph revisions.

With Sarton's autograph revisions. Appears to be the carbon copy of the setting copy in Box 14, Folder 1

"Nancy's Paging" and "Things to Check" in pink typewriter ink.

Sarton's file. Includes some printed material.

With holograph notes, 8 l. (one leaf attached to page 4 of typescript).

Notebook has five pages of autograph notes and a label (also in Sarton's hand that reads, "The Bridge of Years--Corrections."

Correspondence (and some clippings) regarding advertising for The Bridge of Years.

Removed from Sarton's folder "Essays (Unpublished)"

Includes an incomplete carbon and a 1 p. precis, typescript and autograph.

Removed from Sarton's folder "Essays (Unpublished)"

With one loose page autograph notes.

In folder on which Sarton has written "Discarded old novel."

With autograph Table of Contents and credit line inserted; broadside entitled "As Fresh, As Always New" also inserted.

With one unnumbered page at end, a poem entitled "In Belgium Now."

in binder with notes and correspondence inserted.

Plus three letters (photocopies) from Juliette Huxley to May Sarton.

Removed from "Essays (unpublished)"

With 19 l. of notes from Eleanor Blair

Corrections in another hand?

With telegram and copyright statement.

Covers 1990 May 3 - 1991 Apr. 27.

With some loose sheets laid in.

With cover letter from W. W. Norton (signed by Cecil Lyon) to Nancy Hartley, October 11, 1991. Letter states there is a list and photocopies of each passage that needs to have permission secured, but the list is not present.

With 5 p. autograph [not May's Sarton's hand] (photocopy) and a cover note from Deborah [Pease] Sept. 28, 1990. On The Paris Review letterhead.

In two plastic folders.

With 1 l. of holograph notes and an envelope.

In May Sarton's binder of material (with additional pages laid in).

The first draft is entitled "The Dragon of 2 Rue du Dragon". There are three letters from editors regarding the story, 1986-1988.

Parts in English.

With an earlier? draft entitled "Homage to Eva Le Gallienne: The Actor as Critic of Life, 4 p.

In binder, with notes and clippings laid in.

Halfway to Silence was published in 1980. Folder encloses a cover letter from MK on University of Tennessee letterhead, April 6, 1992, saying the drafts are being returned.

Drafts for "At the Black Rock," "Pruning the Orchard," "An Elegy for Scrabble," Twelve Below," and "The House of Gathering."

Removed from Sarton's folder "Essays (Unpublished)"

With cover letter from Tim Warren, 1988 Apr. 12.

Some parts unpublished.

With letter from Sarton to Eric [at Norton] dated June 18th, 1968. I Knew A Phoenix was first published in hardcover in 1959 and in softcover by Norton in 1969.

With note from Carol.

Begins, "I have to remind myself that it is not a Grimm's fairy tale, I am immersed in but a real garden...."

With one page holograph notes.

Plus 3 typescript pages of notes and insertions. Removed from "Essays (Unpublished)"

With 3 p. holograph notes.

Removed from "Essays (Unpublished)"

With cover letter from Eric to Sarton on Norton letterhead.

Journal entries cover 1970 Sept. 15 - 1971 Sept. 16.

With note from Russell & Volkening. Journal entries cover 1970 Sept. 15 - 1971 Sept. 30.

With one page of photocopy.

Includes grades, teacher reports, homework and brochures about schools.

File from Sarton labeled [not in Sarton's hand], "E. B.'s Folder of Notes and retyped pages. Many of the autograph notes are also in another hand. E. B. is Eleanor Blair. Includes receipts, certified mail receipts and some correspondence between Sarton, Blair and Eric Swenson at W. W. Norton & Co.

Binder includes drafts of poems and correspondence with periodicals that published them before they were collected in The Land of Silence.

This book is a collection of letters from Sarton's mother, edited by Sarton. Folder includes two letters to MS regarding the manuscript and photocopies of several letters from her mother while in Beirut.

Removed from "Essays (Unpublished)"

Notes in two hands (one is Sarton's).

With two letters from Jim Collins at Yankee Magazine regarding revisions before possible publication.

Published in Family Portraits. Includes correspondence and review of book.

Plus one page typescript and holograph notes.

Includes a printout of a tribute to Anne Longfellow Thorpe that May Sarton gave at the Shady Hill School as well as a copy of the Greenings Island Herald (December 1980) and 2 l. of the Residents' Association's "The Villager" (May 1984) which mentions Miss Alice Thorp.

"Copy" written across second page.

Removed from "Essays (unpublished)"

Article for Opera News' Rosenkavlier issue (Feb. 1993)

Includes correspondence with Brian Kellow of Opera News.

Lightly corrected by May Sarton and annotated in another hand.

This draft is a computer printout.

In binder marked "The Chamber Theatre of Maine and dated June 1, 1993"

With 10 l. of holograph notes.

Typescript pages include piece by Carolyn Heilbrun about finding a cat for Sarton.

Notecards cover the years 1904 -1914.

Removed from "Essays (Unpublished)"

Removed from "Essays (Unpublished)"

Includes the March 1950 Essays and Studies Vol.. VIII, No. 2 with Sarton's annotations to the article which she protests in her Open Letter. This material was removed from "Essays (Unpublished)."

Includes letters (1986-87) from Bill Ewert, the publisher of The Phoenix Again (early title: The Cosset Lamb) and numerous Sarton broadsides. Some of the letters refer to broadsides but were kept together in this folder by Sarton.

Many of the manuscript notes for revisions are not in Sarton's hand. Also contains a brochure for an Albert Quigley exhibition at the Thorne-Sagandorf Memorial Art Gallery in Keene, NH.

Includes a letter from Diarmund Russell recommending the piece as a column and a photograph of Perley. The piece became chapter 9 of Plant Dreaming Deep.

At the beginning of the journal Sarton has written, "I have included in this book everything that I wrote during those years, no matter how bad it is."

Sections titled "Letty Field, " "Nancy Nye, " "Elizabeth Metcalf, " and "Peter Lynn[?]."

Artwork by Sarton on title page.

G.E.D. is Grace Eliot Dudley who is mentioned in Endgame. See also Grace Eliot Dudley's letters in Incoming Correspondence. Includes another book of poems, illustrated, made by May Sarton [but poems are not by Sarton] for G. E. D.

Sheet laid-in titled "Published and Unpublished Poems" with titles and years written. Also, an early table of contents for The Lion And the Rose.

With a few holograph sheets.

A collection of poems by several people. Cover art by May Sarton. Signed on Table of Contents by May Sarton, Judith Matlack, Dorothy S. McKibbin, Edith B. Ricketson.

Cover art by Sarton. Dedicated to Judy, Sante Fe, Spring 1945.

There is an alphabetical list of the unpublished poems of the 1960s in Folder 1.

Title page reads, "This book is typed by the author in an edition of two copies which is is Number 1. It is signed and dated May 3, 1972. Both Copy and Copy 2 have been lightly revised, but the revisions do not always match. Copy 2 has one extra page (an extra draft of title poem).

Poems that were later published have been annotated by Sarton and others to indicated where and when. Inserted are three photographs and two obituaries for Marynia Farnham to whom the "book" is dedicated. Includes 1 small notebook with holograph notes on Farnham.

An extra draft of title poem is inserted in copy 2. Both copy 1 and copy 2 contain some revisions that do not always match. A photocopy of copy 2 is laid (one page original typescript).

Two letters laid in.

Contents list included.

Includes contents list.

Contents list included (covers both Folder 1 and Folder 2)

See Box 42, Folder 1 for contents list.

Original signed by the poet "for Charles' parents", July 7, 2002.

Gift of Kathleen L. Barber, mother of Charles Andrew Barber.

Contains: "Caroline Green", "Annie", "L.F.", "Elizabeth" and an untitled piece beginning, "I am the only survivor of that lyric time..."

Inserted in the binder are letters between Eric Swenson and Eleanor Blair and Ms. Blair's extensive critical notes on the manuscript.

With letter from editor of The Saturday Review of Literature. Removed from "Essays (Unpublished)."

With letters from editor, illustrator and Ilse; a press photo; publicity copy; a page from A Walk Through the Woods.

With photograph of Punch on cover.

Removed from "Essays (Unpublished)".

With two notecards of notes for revision.

With: two receipts and the blues through p. 17.

Typescript covers 1978 Dec. 28 - 1979 Nov. 12.

Typescript (carbon) covers 1978 Dec. 28 - 1979 Nov. 30. The typescript has holograph corrections.

Removed from "Essays (Unpublished)"

First line: "Long ago I wrote...."

With an earlier typescript draft (incomplete) on purple paper, 1 p.

With one page holograph notes. This early draft is titled, "Strangers Lie in Your Arms."

With one page holograph notes.

Small piece of paper with autograph note, "Landgan William 1575-" also in folder.

Two drafts, one incomplete: Draft one is 7 p; there are three pages numbered 5, 6, and 7 inserted at the end.

There are three drafts of the story, the last of which has a Brandt & Brandt cover and a letter on company stationery declining to publish it.

Includes letter of criticism from Diarmuid Russell.

End is added on to last page in holograph. Also a small slip with notes is inserted.

Two drafts of the story though one is a carbon. Also, a letter from Woman's Day magazine declining the story.

With a letter of criticism from Diarmuid Russell.

With letter from Diarmuid Russell.

With a rejection letter from Story and The Story Press.

With note from Diarmuid Russell about where he sent it for publication.

A letter from Diarmuid Russell saying he is returning the story [not enclosed],

Two of the drafts are titled "The Birdcage"

With letter from A. M. Heath & Co. Ltd with a list of magazines that refused it.

With a letter from Sarton to Mrs. White.

With letter from Diarmuid Russell listing the magazines that rejected it.

With 2 l. holograph notes dated 1949 and the tearsheets of the story from World Review.

Includes two letters from Woman's Day re: revisions (1956 Feb. 28) and the tear sheets.

With tear sheets from Weldons Ladies' Journal. Typescript titled The Blue Suit.

With tear sheets from Liberty magazine.

From the Cambridge Review.

With 11 p. of notes, and the tearsheets from Every Woman magazine.

With tearsheets from two different publications (one is Today's Woman). Typescript has title " The Sea-Change."

With tearsheets from Woman's Home Companion. See Snowflake.

With tearsheets from Woman's Day and a letter (1951 Oct. 11) accepting the story.

Includes a letter from A. M. Heath & Co. Ltd. regarding which stories and poem they have sold recently.

With tearsheets from English Good Housekeeping and a letter from Diarmuid Russell saying he has not been able to place the story and a letter from A. M. Heath & Co. saying they have.

With tearsheets from Church & Home. Earliest draft is missing first page.

With tearsheets from Collier's and another unidentified magazine.

With tearsheets from Homes and Gardens.

With tearsheets from Homes and Gardens.

This story was also published as She Who Loved Flowers. With tearsheets from Ladies Home Journal and Ladies Journal.

With tearsheets from Cosmopolitan and the National Home Weekly.

With tearsheets from American Mercury and a TLS from Ballantine Books, 1953 Nov. 16, saying they are holding the story for consideration in the Breadloaf Anthology.

Originally titled Tea at Rumplemayer's. With tearsheets from Harper's Bazarre.

With tearsheets from Housewife.

From the Newark Sunday News.

See: If This Isn't Love.

Published in Today's Woman.

With tearsheets from [Woman?].

There are several drafts of many of the poems.

The proofs are master sets of the first and second pass.

Removed from "Essays (unpublished)."

With a photocopy of a later draft.

Removed from "Essays (unpublished)".

Removed from "Essays (unpublished)".

Appears to be a later transcription.

Begins: "Chapter One: And will they be wanting tea..."

With three letters regarding the play.

With 2 photocopy later drafts (one incomplete but with a full-page insert).

With letter from Harper & Row accepting the book for publication, 1 page ms. page of notes, 1 typescript page of draft.

Removed from "Essays (unpublished)".

With a letter from Mardi Street, 1978 Nov. 9 and an article about Robert Coles.

With a letter of criticism re: the manuscript.

The second draft is incomplete and has carbons still interleaved with typescript.

With a piece (2 copies) by Leonard Woolf published in the New Statesman and a typed quotation by Alexander Parker, 1660.

With tearsheet from the Southwest Review, Winter 1972.

Drafts have alternative titles: A Graver Vintage (2 drafts); The Vallee Coquette; The Vallee Coquette: Homage to France. Also included with one draft are three letters to Sarton.

Two drafts plus holograph and typescript notes. Earlier draft entitled "Portrait of a Fat Man."

Includes draft of table of contents, list of photographs, acknowledgements and permissions.

The manuscript is disorganized, some portions appear more than once. While it is largely typescript, some pages are photocopies. Manuscript came in this form from the Estate.

Re: her travels around the US.

Only first 10 leaves of notebook are used.

The beginning of this notebook is a diary although the latter part is a commonplace book.

Only six leaves used in notebook.

Only five leaves used.

Begun while in Belgium

Kept in London and Belgium.

Only a few entries.

Only two entries.

This folder contains clippings, programs, brochures and lectures re: Robert Frost by other people. There is no explanation of why Sarton kept this folder or is she planned to lecture or write about him. There is also a guestlist for a Robert Frost Dinner held March 26, 1954 at the Lord Jeffrey Inn, Amherst, MA.

Includes some correspondence.

This proof copy was published in Perspectives on Aging in 1981.

Sarton filed six lectures together in one folder. In addition to the title given above are: Novelist versus Poet, The Novelist and his Characters, The Writing of a Novel, The Craft of Writing, Theme versus Plot.

Includes a letter from the Phi Beta Kappa society at The College of Saint Catherine re: publication.

Folder includes: Some Thoughts on Revolution and Tradition and In Praise of Scholars.

Six week course given at the University of Maine's Great Living Poets Institute.

Folder includes: Sense and Sensibility of the Novel and The Design of the Novel. Also includes clippings on the topic by various authors.

Includes Poetry and Freedom, Delights of the Poet, The Psalms, America Singing and The Poet and Time.

Folder includes Poetry As A Way of Life, Magic and Poetry and The Values of Poetry.

Sarton filed this folder with her lectures, but it is actually the drafts of poems (by all the participants) and a few pieces of correspondence regarding a poets group she formed with John Holmes. In the front of a folder is a photocopy of a poem describing the group written by John Holmes in February 1962. It begins, "In Medford or Cambridge, Cambridge or Medford, Mass., /For three winters, monthly at one another's houses, /Dick Wilbur, May Sarton, Dick Eberhart, John Ciardi/and I met to read new work: with rules: copies for all:/Whiskey: food to go with it: and the poem. The poem./This in the almost unrecoverable nineteen late forties...."

Contains different versions of the lecture (all titled The Poet's Work or The Poet's Relation to his Work) given at different places between 1950-1967.

Includes clippings by other authors on the topic.

Includes typescript poems by other authors that support or illustrate the lecture.

Includes program for the lecture which was given at the 21st General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association, 1982 June 25.

Folder includes lectures entitled: Why Poetry?, Why Teach Poetry?, The Teaching of Poetry, and The Teaching of Poetry-Writing.

Also includes: The Creative Process and Creative Writers as Teachers.

There are numerous incarnations of this lecture in the folder; some of them have been dated.

Place course was taught (if it was taught?) not given.

For the Office of War Information.

Includes list of private students and related materials.

In addition to placing correspondence in this folder, Sarton occasionally attached related correspondence to a clipping or tearsheet throughout this series.

Translated by May Sarton. Title on cover of one of the copies is Marceline.

Translated by May Sarton.

Kept with her translations [future project?].

Translated by May Sarton.

Sponsored by The Academy of American Poets

Translated by May Sarton. Authors of the original poems are Paul Fort, Francis Jammes, Pierre Jean Jouve, Stephen Mallarme, Charles Peguy, Catherine Pozzi, Jules Supervielle and Paul Valery.

Translated by May Sarton. Includes a letter to "Eleanor" 1969 May 26.

Translated by May Sarton and Louise Bogan.

Translated by May Sarton and Louise Bogan.

Translated by May Sarton and Louise Bogan.

In French.

In French.

In French.

In French.

In French. Includes correspondence dated 1951 Sept. 21 - 1975 Jan. 2.

In French.

In Italian. Includes correspondence dated 1981 Oct. 15 - 1984 July 19..

In French.

Includes typescript schedule of plays for the 1933-34 season.

Although most of the correspondence is to and from May Sarton there are five letters to Ethel Baker ca. 1913.

Reads "With the best wishes of the Apprentices," signed by all.

Cover label reads "Apprentice Year 1932-1933 Civic Repertory Theatre."

Enclosed are photocopies of three letters from Sarton to Kaschmann.

Includes carbon of a typescript letter from May Sarton to author of the dissertation, Paul Cooper thanking him for sending a copy and responding to it, 1967 Aug. 3, 5 p.

Includes three playbills from Concord Academy and The Playgoers' Theatre.

Includes letter (1994) from Norman Sturgis. Clippings are re: Sarton as actor or director.

Gift of May Sarton 1981 Oct. 30. Created by May Sarton

Includes a program for Four Saints in Three Acts, Hartford 1934.

Poems are arranged alphabetically by author. This book had numerous pages laid in which have been removed an put in a folder for their safekeeping (also in box 77).

Poems are arranged alphabetically by author.

Labelled Morceaux choisis, May Sarton. Made in her youth?

This scrapbook includes clippings on artists, writers and their works. There are some reviews and occasional pictures.

Includes clippings on artists, writers and their works. With many images (also clippings).

Indexed (by Sarton) in front. Articles focus on artists, writers and their work.

Includes clippings on writers and their works. Incomplete.

Has to do with house repairs, shopping, plants, "to do" for house in Nelson, N.H.

Only one page is written on.

Cover notes that it is for the garden at Wild Knoll.

Also includes an astrological chart and audiotape made for May Sarton by June Fox, 1987 Nov.

Mentions Bates College, Colby College, Russell Sage College, Star King School, University of Maine, University of New England, University of New Hampshire, Westbrook College, and Wilson College.

Includes project description.

Includes a Phi Beta Kappa membership certificate.

Arranged alphabetically. Includes some correspondence.

Arranged alphabetically. Includes some correspondence.

Arranged alphabetically. Includes some correspondence.

Includes some correspondence.

Arranged alphabetically by title of film.

Include information about travel, publications, address, work, significant events and important people for each year.

Some notes and earlier biographies are also included in this.

Guest editor for the Beloit Poetry Journal (Fall 1980) and the Poetry Pilot (Academy of American Poets November 1979).

Includes a copy of The Poets Speak, Twelve Poems from a series of Readings at the NYPL, Oct. and Nov. 1943. With an introduction by May Sarton.

Masters Thesis. In binding.

With a letter from the author saying, "I wanted you to have a copy of this paper. Your astute comments on some of the difficult questions raised in it have been a great help to me."

Includes a mimeo of the above title, correspondence and tearsheets and photocopies of "Kinds of Love": Love and Friendship in Novels of May Sarton" also by Bakerman.

Harvard College thesis.

Masters thesis.

In partial submission for the Governor's Scholars Program (NJ)

Dissertation.

Folder contains contributions from various poets as well as letters from the editor.

BA thesis.

These are shorter papers arranged alphabetically by author.

These are shorter papers arranged alphabetically by author.

These are shorter papers arranged alphabetically by author.

Published in Fellowship in Prayer and Desert Call: Spiritual Life Institute.

Book manuscript.

Masters thesis.

Masters thesis.

Screenplay by Marita Simpson. Produced by Martha Wheelock of Ishtar Films and Iris Caplan of ICAP.

Re: May Sarton: Excerpts from a Life: Journals and Memoirs. Read by Andrea Itkin. Audio Bookshelf, 1994.

With Mary L. McLean's address in upper right hand corner of first page.

Adapted by Gail Sheehan

Includes typescript of tribute by Constance Hunting.

Includes copies of some correspondence.

Includes small scrapbook of clippings from a visit to Richmond, VA in 1971.

Edited by Marita Simpson and Martha Wheelock.

Edited by Bradford Dudley Daziel

Edited by Susan Sherman.

Includes a selection of quotes from reviews of each book.

Includes a selection of quotes from reviews of each book of poetry.

This folder contains typescripts of outgoing correspondence as well as a few original incoming items.

Gift of Pamela Askew, 1995 May 31.

Gift of Susan Atherton, 1993 July 7.

Includes typescript (and one photocopy of) Countryside Saunterings with Camera for Companion by Eleanor Blair.

Originals are in the Amherst College Library in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Gift of Harriet Chichester via Susan Sherman, 1994 Feb. 15.

Gift of Harriet Chichester via Susan Sherman, 1994 Feb. 15.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2000 May 7.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2001 Nov. 26.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2001 Nov. 26.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2001 Nov. 26.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2001 Nov. 26.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2001 Nov. 26. Accompanied by an ALS from Alan Eastaugh to Susan Sherman explaining his relationship to May Sarton.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2001 Nov. 26.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2001 Nov. 26.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2001 Nov. 26.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2001 Nov. 26.

Gift of Clayton Hoagland, 1981 May 31.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2001 Nov. 26.

Includes numerous poems (by Sarton) and 2 poetry anthologies (made by Sarton) for Edith Kennedy.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2001 Nov. 26.

Gift of Eda LeShan, 1993 June 28.

Gift of Susan Sherman 2000 May 7.

In French.

Gift of Jacqueline Limbosch via Susan Sherman, 1994 Feb. 15.

8 typescript poems enclosed.

Gift of Jean Pasche, 1995 May 31.

Gift of Rosamunde Forbes Pickhardt via Susan Sherman, 1993 July 6.

Gift of Joan Palevsky, 1993 September 19.

Gift of Paul Reed, 1995 Mar. 14.

In French.

Includes some poems and other writing.

Gift of Mrs. Donald Starr via Susan Sherman, 1995 May 15.

Includes some poems.

Gift of Mrs. Donald Starr via Susan Sherman, 1995 May 15.

Gift of Mrs. Donald Starr via Susan Sherman, 1995 May 15.

Includes some poems.

Gift of Mrs. Donald Starr via Susan Sherman, 1995 May 15.

Gift of Mrs. Donald Starr via Susan Sherman, 1995 May 15.

Includes some poems.

Gift of Mrs. Donald Starr via Susan Sherman, 1995 May 15.

Includes 17 poems as a Christmas present and one photograph of May Sarton at her desk with cat.

Gift of Mrs. Donald Starr via Susan Sherman, 1995 May 15.

Includes some poems.

Gift of Mrs. Donald Starr via Susan Sherman, 1995 May 15.

Includes some poems.

Gift of Mrs. Donald Starr via Susan Sherman, 1995 May 15.

Includes a poem.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2000 May 7.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2000 May 7.

Gift of Susan Sherman, 2000 May 7.

Includes one letter to Dinoula Tsaklidon.

Gift of Angeliki Vassilious via Susan Sherman 1994 Feb. 15.

This folder was created by May Sarton and is entitled "Very Special Single Letters." On the outside of the folder is a typed list of names of people whose letters she kept in the folder. For the ease of researchers, these letters have been removed from the folder and put into the alphabetical filing of incoming correspondence. The folder has been kept so that researchers may see which letters Sarton felt were most important.

Includes photographs of Ms. Andrews house and cats.

Includes an note from Sinclair Lewis to Miss Baker sending her his autograph.

Includes 3 typescripts of a poem by May Sarton for C. A. B; photographs of a memorial banner for him, program from his memorial service and a photocopy of an article from the Guardian.

These have been kept separate from those in Folder 9 because these came as a gift of May Sarton, 1989 July 11, rather than as part of the archive. The letters in Folder 9 came as part of the archive.

Includes typescripts of two poems and a clipping of a posthumous review.

Includes a number of clippings re: Bogan.

Includes four essays on aging.

Enclosures include numerous photographs of children and an audio tape of Johanna's birth.

Includes two photographs [not of Sarton].

Includes one photograph.

Gift of Kathleen D. Church, 1999 Mar. 30.

Removed from the Theater Series.

Includes photograph of Brad Daziel.

In French

In French

Includes typescript poems entitled The Land of Silence by May Sarton with Basil de Selincourt's autograph comments.

Includes a copy book of chapters of Lugne-Poe's last book, copied by Despres for May Sarton. In French.

Suzanne Despres was the wife of Lugne-Poe.

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

Card includes photograph of H. D.'s cottage.

Some letters in French.

Includes 3 photographs.

Includes a "book" made by Sarton for G. E. D. of poems [not by Sarton] illustrated by Sarton. Entitled "Poems To Be Read In A Little Wood." Grace Eliot Dudley's house in Vouvray was known as "Le Petit Bois." For other books made for Grace Eliot Dudley, see Poems, unpublished in Series I Writing.

Includes a photocopy of a photograph of Grace Eliot Dudley's family plus a piece by her? about their maid.

Includes letters of recommendation for Jeanine Dueber, a CV, brochures and photographs of her work.

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

Includes photographs of the Eberharts.

Includes 20 photographs [none of Sarton]

In French.

Includes photographs

Removed from Theater Series.

Includes photograph.

Includes a few photographs.

Includes photograph with note on back in Sarton's hand, "Volta Hall my psycho-therapist. See poem "Death of a Psychiatrist"

Includes photographs.

Includes a photocopy of an interview by Karla Hammond with May Sarton published in the Bennington Review (December 1978).

Includes a photograph.

Includes photographs.

See Folder 2 for clippings and reviews re: and by Carolyn Heilbrun.

Kept with Heilbrun's correspondence (see Folder 1)

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

This is titled "Anne Hure" but there is a note in Sarton's hand that reads "Perception of her visit to Celine Limbosch." It was filed under Hure with the incoming correspondence when it arrived at Berg.

In French.

Notes about her life may be for an interview that Sarton did with her. See Folder 2.

This piece may have been the introduction to an interview with Lotte Jacobi.. See Jacobi's notes in Folder 1

Includes articles about Lotte Jacobi.

Includes 7 letters from Marjorie Wells.

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

With letter from his wife enclosing a letter from F. O. Mattiessen to Mr. Laski.

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

Related materials that were kept with the letters are in folder 10.

See folder 10 for correspondence.

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

See also Folder 4,

See also Folder 3.

Includes photographs.

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

See also folder 13.

See also folder 12.

Includes a photograph.

Includes a letter from George White to May Sarton 1981 Feb. 17.

Includes photographs.

This folder was created by Sarton.

Includes 2 photographs.

On June 10, 1944 the entire village of Oradour-sur-Glane was massacred and only one woman, Marguerite Rouffanche, survived. This is her signed testimony in French, with an English translation. Also included are letters regarding May Sarton's effort to raise money on her behalf.

Removed from the Theater series.

Note on Kenyon Review letterhead turning down a poem.

Includes a typescript (unsigned) of Rich's poem "The Reminders."

Praising May Sarton's recent piece on irony.

Includes an inscribed typescript (photocopy) of Rukeyser's "Orpheus" dated Feb. 1949 and three poems (one signed).

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

Includes photographs.

Includes photographs.

Includes photographs.

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

Includes three photographs.

Enclosure is part of a novel entitled " The Jurassic Shales -- A Novel in Progress" and is undated but the note on the cover indicates that he was living in Peterborough, NH at the time. Jurassic Shales was published by Coach House Press in 1975. There is also a drawing on the cover. Inserted in the typescript is a note to May Sarton from Judith Sward a small photograph with a note on the back that reads, "A collage I did of Robert from 1959-1969. Painting will follow."

Includes 3 photographs of Sarton's material at the Berg Collection.

Includes 38 manuscript leaves of poems removed from a small three-ring binder and dated 1927 Nov. - 1931 Aug. that appear to be in May Sarton's hand.

Includes 6 photographs of Anne Longfellow Thorp.

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

Pamela Travers is the author of Mary Poppins.

Responding to Sarton's criticism of a piece on Virginia Woolf that Trilling wrote.

Includes one photograph of Foster and Anna Mary.

On Columbia Pictures Corp stationery.

Includes 3 photographs.

Gift of May Sarton 1989 July 11.

Christmas card from Henry and Cicily Andrews with photograph on front and a note saying, "Rebecca took this photograph on a cruise in September."

See also Folder 4.

See also Folder 3.

Although this was not produced until 1993 when it was performed at the Chamber Theatre of Maine, it was originally written, according to Sarton, ca. 1962.

This group of letters is signed by first names only.