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OGLMC 0308 Thomas McGrath Papers

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1 Folder

1. Guggenheim Fellowship - application and correspondence

2. Poem - "Lear's Murzzuschlag Song: Allegro Energico E Passionato" for Edward

Dahlberg, September 1968

3. Poem - "Elegy on Fortification's Illusions" for Truman Nelson, by David Cumberland

4. Correspondence July 1968 - August 1968

5. Correspondence January 1968 - June 1968

6. Correspondence September 1966 - October 1966

7. Correspondence August 1967

8. Correspondence July 1967

9. Correspondence June 1967

10. Correspondence May 1967

11. Correspondence April 1967

12. Correspondence January 1967

13. Correspondence (no dates)

14. Correspondence January 1969 - June 1969

15. Correspondence and poetry related to Crazy Horse 1967


17. Correspondence from Allen Planz (no dates)

18. Correspondence April 1966

19. Correspondence May 1966 - June 1966

20. Correspondence August 1966

21. Correspondence June 1966 - July 1966

22. Correspondence February 1966 - March 1966

23. Correspondence 1966

24. Correspondence November 1966 - December 1966

25. Correspondence January 1965 - December 1965

26. Correspondence August 1968 - September 1968

27. It #9, Robert Bly, featured poet in a small poetry magazine


29. Correspondence January 1964

30. Correspondence February 1964


32. Correspondence January 1962 - August 1963

33. Correspondence May 1963 - August 1963

34. Correspondence September 1963 - December 1963

35. Correspondence November 1962

36. Poetry submitted to Thomas McGrath by Mel Weisburg and others

37. Book review of The Disinherited

38. Screen play The Bravest Boat September 11, 1961

39. Screen play, first version of KEF

40. The Ages of Time a script for the Hamilton Watch Company by Thomas McGrath and

Lloyd Ritter, 2nd revision - January 1959

41. Screen play, The House of Man

42. Screen play, Revised to include suggestions by Dr. Bacon and Rand McNally staff

43. Screen play, The Johnson County War by Michael Cimino

44. Ms. "NYC" (New York City). Probably by Gene Frumkin

45. Ms. of a Mel Weisburg novel (untitled) and correspondence from c. February 1963

46. Correspondence from Open Skull Press, 1968 and excerpt from Letter to an Imaginary

Friend

47. Poems from Henry Wolff, 1969

48. Poems from Arnold Rattenburg

49. Poetry submitted to Crazy Horse (C. 1970)

50. Screen play Silent Running by Dennis Lynton Clark and Robert Dillon, with notes by

Thomas McGrath

51. Photocopy of Disenchantment or Default? a Lay Sermon, by E.P. Thompson

52. The Incidence of War and Other Poems, by R.P. Kingston

53. Correspondence and essay from Jack Beeching

54. Poems from Sid Gershgoren

55. Preview June 1973, Volume 7, Number 3 "Dakota is Everywhere - A Conversation with

Thomas McGrath"

56. Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Book II, typed with proper line spacing and length

57. Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Book II, typed with corrections

58. Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Book II, "1st typed copy from the handwritten Ms. in the

Barredor notebook"

59. KEF, a screenplay by Thomas McGrath and Michael Cimino, 2 copies

60. PARADISE, a screen play by Thomas McGrath and Michael Cimino, 2 copies

61. Conquering Horse, a screen play by Thomas McGrath and Michael Cimino, 2 copies

62. HIKA (Kenyon College), V. 28, #3, Spring-Summer 1966. Poems by Robert Hazel

63. Sun Dance by Vahan Gregory, including a letter to Thomas McGrath, 1965

64. Shooting script outline for Philadelphia '76, by Francis Thompson

Box 2 Folder

1. Correspondence April 1969 - July 1969

2. Miscellaneous screen plays

3. 1 copy (in Russian) of the Newspaper "The Union Administration of Authors of the

USSR" (1 August 1963), including a poem by Thomas McGrath

4. Copy of manuscript, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part II

5. Handwritten notes and drafts of poems, as well as typed drafts. The following poems are

included (listed by title or first line):

"-30 Fahrenheit" "All those ambulatory Queers"

"October leaf-fall" "Loon"

"Pheasant Season" "After his girl cut out"

"Riddle" "Epitaph of a man devoured by monsters"

"That's the Way it Goes" "Used Up"

"Young Man Manhattan" "The Exiles Epitaph"

"For Eugenia" "At Fargo"

"After moondown" note: See "Sound of One

Hand" "Obituary"

"Terrors and Advantages" "For Alvaro"

"The Sound of One Hand I (concl)" "On Moving Into A New Home"

"The Stars" "The Weather Report"

"For a book by Charles Humbolt" "Thalassa! Thalosa!"

"Love Belongs to the North" "The End of the Line"

"To His Muse" "The World; the Lovers; Falling Stars"

"The man attacked by the bear" "The Dreams of Wild Horses"

"Sound of One Hand" "Blues for the Old Revolutionary Women"

6. Copy of a typed manuscript, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part II

7. Correspondence February 1962 - June 1962



10. Correspondence November 1962

11. Correspondence December 1962


13. Script fragments

14. Handwritten manuscript Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part I

15. Untitled manuscript, Selected Poems: 1942-1962 . The following poems may be found in

this folder:

Part One Wartime

"The Odor of Blood" "Homecoming"

"Remembering that Island"

"Sailing North

on a Troop

Ship"

"Night in Wartime" "War in the

Aleutians"

"Here is a Skeleton" "Encounter"

"The Spectators" "Crash Report"

"How it All Looked After the War" "The Repeated

Journey"

Part Two, Memories of the Depression

"Cal the Last of the Real Wobs" "Fords

Leaving"

"Gate to the Dream" "The

Depression"

"Strike Days" Going to

College"

""Depression in Baton Rouge" "In Baton

Rouge"

"Studying the Metaphysicals in Baton Rouge"

"Stealing from

the President of

the University

of North

Dakota"

Part Three Something Permanently Good

"Love in a Bug"

"Hot, Great-

Hearted

Women"

"Such a Simple Love" "Chaos"

"Legend"

"Fanfare for a

Procession of

Heroes"

"Pueblo! Pueblo!"

"Ode for the

American Dead

in Korea"

" The Tourists"

"Like the

Watchman in

Agamemnon

"One Who Has Looked at the Dark" "In Los

Angeles"

"Epitaph"

16. Manuscripts for Tomasito Songs, by Tomasito McGrath, 1975 . This folder contains the

following poems (listed by title or first line):

"Lakes" "A swan of wool and buffalo hides"

"Near the Rum River" "A Journey"

"Poem" "Someone has lost"

"Counting Song" "Big Snow I"

"Tongue Twister" "Big Snow II"

"Manifesto" "Tomasito's Poem For His Father"

"Waking" "December 24, 1974"

"Lakes" "Tomasito's Conundrum"

"Counting Song" "December 24, 1974"

"Manifesto" "Tomasito's Poem for His Father"

"Tomasito's Poem for His Mother" "The Runaway Hamburger (A Delicious Story)"

"Someone Has Lost" "The Crocuses My"

"Tomasito's Conundrum" "Big Snow I"

"Big Snow II" "Tomasito's Conundrums"

"Waking" "Someone Has Lost"

"Lakes" "Near the Rum River"

"Poem" "A Journey"

"A swan of wool and buffalo hides"

17. Dummies of Tomasito Songs, by Tomasito McGrath, 1975

18. A Sound of One Hand (short poems), "second original draft." This folder contains the

following poems (listed according to title or first line)

"Yes" "Be Careful"

"All month long I have heard the owls" "Among the Things We Are Left to Do"

"The stars! The stars!" "You, Yannis Ritsos"

"Affirmation" "Peace! Land! Peyote!"

"Visitors" "The true darkness of the forest"

"Greek Wedding" "Alas!"

"Eclipse" "ON THE OCCASION of the launching of the

Red"

"in the smallest tidepool" "Advice"

"Morning and evening" "A Theory"

"In fog . . ." "Ghost fire"

"My dandelions" "Remembering Issa"

"Comfort" "Fallen chestnut blossoms"

"Somewhere Ahead" "Surprise"

"A barbwire fence" "The Scalping Knife"

"Summer" "The Cottonwood"

"A million puffs of smoke!" "Arrivals"

"What We Don't Know Kills Us" "THE UNFAIRNESS OF IT ALL"

"Moon" "The Need for Dictionaries III"

"Gloomy woods, and this highwayman" "The scarecrow shivering in November corn"

"The stars" "Darkness of winter solstice"

"The long wound of the summer--" "Pheasant Season"

"Sleepy Birdsong. . ." "For Alvaro"

"You out there, so secret" "I am travelling, travelling"

"The grand days," "Umber sundown"

"Across the winter-white coulee hills" "Anonymity has a name"

"One farmhouse light--" "To speak is the vice"

"The queen of Accident County" "All is not well?"

"Empty canvas." "The stick of the blind man"

"Ear to hear;" "Empty playground,"

"Down the small and crooked road" "Did you bring me a present? the little boy

asks."

"Black" "The rabbit dreams of hunting."

"Why I never married" "Loon"

"Where Janie Went In" "Epitaph of a Man Devoured by Monsters"

"Full moon and silence." "Powers of Darkness"

"Route Song and Epitaph" "Summer Lightening"

"I see the moon." Your knife's a most particular guest,"

"The man attacked" "The Exiles Epitaph"

"That's the Way it Goes" "A Season"

"Presumptions" "Poem"

"At Fargo" "The Need for Dictionaries II"

"Horses of the moon--" "The two-faced sea--"

"Sultry afternoon. The old dog" "Callings"

"In the list of one thousand false

addresses" "In Other Worlds"

"After moondown" "A Field of Sunflowers"

"The slow sulfur" "The Need for Dictionaries"

"Legislators of Darkness" "Loud November rain"

"Faults of Darkness" "A Distant Republic Demands"

"A History of Language" "Hushed bright pond stillness."

"Cross Country Flight" "Solidarity"

"Proportions" "Resurrections"

"Terrors and Advantages" "Some Kinds of Knowledge"

"Half-life" "What We Think We Know"

"Lightcrackle." "Among the trophies of Death"

"Small things, soft," "Nothing is lost"

"From Old Days" "Weights and Measures"

"In a Landscape West of Eden" "Hunter in the cold field."

"The Classics" "How it Feels to be Saved"

19. Movie at the End of the World, poems and addresses of individuals to receive copies

20. South Dakota Review, "Questions on Place in Literature and Responses by Thomas

McGrath" (handwritten draft)

21. Miscellaneous poems by Thomas McGrath, including Letter to an Imaginary Friend,

Part III. This folder contains the following poems which are listed by title or first line:

"Letter to an Imaginary Friend (Part Three)" Typed

with handwritten corrections "Totems MS VI" handwritten

"Totems VI" typed "Afternoon of a McGrath"

handwritten

"Afternoon of a McGrath" typed "Late in the early dark"

"Totems V" handwritten "Totems V" typed with handwritten

corrections

"Totems V" typed with handwritten corrections "Hard Bought"

"In Search" "Remembering Loves and Deaths"

"Body of woman, shadows of black and white" "A Tomasito Poem"

"Revisionist Poem --Pope" "Why We Love Wakan Tanka"

"Revisionist Poem : Machado" "Next Door to the Poorhouse"

"Tomasito's Conundrum" "A Tomasito Poem"

"John Grass Says" "Night Work"

"For Tomasito" "You, Yannis Ritsos"

"The true darkness of the forest" "Somewhere Ahead"

"Footnote" "Fallen chestnut blossoms"

"Comfort" "Remembering Issa"

"My dandelions" "Ghost Fire"

"End of a Season" "In the Stoa of Attalus"

"Alas!" "In fog. . ."

"A theory" "A Sound of One Hand"

"Solon's Song" "Conundrum"

"Advice" "In the smallest tidepool"

"Greek Wedding" "Children's Games"

"The Children" handwritten "Totems (I)"

"The Children" typed with handwritten corrections "Totems (IV)" typed with

handwritten corrections

"Totems (IV)" handwritten "Next Door to the Poorhouse"

"Revisionist Poem" "Toward Paradise"

"The Preterition of Aquarius" "Preterition Again"

"A Sociology of Instincts" "Totems (I)" typed with

handwritten correction

"Totems (I)" typed "Totems (II)" typed

"Totems (III)" typed "Totems" typed

"Mottoes for a Sampler on Historical Subjects" "The Last War Poem of the War"

"Blues for Cisco Houston" "Something is Dying Here"

"Driving Toward Boston I Run Across One of

Robert Bly's Old Poems" typed "Long Distance From a War"

"Praises" "The Return"

"In the Pentagon Parking Lot October '67" "What Wakes Us"

"Travels of an American in Search of God" "A Homecoming for Odysseus"

"Driving Toward Boston I Run Across One of Bob

Bly's Old Poems" handwritten

"People coming with their arms full

of books"

"Crow Cry," "Children's Games"

"The Lineaments of Unsatisfied Desire" "Sound of 1 Hand"

"Alas!" "Children's Games"

"Driving Toward Boston I Run Across One of

Robert Bly's Old Poems" Typed "The Little Judgement"

"Pictures From the Lost Continent of Currier &

Ives" "Salute"

"Eclipse" "For Tomasito"

"For Tomasito" "In the Sleep of Reason"

"Eclipse" handwritten "Summer"

"The Cottonwood" "A million puffs of smoke!"

"Surprise" "For Tomasito"

"The Scalping Knife" "The Legends"

"A barbwire fence" "The Sea Inside Us"

"The Scalping Knife" "A barbwire fence interrupting"

"Where Janie Went In" "Where Janie Went In"

"Where Janie Went In" "Epitaph of a Man Devoured by

Monsters"

"Epitaph of a Man Devoured by Monsters" "Where Janie Went In"

"Terrors and Advantages" "Summer lightening shivers in the

high pine"

"The Sound of One Hand" "What is named" "Horses of the

moon--"

"The Sound of One Hand I" "The Sound of One Hand I"

"Horses of the Moon--" "Horses of the Moon--"

"Arrivals" "The thinning fog--"

"Arrivals" "Summer night O Magnificant"

"Loon" "Arrivals"

"The two--faced sea--" "The Sound of One Hand XIII"

"The two--faced sea--" "Darkness of winter solstice;"

"Everything vertical" "Everything vertical"

"Sultry afternoon. The old dog" "The high hunting hawk--" four

copies

"The list of one thousand false addresses" four

copies "Everything Verticle"

"The Sound of One Hand (concl." "Summer night O magnificent"

three copies

"West wind sleet cold November breath" "The stick of the blind man"

"The Sound of One Hand" "The long wind of winter"

"Darkness of winter solstice" "Summer night O magnificant"

"Ear to hear;" "The Sound of One Hand II"

"Down the small and crooked road" "Did you bring me a present? the

little boy asks"

"Black" "The rabbit dreams of hunting"

"To speak is the vice" "Yes"

"Among the trophies of Death:" "Empty canvas"

"All is not well?" "Empty canvas."

"The Sound of One Hand" "Anonymity has a name;"

"After moondown" "Down the small and crooked road"

"The Sound of One Hand IV" "I am travelling, travelling;"

"The Sound of One Hand VIII" "Umber sundown"

"For Alvaro" "Sleepy birdsong. . . "

"Pheasant Season" "The long wound of the summer--"

"Across the winter-white coulee hills" "Some Kinds of Knowledge"

"Hunter in the field," "The Sound of One Hand"

"Full moon and silence" "Powers of Darkness"

"Route Song and Epitaph" "Summer Lightening"

"I see the moon" "Your Knife's . . . "

"Man Attacked by Bear" "The Exiles Epitaph"

"That's the Way It Goes" "A Season" "Presumptions"

"Peace! Land! Peyote!" "Poem"

"At Fargo" "After Moondown"

"In November empty fields:" "A Field of Sunflowers"

"The Sound of One Hand" "The Sound of One Hand"

"Darkness of winter solstice;" "The long wound of the summer--"

"Pheasant Season" "Sleepy birdsong. . ."

"For Alvaro" "You out there, so secret."

"I am travelling, travelling. . ." "The grand days,"

"Umber Sundown" "Across the winter-white coulee

hills"

"What we don't know kills us" "Little old deer in the dry creek"

"The Sound of One Hand" "Small things, soft,"

"Arrivals" "After moondown"

"Anonymity has a name;" "November empty fields:"

"One farmhouse light--" "To speak is the vice"

"The queen of Accident County" "All is not well?"

"Empty canvas." "Among the trophies of Death:"

"The stick of the blind man" "Ear to hear:"

"Empty playground," "Down the small and crooked road"

"Did you bring me a present? the little boy asks?" "Black"

"The rabbit dreams of hunting." "Surprise!"

"Summer" "In the Sleep of Reason"

"The scarecrow shivering in November corn." "Gloomy wood, and this

highwayman"

"Moon" "Full Moon"

"The Stars" "Hunter tin the cold field."

"Across a thousand miles of snow" "The seas inside us"

"The Little Judgement" "In the Sleep of Reason, Monsters

are Born"

"Affirmation" "Song"

"The Deaths of the Poets" "Sound of One Hand"

"Meanwhile like a tired magician, from his" "Their darkness is not our

darkness"

"Dawn Song" "Some Kinds of Knowledge"

"The Classics" "The long wind of winter" three

copies

"Hushed bright pond stillness" three copies "Among the Things We Are Left to

Do" three copies

"Loud November Rain." three copies "From Old Days"

"What We Think We Know" "The Sound of One Hand XII"

"A History of Language" "The Sound of One Hand III"

"The Sound of One Hand" "Half-life"

"Some Kinds of Knowledge" "Terrors and Advantages"

"Resurrections" "A Distant Republic Demands"

"After His Girl Cut Out" "Proportions"

"Why I Never Married the Queen of --" "Legislations of Darkness"

"The Sound of One hand" "A Sound of One Hand X"

"Faults of Darkness" "Loon"

"Cross Country Flight" "Weights and Measures" three

copies

"The Need for Dictionaries" "Classicism"

"Classicism" "Why I Never Married the Queen

of----"

"Loon" "Where Janie Went In"

"Epitaph of a Man Devoured by Monsters" "Terrors and Advantages"

"Summer lightening shivers in the high pine" "The Need for Dictionaries II"

"Horses of Moon" "The two--faced sea--"

"Sultry afternoon. The old dog" "Summer night O magnificant"

"Callings" "In the list of one thousand false

addresses"

"In Other Worlds" "The slow sulphur"

"Full moon and silence." "The stars"

"Hunter in the cold field." "How it Feels to be Saved"

"The scarecrow shivering in November corn." "Gloomy woods, and this highway"

"The Need for Dictionaries III" "Moon"

"The Unfairness of It All" "What We Don't Know Kills Us"

"Small things, soft," "Arrivals"

"Somewhere Ahead" "Fallen chestnut blossoms"

"Comfort" "Remembering Issa"

"My dandelions" "Ghost fire"

"In fog. . ." "A Theory"

"Morning and evening" "Advice"

"In the smallest tidepool" "Peace! Land! Peyote"

"Visitors" "The true darkness of the forest"

"Greek Wedding" "Alas!"

"Love Song" "The Dream Range"

"Poem for the Front Door" "Totems"

"Outside My Window" "The Preterition of Aquarious"

"A Sociology of Instincts" "A Tomasito Poem"

"Why We Love Wakan Tankan" "Revisionist Poem: Machado"

"Next Door to the Poorhouse" "Tomasito's Conundrum"

"Lament for Pablo Neruda" "Peace! Land! Peyote!"

"Yes" "Westwind sleet cold November

breath:" 2 copies

"After moondown" 2 copies "The Sound of One Hand" 2 copies

"Summer lightening shivers the high pine." 2 copies "Terrors and Advantages" 2 copies

"Some Kinds of Knowledge" 2 copies "Loon" 2 copies

"Why I Never the Married the Queen of ________" 2

copies "Full Moon and silence"

"Summer Night O Magnificent" 2 copies "October leaf-fall" 2 copies

"Hunter in the field," 2 copies "In November empty fields:"

"Classecism" 2 copies "The Sound of One Hand" 2 copies

"Be Careful"

22. Correspondence January 1965 - March 1965

23. Correspondence April 1965 - May 1965

24. Correspondence May 1964 - November 1964

25. Correspondence December 1964

26. 60-minute tape, "The Poetry and Jazz Players to Their Favorite Poet, Thomas McGrath"

27. 30-minute tape containing four Thomas McGrath poems read to blues-jazz instruments

28. Academic material related to Thomas McGrath's tenure as a professor at North Dakota

State University

29. Correspondence January 15, 1970 - July 6, 1970

30. Correspondence July 8, 1970 - August 5, 1970

31. Correspondence August 7, 1970 - September 2, 1970

32. Correspondence September 5, 1970 - October 5, 1970

33. Correspondence October 6, 1970 - November 20, 1970

34. Correspondence November 3, 1970 - November 10, 1970

35. Correspondence November 11, 1970 - November 17, 1970

36. Correspondence November 17, 1970 - December 9, 1970

37. Correspondence December 9, 1970 - January 8, 1971

38. Correspondence January 19, 1971 - February 11, 1971

39. Correspondence February 12, 1971 - March 29, 1971

40. Correspondence March 29, 1971 - April 10, 1971

41. Correspondence and photocopies of two notebooks (no dates)

42. Correspondence January 21, 1971 - June 8, 1971

43. Correspondence February - June 1971

44. Correspondence July 5, 1971 - September 28, 1971

45. Correspondence October 7, 1971 - November 30, 1971

46. Correspondence December 3, 1971 - December 23, 1971

47. Correspondence, from Jack Beeching 1971

48. Correspondence January 1972 - February 1971

49. Correspondence March 1, 1972 - April 29, 1972

50. Correspondence May 1, 1972 - June 26, 1972

51. Correspondence July 1, 1972 - August 29, 1972


53. Correspondence November 1972 - December 1972

54. Correspondence January 1973 - February 1973

55. Correspondence March 1973 - April 1973

56. Correspondence May 1973 - June 1973

57. Correspondence July 1973

58. Correspondence August 1973 - September 1973

59. First Manifesto, by Thomas McGrath. Published in 1940 by Alan Swallow. Photocopy of

Thomas McGrath's testimony before the Committee on Un-American Activities

Box 3 Folder

1. Correspondence March 1973 - September 1973

2. Four cassette tapes of "A Poetry Reading at Grand Forks, ND," November 1973

3. Correspondence October 1973 - December 1973

4. Correspondence January 1974 - August 1974

5. Correspondence September 1974 - November 1974

6. Correspondence March 1975 - October 1975

7. Character references written in support of Thomas McGrath's case in a trial for

manslaughter in October 1975.

8. Correspondence January 1975 - March 1975, including some from 1973

9. Correspondence April 1975 - October 1975

10. Correspondence (no dates), including poems from David Martinson

11. Poetry

12. Proofs, Letters to Tomasito

13. Poetry

14. Drafts/Proofs




18. Miscellaneous

19. Correspondence and Miscellaneous 1985

20. Interview with Thomas McGrath by James A. Rogers 1984

21. Manuscript of "Letters and Leaves: McGrath's Indian Culture versus Whitman's Poetic

Tradition" Published in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 1, Winter 1985

22. Manuscript of "Seven Poems" by Thomas McGrath. Published in North Dakota

Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 1, 1985

23. Manuscript: "All But the Last," pp 1-150 (This Coffin Has No Handles)

24. Manuscript: "All But the Last," pp 151-300 (This Coffin Has No Handles)

25. Manuscript: "All But the Last," pp 301-435 Comments, (This Coffin Has No Handles)

26. Manuscript: This Coffin Has No Handles, (pp 1 - 150). Printed in North Dakota

Quarterly, Vol.52, No. 4, Fall 1984

27. Manuscript: This Coffin Has No Handles, (pp 151 - 300).

28. Manuscript: This Coffin Has No Handles, (pp 301 - 435).

29. Manuscript: Echoes From Inside the Labyrinth

30. Final Manuscript: Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part II

31. Final Manuscript: Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part IV

32. Notebook: Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part IV, Section III

33. Manuscript drafts: Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part III BOX 3 FOLDER:

34. Miscellaneous Poems (A-M), arranged alphabetically The following poems may be found

in this folder: (listed by title or first line)

"Anniversaries: for Don and Henrie Gordon" 2

copies "Another Christmas Carol" 3 copies

"Another Quandry"

"At Momentary Loss of Belief in the

Wisdom of the Common People and, of

course, the Bastards Who Own and

Operate Them" 2 copies

"At Port Townsend: for Sam and Tree" "Behold the Woman" 2 copies

"Birthday Poem" "Birthdays"

"Both Camps" "Blues for the Old Revolutionary

Woman"

"The Bravest Boat" 3 copies "Burdens"

"Butterfly or Emperor?" "The Children of Contemporary Cities"

"The Citizen: Dreaming" 3 copies "Cold Ceremony"

"The Defeat of the Novelist" "Definition"

"The Dream Range" "The End of the Line"

"Epitaph for a Pythagorean" "Even Song" 2 copies

"A Field of Sunflowers" "Flight"

"Flint and Steel" "Flying Home"

"For a book by Charles Humbolt" "For a dancer"

"For Alvaro" "For Joe McGrath"

"For Lyla -- Ada, Minnesota, Oct. '85" 2 copies "Waiting to Die All Over (after cutting

daylilies at dusk)" by David Martinson

"For Naomi Replansky, Poet and Cartographer,

Recently Departed From Los Angeles: Upon the

Occasion of Receiving From Her a Poem in Most

Shameless Praise of San Francisco"

"The Ghost" "Fiesta"

"Bad Cess" "The Owl"

"Graveyard Shift" "Tomasito Says"

"Flying Home" "Graveyard Shift"

"Let Us Turn Over the Page" "Guerillas (I)" 4 copies

"How the Revolution was Betrayed: for Att.

Benjy Muggles" "In the Dream Time"

"In the High Country" "In the Papal Ring" 6 copies

"Instructions for the Dead" "Invitation" 2 copies

"Joe Hill at Harvard" 2 copies "A Kind of Dedication"

"Lament for Pablo Neruda" "Landscape With Birds" 4 copies

"To His Muse: Or Blues My Naughty Sweetie

Gave Me" "The Language of the Dead" 2 copies

"Last Will and Testament" 2 copies "Long Distance From a War"

"Long Goodbye" "Look on My Works!" 2 copies

"Loon" 2 copies "The Fatigue of Objects"

"At Lost Lake" "Newtonian Law"

"Illumination" "Mediterranean" 2 copies

"Mediation" "The Migration of Cities" 4 copies

"Mystery"

35. Miscellaneous Poems (N-Z) The following poems may be found in this folder: (arranged

by title or first line)

"Near Pah-Gotzin-Kay" 2 copies "NOTES ON THE REVOLUTION"

"Nuclear Winter" 2 copies "Offering"

"Old Times" "On Moving Into a New House"

"Ontology" "Poem"

"Pieces of String" "Poem at the Winter Solstice" 2 copies

"Poems by Tomasito" "Power"

"Praises IV" 4 copies "Presumptions"

"Rediscovery" 3 copies "Rune"

"Four Poems Thomas McGrath

Salute #2" 2 copies "Senior Citizens"

"A Sixth Heresy of Parson Chance" "Song"

"Spiritual Exercises" "Suspicion of Some Kinds of Solitude"

"Than Never" 2 copies "To His Muse: or Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave

Me"

"Too Bad" "Towards the End" 3 copies

"Trail Blazers" 2 copies "Transformations of Old Silver Crossing the

Continent" 2 copies

"The Underground" 6 copies "The Unfairness of it All"

"The Useless Passions" "At Sunrise"

"Watchman! What of the Night?" "Wayfaring Stranger"

"Welcome" "Why He Can't Tell You Where Nicaragua Is -- Not

Even the Continent"

36. Notes and other miscellaneous

37. Photocopy: Annual Report of the Committee on Un-American Activities for the Year

1953

Box 4 Folder

1. Three successive transcripts of an interview with Thomas McGrath conducted by James

McKenzie and Robert Lewis in 1985.

2. Four Poems" by Thomas McGrath submitted to North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4

(1988).

3. Proof sheets, "Conversations with Thomas McGrath" written by James McKenzie and

printed in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4 (1988).

4. Revised copy of "Conversations with Thomas McGrath."

5. Draft and proof sheets, "What is There To Celebrate?: The Maple River Rag" written by

Thomas McGrath and published in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 56, no. 4 (1988).

SERIES I: CEILI

6. Ceili - announcements and programs

7. Ceili - original versions of letters sent by the Loft

8. Ceili - correspondence between Lois Vossen, program coordinator, and members of the

discussion panel that was part of the Ceili program

9. Ceili - correspondence, regrets

10. Ceili - correspondence, tributes to Thomas McGrath from friends and admirers unable to

attend

11. Ceili - correspondence, acceptance letters

12. Ceili - recording and photography releases for participants

13. Ceili - lodging arrangements for out-of-town participants and guests

14. Ceili - funding, grant applications for funds for the three-day Ceili

15. Ceili - thank you letters

16. Ceili - newspaper clippings

17. Articles submitted to special supplement to The View, published by The Loft, issued in

honor of Thomas McGrath's seventieth birthday

18. Special supplement to The View (1986),a literary publication produced by The Loft,

issued in honor of Thomas McGrath's seventieth birthday

19. Miscellaneous

SERIES II: "A CELEBRATION OF THOMAS McGRATH"

20. Newspaper clippings - obituaries

21. "Celebration" - mailing lists

22. "Celebration" - RSVPs

23. "Celebration" - Poem written by Lyle Dagget in honor of Thomas McGrath, entitled,

"late report from an agent of the worker's revolution temporarily detained behind class

enemy lines: longshot says carry on"

24. A View From the Loft, Volume 13, number 5, December 1990. Contains a memorial

tribute to Thomas McGrath.

25. Miscellaneous announcements for memorials held in honor of Thomas McGrath

26. Correspondence - Jack Beeching and Thomas McGrath, poetry by Thomas McGrath. The

following Poems may be found in this folder:

"In the Hills of Old Wyoming" "Ars Poetica; Or: Who Lives in the Ivory

Tower?"

"Poor John Luck and the Middle Class Struggle; Or

the Corpse in the Book-keeper's Body" "The Year the Spots Fell Off the Dice"

"Mr. and Mrs. Foxbright X. Muddlehead, at Home" "The Roads Into the Country"

"Remembering That Island" "Ode For the American Dead in Korea"

"The Trouble with the Times" "A Woman Praying Through the St. Louis

Blues"

"Against the False Magicians" "The Passion of the Heavenly Detective"

"Envoi" "Proletarian in Abstract Light"

"Escape" "The End of the World"

"The Roads into the Country" "Against the False Magicians"

untitled, the first line reads: How odd! the fishers

think: "Definition"

"The Mobile" "Longshot O'Leary Says It's So Peaceful in

the Country"

"The Homilies of Bedrock Jones" "Poem in Autumn"

"The Little Oddessy of Jason Quint, of Science,

Doctor" "Thinking of the Olympic Rifle Matches"

"Ritual Song" "The Compleynte of Dreamy Dan Dollar a

Rentier in a Time of Revolution"

"The Rituals at the Chapel Perilous" "Mottoes for a Sampler on Historical

Subjects"

"A Woman Praying Through the St. Louis Blues" "The World of the Perfect Tear"

"The Commissar of Creampuffs" untitled, the first line reads: "Down the

small and crooked path"

"In Praise of a Dead Body" "The Uneven Development of the Heart"

"Mr. and Mrs. Foxbright X. Muddlehead, at Home" "The Several Fortunes of Jonah Hope"

"Icon" "Thomas Paradox's First Epistle to the

Philistines"

"Legend" "Think at This Hour"

"Poem" "The Pleasures of the Great Salt Lake"

"Tourists at Ensanada" "A Sixth Heresy of Parson Chance"

"Miss Penelope Burgess, Balling the Jack" "For Alice For the Time Being"

"The Long Enchantment" "Judge Tantrum Foote Lays Down the

Law"

"Prisoners" "Amelia's Waltz"

"De Poetica" "Political Song for a New Year"

"Legendary Progress" "Ode for the American Dead in Korea"

27. Correspondence - Jack Beeching, Thomas McGrath, and Alice McGrath. The following

poems written by Thomas McGrath may be found in this folder:

"In a Season of War" "Letter to Paul"

"In a Season of War" -printed in booklet form, no

publisher or date listed "Monsters of the Happy Land"

"Christmas Music" "Peregrinations of the Southern

Conscience"

"The Activities of Art and Science" "The Progress of the Soul"

"Come Into the Garden" "Factory Fences"

"A Note on the Late Elections" -printed on a postcard Untitled -written on the corner of a

napkin

"Gone" "When We Pass"

"A gate between us" "Armondo"

"A Shepherd at Glengarrif"

28. "Thomas McGrath - A Memoir," written by Jack Beeching in 1992.

29. Correspondence - Ann Lewin Diament and Thomas McGrath, including poems written

by Diament for McGrath, 1986-1989

30. Obituaries

31. Miscellaneous

Box 5 Folder

SERIES I: PROJECTS REGARDING THOMAS MCGRATH

1. Correspondence - regarding assorted written projects involving Thomas McGrath

2. Correspondence, precis and notes for a paper presented at the Modern Language

Association's winter meeting - 1976

3. Correspondence - with Thomas McGrath, 1977-1989, including a photocopy of the

"Christmas Section II" from Letter to an Imaginary Friend

4. Correspondence - related to Frederick Stern's paper, ""The Delegate for Poetry":

McGrath as Communist Poet".

5. Various manuscript versions of ""The Delegate for Poetry": Thomas McGrath as

Communist Poet"

6. Correspondence and proposals regarding proposed special sessions for the Modern

Language Association's annual conferences, 1982, 1983

7. Correspondence with George Day regarding Stern's article "Thomas McGrath" which

was submitted to the Literary History of the American West, 1982-1983, (manuscript

included)

8. Review of Thomas McGrath's "Passages Toward the Dark", submitted to Western

American Literature, 1983

9. Correspondence and abstracts - "Thomas McGrath and the Long Poem", presented at

Cleveland State University, 1986-1988

10. Manuscript - "Thomas McGrath and the Long Poem", 1986

11. Final page proofs - "Thomas McGrath: A People's Poet", published in the American

Oxonian, 1991

12. Review of Thomas McGrath's book, Death Song, submitted to Western American

Literature, 1991

13. Various articles about Thomas McGrath and his poetry, not written by Frederick Stern

SERIES II: THE REVOLUTIONARY POET IN THE UNITED STATES

14. Correspondence between Frederick Stern and various publishers regarding Stern's

proposal for his book, 1987-1989

15. Correspondence - University of Missouri Press, 1987-1989

16. Correspondence - Copyright permission for previously published pieces used in Stern's

book

17. Correspondence between Frederick Stern and contributing authors, 1983-89

18. Advertisements for and book reviews of Stern's book

19. Miscellaneous

20. Manuscript - The Revolutionary Poet in the United States: The Poetry of Thomas

McGrath

21. Continuation of manuscript from Folder #19

22. Manuscript - as submitted for copy editing, 1988

23. Copy-edited page proofs of Stern's book

24. Continuation of copy-edited page proofs

25. Edited printout of Stern's book, June 22, 1988

26. Proofs of Stern's book, September 8, 1988

27. Dacotah Territory, No. 2, February 1972

28. Catalog of the Thomas McGrath Exhibit held at the NDSU library from 1 May 1991 - 30

June 1991.

29. Correspondence from Thomas to Alice McGrath January 1981 - August 1984

30. Correspondence from Thomas to Alice McGrath Undated, probably from the 1950s

31. Alice McGrath's FBI file (photocopy)

32. Miscellaneous including a poem by Alice McGrath

Box 6 Folder

1. "Teaching Tom McGrath: Imaginary Friends and Real Students" by Rane Arroyo, 1994.

2. Interview with Alice McGrath, conducted by Glenn Sheldon. Published in Pittsburgh

Quarterly, Winter 1991-92 issue.

3. Revolution: The Significance of "the Fifth Season" in the Poems of Thomas McGrathby

Glenn Sheldon, undated.

4. Correspondence; 1975-1988.

5. Newspaper Clippings: 1980-90

6. Memorial Service for McGrath invite list: Chicago, Illinois, March 15, 1991

7. American Book Award; 1984

8. Pittsburgh Quarterly containing interview with Alice McGrath, 1992

9. Writings by or about Thomas McGrath

10. Paper: "McGrath at a Biblical Age" By Fred Whitehead, undated

11. Correspondence - miscellaneous: 1975-1985

12. Correspondence between Alice and Tom McGrath: 1949-1991, undated

13. Correspondence between Alice and Tom McGrath - typed version: 1949-1991, undated

14. Correspondence - to Nickson from McGrath: 1954-1989

15. Correspondence - miscellaneous: 1968-1996

16. Book cover to Staves: A Book of Songs, by Richard Nickson and introduction by

McGrath, 1977.

17. Title pages of McGrath's books - photocopies, inscribed, and signed to Nickson from

McGrath.

18. Border Crossings, Fall 1985. An interview with McGrath on p. 104.

19. People's Culture, Vol. 2 No. 1. McGrath featured on p. 23.

20. Foreign Literature, Vol. 11, 1987. McGrath on pp. 65-147.

21. Foreign Literature, Vol. 12, 1987. McGrath on pp. 58-122.

22. Pink, David

23. North Dakota Quarterly, Fall - 1982; tributed to McGrath

24. Crazy Horse - edited by Tom and Eugenia McGrath.

25. Dakota Arts Quarterly; Summer 1977, Vol. 1 No. 1 - Containing McGrath Poetry.

26. The Subversive Agent

27. North Dakota Quarterly, Winter 1972, Vol. 40 No. 1. Interview with McGrath.

28. Correspondence 1987-1995.

29. Newspaper Clippings.

30. The American Poetry Review, Vol. 18, No. 3. Featuring McGrath.

31. "The Grass Eats the Horse". By Eric Blau.

32. North Dakota Quarterly; "Act Three of 'The Grass Eats the Horse': A Play about the

American Poet Thomas Matthew McGrath". By: Eric Blau.

33. Investigation of Communist Activities in the Los Angeles Area - Part 5 (testimony of

McGrath).

34. The Independence Shavian, Vol. 27 No. 1- 2/1989. McGrath - p. 17.

35. Poetry.

36. Foreword to Permit Me Refuge by McGrath. 3

37. People's Culture, Jan.-April 1991. Featuring McGrath.

38. Miscellaneous.

39. The Shining Times, May Day, 1998, edition devoted to Thomas McGrath.

40. Correspondence between Robert Lewis and Richard Nickson: 1999

41. Correspondence between Robert Lewis and Richard Nickson pertaining to photographs

and an audio tape: 1999

42. Report on Rhodes Scholars from North Dakota: 1947-48

43. University of North Dakota Notice of Appointment: July 7, 1977

44. Thomas McGrath, “The Movie at the End of the World”: 1979

45. “A Note on the Late Elections” (written on a postcard): 1979

46. Poetry reading advertisement: March 31, 1981

47. University of North Dakota “News”: May 6, 1981

48. Poems:

“A Visit to the House of the Poet.” By Thomas McGrath: 1987

“Alabanza para Thomas McGrath.” By Sergio Ramirez.

“Homage al Gran Poeta ?Tom McGrath.’” By Fernando Silva

49. Correspondence to Alice McGrath: 1984-1991

50. Newspaper clippings from the October 21, 1988 edition of Publishers Weekly and the

September 16, 1991 edition of .

51. Reports from the United States Department of Justice: 1953

52. Letter from Billy Collins to Alice McGrath: June 3, 2003

53. Newspaper Clippings: 1990

SEPARATIONS RECORD

Audio tape #1670, "Celebration of Thomas McGrath," was recorded on March 15, 1991 at the

Amalgamated Clothing and Textiles Worker's Union Hall in Chicago. Invited guests reminisce

and read poetry in a memorial tribute to Thomas McGrath, nationally known poet from North

Dakota. Thomas McGrath's ex-wife Alice serves as emcee and speakers include Stud's Terkel

and Robert Bly.

Video Tape #422, "Celebration of Thomas McGrath," was also recorded on March 15, 1991 at

the Amalgamated Clothing and Textiles Worker's Union in Chicago. There are problems with

the video tape near the end of the program.

Two audio tapes of Thomas McGrath reading and a conversation with Robert Lewis have been

placed in the Department's Audio-Visual Collections and labeled #1671 and #1672. Video tape

#423, "The Movie at the End of the World: A Portrait of Thomas McGrath", has been placed in

the Department's Audio-Visual Collections. Reading of Thomas McGrath's poetry, discussion of

his family background and his work experience, including organizing workers in New York, and

discussion of his writing are included in this film.

Video Tape #420 begins with a poetry reading by Thomas McGrath at the Loft in St. Paul,

Minnesota. He is then interviewed in his Moorhead, Minnesota home. present are Dale Jacobson

and Robert Edwards (interviewer). Topics discussed include McGrath's experiences during the

1930s and 1940s, his exposure to the class struggle, striking workers, and the Communist Party.

Recorded in the summer of 1983. Video tape #421 is a continuation of #420. It includes

interviews of McGrath in several locations with varying groups of people. Topics discussed

include McGrath's work writing documentaries, U.S. poets and how they compare to each other,

and various types of political poetry, Welsh mining, Mexican history, and Hopi, Mayan and

Aztec mythology. Recorded in the summer of 1983.

Audio tape #1676, Thomas McGrath reading selected works from Letter to an Imaginary Friend

and The Movie at the End of the World, has been separated from this collection and added to the

department's Audio Tape Collection. The date and place of this reading are unknown.

Two broadsides advertising a public reading of Thomas McGrath's poetry at the University of

North Dakota. The sketch of Thomas McGrath used on the broadsides was drawn by Nancy

McGrath and is dated 1981. The broadside does not state the year the reading was given.

This addition to the Thomas McGrath Papers consists of The Bread of This World, a single-poem

book containing a work by Thomas McGrath. The book is signed by Gaylord Schanilec,

publisher and illustrator. It is number 178 of 210. The eighteen page book is hand-bound and

illustrated with Schanilec's color wood engravings, and was published in 1992 by Midnight

Paper Sales Press. Call number: PS3525.A24234 B74 1992b

Staves: A Book of Songs was removed from the collection and deposited in the general stack of

the Chester Fritz Library.

Materials large in size were placed in the Orin G. Libby Oversized Collections. This material

consists of David Pink programs and other programs that were given in the honor of Thomas

McGrath.

Also separated from the McGrath collection were two books. They are:

Onthebus: A New Literary Magazine, by the Bombshelter Press of Los Angeles, issue 8 & 9;

Vol. III, No. 2, and Vol. IV, No. 1. The book contains an interview with McGrath on pp. 256-

266. It was placed in the Special Collections book stacks.

...All But the Last. by Thomas McGrath, 1984. (Russian translation).

Two audio tapes were also separated from the McGrath Papers and placed in the Audio Tape

Collection in the Department. They are numbered: 1801 and 1802.

The unidentified interview with Thomas McGrath was separated and placed into the Orin G.

Libby Audio Tape Collection. The audio tape number is 1924.

Also, the poetry readings of Thomas McGrath and Richard Nickson on audio cassette were

separated and placed the Orrin G. Libby Audio Tape Collection. The audio tape number is 1925.

One oversize folder containing a 1986 edition of the Heartland Bookletter with an article about

McGrath entitled “McGrath at 70 Years,” and a 2003 edition of the Los Angeles Times Book

Review containing an article entitled “The Best of Poetry at the Worst of Times” was placed in

the Oversize File Cabinets. The material was placed in Oversize Folder 2.

PHOTOGRAPHS

The following photographs were separated and deposited into the Orin G. Libby Photograph

collection. They are numbered:

OGL #308-1a,1b

OGL #308-2a,2b,2c,2d

OGL #308-3a,3b,3c

Photographs were taken out of the collection and placed in the Orin G. Libby Photographic

Collection. They are numbered OGL #308-48 through OGL#308-56.

Seven photographs of Thomas McGrath were separated and placed in the Orin G. Libby

Photograph Collection.

OGL308-57 Thomas Mcgrath with Richard Nickson, “Little Tom”, and Eugena: 1968

OGL308-58 Thomas Mcgrath with Richard Nickson and “Little Tom”: 1968

OGL308-59 Thomas Mcgrath with Richard Nickson and “Little Tom”: 1968

OGL308-60 Thomas McGrath with Alice and Richard Nickson: undated

OGL308-61 Thomas McGrath: undated OGL308-62 Thomas McGrath: undated

OGL308-63 Thomas McGrath: undated

Nine photographs were separated and added to the Orin G. Libby Photograph Collection.

OGL#308-64 McGrath, 2714 Marsh Street: undated

OGL#308-65 McGrath: undated

OGL#308-66 McGrath: undated

OGL#308-67 McGrath with Marion just before divorce: undated

OGL#308-68 McGrath with Marion: undated

OGL#308-69 McGrath with Marion: undated

OGL#308-70 McGrath with Alice in Seattle before Columbus Awards: undated

OGL#308-71 McGrath with “Laura”: undated

OGL#308-72 McGrath with “Dan”: undated

Documents

OGLMC 0308 Thomas McGrath Papers BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORYlibrary.und.edu/_files/docs/finding-aids/oglmc-0308.pdf · Manuscripts for Tomasito Songs, by Tomasito McGrath, 1975 . This