Guide to the Elizabeth Bishop Papers, 1911-1993 (bulk 1929-1979)

Guide to the Elizabeth Bishop Papers,
1911-1993 (bulk 1929-1979)

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Collection Summary

Repository: Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries
Creator: Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979
Title: Elizabeth Bishop Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1911-1993
Bulk Dates: 1929-1979
Quantity: 27.7 cubic ft (114 boxes)
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and drafts, memorabilia, artwork, publications, and photographs relating to Bishop's personal and professional life. Also, letters, minutes, contracts, and financial records from her teaching and publishing activities, 1943-1979; manuscripts, typescripts, drafts, revisions, and fragments of her poetry and prose writings, 1929-1979; Vassar student notebooks, travel diaries, notes from her 17-year residence in Brazil, and family information, 1931-1977; manuscripts, typescripts, articles, essays, and poetry by or about other writers, especially Robert Lowell, 1925-1979; and printed poetry, prose, reviews, and articles by or about Bishop.
Forms of Materials: Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts and drafts, memorabilia, artwork, publications, and photographs.

Biographical Note

Elizabeth Bishop (8 February 1911- 6 October 1979) was a Pullitzer-Prize winning poet, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and winner of the National Book Award. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911 but after her father's death and mother's hospitalization was raised by other relatives, and her fondest childhood memories were of Nova Scotia and Cape Cod. In 1934 Bishop graduated from Vassar College. In addition to working on the school newspaper, The Vassar Miscellany, Bishop founded a literary magazine, Con Spirito, with fellow students Mary McCarthy, Eleanor Clark, and Muriel Rukeyser. Following graduation, Bishop spent several years traveling. She stayed in New York, as well as various cities in Europe and North Africa, but she finally found a home in Key West, Florida, where she made several influential friends and found inspiration for many of her most significant poems. When World War II turned Key West into a military command center, Bishop packed her suitcase again. After brief periods in Washington, an artists' colony in upstate New York and a return to New York City, Bishop set out on what was supposed to be a voyage around the world by ship. But in Rio de Janeiro, the first port, she had an allergic reaction to the fruit of a cashew and was nursed back to health by Maria Carlota de Macedo Soares. She and "Lota" fell in love and Bishop made Brazil her home for the next 17 years. She returned to the States only when in the mid 1960s it became financially necessary. She accepted teaching positions at the University of Washington, then Harvard, followed seven years later by New York University, and just prior to her death, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

There are several sigificant published biographies of Bishop. A full list is available at Barbara Page's Elizabeth Bishop website. See also Page's biography of Bishop written for the 2004 Department of Archives and Special Collections exhibit, "Elizabeth Bishop: A Growing Legacy"

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Scope and Content Note

The Elizabeth Bishop Papers consist of correspondence, personal papers, working papers, notebooks, diaries, and memorabilia as well as a substantial amount of material by and about her friends and colleagues. Among the collection are over 3,500 pages of drafts of poems and prose, over 200 letters from Marianne Moore written between 1935 and 1969 discussing their work and mutual friends; and over 200 letters from Robert Lowell written between 1947 and 1976 discussing his work and that of Bishop's and her influence on his work, as well as the work of other writers including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, Flannery O'Connor, and Mary McCarthy.

Other correspondents include: Leonie Adams, John Ashbery, John Berryman, Harold Bloom, Robert Bly, Louise Bogan, John Malcolm Brinnin, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Hecht, Randall Jarrell, Archibald MacLeish, James Merrill, Henry Moore, Howard Moss, Octavio Paz, Katherine Anne Porter, Muriel Rukeyser, Anne Sexton, Mark Strand, May Swenson, Allen Tate, Dylan Thomas, Alice B. Toklas, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and Edmund Wilson.

The collection also contains letters from Elizabeth Bishop to James Merrill, Pearl Kazin Bell, Loren MacIver and Lloyd Frankenberg, Anny Baumann, and other friends and relatives. James Laughlin donated photocopies of the correspondence he received from Bishop; the original letters remain in his possession. The Elizabeth Bishop Papers also include the only extant typescript of her 1939 poem, "Pleasure Seas," photographs, slides, watercolors by Elizabeth Bishop, diplomas, academic hoods, citations, and her Brazilian oil lamp.

Although not part of this collection, researchers may read photocopies of the Elizabeth Bishop letters to Marianne Moore that are on deposit here at Vassar courtesy of the Rosenbach Library and Museum. All permissions relating to this collection should be directed to the Rosenbach .

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Access and Use

Access

This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library with only the restrictions listed below.

Restrictions on Use

Most of the Bishop collection has been photocopied; original material may not be used for research.

Permission to quote (publish) from previously published material must be obtained in writing from Alice Methfessel and Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished material must be obtained in writing from Alice Methfessel.

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Subject Headings

Names:

  • Adams, Léonie, 1899-
  • Ashbery, John.
  • Baumann, Anny.
  • Bell, Pearl K.
  • Berryman, John, 1914-1972.
  • Bishop family.
  • Bloom, Harold.
  • Bly, Robert.
  • Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970.
  • Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-
  • Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976.
  • Clark, Eleanor, 1913-
  • Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
  • Fitzgerald, Robert, 1910-
  • Hardwick, Elizabeth.
  • Heaney, Seamus.
  • Hecht, Anthony, 1923-
  • Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.
  • Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.
  • MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-
  • McCarthy, Mary, 1912-
  • Merrill, James Ingram.
  • Moore, Henry, 1898-
  • Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
  • Paz, Octavio, 1914-
  • Porter, Katherine Anne, 1894-
  • Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-
  • Sexton, Anne.
  • Swenson, May.
  • Tate, Allen, 1899-
  • Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.
  • Toklas, Alice B.

Organizations:

  • Library of Congress.
  • Vassar College--Students.

Subjects:

  • Literature--Authors.
  • Literature--Study and teaching.
  • Poets.
  • Women poets.
  • Women teachers.
  • Women--Diaries.

Places:

  • Brazil--Description and travel.

Document Types:

  • Autographs.
  • Diaries.
  • Photoprints.
  • Poems.

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Encoding Information

Encoded by Elizabeth Clarke, February 2007.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Elizabeth Bishop Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.

Processing Information

Original processing date unknown. Last updated January 12, 2007.

Acquisition Information

Purchase Sources Include: Alice H. Methfessel, Anny Baumann, Phyllis Sutherland, Linda Nemer, E. Wharton and Co., Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller; Katharine O. Sargent, Emanuel Brasil, Estella Pereira, Richard Levey, Irvine Huck, Philip Booth, H. E. Turlington Books, Lilli Correia de Araujo, James S. Jaffe Rare Books, the Portinari Family, and Gesoki Booksellers.

Gift Sources Include: James Merrill, Alice H. Methfessel, Pearl K. Bell, Howard Moss, Rollie McKenna, U.T. and Joseph Summers, Frani Blough Muser, the Margaret Bradley Sherman Library Fund (of Vassar College), Helen Muchnic, James Laughlin, Estate of Victor L. O. Chittick, Harriet Thomas Tompkins.

Accruals

Additions to the Collection since 2000 are located in boxes 112, 113 and 114.

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Series List

Series I. CORRESPONDENCE (Boxes 1-38, 98-99, 112-114)

Series II. PROFESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE, CONTRACTS, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Boxes 39-44, 107)

Series III. PERSONAL FINANCIAL AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS (Box 44)

Series IV. BISHOP'S PROSE (Boxes 45-55)

Listed chronologically by date of publication, or if no date is available, alphabetically by title. Note: Dates in brackets indicate the date of publication not the date of creation

Series V. BISHOP'S POETRY (Boxes 56-67, 113)

Listed chronologically by date of publication, or if no date is available, alphabetically by title. Note: Dates in brackets indicate the date of publication not the date of creation

Series VI. FRAGMENTS (PROSE AND POETRY) (Box 68)

Series VII. NOTES AND NOTEBOOKS (Boxes 69A-76)

Series VIII. DIARIES AND TRAVEL NOTES (Box 77)

Series IX. CALENDARS (Boxes 78 and 106)

Series X. BIOGRAPHICAL AND FAMILY DATA (Boxes 78 and 113)

Series XI. WORKS BY OTHERS (Boxes 79-86)

Series XII. PRINTED MATERIAL (Boxes 87-96, 106, 107, Mapcase drawer 36)

Series XIII. PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES (Boxes 100-102, 105, 112, 113, 114, Mapcase drawer 36)

Series XIV. ARTWORK (Boxes 103-109, 113)

Series XV. MEMORABILIA AND EPHEMERA (Boxes 110, 113, Realia boxes 17, 19, 23)

Series XVI. OVERSIZED MATERIAL (Boxes 97, 105-111)

Container List

SERIES I. CORRESPONDENCE

Letters to Elizabeth Bishop
Folder 1.1 Adams, Leonie, 1949-1977 (4 letters)
Folder 1.2 Alfred, William, 1970-1971 (2 letters)
Folder 1.3 Almyda, Hanna, 1961-1963 (2 letters)
Folder 1.4 Andrade, Rodrigo Melo Franco, 1961 (1 letter)
Folder 1.5 Andrade, Carlos Drummond de (1902-1987), 1963-1969 (3 letters)
Folder 1.6 Ashbery, John, 1976 (2 letters and 1 Christmas card)
Folder 1.7 Ballard, Elizabeth, 1976 (1 letter w/ music mss., 1 postcard)
Folder 1.8 Bandeira, M., 1953 (3 letters)
Folder 1.9 Barker, Ilse and Kit, 1968-1979 (19 letters w/ 2 photos)
Folder 1.10 Baumann, Anny, 1948-1954 (5 letters)
Folder 1.11 Baumann, Anny, 1978-1979 and [n.d.] (8 letters)
Folder 1.12 Benton, Betty, 1974-1978 (5 letters, 1cc from E. Bishop)
Folder 1.13 Berryman, John, 1969-1970 (2 letters)
Folder 1.14 Bidart, Frank, 1971-1972 (9 letters)
Folder 1.15 Biddle, Katherine, [n.d.] (2 letters, 1 greeting card)
Folder 1.16 Blackburn, Roma, 1978-1979 (13 letters)
Folder 2.1 Bloom, Harold, 1977 (l letter)
Folder 2.2 Bloom, Hyman, 1947-1958 (2 letters)
Folder 2.3 Bly, Robert, 1969 (2 letters)
Folder 2.4 Bogan, Louise, 1955 (1 postcard)
Folder 2.5 Booth, Philip, 1973-1979 (6 letters )
Folder 2.6 Bowie, Dorothee M., 1971-1979 (4 letters)
Folder 2.7 Boxer, C. R., 1970 (1 letter)
Folder 2.8 Brinnan, John Malcolm, 1954-Sept. 78 (7 letters)
Folder 2.9 Brinnan, John Malcolm, Nov. 1978-19 1979 (8 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 2.10 Brown, Ashley, 1968-1979 (6 letters, 1 postcard, 1 Christmas card)
Folder 2.11 Budenz, Julia, 1972-1979 (5 letters)
Folder 2.12 Calder, Alexander, 1960-1962 and [n.d.] (3 letters, 1 note w/ drawing)
Folder 2.13 Carlile, Sandra McPherson and Henry, 1974-1979 (6 letters)
Folder 2.14 Carter, Elliott, 1975 (1 letter)
Folder 2.15 Chittick, V. L. O. and Edna, 1954-1969 and [n.d.] (8 letters w/1 letter from Lois, 1 Christmas card)
Folder 2.16 Corn, Alfred, 1978 (1 letter)
Folder 3.1 Crane, Louise, 1968-1973 and [n.d.] (5 letters, 1 note)
Folder 3.2 Cummings, e. e., 1953-1958 (1 letter w/ 2 enc., 3 postcards)
Folder 3.3 De Jesus, Vitoria, 1973 (1 letter)
Folder 3.4 Deutsch, Babette, 1962 (1 letter)
Folder 3.5 Dewey, Evelyn, 1952-1954 (2 letters)
Folder 3.6 Dewey, Jane, 1959-1968 (5 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 3.7 Dewey, John, 1945-1946 (2 letters)
Folder 3.8 Donoghue, Denis, 1962 (1 letter)
Folder 3.9 Dunford-Wood, Hugh, 1977-1978 (4 letters)
Folder 3.10 Eberhart, Richard, 1968-1979 (1 letter, 1 postcard)
Folder 3.11 Ehrenpreis, Irvin, 1971-1979 (7 letters)
Folder 3.12 Elliott, George P., 1955-1956 (4 letters)
Folder 3.13 Engelberg, Ed, 1978 (2 letters)
Folder 3.14 Estess, Sybil, 1974-1979 (7 letters)
Folder 3.15 Ettinger, Maia, 1978-1979 (1 letter, 1 postcard, 1 Christmas card)
Folder 3.16 Feo, José Rodriguez, 1944-1945 (3 letters)
Folder 3.17 Ferry, David, 1976-1978 (2 letters)
Folder 3.18 Fisher, Anna Helena, 1978 (1 letter)
Folder 3.19 Fitzgerald, Robert, 1971-1977 and [n.d.] (3 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 3.20 Fitzgerald, Sally, 1979 (1 letter)
Folder 4.1 Fizdale, Robert, 1958-1969 (8 letters, 2 postcards)
Folder 4.2 Fizdale, Robert, 1970-1977 and [n.d.] (9 letters, 1 postcard, 1 Christmas card)
Folder 4.3 Frank, Joe, 1950-1964 (6 letters)
Folder 4. 4 Frankenberg, Lloyd, 1941-1961 (8 letters)
Folder 4.5 Frederica, Antoinette, 1978 (2 letters)
Folder 4.6 Frye, Northrop, 1975 (1 letter)
Folder 4.7 Galassi, Jonathan, 1971-1979 (7 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 4.8 Gardner, Isabella, 1955-1961 and [n.d.] (4 letters)
Folder 4.9 Gunn, Thom, 1968-1970 (1 letter, 1 postcard)
Folder 4.10 Halpern, Daniel, 1979 and [n.y.] (1 letter, 1 postcard)
Folder 4.11 Hardwick, Elizabeth, 1950-1963 (8 letters, 2 telegrams, w/1 letter from E. Bishop)
Folder 4.12 Hardwick, Elizabeth, 1964-1978 (7 letters)
Folder 4.13 Harper, Michael, 1973 (1 letter)
Folder 5.1 Heaney, Seamus, 1979 (1 letter, 1 postcard)
Folder 5.2 Hecht, Anthony, 1969-1979 (5 letters)
Folder 5.3 Hershey, Judith, 1976-1977 (2 letters, 2 postcards)
Folder 5.4 Holland, Henrietta, 1953-1956 (2 letters)
Folder 5.5 Hollander, John, 1977 (1 letter)
Folder 5.6 Hull, Donald, 1961 (1 letter)
Folder 5.7 Hussey, Anne, 1971-1979 and [n.y.] (9 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 5.8 Jarrell, Randall, 1949-1956 (4 letters)
Folder 5.9 Jarrell, Randall, 1957-1964 (3 letters)
Folder 5.10 Jarrell, Mackie (Mrs. Randall), 1952 (1 letter)
Folder 5.11 "John" [Ward? See Rukeyser letter of 3/20/79], 1978 (3 letters)
Folder 5.12 Kalstone, David, 1969 and [n.d.] (2 letters)
Folder 5.13 Kaplan, Peter, 1973 (2 letters)
Folder 5.14 Keller, Roberta Lynn, 1979 (2 letters, 1 cc from E. Bishop)
Folder 5.15 Kentfield, Calvin, 1951-1952 and [n.d.] (4 letters)
Folder 6.1 Lacerda, Carlos, 1952 (1 letter)
Folder 6.2 Lafeuille, Germaine, 1964-1973 (7 letters, 2 cc from E. Bishop, 3 letters to Lafeuille, 2 cc from Lafeuille to Claude Roy, 1 cc from Lafeuille to R. Gallimard )
Folder 6.3 Larkin, Philip, 1964 (1 letter)
Folder 6.4 Laurans, Penelope, 1979 (1 letter)
Folder 6.5 Ledford-Miller, Linda, 1978-1979 (9 letters, 4 cc from E. Bishop)
Folder 6. 6 Leh, William, 1974-1975 (2 letters)
Folder 6.7 Leithauser, Brad, 1978 (2 letters)
Folder 6.8 Levering, Frank, 1978 (1 letter)
Folder 6.9 Littlefield, Lester, 1942-1968 (10 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 7.1 Lowell, Robert, 1947 (7 letters, 1 postcard, cc of Falling Asleep Over the Aeneid)
Folder 7.2 Lowell, Robert, Jan.- July 1948 (11 letters)
Folder 7.3 Lowell, Robert, Aug.- Dec. 1948 (10 letters, 2 postcards)
Folder 7.4 Lowell, Robert, 1949 (7 letters)
Folder 7.5 Lowell, Robert, 1950 (6 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 7.6 Lowell, Robert, 1951 (3 letters)
Folder 7.7 Lowell, Robert, 1952 (2 letters)
Folder 7.8 Lowell, Robert, 1953 (3 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 7.9 Lowell, Robert, 1954 (2 letters)
Folder 7.10 Lowell, Robert, 1955 (4 letters)
Folder 7.11 Lowell, Robert, 1956 (4 letters)
Folder 8.1 Lowell, Robert, Feb.- July 1957 (7 letters)
Folder 8.2 Lowell, Robert, Aug.- Dec. 1957 (7 letters, 1 telegram)
Folder 8.3 Lowell, Robert, 1958 (7 letters)
Folder 8.4 Lowell, Robert, 1959 (8 letters)
Folder 8.5 Lowell, Robert, 1960 (10 letters, 1 telegram)
Folder 8.6 Lowell, Robert, 1961 (6 letters)
Folder 8.7 Lowell, Robert, 1962 (8 letters)
Folder 8.8 Lowell, Robert, 1963 (9 letters)
Folder 9.1 Lowell, Robert, 1964 (11 letters)
Folder 9.2 Lowell, Robert, 1965-1966 (10 letters)
Folder 9.3 Lowell, Robert, 1967-1968 (10 letters)
Folder 9.4 Lowell, Robert, 1969-1970 (10 letters)
Folder 9.5 Lowell, Robert, 1971-1972 (13 letters)
Folder 9.6 Lowell, Robert, 1973-1976 (24 letters, 1 telegram)
Folder 9.7 Lowell, Robert, various (12 postcards)
Folder 10.1 Macedo Soares Regis, Flavio de, 1964-1970 and [n.d.] (10 letters, 1 postcard, 1 fragment)
Folder 10.2 MacLeish, Archibald, 1953-1972 [n.d.] (3 letters)
MacLeish, Archibald — See also Lowell
Folder 10.3 McCarthy, Mary, 1979 (2 letters)
Folder 10.4 McKenna, Rollie, 1968 (1 letter)
Folder 10.5 MacMahon, Candace, 1977-1979 (13 letters)
Folder 10.6 McMahon, Eileen, 1978 (1 letter)
Folder 10.7 Manrique, Jaime, 1978 (4 letters)
Folder 10.8 Mazzaro, Jerome, 1978 (1 letter)
Folder 10.9 Mazzocco, Robert, 1972 (1 letter)
Folder 10.10 Melo Neto, Joao Cabral de, 1956-1966 (3 letters)
Folder 10.11 Menzes, Antonio Cicero de, 1956 (1 letter)
Folder 11.1 Merrill, James, 1959-1970 (14 letters, 2 postcards)
Folder 11.2 Merrill, James, 1971-1979 (20 letters, 12 postcards, 1 fragment)
Folder 11.3 Mickley, Loretta, 1979 (2 letters)
Folder 11.4 Miles, Josephine, 1964-1965 (2 letters)
Folder 11.5 Miller, Margaret, Aug.-Sept. 1935 (6 letters)
Folder 11.6 Miller, Margaret, Oct.- Dec. 1935 (4 letters)
Folder 11.7 Miller, Margaret, Jan.- Feb. 1936 (5 letters)
Folder 11.8 Miller, Margaret, Mar. 1936-19 1937 (4 letters)
Folder 12.1 Miller, Margaret, 1942-1943 (10 letters)
Folder 12.2 Miller, Margaret, 1945-1946 (11 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 12.3 Miller, Margaret, 1947-1949 (9 letters, 5 postcards)
Folder 12.4 Miller, Margaret, 1950-1954 (15 letters)
Folder 12.5 Miller, Margaret, 1956-1959 (11 letters, 1 fragment)
Folder 12.6 Miller, Margaret, 1960-1973 and [n.d.] (14 letters, 6 postcards, fragments)
Folder 12.7 Mongan, Agnes, 1959-1960 (2 letters)
Folder 13.1 Moore, Marianne, 1935 (5 letters, 1 letter to M. Moore from Harper Brothers)
Folder 13.2 Moore, Marianne, Mar.- June 1936 (5 letters)
Folder 13.3 Moore, Marianne, Jul.- Dec. 1936 (11 letters, 2 pp. TS)
Folder 13.4 Moore, Marianne, Jan.- Feb. 1937 (4 letters)
Folder 13.5 Moore, Marianne, Mar.-Dec. 1937 (7 letters)
Folder 13.6 Moore, Marianne, 1940 (2 letters)
Folder 13.7 Moore, Marianne, Jan.- May 1942 (5 letters)
Folder 13.8 Moore, Marianne, June-Nov. 1942 (5 letters)
Folder 13.9 Moore, Marianne, July-Sept. 1943 (5 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 13.10 Moore, Marianne, Oct.- Dec. 1943 (9 letters, 1 cc to M. Moore from U.S. Navy)
Folder 14.1 Moore, Marianne, Jan.- Aug. 1944 (6 letters)
Folder 14.2 Moore, Marianne, Sept.- Dec. 1944 (10 letters)
Folder 14.3 Moore, Marianne, 1945 (9 letters)
Folder 14.4 Moore, Marianne, 1946 (5 letters)
Folder 14.5 Moore, Marianne, 1947 (5 letters)
Folder 14.6 Moore, Marianne, 1948 (9 letters, 2 postcards)
Folder 14.7 Moore, Marianne, 1949 (6 letters)
Folder 14.8 Moore, Marianne, 1950 (8 letters, 1 fragment)
Folder 15.1 Moore, Marianne, 1951 (12 letters, 1 letter to M. Moore from Donnelly Fellowship)
Folder 15.2 Moore, Marianne, 1952 (7 letters)
Folder 15.3 Moore, Marianne, 1953 (3 letters)
Folder 15.4 Moore, Marianne, 1954 (5 letters)
Folder 15.5 Moore, Marianne, 1955 (4 letters)
Folder 15.6 Moore, Marianne, 1956 (6 letters)
Folder 15.7 Moore, Marianne, 1957 (2 letters, l postcard)
Folder 15.8 Moore, Marianne, 1958 (3 letters)
Folder 15.9 Moore, Marianne, 1959 (5 letters)
Folder 15.10 Moore, Marianne, 1960 (3 letters)
Folder 15.11 Moore, Marianne, 1961 (5 letters)
Folder 15.12 Moore, Marianne, 1962 (4 letters)
Folder 15.13 Moore, Marianne, 1963 (4 letters)
Folder 15.14 Moore, Marianne, 1964 (3 letters)
Folder 15.15 Moore, Marianne, 1965-1966 (5 letters)
Folder 15.16 Moore, Marianne, 1967-1968 (13 letters, 1 letter to Roxanne Cumming from M. Moore)
Folder 15.17 Moore, Marianne, 1969 [n.d.] (2 letters, 1 fragment)
Folder 16.1 Moraes, Vinicius de, 1968-1971 (2 letters)
Folder 16.2 Morgan, Frederick, 1978 (1 letter)
Folder 16.3 Moss, Howard, 1954-1979 (8 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 16.4 Muchnic, Helen, 1978-19 (3 letters)
Folder 16.5 Mullen, Richard, 1978 (2 letters)
Folder 16.6 Muser, Curt, 1978 (2 letters)
Folder 16.7 Muser, Frani, 1935-1947 (5 letters)
Folder 16.8 Muser, Frani, 1956-1962 (5 letters)
Folder 16.9 Muser, Frani, 1964-1969 (6 letters, 2 postcards)
Folder 16.10 Muser, Frani, 1970-1976 (9 letters, 2 postcards)
Folder 16.11 Muser, Frani, 1978-1979 and [n.d.] (6 letters, 2 postcards, 2 greeting cards)
Folder 16.12 Nemer, José Alberto, 1973 (1 letter)
Folder 16.13 Nemer, Linda, 1979 (1 letter)
Folder 16.14 Neruda, Pablo, 1942-19 [n.d.] (2 letters)
Folder 16.15 Nims, John F., 1979 (2 letters, 1 cc from E. Bishop)
Folder 17.1 O'Connor, Flannery, 1958-1963 (7 letters)
Folder 17.2 O'Donnell, Mark, 1968 (1 letter)
Folder 17.3 Oliveros, Alejandro, 1978 (1 letter)
Folder 17.4 Osser, Maya, 1968-1977 (3 letters)
Folder 17.5 Paz, Octavio, 1969-1979 (7 letters, 7 postcards)
Folder 17.6 Peech, John, 1971-1977, [n.y.] (3 letters)
Folder 17.7 Pereira, Stella, 1969 (1 letter)
Folder 17.8 Petere, José Herrera, 1943-1944 (7 letters)
Folder 17.9 Pfeifer, Pauline, 1949 (13 letters)
Folder 113.17 Pfeifer, Pauline, [n.d.] (1 letter)
Folder 17.10 Pfeiffer, Virginia, 1946-1949 (8 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 17.11 Pfeiffer, Virginia, 1950-1964 and [n.d.] (13 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 17.12 Pinsky, Robert, 1979 (1 letter)
Folder 17.13 Pollitt, Katha, 1978 (4 letters, 1 cc from E. Bishop)
Folder 17.14 Porter, Katherine Anne, 1959-1973 (1 letter, 1 postcard)
Folder 17.15 Prentiss, M.E., 1948 (1 letter)
Folder 17.16 Purdy, James, 1956 (1 letter)
Folder 17.17 Rahv, Philip, 1956 (2 letters)
Folder 17.18 Rorem, Ned, 1953, [n.d.] (1 letter, 1 postcard)
Folder 17.19 Rosen, Norma, 1973-1974 (2 letters)
Folder 17.20 Rukeyser, Muriel, 1979 (1 letter)
Folder 18.1 Schmidt, Michael, 1971-1972 (2 letters, 1 cc from E. Bishop)
Folder 18.2 Schwartz, Lloyd, 1978 (1 letter)
Folder 18.3 Serge, Victor, 1943 (1 letter)
Folder 18.4 Sexton, Anne, 1963-1973 (4 letters)
Folder 18.5 Shapiro, Meyer, 1959-1979 (3 letters and E.B.'s lecture notes)
Folder 18.6 Shaw, Robert, 1977 (1 letter)
Folder 18.7 Shore, Jane, 1978-1979 (2 letters)
Folder 18.8 Spicer, Jim, 1972 (1 letter)
Folder 18.9 Spiegelman, Willard, 1976-1978 (2 letters)
Folder 18.10 Staines, David, 1979 (1 letter)
Folder 18.11 Stapleton, Laurence, 1978-1979 (3 letters, 1 mailgram)
Folder 18.12 Sternberg, Ricardo, 1978-1979 (3 letters, 1 cc from E. Bishop)
Folder 18.13 Stevens, Marjorie, 31 Oct.- 11 Nov. 1942 (6 letters)
Folder 18.14 Stevens, Marjorie, 14 Nov.- 20 Nov. 1942 (5 letters)
Folder 19.1 Stevens, Marjorie, 16 May- 9 Aug. 1944 (8 letters)
Folder 19.2 Stevens, Marjorie, 11-30 Aug. 1944 (7 letters)
Folder 19.3 Stevens, Marjorie, Sept. 1944 (9 letters)
Folder 19.4 Stevens, Marjorie, Oct.- Nov. 1944 (7 letters)
Folder 19.5 Stevens, Marjorie, Dec. 1944 (6 letters)
Folder 19.6 Stevens, Marjorie, 1945 (10 letters)
Folder 20.1 Stevens, Marjorie, Jan.- Feb. 1946 (8 letters)
Folder 20.2 Stevens, Marjorie, Mar.- Apr. 1946 (4 letters)
Folder 20.3 Stevens, Marjorie, July-Sept. 1946 (6 letters)
Folder 20.4 Stevens, Marjorie, 1948 (5 letters)
Folder 20.5 Stevens, Marjorie, 1954-1955 (5 letters)
Folder 20.6 Stevens, Marjorie, 1956-1957 (4 letters)
Folder 20.7 Stevens, Marjorie, 1958-1959 (5 letters, 1 fragment, 1 letter from Sara Kent)
Folder 20.8 Stevens, Marjorie, [n.d.] (9 letters)
Folder 20.9 Stevens, Marjorie, [n.d.] (7 letters, 1 fragment)
Folder 21.1 Stevenson, Anne, 1971-1980 (2 letters to E. Bishop, related correspondence)
Folder 21.2 Strand, Mark, 1974-1979 (4 letters, 2 postcards)
Folder 21.3 Summers, U. T., 1968-1979 (5 letters)
Folder 21.4 Sweeney, Jack, 1955-1958 (2 letters)
Folder 21.5 Swenson, May, 1958-1960 (4 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 21.6 Swenson, May, 1958-1979 (9 letters)
Folder 21.7 Tate, Allen, 1954 (2 letters)
Folder 21.8 Taylor, Peter and Eleanor, 1972-1975 (2 letters)
Folder 21.9 Temple, Ruth, 1978 (2 letters)
Folder 21.10 Toklas, Alice B., 1959 (1 letter)
Folder 21.11 Unterecker, Jack, 1977-1979 (5 letters, 1 postcard, 3 cc from E. Bishop)
Folder 21.12 Untermeyer, Louis, 1948-1949 (2 letters)
Folder 21.13 Updike, John, [n.d.] (1 letter)
Folder 21.14 Valdez, Faustina, 1944 (1 letter)
Folder 21.15 Valentine, Jean, 1979 (1 letter)
Folder 21.16 Van Doren, Mark, 1953 (1 letter)
Folder 21.17 Vendler, Helen, 1977-1979 (5 letters, 2 postcards)
Folder 22.1 Wakoski, Diane, 1975 (1 letter)
Folder 22.2 Walsh, Dorothy, 1978 (1 letter)
Folder 22.3 Wanning, Tom, 1951-1970 (1 letter, 4 postcards)
Folder 22.4 Wehr, Wesley, 1979 (1 letter)
Folder 22.5 Welty, Eudora, 1948 (1 letter)
Folder 22.6 White, E. B., 1977 (1 letter)
Folder 22.7 White, Katharine S., 1949-1976 (7 letters, 1 cc from E. Bishop, 1 fragment)
Folder 22.8 Williams, Floss, 1958 (1 letter)
Folder 22.9 Wilson, Edmund, 1945-1956 (3 letters, w/1 letter from Ferris Greenslet)
Folder 22.10 Worth, Irene, 1966 (1 letter)
Folder 22.11 Miscellaneous correspondence, A – L, 1945-1978 (15 letters, 2 postcards, 2 telegrams)
Folder 22.12 Miscellaneous correspondence, M – Q, 1943-1978 (17 letters, 1 tel. message slip)
Folder 22.13 Miscellaneous correspondence, R – Z, 1967-1978 (9 letters and 1 marriage announcement)
Folder 22.14 Fan mail, 1973-1979 (2 letters, 3 postcards)
Folder 22.15 Christmas cards, A – K
Folder 22.16 Christmas cards, M – Z
Folder 22.17 Christmas cards, miscellaneous
Folder 113.17 Pfeifer, Pauline, [n.d.] (1 letter)
Letters from Elizabeth Bishop
Folder 112.1 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, 1964 (2 letters)
Folder 112.2 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, Feb.- 2 July 1965 (14 letters)
Folder 112.3 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, 9 July-Dec. 1965 (11 letters, 1 letter to Dr. Celso Motta re: Ouro Prêto)
Folder 112.4 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, Jan.- June 1966 (11 letters)
Folder 112.5 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, Sept.- Nov. 1966 (8 letters, 1 telegram, 2 letters from Maria Carlota de Macedo Soares ("Lota") to Araújo)
Folder 112.6 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, 1967 (19 letters)
Folder 112.7 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, 1968 (10 letters)
Folder 112.8 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, 1969 (7 letters)
Folder 112.9 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, 1971 (1 letter)
Folder 112.10 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, 1972 ? (1 letter)
Folder 112.11 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, n.d. (8 notes and letters)
Folder 112.12 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, n.d. (3 lists of things to be done)
Folder 112.13 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de, n.d. (8 recipes)
Folder 112.14 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de - postcards [interfiled with chronological correspondence in use photocopies], 1966-1971, n.d. (14 postcards)
Folder 112.15 To Araújo, Lilli Correia de - postcards/photos (4 picturing Ouro Prêto, 1 snapshot of E.B.), n.d. (3 postcards, 2 photos)
Folder 23.1 To Baumann, Anny, 1947-1949 (9 letters, 1 postcard)
Folder 23.2 To Baumann, Anny, 1950-1954 (19 letters, 3 postcards)
Folder 23.3 To Baumann, Anny, 1955-1959 (26 letters)
Folder 23.4 To Baumann, Anny, 1960-1964 (18 letters)
Folder 23.5 To Baumann, Anny, 1965 (21 letters, 2 postcards)
Folder 23.6 To Baumann, Anny, 1966-1969 (32 letters, 3 postcards)
Folder 23.7 To Baumann, Anny, 1970-1973 (13 letters, 4 postcards)
Folder 23.8 To Baumann, Anny, 1974-1979 (14 letters, 6 postcards)
Folder 23.9 To Baumann, Anny, [n.d.] (8 postcards, 1 clipping)
Folder 99.7 To Belitt, Ben, 1977-1978 (1 letter, 1 postcard, 1 thermofax reply from Belitt)