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James Schuyler Papers

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James Schuyler Papers MSS 0078 1 Descriptive Summary Title: James Schuyler Papers Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0078 Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California, 92093-0175 Languages: English Physical Description: 13.0 Linear feet(29 archives boxes, 4 card file boxes, 1 flat box, 5 map case folders) Date (inclusive): 1947-1991 Abstract: Papers of James Schuyler, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and member of the New York School circle of poets and painters. A New York City resident since 1950, Schuyler moved among prominent artists and writers of the period and worked as an art critic and associate editor for Art News from 1955 to circa 1962, and in the Museum of Modern Art beginning in 1957. He published his first novel, Alfred and Guinevere, in 1958 and continued a distinguished career, publishing twelve books of poetry and two additional novels, including A Nest of Ninnies with John Ashbery. Schuyler's collection of poems entitled The Morning of the Poem won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981. The bulk of the materials date between 1950 and 1970, with a second field of concentration in the late 1980s, and include correspondence with contemporary writers and visual artists, including John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, Ron Padgett, and Anne Waldman. Also included are manuscripts and typescripts; Art News materials; notebooks; diaries; miscellaneous subject files; and rare audio recordings. Creator: Schuyler, James, Crystal lithium Creator: Schuyler, James, Few days Creator: Schuyler, James, Freely espousing Creator: Schuyler, James, Home book Creator: Schuyler, James, Morning of the poem Creator: Schuyler, James Restrictions Original audio recordings are restricted. Researchers may request listening copies be produced in advance. Scope and Content of Collection Papers of James Schuyler, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and member of the New York School circle of poets and painters. A New York City resident since 1950, Schuyler moved among prominent artists and writers of the period and worked as an art critic and associate editor for Art News from 1955 to circa 1962, and in the Museum of Modern Art beginning in 1957. He published his first novel, Alfred and Guinevere, in 1958 and continued a distinguished career, publishing twelve books of poetry and two additional novels, including A Nest of Ninnies with John Ashbery. Schuyler's collection of poems entitled The Morning of the Poem won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981. The bulk of the materials date between 1950 and 1970, with a second field of concentration in the late 1980s, and include correspondence with contemporary writers and visual artists, including John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, Ron Padgett, and Anne Waldman. Also included are manuscripts and typescripts; Art News materials; notebooks; diaries; miscellaneous subject files; and rare audio recordings. Accessions Processed in 1992 Contains manuscripts or typescripts for most of Schuyler's works, in addition to abundant correspondence, especially with painters, poets, and writers of the New York School circle. Arranged into eight series: 1) ORIGINAL FINDING AID, 2) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 3) CORRESPONDENCE, 4) WRITINGS, 5) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, 6) SUBJECTS, 7) AUDIO TAPE RECORDINGS, and 8) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES. Accession Processed in 1993 This substantive accession provides a wealth of biographical information, and includes correspondence from Schuyler's lovers and closest friends, initially withheld from the collection. Arranged into five series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS, 3) PHOTOGRAPHS, 4) OTHER WRITERS, and 5) MISCELLANEOUS. Biography Born on November 9, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, James Marcus Schuyler experienced a peripatetic childhood. His family lived for a time in Downer's Grove, a suburb of Chicago, then Washington, D.C., and later Chevy Chase, Maryland. His parents

James Schuyler Papers MSS 0078 2 divorced early in Schuyler's childhood and he remained with his mother and step-father. At the age of twelve, his family moved to Buffalo, New York, and two years later to East Aurora, a suburb outside of Buffalo. Schuyler attended Bethany College in West Virginia from 1941 to 1943. There he pursued interests in history, architecture, and literature. During World War II, in 1943, he joined the U.S. Navy. He spent the next two years on a destroyer in the North Atlantic, protecting convoys. He remained in the Navy after the war. In 1947, Schuyler moved to the Isle of Ischia in Italy for two years. There he lived in the rented house of W.H. Auden, whom he had met in New York. Schuyler served as Auden's secretary, typing the manuscript for Auden's book Gnomes and Auden's translation of Jean Cocteau's "Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde." Schuyler also attended the University of Florence at this time, and he began writing poetry. Although he returned to New York briefly, an inheritance allowed him the financial independence to return to Florence in mid-1950. Schuyler began writing seriously in the late 1940's, but an important breakthrough in his career came in 1951. As a result of his correspondence with Howard Moss, Moss published Schuyler's poem "Salute", written in the hospital in White Plains, New York. Moss later published three of Schuyler's short stories in the magazine Accent along with a poem entitled "Three Penny Opera" by Frank O'Hara. At a party, Moss introduced Schuyler to Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, who had been Moss's schoolmates at Harvard. Schuyler soon became involved with the so-called New York School of writers and artists. By 1951, he and Frank O'Hara shared an apartment on 49th Street, where they were later joined by John Ashbery after Ashbery's return from France. Schuyler worked for a while at a bookshop on 54th street and later, with the financial assistance of a friend, devoted himself to writing what would become his first novel, Alfred and Guinevere. By 1955 he was working for the magazine Art News as an art critic and associate editor. His colleagues at Art News included John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, and Elaine De Kooning. For this journal Schuyler reviewed exhibitions and wrote articles. By 1957 he was also working for the Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Circulating Exhibitions. Schuyler's writing career expanded greatly in the mid-1950s and 1960s. He wrote the libretto for Paul Bowles' recording entitled A Picnic Cantata (1955) and two off-broadway plays, Presenting Jane (1952) and Shopping and Waiting (1953). In 1958 he published his first novel, Alfred and Guinevere, a book about children and their perceptions. Then came two collections of verse, Salute (1960) and May 24th or So (1966). Between 1961 and 1973, Schuyler lived with the Fairfield Porter family in Southampton, Long Island, and moved among New York poets and painters, including Fairfield Porter, Kenward Elmslie, Ron Padgett, and Joe Brainard. He collaborated with Kenward Elmslie on the off-broadway play Unpacking the Black Trunk (1965). Collaborating with John Ashbery, Schuyler published the novel A Nest of Ninnies in 1969. Begun early in their relationship, the novel is a satire on suburbanites and their lifestyles. This work appeared at the same time as Schuyler's first major collection of poetry Freely Espousing (1969). Schuyler's productivity reached a zenith during the 1970s, with the publication of numerous collections of poems including The Crystal Lithium (1972); A Sun Cab (1972); Penguin Modern Poets 24, with Kenneth Koch and Kenward Elmslie (1973); Hymn to Life (1974); Song (1976); The Fireproof Floors of Witley Count: English Songs and Dances (1976); and The Home Book: Prose and Poems 1951-1970 (1977). Schuyler also produced his third novel entitled What's for Dinner, published in 1978. His last work of the decade was The Morning of the Poem (1980), for which he received a Pulitzer Prize. Although well-known and successful by the early 1980s, Schuyler turned to a life of reclusion as poor health and financial difficulties hindered his writing. He continues to live in New York City, and has recently published two collections of poetry: A Few Days (1985) and Selected Poems (1988). In addition to a Pulitzer Prize for The Morning of the Poem, Schuyler received the Longview Foundation award (1961), the Frank O'Hara Prize (1969), two National Academy for the Arts grants (1969, 1972), an American Academy award (1977), and an Academy of American Poets fellowship (1983). "James Schuyler's is a poetry of perception, the recognition of shapes out of the indiscriminate sensory field," wrote George Butterick in Contemporary Poets (1985). "Reading him," wrote Butterick, "there is a sense of focusing field glasses; always the sharper image results...Schuyler is determined to possess the natural world without a lapse into symbolism. Nature is not to be quarreled with, nor confused with human needs. The world is distinguishable among its parts as well as from the observing narrator. He has tried life and it fits; life matches art..." Schuyler died on April 12, 1991. Publication Rights Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection. Preferred Citation James Schuyler Papers, MSS 0078. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

James Schuyler Papers MSS 0078 3 Acquisition Information Acquired 1989, 1992. Subjects and Indexing Terms Ashbery, John, 1927- -- Correspondence Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994 -- Correspondence Button, John -- Correspondence Dash, Robert -- Correspondence Elmslie, Kenward -- Correspondence Freilicher, Jane, 1924-2014 -- Correspondence Guest, Barbara -- Correspondence Mathews, Harry, 1930- -- Correspondence Merrill, James, 1926-1995 -- Correspondence O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966 -- Correspondence Padgett, Ron, 1942- -- Correspondence Porter, Fairfield -- Correspondence Schuyler, James -- Archives Waldman, Anne, 1945- -- Correspondence Wieners, John, 1934-2002 -- Correspondence American poetry--20th century Diaries -- 20th century. Gay men -- United States Gay men -- United States -- Poetry

Accessions Processed in 1992

ORIGINAL FINDING AID

Box 1, Folder 1 Original Finding Aid General note Produced by Raymond Foye, a close friend and "archivist" for James Schuyler. It consists of a list of folder titles, in most cases generated by Foye, with detailed descriptions of the materials which he inventoried.

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS

Box 1, Folder 2 Articles about James Schuyler 1983 General note Hillringhouse, Mark. "An Interview with James Schuyler."

Box 1, Folder 3 Articles about James Schuyler 1960 General note Moore, Marianne. "The ways our poets have taken in fifteen years since the war." NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE

Box 1, Folder 4 Articles about James Schuyler 1960 General note Moss, Howard. "James Schuyler: Whatever Is Moving." Edited photocopy

James Schuyler Papers MSS 0078 4 Accessions Processed in 1992 BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS

Box 1, Folder 5 Autobiographical sketch Box 1, Folder 6 Biographical materials Box 1, Folder 7 Publications list Box 1, Folder 8 Pulitzer Prize Certificate

CORRESPONDENCE Scope and Content of Series SERIES 3) CORRESPONDENCE: Aranged alphabetically by correspondent and thereunder chronologically. The materials date from 1948 to 1987, with the greatest concentration of letters from the 1950s and 1960s. Included is extensive correspondence with many prominent writers and visual artists including Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, Ron Padgett, and Anne Waldman. Many of the letters are detailed, carefully written, and of great literary merit in themselves. Correspondence with publishers about specific publications is located with manuscript materials under individual titles in the series WRITINGS.

Box 1, Folder 9 Miscellaneous correspondents, A to Z Box 1, Folder 10 Academy of American Poets 1983 Box 1, Folder 11 Allen, Don 1959-1969 Box 1, Folder 12 American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters 1982 Box 1, Ashbery, John 1956-1987 Folder 13-15 Box 1, Folder 16 Auden, Wystan ca. 1948 Box 1, Folder 17 Authors League Fund 1982 Box 1, Folder 18 Batie, Nancy 1969 Box 1, Folder 19 Berkson, Bill 1967 - 1969 Box 2, Folder 1 Berrigan, Sandy and Ted 1964 - 1982 Box 2, Folder 2 Blaine, Nellie 1959 - 1968 Box 2, Folder 3 Bowles, Paul 1966 Box 2, Folder 4-7 Brainard, Joe 1964 - 1983 Box 2, Folder 8 Brownstein, Michael 1971 Box 2, Folder 9 Burckhardt, Edith 1958 - 1961 Box 2, Folder 10 Burckhardt, Helen 1961 Box 2, Folder 11 Burckhardt, Rudy ca. 1950 Box 2, Folder 12 Button, John 1956 - 1968 Box 2, Folder 13 Carnegie Fund for Authors 1982 - 1983 Box 2, Folder 14 Cherry, Herman 1959 Box 2, Folder 15 Clark, Thomas 1966 - 1971 Box 2, Folder 16 Coolidge, Clark 1971 - 1972 Box 2, Folder 17 Dash, Robert 1961 - 1975 Box 2, Folder 18 Davis, Lotte Lenya Box 2, Folder 19 DeKooning, Elaine 1960 Box 2, Folder 20 DiCapua, Michael 1964 - 1967 Box 2, Folder 21 Droll, Donald 1958 - 1971 Box 2, Folder 22 Elmslie, Kenward 1964 - 1980 Box 2, Folder 23 Epstein, Barbara 1963 Box 2, Folder 24 Fagin, Larry Box 2, Folder 25 Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, Inc. 1979 Box 2, Folder 26 Fitzdale, Bobby 1960 Box 3, Folder 1 Frankenthaler, Helen 1960 Box 3, Folder 2 Freilicher, Jane 1963 - 1975 Box 3, Folder 3 Gold, Arthur 1953 - 1960 Box 3, Folder 4 Golde, Morris 1969 Box 3, Folder 5 Groffsky , Maxine 1967 - 1982 Box 3, Folder 6 Guest, Barbara 1960 - 1975 Box 3, Folder 7 Guston, Philip and Musa 1969

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Box 3, Folder 8 Haberman, Daniel 1975 Box 3, Folder 9 Hartigan, Grace Box 3, Folder 10 Hazan, Joe 1966 - 1967 Box 3, Folder 11 Heilemann, Charles 1949 - 1950 Box 3, Folder 12 Hillringhouse, Mark 1983 Box 3, Folder 13 Howard, Brian 1948 Box 3, Folder 14 Katz, Alex, Ada, and Vincent 1960 - 1971 Box 3, Folder 15 Koch, Kenneth, Janic and Katherine 1957 - 1981 Box 3, Folder 16 Leslie, Alfred 1959 Box 3, Folder 17 LeSueur, Joseph 1965 - 1971 Box 3, Folder 18 Martory, Pierre 1959 Box 3, Folder 19 Marvin Josephson Associates, Inc 1967 - 1968 Box 3, Folder 20 Matthews, Harry 1960 - 1980 Box 3, Folder 21 Merrill, James 1961 - 1969 Box 3, Folder 22 Montgomery, George 1957 - 1965 Box 3, Folder 23 Moynihan, Anne 1966 - 1969 Box 3, Folder 24 Museum of Modern Art (fellow employees) 1957 - 1961 General note Correspondence with Kynaston McShine, Alvin Novak, Ed Potoker

Box 3, Folder 25 Myer, John Bernard 1961 - 1968 Box 3, Folder 26 National Endowment in the Arts 1985 Box 3, Folder 27 THE NEW YORKER 1971 - 1982 General note See also WRITINGS - POETRY - Miscellaneous poems submitted to THE NEW YORKER

Box 3, Folder 28 North, Charles and Paula 1973 - 1983 Box 3, Folder 29 Novak, Alvin ca. 1975-1760 General note See CORRESPONDENCE - Museum of Modern Art

Box 3, Folder 30 O'Hara, Frank 1956 - 1961 Box 3, Folder 31 Padgett, Ron 1966 - 1975 Box 3, Folder 32 Park, Darragh 1975 Box 3, Folder 33 P.E.N. American Center 1982 Box 3, Folder 34 POETRY 1967 - 1968 Box 3, Folder 35 Poets Foundation 1960 - 1968 Box 3, Folder 36 Polach, Frank 1975 Box 3, Folder 37 Porter, Anne 1956 - 1975 Box 3, Folder 38 Porter, Elizabeth 1967 - 1971 Box 3, Folder 39 Porter, Fairfield and John 1956 - 1973 Box 3, Folder 40 Porter, Katie 1956 - 1969 Box 3, Folder 41 Pousett-Dart, Richard 1960 Box 3, Folder 42 Pulitzer Prize Board 1981 Box 3, Folder 43 Resnich, Milton 1959 Box 3, Folder 44 Ridenour Family 1956 - 1975 Box 3, Folder 45 Rorem, Ned Box 3, Folder 46 Schjeldahl, Peter 1965 Box 3, Folder 47 Schloss, Edith 1947 Box 3, Folder 48 Schneeman, George 1971 Box 3, Folder 49 Schuyler, James 1975 Box 3, Folder 50 Thomson, Virgil 1980 Box 4, Folder 1 Towle, Tony 1968 - 1970 Box 4, Folder 2 Waldman, Anne 1968 - 1972 Box 4, Folder 3 Weaver, Bill 1949 - 1959 Box 4, Folder 4 Wieners, John 1959 - 1965 Box 4, Folder 5 Windham, Don 1948

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Box 4, Folder 6 Winkfield, Trevor 1968 - 1973 Box 4, Folder 7 YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE 1969

WRITINGS Scope and Content of Series SERIES 4) WRITINGS: Arranged into six subseries: A) Poetry B) Prose, C) Journal Articles and Reviews, D) Diaries, E) Notebooks, and F) Notes. A) Poetry: The largest subseries of WRITINGS, including published and unpublished works. The materials are arranged alphabetically under a combination of descriptive title, published title, and author's title. Included in this subseries are materials for Schuyler's Pulitzer Prize winning book The Morning of the Poem, as well as The Crystal Lithium, A Few Days, Freely Espousing, and The Home Book: Prose and Poems, 1951-1970. Includes typescripts with holograph revisions, although there are abundant examples of holograph manuscripts. A large portion of poems were originally organized by Schuyler in folders titled "miscellaneous." These folders have been grouped in a sub-subseries as "miscellaneous collected poems" and reorganized alphabetically by title, or for untitled poems, by first line. Although these folders contain some published poems, most are unpublished. B) Prose: Includes materials for Alfred and Guinevere, Early in '71, What's for dinner?, and A Nest of Ninnies. The notes and manuscripts for A Nest of Ninnies provide numerous examples of the method of Schuyler's collaboration with Ashbery. Also includes shorter prose works, including prose fragments and leaves, which are located at the beginning of the subseries under "miscellaneous prose." C) Journal Articles and Reviews: Materials related to Schuyler's work for ARTnews during the late 1950s and early 1960s. These materials include annotated typescript drafts for feature articles on artists, reviews of exhibitions, and pocket-size notebooks with original notes created during assignments and interviews. Among the artists represented in the ARTnews materials are Joe Brainard, Paul Georges, Fairfield Porter, and Ludwig Sander. D) Diaries: Two early "diaries" are included here, one dated 1955 and the other undated. Recent Schuyler diaries are still in the author's possession. E) Notebooks: A variety of items written or collected by Schuyler, including poems, prose works, recipes, newspaper clippings, and messages. The notebooks are organized chronologically. They often relate to a particular place (e.g. "Calais, Vermont") or a time period. F) Notes: Folders containing miscellaneous groups of notes.

Poetry Box 4, Folder 8 Collabs with Helena Hughes 1980 General note Typescripts

Box 4, Folder 9 Collage poem for Kenward Elmslie 1970 Box 4, Folder 10 CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Typescript sent to the printer with printer's annotations Box 4, Folder 11 CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Typescript poems with holograph revisions Box 4, Folder 12 CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Photocopy of typescript Oversize MC-038-01 CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Galleys Box 4, Folder 14 CRYSTAL LITHIUM - Reviews Box 4, Folder 15 Ducal Days, also titled as Shrine Exit General note Numerous versions with holograph revisions and annotations

Box 4, Folder 16 FEW DAYS - Original typescript with corrections and additions (before editing) Box 4, Folder 17 FEW DAYS - First and second version (photocopy and typescript) Box 4, Folder 18 FEW DAYS - Photocopy of revised typescript

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Box 4, Folder 19 Fireproof Floors of Whitley Court General note Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 4, Folder 20 FREELY ESPOUSING - Correspondence with Doubleday 1968 - 1969 Box 4, Folder 21 FREELY ESPOUSING - Holograph with typescript first drafts Box 5, Folder 1 FREELY ESPOUSING - Working drafts Box 5, Folder 2 FREELY ESPOUSING - Complete typescript with revisions Box 5, Folder 3 HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Typescripts of poems 1951 - 1970 General note With holograph revisions

Box 5, Folder 4 HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Typescript of prose 1951 - 1970 General note Entitled "The Home Book"

Box 5, Folder 5 HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Typescript with holograph revisions 1951 - 1970 General note Of a prose piece entitled "Current Events"

Box 5, Folder 6 HOME BOOK: PROSE AND POEMS, 1951-1970 - Phtocopy of corrected typescript Box 5, Folder 7 Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Typescript and holograph notes Box 5, Folder 8 Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Typescript and holograph notes Box 5, Folder 9 Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Holograph note Box 5, Folder 10 Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Edited typescript Box 5, Folder 11 Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Photocopy of typescript Box 5, Folder 12 Life, Death, and Other Dreams - Photocopy of PARIS REVIEW appearance of work Box 5, Folder 13 Miscellaneous collected poems 1950s General note Includes: Beautiful Outlook, Sestina, A Grave, Palisades, In the cafe I sat and Watched the rain, I do not always understand why at you say, and: August, smelling of ripe grapes and afternoon.

Box 5, Folder 14 Miscellaneous collected poems 1975 - 1976 Box 5, Folder 15 Miscellaneous collected poems - From a yellow binder General note Photocopies

Box 5, Folder 16 Miscellaneous collected poems - Including "After the feast" General note Typescript

Box 5, Folder 17 Miscellaneous collected poems - THE NEW YORKER, submissions General note Typescript with holograph annotations

Box 5, Folder 18 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems ca. 1957-1960 Box 5, Folder 19 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems ca. 1975-1982 Box 5, Folder 20 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems General note Folder of miscellaneous poems

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Box 5, Folder 21 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems General note Folder of miscellaneous poems

Box 5, Folder 22 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems General note Folder of miscellaneous poems

Box 5, Folder 23 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems General note Folder of miscellaneous poems

Box 5, Folder 24 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems General note Written in "Whether schlepping books after-class detention," typescript

Box 5, Folder 25 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished poems 1985 General note Written in collaboratioin with Jonathan Leake

Box 5, Folder 26 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled A-F Box 5, Folder 27 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled G-L Box 5, Folder 28 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled M-R Box 5, Folder 29 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Titled S-Y Box 6, Folder 1 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled A-H General note Arranged alphabetically by first line

Box 6, Folder 2 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled I-P General note Arranged alphabetically by first line

Box 6, Folder 3 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled R-Y General note Arranged alphabetically by first line

Box 6, Folder 4 Miscellaneous collected poems - Unpublished miscellaneous poems - Untitled General note Miscellaneous poem fragments

Box 6, Folder 5 MORNING OF THE POEM - Typescripts with holograph revisions Box 6, Folder 6 MORNING OF THE POEM - Typescripts with holograph revisions Box 6, Folder 7 MORNING OF THE POEM - Miscellaneous typescripts of poems Box 6, Folder 8 MORNING OF THE POEM - First draft typescript Box 6, Folder 9 MORNING OF THE POEM - Early selections of poems by "David" Box 6, Folder 10 MORNING OF THE POEM - Early selections of poem by "David" Box 6, Folder 11 MORNING OF THE POEM - "Payne Whitney Poems" General note Two pages of galley with revisions

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Box 6, Folder 12 MORNING OF THE POEM - Corrected typescript with printer's notes Box 6, Folder 13 MORNING OF THE POEM - Original blues Oversize MC-038-02 MORNING OF THE POEM - Galleys Box 6, Folder 14 MORNING OF THE POEM - Review Oversize MC-038-03 PENGUIN MODERN POETS 24 - Galleys General note Edition devoted to the poetics of James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, and Kenward Elmslie

Box 6, Folder 15 Poem - "This beauty that I see" General note Typescript

Box 6, Folder 16 Recent Poem General note Photocopies

Box 6, Folder 17 Torcello General note Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 6, Folder 18 Treasury of Birthday Thoughts General note Typescript

Box 6, Folder 19 Within the Dome with Ron Padgett, witten at Great Spruce Head Island Prose Box 6, Folder 20 Miscellaneous prose Box 6, Folder 21 Untitled, unpublished prose Box 6, Folder 22 ALFRED AND GUINIVERE - Correspondence with publishers and agents 1955 - 1968 General note Includes correspondence with Brandt & Brandt, David Higham Associates, Ltd, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., HARPER'S BAZAAR.

Box 6, Folder 23 ALFRED AND GUINIVERE - Typescript with holograph revisions Box 7, Folder 1 ALFRED AND GUINIVERE - Pencil sketches for illustrations Box 7, Folder 2 Boat house General note Typescript

Box 7, Folder 3 Bombshell - for Frank O'Hara General note Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7, Folder 4 Brunch General note Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7, Folder 5 Duet General note Typescript with holograph revisions

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Box 7, Folder 6 Early in '71 General note Photocopy

Box 7, Folder 7 Epithalamion General note Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7, Folder 8 Fall - For Frank O'Hara, ca. 1960 General note Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7, Folder 9 Frank at Night 1952 General note Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7, Folder 10 Gallons of Coffee General note Typescript with holograph revisions

Box 7, Folder 11 Granny's Funeral 1975 General note Typescript

Box 7, Folder 12 I don't need your pity, I just don't feel like anything - a pagent General note Typescript wtih holograph revisions

Box 7, Folder 13 Letters General note Typescript

Box 7, Folder 14 Lizzie Borden General note Typescript

Box 7, Folder 15 Meeting to Part General note Typescript with revisions

Box 7, Folder 16 NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery 1968 - 1969 General note Correspondence with E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.

Box 7, Folder 17 NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery General note Notebook containing approximately 30 holograph pages by Schuyler and Ashbery, illustrating alternate method used in composing the novel

Box 7, NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery - Miscellaneous manuscript leaves Folder 18-19 Box 7, Folder 20 NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery - Final typescript Box 7, Folder 21 NEST OF NINNIES, with John Ashbery - Contract 1968

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Box 7, Folder 22 Notes on abstract painting General note Typescript

Box 7, Folder 23 One thing may not lead to another 1967 General note Typescript with revisions

Box 7, Folder 24 Poet and his muse General note Typescript

Box 7, Folder 25 Poet and Painter Overture - notes on poetry in Don Allen's NEW AMERICAN POETRY General note Typescript

Box 7, Folder 26 They too are Drifting Uptown in a Bus General note ca. 1952, typescript with revisions

Box 7, Folder 27 Unpainted ground General note Typescript

Box 7, Folder 28 Untitled typescript General note Mrs. Henry Kitzberg, the laughing Charlotte of the class of '13

Box 7, Folder 29 Vita for Fairfield Porter General note Typescript and holograph notes

Box 7, Folder 30 What about the Glovers? General note Typescript with revisions

Box 7, Folder 31 WHAT'S FOR DINNER? - Original typescript with holograph revisions Box 7, Folder 32 WHAT'S FOR DINNER? - Typescript beginning with holograph revisions Box 7, Folder 33 WHAT'S FOR DINNER? - FinalTypescript Journal Articles and Reviews ARTnews Box 7, Folder 34 Articles on artists - Blaine, Nell General note "The View from 210 Riverside Drive," Typescript

Box 7, Folder 35 Articles on artists - Brainard, Joe General note "Joe Brainard: Quotes and Notes," typescript

Box 7, Folder 36 Articles on artists - Freilicher, Jane General note Typescript with revisions

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Box 7, Folder 37 Articles on artists - Georges, Paul General note Typescript with revisions

Box 7, Folder 38 Articles on artists - Kline, Franz General note "As American as Franz Kline," typescript with revisions

Box 7, Folder 39 Articles on artists - Porter, Fairfield General note "An Aspect of Fairfield Porter's Paintings," typescript with revisions

Box 7, Folder 40 Articles on artists - Sander, Ludwig General note Typescript with revisions

Box 7, Folder 41 Articles on artists - Tawney, Lenore General note Typescript with revisions

Oversize FB-054 Notebooks on exhibitions Box 8, Folder 1 Reviews of artist's exhibigtions 1955 - 1960 General note Typescript drafts

Box 8, Folder 2 Review of ANTHOLOGY OF MEXICAN POETRY General note Work complied by Samuel Beckett and published by Evergreen Press, typescript with revisions

Diaries Box 8, Folder 3 Diaries 1955 Box 8, Folder 4 Diary notes General note Holograph

Notebooks Box 8, Folder 5 Compositions 1959 General note Contains extensive holograph notes on interviews with Alex Katz, Paul George (unpublished), and Ludwig Sander for ART NEWS

Box 8, Folder 6 Compositions - Paul Georges interview continued 1959 Box 8, Folder 7 Schooltime - notes on painter and poet Joe Brainard 1965 Box 8, Folder 8 Green note book - includes notes on painter Paul Burlin General note ca. 1969

Box 8, Folder 9 JS 1969-1972 Box 8, Folder 10 Unfinished novel, written in holograph by Schuyler and Ashbery 1970 Box 8, Folder 11 Red memo book - includes long prose work On the Train to Buffalo 1970

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Box 9, Folder 1 Yellow memo book - with notes and poems 1971 General note Including "Ida," "Marjorie Steward," "The Dew Drop Inn," "Janis Letho," "On awakening," "Diary," "July 8,1971," and "Beautiful Funerals."

Box 9, Folder 2 Copper-colored note book - Contains poems 1971 Box 9, Folder 3 Stenographer's notes book from hospital in Waterbury, Vermont 1971 General note Contains poems "Roxy, a Sunday Blues," "Rosy Rock," and "Daily Planet."

Box 9, Folder 4 Compositions - contains poems 1971 Box 9, Folder 5 Compositions 1971 General note "Calais, Vermont," contains poem entitled "Brain Washed"

Box 9, Folder 6 Compositions - Suffolk Psychiatric Hospital 1972 General note Contains poem with first lines "the withholding tax"

Box 9, Folder 7 Yellow Note Book 1971 Box 9, Folder 8 Schooltime - contains unpublished poems 1971 Box 9, Folder 9 Two brown note books 1977 General note Contains notes and the poems "Smothered in fox grape leaves," and "In the after-dinner lull"

Box 9, Folder 10 Compositions - D. L. & Other Dreams, contains the Howard Grinsberg scene Box 9, Folder 11 College ruled - contains several pages of poem titles and newspaper clippings Notes Box 9, Miscellaneous notes Folder 12-13 Box 9, Folder 14 Notes on Frank O'Hara's poems Box 9, Folder 15 Scribbles

WRITINGS OF OTHERS Scope and Content of Series Series 5) WRITINGS OF OTHERS: Writings of other authors, collected by Schuyler. Among these materials is a poem entitled "To Jimmy" by Frank O'Hara, poems by Kenneth Koch, and a manuscript by Ludwig Sander about Sander's painting.

Box 9, Folder 16 Acconci, Vito Hannibal. "Double Bubble," ca. 1966 Box 9, Folder 17 Ashbery, John General note Poems

Box 9, Folder 18 Button, John - program of a recital Box 9, Folder 19 Feldman, Morton - In Search of an Orchestration, music composition Box 9, Folder 20 Koch, Kenneth - Pleasure of Peace General note Photocopy

Box 9, Folder 21 Koch, Kenneth - November 19th or So General note Typescript poem for Schuyler's birthday

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Box 9, Folder 22 Meyers, John - The Poets of the New York School General note Photocopy with annotations by Schuyler

Box 9, Folder 23 Moore, Marianne - Grantie and Steel General note Poem

Box 10, Folder 1 O'Hara, Frank General note Poems

Box 10, Folder 2 Porter, Fairfield General note Poems

Box 10, Folder 3 Porter, Katy General note Poem

Box 10, Folder 4 Sander, Ludwig General note Writing on his own painting

SUBJECTS Scope and Content of Series SERIES 6) SUBJECTS: A number of folders have been arranged alphabetically into the SUBJECTS series. Included are miscellaneous financial records, appointment and telephone books, announcements for poetry readings, memorabilia, and articles about gardening. Materials related to grants and financial aid, dating from the early 1980s, are organized under the granting institutions. An item of interest is a collection of phone messages Schuyler took while housesitting for Kenward Elmslie.

Box 10, Folder 5 49 SOUTH General note A literary magazine edited by Schuyler from 49 South Main Street, Southampton, including submissions of poems by various authors

Box 10, Folder 6 Announcements, readings, etc. 1969 Box 10, Folder 7 ANTHOLOGY OF NEW YORK POETS - Contract Box 10, Folder 8 Appointment and phone books 1975 Box 10, Folder 9 Books and records receipts Box 10, Folder 10 CAPS - Creative Artists Public Service Program 1982 Box 10, Folder 11 Cartoons General note Collaboration by F. Porter, Anne Porter, Lizzie Porter, and Schuyler

Box 10, Folder 12 Elmslie, Kenward - Messages for K.E. taken by Schuyler at Elmslie's house 1971 Box 10, Folder 13 English exam entitled Practical criticism Box 10, Folder 14 Financial Records - Chase Manhattan Bank 1960 Box 10, Folder 15 Financial Records - Guaranty Trust Company of New York 1947 - 1948 Box 10, Folder 16 Financial Records - Manufacturers Trust Company 1958 - 1961

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Box 10, Folder 17 Financial Records - Miscellaneous materials Box 10, Folder 18 Financial Records - Museum of Modern Art - Pay receipts 1959 - 1961 Box 10, Folder 19 Financial Records - Security National Bank General note ca. 1968-1973

Box 10, Folder 20 Gardening Box 11, Folder 1 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Box 11, Folder 2 Joke recipes for magazine put out by Carol Gallup Oversize MC-038-04 Koff's Calendar 1979 Box 11, Folder 4 LOCUS SOLUS General note Prospectus to John Ashbery and Harry Mathews suggesting what Locus Solus should be

Box 11, Folder 5 Longview Foundation, Inc. General note ca. 1961

Box 11, Folder 6 Medicaid application guidelines Box 11, Folder 7 Memorabilia Box 11, Folder 8 Miscellaneous materials Box 11, Folder 9 N.E.A. grant applications 1984 Box 11, Folder 10 New York Foundation for the Arts grant materials Box 11, Folder 11 Newspaper clippings Box 11, Folder 12 Record lists

AUDIO TAPE RECORDINGS Scope and Content of Series SERIES 7) AUDIO TAPE RECORDINGS: Reel-to-reel tapes of Schuyler reading his work. Included are selections from Freely Espousing, The Crystal Lithium, and The Morning of the Poem, in addition to other works. These are especially valuable in light of Schuyler's reluctance to read in public. Original recordings are restricted. Some listening copies on audiocassette are available in Box 12, as noted in the finding aid; researchers may request additional listening copies be produced.

Box 12, Folder 1 The Cenotaph, The Night, Letter Poem 3, The Crystal Lithium undated Conditions Governing Access note Original reel-to-reel restricted. Listening copy on audiocassette available in box 12.

Box 12, Folder 2 Unidentified Conditions Governing Access note Restrictions apply

Box 12, Folder 2 June 30, 1974, Korean Mums, Dec 28, 1974, Song, W.H. Auden, Dining Out with Doug and Frank 1982 January 6 Conditions Governing Access note Original reel-to-reel restricted. Listening copy on audiocassette available in box 12.

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Box 12, Folder 4 FREELY ESPOUSING and CRYSTAL LITHIUM Conditions Governing Access note Restrictions apply General note From Freely Espousing, includes: February, Faberge, Now and Then, Burried at Springs, Salute. From Crystal Lithium, includes: Empathy and New Year, In Earliest Morning, An East Window on Elizabeth Street, Scarlet Tanger.

Box 12, Folder 5 Morning of the Poem - Part 1 1981 September 23 Conditions Governing Access note Original reel-to-reel restricted. Listening copy on audiocassette available in box 12.

Box 12, Folder 6 Morning of the Poem - Part 2 1981 September 23 Conditions Governing Access note Restrictions Apply

Box 12, Folder 7 Morning of the Poem - Part 3 Conditions Governing Access note Restrictions Apply

Box 12, Folder 8 Morning of the Poem - Part 4 Conditions Governing Access note Restrictions Apply

Box 12, Folder 9 Morning of the Poem - Part 5 Conditions Governing Access note Original reel-to-reel restricted. Listening copy on audiocassette available in box 12.

Box 12, Folder 10 Hymn to Life (Part 3), Eyes at the Windows, Roxy, To Frank O'Hara, Schimmer, In Wiry Winter 1981 December Conditions Governing Access note Original reel-to-reel restricted. Listening copy on audiocassette available in box 12.

Box 12, Folder 11 Hymn to Life - Part 2 Conditions Governing Access note Original reel-to-reel restricted. Listening copy on audiocassette available in box 12.

Box 12, Folder 12 Hymn of the Poem [Hymn to Life - Part 1?] 1981 December 16 Conditions Governing Access note Original reel-to-reel restricted. Listening copy on audiocassette may be available in box 12.

ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES

Box 13, Folder 1 Originals of preservation photocopies Box 13, Folder 2 Originals of preservation photocopies Box 13, Folder 3 Originals of preservation photocopies Box 13, Folder 4 Originals of preservation photocopies Accession Processed in 1993

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CORRESPONDENCE Scope and Content of Series Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Because the bulk of the added correspondence dates from 1988 to 1991, when Schuyler was at the height of his artistic powers, exchanges with important writers help reflect Schuyler's mature vision. Hundreds of widely-dated postcards, also initially withheld, help document the quality and the activity of the friendship which surrounded Schuyler. Many of Schuyler's correspondents are known painters and poets. Among the major correspondents are Tom Carey, Helena Hughes, Anne Dunn, and Joe Brainard.

Box 14, Folder 1 Abbot, Mary 1964 - 1988 Box 14, Folder 2 Allen, Donald Box 14, Folder 3 AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW - Arthur Vogelsang 1989 Box 14, Folder 4 Arion Press - Andrew Hoyem 1984 Box 14, Folder 5 Ashbery, Helen 1958 Box 14, Folder 6 Ashbery, John 1966 - 1990 Box 14, Folder 7 A-miscellaneous Box 14, Folder 8 Berkson, Bill 1969 - 1990 Box 14, Folder 9 Berrigan, Sandy 1967 - 1968 Box 14, Folder 10 Berrigan, Ted 1963 - 1982 Box 14, Folder 11 Brainard, Joe 1965 - 1991 Box 14, Folder 12 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 1989 Box 14, Folder 13 Brodey, Jim 1980 Box 14, Folder 14 Brownstein, Michael 1972 - 1982 Box 14, Folder 15 Burckhardt, Edith 1958 - 1969 Box 14, Folder 16 Burckhardt, Rudy 1957 - 1985 Box 14, Folder 17 Button, John 1956 - 1983 Box 14, Folder 18 B-miscellaneous Box 14, Folder 19 Cameron, Peter 1988 Box 14, Folder 20 Campbell, Larry 1990 Box 14, Folder 21 Carcanet Press, Ltd. 1987 - 1990 Box 14, Folder 22 Carey, Harry, Jr. (Dobe) 1981 - 1988 Box 14, Folder 23 Carey, Tom 1980 - 1991 Box 14, Folder 24 Clark, Tom 1970 - 1971 Box 14, Folder 25 Cohen, Marc 1987 - 1991 Box 14, Folder 26 Coolidge, Clark 1971 Box 14, Folder 27 Corbett, William 1988 - 1991 Box 15, Folder 1 Cox, Chris 1980 - 1983 Box 15, Folder 2 Creative Artists Public Service Program 1982 Box 15, Folder 3 Creeley, Robert 1988 Box 15, Folder 4 C-miscellaneous Box 15, Folder 5 Dash, Robert 1963 - 1990 Box 15, Folder 6 De Noyelles, Bill 1986 - 1990 Box 15, Folder 7 DENVER QUARTERLY (Donald Revell) 1989 - 1990 Box 15, Folder 8 Dia Art Foundation 1988 Box 15, Folder 9 Dlugos, Tim 1989 Box 15, Folder 10 Downes, Rackstraw Box 15, Folder 11 Dunn, Anne 1979 - 1990 Box 15, Folder 12 D-miscellaneous Box 15, Folder 13 Einzinger, Erwin 1988 - 1990 Box 15, Folder 14 Elmslie, Kenward 1965 - 1989 Box 15, Folder 15 Equi, Elaine 1990 Box 15, Folder 16 E-miscellaneous Box 15, Folder 17 Fagin, Larry 1968 - 1981 Box 15, Folder 18 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., 1967 - 1990 Box 15, Folder 19 Ferguson, Anne Marie 1971 Box 15, Folder 20 Foye, Raymond 1986 - 1991 Box 15, Folder 21 Freilicher, Jane 1957 - 1985

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Box 15, Folder 22 F-miscellaneous Box 15, Folder 23 Gizzi, Michael 1989 Box 15, Folder 24 Gizzi, Peter 1989 - 1991 Box 15, Folder 25 Gold, Arthur 1957 - 1980 Box 15, Folder 26 Golde, Morris 1970 - 1990 Box 15, Folder 27 Grace Tea Compnay, Ltd. 1990 - 1991 Box 16, Folder 1 Groffsky, Maxine (Maxine Groffsky Literary Agency) 1975 - 1990 Box 16, Folder 2 Guest, Barbara 1958 - 1990 Box 16, Folder 3 Guston, Musa 1960 Box 16, Folder 4 G-miscellaneous Box 16, Folder 5 Haberman, Daniel 1971 - 1988 Box 16, Folder 6 Henry, Gerrit 1985 - 1987 Box 16, Folder 7 Hillringhouse, Mark 1982 - 1991 Box 16, Folder 8 Hughes, Helena 1981 - 1991 Box 16, Folder 9 Hurley, Irma 1958 - 1989 Box 16, Folder 10 H-miscellaneous Box 16, Folder 11 I-miscellaneous Box 16, Folder 12 Johns, Jasper 1984 Box 16, Folder 13 J-miscellaneous Box 16, Folder 14 Katz, Alex & Ada 1968 - 1988 Box 16, Folder 15 Katz, Vincent 1963 - 1989 Box 16, Folder 16 Kermani, David 1987 - 1988 Box 16, Folder 17 Kernan, Nathan 1990 - 1991 Box 16, Folder 18 Kikel, Ridy 1982 Box 16, Folder 19 Killian, Kevin 1989 Box 16, Folder 20 Koch, Ed 1969 Box 16, Folder 21 Koch, Kenneth 1964 - 1988 Box 16, Folder 22 Koethe, John 1971 Box 16, Folder 23 K-miscellaneous Box 17, Folder 1 Larry, Michael 1979 - 1981 Box 17, Folder 2 Landsman's Bookshop Ltd. 1970 - 1991 Box 17, Folder 3 Little, Carl 1985 - 1990 Box 17, Folder 4 Long, Robert 1985 - 1991 Box 17, Folder 5 Longview Foundation, Inc. 1961 - 1962 Box 17, Folder 6 Lord, Andrew 1989 Box 17, Folder 7 L-miscellaneous Box 17, Folder 8 Masters, Greg 1982 - 1985 Box 17, Folder 9 Mathews, Harry 1971 - 1984 Box 17, Folder 10 McCann, Sister Jacqueline 1968 - 1970 Box 17, Folder 11 McClatchy, Sandy 1987 - 1990 Box 17, Folder 12 McCourt, Jimmy 1980 - 1989 Box 17, Folder 13 Moore College of Art 1977 - 1978 Box 17, Folder 14 Moore, Honor 1988 - 1992 Box 17, Folder 15 Morgan, Bill 1983 - 1985 Box 17, Folder 16 Mount, Danny 1985 - 1985 Box 17, Folder 17 Myles, Eileen 1985 - 1990 Box 17, Folder 18 M-miscellaneous Box 17, Folder 19 NEW AMERICAN WRITING, Maxine Chernoff, Paul Hoover 1988 - 1990 Box 17, Folder 20 NEW YORKER 1977 - 1990 Box 17, Folder 21 Newgarden, Albert 1989 - 1991 Box 17, Folder 22 North, Charles 1971 - 1990 Box 17, Folder 23 Notley, Alice 1982 Box 17, Folder 24 N-miscellaneous Box 18, Folder 1 O.BLEK 1988 - 1990 Box 18, Folder 2 Ousley, John Douglas 1989 - 1991 Box 18, Folder 3 O-miscellaneous Box 18, Folder 4 Padgett, Ron 1964 - 1990 Box 18, Folder 5 Painten, Jim 1985 - 1986

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Box 18, Folder 6 PARIS REVIEW 1967 - 1991 Box 18, Folder 7 Park, Darragh 1975 - 1990 Box 18, Folder 8 Peck, Claude 1986 - 1987 Box 18, Folder 9 Pettet, Simon 1987 - 1991 Box 18, Folder 10 POETRY 1969 - 1987 Box 18, Folder 11 Poetry Center 1988 - 1990 Box 18, Folder 12 Poetry Project 1967 - 1991 Box 18, Folder 13 Polach, Frank 1978 - 1991 Box 18, Folder 14 Porter, Anne 1968 - 1990 Box 18, Folder 15 Porter, Elizabeth Box 18, Folder 16 Porter, Fairfield 1956 - 1967 Box 18, Folder 17 Porter, Katherine 1956 - 1970 Box 18, Folder 18 P-miscellaneous Box 18, Folder 19 Random House, Inc. 1985 - 1986 Box 18, Folder 20 Residenz Verlag 1988 - 1991 Box 19, Folder 1 Richie, Eugene 1988 - 1989 Box 19, Folder 2 Ridenour family, Schuyler's family name Box 19, Folder 3 Rorme, Ned 1977 - 1990 Box 19, Folder 4 R-miscellaneous Box 19, Folder 5 Schjeldahl, Peter 1965 - 1972 Box 19, Folder 6 Schuyler, James 1987 - 1990 Box 19, Folder 7 Smith, Alex 1977 - 1978 Box 19, Folder 8 Spender, Stephen 1988 Box 19, Folder 9 Stern, Richard 1965 - 1990 Box 19, Folder 10 S-miscellaneous Box 19, Folder 11 Talbott, Harold 1980 - 1982 Box 19, Folder 12 Thomson, Virgil 1985 - 1986 Box 19, Folder 13 Towle, Tony 1967 - 1978 Box 19, Folder 14 Trinidad, David 1985 - 1991 Box 19, Folder 15 Trinidad, David 1985 - 1991 Box 19, Folder 16 T-miscellaneous Box 19, Folder 17 U-miscellaneous Box 19, Folder 18 Virga, Vincent 1987 - 1990 Box 19, Folder 19 V-miscellaneous Box 19, Folder 20 Waldman, Anne 1970 - 1989 Box 19, Folder 21 Warsh, Lewis 1971 - 1981 Box 19, Folder 22 Watershed Foundation 1985 - 1989 Box 19, Folder 23 Weigel, Tom 1981 - 1982 Box 19, Folder 24 Winkfield, Trevor 1968 - 1988 Box 19, Folder 25 W-miscellaneous Box 19, Folder 26 Yale University Box 19, Folder 27 Young, Geoffrey 1981 - 1989 Box 19, Folder 28 Y-miscellaneous Box 19, Folder 29 Zavatsky, Bill 1977 - 1990 Box 19, Folder 30 Z-miscellaneous Box 19, Folder 31 Unidentified & miscellaneous correspondence

WRITINGS

Poetry Box 20, Folder 1 Ajaccio Violets 1987 Box 20, Folder 2 Andrew Lord Poem 1989 Box 20, Folder 3 Birds 1988 Box 20, Folder 4 Blossoming Oakwood 1989 Box 20, Folder 5 Blue Windows 1984 Box 20, Folder 6 Cardinal 1988 Box 20, Folder 7 Chapel 1989

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Box 20, Folder 8 Few Days, poems from General note pp. 19-32

Box 20, Folder 9 Friend Box 20, Folder 10 G Major Quintet, Opus Posthumous 1988 Box 20, Folder 11 Haze 1989 Box 20, Folder 12 Horse-Chestnut Trees and Roses 1985 Box 20, Folder 13 Ilk: a Scottish word meaning... 1988 Box 20, Folder 14 June 27, 1988 Box 20, Folder 15 Let's All Hear It for Mildred Bailey! 1985 Box 20, Folder 16 Light Within 1987 Box 20, Folder 17 Little Portion 1988 Box 20, Folder 18 Mark 1990 Box 20, Folder 19 Mike 1971 Box 20, Folder 20 Mood Indigo 1985 Box 20, Folder 21 My Cat, the cat . . . 1988 Box 20, Folder 22 Noon Office 1989 Box 20, Folder 23 On the Deck 1989 Box 20, Folder 24 On the Dresser 1985 - 1987 Box 20, Folder 25 Orange Cat 1989 - 1990 Box 20, Folder 26 Over the Hills 1990 Box 20, Folder 27 Princess Di 1985 Box 20, Folder 28 Psyche Box 20, Folder 29 Rain 1986 Box 20, Folder 30 Rainy Night in Georgia 1985 Box 20, Folder 31 Reserved Sacrament 1988 Box 20, Folder 32 Rose of Marion 1981 Box 20, Folder 33 Roxy, in POETRY 1981 Box 20, Folder 34 Shaker 1985 Box 20, Folder 35 Simone Signoret 1985 Box 20, Folder 36 Six Something 1990 Box 20, Folder 37 Snoring in New York Box 20, Folder 38 Three Gardens Box 20, Folder 39 Under the Hanger Box 20, Folder 40 View 1988 Box 20, Folder 41 Vital Signs 1986 Box 20, Folder 42 White Boats, Blue Boats 1989 Box 20, Folder 43 Yellow Flowers Box 20, Folder 44 Your Childhood 1990 Box 20, Folder 45 Poems: collaboration with Tom Carey Box 20, Folder 46 Mss. in progress 1990 Box 20, Folder 47 Poems on Hold 1984 - 1989 Box 20, Folder 48 Miscellaneous poems Prose Fiction and Collaborations Box 21, Folder 1 ALFRED AND GUINEVERE Box 21, Folder 2 IN COUNTRY WEXFORD, with Helena Hughes Box 21, Folder 3 IN COUNTRY WEXFORD, with Helena Hughes Box 21, Folder 4 Love Before Breakfast Box 21, Folder 5 Small Crimes, with Tom Carey Box 21, Folder 6 WHAT'S FOR DINNER?, pp. 13-18 Box 21, Folder 7 Prose--various pages Box 21, Folder 8 Schuyler biograph sketch Box 21, Folder 9 Article on Paul Burlin, painter Box 21, Folder 10 Article on Anne Dunn, painter 1989 Box 21, Folder 11 Article on Darragh Park, painter Box 21, Folder 12 ART NEWS reviews and notices Box 21, Folder 13 Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler, Vol. I

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Box 21, Folder 14 Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler, Vol. II Box 21, Folder 15 Notes toward an art review (unidentified) Box 21, Folder 16 Introduction to Marc Cohen, 12 TON BRIDGE (poems) Box 21, Folder 17 On Frank O'Hara Journals Box 22, Folder 1 Journal pages 1968 Box 22, Folder 2 Journal pages 1968 - 1969 Box 22, Folder 3 Journal pages 1968 - 1969 Box 22, Folder 4 Journal pages 1971 Box 22, Folder 5 Journal pages 1981 Box 22, Folder 6 Journal pages 1984 - 1985 Box 22, Folder 7 Journal 1985 Box 22, Folder 8 Journal 1985 Box 22, Folder 9 Journal pages 1987 Box 22, Folder 10 Journal pages 1988 Box 22, Folder 11 Journal 1988 Box 22, Folder 12 Journal pages 1989 Box 22, Folder 13 Journal 1989 Box 22, Folder 14 Journal pages 1990 Box 22, Folder 15 Journal pages 1990 Box 22, Folder 16 Loose journal pages and miscellaneous notes

PHOTOGRAPHS Scope and Content of Series Series 3) PHOTOGRAPHS: Schuyler's unrecognized skill as a photographer shows itself in the prints and contact sheets which comprise part of the photography series. The recurrence of certain photographic subjects--flowers, still lifes, gardens, landscapes, sunlit rooms--reminds us that Schuyler's poetry, in which similar subjects predominate, is part of an encompassing aesthetic of which each part is, in a sense, incomplete. The community of painters and poets of whom Schuyler was a part seems implicit in Schuyler's work itself, which searches for a pictorial character independent from language. Pictorial arrangements more often found in photography, or in painting, or even in domestic decoration or design, typify Schuyler's best writing, which in turn sublimates them in delicate musical phrases. Arranged in two subseries: A) Photographs Taken by James Schuyler; B) PhotographsTaken by Others.

Photographs Taken By James Schuyler Box 23, Folder 1 Miscellaneous subjects, prints Box 23, Folder 2 Miscellaneous subjects, color contact sheets Box 23, Folder 3 Miscellaneous subjects, black and white contact sheets Box 23, Folder 4 Miscellaneous subjects, black and white contact sheets Box 23, Folder 5 Fairfield Porter and family Oversize MC-038-05 14 contact sheets, with portraits of Fairfield Porter; portraits of Schuyler 1984-1989 Photographs Taken By Others Box 23, Folder 7 John Ashbery, prints Box 23, Folder 8 Tom Carey, prints Box 23, Folder 9 Artie Growich, prints Box 23, Folder 10 Andrew Lord's ceramics, negative Box 23, Folder 11 Eileen Myles [by Robert Mapplethorpe], print Box 23, Folder 12 Frank O'Hara, print Box 23, Folder 13 Fairfield Porter and family Box 23, Folder 14 James Schuyler, prints Box 23, Folder 15 Photographs of friends and relations, prints

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Box 23, Folder 16 Alex Katz Paints a Picture General note c. 1962, photograph by Rudy Burckhardt, with note, print

Box 23, Folder 17 Miscellaneous prints Box 23, Folder 18 AS MAINE GOES BY, photograph book by John McKee Box 24, Folder 1-5 Photographs of paintings by Fairfield Porter Box 24, Folder 6 Fairfield Porter: miscellaneous material

OTHER WRITERS

Gift Books and Manuscripts sent by James Schuyler Box 25, Folder 1 Tom Carey, The Paul Clown Show, play, TSc Box 25, Folder 2 Bill Corbett, Don't Think: Look, page proofs Box 25, Folder 3 Millicent Dillion, She is in Tangier, play, TSc Box 25, Folder 4 Jim Freeman, poems, TSc Box 25, Folder 5 Harry Mathews, Selected Declarations of Dependance Box 25, Folder 6 Eileen Myles, poems, TS Box 25, Folder 7 Eileen Myles, poems, TS Box 25, Folder 8 David Lehman, Operation Memory, page proofs Box 25, Folder 9 Ron Padgett, The Big Something, page proofs Box 25, Folder 10 Simon Pettet, Lyrical Poetry, page proofs Box 25, Folder 11 David Trinidad, Hand Over Heart, poems, TSc Box 25, Folder 12 David Trinidad, Hand Over Heart, poems, TSc Box 25, Folder 13 Trevor Winkfield, NATIVITY 1974 General note Z press

Box 25, Folder 14 Unidentified poems Birthday Books Box 26, Folder 1 Bill Berkson General note History of Rhythm and Blues, for Jimmy Schuyler on his birthday, November 9, 1969, Collage, water-color, ink

Box 26, Folder 2 Joe Brainard, handmade Happy Birthday card General note Collage, felt-tip pen, assemblage

Box 26, Folder 3 Kenward Elmslie - Summer Trash, commemorating Schuyler's birthday 1970 General note Paste-in, ink, felt-tip pen on construction paper

Reviews of Books by James Schuyler Box 26, Folder 4 Steve Abbott on SELECTED POEMS Box 26, Folder 5 John Ash on A FEW DAYS Box 26, Folder 6 John Ashbery on WHAT'S FOR DINNER? Box 26, Folder 7 W. H. Auden on A NEST OF NINNIES Box 26, Folder 8 Paul Breslin on THE MORNING OF THE POEM Box 26, Folder 9 Dennis Cooper on A FEW DAYS Box 26, Folder 10 William Corbett on SELECTED POEMS Box 26, Folder 11 Douglas Crase on A FEW DAYS Box 26, Folder 12 Dennis Donoghue on THE MORNING OF THE POEM

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Box 26, Folder 13 Irvin Ephrenpreis, on John Ashbery's SELF PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR General note With reference to JS

Box 26, Folder 14 Mark Ford on A NEST OF NINNIES Box 26, Folder 15 Robert von Hallberg on THE MORNING OF THE POEM Box 26, Folder 16 Wayne Koestenbaum on A FEW DAYS Box 26, Folder 17 James McCourt, Strange Attraction:Exaltation and Calculation in the Poetry of JS Box 26, Folder 18 James McCourt, screen treatment of WHAT'S FOR DINNER? General note American Playhouse teleplay

Box 26, Folder 19 Eileen Myles on James Schuyler Box 26, Folder 20 Alice Notley, reviews of WHAT'S FOR DINNER? and THE MORNING OF THE POEM Box 26, Folder 21 Even Ottenberg on WHAT'S FOR DINNER? Box 26, Folder 22 Eugene Richie on SELECTED POEMS Box 26, Folder 23 Stephen Spender on WHAT'S FOR DINNER? Box 26, Folder 24 Edmund White on THE MORNING OF THE POEM Box 26, Folder 25 Edmund White on James Schuyler Box 26, Folder 26 English review of A NEST OF NINNIES Box 26, Folder 27 Miscellaneous reviews and notices Interviews Box 26, Folder 28 James Schuyler with Raymond Foye Box 26, Folder 29 XXIST CENTURY, No. 1., with Schuyler-Foxe interview 1991 - 1992 Box 26, Folder 30 James Schuyler with Brad Gooch Box 26, Folder 31 James Schuyler with Mark Hillinghouse Musical Setting of Poetry by James Schuyler Box 26, Folder 32 Gerald Busby, What Ails My Fern? Program, letter Box 26, Folder 33 Ned Rorem, The Schuyler Songs, programs

MISCELLANEOUS Scope and Content of Series Series 5) MISCELLANEOUS: The miscellaneous series documents the charming, accessible side of the aesthetic which informs Schuyler's writing. Newspaper clippings, old calling cards, tintypes of anonymous faces, Victorian stickers, flower cards, Christmas scenes, calling cards, and other lovely objects, show us that conventional and even sentimental beauty may accompany the most serious thinking, perhaps as its anodyne. Schuyler's cards and curiosities also speak of gay identity, with its sense of the value of marginal things, its outcast status, and its necessary intransigence at social or cultural perimeters. The miscellaneous series also contains beautiful gift books made by Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, and Bill Berkson. Lavishly constructed birthday cards attest to the persistence and fidelity of Schuyler's friendships. Schuyler's friendships signify gay sensibility in another way, turning inevitable quarrels into comedies, and thereby maintaining a lasting sense of coterie. The miscellaneous series and correspondence series together document the life of that community of friends which came to generate so much art and writing.

Catholic Church Box 27, Folder 1 Society of St. Francis: Little Portion Friary, correspondence 1957 - 1991 Box 27, Folder 2 Church of the Incarnation, New York, correspondence and miscellaneous papers Box 27, Folder 3 Miscellaneous Christian material Appointment Calendars Box 27, Folder 4 Appointment book 1967 Box 27, Folder 5 Appointment calendar 1988

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Box 27, Folder 6 Appointment calendar 1989 Box 27, Folder 7 Appointment calendar 1990 Box 27, Folder 8 Appointment calendar 1991 Readings given by James Schuyler Box 27, Folder 9 Flyers Box 27, Folder 10 Dia Art Foundation reading responses 1988 Box 27, Folder 11 Worksheets, contents lists of recording by JS General note Tape recordings of readings by JS, see separation sheet at end of register

Publishing Box 27, Folder 12 COLLABS, with Helena Hughes, cover papers Box 27, Folder 13 MORNING OF THE POEM, cover papers Box 27, Folder 14 Miscellaneous publishing contracts Box 27, Folder 15 Royalty statements Awards Box 28, Folder 1 Academy of American Poets, for distinguished poetic achievement 1983 General note Framed

Box 28, Folder 2 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, citation, with press release Box 28, Folder 3 National Book Critics Circle Nomination 1980 Box 28, Folder 4 Pulitzer Prize, invitation to recipients 1990 December 8 Biographical Box 28, Folder 5 Autobiographical note Box 28, Folder 6 Health-related matters Box 28, Folder 7 Doctor's letters concerning Schuyler's schizo-affective disorder Box 28, Folder 8 Bibliography Box 28, Folder 9 Tax matters Box 28, Folder 10 Investment statements Box 28, Folder 11 Address books Box 28, Folder 12 Passports 1953 - 1980 Box 28, Folder 13 University of the State of New York certificate of literacy 1945 October 11 Box 28, Folder 14 Trust fund documents ca. 1982-1988 Clippings and Ephemera Box 28, Folder 15 Chelsea Hotel Box 28, Folder 16 Obituaries 1989 Box 28, Art shows and catalogs Folder 17-19 Box 29, Folder 1 Playbills and programs Box 29, Folder 2 Film screenings Box 29, Folder 3 Women's shoes, sensible, spike-heeled Box 29, Folder 4 Carlton stuff, comic strips Box 29, Folder 5 Flowers Box 29, Folder 6 NEW YORKER articles about jazz musicians, Art Tatum, Peggy Lee Box 29, Folder 7 Beautiful Homes Box 29, Folder 8 Old Men Need Love Too Box 29, Folder 9 Comic strips Box 29, Folder 10 Doilies Box 29, Folder 11 Patterns Box 29, Folder 12 Recipes, food Box 29, Folder 13 Pictures of handsome young men Box 29, Folder 14 Beautiful women Box 29, Folder 15 Miscellaneous clippings Box 29, Folder 16 Miscellaneous items Box 29, Folder 17 Articles and catalogues concerning gardening

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Box 29, Folder 18 Unidentified collage, with movie stars Box 29, Folder 19 Easter stickers Albums and Other Material Box 30, Folder 1 Surprise Model Picture Book Box 30, Folder 2 Old postcards Box 30, Folder 3 Pansy album, with several original art works pasted in by Brainard, Porter, Park Box 30, Folder 4 Calling cards, prayer cards, Christmas scenes Box 30, Folder 5 Snapshot album, annotated Box 30, Folder 6 Most Beautiful Postcard in the World Box 30, Folder 7 Old cards Box 30, Folder 8 Beautiful pins Box 30, Folder 9 Patterned playing cards Box 30, Folder 10 From Faure's 2nd Piano Quartet, black and white photograph of watercolor Box 30, Folder 11 Miscellaneous treasures Box 30, Folder 12 Millie the Model: The Most Gorgeous Girl in All the World 1965 General note Marvel Comics, Special Queen Size Annual

Box 30, Folder 13 Card and Autograph Album [Flowers] Box 31, Folder 1 Old photographs, old cards, old portrait cases, tintypes Box 32, Folder 1 Old cards, tintypes, 8 cassettes, popular music Oversize FB-053-01 James Schuyler's typewriter

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