Michael Rumaker Papers
1997.0007

Summary Information

Repository
Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries
Creator
Rumaker, Michael.
Title
Michael Rumaker Papers
ID
1997.0007
Date [inclusive]
1950-2010
Extent
75.0 Linear feet
Language
English
Abstract
The Michael Rumaker Papers consist of manuscripts, letters, notebooks, audio recordings, and other personal papers from 1950 to 2010, including personal journals and and family photographs from 1925 through 2010. Literary manuscripts comprise multiple formats including short stories, plays, poems, essays, reviews, and fiction.

Preferred Citation

[Item description, #:#], Michael Rumaker Papers.  Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center,  University of Connecticut Libraries.

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Biographical Summary

Michael Rumaker was born in South Philadelphia to Michael Joseph and Winifred Marvel Rumaker, the fourth of nine children. He spent his first seven months in the Preston Retreat charity ward, too sickly to be brought home, while his mother helped pay for her keep and his birth by peeling potatoes in the hospital's kitchen. He grew up in National Park, New Jersey, a small town on the Delaware River, and later attended the school of journalism at Rider College in Trenton on a half-scholarship. After hearing artist Ben Shahn speak enthusiastically of Black Mountain College during a lecture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, he applied to the college and was granted a work scholarship. In September 1952 he transferred to Black Mountain--washing dishes seven days a week, managing dishwashing crews, and taking care of the kitchen his first year--and studied in the writing classes of Charles Olson and Robert Creeley. While at Black Mountain College he produced three stacks of manuscripts, each a foot high, which he kept hidden on a top shelf. He symbolically burned them at the time of his graduation--"a ritualistic burning of apprentice rubbish," he recalls--saving only three or four stories.

His breakthrough was "The Truck," written for Olson's writing class in October 1954: "after two years of confused false starts and superficial scratchings, I wrote my first real short story, although, in what was to become usual for me, I didn't know it till after the fact." He had "reached back," by his own account, into his adolescence in the mid-1940s and a street gang he knew in the northern section of Camden, New Jersey, "to get it." Olson's response was enthusiastic, and he suggested that Rumaker send the story to Robert Creeley for the Black Mountain Review. "After that, I went on to work with abandon and increased energy and wrote a half dozen or so additional stories in rapid succession, working consistently up to the end of the 1954 winter term and into a winter-break spent in New York City." These additional stories included "Exit 3" and "The Pipe," both collected in Gringos and Other Stories (1967).

In September 1955 Rumaker graduated from Black Mountain with an honors degree ( Robert Duncan was his outside examiner)--one of only two or three students to have graduated from the college in its final years. After graduation, he lived in Philadelphia for a year, working in an advertising agency during the day and writing stories at night ("Black Mountain College," he wrote, "had prepared me for nothing but my destiny"). In October 1956, he quit his job at the agency and hitchhiked the three thousand miles to San Francisco, where he worked as a clerk for a steamship company, again writing in his spare time while staying with former Black Mountain friends there, on hand for the energies shortly to be recognized as those of the Beat Generation. He describes these days vividly in "Robert Duncan in San Francisco," part of his memoir of literary life still in progress. What he found was that "A new vitality was beginning to stir in the light and spaciously open air.... It seemed that everybody was writing and painting and making music. Dress, hair, talk was shaggier, rawer; fresh idioms of speech were possible. To me, the look and talk of those most actively involved was like an extension and coalescence of earlier Black Mountain changearounds, that had cohered and emerged simultaneously in Swannanoa Valley and the Bay Area."

He returned to New York in April 1958, suffered a breakdown some six months later, and was hospitalized, first at Bellevue and then at Rockland State just north of New York City, until August 1960. His first contract, then--four stories for Scribners' Short Story 2 anthology--was signed in a mental institution. Since recovery he has continued to live in Rockland County, first in Grand View on the Hudson River and since 1974 in South Nyack. He received an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University in 1969 and has taught writing at the New School for Social Research, City College of New York, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Rockland Center for the Arts.

Michael Rumaker has published works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, novels, short stories, and two memoirs. He received an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University in 1969 and has taught writing at the New School for Social Research, City College of New York, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Rockland Center for the Arts.

According to George Butterick, who began reading and collecting Michael Rumaker’s literary papers at the University of Connecticut in 1974, "Rumaker has proceeded from writing about disengaged youth in a generation willing to declare its difference, to being a celebrant of total life and human joy. Actively participating in his own destiny, he has left a glowing trail of work to document the struggle toward identity. He represents, in his later writings, one extension of the Beat revolution: the embracing of sexual diversity. Governing all his work is an indefatigable spirit that gives the creative life reward.”

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Scope and Content Note

The Michael Rumaker Papers consist of manuscripts, letters, notebooks, audio recordings, and other personal papers from 1950 to 2010, including personal journals and and family photographs from 1925 through 2010. Literary manuscripts comprise multiple formats including short stories, plays, poems, essays, reviews, and fiction.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

 Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries March 2012

Access

The collection is open and available for research.

Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information

Permission to publish from these Papers must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collection has been donated in multiple installments by Mr. Rumaker beginning in 1997.

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Related Materials

Related Material

Archives & Special Collections has a substantial collection of materials pertaining to literature. For detailed information on these collections please contact the curator or ask at the Reading Room desk.

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Controlled Access Headings

Genre(s)

  • Correspondence.
  • Manuscripts.
  • Notebooks.
  • Personal Papers.
  • Photographs.

Subject(s)

  • Literary Collections

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Publications

Books •The Butterfly (New York: Scribners, 1962; London: MacDonald, 1968). •The Bar (San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965). •Exit 3 and other stories (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1966); republished as Gringos and Other Stories (New York: Grove, 1967). •A Day and a Night at the Baths (Bolinas, Cal.: Grey Fox Press, 1979). •My First Satyrnalia (San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1981). •3 X 3(Rocky Mount, N.C.: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, 1989). •To Kill a Cardinal (Rocky Mount, N.C.: A.M. Kaye, 1992). •Robert Duncan in San Francisco(San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1996).

Periodical Publications--Nonfiction •"Allen Ginsberg's HOWL," Black Mountain Review, 7 (Autumn 1957): 228-237. •"The Use of the Unconscious in Writing," Measure, 2 (Winter 1958): 2-4. •"Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville," Kulchur, 10 (Summer 1963): 54-59. •"Robert Duncan in San Francisco," Credences, 5/6 (March 1978): 12-55. •"Robert Creeley at Black Mountain," Boundary 2, 6-7 (Spring-Fall 1978): 137-170.

Periodical Publications--Fiction •"The Truck," Black Mountain Review, 5 (Summer 1955): 54-75. •"The Pipe," Black Mountain Review, 6 (Spring 1956): 69-108. •"The Desert," Evergreen Review, 2 (1957): 65-105. •"Exit 3," Evergreen Review, 5 (Summer 1958): 127-149. •"Loie's Party," Folio, 25 (Spring 1960): 21-36. •"First-Born," Redbook, 119 (June 1962): 44-45. •"Up from the River," Cosmopolitan, 154 (March 1963): 94-98. •"The Sky is a Runner," Seventeen, 23 (July 1964): 90, 107-109. •"A Night at the Movies," Periodics, 1 (Spring 1977): 7-14. •"Kids," Sarcophagus,4 (December 1977): 27-31.

Periodical Publications--Poetry •"Going Home," Nation,206 (5 February 1968): 182. •"For Charles Olson," Evergreen Review, 76 (March 1970): 27. •"Camden, N.J.," Evergreen Review, 80 (July 1970): 37. •"In a Garden," Fathar, 7 (March 1975): 68-72. •"A Day at the Bike Races," Athanor, 6 (Spring 1975): 39-44. •"Yet Another Poem Addressed to Walt Whitman," St. Andrews Review, 4 (Spring-Summer 1977): 84-85.

Other •"The Teddy Bear," in The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America, edited by LeRoi Jones (New York: Corinth Books, 1963), pp. 159-168. •"Pizza," in City Lights Anthology, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1974), pp. 71-74.

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Collection Inventory

Series I: Manuscripts 

Box
1-15

Subseries I: Short stories 

Box
1-2

A Little Man 

A Little Man ca. 1960 

A Lover 

A Night at Columbia 

A Night At The Movies 

A Night At The Movies March 13, 1974 

Alice 

The Bachelor 

The Bachelor ca. 1970 

The Bar 11/5/1954 

The Bar 

Drafts of "Billy" May 2, 1965 

The Bitch 

The Brothers 

The Brothers (2) ca. 1955 

The Butterfly 

The Circle 

The Dead ca. 1960 

The Desert 

Digging 

Doctor Sylvan 

Eiko 

Eiko and Jim 

Eiko Visits Jim 

Exit Three 

The Father 

The Father (2) ca. 1960 

Green Beer 

Gringos 

Gringos (6) 1965 

The High Bridge Above the Tagus River at Toledo 

The Jest 

Jim 

Jim (2) ca. 1958 

Kids 

The Kitten 

The Kitten (2) ca. 1960-65 

The Lilac Tree ca. 1960 

Loie's Party 

The Loving 

The Meeting 

Michael the Archangel 

“Michael the Archangel,” 1976 

The Morning Glory 

The Mute 

"The Mute" ca. 1960-65 

My Brother Bill 

Near and Far 4/4/1958 

The Pipe 

Portrait of T-I ca. 1965 

The River 

The River at Night ca. 1960-65 

Roland 

Roland ca. 1962 

The Sky is a Runner ca. 1964 

Suicide - Black Mountain 

The Teddy Bear ca. 1962 

The Teddy Bear and other stories ca. 1967 

Tom 

Tom (2) ca. 1960 

The Truck 

The Waiting Room 9/8/1980 

The Yellow Balloon 

Untitled 'You told me to write this…' 

Untitled 'At times there was about her…' 

Untitled 'At the door, Robert was shy…' 

Untitled 'The boy was no more than 18 or 19…' 

Untitled 'There was in him a sadness…' 

Untitled 'He had taken off his clothes slowly…' 

Untitled 'He knew and yet…' 

Untitled 'He, crying in C’s arms…' 

Untitled 'Always there was the wordless…' 

Untitled 'There seems to be about her…' 

Untitled 'He sat on the front steps of the lodge…' 

Untitled 'When he picked up the telephone…' 

Untitled 'M and I sitting on a green bench…' 

Untitled 'He sat on the steps…’ 

Untitled 'I passed them first…' 

Untitled 'It was a long narrow bar…' 11/9/1962 

Untitled 'Rachel wore…' 

Untitled 'The early sun shone…' 2/11/1954 

Untitled Fiction 

Untitled (2) 

Subseries II: Plays 

Box
2

The Desert (a play) ca. 1965 

The Desert (adapted for San Antonio Actor's Studio) 

Kangaroo ca. 1955 

Queers c. 1965 

Queers (a play) ca. 1970 

Queers (3rd Drafts) 

The Truck (adapted for San Antonio Actor's Studio) 

'Weiners and Stern at Judson' [1963] 

Subseries III: Poems 

Box
2-3

1/7/77 7 a.m. 

2/11/74 1974 

12/26/76 10:05 p.m. 

A Day at the Bike Races 1974 

A Day at the Bike Races #2 

A Day at the Bike Races 

Airlifting the Children from Vietnam 

At Bear Mountain 1974 

At Bear Mountain 

At Hook Mountain 

A Visit Home 1962 

Back At Cape Ann 

The Blue Jay ca. 1964 

Camden N.J. ca. 1970 

Camden N.J. 

Crow Dog and Black Elk 

Dead Chicken ca. 1964 

Earth 

For Charles Olson ca. 1970 

For H.J. ca. 1962 

For the guys making the new office building ca. 1964 

Going home ca. 1966 

Greens 1974 

The Heat 

'I saw all afternoon...' ca. 1960 

ICE 

In a Garden 1974 

In a Garden 

In Van Houlen Fields 

Lightning 

Maharag 1974 

May 1 1956-1965 

Meat Hoist ca. 1966 

Mother's Day 1974 

My mother ca. 1970 

Mr. Mobil 1974 

Mr. Mobil 

Mr. & Mrs. America 1974 

Musin' 

Muskrat 

On Sensual Disobedience 

Poets are Saps 

Pizza 1974 

Pizza 

Praying Mantis 

Re Lee Ho 1974 

Revvin 1974 

Sanctuary 1974 

Seagull 

Sleep April 10, 1964 

Slug 

Snowbird March 19, 1956 

Song for Whales 

Spotted touch-me-not 

Squirrell 

Sunday Morning 1974 

Tallman Mountain 

'There's no cure...' ca. 196? 

Thieves 1974 

To a motorcyclist killed on Route 9W ca. 1965 

To a 19-yr-old marine killed in Danang ca. 1966 

Tree 1974 

'what can I say...' ca. 196? 

Yet Another Poem Addressed to Walt Whitman 1974 

You bleedin… ca. 1965 

You Deserve a Break Today November 10, 1974 

Poetry Untitled I 

Untitled Poetry 

MS "The Other Side of Night" 

Book of Poems #1 

Book of Poems #2 

Book of Poems #3 

4 Months After the Breakdown and Indians Stop Interrupting My Dreams (poems), and The Desert (typescript) 1960s to 1971 

Subseries IV: Essays and Reviews 

Box
3

Autobiography ca. 1962 

Bartleby the Scrivener 

Charles Olson's 'As the Dead Prey Upon Us' 

Cooling It 

Dream 

Dreams ca. 1960 

Ginsberg's 'Howl' 

The Hypocrite Days 

The Island ca. 1963 

The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald ca. 1964 

'No & Hugo" ca. 1965 

No Longer Human 

Notes on Jane Austen's Persuasion 

Notes on The Wild Ones 

Reinhart in Love ca. 1965 

Robert Creeley’s Ballad of the Despairing Husband 

Robert Creeley’s First class at BMC 

Six essays on Shakespeare 

Sorrentino’s ‘The Sky Changes’ ca. 1966 

The Uninstructed ca. 1958 

The Use of the Unconscious in Writing 

The Use of the Unconscious in Writing February 29, 1957 

'Walden Two...' c. 1965 

Subseries V: Notes and Fragments 

Box
3

Rough Work #1 

Rough Work #2 

Rough Work #3 

Rough Work #4 

Notes and Fragments ca. 1960-1965 

Miscellaneous Fragments c. 1960-1965 

Writings 1971 

Subseries VI: Manuscripts by others 

Box
3

'A Newly Discovered 'Homeric' Hymn' (Charles Olson) 1955 

'Ballad of a Despairing Husband' (Robert Creeley) 1955 

'I, too, met you at the garden...' (Edward Marshall) 1956 

'Scenes from the Life of Peppertree' (Denise Levertov) 1956 

'A Row on the Lake' (Janice Nyack) October 19, 1961 

The Sky Changes (Gilbert Sorrentino) 

Eyes (William Wendelken) ca. 196? 

What is Children (Paul Rumaker) ca. 196? 

Triad (Pamela McCorduck) ca. 196-? 

The Rebirth of Johnny (notes) (Harper's) (Mira Rothenberg) 1960 

Joe Lanzone Poems and Other Friends 

Subseries VII: Books 

Box
3-15

"Memoirs" September 26, 1963 - August 7, 1967 

Robert Duncan in San Francisco 

1st and 2nd Drafts of "Robert Duncan in San Francisco" (1976 Revision), 1st Draft February 4, 1976 

1st and 2nd Drafts of "Robert Duncan in San Francisco" (1976 Revision), 1st Draft January 9, 1976 

1st and 2nd Drafts of "Robert Duncan in San Francisco" (1976 Revision), 2nd Draft February 21, 1976 

1st and 2nd Drafts of "Robert Duncan in San Francisco" (1976 Revision), 3rd Draft February 8, 1977 

Notes and MS Materials for "Robert Duncan in San Francisco" from unpublished MS San Francisco Days and Nights 1979-1981 

2 Typescript copies with hand-written notes of "Robert Duncan in San Francisco" April 1, 1976 

Typescripts of "Robert Duncan in San Francisco" (Final Version) 

Correspondence on Robert Duncan in San Francisco, Grey Fox Press, Don Allen May, 3, 1996 - February/March, 1997 

2 revised drafts, corrected proofs, plus copy of original version of "RD in SF" (with annotations for the book) in Credences 5/6 March 1978, Vol. 2, Nos. 3/4 1978-1996 

All Drafts of 'A Day and a Night at the Baths' #1 

All Drafts of 'A Day and a Night at the Baths' #2 

All Drafts of 'A Day and a Night at the Baths' #3 

All Drafts of 'A Day and a Night at the Baths' #4 

Notes, 4 Notebooks, and Newspaper Clippings on Everard Baths for 'A Day and a Night in the Baths" #1 October 14, 1977 

Notes, 4 Notebooks, and Newspaper Clippings on Everard Baths for 'A Day and a Night in the Baths" #2 October 14, 1977 

Notes, 4 Notebooks, and Newspaper Clippings on Everard Baths for 'A Day and a Night in the Baths" #3 October 14, 1977 

4th Draft of 'A Day and a Night in the Baths," Michael's Copy July 29, 1977 

4th Draft of 'A Day and a Night in the Baths' 

4th Draft of 'A Day and a Night in the Baths' 

'A Day and a Night in the Baths,' working copy for Grey Fox edition with Don Allen 1978 

'A Day and a Night in the Baths,' 3rd and 4th draft and short stories "Kids" and "A Night at the Movies" for NY CAPS grant 1977 

'A Day and a Night in the Baths,' unfinished copy for NY State CAPS grant 1978 

Don Allen - Grey Fox Press and E. Fassbinder/Verlog Rosa Winkel), A Day and a Night in the Baths 

Don Allen - Grey Fox Press and Egmont Fassbinder/Verlag Rosa Winkel, Berlin and German, A Day and a Night in the Baths (Including Robert Duncan in San Francisco Material) 

'Robert Creeley at Black Mountain,' handwritten and typed notes October 17, 1997 - November 12, 1977 

'Robert Creeley at Black Mountain,' Third draft notes December, 1977 

'Robert Creeley at Black Mountain,' Third draft typescript December 13, 1977 

'My First Satyrnalia' (Notes and Drafts) 

Drafts 1, 2, and 3, plus notes of Part I of 'My First Satyrnalia' #1 

Drafts 1, 2, and 3, plus notes of Part I of 'My First Satyrnalia' #2 

Drafts 1, 2, and 3, plus notes of Part I of 'My First Satyrnalia' #3 

Drafts 1, 2, and 3, plus notes of Part I of 'My First Satyrnalia' #4 

3rd Draft of Part II of 'My First Satyrnalia' #1 

3rd Draft of Part II of 'My First Satyrnalia' #2 

3rd Draft of Part II of 'My First Satyrnalia' #3 

'My First Satyrnalia,' 4th Draft, Part I #1 

'My First Satyrnalia,' 4th Draft, Part I #2 

'My First Satyrnalia,' 4th Draft, Part I #3 

'My First Satyrnalia,' 4th Draft, Part I (Notes) #4 

First Part, 5th Draft, ' My First Satyrnalia' completed 8/18/1980 and Second Part, Final 4th Draft (pp. 166-278) finished 11/12/1980 8:45 P.M. #1 August 18, 1980 - November 11, 1980 

First Part, 5th Draft, ' My First Satyrnalia' completed 8/18/1980 and Second Part, Final 4th Draft (pp. 166-278) finished 11/12/1980 8:45 P.M. #2 August 18, 1980 - November 11, 1980 

First Part, 5th Draft, ' My First Satyrnalia' completed 8/18/1980 and Second Part, Final 4th Draft (pp. 166-278) finished 11/12/1980 8:45 P.M. #3 August 18, 1980 - November 11, 1980 

Working Copies of MSS of 'My First Satyrnalia' #1 

Working Copies of MSS of 'My First Satyrnalia' #2 (1) 

Working Copies of MSS of 'My First Satyrnalia' #2 (2) 

Working Copies of MSS of 'My First Satyrnalia' #2 (3) 

Working Copies of MSS of 'My First Satyrnalia' #2 (4) 

Working Copies of MSS of 'My First Satyrnalia' #3 (1) 

Working Copies of MSS of 'My First Satyrnalia' #3 (2) 

Working Copies of MSS of 'My First Satyrnalia' #3 (3) 

Working Copies of MSS of 'My First Satyrnalia' #4 (1) 

Working Copies of MSS of 'My First Satyrnalia' #4 (2) 

Working Copies of MSS of 'My First Satyrnalia' #4 (3) 

My First Satyrnalia typescripts 1980 

My First Satyrnalia (From Don Allen), corrected proofs p. 1-101 1981 

My First Satyrnalia (From Don Allen), corrected proofs p. 102-202 1981 

My First Satyrnalia (From Don Allen), corrected proofs p. 203-278 1981 

Early Notes for Pagan Days 1983-1985 

Notes Pagan Days - Part 2 - S. Jersey #1 1982-1983 

Notes Pagan Days - Part 2 - S. Jersey #2 1982-1983 

Notes Pagan Days - Part 2 - S. Jersey #3 1982-1983 

Early Drafts of Pagan Days and Philadelphia Days Folder 1 1979 

Early Drafts of Pagan Days and Philadelphia Days Folder 2 1979-1981 

Early Drafts of Pagan Days and Philadelphia Days Folder 3 1979-1981 

Early Drafts of Pagan Days and Philadelphia Days 1981-1982 

Early Drafts of Pagan Days and Philadelphia Days Folder 1 1982 

Early Drafts of Pagan Days and Philadelphia Days Folder 2 1982 

Early Drafts of Pagan Days and Philadelphia Days Folder 3 1982 

Early Drafts of Pagan Days and Philadelphia Days Folder 4 1982 

Early Drafts of Pagan Days and Philadelphia Days Folder 1 1982-1984 

Early Drafts of Pagan Days and Philadelphia Days Folder 2 1982-1984 

Early Drafts of Pagan Days and Philadelphia Days 1983 

Typed Pages of Pagan Days, 3rd and 4th Drafts #1 March 17, 1984 

Typed Pages of Pagan Days, 3rd and 4th Drafts #2 March 17, 1984 

Typed Pages of Pagan Days, 3rd and 4th Drafts #3 March 17, 1984 

Pagan Days, 3rd Draft, pgs. 169-404 #1 February 21, 1984 

Pagan Days, 3rd Draft, pgs. 169-404 #2 February 21, 1984 

Pagan Days, 3rd Draft, pgs. 169-404 #3 February 21, 1984 

Phila Days MS 4th Draft #1 1981-1982 

Phila Days MS 4th Draft #2 1981-1982 

Phila Days MS 4th Draft #3 1981-1982 

4th Draft Pagan Days to p. 271 #1 March 17, 1984 - November 1, 1984 

4th Draft Pagan Days to p. 271 #2 March 17, 1984 - November 1, 1984 

4th Draft Pagan Days to p. 271 #3 March 17, 1984 - November 1, 1984 

4th Draft Pagan Days to p. 271 #4 March 17, 1984 - November 1, 1984 

Original Typescript, 4th Draft of Pagan Days p. 272-506 #1 February 22, 1986 

Original Typescript, 4th Draft of Pagan Days p. 272-506 #2 February 22, 1986 

Original Typescript, 4th Draft of Pagan Days p. 272-506 #3 February 22, 1986 

Typed and Done Pages 4th Drafts of Pagan Days 

4th Draft Xerox of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-248 #1 March 17, 1984 

4th Draft Xerox of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-248 #2 March 17, 1984 

Typed Original MS of corrected 5th draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-382 #1 

Typed Original MS of corrected 5th draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-382 #2 

Typed Original MS of corrected 5th draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-382 #3 

Original Typescript of 5th Draft of Pagan Days sent to Harper and Row p. 383-790 #1 December 13, 1985 

Original Typescript of 5th Draft of Pagan Days sent to Harper and Row p. 383-790 #2 December 13, 1985 

Original Typescript of 5th Draft of Pagan Days sent to Harper and Row p. 383-790 #3 December 13, 1985 

Original Typescript of 5th Draft of Pagan Days sent to Harper and Row p. 383-790 #4 December 13, 1985 

"My Carbon Copy," 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-522 #1 

"My Carbon Copy," 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-522 #2 

"My Carbon Copy," 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-522 #3 

"My Carbon Copy," 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-522 #4 

"My Carbon Copy," 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-522 #5 

"My Carbon Copy," of 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 523-790 #1 

"My Carbon Copy," of 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 523-790 #2 

"My Carbon Copy," of 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 523-790 #3 

Extra Carbon No. 2, 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-451 #1 June 21, 1985 

Extra Carbon No. 2, 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-451 #2 June 21, 1985 

Extra Carbon No. 2, 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-451 #3 June 21, 1985 

Extra Carbon No. 2, 5th Draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-451 #4 June 21, 1985 

5th Draft Extra Carbon of Pagan Days sent to Harper and Row #1 December 13, 1985 

5th Draft Extra Carbon of Pagan Days sent to Harper and Row #2 December 13, 1985 

5th Draft Extra Carbon of Pagan Days sent to Harper and Row #3 December 13, 1985 

Copy of Pagan Days, Part 1, pgs. 214a-439 

Copy of Pagan Days, Part 2, pgs. 200-371 

Copy of Pagan Days, pgs 690-790 October 16, 1986 

Copy of Pagan Days Part II, pgs. 440-600 June 22, 1986 

Copy of Pagan Days, Part 2, pgs 200-371 

Copy of Part II of Pagan Days, pgs. 475-890 with cuts #1 

Copy of Part II of Pagan Days, pgs. 475-890 with cuts #2 

Copy of Part II of Pagan Days, pgs. 475-890 with cuts #3 

Xerox Copy, Part of 6th Draft, Part Two, Pagan Days, pgs. 201-371 #1 

Xerox Copy, Part of 6th Draft, Part Two, Pagan Days, pgs. 201-371 #2 

Xerox of 6th draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-290 #1 

Xerox of 6th draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-290 #2 

Xerox of 6th draft of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-290 #3 

Proof Corrections on typescript of Maria Correa's Print-out of Pagan Days #1 

Proof Corrections on typescript of Maria Correa's Print-out of Pagan Days #2 

Cuts for Final Pagan Days MS, pgs. 1-262 #1 

Cuts for Final Pagan Days MS, pgs. 1-262 #2 

Miscellaneous pages of Pagan Days with hand-written changes and cuts of pgs. 263-449 #1 

Miscellaneous pages of Pagan Days with hand-written changes and cuts of pgs. 263-449 #2 

Extra Copy of Pagan Days, pgs 215-263 

Corrected Print-out of Pagan Days #1 

Corrected Print-out of Pagan Days #2 

Corrected Print-out of Pagan Days #3 

Xerox Copy of Revised Part I of Pagan Days (6th Draft) #1 April 1, 1986 

Xerox Copy of Revised Part I of Pagan Days (6th Draft) #2 April 1, 1986 

Corrected Extra Copy of Pagan Days Part II, pgs. 201-224 July 31, 1986 

Extra Xerox Pages, Pagan Days 

Thelma Connolly's Typescript of Part One of Pagan Days (pgs. 1-199) and Yvonne Doughty's typescript of Part Two (pgs. 200-371) #1 

Thelma Connolly's Typescript of Part One of Pagan Days (pgs. 1-199) and Yvonne Doughty's typescript of Part Two (pgs. 200-371) #2 

Thelma Connolly's Typescript of Part One of Pagan Days (pgs. 1-199) and Yvonne Doughty's typescript of Part Two (pgs. 200-371) #3 

Final 6th Draft Typescript of Pagan Days typed by Thelma Connolly, pgs. 372-890 #1 1986 

Final 6th Draft Typescript of Pagan Days typed by Thelma Connolly, pgs. 372-890 #2 1986 

Final 6th Draft Typescript of Pagan Days typed by Thelma Connolly, pgs. 372-890 #3 1986 

Final 6th Draft Typescript of Pagan Days typed by Thelma Connolly, pgs. 372-890 #4 1986 

Duplicate Pages of Pagan Days 

Duplicate Print-out of Pagan Days from Maria Correa 

Typescript of Complete 6th Draft of uncut version of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-890 #1 

Typescript of Complete 6th Draft of uncut version of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-890 #2 

Typescript of Complete 6th Draft of uncut version of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-890 #3 

Typescript of Complete 6th Draft of uncut version of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-890 #4 

Typescript of Complete 6th Draft of uncut version of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-890 #5 

Typescript of Complete 6th Draft of uncut version of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-890 #6 

Typescript of Complete 6th Draft of uncut version of Pagan Days, pgs. 1-890 #7 

Typescript of Partial Uncut Version of Pagan Days #1 

Typescript of Partial Uncut Version of Pagan Days #2 

Typescript of Partial Uncut Version of Pagan Days #3 

Typescript of Partial Uncut Version of Pagan Days #4 

Typescript of Partial Uncut Version of Pagan Days #5 

Typescript of Partial Uncut Version of Pagan Days #6 

Typescript of Partial Uncut Version of Pagan Days #7 

Typescript of Partial Uncut Version of Pagan Days #8 

Typescript of Partial Uncut Version of Pagan Days #9 

Pages Cut From Pagan Days (Final Draft) pgs. 489-879 

Typescript, Pagan Days Part Two (Unidentified Version) 

Typescript, Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) #1 

Typescript, Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) #2 

Typescript, Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) #3 

Typescript, Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) #4 

Typescript, Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) #5 

Typescript, Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) #6 

Typescript Carbon of Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) with Corrections #1 

Typescript Carbon of Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) with Corrections #2 

Typescript Carbon of Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) with Corrections #3 

Typescript Carbon of Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) with Corrections #4 

Typescript Carbon of Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) with Corrections #5 

Typescript Carbon of Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) with Corrections #6 

Typescript Carbon of Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) with Corrections #7 

Typescript Carbon of Pagan Days (Unidentified Version) with Corrections #8 

Notes for Nyack Book 

Rough Notes and First and Second Drafts of Nyack Book #1 November 26, 1978 

Rough Notes and First and Second Drafts of Nyack Book #2 November 26, 1978 

Notes for Olson Chapter February 9, 1979 

Notes for San Francisco Days #1 July 3, 1979 - August 15, 1979 

Notes for San Francisco Days #2 July 3, 1979 - August 15, 1979 

Notes for Black Mountain Days #1 August 4, 1992 - June 21, 1995 

Notes for Black Mountain Days #2 August 4, 1992 - June 21, 1995 

Notes for Black Mountain Days #3 August 4, 1992 - June 21, 1995 

Notes for Black Mountain Days January 26, 1996 

Second Draft of Black Mountain Days (Including letters and interviews used) #1 June 4, 1992 

Second Draft of Black Mountain Days (Including letters and interviews used) #2 June 4, 1992 

Typescripts of 4th and 5th Drafts of Black Mountain Days with corrections #1 

Typescripts of 4th and 5th Drafts of Black Mountain Days with corrections #2 

Typescripts of 4th and 5th Drafts of Black Mountain Days with corrections #3 

Typescripts of 4th and 5th Drafts of Black Mountain Days with corrections #4 

Original Typed Copy of Black Mountain Days, 6th Draft #1 August 29, 1996 

Original Typed Copy of Black Mountain Days, 6th Draft #2 August 29, 1996 

Original Typed Copy of Black Mountain Days, 6th Draft #3 August 29, 1996 

Reworked 7th Draft of Black Mountain Days #1 June 1997 

Reworked 7th Draft of Black Mountain Days #2 June 1997 

Reworked 7th Draft of Black Mountain Days #3 June 1997 

Final 7th Draft of Black Mountain Days #1 June 15, 1997 

Final 7th Draft of Black Mountain Days #2 June 15, 1997 

Final 7th Draft of Black Mountain Days #3 June 15, 1997 

Alex Albright, NCLR: "The Black Mountain College Issue" and Letters and Drafts on "Meeting Charles Olson at Black Mountain" 1993 

Notes, Articles, and Correspondence on To Kill a Cardinal (Including Michele Karlsberg file) #1 

Notes, Articles, and Correspondence on To Kill a Cardinal (Including Michele Karlsberg file) #2 

Notes, Articles, and Correspondence on To Kill a Cardinal (Including Michele Karlsberg file) #3 

Notes, Articles, and Correspondence on To Kill a Cardinal (Including Michele Karlsberg file) #4 

To Kill a Cardinal, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Drafts (with additions and notations for 5th and 6th drafts) #1 

To Kill a Cardinal, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Drafts (with additions and notations for 5th and 6th drafts) #2 

To Kill a Cardinal, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Drafts (with additions and notations for 5th and 6th drafts) #3 

To Kill a Cardinal, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Drafts (with additions and notations for 5th and 6th drafts) #4 

3rd Draft, To Kill a Cardinal, for Richard Connolly to hold October 27, 1990 

To Kill a Cardinal, 5th and Final Draft November 28, 1990 

To Kill a Cardinal, 5th Draft 

5th Draft To Kill a Cardinal typescript #1 

5th Draft To Kill a Cardinal typescript #2 

To Kill a Cardinal ad for Poets and Writers and Barnes and Noble June 1994 - August 1994 

Typescript of 6th and Final Draft of To Kill a Cardinal January 24, 1991 

Typescript of 7th Draft of To Kill a Cardinal July 29, 1991 

2 Copies, Correct Final Draft of To Kill a Cardinal (with new rap lyrics and rappers' names) plus corrected proofs #1 March 28, 1992, August 11 - Augst 17, 1992 

2 Copies, Correct Final Draft of To Kill a Cardinal (with new rap lyrics and rappers' names) plus corrected proofs #2 March 28, 1992, August 11 - August 17, 1992 

2 Copies, Correct Final Draft of To Kill a Cardinal (with new rap lyrics and rappers' names) plus corrected proofs #3 March 28, 1992, August 11 - August 17, 1992 

2 Copies of 8th Draft Final Original Typescript Copy of To Kill a Cardinal and 2 Xerox Copies #1 January 15, 1992 

2 Copies of 8th Draft Final Original Typescript Copy of To Kill a Cardinal and 2 Xerox Copies #2 January 15, 1992 

2 Copies of 8th Draft Final Original Typescript Copy of To Kill a Cardinal and 2 Xerox Copies #3 January 15, 1992 

2 Copies of 8th Draft Final Original Typescript Copy of To Kill a Cardinal and 2 Xerox Copies #4 January 15, 1992 

Next to last version of To Kill a Cardinal returned from St. Martin's Press August 19, 1991 

Typescript Final Version of To Kill a Cardinal 

To Kill a Cardinal: Letters, reviews, cover layout, printer's business, etc. #1 

To Kill a Cardinal: Letters, reviews, cover layout, printer's business, etc. #2 

To Kill a Cardinal: Letters, reviews, cover layout, printer's business, etc. #3 

To Kill a Cardinal: Letters, reviews, cover layout, printer's business, etc. #4 

To Kill a Cardinal: Publicity, advertising, sales #1 1994 

To Kill a Cardinal: Publicity, advertising, sales #2 1994 

To Kill a Cardinal: Publicity, advertising, sales #3 1994 

Newspaper attacks, reviews, etc. on To Kill a Cardinal #1 

Newspaper attacks, reviews, etc. on To Kill a Cardinal #2 

New Gringos edition material (NCWC Press edition) including typescripts of Robert Creeley's Afterword and Russell Banks' Introduction #1 

New Gringos edition material (NCWC Press edition) including typescripts of Robert Creeley's Afterword and Russell Banks' Introduction #2 

New Gringos edition material (NCWC Press edition) including typescripts of Robert Creeley's Afterword and Russell Banks' Introduction #3 

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Series II: Correspondence 

Box
16-20

Subseries I: Incoming correspondence 

Box
16-18

A - ALC 

Alexander, Paul 1958 

Alexander, Ross - ALF 

Allen, Don 1957-1958 

ALV - ALZ 

Anastas, Peter 1975-1977 

ANT - AU 

B - BLAC 

Blaser, Robin 1958 

BLO - BOE 

Bogart, Richard 1954-1955 

BON - BR 

Buck, Fred 

BUN - BUT 

C - COL 

CON - COU 

Covington, Norman 

Creeley, Robert 1954-1963 

CRI - CU 

D - DAV 

Dawson, Fielding 1953-1957 

DEF - DEV 

Dorn, Edward 1955-1958 

DUB - DUK 

Duncan, Robert 1956-1963 

DUNL 

Durkee, Dana 1958 

Eckman, Frederick 1958 

ED - EX 

F - FE 

Field, Ralph Thomas 1955-1958 

Fielder - FIN 

Fiore, Joseph A. 1955 

Fiore, Mary 1955-1958 

FL - FO 

Fretz, Mary Ann 1971 

Frost-Hansen, Nemi 1957 

FU 

G - GE 

Gillespie, Merrill 1955-1956 

GIN - GLI 

GOF 

Goodman, Mitchel 1958 

Goodman, Sari - GOV 

Greenwald, Don 

Grosso, Diana 1958 

GRZ - GU 

H - HI 

Hochstein, Rollaine 

HOF - HU 

I - JAR 

JE - JO 

KAN - KIM 

King, Basil 1958 

King, Marta - KO 

Kyger, Joanne 1956-1958 

L - LANE 

Lanzone, Joe 

LEI - LEV 

Lewis, Glenn 1958 

Lewis, Harry - LOT 

LOU - LOW 

M - MAND 

Mannix, Jeanne 195? 

MANR - MARL 

Marshall, Edward H 1957 

MAT - MAX 

McClure, Michael 

MCCR - MER 

Metcalf, Eleanor Melville 1953 

MIR 

Mixon, Eloise T. 1957 

MO - MU 

NAI - NAJ 

NAM 

NAR - NY 

O - OD 

Olson, Charles 1954-1967 

Olson, Constance Wilcock 1953-1957 

ON - OR 

P - PHA 

Phelps, Donald 

PI 

Pleune, Kathy 1957 

The Poetry Center 1957 

POL - PU 

Quinn, Ann 

R - RAG 

Rainsbury, Robert 1957 

RE - ROC 

Rodenbaugh, Kathy 

Rodenbough, Mary 1958 

ROF - ROT 

Rumaker, B. - Rumaker, Mary 

Rumaker, Mr. M (Father) 

Rumaker, Michael 1961 

Rumaker, Mrs. M 1957-1958 

Rumaker, Patrick 

Rumaker, Paul - Rumaker, S. 

S - SC 

Sealts, Merton M. 1953 

SEL - SMIL 

Smith, Alex 1975 

SO - STJ 

Stock, Robert 1956 

Stokes, Ann. 1956, 1974, 1985 

STON - STOR 

T - TI 

TR 

W - WAR 

Weber, Ben 1955 

WES - WH 

Wieners, John 1955-1958 

Williams, Jonathan 1956-1957, 1974, 1987 

Williams, T. Ben - WO 

YA 

Yezierska, Anzia 1954 

YO - YU 

Subseries II: Outgoing correspondence 

Box
19

Allen, Donald 1960- 

Bogart, Richard 

Creeley, Robert, 1960 

Dorn, Ed 

Duncan, Robert 

Fields, Tom 

Fiore, Mary 

Gillespie, Merrill 

J.B. Lippincott Co. 

Jones, deRoi 

Marshall, Edward 

Mitchell, Burroughs 

Olson, Charles 1958- 

Letter to Dr. Walters December 2, 1959 

Wieners, John 1960- 

Ivan 1959 

Liz May 17, 1965 

Paul 1965-1970 

Steven 1975 

Rumaker Miscellaneous 

Copies of letters from Michael Rumaker to various correspondents January 24, 1974 - December 28, 1974 

Copies of letters from Michael Rumaker to various correspondents (Folder 1 of 2) January 9, 1975 - December 1 , 1975 

Copies of letters from Michael Rumaker to various correspondents (Folder 2 of 2) January 9, 1975 - December 1, 1975 

Carbons of Letters #1 1978 

Carbons of Letters #2 1978 

Carbons of Letters #3 1977, 1978 

Carbons of Letters #4 1977 

Carbons of Letters #5 1977 

Carbons of Letters #6 1977 

Carbons of Letters #7 1976, 1977 

Carbons of Letters #8 1976 

Copies of letters to correspondents (Folder 1 of 5) January 1, 1979 - December 12, 1987 

Copies of letters to correspondents (Folder 2 of 5) January 1, 1979 - December 12, 1987 

Copies of letters to correspondents (Folder 3 of 5) January 1, 1979 - December 12, 1987 

Copies of letters to correspondents (Folder 4 of 5) January 1, 1979 - December 12, 1987 

Copies of letters to correspondents (Folder 5 of 5) January 1, 1979 - December 12, 1987 

Subseries III: Sets of Correspondence 

Box
20

Letters to and from Don Allen 1957-1959 

Letters to and from Don Allen January 23, 1979 - June 2, 1979 

Letters to and from Don Allen June 13, 1979 - December 22, 1979 

Letters to and from Don Allen December 21, 1979 - July 1, 1980 

Letters to and from Don Allen 1979-1983 

Letters to and from Don Allen July 19, 1980 - December 19, 1980 

Letters to and from Don Allen December 20, 1980 - April 15, 1981 

Letters to and from Don Allen April 27, 1981 - August 24, 1981 

Letters to and from Don Allen September 22, 1981 - December 10, 1981 

Letters to and from Don Allen December 11, 1981 - April 16, 1982 

Letters to and from Don Allen April 24, 1982 - January 1, 1983 

Letters to and from Don Allen February 15, 1983 - August 12, 1983 

Letters to and from Don Allen August 20, 1983 - October 13, 1983 

Letters to and from Don Allen March, 1979 - November 27, 1983 

Letters of Donald M. Allen/Michael Rumaker (Including contracts) March 26, 1976 - July 28, 1989  

Letters of George Butterick and Michael Rumaker (Folder 1 of 3) January 28, 1974 - December 27, 1976 

Letters of George Butterick and Michael Rumaker (Folder 2 of 3) January 28, 1974 - December 27, 1976 

Letters of George Butterick and Michael Rumaker (Folder 3 of 3) January 28, 1974 - December 27, 1976 

Letters: George Butterick/Michael Rumaker (Folder 1 of 3) January 1, 1977 - December 11, 1986 

Letters: George Butterick/Michael Rumaker (Folder 2 of 3) January 1, 1977 - December 11, 1986 

Letters: George Butterick/Michael Rumaker (Folder 3 of 3) January 1, 1977 - December 11, 1986 

Last Correspondence - George Butterick and Michael Rumaker (Includes Collette Butterick on George's death) January 14, 1987 - July 17, 1988 

Publisher's Correspondence and Contracts 1959, 1961, 1966-1970 

Reviews, letters, Bozoar first publication, etc., on A Day and a Night at the Baths (Folder 1 of 3) 1979 - 1985 

Reviews, letters, Bozoar first publication, etc., on A Day and a Night at the Baths (Folder 2 of 3) 1979 - 1985 

Reviews, letters, Bozoar first publication, etc., on A Day and a Night at the Baths (Folder 3 of 3) 1979 -1985 

Reviews, Letters, etc., on My First Satyrnalia (Folder 1 of 3) 1979 - 1986 

Reviews, Letters, etc., on My First Satyrnalia (Folder 2 of 3) 1979 - 1986 

Reviews, Letters, etc., on My First Satyrnalia (Folder 3 of 3) 1979 - 1986 

Letters of Richard Hall, Mark Thompson, Robert I. McQueen, and Advocate business (Including RH's MSS of 1981 interview for The Advocate) (Folder 1 of 2) 1981 - 1986 

Letters of Richard Hall, Mark Thompson, Robert I. McQueen, and Advocate business (Including RH's MSS of 1981 interview for The Advocate) (Folder 2 of 2) 1981 - 1986 

Letters of Winston Leyland (Publisher, Gay Sunshine Press) and Michael Rumaker, including letters over the copyright dispute of "The Fairies are Dancing All over the World" (Folder 1 of 2) July 11, 1974 - November, 1985 

Letters of Winston Leyland (Publisher, Gay Sunshine Press) and Michael Rumaker, including letters over the copyright dispute of "The Fairies are Dancing All over the World" (Folder 2 of 2) July 11, 1974 - November, 1985 

Letters of Robert Bertholf (Publisher, Credences) and Michael Rumaker July 4, 1975 - April 16, 1978 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #1 1988-1990 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #2 1988-1990 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #3 1988-1990 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #4 1988-1990 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #1 August, 1990 - February, 1992 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #2 August, 1990 - February, 1992 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #3 August, 1990 - February, 1992 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #1 February, 1992 - December, 1992 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #2 February, 1992 - December, 1992 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #3 February, 1992 - December, 1992 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #1 January, 1993 - January, 1994 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #2 January, 1993 - January, 1994 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #3 January, 1993 - January, 1994 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #4 January, 1993 - January, 1994 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #1 1993/1994 - 1996 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #2 1993/1994 - 1996 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #3 1993/1994 - 1996 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #4 1993/1994 -1996 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #1 1997 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #2 1997 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #3 1997 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #1 1998 - 1999 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #2 1998 - 1999 

Correspondence between Leverett T. (Terry) Smith Jr.(North Carolina Wesleyan College Press) and Michael Rumaker #3 1998 - 1999 

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Series III: Journals and notebooks 

Box
21-23

Journal November 22, 1959-November 23, 1959 

Journal November 6, 1959-June 2, 1960 

Journal November 6, 1959-June 30, 1960 

Journal February 25, 1960-Feburary 29, 1960 

Journal July 1, 1960-October 17, 1960 

Journal January 3, 1961 

Journal September 29, 1961-September 3, 1962 

Notes from journal entries February 11, 1974-June 18, 1974 

Notepad: Journal entry ca. 1958 

Tablet: Dream February 13, 1960 

Tablet: excerpt Creeley letter March 19, 1960 and journal April 17, 1960 

Tablet: Letter to Philip May 7, 1960 

Notepad: story fragments ca. 1960 'And yet before him...' 

Notepad Contents: Story fragments ca. 1960 ‘He sat in the armchair 

Notebook contents: Journal and letter to Alex Neish March 21, 1960-April 21, 1960 

Notepad Contents: Draft of ‘The Father’ ca. 1926 ‘Where’s mama’ 

Notepad Contents: Story Fragments and draft of letter to Harry T. Moore (unpub.) ‘As a young tree…’ ca.1962 

Notepads (misc) misc papers Contents: Story fragments draft of a latter to Robert Creeley ca. 1965 

Notepad Contents: misc (unpub.) fragments ‘dear Liz…’ drafts of a letter ca. 1965 

Notepad Contents: misc story fragments ‘dear don…’ draft ‘queers’ Walt Whitman’s dream rough draft of letters ca. 1967-1968 

Notepad Contents: Journal ‘Michael Rumaker…” ca. April 29, 1971-June 2, 1971 

Notepad Contents: Journal ‘Conducted my 2nd writing class…” June 7, 1971-June 10, 1971 

Notepad contents: misc. notes, poems, story fragments Notebook includes typed script of ‘school daze- a nostalgic memoir ca. July 15, 1971-May 3, 1973 

Notebooks  March - April 22, 1974 

Notebooks April 30 - May 24, 1974 

Notebooks June 7 - August 13. 1974 

Notebooks August 13 - September 31, 1974 

Notebook, Glouchester, Massachusetts September 15, 1974 - September 18, 1974 

Notebook September 30, 1974 - February 27, 1975 

Notebooks March 1 - May 4, 1975 

Notebooks May 4 - May 20, 1975 

Notebooks May 21 - June 8, 1975 

Notebooks July 9 - August 19, 1975 

Notebooks August 3 - October 21, 1975 

Notebooks October 13, 1975 - January 1, 1976 

Notebooks December 30, 1975 - February 13, 1976 

Notebooks April 2 - May 30 1976 

Notebooks May 31 - July 12, 1976 

Notebooks July 12 - September 10, 1976 

Notebooks (Glouchester Notebook #3) September 12 - October 7, 1976 

Notebooks October 8 - November 9, 1976 

Notebooks November 9 - December 12, 1976 

Notebooks December 12, 1976 - January 24, 1977 

Notebooks January 26 - March 21, 1977 

Notebooks March 31 - June 30, 1977 

Notebooks (including Adirondacks notebook) July 1 - July 27, 1977 

Notebooks July 29 - September 23, 1977 

Notebooks September 23 - November 22, 1977 

Notebooks November 22, 1977 - January 16, 1978 

Notebooks January 16 - March 13, 1978 

Notebooks March 14 - May 4, 1978 

Notebooks May 6 - June 15, 1978 

Notebooks June 16 - July 27, 1978 

Notebook (Adirondacks notebook, at Traveler's Camp) July 15 - July 20, 1978 

Notebooks July 28 - August 23, 1978 

Notebooks August 24 - September 11, 1978 

Notebook September 12 - September 20, 1978 

Notebooks September 21 - October 20, 1978 

Notebooks October 21 - November 21, 1978 

Notebooks November 22 - December 23, 1978 

Notebooks December 24, 1978 - January 28, 1979 

Notebooks January 29 - March 18, 1979 

Notebooks March 19 - April 23, 1979 

Notebooks April 24 - May 28, 1979 

Notebooks May 29 - June 17, 1979 

Notebooks June 17 - July 18, 1979 

Notebooks July 19 - August 20, 1979 

Notebooks August 21 - September 30, 1979 

Notebooks October 1 - October 21, 1979 

Notebooks October 21 - November 21, 1979 

Notebooks November 21 - December 17, 1979 

Notebooks December 17, 1979 - February 5, 1980 

Notebooks February 7 - April 18, 1980 

Notebooks April 22 - September 9, 1980 

Notebooks September 11, 1980 - February 7, 1981 

Notebooks February 9 - June 9, 1981 

Notebooks June 11 - October 27, 1981 

Notebooks October 29, 1981 - July 23, 1982 

Notebooks August 2, 1982 - May 5, 1983 

Notebooks May 7 - December 11, 1983 

Notebooks December 14, 1983 - June 26, 1985 

Notebooks January 5, 1988 - May 31, 1990 

Notebooks June 7, 1990 - November 30, 1992 

Journal Excerpts 10/16/76 

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Series IV: Personal papers 

Subseries I: Black Mountain College degree certificate 

Subseries II: Personal calendars 

Subseries III: Readings and Interviews (recordings) 

Michael Rumaker reading from A Day and Night in the Baths, Allentown Community Center/Buffalo December 14, 1979   audio cassette

Side A: P. Orlovsky, Anne Waldman, J. Giorno, J. Ashbery, Meredith Monk, etc. January 1 at St. Mark's Side B: Helen Adam, Victor P., D. Amram, etc. January 1 at St. Mark's. February 20, 1976   Audio Cassette

Side A: Ginsberg WGMA reading - calls with Norman, Rich, and Jim N. Side B: Phone Conversation with Allen Ginsberg, we speak of our fathers, also Danny (WGMA), January 1 at St. Mark's February 20, 1976   Audio Cassette

Reading and Discussion at UConn April 1, 1976   Audio Cassette

Reading at Rockland Community College April 9, 1976   Audio Cassette

Side 1: PC with Bob Goff (RCC Reading), PC with Jane Atwell re JN's "sa lome", PC with Helen Traver re RCC reading and David W's videotape of me. Side 2: Conclusion of Rolling Thunder Tape WBAI April 9, April 10, April 12, and April 25, 1976   Audio Cassette

Interview with Mary Harris on Black Mountain February 12, 1976   Audio Cassette

Side A: Reading "A Night At Columbia" to Lee Sennish. Phone with Jim N. Side B: Phone conversation with Rollie Hochstein, Part I. February 15, 16, 17, 1976   Audio Cassette

BBC Radio Interview with Robert Ketteridge for "The Verb" on Fielding Dawson and his writing April 27, 2002 

Don Allen and Rumaker audio recording 1998 

Subseries IV: Memorabilia 

Subseries V: Books and periodicals 

Subseries VI: Scrapbooks and clippings 

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Series V: Photographs 

Scope and Contents note

The photographs of Michael Rumaker in this subseries are ordered chronologically from approximately 1932 to 1984. These photographs include family photographs and portraits and candids of Rumaker throughout these years. The portraits are comprised of those from his early childhood, high school portraits, student IDs, those used in postcards, and those used for book covers. One photograph taken in 1962 is specifically inscribed as being used for the book, The Butterfly. Most of the candid photographs were taken from the fifties through the seventies and depict Michael around his home or doing work. Several of them are labeled as being taken when he was attending Black Mountain College.

Subseries I: Family Photographs 

Family Photographs #1 

Family Photographs #2 

Family Photographs #3 

Family Photographs #4 

Family Photographs #5 

Family Photographs #6 

Family Photographs #7 

Family Photographs #8 

Family Photographs #9 

Family Photographs #10 

Family Photographs #11 

Family Photographs #12 

Family Photographs #13 

Family Photographs #14 

Family Photographs #15 

Family Photographs #16 

Family Photographs #17 (Oversize) 

Subseries II: Photographs of Michael Rumaker [1932] - 1984 

 [1932], 1939, 1946-1947 

 1948, 1949, 1954 

 1956, 1957 

 1962 

 1965, 1966 

 1966 

 1966 

 1967 

 1969, 1973, 1974 

 1974 

 1974 

 1974, 1975 

 1975 

 1975, 1983 

 1983, 1984 

Prints, various (oversize) 

Subseries III: Photographs of Others 

Fretz, Mary Ann Photos 

Photographs of friends 

Photo by Merrill Gillespie on Christopher St, Summer/Fall 1980 - 1981 

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