Finding Aid for James Sibley Watson/The Dial Papers, 1920-1972 bulk(1920-1929).

Contains comments written by Dr. James Sibley Watson, Jr.

Includes "Ole Toofless," "Basic Design," "Afflatus," "The Transformation," "Still," "I Car and Garden (The Accident)," "II Sky and Beach," "III Handle and Door," "IV Hammer and Anvil," "V Print on a Page," "VI Rain on the Roof."

Contains comments written by Dr. James Sibley Watson, Jr. and a TL to Editor of The Yale Review .

Includes the following poems: Interlude, Copybook Exercise, the Speeding Railroad Track, End of an Era, The Poet on His Grand Climacteric, Four States, Sand, Sea and Sky, True and False, Afflatus, Trans for Motion, What do?, Six Grammatical Charades, Ah! To be..., Some Metamorphoses of Venus, More Metamorphoses of Venus, apostrophe: On Being Happy, The Protection of Property, R. R. Station, Abject Compliment, Morality Play, The Initiation, Prayer of The Newspaper Editor, A Letter for the Center, Der Tag, Pattern for a Poem, Ziggurat City, Civil Defense, Editorial-On a Crime Against Darwinism, Caesar's Wife, Of Rome and Carthage, A Citizen Looks at the Female Figures of an Ancient Jar, Von Klaus Burg, On Putting Things in Order, Moral Molecules, Old Nursery Jingle Brought Up to Date, Dawn in Autumn in Vermont, At Yosemite, Inns, L''uberge, Staircase as Renewal, Demise While Descending, Ep[igram for Epitaph, On Improvising, On Delaying to Phone the Hospital, Hypothetical Caswe, Lines for a Devotion, Glimpse of Grandeur, Distinguished Company, Vigil, On a Photo of Himself When Young, Now I Lay Me, Personality Problem, Somatics, A Special Kind of Glass, A Huge tribute, The Habit of Imperfect Rhyming, Reactionary Fable, A-E-I-O-U, Parable, Big Claus and Little Claus, Theory of Art, He Was A Sincere, etc., Recitation for James Durante, Exq., My Great-Gramma Brodie.

Box 15 contains miscellaneous musical Scores one small black and white landscape photograph, and outgoing letters which are listed below:

Letters 1969-1976

The bulk of the letters are written to Hildegarde Watson, many regarding her ms. A Good Land of Brooks. A number of Charles' poems are enclosed in the letters as well.

Letters by and photographs of work by LaChaise.

Also, one note from LaChaise, Isabel

Carbons and autograph drafts, including rejections sent to minor writers and would-be contributors.

Mostly carbons, some autograph drafts, one TLS to Ezra Pound regarding acceptance of and payment for Canto XXVII; also, an invitation to Miss Mary Butts to submit a story.

Predominantly rejection letters

Includes:

• List of foreign correspondents and letters received from them as of May 21, 1925
• An account of MM's financial status that she prepared for the Watsons
• Conversations with H. L. Watson (n.d.); with note written on folder, "Not reliable Uneducated Transcriber" (Gwen Sandstrom)
• Master form letters
• Switchboard directions
• Numerous Dial-related letter drafts and carbons
• One folder Miscellaneous letters, including:
  • Letter draft to Mr. Webber with his poems and her? suggestions on them; others to Mrs. Eustin, Mrs. Speyer, Miss Barnard, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Rosen
  • TL and carbon to Miss Lane answering a series of interview questions
  • Letter from Treasury Department regarding their Public Works of Art Project and requesting advice about how the project can "best materially help individual creative writers in need" with carbon of MM's 3 p response.
  • 2 TL and carbons to The Boy Conservation Bureau and The New York Public Library requesting a recommendation for "a book on adolescent psychology" for her brother's (a Chaplain) ship the U.S.S. Arkansas

Dial rejection letters, 1928-1929

A few manuscript drafts from 1929

Includes:

• 1 ALS from William Benét, The Century Magazine , explaining why he is rejecting her submission, March 8, 1916
• 1 TLS from Wilbur Cross, Yale Review , rejecting her submission, May 7, 1914
• 1 letter from MM to Sigmund Fogler on qualities appreciates in poetry, October 16, 1933
• 1 TL (personal) to Hildegarde [n.d.]
• Drawing of the interior of 260 Cumberland by H. L. Watson
• MM's will (1972)
• 1 folder of family correspondence
• Drafts of post- Dial letters to young poets
• Letters to H. L. and J. S. Watson
• Dial and post- Dial drafts and copies of letters

Includes the following:

• MM's response to a Lord & Taylor's fashion questionnaire
• Applications for Dial positions and MM's responses to them (1926-28)
• Undated Dial office folders, including some form letter masters.
• Correspondence and speech re: Cummings paintings.

Dial -related correspondence 1920-1956, including a draft of a letter to Pound

Autograph notes for

• "American Letter August 1921"
• Endocrinology
• Rimbaud

W.C. Blum reviews

Drafts of two letters to Kenneth Burke

Advertising and promotional materials (n.d.)

Corrected proofs for "Some Remarks on Rimbaud as Magician"

General instructions for the editorial department

Lists of accepted material (July, August, October 1920)

Some financial and legal documents, including demand notes and accounts from May 1920, December 1926, November 1929

Clippings re: Dial and reviews

Typescript of a poem, "Des Choses Convient de Lancer Dans Le Printemps"

Autograph notebook

Autograph drafts of publicity pieces

Some correspondence

Letters regarding 1972 reprint of Volumes 68-86

Names and rates of pay 1920-1929 (filled by year)

Black and white and color photographs including:

• Marianne Moore with Casey Stengel
• MM's mother, Llewelyn Powys, Kenneth Burke, Claude Bragdon and his work
• For photographs of Lachaise and his work, see Box 16
• With color slides and photographs of MM at the Cumberland Street apartment
• Photographs of two drawings of MM by H. L. Watson