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MINER MSS.
Box and Folder list
Boxes 1-3 have been indexed.
Box 1
- Biographical
- General
- 1918-1974 (6 folders)
- Correspondence
- 1915-1981 (23 folders)
- n.d.
- Letters from Europe. 1953, June 10-Aug. 14
Box 2
- Cohen, Marty
- Letters. 1968
- Niagra (Poems, 1969-1972)
- Poems, prose, & printed
- Oelsner, Geoffrey A.
- Letters. 1967-1976
- Drawings, poems, prose, & printed
- Pembroke Country Day School (4 folders) [Includes student poetry/prose; articles concerning the retirement of Virginia Scott Miner; Writing Club; First Day Versifiers.]
- Williams, Paul
- Letters. 1965-1975
- Poems, prose, & printed
- Travel journal to West Coast. 1956, June 19-July 25
- Printed
- Poems
- Abandoned Cottage-Youth (8 folders)
- Appearance in whole periodicals
- Miscellaneous
- Includes Author-Journalist, Apr. 1955; Kansas Quarterly, v. 15 no. 2, 2/83; Calamus, no. 12, June 1976; brochures; magazine and newspaper clippings
- Annual verse market list in Author-Journalist by V.S. Miner
- Reviews of literature
- Prose writings of V.S. Miner
Box 3
- Notebooks
- Journals and autograph drafts of poems (26 volumes)
- Writings
- Poems. 1925-1973
- Jacobson, E.-Wisby, Gloria
- Miscellaneous pieces
- Music
- Sheet music of several V.S. Miner's poems arranged musically by Leo Ascher, M.M. Chub, and Alfred Service. Titles include The Bored Goblins; Come Early Spring; Come with Spring; Double Heaven; Irish Legend; Moon Money; Not So My Heart (photostat copy); Song of the Rushes; Tension; Wren Song
Box 4
- Correspondence
- Family. 1979, Sept. 29-1981, Apr. 30
- Cohen, Marty. 1975-1982
- Frank, James. 1979-1982 (4 folders)
- Oelsner, Geoffrey A. 1975-1982
- Phifer, Kenneth. 1978-1982
- Sutherland, Robert Delano. 1977-1982
- Thompson, Dorothy Brown, to. 1974-1981 (6 folders)
- Thompson, Dorothy Brown, from. 1956-1982 (5 folders)
- Vogt, Gertrude. 1975-1979
- Williams, Paul. 1970-1977
- n.d.
Box 5
- Correspondence
- 1920-1982, May (20 folders)
- Biographical material
- Biographical clippings and accession information
- Biographical account. 1924-1982
- Clippings and printed. 1921-1982 (2 folders)
- Financial. 1957-1981 (3 folders)
- Photographs. 1905 (copy)-1981 (6 folders)
Box 6
- Notebooks
- Records of poems, published and unpublished. 1934-1981 (5 folders)
- Writings
- Poems and notes, 1937-1976 (5 folders)
- Reviews of Nefertiti and Trees
- Diaries
- 1953; 1971-1980; 1980 (note); 1980, Sept. 13-1981, Nov. 27; 1981 (5 folders)
- Miscellaneous
- P.E.O. materials [Includes P.E.O. Register July 1978, Oct. 1978, Nov. 1978, Jan. 1979; member directory 1974-1975, 1977-1978; speeches; poems; notes]
- Small book of pressed flowers from locations in Europe
- History of the Diversifiers. 1976
Box 7
Box 8
- Writings
- Miner, V.S. (16 folders)
- The Slender Screen. Proofs
- Others
- Cohen Martin
- Conwell, Joseph
- Garnett, Richard Gordon
- Goodman, Ryan Tunmarkin
- Jaffe, Dan
- McLeod, Maria Julie
- Mahkuk, Margret
Box 9
- Writings
- Others
- Sutherland, Robert D. (6 folders)
- Williams, Paul (4 folders)
- TBA
- Printed
- American Journal. Autograph document and photostat copies with autograph notes (4 folders)
- Poems (2 folders)
- Book reviews (3 folders)
- Articles
- Bound material. [Includes The Windless Orchard #38, Spring-Summer 1981; New Letters, Winter 1981-1982 (2 copies); Helicon Nine, no. 5, Fall 1981; Focus Midwest, vol. 14, no. 86; New Mexico Quarterly, vol. XXX, no. 4, Winter 1960-1961; Indiana Names, vol. III, no. 2, Fall 1972; Unity, April 1981, December 1981; Bits and Pieces from My Hoard that Grew, June 12, 1969; Cornucopia, vol. 20 no. 2 Summer 1966, vol. 20 no. 3 Winter 1966, vol. 21 no. 4 Winter 1967, vol. 22 no. 3 Fall 1968, vol. 22 no. 2 Summer 1969 (3 folders)]
Box 10
- Printed
- Pembroke-Country Day School [Includes student and parent directory/handbooks, 1971/1972, 1978-1982; Helicon 1964-1968, 1970, 1977-1978,1980-1981; yearbook 1960; grade book 1966-1967 (3 folders)]
- Humphrey, Robin
- [Includes photographs and literature from the Missouri Repertory Theatre]
- Travel
- Europe
- [Includes maps; brochures; magazine articles; postcards (2 folders)]
- Indiana
- [Includes Indiana History Bulletin January 1971; newspaper clippings;]
- Miscellaneous
- [Includes maps, brochures, photographs and postcards of Europe, the West Indies, South America, and the United States]
- Miscellaneous
- Miner notes
- [Includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles and brochures with autograph notes (5 folders)]
- Notes by others
Oversize
- Oversize 1
- Oversize 2
- Oversize 3
- Oversize 4
- Oversize 5
- Oversize 6
- Drawings by illustrators Dorothy Bayley, Harold M. Sichel, and Katherine Richardson Wireman for poems by Mrs. Miner
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