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Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

Subject File

Manuscripts 

Notebooks

Correspondence

Dead Metaphor Press

Thesis

Electronic Records

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Special Collections

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of poetic materials including handwritten and typed drafts, notes, and preliminary versions of both his published and unpublished works.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 While many of these manuscripts illustrate the evolution of published works, the contents also includes unpublished items.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