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Willard Maas Willard Maas: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Maas, Willard, 1906-1971 Title: Willard Maas Collection Dates: 1868-1968 (bulk 1922-1968), undated Extent: 11 boxes (4.62 linear feet), 2 oversize folders (osf) Abstract: Includes manuscripts and correspondence of the American experimental filmmaker, poet, and educator Willard Maas. Also contains correspondence from and concerning Marie Menken, Maas' wife who was also an experimental filmmaker. Noted correspondents include Kenneth Anger, Allen Ginsberg, Gerard Malanga, Norman McLaren, and Richard Wright among others. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-2591 Language: English Access: Open for research Administrative Information Processed by: Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp, 2015 Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center Maas, Willard, 1906-1971 Manuscript Collection MS-2591 2 Maas, Willard, 1906-1971 Manuscript Collection MS-2591 Works: Container Untitled essay, typescript/ draft/ incomplete, 2 pages, undated. 1.1 Untitled film script on artistic creativity, handwritten manuscript, 11 pages; Container typescript, 13 pages; typescript with handwritten emendations, 10 pages; carbon 1.2 copy typescript, 8 pages; undated. Untitled play: synopsis and character description, typescript with handwritten Container additions, 2 pages, undated. Included with this: typescript/ draft of Scene II, 5 pages, 1.1 undated. Untitled story, typescript/ unfinished, 8 pages, undated. Untitled story, typescript, 2 pages, undated. Analyst report on fun stock and a love letter to J. G., carbon copy typescript, 2 pages, undated. Annie Strogin tells all, typescript/ incomplete, 2 pages, undated. Autumn day, two typescripts with few handwritten emendations, 13 pages each, Container undated. 1.3 Container Bawlin' brats, typescript, 5 pages, undated. Written under name Michael Maas. 1.1 Biographical sketch, carbon copy typescript/ incomplete, 1 page, undated. Biographical sketch, carbon copy typescript, 1 page, undated. The children: A documentary film project, typescript, 7 pages; carbon copy typescript, 6 pages; carbon copy typescript with synopsis, 10 pages; undated. Container Included with these: statements of purpose and promotional material. Written with 1.4 coauthor Samuel Brody. The children: A documentary film project, typescript/ film script, 6 pages; two Container carbon copy typescripts, 8 pages, 12 pages; undated. Three different treatments. 1.5 Written with coauthor Samuel Brody. Children's poems, typescript, 19 pages, undated. Container 1.1 The cowshed, typescript, 4 pages, undated. Epilogue to a love story, typescript with handwritten emendations, 7 pages; Container typescript, 7 pages; typescript/ incomplete with handwritten emendations, 3 pages; 1.6 carbon copy typescript with handwritten emendations, 7 pages; undated. 3 Maas, Willard, 1906-1971 Manuscript Collection MS-2591 Epithalamion: For the marriage of Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, two Container typescript / photocopies with handwritten emendations, 3 pages each, undated. 1.1 Container Food, the peace weapon, typescript/ film script, 8 pages, undated. osf 1 Container Grub, typescript with handwritten emendations, 6 pages, undated. 1.1 Heroes and hero worship, typescript with handwritten revisions, 7 pages, undated. I am a thief of flower and stone, typescript, 4 pages, undated. It was a godawful beatin', typescript with few handwritten emendations, 4 pages; Container typescript with handwritten emendations, 5 pages; typescript, 5 pages; undated. 1.7 Library of Congress, typescript/ film script with handwritten emendations, 6 pages; Container typescript/ draft, 11 pages; carbon copy typescript/ log outline with handwritten 1.8 emendations, 5 pages; undated. The mask of Hermes (and other poems), typed and carbon copy typed manuscript with handwritten emendations, 17 pages, undated. The mask of Hermes: partial proposed contents, handwritten, typed, and carbon copy typed manuscript/ poem drafts, 14 pages, undated. Included with these: two sketches for cover. Memorial celebration, typescript, 4 pages, undated. Container Miscellaneous poems, typed and carbon copy typed manuscript, 72 pages, undated. 1.9 Container Poems, typed and carbon copy typed manuscript, 15 pages, circa 1943-1946. 2.1 Poems: drafts and workings, handwritten, typed, and carbon copy typed manuscript Container with handwritten revisions, 107 pages, undated. 2.2 Poems, mostly early, handwritten, handwritten/ photocopies, and typed manuscript, Container 84 pages, undated. 2.3 The priest insults the sailor, typescript with few handwritten emendations, 5 pages, Container undated. 1.10 Prose fragments, handwritten and typed manuscript, 9 pages, undated. Review of The assassins by Frederic Prokosch, typescript with few handwritten emendations, 1 page; carbon copy typescript, 1 page; undated. 4 Maas, Willard, 1906-1971 Manuscript Collection MS-2591 Review of Golden Gate country by Gertrude Atherton, typescript, 5 pages; carbon copy typescript, 5 pages; undated. Review of One season shattered by James Daly, typescript with handwritten emendations, 2 pages; typescript, 2 pages; undated. Review of Theory of flight by Muriel Rukeyser, carbon copy typescript, 3 pages, undated. Review of To my contemporaries by Edwin Rolfe, typescript with handwritten emendations, 3 pages, undated. Review of White mule by William Carlos Williams, carbon copy typescript, 5 pages, undated. Script outline, handwritten manuscript, 3 pages, undated. The search, typescript with handwritten revisions, 8 pages, undated. Sunday visit, typescript with handwritten revisions, 4 pages; typescript/ incomplete with handwritten revisions, 3 pages; undated. There is the red maple budding, typescript with handwritten emendations, 4 pages, undated. Three war-toons: draft scripts, three typescripts with pencil sketches, 25 pages, Container undated. Titles include Bonds for bullets; V-mail; Blood-bank. Written with 2.4 coauthor Marie Menken. Included with these: proposal with cost estimate. Container Two in the sun, typescript/ incomplete, 5 pages, undated. 1.10 Violence in understatement, typescript, 3 pages, undated. The wall beyond: synopsis outline, typescript, 1 page, undated. We live in sin, carbon copy typescript, 12 pages, undated. 5 Maas, Willard, 1906-1971 Manuscript Collection MS-2591 Letters: TLS to American Poetry Journal, 12 September 1933. Container 2.5 TccL to Barker, George, 25 March 1964. TL/ draft to Bonner, Miss, 9 July 1938. TccL to Casby, _____, 7 February 1964. TccL to Eberhart, Richard, 22 March 1964. Container TccL to Golden, Miss, undated. Letter is in very poor condition. 2.6 TL to Leippert, James "Jay," 8 July 1937. Container 2.5 Telegram to Maas, M. E. K., undated. TLS/ draft to Mayfield, _____, undated. Letterhead: Blast magazine. 5 ALS, 73 ALI, 3 AL, 3 TLI, 42 TL, TL/ copy, AN, 2 APCI, 4 telegrams to Menken, Marie, 1944-1952, undated. Included with these: ALS Allen Davis to Menken; typescript/ poem by Maas: Undated. Container 2.7 Undated; January-February 1944. Container 2.8 March-May 1944. Container 3.1 June-October 1944. Container 3.2 November 1944-1952. Container 3.3 Container TL to Ripley, Dwight, January 1952 (Eire). Also directed to Rupert Barneby. 2.5 6 Maas, Willard, 1906-1971 Manuscript Collection MS-2591 Recipient: Unidentified author Adele. ALS, Christmas card to Willard Maas, 28 October 1941, Container 26 December 1944. 3.5 Unidentified author Chloë. 7 ALS, APCS, Christmas card to Willard Maas, 1941, Container undated. 3.4 Container Unidentified author Clara. ALS, Christmas card to Willard Maas, undated. 3.5 Unidentified author Ed. ALS, TLS, TL, TPCS to Willard Maas, 1938, undated. Unidentified author Lola. 3 ALS, TLS to Willard Maas, 1934, undated. Unidentified author Pat. 3 ALS to Willard Maas, undated. Unidentified author S. ALI, 2 TLI to Willard Maas, 1934-1938. Unidentified author Sibyl. 2 TLS to Willard Maas, undated. Unidentified authors. 14 ALS, ALI, AL, AL/ incomplete, 5 TLS, 2 TLI, 3 TL, 3 Container APCI, TPC, telegram, 10 Christmas cards to Willard Maas, 1934-1958, undated. 3.6 Included with these: 2 TccL Maas to unidentified recipients. Albee, Edward, 1928-. TLS to Willard Maas, 24 July 1962. Container 3.7 Algren, Nelson, 1909-. 3 TLS, 2 TPCS to Willard Maas, 1938, undated. American Committee for Anti-Nazi German Seamen. TLS to Willard Maas, 15 June 1939. American Poetry Journal. TLS to Willard Maas, undated. American Writers Congress. TLS to Willard Maas, 15 February 1935. Barber, Jackson. TLS to Willard Maas, 14 June 1938. Barneby, Rupert. 4 ALS, 27 ALI, AL, 14 TLS, 7 TLI, 36 TL, 2 ANS, 2 ANI, 3 AN, 3 APCS, 4 APCI, 2 APC, 11 telegrams to Willard Maas, 1943-1959, undated. Container Included with these: AL/ draft, typescript/ poem Maas to Barneby; drawing, address, 4.1-2 and bills of Barneby. Barr, Estelle. Christmas card to Willard Maas, undated. Container 3.7 Belitt, Ben, 1911-. 2 TLS to Willard Maas, 2 and 17 February 1937. Container 7 Maas, Willard, 1906-1971 Manuscript Collection MS-2591 Container Bell, Buzzy. 5 ALS, 13 TLS to Willard Maas, 1942, undated. 4.3 Container Belloli, Joseph Anthony "Joe," 1909-. TLS to Willard Maas, undated. 3.7 Bishop, John Peale, 1892-1944. 3 ALS, 3 TLS to Willard
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