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. 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. was published posthumously in 1996.

In folder marked "Primitive draft II."

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

Typescript (corrected) in binder marked "#3"

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

May Sarton died July 16, 1995. 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 .

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. 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.

Typescript excerpts from May Sarton's letters from her mother and which were probably used for Letters to May, 1878-1950, selected and edited by May Sarton and published by Puckerbrush Press in 1986 can be found in Series XV, Family Papers.

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 . 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.

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."

Many of these stories include the tearsheets from the magazines in which they appeared.

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.

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 .

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

Oversized.

Oversized.

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

Most of these notebooks are small and many are incomplete.

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

Re: . 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.