Finding Aid for the Randall Jarrell Papers, 1929-1969
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Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was a poet and professor of English at Woman's College (now UNCG). The Randall Jarrell Papers date from 1929 to 1969 and contain manuscripts, photographs, teaching and biographical materials, correspondence, galley proofs, binding samples, dust jackets, tape recordings, audiovisual materials, microfilm and news clippings.
MSS 009
5 linear feet, 11 boxes.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
[Identification of item], Randall Jarrell Papers (MSS 009), University Archives and Manuscripts, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The collection is made up of four groups acquired at different times from different sources.
The manuscripts were donated by the author in the 1950s and 1960s; it was his intention that all of his manuscripts would reside in the UNCG Library. However, due to difficulties in establishing fair market value for tax purposes, Jarrell put his donations on hold, and the situation had not been resolved at the time of his death in 1965. His widow, Mary von Schrader Jarrell, offered to sell the remainder of the manuscripts to the Library, but funds for the purchase could not be found. Consequently all remaining manuscripts were sold to the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library over an extended period.
Randall Jarrell as a Teacher - A gift of the Class of 1969, the last UNCG graduating class to include students who had studied with Jarrell. The items were selected by representative members of the class with the assistance of Mrs. Jarrell.
Literary and biographical materials were gathered from various sources during the 1950s and 1960s, primarily by UNCG Head Librarian and Jarrell biographer Charles M. Adams. The folders of material for the 1961 tribute dinner sponsored by the UNC Press were given by UNC Librarian Jerrold Orne.
The news clippings were donated by Ray Lewis White, Distinguished Professor of English at Illinois State University.
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Owen and Anna Campbell Jarrell. When he was one year old his parents moved to Los Angeles, where his father was employed as a photographer's assistant. His parents divorced and Randall and his younger brother, Charles, moved back to Nashville with their mother. Randall also lived for a time with his grandparents in California. He later returned to Nashville, where he attended Hume-Fogg high school from 1927 to 1931. While in high school, he developed his tennis skills and involved himself in dramatics and journalism.
In the fall of 1932, Jarrell entered Vanderbilt University, where his professors included John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren. There, Jarrell wrote for the humor magazine, Vanderbilt Masquerader, which he also edited during the 1934-35 school year. He completed his course work in three years by attending summer school at George Peabody College. Jarrell was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received his bachelor of arts degree in 1935.
Jarrell's first published poems appeared in the May, 1934 issue of The American Review. After finishing his undergraduate degree, Jarrell returned to Vanderbilt to attend graduate school. He earned money grading papers for two of John Crowe Ransom's classes. Robert Lowell was a fellow student, as was Peter Taylor, who became Jarrell's best friend. In 1938 Jarrell followed Ransom to Kenyon College, leaving there in 1939 to take a teaching position at the University of Texas, where he met Mackie Langham, an English Department colleague. They married the following year.
Jarrell's first book of poetry, Blood for a Stranger, was published in 1942. It was dedicated to Allen Tate. Jarrell left Austin in 1942 to join the Army Air Corps as a flying cadet, but he washed out as a pilot and ended up as a celestial navigation tower operator. His second book of poetry, Little Friend, Little Friend was published by Dial in 1945. Following his discharge from the Army early in 1946, Jarrell accepted an invitation from Margaret Marshall, literary editor at The Nation to come to New York as her temporary replacement.
While in New York, Jarrell taught a writing course at Sarah Lawrence College and became a good friend of Hannah Arendt, who credited Jarrell for teaching her to appreciate English language poetry. When his year at The Nation was over, Jarrell accepted a teaching position beginning in the fall of 1947 at The Woman's College of the University of North Carolina located in Greensboro (now UNCG). His close friend, Peter Taylor had preceded Jarrell to the Greensboro campus the year before. Although Taylor did not remain in Greensboro -- he taught from 1946 to 1948, 1949 to 1952, and 1963 to 1967 -- Jarrell was on the permanent faculty at UNCG until his untimely death in 1965.
Jarrell took advantage of his Guggenheim Fellowship that he'd received in 1946 during the 1948/49 academic year. He remained in Greensboro, teaching only one class and devoting most of his time to writing. During his years at UNCG, Jarrell served on panels of the annual Arts Forum, and gave poetry readings and public lectures. He loved teaching and has been quoted often as saying that if he were a rich man, he'd pay money to teach. His courses were always filled, and he was revered by his students, a number of whom went on to successful careers as writers.
In 1951 his fourth book of poetry, The Seven-League Crutches appeared; Jarrell and his wife, Mackie Langham separated; and the academic year found him teaching at Princeton University. The summer following, Jarrell was in California, where he met Mary von Schrader. They married in November, 1952. Still on leave from the Greensboro campus, Jarrell lectured at Indiana University and the University of Illinois before returning from Laguna Beach with his new wife and her two young daughters.
Back in Greensboro in the autumn of 1953, Jarrell's literary efforts turned to criticism. Jarrell's only novel, Pictures from an Institution, a satire about a progressive woman's college, was published in 1954. In 1956 Jarrell served as Poetry Consultant at the Library of Congress for two years. Following the appearance of Selected Poems in 1956, Jarrell would produce only four new poems and a handful of Rilke translations during his tenure at the Library of Congress. In 1958 the Jarrells returned to Greensboro and to academic life at the Woman's College.
Jarrell's Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960) received the National Book Award for poetry in 1961. This honor was followed in 1962 by the University of North Carolina's Oliver Max Gardner Award. During the early 1960s Jarrell began writing children's books. The Bat-Poet (1963), The Animal Family (1965), dedicated to the Jarrell's cat, Elfi, and Fly By Night (published posthumously in 1976) all were illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Jarrell's last book of poetry, The Lost World was published by Macmillan in the spring of 1965. According to William Pritchard in his literary biography of Jarrell, uncertainties still surround the chronology of events during the last year of Jarrell's life. It was a difficult time in his life, and his last semester of teaching in the Fall of 1965 was hardly begun before it was ended. Randall Jarrell was struck by an automobile on a dark road in Chapel Hill on the evening of October 14, 1965. He died instantly.
Jarrell is buried in Guilford College, North Carolina, not far from the home he shared with his wife, Mary.
The Randall Jarrell Papers date from 1929 to 1969 and contain manuscripts, photographs, teaching materials, biographical materials, correspondence, galley proofs, binding samples, dust jackets, tape recordings, motion picture film (transferred to VHS tape, 1995), microfilm and news clippings.
Randall Jarrell Manuscripts - Manuscripts and typescripts were given in no particular order.When it was possible to determine, earliest drafts were placed first in the folder arrangement. The number of leaves is noted following each title. Jarrell gave these manuscripts between 1955 and 1960.
Randall Jarrell as a Teacher - Jarrell's own copy of his Selected Poems used for poetry readings is found here along with final exam questions, grade books kept in long-hand in Italian blank books, and copiously annotated teaching copies of the poetry of Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot.
Randall Jarrell Literary and Biographical Materials - This section is an artificial collection gathered from various sources during the 1950s and 1960s. It includes photocopies of some of Jarrell's early writings for the Hume-Fogg High School yearbook, The Echo, and Vanderbilt University's humor magazine, Vanderbilt Masquerader; some correspondence, awards, reminiscences, tributes; the files created during the planning of the UNC Press dinner honoring Jarrell as the 1961 recipient of a National Book Award for poetry; the manuscript and typescript of Robert Penn Warren's speech delivered at the UNC Press dinner; memorials to Jarrell and a copy of his death certificate.
Randall Jarrell News Clippings - 440 items. The bulk of the collection are reviews of Jarrell's publications including Blood for a Stranger; Complete Poems; Little Friend, Little Friend; Lost World; Pictures From an Institution; Poetry and the Age; Sad Heart at the Supermarket; Selected Poems; Seven-league Crutches; Third Book of Criticism; Woman at the Washington Zoo. Also included are notices of upcoming publications, reprints of poems, excerpts of his books and approximately fifteen articles. Topics of the articles include a description of Jarrell's visit to San Francisco, excerpts of a speech given by Jarrell, a description of Jarrell's participation in Duke's Literary Celebration, the announcement of Jarrell's appointment as Library of Congress consultant, Jarrell's remarks upon accepting the National Book Award, and excerpts from the UNCG Chancellor's speech at the dedication of the Jarrell Lecture Hall.
ARRANGEMENT
Box 1 - Manuscripts and typescripts of poems published between 1942 and 1960
Folder 1 - Aging(1 l.) ; La Belle au Bois Dormant (see ms. of Nollekens)
Folder 2 - The Breath of Night (4 ll.)
Folder 3 - The Bronze David of Donatello (41 ll.)
Folder 4 - A Camp in the Prussian Forest (5 ll.)
Folder 5 - Children Selecting Books in a Library (2 ll.)
Folder 6 - Cinderella (see also ms. of Nestus Gurley) (3 ll.)
Folder 7 - The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (2 ll.)
Folder 8 - The Dream of Waking (5 ll.)
Folder 9 - The Elementary Scene (1 ll.)
Folder 10 - The End of the Rainbow (122 ll.)
Folder 11 - A Girl in a Library (1 l.)
Folder 12 - Hohensalzburg (3 ll.)
Folder 13 - Hope (8 ll.)
Folder 14 - Jamestown (13 ll.)
Folder 15 - Jerome (35 ll.)
Folder 16 - The Jews at Haifa (7 ll.) Jonah (see ms. of The Jews at Haifa)
Folder 17 - Lady Bates (4 ll.)
Folder 18 - Leave (4 ll.)
Folder 19 - Loss (1 l.)
Folder 20 - The Maerchen (19 ll.)
Folder 21 - The Memoirs of Glueckel of Hameln (2 ll.)
Folder 22 - Money (see also ms. of Moving and ms. of Terms) (7 ll.)
Folder 23 - Moving (2 ll.)
Folder 24 - Nestus Gurley (25 ll.)
Folder 25 - 1914 (2 ll.) Folder 26 - Nollekens (7 ll.)
Folder 26 - Nollekens (7 ll.)
Folder 27 - The One Who Was Different (see also notebook containing Rilke's "The Reader", 8 ll.)
Folder 28 - Overture: The Hostages (3 ll.)
Folder 29 - A Pilot from the Carrier (2 ll.)
Folder 30 - The Prince (2 ll.)
Folder 31 - The Refugees (1 l.)
Folder 32 - A Rhapsody on Irish Times (6 ll.)
Folder 33 - The Rising Sun (4 ll.)
Folder 34 - Second Air Force (2 ll.)
Folder 35 - Siegfried (see also: Loss) (15 ll.)
Folder 36 - The Snow Leopard (see also: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner) (1 l.) ; Terms (see: ms. of Moving)
Folder 37 - A War (Another War) see also: ms. of Jerome, leaf 13 (1 l.)
Folder 38 - Washing (13 ll.)
Folder 39 - The Wide Prospect (see also: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner) (1 l.)
Folder 40 - Windows (9 ll.)
Folder 41 - The Woman at the Washington Zoo (31 ll.)
Folder 42 - photocopies of poems for class use and exhibits
Box 2 - Poetry - translations by Randall Jarrell
Folder 1 - Moerike, Eduard: "Forest Murmurs"-incomplete drafts (19 ll.)
Folder 2 - Radauskas, Henrikas: "The Fire at the Waxworks" - 2 ll.)
Folder 3 - Rilke, Rainer Maria: "Are you following me, strange violin?" (2 oversize ll.)
Folder 4- _____,:"The Child" (4 ll.)
Folder 5 - _____,:"Childhood", "Evening", "Lament" (5 ll.)
Folder 6 - _____,:"The Evening Star" (1 l.)
Folder 7 - _____,:"The Great Night" (5 ll.)
Folder 8 - _____,:"The Grown-Up" (1 l.)
Folder 9 - _____,:"The Reader" and Jarrell's "The One Who was Different" (77 ll.of a disbound blank book)
Folder 10 - _____,:"The Reader" (3 ll.)
Folder 11 - _____,:"Requiem for the Death of a Boy" (4 ll.)
Folder 12 - _____,:"The Blind Man's Song" (12 ll.)
Folder 13 - _____,:"Washing the Corpse" (7 ll.)
Folder 14 - _____,:"The Unicorn" (1 l.)
Folder 15 - _____,:"The Widow's Song" (15 ll.)
Folder 16 - Chekhov, Anton: The Three Sisters (90 ll.)
Box 3 - Criticism - rough drafts
Folder 1 - (W.H. AUDEN) "Freud to Paul: The Stages of Auden's Ideology (99 ll.)
Folder 2 - (ELIZABETH BISHOP) Elizabeth Bishop's Poems seems to be one of the best books...." (4 ll.)
Folder 3 - (ROBERT FROST) "The Laodiceans" (13 ll.)
Folder 4 - (ROBERT GRAVES) "Graves and the White Goddess" (128 ll.)
Folder 5 - "Graves and the White Goddess", Part I (49 ll.)
Folder 6 - (JAMES STEPHENS) "The Poet's Store of Grave and Gay" (12 ll.)
Folder 7 - (WALLACE STEVENS) "The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens" (28 ll.)
Folder 8 - (ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR) A Wilderness of Ladies - introduction (78 ll.)
Folder 9 - A Wilderness of Ladies - introduction (24 ll. in notebook
Folder 10 - Address by R. J. at the National Book Awards, New York, March 11, 1958 (19 ll.)
Folder 11 - "Age of the Chimpanzee (48 ll.)
Folder 11A - "Age of the Chimpanzee" (published article with Jarrell's ms. Notes
Folder 12 - Anchor Book of Stories - introduction (77 ll.)
Folder 12A - Anchor Book of Stories - introduction (72 ll.) leaf 3-12-92 contains letter from Bain T. Stewart, University of Tennessee, Department of English, Nov. 5, 1957
Folder 13 - "The Intellectual in America" (62 ll.)
Folder 14 - "Love and Poetry" (43 ll.)
Box 4 - Criticism - rough drafts, con't.
Folder 1 - "Malraux and the Statues at Bamberg" (65 ll.)
Folder 2 - "The New Books: Very Graceful are the Uses of Culture (23 ll.)
Folder 3 - Pictures from an Institution, Book II and Book IV, typescript with ms. corrections/additions and 1 fragment (54 ll.)
Folder 4 - "Poets, Critics and Readers" (92 ll.)
Folder 5 - "Recent Poetry", leaf 51 contains translation of Rilke's poem, "The Grown Up" (55 ll.)
Folder 6 - A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (96 ll.)
Folder 7 - "The Schools of Yesteryear" (70 ll.)
Folder 8 - "Speaking of Books"(18 ll.)
Folder 9 - "The Taste of the Age, or Some Difficulties of the Time" (107 ll.)
Folder 10 - "The Woman at the Washington Zoo" (67 ll.)
Folder 11 - "The Woman at the Washington Zoo" - printer's copy (66 ll.)
Folder 12 - "The Year in Poetry" (9 ll.)
Folder 13 - Miscellaneous ms. fragments on a variety of topics (17 ll.) verso of l.17 is a letter to Jarrell from Leonard White, N.C. A and T College, 3/3/59, thanking Jarrell for his talk to the student body.
Box 5 - Translation of Goethe's Faust (Part 1)
Folder 1 - Prologue to the theatre (60 ll.)
Folder 2 - Prologue in heaven (35 ll.)
Folder 3 - Scene 1 (50 ll.)
Folder 4 - Scene 2 (28 ll.)
Folder 5 - Scene 3 (22 ll.)
Folder 6 - Scene 4 (84 ll.)
Folder 7 - Scene 5 (33 ll.)
Folder 8 - Scene 6 (38 ll.)
Folder 9 - Scene 7 (13 ll.)
Folder 10 - Scene 8 (6 ll.)
Folder 11 - Scene 10 and fragment of scene 11 (12 ll.)
Folder 12 - Scenes 11 and 12 (31 ll.)
Folder 13 - Scene 12 (1 l.)
Folder 14 - Scene 13, "Forest and Cavern" (24 ll.)
Folder 15 - Scene 16 (15 ll.)
Folder 16 - Scenes 17 and 18 (7 ll.)
Folder 17 - Scene 19 (22 ll.)
Folder 18 - Scene 20 and "Walpurgis Night" (24 ll.)
Folder 19 - Scene in the dungeon (11 ll.)
Folder 20 - Fragments (8 ll.)
Bound notebook # 1(64 ll.)
Bound notebook # 2(70 ll.)
Bound notebook # 3(77 ll.)
Box 5 Supplement (Item too large for Box 5, shelved immediately following)
Bound notebook # 4; this is a ledger book (67 ll.)
Box 6 - Photographs
Folder 1 - Randall Jarrell, 1941-1951 (5 items and 1 negative)
1945-sitting in front of celestial navigation equipment official US AAF photo (8x10), 1 neg. made from photograph
ca. 1941 - playing tennis (appears in New Poems 1942) (8x10)
1951 - three seated portraits, all taken at same time (in Alumni House at Woman's College?) (8x10 and 2 6x7, 7x8)Folder 2 - Randall Jarrell, 1955-1965 (27 items)
1955 - 4 News Bureau (W.C.U.N.C.) portraits (4x7, 7x10, 8x10, 9x11)
1955 - seated, reading - 2 copies, (8x10)
1957 - in office at Library of Congress (2 copies, 8x10 and 1 negative (8x10)
ca. 1959/60 - three poses possibly taken at an Arts Forum (5x7), 1 in his faculty office (8x10)
ca. 1959/60 - studio portrait probably for faculty file (8x10)
ca. 1960 - seated, holding black cat by Greensboro news photographer, Jim Wommack (8x10)
early 1960's - seated in sports car, 2 poses (8x10)
1961 - in his faculty office, probably after winning the National Book Award in poetry
1962 - registering at the National Poetry Festival, October 22, 1962 (Library of Congress photo) (8x10)
before 1963? - W.C.U.N.C. News Bureau photo (4x6), 2 portrait photos, 1 seated, reading, another posing in front of framed art works (2 copies, 8x10 and 9x12)
ca. 1964 - with cat, Elfi, to whom The Animal Family was dedicated (8x10) and negative
1965 - portrait of a clean-shaven Jarrell taken by Greensboro news photographer, Jim Wommack. Contrary to published accounts, Jarrell did not like this photograph. (8x10)Folder 3 - Jarrell in Group Photographs, 1948-1964 (27 items)
1948 - W.C.U.N.C. Arts Forum, with Robert Lowell and Peter Taylor (2 copies, 8x10 and negative from photograph)
ca. 1948 - with students (on steps of old W.C. Library?, 8x10)
1954 - clipped from Vogue magazine (3x4) with Mary and two daughters in a sports car
1955 - with Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, Marianne Moore, Muriel Rukeyser (8x10)
1955 - W.C.U.N.C. Arts Forum - with Mary Jarrell, Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor and Robert Humphrey (8x10)
1957 - with Robert Graves at the Library of Congress, February 11, 1957. (8x10)
1958 - with Delmore Schwartz, January 20, 1958 at the Library of Congress (8x10)
1959/60 - with Robert Frost, (2-5x7)
1960 - W.C.U.N.C. Arts Forum - with Jessie Rehder and Jean Stafford (8x10)
ca. 1960 - with Mary Jarrell (8x10)
1961 - at the National Book Awards - with William Shirer and Conrad Richter (8x10)
ca.1961 - on the lawn at Woman's College with a group of students including Emily Herring (Wilson), Class of 1961 and Sylvia Wilkinson, Class of 1962 (8x10)
1962 - first National Poetry Festival, Washington, D.C., with L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress, and August Heckscher, Special Consultant on the Arts at the White House (8x10)
1963 - W.C.U.N.C. Arts Forum with Robert Watson, X.J. Kennedy, Peter Taylor and Adrienne Rich. 2 copies, one in reverse, (8x10)
1963 -Commencement, W.C.U.N.C. with Chancellor and Mrs. Otis A. Singletary (8x10)
ca. 1963 - in his faculty office with Robert Penn Warren, 3 poses (5x7), negatives
ca. 1963 - with Chancellor Otis A. Singletary and Robert Penn Warren (6x10)
ca. 1964 - at home with Mary and cat, Elfi (8x10)
n.d. - with students, Mary and cat, Elfi at homeFolder 4 - Yale Memorial Service, February, 1966 (2 items)
Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell, Mary Jarrell, John Berryman, Stanley Kunitz and Richard Wilbur (8x10)
Stanley Kunitz, Richard Eberhart, Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur, John Hollander, William Meredith, Robert Penn Warren, John Berryman, Adrienne Rich, Mary Jarrell and Peter Taylor (8x10)Folder 5
Photographs of oil portraits by Betty Watson (3 3x3 color snapshots, 1 8x10 b/w)
Photograph of wood sculpture portrait by Ogden Deal (4x8)Folder 6
Drawing by Bert Carpenter for Alumni News magazine cover, Spring 1966; 9x12 pen and ink drawing of Jarrell holding cat
Drawing by Bert Carpenter of two cats used as illustration for a Friends of the Library dinner keepsake, April 20, 1966 (9x12)
proof of the drawing of two cats (9x7)
"PSA Dinner sketched by Oscar Berger" (1 item)
The Parthenon at Nashville, Tennessee. page 16 shows the portion with Ganymede for which Jarrell posed at age 17.Folder 7
Publisher's Weekly, Feb.5, 1955 p.874: Sixth National Book Awards/ Jarrell pictured with other writers
The April, 1973 Catalog of the Gotham Book Mart reproducing the famous "An Informal Literary Gathering" photograph taken November 9, 1948 at the reception for the Sitwells. Jarrell is in the group.
Box 7
Randall Jarrell as a Teacher.
Gift of the Senior Class, 1969.
Folder 1 - Fragment (188) pages of a paperback edition of Crime and Punishment with marginal notes by Randall Jarrell
Folder 2 - Course notes, student information, meetings. Italian blank book, [n.d. but c. 1960]
Folder 3 - Teaching notes for Crime and Punishment. Italian blank book,[n.d.]
Folder 4 - "Descriptive notes prepared by Mary Jarrell for the Senior Class, 1969, Gift. March 31, 1969." 3 page typescript
Folder 5 - Correspondence, miscellaneous 1946-1962
1 page TLS from L.L. Click, University of Texas, Austin dated July 15, 1946 notifying Jarrell his salary has been approved for 1946.
2 page TLS from Leonard B. Hurley, Woman's College of The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, dated April 18, 1947 to Mr. and Mrs. Jarrell concerning salaries. Mentions that Peter Taylor will be staying during the 1947/48 school year.
Telegram, Nov. 12, 1957 advising Jarrell he has been promoted to Professor with a salary of $7500. second page of telegram wanting. On back of telegram is a list in Jarrell's hand headed "A Second Book of Stories".
1 page TLS from Gordon W. Blackwell, Chancellor of The Woman's College, dated March 31, 1958, saying how glad he is Jarrell has decided to stay at the Greensboro campus.
1 page TLS from William Friday, President of The University of North Carolinadated Feb.26, 1960 congratulating Jarrell on being elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
1 page LS from William Friday, dated October 30, 1960 thanking Jarrell for the Kipling volume and expressing his appreciation for Jarrell.
Telegram, March 16, 1961, from Bill [William] Friday congratulating Jarrell on receiving the National Book Award.
1 page TLS from L. Richardson Preyer, October 25, 1961 congratulating Jarrell on the tribute dinner at Chapel Hill.
1 page TLS from N.C. Governor Terry Sanford, November 12, 1962, about Jarrell's speech at the National Poetry Festival in Washington, D.C.
Folder 6
Notes concerning coursework in the English Department in Jarrell's hand and one typescript leaf on Freshman English [n.d.] (8 ll.)
Manuscript draft of a letter to Mr. Davis asking him to come to the Woman's College as head of the English Department. Written about 1960-1961. (5 ll.) In this letter Jarrell states: "The Library's the most good humored and the most obliging one I know; they'll get anything or do anything for you." [n.d. but ca. 1960/61]
Manuscript draft of letter to Mr. Davis at Kansas State University declining an invitation to come there the following Spring because of the need to finish the Faust translation. [n.d. but ca. 1961/62] (3 ll.)
Folder 7 - Manuscript drafts of exam questions for English 105 [n.d.] (7 ll.) and manuscript note approving a thesis [1961] (1 l.)
Folder 8 - Letters to Jarrell inviting him to teach, lecture, judge or otherwise participate in literary activities. Nov. 15, 1954- Oct. 6, 1965 and [n.d.] (32 items)
BOX 8.
Biographical, Tributes, Honors, Memorials
Folder 1 - Hume Fogg High School Yearbook, The Echo, 1930
Folder 2 - Photocopies from The Echo, 1929-1931(13 items)
Folder 3 - List of Jarrell's books destroyed by fire, ca. 1931/32 (1 item); Vanderbilt University Masquerader (10 items)
Folder 4 - Photocopies of local and foreign newspaper articles about Jarrell, 1954-1962 (11 items)
Folder 5 - Announcements of readings, lectures, 1955, 1956, 1958 (3 items)
Folder 6 - Address by R.J. at the National Book Awards, March 11, 1958 "About Popular Culture" typescript press release (1 item)
Folder 7 - Honors, awards, recognitions, 1946-1962 (10 items)
Folder 8 - Announcement, invitation to "A Tribute to Randall Jarrell" Hill Hall, Chapel Hill, Wednesday, October 18, 1961 (4 items)
Folder 9 - UNC dinner, 10-18-61 materials including lists of guests and RSVP cards/ from the files of Lambert Davis, Director of the UNC Press
Folder 10 - Correspondence to Lambert Davis, March - August, 1961
Folder 11 - Correspondence to Lambert Davis, September - October, 1961
N.B.: Correspondents include: Christopher Crittenden, Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell, Robert Penn Warren, Sam Ragan, William C. Friday, Carl Sandberg, Jean Stafford, Hiram Haydn, Peter Taylor, Junius D. Grimes III, John Crowe Ransom.
Folder 12 - Carbon typescript (3 ll.) and manuscript ( 6 ll.) of remarks made by Robert Penn Warren at the tribute dinner 10-18-61. A carbon of a letter from Jerrold Orne to Robert Penn Warren dated Oct. 25, 1961 thanking him and saying his manuscript of the remarks is being forwarded to the Greensboro campus for the Jarrell Collection there.
Folder 13 - Typescripts of remarks made by attendees to the Yale University Memorial to Jarrell,February 20,1966: Berryman, Hollander, Kunitz, Meredith, Ransom, Rich, Tate, Taylor, Wilbur. Also a fragment of a typescript of Eleanor Ross Taylor's "A Friend Remembered" which appeared in the UNCG Alumni News, Spring, 1966. (11 items)
Folder 14 - Typescripts of student reminiscences. These were published in the UNCG Alumni News in the Spring, 1966. (8 items)
Folder 15 - Miscellaneous reminiscences, 1965? and 1982 ( 3 items)
Folder 16 - Photocopies of Jarrell's letters on The Nation letterhead to Arthur Mizener. Reviews written by Mizener attached to letters. 1945-1946 (4 items) source of these copies unknown
Folder 17 - Photocopies of Jarrell's letters to Sister Bernetta Quinn, ca. 1949 - 1964. (13 items)
Folder 18 - Miscellaneous correspondence to Jarrell (5 items)
Folder 19 - Certificate of death; short news item about Jarrell's will, Time magazine obit. notice, several local newspaper articles - all Oct. 1965 (6 items)
Folder 20 - Randall Jarrell Creative Writing Scholarship - proposal and correspondence, draft of a news release, 1965-1966 (13 items)
Folder 21 - Yale University Tribute to Randall Jarrell held February 28, 1966: news release, telegram, newspaper article (3 items)
BOX 9
Folder 1 - Selected Poems: typescript of title page, preliminaries, introduction, colophon with instructions to printer, and pencil facsimile of title page (31 ll.)
Folder 2 - Selected Poems: galley proof pasted up as text pages with notes to the printer, hand numbered 2-80 (79 ll.)
Folder 3 - Selected Poems: typescript and pasted galley proofs with notes to printer, hand numbered 81-135 (55 ll.)
Folder 4 - Selected Poems: typescript and pasted galley proofs with notes to printer, hand numbered 136-205 (70 ll.)
Folder 5 - Selected Poems: author's first proof, December 13, 1954 with notes to the printer
Folder 6 - Woman at the Washington Zoo: author's first proof, June 6, 1960 with notes to the printer and copy of the plate proof
Folder 7 - Miscellaneous dust-jackets for Jarrell's books (11 items)
Folder 8 - Publicity and promotional items for Pictures from an Institution, program for the 1954 performance of "The Three Sisters" in Aycock Auditorium, and Playbill for the Actor's Studio production of "The Three Sisters", 1963/64 season. Also included in this box (unfoldered) are signatures, dust-jacket and binding sample for Faust binding samples for Selected Poems and an uncorrected proof copy of Faust.
BOX 10
Microfilm of Jarrell manuscripts held by UNCG and of the manuscripts and papers held by the Berg Collection as of 1985. 10 reels of Berg Collection; 4 reels each of negative and positive film of Jarrell manuscripts at UNCG. Reel listing for material in the Berg Collection kept in this box.
BOX 11
News Clippings, 1942-1970
Gift of Professor Ray Lewis White
Folder 1 - 1942-1943, 1945-1947
Folder 2 - 1948-1949
Folder 3 - 1951-1952
Folder 4 - 1953
Folder 5 - 1954
Folder 6 - 1955-1959
Folder 7 - 1960-1961
Folder 8 - 1962
Folder 9 - 1963-1966
Folder 10 - 1968-1970
* There are no clippings for the years 1944, 1950, or 1967
A collection of Randall Jarrell's books is located in the Special Collections division.
More Randall Jarrell papers at the New York Public Library.
See also the Modern American Poetry project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
See more literary manuscript collections at UNCG.
See more UNCG manuscript collections related to UNCG history.