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OGLMC 0308 Thomas McGrath Papers BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY Box 1 Folder 1. Guggenheim Fellowship - application and correspondence 2. Poem - "Lear's Murzzuschlag Song: Allegro Energico E Passionato" for Edward Dahlberg, September 1968 3. Poem - "Elegy on Fortification's Illusions" for Truman Nelson, by David Cumberland 4. Correspondence July 1968 - August 1968 5. Correspondence January 1968 - June 1968 6. Correspondence September 1966 - October 1966 7. Correspondence August 1967 8. Correspondence July 1967 9. Correspondence June 1967 10. Correspondence May 1967 11. Correspondence April 1967 12. Correspondence January 1967 13. Correspondence (no dates) 14. Correspondence January 1969 - June 1969 15. Correspondence and poetry related to Crazy Horse 1967 16. Correspondence (no dates) 17. Correspondence from Allen Planz (no dates) 18. Correspondence April 1966 19. Correspondence May 1966 - June 1966 20. Correspondence August 1966 21. Correspondence June 1966 - July 1966 22. Correspondence February 1966 - March 1966 23. Correspondence 1966 24. Correspondence November 1966 - December 1966 25. Correspondence January 1965 - December 1965 26. Correspondence August 1968 - September 1968 27. It #9, Robert Bly, featured poet in a small poetry magazine 28. Correspondence (no dates) 29. Correspondence January 1964 30. Correspondence February 1964 31. Correspondence July 1964 - August 1964 32. Correspondence January 1962 - August 1963 33. Correspondence May 1963 - August 1963 34. Correspondence September 1963 - December 1963 35. Correspondence November 1962 36. Poetry submitted to Thomas McGrath by Mel Weisburg and others 37. Book review of The Disinherited 38. Screen play The Bravest Boat September 11, 1961 39. Screen play, first version of KEF 40. The Ages of Time a script for the Hamilton Watch Company by Thomas McGrath and Lloyd Ritter, 2nd revision - January 1959 41. Screen play, The House of Man 42. Screen play, Revised to include suggestions by Dr. Bacon and Rand McNally staff 43. Screen play, The Johnson County War by Michael Cimino 44. Ms. "NYC" (New York City). Probably by Gene Frumkin 45. Ms. of a Mel Weisburg novel (untitled) and correspondence from c. February 1963 46. Correspondence from Open Skull Press, 1968 and excerpt from Letter to an Imaginary Friend 47. Poems from Henry Wolff, 1969 48. Poems from Arnold Rattenburg 49. Poetry submitted to Crazy Horse (C. 1970) 50. Screen play Silent Running by Dennis Lynton Clark and Robert Dillon, with notes by Thomas McGrath 51. Photocopy of Disenchantment or Default? a Lay Sermon, by E.P. Thompson 52. The Incidence of War and Other Poems, by R.P. Kingston 53. Correspondence and essay from Jack Beeching 54. Poems from Sid Gershgoren 55. Preview June 1973, Volume 7, Number 3 "Dakota is Everywhere - A Conversation with Thomas McGrath" 56. Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Book II, typed with proper line spacing and length 57. Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Book II, typed with corrections 58. Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Book II, "1st typed copy from the handwritten Ms. in the Barredor notebook" 59. KEF, a screenplay by Thomas McGrath and Michael Cimino, 2 copies 60. PARADISE, a screen play by Thomas McGrath and Michael Cimino, 2 copies 61. Conquering Horse, a screen play by Thomas McGrath and Michael Cimino, 2 copies 62. HIKA (Kenyon College), V. 28, #3, Spring-Summer 1966. Poems by Robert Hazel 63. Sun Dance by Vahan Gregory, including a letter to Thomas McGrath, 1965 64. Shooting script outline for Philadelphia '76, by Francis Thompson Box 2 Folder 1. Correspondence April 1969 - July 1969 2. Miscellaneous screen plays 3. 1 copy (in Russian) of the Newspaper "The Union Administration of Authors of the USSR" (1 August 1963), including a poem by Thomas McGrath 4. Copy of manuscript, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part II 5. Handwritten notes and drafts of poems, as well as typed drafts. The following poems are included (listed by title or first line): "-30 Fahrenheit" "All those ambulatory Queers" "October leaf-fall" "Loon" "Pheasant Season" "After his girl cut out" "Riddle" "Epitaph of a man devoured by monsters" "That's the Way it Goes" "Used Up" "Young Man Manhattan" "The Exiles Epitaph" "For Eugenia" "At Fargo" "After moondown" note: See "Sound of One "Obituary" Hand" "Terrors and Advantages" "For Alvaro" "The Sound of One Hand I (concl)" "On Moving Into A New Home" "The Stars" "The Weather Report" "For a book by Charles Humbolt" "Thalassa! Thalosa!" "Love Belongs to the North" "The End of the Line" "To His Muse" "The World; the Lovers; Falling Stars" "The man attacked by the bear" "The Dreams of Wild Horses" "Sound of One Hand" "Blues for the Old Revolutionary Women" 6. Copy of a typed manuscript, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part II 7. Correspondence February 1962 - June 1962 8. Correspondence July 1962 - August 1962 9. Correspondence September 1962 - October 1962 10. Correspondence November 1962 11. Correspondence December 1962 12. Correspondence (no dates) 13. Script fragments 14. Handwritten manuscript Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part I 15. Untitled manuscript, Selected Poems: 1942-1962 . The following poems may be found in this folder: Part One Wartime "The Odor of Blood" "Homecoming" "Sailing North "Remembering that Island" on a Troop Ship" "War in the "Night in Wartime" Aleutians" "Here is a Skeleton" "Encounter" "The Spectators" "Crash Report" "The Repeated "How it All Looked After the War" Journey" Part Two, Memories of the Depression "Fords "Cal the Last of the Real Wobs" Leaving" "The "Gate to the Dream" Depression" Going to "Strike Days" College" "In Baton ""Depression in Baton Rouge" Rouge" "Stealing from the President of "Studying the Metaphysicals in Baton Rouge" the University of North Dakota" Part Three Something Permanently Good "Hot, Great- "Love in a Bug" Hearted Women" "Such a Simple Love" "Chaos" "Fanfare for a "Legend" Procession of Heroes" "Ode for the "Pueblo! Pueblo!" American Dead in Korea" "Like the " The Tourists" Watchman in Agamemnon "In Los "One Who Has Looked at the Dark" Angeles" "Epitaph" 16. Manuscripts for Tomasito Songs, by Tomasito McGrath, 1975 . This folder contains the following poems (listed by title or first line): "Lakes" "A swan of wool and buffalo hides" "Near the Rum River" "A Journey" "Poem" "Someone has lost" "Counting Song" "Big Snow I" "Tongue Twister" "Big Snow II" "Manifesto" "Tomasito's Poem For His Father" "Waking" "December 24, 1974" "Lakes" "Tomasito's Conundrum" "Counting Song" "December 24, 1974" "Manifesto" "Tomasito's Poem for His Father" "Tomasito's Poem for His Mother" "The Runaway Hamburger (A Delicious Story)" "Someone Has Lost" "The Crocuses My" "Tomasito's Conundrum" "Big Snow I" "Big Snow II" "Tomasito's Conundrums" "Waking" "Someone Has Lost" "Lakes" "Near the Rum River" "Poem" "A Journey" "A swan of wool and buffalo hides" 17. Dummies of Tomasito Songs, by Tomasito McGrath, 1975 18. A Sound of One Hand (short poems), "second original draft." This folder contains the following poems (listed according to title or first line) "Yes" "Be Careful" "All month long I have heard the owls" "Among the Things We Are Left to Do" "The stars! The stars!" "You, Yannis Ritsos" "Affirmation" "Peace! Land! Peyote!" "Visitors" "The true darkness of the forest" "Greek Wedding" "Alas!" "ON THE OCCASION of the launching of the "Eclipse" Red" "in the smallest tidepool" "Advice" "Morning and evening" "A Theory" "In fog . ." "Ghost fire" "My dandelions" "Remembering Issa" "Comfort" "Fallen chestnut blossoms" "Somewhere Ahead" "Surprise" "A barbwire fence" "The Scalping Knife" "Summer" "The Cottonwood" "A million puffs of smoke!" "Arrivals" "What We Don't Know Kills Us" "THE UNFAIRNESS OF IT ALL" "Moon" "The Need for Dictionaries III" "Gloomy woods, and this highwayman" "The scarecrow shivering in November corn" "The stars" "Darkness of winter solstice" "The long wound of the summer--" "Pheasant Season" "Sleepy Birdsong. ." "For Alvaro" "You out there, so secret" "I am travelling, travelling" "The grand days," "Umber sundown" "Across the winter-white coulee hills" "Anonymity has a name" "One farmhouse light--" "To speak is the vice" "The queen of Accident County" "All is not well?" "Empty canvas." "The stick of the blind man" "Ear to hear;" "Empty playground," "Did you bring me a present? the little boy "Down the small and crooked road" asks." "Black" "The rabbit dreams of hunting." "Why I never married" "Loon" "Where Janie Went In" "Epitaph of a Man Devoured by Monsters" "Full moon and silence." "Powers of Darkness" "Route Song and Epitaph" "Summer Lightening" "I see the moon." Your knife's a most particular guest," "The man attacked" "The Exiles Epitaph" "That's the Way it Goes" "A Season" "Presumptions" "Poem" "At Fargo" "The Need for Dictionaries II" "Horses of the moon--" "The two-faced sea--" "Sultry afternoon. The old dog" "Callings" "In the list of one thousand false "In Other Worlds" addresses" "After moondown" "A Field of Sunflowers" "The slow sulfur" "The Need for Dictionaries" "Legislators of Darkness" "Loud November rain" "Faults of Darkness" "A Distant Republic Demands" "A History of Language" "Hushed bright pond stillness." "Cross Country Flight" "Solidarity" "Proportions" "Resurrections" "Terrors and Advantages" "Some Kinds of Knowledge" "Half-life" "What We Think We Know" "Lightcrackle." "Among the trophies of Death" "Small things, soft," "Nothing is lost" "From Old Days" "Weights and Measures" "In a Landscape West of Eden" "Hunter in the cold field." "The Classics" "How it Feels to be Saved" 19. Movie at the End
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