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RICHARD WILMARTH PAPERS
1979-2003

MSG# 165

 

SERIES II	MANUSCRIPTS	DATES
4' (8 Boxes)		1982-2002

The Manuscript Series includes a variety of poetic materials including handwritten and typed drafts, notes, and preliminary versions of both his published and unpublished works. Distinct from the notebooks, the Manuscript Series often includes several versions of a work, with notes, addenda, and corrections. While many of these manuscripts illustrate the evolution of published works, the contents also includes unpublished items. Exemplary of the latter are the book length manuscript for Confessions of a Red Sox Fan, States, and Raleigh. Confessions of a Red Sox Fan, set during the 1995 pennant race, was scheduled for publication by Commonwealth Publications of Edmonton, Alberta. Unfortunately, Commonwealth went out of business. The book was never published. A lengthy excerpt from the manuscript appeared in the Waltham, Massachusetts based web site, The Buffalo Head Society, a "Red Sox Journal", in 1996, and is available on the World Wide Web at http://webpages.charter.net/joekuras/confes98.htm. (accessed 9/12/2003 ). A copy of the Buffalo Head Society excerpt is included in the Manuscript Series. The original handwritten draft and a typescript copy of the complete work, including laudatory comments by sports writers and fans are also in this series.

Most of the poems and stories that were printed from Wilmarth's computer have been stamped with a date that was provided by Richard when he organized his manuscripts. Some dates on the manuscripts that are enclosed in brackets were ascertained by the archivist while processing the collection. The drafts, typed copies, and pristine versions of the poems and stories are filed alphabetically by title. At the beginning of each letter of the alphabet is a folder that contains manuscripts whose title begins with that specific letter. Titled and untitled works (filed by the first word of the text) are filed together in alphabetical order within the folder. The articles a, an, and the, were not used as filing terms, (e.g. The Black Cat is filed under Black). The same work might also be filed in more than place if we were not able to discern the final title for the work. For example, Confessions of a Red Sox Fan is filed under its first iteration "Red Sox Fan." 

 

BOX	FOLDER	FOLDER TITLE	DATES
4	1	A-Az	n.d.
	2	Advice to Writers	n.d.
	3	After Frost	n.d.
	4	“After the Bombing”	1994
	5	All Is Vanity	1994
	6	The Almost Final Scene	1993, 1999
	7	And He Wasn’t Even Annoyed	June-July 2000
	8	Angles	1987, 1988
	9	At St. Joseph's School	1994
	10	At the Cantina	n.d.
	11	At the Cape	1982-1983
	12	B-By	n.d.
	13	Backyard	May 2000
	14	Bathroom	May 2000
	15	Beginner’s Luck	n.d.
	16	The Beginning of the Long Rebellion	1994
	17	Bells	1987, 1989
	18	The Big “E”	1994
	19	Bill Clinton	n.d.
	20	Bio	1990
	21	The Boss	1982, 1995
	22	Broncomaniac, Edited Typescript	1998
	23	Broncomaniac, Redo Page	1998
	24	C-Cy	n.d.
	25	Casualties	n.d.
	26	Christine	May 24, 1997
	27	Christopher Luna	n.d.
	28	Clara/Keys/Opening Day	Apr 1, 1997
	29	Confessions?…..	1987
		X-Ref: Confessions of a Red Sox Fan, See Red Sox
	30	Control	1982-1983
	31	“Curse of the Bambino”	1994
5	32	D-Du	n.d.
	33	Dead End	1987
	34	“The Death of Stalin”	1994
	35	Denver to Boston	1987
	36	Depressed	1982-1983, 1987
	37	Dream	n.d.
	38	Driving the Moonless Dream of April	1987
	39	Dropped	1992
	40	Dropped Most of the Money	1982-1983
	41	E-Ex	n.d
	42	Early to Bed, Early to Rise	1999
	43	East and West	1999
	44	Emotionally Speaking	1987
	45	The Explanation	1993, 1999
	46	F-Fu	n.d.
	47	Fifty Years of Standing Up	Nov 12, 1999
	48	Fifty Years of Standing Up Has Worn Me Down	1999
	49	A Fledgling Ten Year Old	1994
	50	The Flies and I	1982-1983
	51	For Fernando, Dead at Twenty-Four	1987, 1989
	52	Forget-Me-Not	n.d.
	53	For Here Or To Go	1993, 1997
	54	G-Gu	n.d.
	55	Gallery	n.d.
	56	Getting in Shape for the Boston Marathon	Feb-Mar 2000
	57	The Gold Nova	1984
	58	H-Ho	n.d.
	59	Hadas Always Wore a Shawl…	Nov 2000
	60	Haole With a Tan	Apr-May 2001
	61	The Happy Hotel	Sept 1984
	62	“Hawaiian Poems, Pearl Harbor ”	Apr 2001
6	63	The Heat’s On	1982-1983
	64	Henry Miller Acrostics-Gallery, Page Proofs, Oversize	1996
	65	Here We Go Again	1987
	66	Holiday Questions About Martin Luther King	Jan 1999
	67	Home	n.d.
	68	The Home of the Brave	1988
	69	Horses	2002
	70	Hospital	1982-1983, 1988-1989
	71	Howdy Doody Time	1994
	72	How I Came About	1994
	73	Hunger	1987
	74	I-Iv	n.d.
	75	I Am Very Fond of Seeing People…	1982-1983
	76	I Don’t Know Anything About It	1982-1983
	77	I Don’t Know What to Write Anymore	n.d.
	78	I Heard the Metal	1982-1983
	79	I Read my Poems	n.d.
	80	I Wanted to Stop My Life	n.d.
	81	“I Was Collecting Baseball Cards”	1994
	82	“I Was Never Tortured by Kurt Barbie”	n.d.
	83	If Words Were Bullets	1993, 1999
	84	Immigrant Silence	1994
	85	In the Examination Room	n.d.
	86	In the Flurry	1982-1983
	87	In the Housing Complex	1989, 1995
	88	In the Same Egg Shop	1987
	89	It Doesn’t Hurt As Much	1982-1983
	90	J-Ju	n.d.
	91	Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura	n.d.
	92	Jo-Ann	1982-1983
	93	K-Ku	n.d.
	94	Katherine Does it Again	n.d.
	95	“Kelly Got the Turkey ”	n.d.
	96	Kristina	1993, 1999
	97	Kristina	1993
	98	L-Lo	n.d.
	99	Lately	1987
	100	Laurel	n.d.
	101	Laurel-Commentary	May 1999
	102	Laurel-Forty-Four Poem For	n.d.
	103	Laurel-Sixty-Seven Poem For	n.d.
	104	Len	n.d.
	105	Leslie	1993, 1999
	106	Limits	1993, 1999
	107	Lines for Frank Norris	Aug 1999
	108	Listening	1988-1989, 2002
	109	Little Buddha	n.d.
	110	Living Over the Laundry Room	Apr-May 2000
7	111	M-My	n.d.
	112	The Magic of Happiness (See also-The Vision)	1993, 1999
	113	The Many Sides of America	1993, 1999
	114	The Meal	1993
	115	The Meeting of Robin and Richard, (That Safe Place)	1997
	116	Melissa	1999
	117	Modern Day Saviors	1994
	118	“More Insane Than Usual”	n.d.
	119	My Father	n.d.
	120	N-Nu	n.d.
	121	Nationalism (Korea/China)	1994
	122	Neighbors	1988, 1997
	123	Neighbors	1993, 1997
	124	The Neutral Zone	May 1998
	125	The Neutral Zone, Manuscripts and Drafts	1998
	126	A New Birth of Freedom (Phones and Raleigh)	n.d.
	127	“No Friend of Douglas MacArthur”	1994
	128	No Instruction Manuals to Life	1987
	129	Northern Latitudes	1989
	130	Notation Made	n.d.
	131	Nuclear Poker	1994
8	132	O-Ov	n.d.
	133	Ojos de Luna	1997
	134	Old Is a Prostate	1982-1983
	135	On the Left Side	1987
	136	One Hundred and Forty Two Years Late (At Least That’s What My Lawyer Tells Me)	Mar 2000
	137	Opinions	1987, 1999
	138	Original Sin	1994
	139	Overheard Conversation at a Buddhist Café	1998
	140	P-Pu	n.d.
	141	The Parable of Conspiracy	May 1994
	142	Paraphernalia	1993, 1999
	143	Part One	n.d.
	143A	Periods	1989, 1999
	144	Phaeton	n.d.
	145	The Phone	1982-1983, 1987
	146	Phones	1989, 1992
	147	Poem Written in Spite of Myself	Mar 1999
	148	Poems	1981
	149	Poised for War-Page Proofs, Copies 184 and 199 of 250	1990, 1991
	150	Power Lines	n.d.
	151	Powerlessness	1993, 1999
	152	Pretty Boy	n.d.
	153	The Promise	n.d.
	154	The Purchase	2000
	155	Q-Qu	n.d.
	156	Queen E.	1987
	157	R-Ru	n.d.
	158	Raining	1982-1983
	159	Raleigh	1991
	160	Raleigh, Edited Transcript	1991
	161	Raleigh, Drafts	1991
	162	Raleigh, Notes	1996
9	163	Red Sox…, Commonwealth, Publications, Copies of Page Proofs	1997
	164	Red Sox…, List of Changes of Manuscript	1996
	165	Red Sox…, Publisher’s Correspondence	1996
	166	Red Sox…, Publisher’s Correspondence	1998
	167	Red Sox…, Rough Draft	n.d.
	168	Red Sox…, Rough Draft	n.d.
	169	Red Sox…, Rough Drafts	n.d.
	170	Red Sox…, Research	1995
	171	Red Sox…, Reviews	1997-1998
	172	Red Sox…, Tabulations of Editing Time	n.d.
	173	Red Sox…, Text Editing	n.d.
10	174	Red Sox…, Typescript	1996
	175	Red Sox Fan, Buffalo Head Society Excerpt	n.d.
	176	Religious Relativism	Sept 2000
	177	The Regulator	1997, 2000
	178	Remember	n.d.
	179	Resolution	n.d.
	180	Rock Climbers	1993, 1999
	181	Rocker	Apr 2000
	182	S-Sy	n.d.
	183	Scavenger Gulls	1982-1983
	184	Scene from the Smoking Section	1993
	185	The Scent of the Lilacs	1993, 1999
	186	Seasons	n.d.
	187	Secret	n.d.
	188	Self-defense	1993
	189	She Was an Old Wound	1982-1983
	190	She Was the Prettiest Girl	n.d.
	191	Skeleton Keys	1999, n.d.
	192	Snowed In	1982-1983
	193	Some Prime Examples of…	1987, 1995
	194	Some Women Are So Intense	1982-1983
	195	Song	1993, 1999
	196	Sounds	1989, 1997
	197	Spontaneous Apricot Poem	1984
	198	A State of…	1993
	199	States	n.d.
	200	The Steel Wheel, (VW Rabbit)	Jun 2000
	201	Steps	1993, 1999
	202	The Story	1982-1983
	203	Strawberry Guitars	Feb 1999
11	204	Structure	Jan 2002
	205	The Stutterer	n.d.
	206	Suzie	n.d.
	207	T-Ty	n.d.
	208	Temperature	n.d.
	209	Till Death Do Us Part	1994
	210	Topless	1999
	211	Tools	n.d.
	212	That Safe Place	Oct 1984, n.d.
	213	Twenty-First Century War Rant	Sept 2001
	214	U-Us	n.d.
	215	Union Hospital (On the Twenty-Fourth Day)	1994
	216	V-Vo	n.d.
	217	Valerie	1993, 1999
	218	Valery	n.d.
	219	Veronica	n.d.
	220	Views	n.d.
	221	The Vision (The Magic of Happiness)	n.d.
	222	W-Wr	n.d.
	223	West and East (East and West, Clara, Molly)	n.d.
	224	What I Learned in Assertiveness Training	1999, n.d.
	225	When Buddy Holly,…	1982-1983
	226	When I Ascend Into Guitar Heaven