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BOX 1-24 Personal File, 1874-2019
The Personal File series reflects a broad overview of Oliver’s career from roughly the 1980s onward, as well as personal correspondence, awards and honors, interviews, newspaper clippings, academic publications on Oliver’s work, royalty statements and other financial documents, photographs, memorabilia, and other biographical material. Also represented are a variety of items collected by Oliver, including books of prayer, bird-sighting journals by the naturalist and ecologist Arthur B. Williams, sea shells, clay pipe fragments, and other ceramic items likely collected on the beaches in and around Provincetown, Massachusetts, art prints, artwork, and printed matter, textiles belonging to Norma (Millay) Ellis, sister of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Oliver’s electric typewriter. Material arranged under the “name file” reflects the many personal relationships Oliver formed from roughly the 1970s through the end of her life and comprise correspondence, photographs, clippings, and other printed matter. Particularly robust files exist for the dancer and potter Paulus Berensohn, poets Patricia Fargnoli, Frank Gaspar, David Keplinger, and James Wright, the Reverend M. Thomas Shaw (a friend and spiritual advisor to both Oliver and Cook), and the filmmaker and writer John Waters. Researchers should be advised that other material more personal in nature is filed throughout the collection and, barring a few photographs, the Personal File, and the collection as a whole, does not document Oliver’s childhood or family relationships. One item, an address book, is restricted.
Material types include awards, correspondence, notes, financial reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material and thereunder chronologically.
BOX 1 535 Commercial Street, Provincetown, Mass., 2014
BOX 1 Academic publications on Oliver
BOX 1 1979-2000
(4 folders)
BOX 2 2004-2010
(2 folders)
BOX R 118 Address book, circa 2017
BOX 2 Awards
BOX 2 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1983
BOX 2 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1978-1980
(2 folders)
BOX 3 Maple Heights, Ohio, Board of Education, 1984
BOX 3 Miscellaneous, 1968-2019 See also Containers OV 1, Awards; OV 4, Miscellany
(3 folders)
BOX 3 National Book Award
BOX 3 Clippings, 1992-1993
BOX 3 Correspondence, 1992
BOX 3 General, 1992 See also Container OV 1, same heading
BOX 3 Project Completion Award, The Artists' Foundation, Inc., 1984
BOX 4 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
BOX 4 Award and ceremony, 1984
BOX 4 Clippings and notes, 1984-1985
BOX 4 Correspondence, 1984
(3 folders)
BOX OV 10 Beach findings, undated
BOX OV 10 Miscellany, undated
BOX OV 16 Miscellany, undated
BOX OV 11 Pipe fragments, undated
BOX OV 12 Sea shells, undated
BOX OV 13 Sea shells, undated
BOX OV 14 Sea shells, undated
BOX OV 15 Sea shells, undated
BOX OV 16 Sea shells, undated
BOX 4 Bird-sighting journals of Arthur B. Williams, 1907-1908
BOX 5 Birth and baptismal certificates, passport, and last wills and testaments, 1935-1937, 2002-2010
BOX 5 Clippings, 1975-2018
(2 folders)
BOX 5 Collected printed matter, miscellaneous, 1958, 1976-2018
(2 folders)
BOX 5 Collected prints and artwork, 1880s, 1970s-1990s, 2004-2014 See also Containers OV 2 and OV 4, Miscellany
BOX 5 Collected textiles, miscellaneous, 1920s-1940s, 2010s See also Container OV 6, same heading
BOX 5 Correspondence, miscellaneous
BOX 5 1972, circa 1984-1987, circa 2000-2009
BOX 6 2010-2018
(6 folders)
BOX 6 Curricula vitae, circa 1983
BOX 6 Dogs (Ben, Luke, and Percy), circa 1989, circa 1996-2001, 2009 See also Container OV 2, Cremation box; Container 19, Pets
BOX 7 Events file, 1993-2004
BOX 7 Family papers, miscellaneous, 1874, 1908, 1959, 1975, 1983-1985 See also Container OV 4, Miscellany
BOX 7 Financial file, 2007-2015
BOX 7 Honorary degrees
BOX 7 Art Institute of Boston and Dartmouth College, 1998, 2007 See also Container OV 4, Miscellany
BOX 7 Tufts University and Marquette University, 2008, 2012 See also Container OV 4, Miscellany
BOX 7 Interviews
BOX 7 1984-1990
BOX 8 1992-2013
(3 folders)
BOX 8 Medical file, 2012-2013
BOX 8 Name file
BOX 8 Almquist, Curtis, 2005, 2013-2018
BOX 8 Barks, Coleman, 2000-2010
(2 folders)
BOX 9 Berensohn, Paulus See also Container 14, Seidler, Joy
BOX 9 Correspondence
BOX 9 1994-2009
(7 folders)
BOX 10 2010-2016
(5 folders)
BOX 10 Miscellany, circa 2000-2017
BOX 10 Photographs, circa 2000-circa 2015
BOX 10 Bly, Robert, 1995-2004
BOX 11 Carruth, Hayden, 1984-1992
BOX 11 Doty, Mark, circa 1994
BOX 11 Fargnoli, Patricia, 2001-2018
(2 folders)
BOX 11 Franklin, Daniel, 2003-2011
BOX 11 Gaspar, Frank, 1988-2008
(2 folders)
BOX 12 Hall, Donald, 1976-1996, 2009
BOX 12 Hanckel, Frances, 2003-2005
BOX 12 Hoare, Philip, 2006-2014
BOX 12 Kennedy, Helena, and Iain Hutchison, 1999-2009
BOX 12 Keplinger, David, 1999-2010
(3 folders)
BOX 12 Kunitz, Stanley, 1972-2000
BOX 13 MacLeish, Archibald, 1978-1980
BOX 13 O'Reilley, Mary Rose, 2005-2018
BOX 13 Reichblum family (Amalie, Bill, Clarissa, and Noah), 1998-circa 2018
(2 folders)
BOX 13 Rose, Gregory, 2013-2018
(3 folders)
BOX 14 Rowland, Carolyn ("Crossie"), 1995-1998
BOX 14 Seidler, Joy, 2006-2018 See also Containers 9 and 10, Berensohn, Paulus
(3 folders)
BOX 14 Shaw, Rev. M. Thomas
BOX 14 circa 1994-2009
(2 folders)
BOX 15 2012-2016
BOX 15 Smith, Charlie, 1986-2000
BOX 15 Swenson, May, 1982-1990, 2004
BOX 15 Taylor, Anne Harvey, 2006-2013
BOX 15 Waters, John, 1991-2017
BOX 15 Weil, Phoebe Dent, 2007-2008
BOX 15 Wright, Annie (Crunk), 1982-1994
BOX 16 Wright, James, 1965-1991 See also Container OV 4, Miscellany
(2 folders)
BOX 16 Notes, miscellaneous, 1960s-2000s
BOX 17 Photographs
BOX 17 Album 1, 1954-2004
BOX 18 Album 2, 1985-1998
BOX 19 Childhood and family, circa 1920-circa 1950
BOX 19 Miscellany, 1912-1960, 1990s
BOX 19 Oliver, Helen (Vlasak), circa 1905-1920s, 1977 See also Container OV 4, Miscellany
BOX 19 Pets and miscellaneous animals, 1950s-2012 See also Container 6, Dogs
BOX 19 Portraits and snapshots, circa 1959-circa 2015
(2 folders)
BOX 19 Vlasak family, circa 1880s-1940s
BOX 20 [Vlasak family?], 1920s
BOX 20 Prayer and meditation books
BOX 20 The Bhagavadgita, or the Song Divine, 1975
BOX 20 The Book of Common Prayer, According to the Use of the Episcopal Church, 1986
BOX 21 A Year with Rumi, Daily Readings, 2006
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