N.B.: Manuscripts and typescripts were given in no particular 
order.When it was
possible to determine, earliest drafts were placed first in the folder arrangement. The
number of leaves is noted following each title. Jarrell gave these manuscripts between
1955 and 1960.

<p>
<h2>ARRANGEMENT OF RANDALL JARRELL COLLECTION AT UNCG</h2>
<h3>Box 1 - Manuscripts and typescripts of poems published between 1942 
and 1960</h3> <ul>
<li> Folder 1 - Aging(1 l.) ; La Belle au Bois Dormant (see ms. of Nollekens)
<li> Folder 2 - The Breath of Night (4 ll.)
<li> Folder 3 - The Bronze David of Donatello (41 ll.)
<li> Folder 4 - A Camp in the Prussian Forest (5 ll.)
<li> Folder 5 - Children Selecting Books in a Library (2 ll.)
<li> Folder 6 - Cinderella (see also ms. of Nestus Gurley) (3 ll.)
<li> Folder 7 - The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (2 ll.)
<li> Folder 8 - The Dream of Waking (5 ll.)
<li> Folder 9 - The Elementary Scene (1 ll.)
<li> Folder 10 - The End of the Rainbow (122 ll.) 
<li> Folder 11 - A Girl in a Library (1 l.)
<li> Folder 12 - Hohensalzburg (3 ll.)
<li> Folder 13 - Hope (8 ll.)
<li> Folder 14 - Jamestown (13 ll.)
<li> Folder 15 - Jerome (35 ll.)
<li> Folder 16 - The Jews at Haifa (7 ll.) ; Jonah (see ms. of The Jews at Haifa)
<li> Folder 17 - Lady Bates (4 ll.)
<li> Folder 18 - Leave (4 ll.)
<li> Folder 19 - Loss (1 l.)
<li> Folder 20 - The Maerchen (19 ll.)
<li> Folder 21 - The Memoirs of Glueckel of Hameln (2 ll.)
<li> Folder 22 - Money (see also ms. of Moving and ms. of Terms) (7 ll.)
<li> Folder 23 - Moving (2 ll.)
<li> Folder 24 - Nestus Gurley (25 ll.)
<li> Folder 25 - 1914 (2 ll.)
<li> Folder 26 - Nollekens (7 ll.)
<li> Folder 27 - The One Who Was Different (see also notebook containing Rilke's "The Reader", 8 ll.)
<li> Folder 28 - Overture: The Hostages (3 ll.)
<li> Folder 29 - A Pilot from the Carrier (2 ll.)
<li> Folder 30 - The Prince (2 ll.)
<li> Folder 31 - The Refugees (1 l.)
<li> Folder 32 - A Rhapsody on Irish Times (6 ll.)
<li> Folder 33 - The Rising Sun (4 ll.)
<li> Folder 34 - Second Air Force (2 ll.)
<li> <a href="siegfried.html">Folder 35 - Siegfried (see also: Loss) (15 
ll.)</a>
<li> Folder 36 - The Snow Leopard (see also: The Death of the Ball Turret
Gunner) (1 l.) ; Terms (see: ms. of Moving)
<li>Folder 37 - A War (Another War) see also: ms. of Jerome, leaf 13 (1 l.)
<li> Folder 38 - Washing (13 ll.)
<li> Folder 39 - The Wide Prospect (see also: The Death of the Ball Turret
Gunner) (1 l.)
<li> Folder 40 - Windows (9 ll.)
<li> Folder 41 - The Woman at the Washington Zoo (31 ll.)
<li> Folder 42 - photocopies of poems for class use and exhibits
</ul>
<p>
<h3>Box 2 - Poetry - translations by Randall Jarrell</h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li> Folder 1 - Moerike, Eduard: "Forest Murmurs"-incomplete drafts (19 ll.)
<li> Folder 2 - Radauskas, Henrikas: "The Fire at the Waxworks" - 2 ll.)
<li> Folder 3 - Rilke, Rainer Maria: "Are you following me, strange 
violin?" (2 oversize ll.) 
<li> Folder 4- _____,:"The Child" (4 ll.)
<li> Folder 5 -_____,:"Childhood", "Evening", "Lament" (5 ll.)
<li> Folder 6 -_____,:"The Evening Star" (1 l.)
<li> Folder 7 -_____,:"The Great Night" (5 ll.)
<li> Folder 8 -_____,:"The Grown-Up" (1 l.)
<li> Folder 9 -_____,:"The Reader" and Jarrell's "The One Who was Different"
(77 ll.of a disbound blank book)
<li> Folder 10 - _____,:"The Reader" (3 ll.)
<li> Folder 11 - _____,:"Requiem for the Death of a Boy" (4 ll.)
<li> Folder 12 - _____,:"The Blind Man's Song" (12 ll.)
<li> Folder 13 - _____,:"Washing the Corpse" (7 ll.)
<li> Folder 14 - _____,:"The Unicorn" (1 l.)
<li> Folder 15 - _____,:"The Widow's Song" (15 ll.)
<li> Folder 16 - Chekhov, Anton: The Three Sisters (90 ll.)
</ul>
<p>
<h3>Box 3 - Criticism - rough drafts</h3>
<ul>
<li> Folder 1 - (W.H. AUDEN) "Freud to Paul: The Stages of Auden's 
Ideology (99 ll.)
<li> Folder 2 - (ELIZABETH BISHOP) Elizabeth Bishop's Poems seems to be one of the best books...." (4 ll.)
<li> Folder 3 - (ROBERT FROST) "The Laodiceans" (13 ll.)
<li> Folder 4 - (ROBERT GRAVES) "Graves and the White Goddess" (128 ll.)
<li> Folder 5 - "Graves and the White Goddess", Part I (49 ll.)
<li> Folder 6 - (JAMES STEPHENS) "The Poet's Store of Grave and Gay" (12 ll.)
<li> Folder 7 - (WALLACE STEVENS) "The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens" (28 ll.)
<li> Folder 8 - (ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR) A Wilderness of Ladies - introduction (78 ll.)
<li> Folder 9 - A Wilderness of Ladies - introduction (24 ll. in notebook
<li> Folder 10 - Address by R. J. at the National Book Awards, New York, March 11, 1958 (19 ll.)
<li> Folder 11 - "Age of the Chimpanzee (48 ll.)
<li> Folder 11A - "Age of the Chimpanzee" (published article with Jarrell's ms. notes
<li> Folder 12 - Anchor Book of Stories - introduction (77 ll.)
<li> Folder 12A - Anchor Book of Stories - introduction (72 ll.) leaf 3-12-92 contains letter from Bain T. Stewart, University of Tennessee, Department of English, Nov. 5, 1957
<li> Folder 13 - "The Intellectual in America" (62 ll.)
<li> Folder 14 - "Love and Poetry" (43 ll.)
</ul>
<p>
<h3>Box 4 - Criticism - rough drafts, con't.</h3>
<ul>
<p>
<li>Folder 1 - "Malraux and the Statues at Bamberg" (65 ll.)
<li>Folder 2 - "The New Books: Very Graceful are the Uses of Culture (23 ll.)
<li>Folder 3 - Pictures from an Institution, Book II and Book IV, typescript with ms. corrections/additions and 1 fragment (54 ll.) 
<li>Folder 4 - "Poets, Critics and Readers" (92 ll.)
<li>Folder 5 - "Recent Poetry", leaf 51 contains translation of Rilke's poem, "The Grown Up" (55 ll.) 
<li>Folder 6 - A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (96 ll.)
<li>Folder 7 - "The Schools of Yesteryear" (70 ll.)
<li>Folder 8 - "Speaking of Books"(18 ll.)
<li>Folder 9 - "The Taste of the Age, or Some Difficulties of the Time" (107 ll.)
<li>Folder 10 - "The Woman at the Washington Zoo" (67 ll.)
<li>Folder 11 - "The Woman at the Washington Zoo" - printer's copy (66 ll.)
<li>Folder 12 - "The Year in Poetry" (9 ll.)
<li>Folder 13 - miscellaneous ms. fragments on a variety of topics (17 
ll.) verso of l.17 is a letter to Jarrell from Leonard White, N.C. 
A&T College, 3/3/59, thanking Jarrell for his talk to the 
student body. 
</ul>
<p>
<h3>Box 5 - Translation of Goethe's Faust (Part 1)</h3>
<ul>
<li>Folder 1 - Prologue to the theatre (60 ll.)
<li>Folder 2 - Prologue in heaven (35 ll.)
<li>Folder 3 - scene 1 (50 ll.)
<li>Folder 4 - scene 2 (28 ll.)
<li>Folder 5 - scene 3 (22 ll.)
<li>Folder 6 - scene 4 (84 ll.)
<li>Folder 7 - scene 5 (33 ll.)
<li>Folder 8 - scene 6 (38 ll.)
<li>Folder 9 - scene 7 (13 ll.)
<li>Folder 10 - scene 8 (6 ll.)
<li>Folder 11 - scene 10 and fragment of scene 11 (12 ll.)
<li>Folder 12 - scenes 11 and 12 (31 ll.)
<li>Folder 13 - scene 12 (1 l.)
<li>Folder 14 - scene 13, "Forest and Cavern" (24 ll.)
<li>Folder 15 - scene 16 (15 ll.)
<li>Folder 16 - scenes 17 and 18 (7 ll.)
<li>Folder 17 - scene 19 (22 ll.)
<li>Folder 18 - scene 20 and "Walpurgis Night" (24 ll.)
<li>Folder 19 - scene in the dungeon (11 ll.)
<li>Folder 20 - fragments (8 ll.) 
<li>Bound notebook # 1(64 ll.)
<li>Bound notebook # 2(70 ll.)
<li>Bound notebook # 3(77 ll.)
</ul>
<p>
<h3>Box 5 supplement </h3> - (item too large for Box 5, shelve immediately following)
<ul>
<li>Bound notebook # 4 ; this is a ledger book (67 ll.)
</ul>
<p>
<h3>Box 6 - Photographs</h3>
<ul>
<li>Folder 1 
<ul>
<li>Randall Jarrell, 1941-1951 (5 items and 1 negative) 1945-sitting in front of celestial navigation equipment 
official US AAF photo (8x10), 1 neg. made from photograph
<li>ca. 1941 - playing tennis (appears in New Poems 1942) (8x10) 
<li>1951 - three seated portraits, all taken at same time (in
Alumni House at Woman's College?) (8x10 and 2
6x7, 7x8) 
</ul>
<li>Folder 2 - PHOTOGRAPHS OF RANDALL JARRELL, 1955-1965 (27 items) 
<ul>
<li>1955 - 4 News Bureau (W.C.U.N.C.) portraits (4x7, 7x10, 8x10, 9x11)
<li>1955 - seated, reading - 2 copies, (8x10)
<li>1957 - in office at Library of Congress (2 copies, 8x10 
and 1 negative (8x10)
<li>ca. 1959/60 - three poses possibly taken at an Arts
Forum (5x7), 1 in his faculty office (8x10)
<li>ca. 1959/60 - studio portrait probably for faculty file
(8x10)
<li>ca. 1960 - seated, holding black cat by Greensboro news
photographer, Jim Wommack (8x10)
<li>early 1960's - seated in sports car, 2 poses (8x10)
<li>1961 - in his faculty office, probably after winning the
National Book Award in poetry
<li>1962 - registering at the National Poetry Festival,
October 22, 1962 (Library of Congress photo)
(8x10)
<li>before 1963? - W.C.U.N.C. News Bureau photo (4x6),
2 portrait photos, 1 seated, reading, another
posing in front of framed art works (2 copies,
8x10 and 9x12)
<li><a href="jelfi.gif>ca. 1964 - with cat, Elfi, to whom <i>The Animal 
Family</i> was dedicated (8x10) and negative</A>
<li>1965 - portrait of a clean-shaven Jarrell taken by
Greensboro news photographer, Jim Wommack.
Contrary to published accounts, Jarrell did not
like this photograph. (8x10)
</ul>
<li>Folder 3 JARRELL IN GROUP PHOTOGRAPHS, 1948-1964 (27 items 
<ul>
<li>1948 - W.C.U.N.C. Arts Forum, with Robert Lowell
and Peter Taylor (2 copies, 8x10 and negative
from photograph)

<li>ca. 1948 - with students (on steps of old W.C.
Library?, 8x10)

<li>1954 - clipped from Vogue magazine (3x4) with Mary
and two daughters in a sports car 

<li>1955 - with Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, Marianne
Moore, Muriel Rukeyser (8x10)

<li>1955 - W.C.U.N.C. Arts Forum - with Mary Jarrell,
Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor and Robert
Humphrey (8x10)

<li>1957 - with Robert Graves at the Library of Congress,
February 11, 1957. (8x10)
<li>1958 - with Delmore Schwartz, January 20, 1958 at the
Library of Congress (8x10)

<li>1959/60 - with Robert Frost, (2-5x7)

<li>1960 - W.C.U.N.C. Arts Forum - with Jessie Rehder
and Jean Stafford (8x10)

<li>ca. 1960 - with Mary Jarrell (8x10)

<li>1961 - at the National Book Awards - with William
Shirer and Conrad Richter (8x10)

<li><A HREF="jclass.gif">ca.1961 - on the lawn at Woman's College with a 
group of students including Emily Herring (Wilson)
Class of 1961 and Sylvia Wilkinson, Class of 1962
(8x10)</A>

<li>1962 - first National Poetry Festival, Washington, D.C.
with L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress,
and August Heckscher, Special Consultant on
the Arts at the White House (8x10)

<li>1963 - W.C.U.N.C. Arts Forum with Robert Watson,
X.J. Kennedy, Peter Taylor and Adrienne Rich
2 copies, one in reverse, (8x10)

<li>1963 -Commencement, W.C.U.N.C. with Chancellor
and Mrs. Otis A. Singletary (8x10)

<li>ca. 1963 - in his faculty office with Robert Penn
Warren, 3 poses (5x7), negatives

<li>ca. 1963 - with Chancellor Otis A. Singletary and Robert
Penn Warren (6x10)

<li>ca. 1964 - at home with Mary and cat, Elfi (8x10)

<li>n.d. - with students, Mary and cat, Elfi
at home
</ul>
<li>Folder 4 - Yale Memorial Service, February, 1966 (2 items)
<ul>
<li>Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell, Mary Jarrell, John
Berryman, Stanley Kunitz and Richard Wilbur (8x10)
<li>Stanley Kunitz, Richard Eberhart, Robert Lowell,
Richard Wilbur, John Hollander, William Meredith,
Robert Penn Warren, John Berryman, Adrienne Rich,
Mary Jarrell and Peter Taylor (8x10)
</ul>
<li>Folder 5 - Photographs of oil portraits by Betty Watson (3 3x3
color snapshots, <a href="jptg.gif">1 8x10 b/w</a>)
<ul>
<li> Photograph of wood sculpture portrait by Ogden Deal (4x8)
</ul>
<li>Folder 6 - Drawing by Bert Carpenter for Alumni News magazine cover,
Spring 1966; 9x12 pen and ink drawing of Jarrell holding cat 
<ul>
<li>Drawing by Bert Carpenter of two cats used as illustration for
a Friends of the Library dinner keepsake, April 20, 1966
(9x12)

<li>proof of the drawing of two cats (9x7)

<li>"PSA Dinner sketched by Oscar Berger" (1 item)

<li>The Parthenon at Nashville, Tennessee. page 16 shows the
portion with Ganymede for which Jarrell posed at age 17.
</ul>
<li>Folder 7 - Publisher's Weekly, Feb.5, 1955 p.874: Sixth National Book
Awards/ Jarrell pictured with other writers 
<ul>
<li>The April, 1973 Catalog of the Gotham Book Mart reproducing
the famous "An Informal Literary Gathering" photograph
taken November 9,1948 at the reception for the Sitwells. Jarrell
is in the group.
</ul>
</ul>
<h3>Box 7 - Randall Jarrell as a Teacher-Gift of the Senior Class, 1969</h3>
<ul>
<li>Folder 1 - Fragment (188) pages of a paperback edition of Crime and
Punishment with marginal notes by Randall Jarrell

<li>Folder 2 - Course notes, student information, meetings. Italian blank
book, [n.d. but c. 1960]

<li>Folder 3 - Teaching notes for Crime and Punishment. Italian blank 
book,[n.d.]

<li>Folder 4 - "Descriptive notes prepared by Mary Jarrell for the Senior
Class, 1969, Gift. March 31, 1969." 3 page typescript

<li>Folder 5 - Correspondence, miscellaneous 1946-1962
<ul>
<li>1 page TLS from L.L. Click, University of Texas, Austin
dated July 15, 1946 notifying Jarrell his salary has been
approved for 1946.

<li>2 page TLS from Leonard B. Hurley, Woman's College
of The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, dated
April 18, 1947 to Mr. and Mrs. Jarrell concerning
salaries. Mentions that Peter Taylor will be staying
during the 1947/48 school year.

<li>Telegram, Nov. 12, 1957 advising Jarrell he has been
promoted to Professor with a salary of $7500. second
page of telegram wanting. On back of telegram is a list
in Jarrell's hand headed "A Second Book of Stories".

<li>1 page TLS from Gordon W. Blackwell, Chancellor of
The Woman's College, dated March 31, 1958, saying
how glad he is Jarrell has decided to stay at the
Greensboro campus.

<li>1 page TLS from William Friday, President of The
University of North Carolinadated Feb.26, 1960
congratulating Jarrell on being elected to membership
in the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

<li>1 page LS from William Friday, dated October 30, 1960
thanking Jarrell for the Kipling volume and expressing
his appreciation for Jarrell.

<li>Telegram, March 16, 1961, from Bill [William] Friday
congratulating Jarrell on receiving the National Book
Award.


<li>1 page TLS from L. Richardson Preyer, October 25, 1961
congratulating Jarrell on the tribute dinner at Chapel
Hill.

<li>1 page TLS from N.C. Governor Terry Sanford,
November 12, 1962, about Jarrell's speech at the
National Poetry Festival in Washington, D.C.
</ul>
<li>Folder 6 - notes concerning course work in the English
Department in Jarrell's hand and one typescript leaf on
Freshman English [n.d.] (8 ll.)
<ul>
<li>manuscript draft of a letter to Mr. Davis asking him to come
to the Woman's College as head of the English Department.
Written about 1960-1961. (5 ll.) 
In this letter Jarrell states: "The Library's the most good
humored and the most obliging one I know; they'll get
anything or do anything for you." [n.d. but ca. 1960/61] 

<li>manuscript draft of letter to Mr. Davis at Kansas State
University declining an invitation to come there the following
Spring because of the need to finish the Faust translation.
[n.d. but ca. 1961/62] (3 ll.)
</ul>

<li>Folder 7 - manuscript drafts of exam questions for English 105 [n.d.] (7
ll.)
 <ul>
<li>manuscript note approving a thesis [1961] (1 l.)
</ul>
<li>Folder 8 - letters to Jarrell inviting him to teach, lecture, judge or
otherwise participate in literary activities. Nov. 15, 1954- Oct.
6, 1965 and [n.d.] (32 items)
</ul>

<h3>BOX 8 - BIOGRAPHICAL, TRIBUTES, HONORS, MEMORIALS</h3>
<ul>
<li>Folder 1 - Hume Fogg High School Yearbook, The Echo, 1930

<li>Folder 2 - photocopies from The Echo, 1929-1931(13 items)

<li>Folder 3 - list of Jarrell's books destroyed by fire, ca. 1931/32 (1 item)
Vanderbilt University Masquerader(10 items)

<li>Folder 4 - photocopies of local and foreign newspaper articles about
Jarrell, 1954-1962 (11 items)

<li>Folder 5 - announcements of readings, lectures, 1955, 1956, 1958 (3 items)

<li>Folder 6 - Address by R.J. at the National Book Awards, March 11, 1958
"About Popular Culture" typescript press release ( 1 item)

<li>Folder 7 - Honors, awards, recognitions, 1946-1962(10 items)

<li>Folder 8 - announcement, invitation to "A Tribute to Randall Jarrell" Hill
Hall, Chapel Hill, Wednesday, October 18, 1961 (4 items)

<li>Folder 9 - UNC dinner, 10-18-61 materials including lists of guests and
RSVP cards/ from the files of Lambert Davis, Director of the
UNC Press

<li>Folder 10 - Correspondence to Lambert Davis, March - August, 1961

<li>Folder 11 - Correspondence to Lambert Davis, September - October, 1961

N.B.: Correspondents include: Christopher Crittenden, Randall
Jarrell, Mary Jarrell, Robert Penn Warren, Sam Ragan, William
C. Friday, Carl Sandberg, Jean Stafford, Hiram Haydn, Peter
Taylor, Junius D. Grimes III, John Crowe Ransom.

<li>Folder 12 - carbon typescript ( 3 ll.) and manuscript ( 6 ll.) of remarks
made by Robert Penn Warren at the tribute dinner 10-18-61.
A carbon of a letter from Jerrold Orne to Robert Penn Warren
dated Oct. 25, 1961 thanking him and saying his manuscript
of the remarks is being forwarded to the Greensboro campus
for the Jarrell Collection there.

<li>Folder 13 - Typescripts of remarks made by attendees to the Yale
University Memorial to Jarrell,February 20,1966: Berryman,
Hollander, Kunitz, Meredith, Ransom, Rich, Tate, Taylor,
Wilbur. Also a fragment of a typescript of Eleanor Ross
Taylor's "A Friend Remembered" which appeared in the
UNCG Alumni News, Spring, 1966. (11 items)

<li>Folder 14 - typescripts of student reminiscences. These were published
in the UNCG Alumni News in the Spring, 1966. (8 items)

<li>Folder 15 - Miscellaneous reminiscences, 1965? and 1982 ( 3 items)

<li>Folder 16 - photocopies of Jarrell's letters on The Nation letterhead to
Arthur Mizener. Reviews written by Mizener attached to
letters. 1945-1946 (4 items) source of these copies unknown

<li>Folder 17 - photocopies of Jarrell's letters to Sister Bernetta Quinn, ca.
1949 - 1964. (13 items)

<li>Folder 18 - miscellaneous correspondence to Jarrell (5 items)

<li>Folder 19 - Certificate of death; short news item about Jarrell's will, Time
magazine obit. notice, several local newspaper articles - all
Oct. 1965 (6 items)

<li>Folder 20 - Randall Jarrell Creative Writing Scholarship - proposal and
correspondence, draft of a news release, 1965-1966 (13 items)

<li>Folder 21 - Yale University Tribute to Randall Jarrell held February 28, 
1966: news release, telegram, newspaper article (3 items) 

</ul>

<h3>BOX 9</h3>
<ul>
<li>Folder 1 - Selected Poems: typescript of title page, preliminaries,
introduction, colophon with instructions to printer, and pencil
facsimile of title page (31 ll.)

<li>Folder 2 - Selected Poems: galley proof pasted up as text pages with
notes to the printer, hand numbered 2-80 (79 ll.)

<li>Folder 3 - Selected Poems: typescript and pasted galley proofs with notes
to printer, hand numbered 81-135 (55 ll.)

<li>Folder 4 - Selected Poems: typescript and pasted galley proofs with notes
to printer, hand numbered 136-205 (70 ll.)

<li>Folder 5 - Selected Poems: author's first proof, December 13, 1954 with
notes to the printer

<li>Folder 6 - Woman at the Washington Zoo: author's first proof, June 6,
1960 with notes to the printer and copy of the plate proof

<li>Folder 7 - miscellaneous dust-jackets for Jarrell's books (11 items)

<li>Folder 8 - publicity and promotional items for Pictures from an
Institution, program for the 1954 performance of "The Three
Sisters" in Aycock Auditorium, and Playbill for the Actor's
Studio production of "The Three Sisters", 1963/64 season.
Also included in this box (unfoldered) are signatures, dust-jacket and binding
sample for Faust binding samples for Selected Poems and an uncorrected proof
copy of Faust.
</ul>

<h3>BOX 10 - MICROFILM</h3>
<ul>
<li>Microfilm of Jarrell manuscripts held by UNCG and of the manuscripts and 
papers held by the Berg Collection as of 1985.

<li>10 reels of Berg Collection
<li>4 reels each of negative and positive film of Jarrell manuscripts at UNCG

<li>Reel listing for material in the Berg Collection kept in Box 10
</ul>
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