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| BOX II:13-18 | Part II: Professional File, 1936-1989 | ||||||||||||
| Articles, brochures, contracts, correspondence, drafts, essays, expense accounts, itineraries, photographs, poetry reviews, press releases, reviews of phonograph recordings of poetry and drama, and material relating to publishing and sound recordings. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by type of material, name of organization, or subject and chronologically therein. | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:13 | “Accent,” CBS television program with Ciardi as host and narrator, 1961-1963 | ||||||||||||
| Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Ripton, Vt., 1955-1989, undated | |||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Conferences on writing and poetry | |||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Conference on Teaching Creative Writing, 1973 | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous, 1952, 1960, 1973-1986 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Harry Walker, Inc., speakers bureau | |||||||||||||
| Advertisement, circa 1949 | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence, 1961-1967 | |||||||||||||
| Engagements, 1962-1975 | |||||||||||||
| Expense accounts, 1962-1965 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Itineraries, 1962-1968 | |||||||||||||
| Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 1939-1949, undated | |||||||||||||
| Middlebury College Library, Middlebury, Vt. | |||||||||||||
| 1964-1966 | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:14 | 1978 | ||||||||||||
| Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. | |||||||||||||
| Library, 1954-1955 | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous, 1953-1958 | |||||||||||||
| Saturday Review | |||||||||||||
| Letters to the editor regarding Ciardi, 1949, 1958 | |||||||||||||
| Photographs of poetry reviewers, 1948-1949, undated | |||||||||||||
| Poetry editor file | |||||||||||||
| 1956-1961 | |||||||||||||
| (8 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:15 | 1962-1972 | ||||||||||||
| (20 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:16 | Poetry reviewers, 1948-1950 | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Poetry reviews by others, 1948-1949 | |||||||||||||
| (5 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Press releases and miscellany, 1955-1947, undated | |||||||||||||
| Reviews by Ciardi of phonograph recordings of poetry and drama, 1957-1966 | |||||||||||||
| Sound recordings by Ciardi | |||||||||||||
| Folkway Records, 1956-1966, undated | |||||||||||||
| Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961-1966, undated | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Library of Congress, circa 1971 | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:17 | Twayne Publishers | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, 1949-1952 | |||||||||||||
| (11 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous, 1953-1956, undated | |||||||||||||
| Science fiction anthology, working title “The Unimagined Universe” | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence, 1952-1953, undated | |||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Foreword by Ciardi, “Science Fiction – What Is It?” 1953 | |||||||||||||
| List of contributors, 1952 | |||||||||||||
| Texts, 1948-1952, undated | |||||||||||||
| What Happened in Salem? | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence, undated | |||||||||||||
| Sample assignments for college term paper project, undated | |||||||||||||
| Witches Three | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence, 1952, undated | |||||||||||||
| Jacket note, 1951 | |||||||||||||
| Publisher's note, undated | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:18 | “Unity of the Arts,” proposed series for educational television with Ciardi as host and narrator, 1958, undated | ||||||||||||
| University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo., 1936-1941, undated | |||||||||||||
| (5 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:18-62 | Part II: Writings, 1910-1997 | ||||||||||||
| Drafts, proofs, and printed versions of articles, book reviews, books, columns, essays, etymological dictionaries, limericks, poems, radio scripts, and speeches and lectures as well as advertisements, contracts, correspondence, press releases, royalty statements, and material relating to anthologies and 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 their first line enclosed in brackets. | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:18 | By Ciardi | ||||||||||||
| Anthologies | |||||||||||||
| Kansas City Outloud, edited by Dan Jaffe with introduction by Ciardi (“Kansas City Softspoken”), draft and printed version, 1975, undated | |||||||||||||
| New Poets: An Anthology of Seven Young Contemporary Poets, including thirteen poems by Ciardi, printed version, 1941 | |||||||||||||
| New World Writing, “Poems: Selected, with an Introduction, by John Ciardi,” printed version, pp. 100-101, 1956 | |||||||||||||
| Twentieth Century American Poets, correspondence with publisher, 1960-1961, undated | |||||||||||||
| Unidentified poetry collection, “Introduction” by Ciardi, undated | |||||||||||||
| Articles and essays | |||||||||||||
| Ac-Ad | |||||||||||||
| “The Act of Language,” 1960 See also Container II:OV 1 | |||||||||||||
| “Adam and Eve and the Third Son,” 1964 | |||||||||||||
| Am-Ar | |||||||||||||
| [The American culture as a whole has never paid much attention to poetry], undated | |||||||||||||
| “The Anger,” undated | |||||||||||||
| “The Arts in 1975,” 1976 | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:19 | Autobiographical essays | ||||||||||||
| I-XIV | |||||||||||||
| [When I was forty-five...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [In Vermont, behind the house...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [Truth in Advertising...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [I no longer go to the world...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [I had my first teaching job...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [My godfather...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [Long drives...], 1978 | |||||||||||||
| [In 1950...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [A Visit], undated | |||||||||||||
| [I was on Saipan...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [I read galleys...], 1961 | |||||||||||||
| [My father-in-law...], undated | |||||||||||||
| “Cats? Rats!” undated | |||||||||||||
| “On Learning No Trick at All from an Unteachable Old Dog,” undated | |||||||||||||
| XV-XIX | |||||||||||||
| “It Never Cost Me Anything to Say ’Sir,'” 1970 | |||||||||||||
| [Worksheets for Lives of X], undated | |||||||||||||
| [On a half-pay sabbatical...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [I was hardly home...], circa 1984 | |||||||||||||
| [Let's go to New York...], undated | |||||||||||||
| XX-XXX | |||||||||||||
| “Nepotism Revisited,” circa 1976 | |||||||||||||
| “Golden Goosery,” undated | |||||||||||||
| [There are not many felons in my town...], circa 1971 | |||||||||||||
| [Dear Appalled...], undated | |||||||||||||
| “The Surreal Road,” circa 1971 | |||||||||||||
| “The Bourgeois Radical,” 1970 | |||||||||||||
| [I found myself in San Francisco...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [By a trick of history...], undated | |||||||||||||
| “Briarley,” undated | |||||||||||||
| [The plane was an old F-27...], circa 1961 | |||||||||||||
| [We had a summer affair...], circa 1961 | |||||||||||||
| XXXI-XL | |||||||||||||
| “On Virtue and Poetry,” 1976 | |||||||||||||
| [In October in Rome...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [The summer arts festival...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [It doesn't take much reason...], 1985-1986 | |||||||||||||
| “Identity,” undated | |||||||||||||
| [Automotive designers...], undated | |||||||||||||
| [Look, you don't want to think], undated | |||||||||||||
| [Judge (Judge = George)...], undated | |||||||||||||
| “An Appeal to Reason,” circa 1971 | |||||||||||||
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