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

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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
				(4 folders)
BOX 29			Notebooks
BOX 29				Nos. 1-29, 1970s-2010s
					(3 folders)
BOX 30				Nos. 30-69, 1970s-2010s
					(4 folders)
BOX 31				Nos. 70-109, 1970s-2010s
					(4 folders)
BOX 32				Nos. 110-131, unnumbered, 1970s-2010s
					(4 folders)
BOX 33		Publications file
BOX 33			Manuscripts
BOX 33				Lists of publications, 2007-2009
BOX 33				American Primitive
BOX 33					Contract, 1981
BOX 33					Correspondence, 1980-1986, 1993
BOX 33					Drafts, 1981-1982
						(3 folders)
BOX 33					Miscellany, circa 1981-1984
BOX 33					Page proofs
BOX 33						1982-circa 1983
							(3 folders)
BOX 34						circa 1983
BOX 34					Reviews, 1983-1985
BOX 34				"Among Wind and Time," Sierra, Nov./Dec. 1991, 1990-1991
BOX 34				"Bird," Appalachia, June 2003, 2002-2003
BOX 34				"A Bitterness," "Wings," "The Pinewoods," "When Death Comes," Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1991, vol. 67, no. 3, 1990-1991
BOX 34				Blue Horses
BOX 34					Contract, 2014
BOX 34					Draft, 2014
BOX 34					Page proofs, 2014
BOX 34				Blue Iris: Poems and Essays
BOX 34					Contract, 2004
BOX 34					Drafts, circa 2003-2004
						(2 folders)
BOX 34					Page proofs, 2004-2006
BOX 34					Permissions, 2004
BOX 34					Reviews, 2004
BOX 35				Blue Pastures
BOX 35					Contract, 1994
BOX 35					Correspondence, 1994-1996
BOX 35					Drafts, 1994-1995
						(3 folders)
BOX 35					Page proofs, 1995 See also Container OV 4, same heading
						(2 folders)
BOX 35					Permissions, 1995
BOX 35					Reviews, 1995-1996
BOX 35				"Building the House," Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Review, Spring 1997, 1996-1997
BOX 35				"Comfort," OnEarth, Winter 2002, 2001-2002
BOX 36				Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
BOX 36					Drafts, circa 2017
						(3 folders)
BOX 36					Page proofs, 2017
						(4 folders)
BOX 37				Dog Songs
BOX 37					Contract, 2014
BOX 37					Draft, circa 2012-circa 2013
BOX 37					Page proofs, 2013
						(3 folders)
BOX 37					Reviews and publicity, 2013-2017
BOX 37				"Dogs," "Stars," "From West Wind: 1," "From West Wind: 12," and "Shelly," Provincetown Arts, Vol. 11, 1995, 1995
BOX 37				Drafts of miscellaneous poems, 1960s-2010s
					(2 folders)
BOX 37				Dream Work
BOX 37					Contracts, 1985-2003, 2014
BOX 38					Correspondence, 1985-1990, 2006
BOX 38					Drafts, 1985
						(3 folders)
BOX 38					Page proofs, 1986 See also Container OV 5, same heading
BOX 38					Reviews, 1986-1989
BOX 38				Evidence
BOX 38					Contract, 2007
BOX 38					Drafts, 2008
BOX 38					Reviews and publicity, 2008-2010
BOX 38				Felicity, 2015-2016
BOX 38				[Felicity?], contract, 2015
BOX 38				"Foods for Thought," Country Living, June 2006, 2005-2006
BOX 38				Forwards to
BOX 38					Necessary Light by Patricia Fargnoli, 1998-1999
BOX 39					Sea Shells by Paul Valéry, 1997-1998
BOX 39					Solstice, photographs by Rachel Brown, 2002-2003
BOX 39				"Four Marvelous Companions with a Zest for Life," My Back Pages (column), Boston Sunday Globe, May 24, 1992, 1992
BOX 39				"From the Book of Time," DoubleTake, Spring 1999, 1999
BOX 39				"Home," Aperture, Feb. 1998, 1997-1998
BOX 39				House of Light
BOX 39					Contract, 1989
BOX 39					Correspondence, 1988-1992
BOX 39					Drafts, circa 1988-1989
						(3 folders)
BOX 39					Page proofs, 1989-1990
BOX 39					Permissions, 1989
BOX 39					Reviews and publicity
BOX 39						1990-1991
BOX 40						1992-1993
BOX 40				Introductions to
BOX 40					Best American Essays 2009, eds. Robert Atwan and Oliver, 2008-2009
BOX 40					A Dream of Summer: Poems for the Sensuous Season by Robert Atwan, 2003
BOX 40					The Holyoke by Frank Gaspar, circa 1988
BOX 40					The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2000
BOX 40					Meditations by Joshua Poteat, circa 2004
BOX 40					Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2002-2003
BOX 40					Poetry Comes Up Where It Can: Poems from the Second Decade of Amicus, ed. Brian Swann, 1999
BOX 40					Selected Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1999-2000
BOX 40				"Lamps" and "The Truro Bear," More Than Land and Sea: Images of Cape Cod, ed. Allen Young, 1982
BOX 40				The Leaf and the Cloud
BOX 40					Correspondence, 1999-2000
BOX 40					Drafts, circa 2000
BOX 40					Page proofs, 2000
						(2 folders)
BOX 41					Reviews and publicity, 1999-2002
BOX 41				The Leaf and the Cloud, What Do We Know, and Long Life contract, 1998-2006
BOX 41				Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
BOX 41					Correspondence, 2003-2004
BOX 41					Drafts, 2003
						(3 folders)
BOX 41					Page proofs, 2003-2004
BOX 41					Reviews, 2004
BOX 41				"Long Life," O, The Oprah Magazine, Oct. 2003, 2003
BOX 41				"Low Tide," The Amicus Journal, Winter 1997, 1996
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