Mary Oliver papers, 1863-2019 (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

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Container	Contents

	Personal File, 1874-2019 (continued)
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
BOX 21		Racing shell, Portland Boat Club (The Mary Oliver), 1995-1996 See also Container OV 3, same heading
BOX 21		Royalty statements
BOX 21			1963-1995
				(4 folders)
BOX 22			1996-2006
				(5 folders)
BOX 23			2007-2012
				(7 folders)
BOX 24			2013-2016
				(3 folders)
BOX 24		Schedules and datebooks, 2010-2015
			(2 folders)
BOX 24		Travel file, 2008-circa 2010
BOX OV 7		Typewriter, Brother SX-4000, M9K102766, 1990s
BOX 25-27	Molly Malone Cook File, 1863-2013
		The Molly Malone Cook File series consists of a limited volume of correspondence, biographical material, photographs both taken by and of Cook, newspaper clippings, writings, and other material documenting Cook’s work as a literary agent, primarily between 1980 and 2000. Other material includes blank letterhead from Cook’s businesses VII Photographers Gallery, VII Paperback Books, and East End Bookshop, files related to the donation of her papers to Smith College, drafts of writings, and a small file dedicated to Cook’s family history. The bulk of this series comprises the "name file," which primarily includes correspondence, printed matter, photographs, interviews, and drawings from and related to the artist Arthur Cohen, filmmaker and one-time employee of Cook’s, John Waters, and writer Norman Mailer, for whom Cook worked as a secretary, and Oliver as a typist, during the 1970s. Material types include correspondence, notes, photographs, newspaper clippings, identification cards, unpublished writings, and printed matter.
		Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material and thereunder chronologically.
BOX 25		VII Photographers Gallery, VII Paperback Books, and East End Bookshop, circa 1960-1970s
BOX 25		Birth and death certificates, last will and testament, and miscellaneous identifcation cards, 1952-1984, 2002-2005
BOX 25		Clippings, 1965, 1976, 1996, 2005-2006
BOX 25		Correspondence, 1964-1982, 2002-2005
BOX 25		Family history, 1863, circa 1925, 1936, 1976, 1982, 1991
BOX 25		Memorial service, 2005
BOX 25		Miscellany, circa 1910, 1967, 1991, 2002 See also Container OV 6, Handkerchief
BOX 25		Molly Malone Cook Literary Agency, Inc., 1976, 1984, 1996-2003
BOX 25		Molly Malone Cook Papers, Smith College, 2006-2010
			(2 folders)
BOX 25		Name file
BOX 25			Cohen, Arthur
BOX 25				1964-1984
					(2 folders)
BOX 26				1985-2007
					(2 folders)
BOX 26			Mailer, Norman, 1936, 2011-2013
BOX 26			Price, Reynold, 1995-1998
BOX 26			Waters, John, 1977, 1991-2005
				(2 folders)
BOX 26		Photographs
BOX 26			By Molly Malone Cook, 1950s-1960s See also Container OV 4, same heading
				(2 folders)
BOX 27			Of Molly Malone Cook, 1930s-1990s
BOX 27		United States Marine Corps service, circa 1945-1946
BOX 27		Writings, 1971-1976, 1995
BOX 27-94	Writings, 1956-2017
		The Writings series documents Oliver’s career as a best-selling poet and essayist and chiefly comprises notebooks and notes, book manuscript drafts, page proofs, production correspondence, reviews, and printed matter containing Oliver’s work. Dating from 1956 to 2017, the series is arranged in two groupings: notebooks and notes and a publications file. Notebooks and notes includes Oliver’s birding “sight lists” and other observations of the natural world, as well as over 130 small, bound notebooks, some handbound, Oliver kept during her daily walks on Cape Cod. The notebooks are largely undated and are arranged as received in numerical order. The publications file primarily comprises manuscript material related to all her major works, drafts of shorter works of prose, introductions or forwards to several books, and reviews written by Oliver. In general, Oliver kept few drafts of poems, though a limited number of files related to specific poems are included. These files reflect major edits, demonstrate Oliver’s work process, and highlight her most well-known works. Manuscript files on individual book-length titles include contracts, correspondence, book cover design material, manuscript drafts, notes, permission requests, page and galley proofs, and reviews and publicity material. Periodicals, arranged alphabetically by title, almost exclusively comprise final print copies of publications featuring Oliver’s work, with minimal associated correspondence or notes. Miscellaneous printed matter, grouped at the end of the series, documents Oliver’s work included in poetry anthologies and other book-length works, as well as calendars, exhibit catalogs, church service bulletins, Provincetown city and festival guides, and other miscellany. Inventories and lists of publications can be found in box 33 for book-length titles and box 63 for individual poems and works of prose published in periodicals. Material types include manuscript drafts, poems, notes, notebooks, newspaper clippings, contracts, correspondence, page and galley proofs, periodicals, copyright forms, photographs, drawings, and printed matter.
		Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material and thereunder alphabetically by title or subject. Notebooks arranged numerically as received.
BOX 27		Notebooks and notes
BOX 27			Nature sightings, notes and journals, 1975-2013
BOX 28			Nature sightings, notes and journals, 1975-2013
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