June Oppen Degnan Papers, 1959-1973 (MSS 17)

Extent: 4 Linear feet (8 archives boxes, 3 oversize folders)

Papers of June Oppen Degnan (1918-2001), writer, publisher, political activist, and sister of poet George Oppen (1908-1984). Most of the collection documents Degnan's activities as publisher of the San Francisco Review in the 1960s, and her association with New Directions Books. The collection includes correspondence and writings of many important members of the American literary community including Jack Anderson, Robert Bly, William Bronk, Basil Bunting, Hayden Carruth, Robert Creeley, Clayton Eshleman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Erich Fromm, Allen Ginsberg, David Ignatow, Denise Levertov, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Jerome Rothenberg, C. P. Snow, Gary Snyder, Diane Wakoski, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky.

June Oppen Degnan was born in New York City on June 7, 1918, the daughter of George August and Seville Shainwald Oppen. June's brother was George Oppen (1908-1984), who became a well-known poet and exponent of the Objectivist school. For her higher education, Degnan attended the University of California at Berkeley, the Sorbonne, and the University of San Francisco Law School. She was married at least twice: once to a Mr. McKeen (a relationship which ended around 1959), and once to George Degnan, a marriage which took place around 1960. From her first marriage, June had one daughter, Aubrey, who subsequently married Orly Lindgren.

Beginning in 1959, Degnan served as publisher, along with George Hitchcock and Roy Miller, of the San Francisco Review, a journal of poetry and prose published in close cooperation with New Directions book publishers of New York City. New Directions often published (with Degnan's guidance and encouragement) books by writers who Degnan admired strongly -- writers who she published in the San Francisco Review. These writers included George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, William Bronk and James Hall.

Degnan appeared to have a very close but occasionally difficult relationship with her brother. George dedicated his 1965 book This In Which to her with the inscription, "For June/ Who first welcomed/ me home." With New Directions, June assisted him in publishing the major works of his later career: The Materials (1962), This In Which (1965), Of Being Numerous (1968) and The Collected Poems of George Oppen (1975). However, Degnan and Oppen had several disagreements about financial matters. George often wrote to June urging her to seek happiness beyond materialism and monetary wealth.

Like George, June was avidly concerned with political, social and environmental issues. For a short period she was editor and publisher of Oceans magazine. She was an active member of the Oceanic Society and of Conservation International. In 1968 she served on the board of directors of the New School for Social Research, and she was president of the International Child Art Center in San Francisco from 1971-1972. Starting in 1956, she regularly assisted the finance committee of the California Democratic Central Committee, and she actively involved herself in the presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.

Degnan had a reputation as a competent, dedicated and assertive businessperson who was deeply concerned with both literary and political issues.

Most of the materials in the collection are related to the publishing and editing affairs of June Oppen Degnan at the San Francisco Review and New Directions Books. In general, the papers provide documentation on the inner workings of the literary publishing business of the 1960s. Included are materials relating to many well-known poets and writers of that time, including Jack Anderson, Robert Bly, William Bronk, Basil Bunting, Hayden Carruth, Robert Creeley, Clayton Eshleman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Erich Fromm, Allen Ginsberg, David Ignatow, Denise Levertov, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Jerome Rothenberg, C. P. Snow, Gary Snyder, Diane Wakoski, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. Degnan's original organization of her papers has been retained in the present collection. The materials are arranged in four series: 1) SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW AND NEW DIRECTIONS; 2) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS; 3) FILES OF MAJOR WRITERS; and 4) SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW ANNUAL, 1963.

Container List

SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW AND NEW DIRECTIONS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW AND NEW DIRECTIONS: Correspondence arranged alphabetically by correspondent; within each folder, letters are ordered chronologically. Arranged in four subseries: A) Correspondence Between Degnan and Other Publishers, B) General Correspondence, C) Correspondence of Other Publishers and Editors, and D) Correspondence, Writers to San Francisco Review.

A) Correspondence Between Degnan and Other Publishers: Letters between Degnan and her fellow publishers at San Francisco Review and New Directions. This subseries has both the letters sent to Degnan by her colleagues George Hitchcock, James Laughlin, Robert MacGregor and Roy Miller, as well as the carbons of many of Degnan's responses.

B) General Correspondence: Letters sent to Degnan from her friends and associates concerning her publishing business.

C) Correspondence of Other Publishers and Editors: Letters sent by and to Degnan's publishing associates - Hitchcock, Laughlin, Miller, MacGregor, etc. - which were copied and sent to Degnan for her files. This subseries is highlighted by a letter sent to Laughlin by Carl Rakosi in which Rakosi informs Laughlin of his desire to begin writing after a long hiatus.

D) Correspondence, Writers to San Francisco Review: Original letters and carbons from writers (sent to Degnan or one of her fellow publishers) whose work was published (or was being considered for publication) in San Francisco Review. Notable examples of the writers in this subseries include Paul Blackburn, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Hayden Carruth, Clayton Eshleman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jerome Rothenberg and William Carlos Williams.

Correspondence between Degnan and other publishers

Box 1 Folder 1
Hitchcock, George, 1961 - 1962
Box 1 Folder 2
Kuhlman, Gilda, 1962 - 1962
Box 1 Folder 3-4
Laughlin, James B., 1961 - 1978
Box 1 Folder 5
Lorch, Else B., 1965 - 1973
Box 1 Folder 6-7
MacGregor, Robert M., 1962 - 1974
Box 1 Folder 8
Martin, Frederick R., 1969 - 1975
Box 1 Folder 9
Miller, Roy, 1959 - 1959

General Correspondence

Box 1 Folder 10
Bly, Robert (The Sixties Press), 1967 - 1967
Box 1 Folder 11
Borchardt, Georges, 1962 - 1966
Box 1 Folder 12
Cheshire Publishing Pty Ltd., 1972 - 1972
Box 1 Folder 13
Erbe, Edwin, 1962 - 1964
Box 1 Folder 14
Ferry, W.H., 1961 - 1962
Box 1 Folder 15
Hawkes, John, 1961 - 1965
Box 1 Folder 16
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970 - 1972
Box 1 Folder 17
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1961 - 1961
Box 1 Folder 18
Kray (Ussachevsky), Betty, 1962 - 1976
Box 1 Folder 19
Nemer, David, 1966 - 1974
Box 1 Folder 20
NEW YORKER Magazine, 1963 - 1963
Box 1 Folder 21
Pembes, Tim, 1959 - 1962
Box 1 Folder 22
Pritchett, Victor S., 1962 - 1962
Box 1 Folder 23
Ray, Man and Julie, 1959 - 1977
Box 1 Folder 24
Scott, Foresman and Company, 1968 - 1970
Box 1 Folder 25
Spender, Stephen, 1959 - 1959
Box 1 Folder 26
Webb, Thompson, Jr., 1969 - 1969
Box 1 Folder 27
Whittemore, Reed (THE CARLETON MISCELLANY), 1961 - 1961
Box 1 Folder 28
Miscellaneous Correspondence, A-Z
Box 1 Folder 29
Unidentified Correspondence

Correspondence of Other Publishers and Editors

Box 1 Folder 30
Atheneum Publishers and SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW Editors, 1963 - 1963
Box 1 Folder 31
Hitchcock, George and Roy Miller, 1958 - 1959
Box 2 Folder 1
Hitchcock, George and Roy Miller, 1959 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 2
Laughlin, James B., 1962 - 1965
Box 2 Folder 3
MacGregor, Robert, 1962 - 1973
Box 2 Folder 4
Pollinger, Laurence and Robert Mac Gregor, 1963 - 1974
Box 2 Folder 5
Orlovitz, Gil and Roy Miller, 1958 - 1960
Box 2 Folder 6
Villiers Publications, 1957 - 1961

Correspondence, Writers to SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW

Box 2 Folder 7
Allen, Marijane, 1960 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 8
Anderson, Jack, 1960 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 9
Banks, Richard, 1960 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 10
Bass, Robert, 1961 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 11
Berge, Carol, 1962 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 12
Bird, Dick, 1960 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 13
Birney, Earle, 1961 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 14
Blackburn, Paul, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 15
Burdick, Eugene, 1958 - 1958
Box 2 Folder 16
Carney, Matthew, 1960 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 17
Carruth, Hayden, 1961 - 1963
Box 2 Folder 18
Christie, David, 1959 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 19
Corrington, William, 1960 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 20
Creeley, Robert, 1960 - 1960
Box 2 Folder 21
Cullen, Robert, 1962 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 22
Cuomo, George, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 23
Czerniawski, Adam, 1962 - 1963
Box 2 Folder 24
Ellison, Miriam T., 1959 - 1959
Box 2 Folder 25
Eshleman, Clayton, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 26
Faust, Irvin, 1962 - 1964
Box 2 Folder 27
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1959 - 1959
Box 2 Folder 28
Ford, Gena, 1961 - 1963
Box 2 Folder 29
Galler, David, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 30
Ginsberg, Allen, 1959 - 1959
Box 2 Folder 31
Gonzalez-Gerth, Miguel, 1960 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 32
Greer, Scott, 1962 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 33
Haag, John, 1960 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 34
Haines, John, 1961 - 1963
Box 2 Folder 35
Honig, Edwin, 1961 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 36
Ishikawa, Robert, 1960 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 37
Kroll, Ernest, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 38
Leahy, Jack, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 39
Levertov, Denise, 1961 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 40
Lowenfels, Walter, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 41
Marsh, Willard, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 42
McGrath, Thomas, 1961 - 1963
Box 2 Folder 43
Meyers, Bert, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 44
Montgomery, Jean, 1962 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 45
Nelson, Raymond, 1962 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 46
Nin, Anais, 1958 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 47
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1961 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 48
Ordon, Edmund, 1962 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 49
Othus, Rita, 1962 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 50
Ozick, Cynthia, 1960 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 51
Pauker, John, 1959 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 52
Ridland, John M., 1962 - 1963
Box 2 Folder 53
Rothenberg, Jerome, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 54
Rule, Jane, 1960 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 55
Russell, Bertrand, 1958 - 1961
Box 2 Folder 56
Saroyan, William, 1958 - 1959
Box 2 Folder 57
Shapiro, Norman R., 1962 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 58
Simpson, Louis, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 59
Snyder, Gary, 1960 - 1960
Box 2 Folder 60
Stoutenburg, Adrien, 1961 - 1962
Box 2 Folder 61
Tagliabue, John, 1962 - 1962
Box 3 Folder 1
Taylor, H. George, 1960 - 1962
Box 3 Folder 2
Thomas, John, 1960 - 1962
Box 3 Folder 3
Thomas, Norman, 1958 - 1959
Box 3 Folder 4
Touster, Saul, 1961 - 1966
Box 3 Folder 5
Vliet, R.G., 1961 - 1963
Box 3 Folder 6
Wang, David Rafael, 1960 - 1962
Box 3 Folder 7
Weingarten, Robert, 1961 - 1962
Box 3 Folder 8
Williams, William Carlos, 1958 - 1958
Box 3 Folder 9
Witt, Harold, 1959 - 1962
Box 3 Folder 10
Zukofsky, Louis, 1958 - 1960
Box 3 Folder 11-13
Miscellaneous Correspondence A-Z
Box 3 Folder 14
Unidentified Correspondence

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS: Publication materials for San Francisco Review and New Directions, and personal items of Degnan's.

Box 3 Folder 15-19
SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW and New Directions - Book Sales, inventory records, catalogs, basic review list, and unidentified items, 1962 - 1980
Box 3 Folder 20-21
Degnan's Personal Items - RAMPARTS Magazine - Financial records, 1966 - 1968

FILES OF MAJOR WRITERS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) FILES OF MAJOR WRITERS: Materials relating to ten writers: William Bronk, Edward Dahlberg, James Hall, Yukio Mishima, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Mary Oppen, C. P. Snow, Gilbert Sorrentino, and Curtis Zahn. These writers were promoted and advised by Degnan, and their work (with the exception of Mary Oppen) was published by New Directions. The series includes typescripts, correspondence (from the writer to Degnan; from Degnan or her associates to the writer; or from others to Degnan about the writer's work), publicity information and reviews of the writers' work. Typescripts, publicity information, and reviews are arranged chronologically, and correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author. Because Degnan did not extensively advise or promote Dahlberg, Mary Oppen, C. P. Snow or Sorrentino, their files are relatively small.

Materials (correspondence, publicity ephemera and reviews) relating to books written by George Oppen and Charles Reznikoff, which were published by New Directions at the same time, are filed together. Degnan also maintained a separate file for Oppen and Reznikoff and, in almost all cases, her original arrangement has been preserved. Of great significance is the George Oppen correspondence. Here, Oppen's correspondence to Degnan provides insight into his opinions about his own writing and that of his contemporaries -- particularly the writing of his friend, William Bronk -- as well as insight into Oppen's relationship with his sister.

Box 3 Folder 22
Bronk, William - Miscellaneous Works - Selected Published Poems -

Two booklets: one complied by the author and one copy of AUDIT vol 2. no. 5

Box 3 Folder 23
Bronk, William - Miscellaneous Works - Selected Typescript

With some notes by the author

Box 3 Folder 24
Bronk, William - Books - EMPTY HANDS -, 1965 - 1965

Early version with dedication and signature

Box 3 Folder 25
Bronk, William - Books - WORLD, THE WORLDLESS -, 1964 - 1964

Typescript version submitted to the Lamont Poetry Selection

Box 3 Folder 26
Bronk, William - Books - WORLD, THE WORLDLESS -, 1963 - 1964

Legal and copyright forms, carbons, photocopies

Box 3 Folder 27
Bronk, William - Books - WORLD, THE WORLDLESS -, 1965 - 1965

Advertisement in "Americans for Democratic Action" Convention brochure, ad on page 17

Box 3 Folder 28
Bronk, William - Books - WORLD, THE WORLDLESS -, 1964 - 1964

Selected Advertisements and Mailing List for Review Copies

Box 4 Folder 1
Bronk, William - Books - WORLD, THE WORLDLESS -, 1965 - 1965

Reviews

Box 4 Folder 2
Bronk, William - Correspondence - Letters about WORLD, THE WORLDLESS, 1963 - 1967

Mailed to June Degnan

Box 4 Folder 3
Bronk, William - Correspondence - Letters from Bronk to Degnan, 1962 - 1978
Box 4 Folder 4
Bronk, William - Correspondence - General Correspondence, 1964 - 1966

Mostly letters from New Directions publishers

Box 4 Folder 5
Bronk, William - Royalty Statements -, 1968 - 1973
Box 4 Folder 6
Dahlberg, Edward - Publicity information on BECAUSE I WAS FLESH, 1964 - 1964
Box 4 Folder 7
Hall, James - Miscellaneous Works - Letters Never Mailed -

Spring 1963, pages from the printed version in KENYON REVIEW; also includes a note from Hall

Box 4 Folder 8
Hall, James - Miscellaneous Works - God Cares, But Waits

Spring 1969, short story reprinted from VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, 45:2, typeset copy with note from Hall

Box 4 Folder 9
Hall, James - US HE DEVOURS - Selected Stories for the final version, 1964 - 1964

Photocopies of printed material, two copies

Box 4 Folder 10
Hall, James - US HE DEVOURS - Selected Stories for the final version, 1964 - 1964

Photocopies of printed material, two copies

Box 4 Folder 11
Hall, James - US HE DEVOURS - Reviews, 1964 - 1965

Photocopies, some originals

Box 4 Folder 12
Hall, James - Correspondence - Letters between Hall and Degnan, 1962 - 1965
Box 4 Folder 13
Hall, James - Correspondence - Letters between Hall and George Hithcock, 1958 - 1962
Box 4 Folder 14
Hall, James - Correspondence - Letters about Hall to New Directions, 1962 - 1964
Box 4 Folder 15
Hall, James - Miscellaneous Materials - Contract, Copyright form, advertisements, 1962 - 1964
Box 4 Folder 16
Hall, James - Miscellaneous Materials - Royalty Statements, 1968 - 1969
Box 4 Folder 17
Mishima, Yukio - Miscellaneous Works - Dojoji

Play translated by Donald Keene, photocopy of typescript, ca. 1965

Box 4 Folder 18
Mishima, Yukio - Miscellaneous Works - Onnagata

Short story translated by Donald Keene, photocopy of a typescript, ca. 1965

Box 4 Folder 19
Mishima, Yukio - Swaddling Clothes

Translated by Ivan Morris in TODAY'S JAPAN, copy of printed version

Box 4 Folder 20
Mishima, Yukio - Correspondence - Letters between Mishima and Robert MacGregor, 1962 - 1965
Box 4 Folder 21
Mishima, Yukio - Correspondence - Letters from Robert MacGregor about Mishima, 1962 - 1965

Carbons of originals

Box 4 Folder 22
Mishima, Yukio - Ephemera, 1963 - 1965
Box 4 Folder 23
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Bluestone, George, 1962 - 1962

Publicity Correspondence

Box 4 Folder 24
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Bogan, Louise, 1962 - 1962

Publicity Correspondence

Box 4 Folder 25
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Coulette, Henri, 1962 - 1962

Publicity Correspondence

Box 4 Folder 26
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Erbe, Edwin, 1962 - 1962

Publicity Correspondence

Box 4 Folder 27
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Levine, Philip, 1962 - 1962

Publicity Correspondence

Box 4 Folder 28
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Rago, Henry, 1962 - 1962

Publicity Correspondence

Box 5 Folder 1
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Smith, Roger, 1962 - 1962

Publicity Correspondence

Box 5 Folder 2
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Miscellaneous A-Z

Publicity Correspondence, ca. 1962

Box 5 Folder 3
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Publicity Ephemera

Includes list of persons to be sent review copies of the books, ca. 1962

Box 5 Folder 4
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Gotham Book Mart reception, 1962 - 1962

Publicity Photographs of Oppen and Reznikoff, also includes photos of C.P. Snow and Degnan

Box 5 Folder 5
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Gotham Book Mart reception, 1962

Article and Photographs of the reception in THE VILLAGER, photocopy

Box 5 Folder 6
Oppen/Reznikoff - BY THE WATERS & THE MATERIALS - Gotham Book Mart reception, 1962 - 1962

Reviews of the two books

Box 5 Folder 7
Oppen/Reznikoff - THIS IN WHICH & TESTIMONY - Publicity ephemera
Box 5 Folder 8
Oppen/Reznikoff - Publicity for Poetry Center Ready by Reznikoff and Oppen, 1974 - 1974
Box 5 Folder 9
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - Published Work - The Mind's Own Place

Carbon of typescript

Box 5 Folder 10
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - Published Work - 20 poems and an Interview, 1973 - 1973

In CHICAGO, October 1973, no. 1, photocopy

Box 5 Folder 11
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - Published Work - Selected poems, 1980 - 1980

Published in Poetry Pilot, issued by Academy of American Poets

Box 5 Folder 12
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - Typescripts - Poems, 1960 - 1961

Sent by Oppen to Degnan for review

Box 5 Folder 13
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - Typescripts - Miscellaneous Poems
Box 5 Folder 14
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - Typescripts - Miscellaneous Poems
Box 5 Folder 15
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - THE MATERIALS - Typescript of poems, 1962 - 1962

Includes some correspondence between Oppen and Degnan relating to the poems

Box 5 Folder 16
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - THE MATERIALS - Publicity ephemera

ca. 1962

Box 5 Folder 17
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - THIS IN WHICH - Typescripts of poems for

ca. 1965

Oversize MC-037-13
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - THIS IN WHICH - Galley Proofs, 1965 - 1965

Three copies

Box 5 Folder 19
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - THIS IN WHICH - Ephemera

Includes contract and publicity materials, ca. 1964-1965

Box 5 Folder 20
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - THIS IN WHICH - Reviews, 1966 - 1966
Box 5 Folder 21
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - OF BEING NUMEROUS - Typescripts of poems, 1968 - 1968

Photocopies

Box 5 Folder 22
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - OF BEING NUMEROUS - Publicity material, 1969 - 1969
Box 5 Folder 23
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Work - COLLECTED POEMS - Reviews, 1972 - 1972
Box 5 Folder 24
Oppen, George - Correspondence - Letters between Oppen and Degnan, 1965 - 1981
Box 5 Folder 25
Oppen, George - Correspondence - Letters between Oppen and Degnan, 1965 - 1981
Box 5 Folder 26
Oppen, George - Correspondence - Letters between Oppen and Degnan, 1965 - 1981
Box 5 Folder 27
Oppen, George - Correspondence - Letters regarding THIS IN WHICH, 1965 - 1976
Box 5 Folder 28
Oppen, George - Correspondence - Letters from New Directions to Oppen, 1969 - 1976
Box 6 Folder 1
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Items - Poetry in the Sixties, 1969

Article in NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Mentions Oppen's poetry, three copies

Box 6 Folder 2
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Items - Royalty Statements, 1968 - 1973
Box 6 Folder 3
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Items - Review PRIMITIVE, MEANING A LIFE, 1978

Reviews by Michael Heller in NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Box 6 Folder 4
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Items - A Tribute to George Oppen, 1983 - 1983

By Charles Amirkhanian in FOLIO

Box 6 Folder 5
Oppen, George - Miscellaneous Items - From Pulitzer to Alzheimer, 1984

Article on the life of Oppen in NORTHERN CALIFORNIAN JEWISH BULLETIN, vol. 132. no. 15, photocopy

Box 6 Folder 6
Oppen, Mary - Typescripts of Poems

ca. 1970's, photocopies

Box 6 Folder 7
Oppen, Mary - Poems by Mary Oppen

Typeset

Box 6 Folder 8
Oppen, Mary - Reviews of MEANING A LIFE, 1979 - 1979

Her autobiography

Box 6 Folder 9
Reznikoff, Charles - Miscellaneous Poems - Selected Poems

Three carbon copies of typescript

Box 6 Folder 10
Reznikoff, Charles - Miscellaneous Poems - Selected Poems

Three carbon copies of typescript

Box 6 Folder 11
Reznikoff, Charles - Miscellaneous Poems - Collected Poems

ca. 1959, three carbon copies of typescript

Box 6 Folder 12
Reznikoff, Charles - Miscellaneous Poems - Collected Poems

ca. 1959, three carbon copies of typescript

Box 6 Folder 13
Reznikoff, Charles - Miscellaneous Poems - Collected Poems

ca. 1959, three carbon copies of typescript

Box 6 Folder 14
Reznikoff, Charles - Books - BY THE WATERS OF MANHATTAN, 1962 - 1962

Ephemera and publicity materials

Oversize MC-037-14
Reznikoff, Charles - Books - Galley proofs, 1965 - 1965

Two copies, one has corrections

Box 6 Folder 16
Reznikoff, Charles - Books - TESTIMONY: THE UNITED STATES (1885-1890) -, 1965 - 1966

Publicity and advertising materials

Box 6 Folder 17
Reznikoff, Charles - Books - TESTIMONY: THE UNITED STATES (1885-1890) -, 1966 - 1966

Review by Milton Hindus in COMMENTARY

Box 6 Folder 18
Reznikoff, Charles - Books - TESTIMONY: THE UNITED STATES (1885-1890) -, 1965 - 1966

Miscellaneous Reviews

Box 7 Folder 1
Reznikoff, Charles - Correspondence - Letters between Reznikoff and Degnan, 1961 - 1975
Box 7 Folder 2
Reznikoff, Charles - Correspondence - About BY THE WATERS OF MANHATTAN

ca. 1962-1973

Box 7 Folder 3
Reznikoff, Charles - Correspondence - Correspondence about TESTIMONY, 1965 - 1965
Box 7 Folder 4
Reznikoff, Charles - Correspondence - Miscellaneous Correspondence to Reznikoff, 1969 - 1974
Box 7 Folder 5
Reznikoff, Charles - Miscellaneous Materials - Royalty Statements, 1968 - 1973
Box 7 Folder 6
Reznikoff, Charles - Miscellaneous Materials - Reznikoff's Obituary, 1976

Printed in the NEW YORK TIMES, includes note from Marie Syrkin to Degnan

Box 7 Folder 7
Snow, C.P. - Preface to BY THE WATERS OF MANHATTAN, 1961 - 1961

Written by Snow, two copies, typescript and carbon

Box 7 Folder 8
Snow, C.P. - Miscellaneous Clippings about Snow

ca. 1978

Box 7 Folder 9
Snow, C.P. - Correspondence between Snow and Degnan, 1961 - 1978
Box 7 Folder 10
Sorrentino, Gilbert - The Perfect Fiction, 1966 - 1966

Short Story, typescript, also includes some correspondence between Sorrentino and Degnan

Box 7 Folder 11
Zahn, Curtis - AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY - Typescript, 1963 - 1963

Two copyedited versions

Box 7 Folder 12
Zahn, Curtis - AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY - Typescript, 1963 - 1963

Two copyedited versions

Box 7 Folder 13
Zahn, Curtis - AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY - Ephemera and Publicity Materials, 1962 - 1965
Box 7 Folder 14
Zahn, Curtis - AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY - Reviews, 1965 - 1965
Box 7 Folder 15
Zahn, Curtis - Correspondence - Letters between Zahn and Degnan

ca. 1961-1969

Box 8 Folder 1
Zahn, Curtis - Correspondence - Letters between Zahn and George Hitchcock, 1962 - 1962
Box 8 Folder 2
Zahn, Curtis - Correspondence - Letters between Zahn and James Laughlin, 1962 - 1966
Box 8 Folder 3
Zahn, Curtis - Correspondence - Letters between Zahn and Roy Miller, 1958 - 1960
Box 8 Folder 4
Zahn, Curtis - Correspondence - Correspondence about Zahn, A-Z, 1962 - 1965
Box 8 Folder 5
Zahn, Curtis - Royalty Statements, 1968 - 1974

SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW ANNUAL, 1963

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW ANNUAL, 1963: In 1963, Degnan oversaw the publication of the San Francisco Review Annual. This series contains typescripts of selected poems for the Annual, an annotated draft of the Annual, galley proofs, and ephemera.

Box 8 Folder 6
SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW Annual - Typescripts - Three French poems, 1963 - 1963

By Brierre, Damas, Gratiant

Box 8 Folder 7
SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW Annual - Typescript - Polish Poems & Related Materials, 1963 - 1963
Box 8 Folder 8
SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW Annual - Typescripts - Too Soon for Pigeons, James Spencer, 1963 - 1963

Short story, photocopy

Box 8 Folder 9
SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW Annual - Typescript - Annotated draft of the Annual, 1963 - 1963

Carbon copy with annotations

Oversize MC-037-12
SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW Annual - Galley Proofs - 22 April 1963 and 5 July 1963, 1963

Includes corrections

Box 8 Folder 11
SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW Annual - Miscellaneous Ephemera, 1963 - 1963

Galley cover, contributors' note, and publicity information

ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES

Box 8 Folder 12
Originals of Preservation Photocopies, 1963