Correspondence
Play Manuscript Series
Poetry Manuscript Series
Prose Manuscript Series
Poetry and Photograph Series
Publications Series
Review Series
North Dakota State University Series
Art Galleries Program Series

Box 1 

1      Biographical material and Register

Correspondence

2        Bismarck Art Association, 1956-1962
3        Discourse, 1958-1968 (Concordia College)
4        Distler, Alan J., 1955
5        Fulbright program, 1956
6        Guggenheim Memorial Fund, 1958-1959
7        Houghton Mifflin Co., 1961
8        Hungarian revolution, 1962-1965
9        Indiana University Press, 1953-1961
10      Job applications, 1959
11      Media Arts Association, 1958-1959
12      Men and Tin Kettles, 1952-1967 (Alan Swallow)
13      Minnesota Review, 1960-1962
14      Nelson, Willis, 1960
15      New Yorker, 1951-1955
16      North Dakota Quarterly, 1956-1960
17      One Squeaking Straw, 1958
18      Paintings in Taxicabs, 1952, 1961
19      Paintings in Taxicabs, 1964-1966, 1971
20      Paris Review, 1955-1962
21      Pocket Books, 1952-1954 (Discovery)
22      Prairie Press, 1958-1963 -
23      Print Council of America, 1960-1963
24      Red River Art Center, 1966
25      Rejection slips
26      Rourke Art Gallery, 1960-1970

Box 2

1      Ruff, Ruth Haggard, 1954-1956
2      Saxton Memorial Trust, 1958
3      University of Minnesota-American Studies Program, 1959-1963
4      University of North Dakota-75th Anniversary Convocation and Faculty 
        Conference, 1958
5      General, 1941-1954
6      General, 1955-1968
7      Undated

Play Manuscripts Series

8    The Front Steps
9    Untitled
10  Untitled (copy)
11  Yield of the Fountain, by Frederick G. Walsh (draft) 
12  Yield of the Fountain, by Frederick G. Walsh

Poetry Manuscripts Series

13    Above Time, Tenth Street Bucolics
14    The Brush of Tension
15    Creatures and Creators
16    Eclogues in Blue

Box 3

1      Fable from a North Window, p. 1-80
2      Fable from a North Window, p. 81-160
3      Gray Circumstance
4      Margaret
5      Men and Tin Kettles
6      One Squeaking Straw
7      One Squeaking Straw (Final manuscript)
8      Poetry North - Layout scheme and cover
9      Poetry North - Edited galley proof
10    Portfolio
11    Third Person
12    This Private Earth
13    Thumb-nail Sketches
14    Wax Wings Poems
15    World of Little Time
16    General

Prose Manuscripts Series

Anthology of North Dakota Writers-
17    Notes
18    Introduction
19    Adams - Audubon
20    Aaron McGaffey Beede
21    Bigelow - Burgum
22    Catlin - Custer

Box 4

Anthology of North Dakota Writers
1      deTrobriand - Duncan
2      Foley - Fougera
3      Gannon - Grimstad
4      Hagen - Hult
5      H. V. Johnston
6      Keeney - Kurz
7      Lang - Libby
8      Maxmiliam - Milburn
9      Neal - Quain
10    Raaen - Russell
11    Sand - Stegner
12    Stickney - Sweetman
13    Tabeau - Trinka
14    Waldo - Woodward

15    The First Poet of North Dakota 4 15

Paintings in Taxicabs (Draft)-
16    Introduction
17    Chapter I
18    Chapter 2
19    Chapter 3
20    Chapter 4

Paintings in Taxicabs (Draft)-

Box 5

1    Chapter 5
2    Chapter 6
3    Footnotes, Appendix and Index

Paintings in Taxicabs (Final manuscript)-
4      Introduction
5      Chapter 1
6      Chapter 2
7      Chapter 3
8      Chapter 4
9      Chapter 5
10    Chapter 6
11    Footnotes and appendicies
12    Index

13    Paintings in Taxicabs-Galley proof (incomplete)
14    Speech
15    You and I

Poetry and Photographs: A way into the Meaning of Space, Resources and Life Styles of North Dakota, 1974-1976 Series

16    Proposal, 1974
17    Notes
18    Poem Drafts
19    Poem Drafts
20    Poem Drafts
21    Poem Drafts (Typed)
22    Poem Drafts - North Dakota towns
23    Poem Drafts (Typed copies)
24    Illusions in Reality - Typed manuscript

The Fact and the Fantasies
25    Manuscript
26    Manuscript

The Fact and the Fantasies

Box 6

1    Manuscript (Final)

In Sights and Double Visions-
2    Poems
3    Manuscript (Draft)
4    Manuscript (Final)

The Quest and the Questions-
5    Poems
6    Manuscript (Draft)
7    Manuscript (Final)

Newspaper clippings-
8      ABM, 1974-1976
9      Coal, 1974-1975
10    Garrison Diversion, 1975
11    Water and floods, 1975
12    General, 1972-1975

13    Slide title boards

Publications Series

14    Above Time, 1966
15    The Fact and the Fantasies, 1976
16    Fargo Five
17    Faulkner on Love, 1974
18    The First Poet of North Dakota (North Dakota History), 1957
19    Goodbye, 1970
20    John, Where are You?, 1967
21    Lazy Lover, 1966
22    The Man on the Balcony, 1968
23    One Squeaking Straw, 1958
24    Paintings in Taxicabs, 1965

Box 7

1    Poetry (copies)
2    Poetry North, 1970
3    Poetry North at the 1968 Red River Annual Art Exhibition, 1968
4    Poet's Circle, 1940-1941
5    Poet's Circle, 1941-1942
6    Portrait, 1971
7    The Quest and the Questions, 1976
8    Six Poets of the Red River Valley, 1971
9    Stackers of Wheat, 1951

Review Series

10    Men and Tin Kettles
11    One Squeaking Straw
12    Paintings in Taxicabs
13    Poetry North

North Dakota State University Series

14    American Assocation of University Professors, NDSU Chapter, 1955-1964
15    Elliott Millner affair, 1971
16    Name change of NDAC, 1958
17    North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1951-1970
18    North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies-Exhibition programs, 1952-1956

Box 8

Poetry North-
1    1966-1967
2    1967-1968
3    1968-1969
4    1969-1970
5    1970-1971

Art Galleries Programs Series

6    Fort Ransom Summer Art, 1964-1965
7    Red River Art Center - Pamphlets, 1966-1967

Rourke Art Gallery programs-
8      1960-1961
9      1962-1963
10    1964
11    1965
12    1966
13    1967
14    1968
15    1969
16    1970
17    1971
 

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