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of poetic materials including handwritten and typed drafts, notes, and preliminary versions of both his published and unpublished works.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 While many of these manuscripts illustrate the evolution of published works, the contents also includes unpublished items.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