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Part II: Subject File, 1914-1987 (continued)
Obituaries, 1986
“Dippy,” Ciardi family dog, 1964-1969
Drawings of Ciardi, 1967
English instruction at the high school level, deterioration of, 1960, undated
Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge, Pa., 1964
Frost, Robert, eighty-fifth birthday celebration, 26 March 1959
House Internal Security Committee, list of “radical speakers” on college campuses, 1970-1971
Interviews with Ciardi, 1958-1961, 1987
Joyce, James, 1914-1915
Kaleidoscope, student literary publication, Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, Mass., 1963-1967
Kansas City Poetry Contests, Kansas City, Mo., 1964
Military service records, 1945-1963
Miscellany
1941-1983
(2 folders)
BOX II:64 Undated
Painting and sculpture exhibition catalogs, 1948-1984
(2 folders)
Photographs
Arkansas Poetry Day Proclamation, Ciardi with others, 15 Oct. 1981
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, honorary degree, Apr. 1970
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Ciardi with others, circa 1950s
Ciardi children, circa 1956
Ciardi home, Metuchen, N.J., interior, undated
Ciardi, single shots, 1960, undated See also Container II:OV 1, same heading
Miscellaneous, 1957, undated
United States Army Air Corps, circa 1945
Progressive Party, Cambridge, Mass., 1947-1949, undated See also Container III:6, [Harvard has required no defense from me and I have made none]
Society for the Protection of Old Fishes (SPOOF), 1968-1976, undated
Southern Literary Festival, controversy at Mississippi State College for Women, Columbus, Miss., 1964
Tufts University, Medford, Mass., 1962-1963
Williams, Miller, 1985
Writings about Ciardi, 1944-1986, undated
(3 folders)
BOX II:OV 1 Part II: Oversize, 1960, undated
Articles, essays, a poem, and one photograph.
Arranged and described according to the series and container from which the material was removed.
BOX II:OV 1 Part II: Writings, 1960, undated
By Ciardi
Articles and essays
Ac-Ad
“The Act of Language,” 1960 (Container II: 18)
I-In
[I think I'm through with pretending to understand the younger generation], undated (Container II: 19)
Poems
Bl-Bu
“Blue Movie,” undated (Container II: 55)
Part II: Subject File, 1960
Photographs
Ciardi, single shots, 1960 (Container II: 64)
BOX III:1-4 Part III: General Correspondence, 1953-1985
Letters sent and received with enclosed and related matter.
Arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically within the year.
BOX III: 1 1953-1960
(8 folders)
BOX III: 2 1961
A-R
(6 folders)
BOX III: 3 S-Z
(2 folders)
1962
A-L
(5 folders)
BOX III: 4 M-Z
(4 folders)
1963-1968, undated
(6 folders)
1985
BOX III:5-6 Part III: Professional File, 1961-1968
Articles, contracts, correspondence, essays, expense accounts, itineraries, reviews of phonograph recordings of poetry and drama, television scripts, and material relating to publishing and sound recordings.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material, name of organization, or subject and chronologically therein.
BOX III: 5 “Accent,” CBS television program with Ciardi as host and narrator
Contract, 1961
Essay, “Accent: Over and Out,” circa 1962
Ideas for shows, undated
Miscellany, 1961-1962
Television scripts
1961
Oct. 20, “The Rebellious Mind,” 1961
(2 folders)
Nov. 11, “Eero Saarinen: An Appreciation,” 1961
Dec., “A Memoir: 1961,” 1961
(2 folders)
1962
July 19, “The Unreal West,” 1962
July 22, “The Gambling American,” 1962
Undated
“The Aspen Idea”
“Pearl Harbor: Unforgotten”
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Ripton, Vt., 1960-1967, undated
Harry Walker, Inc., speakers bureau
Contract rider, undated
Expense accounts, 1959-1964, undated
Itineraries, 1960-1968, undated
Saturday Review
Miscellany, undated
Reviews by Ciardi of phonograph recordings of poetry and drama, 1961-1965, undated
(4 folders)
BOX III: 6 Rexroth, Kenneth, reviews of great books, 1965
Sound recordings by Ciardi, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961
BOX III:6-23 Part III: Writings, 1947-1968
Drafts, proofs, and printed versions of aphorisms, articles, book reviews, books, columns, essays, limericks, notebooks, plays, poems, and speeches and lectures as well as correspondence and material relating to textbooks.
Arranged according to writings by Ciardi and by others and therein alphabetically by type of writing, title, or name of author. Articles, columns, essays, and poems lacking titles are alphabetized by first line enclosed in brackets.
BOX III: 6 By Ciardi
Aphorisms, undated For additional material see Container III:17, Notebook C, p. 301
Articles and essays
Act
“The Act of Language,” 1959-1960
(2 folders)
Ang-Any
“Angel-Fluffs, Savages, and Dispensable Adults,” undated
[Any man, as I believe I read in the Bill of Rights...], undated
B-E
“Bread Loaf, USA,” undated
[The big package is marked “Truth – Idle with Care”], undated
“Dear Kip,” undated
“The Detroit Follies,” undated
“E. L. Mayo – A Modern Metaphysical,” 1947
[Epiphanius Wilson, A.M., is not a name that reverberates...], undated
[Every generation of poets has its would-be law-givers...], undated
[Everyone hopes a little], undated
F
“A Fable of the Father of Assassins,” undated
“A Faith for Life in Literature?” undated
H
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