Randall Jarrell Collection

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 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, continued.

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&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, shelve 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)

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 ArtsForum (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 newsphotographer, Jim Wommack (8x10)
early 1960's - seated in sports car, 2 poses (8x10)
1961 - in his faculty office, probably after winning theNational 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 notlike 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 home

Folder 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)

Photograph of wood sculpture portrait by Ogden Deal (4x8)

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.

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.

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 course work 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.)

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)

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.

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 Box 10

Folder 1 - 1942-1943, 1945-1947 Clippings
Folder 2 - 1948-1949 Clippings
Folder 3 - 1951-1952 Clippings
Folder 4 - 1953 Clippings
Folder 5 - 1954 Clippings
Folder 6 - 1955-1959 Clippings
Folder 7 - 1960-1961 Clippings
Folder 8 - 1962 Clippings
Folder 9 - 1963-1966 Clippings
Folder 10 - 1968-1970 Clippings

Dr. William K. Finley, Special Collections & Rare Books Division Head (336) 334-5246. Email: wkfinley@uncg.edu