Lilly Library Manuscript Collections

UNTERMEYER MSS. III

Inventory

Box 1

  • Biographical material. printed (1 folder)
  • Correspondence, 1917-1977. (19 folders)
  • Writings (numbers in brackets refer to original delivery inventory number):
  • These Bones. undated. Accompanied by clippings mounted and in folder, 1934-1950. Bound volume, with "Record" on spine.

Box 2

  • Writings (cont.)
  • Bibliographical material, 1919-1959.
  • 1924, Jan.-1927, July. Burning Bush. bound. [#56]
  • 1924, Feb. Folk-Songs. bound. [#58]
  • 1927, Aug.-1932, July 4. Poems written since July, 1927. bound. [#57]
  • 1946, July 9. CBS. Woman's Club. Interview with Louis Untermeyer. [#64]
  • 1947. The New American Arts. [#64]
  • 1949, Mar. 26-1951, Apr. 5 Speeches and statements related to the Hollywood Ten, the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, the Town Hall Meeting of June 19, 1950, and the House Un-American Activities Committee. [#27, #28, #29]
  • Contents:
  • 1949, Mar. 26. The other night I tried to put down some notes... T.D. 1p.
  • 1949, Mar. 27. Text Resolution on Cultural Freedom adopted by Plenary Session. Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace Sunday, March 27, Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Mimeo copy. 2pp.
  • 1949, Mar. 27. Text of Resolution Presented at Plenary Session...(not identical with the above). Mimeo copy. 2pp.
  • 1950, June 19. Town Hall meeting. T.D. with extensive notes in the hand of Untermeyer. 12pp.
  • 1950, Aug. 8. This, as far as I know, is the first time that American writers have been sent to jail... T.D. 1p.
  • 1951, Mar. 4. It seems that a number of people have begun writing to the sponsors of "What's My Line..." T.D. (first draft) with corrections in Untermeyer's hand. 4pp.
  • 1951, Mar. It seems that a number of people... (another draft of the above). T.D.S. 6pp.
  • 1951, Apr. 5. To the Members of the House Un-American Activities Committee: T.(carbon)D.S. 2pp.
  • 1951, Apr. 5. To the Members of the House Un-American Activities Committee: T.(carbon) D. 3pp.
  • 1951, Apr. I am deeply distressed that any group of my fellow Americans should question my loyalty... [basically the same statement as that of Apr. 5, 1951]. T.D.S. 4pp.
  • undated. I am deeply distressed that any group of my fellow Americans should question my loyalty... T. (carbon)D. 1p.
  • undated. I am told that letters have been received questioning my devotion to my country... T. (carbon)D. 1p. (2 copies)
  • 1951-1952. The Best Humor Annual. [#47] With notes by Charles Angof folders
  • 1951-1952. The Best humor Annual. Fillers. [#47]
  • 1952-1962. Reports to the Pulitzer Prize Committee for Poetry. [#31]
  • 1955. Orpheus with His Lute. [#62]
  • 1958, May 12. For a Novel by Edwin Gilbert. [#59]
  • 1958. Bryson, Lyman. Man's Knowledge [#55]
  • 1958. Bryson, Lyman. Man's Knowledge Chapter 26: Louis Untermeyer, Modern American Writing. [#51]
  • 1961, Apr. Newell, Professor. Introduction for Louis Untermeyer at California State College, PA. [#55]
  • 1961, Oct. 22. CBS. Washington Conversation. Interview with Louis Untermeyer. [#55]
  • 1961, Oct.-Dec. All India Writers' Conference (2 folders). [#63]
  • 1961-1963. One Hundred American Poems of the Twentieth Century. [#55]
  • 1963, July. Haiku: Thunder At Hosokawa. Ryoan-Ji Garden. [#68]
  • 1963, July. It may seem irrelevant for a poet to be inflicted on economists... [at Kyoto, Japan]. [#9]
  • 1963. The Changing Voices of America. [#12]
  • 1963. Letters from Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. [#34]
  • 1963. Letters from Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. Reviews (printed) [#65]
  • 1964, Mar. 23. Robert Frost, A Backward Look. [#64]
  • 1964, Aug. For Another Birth. [#59]
  • 1964. Aesops Fables, Retold. [#45]
  • 1964. Labyrinth of Love. [#13]
  • 1965, May 11 . Toward an American Poetry [Lecture at Indiana University]. [#16]
  • 1965. Bygones, The Recollections of Louis Untermeyer. [#32]
  • 1965. Bygones... Galleys. [#31]
  • 1965. Bygones... Notes. [#32]
  • 1965. Bygones: Reviews (printed). [#65]
  • 1966, Feb. 20. Read-In for Peace in Vietnam: On the Birth of a Child. On the Eve of New Wars. [#64]
  • 1966. Apr. 26. From the Psalms. An Introduction. [#42]
  • 1966. Alfred Kreymborg: 1883-1966. [#42]
  • 1966. Eve. [#42]
  • 1967. One, Two, Buckle my Shoe. [#44]

Box 3

  • Writings, cont.
  • 1967-1968. The Firebringer and Other Great Stories. [#38]
  • 1968, Feb. 5-16. Prominent People Program at University of California, Berkeley. Includes Untermeyer's schedules and poems by Jean Brownson, John Hoffman, Robin Magowan, Rosalie Moore, Rosemary Thompson, Elizabeth Tsuji. [#55]
  • 1968. A Foreword to Vachel Lindsay's "lost" poems for Children [by Pierre Dussert] [#15]
  • 1968-1969. Men and Women: The Poetry of Love. [#52]
  • 1970, Apr. 15. I am going to start what I hope will be a discussion... [Remarks at International Poetry Festival, Washington, D.C.]. [#64]
  • 1970, June 22-29. Suffield Reader Writer Conference: How to Kill poem. [#35]
  • 1970. A Foreword for The Language of Flowers. [#14]
  • 1970-1971. Portraits in Poetry. [#26]
  • 1971. The Law of Order: The Promise of Poetry. [#7]
  • 1971. Story Poem Record Project. [#55]
  • 1972, July. Portrait of a Girl. [#10]
  • 1973, Jan. 4-17. Music Tour on the Renaissance [Diary]. Bound. [#33]
  • 1974, Aug. 22. Extraudenary. [#41]
  • 1974-1975. Said I to Myself, Said I... [#36]
  • 1974-1975. Said I to Myself, Said I... Material edited out by Bryna Untermeyer. [#36]
  • 1977. Galaxy of Verse (3 folders) [#40]
  • 1977. It will merely raise his dander... [In the hand of Bryna Untermeyer]. [#7]
  • undated. Levy, Norman. Nighttime in the Adirondacks. [#1]
  • undated. About Anthologies. [#64]
  • undated. At Last. [#59]
  • undated. Carnal Clerkhews. [#24]
  • undated. The Chart. [#67]
  • undated. The City has most of the advantages... [#18]
  • undated. Conrad Aiken. [#19]
  • undated. The Contradiction of Modern Poetry. [#55]
  • undated. Contrasted Greatness: Two Lives [Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson]. [#64]
  • undated. Do American Speak English. [#64]
  • undated. E.A.R.: A Remembrance. [#42]
  • undated. The Essential Whitman. [#53]
  • undated. Folk-Songs. [#58]
  • undated. A Foreword. [#42]
  • undated. A Foreword [to Howard Fast, Time of the Riddle] [#55]
  • undated. The Glory of the Commonplace: Walt Whitman. [#42]
  • undated. The Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense: collected material. [#55]
  • undated. Golden Treasury of Animal Stories and Poems. [#55]
  • undated. Hercules... His Twelve Labors. [#21]
  • undated. Home. [#61]
  • undated. Homo Sapiens. [#6]
  • undated. How to Hate Poetry... [#64]
  • undated. How to Misunderstand Poetry. [#64]
  • undated. I regret to tell you... [Remarks at Texas Tech, Lubbock]. [#64]
  • undated. Jane. [#11]
  • undated. A Kind of Credo. [#5]
  • undated. The Light Fantastic. [#55]
  • undated. The Lighter Side of Poetry. [#64]
  • undated. Linus Pauling. [#64]
  • undated. [Lives of the Poets]. Sketch for a Preface. [#55]
  • undated. The Lost Continent. [#39]
  • undated. LU's Commentary and Poems to Read. [#65]
  • undated. Makers of the Modern World. [#64]
  • undated. Marionettes (To the memory of Edward MacDowell). [#3]
  • undated. Meaning and Magic. [#23]
  • undated. Misalliance. [#42]
  • undated. My First Book of Poems. [#48]
  • undated. Nativity. [#71]
  • undated. New Frontiers in American Culture. [#64]
  • undated. Notes for talks on Theodore Roethke and e e cummings. [#64]
  • undated. Now that I am in my nineties... [#8]
  • undated. Odyssey Projects. [#54] Contents:
  • 1. Foreign Research by Secret Agent 685A093. T.(carbon)D. 1p. 28cm. Signed L.U.
  • 2. Lift Up Your Heart. T.(carbon)D. 6pp. 28cm.
  • 3. Man's Best Friends. T.(carbon)D. 6pp. 28cm. Corrections
  • 4. Thinking of You. T.(carbon)D. 6pp. 28cm.
  • 5. This is Christmas. T.(carbon)D. 10pp. 28cm. Many corrections
  • 6. Your Lucky Stars. T.(carbon)D. 9pp. 28cm.
  • 7. Words of Wisdom or A Little Book of Wisdom. Compiled by Bryna and Louis Untermeyer. T.(carbon)D. 19pp. 28cm.
  • undated. One Hundred Treasured Poems. [#22]
  • undated. Open the Door. [#49]
  • undated. The Painters Discover America. [#64]
  • undated. Poetry and Reality. [#64]
  • undated. The Poets Speak: Radio scripts for Voice of America. [#37]
  • undated. Prayer. [#69]
  • undated. The Productive Life. [#64]
  • undated. The Proper Study... Review of R.D. Altick, Lives and Letters. [#42]
  • undated. Publishers are again taking a chance...on poetry. [#64]
  • undated. The Pursuit of Poetry. [#64 and 55]
  • undated. The Road Taken... Review of Lawrance Thompson, Robert Frost. [#71]
  • undated. Robert Browning... [#42]
  • undated. Shelley... [#59]
  • undated. Sorrento. [#55]
  • undated. Der Struwwelpeter. [#46]
  • undated. Sturdy. [#55]
  • undated. Sunday Sonnet. [#59]
  • undated. This American Language. [#64]
  • undated. This is your day. [#50]
  • undated. Tramp, Peddler, and Poet. Review of R. J. Stansifer, W.H. Davies... [#42]
  • undated. The Uncertainties of Taste. [#64]
  • undated. Walt Whitman and American Words. [#55]
  • undated. What America Reads - And Why. [#55]
  • undated. What Can We Expect of Our Culture. [#64]
  • undated. What Makes Modern Poetry Modern. [3 drafts]. [#55]
  • undated. What Robert Frost has to Tell Us. [#20]
  • undated. Whitman and other Mavericks. [#64]
  • Printed:
  • The Britannica Library of Great American Writings. Promotional, undated.
  • Including Horace. Review, 1919
  • Lives of the Poets. Promotional, 1959
  • Long Feud. Reviews, 1962
  • Makers of the Modern World. Promotional, undated.
  • Miscellaneous clippings, 1949-1967
  • Modern American and British Poetry. Reviews, 1962
  • Moses. Reviews, 1928-1930
  • New Era in American Poetry. Reviews, 1919
  • Paths of Poetry. Review, 1967
  • Poems (in Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, Apr. 1970)
  • Poems of Heinrich Heine. Reviews, 1917
  • These Times. Reviews, 1917
  • These Times and Poems of Heinrich Heine. Reviews, 1917
  • A Treasury of Great Poems, English and American. Promotional, 1942
  • A Treasury of Laughter. Promotional, undated.
  • A Treasury of Ribaldry. Reviews, 1956-1957
  • Scrapbook of Poems, 1924-1963. Bound

Oversize 1

  • 1965, Oct. 1. Watercolor in honor of Untermeyer's 80th birthday. Signed [Justin?]
  • 1965, Oct. 2. Gilbert, Edwin. A lyric to Louis
  • 1965, Oct. 9. Barkham, John. Among Books and Authors. Mimeo Copy
  • 1965. Bauman, Morely and Irma. Panel of ten cat stamps from Poland
  • 1965. Nasatir, Iain. When I'm eight...
  • 1965. [Untermeyer?], Karen, Alice and Martin. Drawing of birds in honor of Untermeyer's 80th birthday
  • 1965, Sept. 28-Oct. 11. Clippings reporting Untermeyer's 80th birthday celebrations
  • 1965, Oct. 17. Promotional for Bygones by Louis Untermeyer
  • Prose clippings, 1932-1976.

Oversize 2

  • Scrapbook of Poems, 1907-1922. Disbound. Lacks pages 1 and 2. Includes folder of loose clippings
  • Return to the Untermeyer mss. III Collection Description.

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