urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00753 Hart Crane: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Sara Saastamoinen Harry Ransom Center, 2013 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley, 29 July 2013 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 Hart Crane Collection 1923-1961, undated 1 box (.21 linear feet), 2 galley folders (gf) Includes manuscripts and letters written by the American poet Hart Crane. The manuscripts include a corrected typescript, and galley proofs for The Bridge (1930); the ten Crane letters are written to his mother Grace Hart Crane, his grandmother Elizabeth B. Hart, and the poet Samuel Loveman. English Manuscript Collection MS-0969 Access:

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 Container List Works: 1.1 After Jonah, typescript, 1 page, undated. 1.1 Ave Maria, carbon typescript, 4 pages, undated. 1.2 The bridge, typescript / incomplete with handwritten revisions and corrections, 41 pages, undated. Contents: To Brooklyn Bridge, Ave Maria, Powhatan's daughter, Cutty Sark, Cape Hatteras, Three songs, The tunnel, Atlantis. Lacks Indiana, Quaker Hill. Atlantis and Cape Hatteras apparently incomplete. See Malcolm Cowley letter. gf 1 The bridge, galley proofs with signed handwritten note and corrections and printer's notes and markings, 36 pages, 1930. Enclosed with these: typed memo from Mary Gold to Irving, 19 February 1930. 1.1 For the marriage of Faustus and Helen, signed typescript, 5 pages, undated. Inscribed on page 5 to Slater Brown. 1.1 The mango tree, carbon typescript, 1 page, undated. 1.1 O Carib isle!, carbon typescript with one handwritten revision, 1 page, undated. 1.1 Powhatan's daughter: Part II, carbon typescript, 2 pages, undated. 1.1 Powhatan's daughter: Part IV, typed and carbon copy manuscript, 4 pages, undated. Includes handwritten note from Crane to Allen Tate on page 1. 1.1 Supplication to the muses on a trying day, signed typescript, 1 page, undated. 1.1 The tunnel, typescript, 4 pages, undated. 1.1 Voyages III, typescript, 1 page, undated. 1.1 Voyages VI, typescript, 1 page, undated. gf 2 White buildings, galley proofs, 18 pages, 1926. 1.1 The wine menagerie, typescript, 2 pages, undated. Letters: 1.4 5 ALS to Crane, Grace Hart and Hart, Elizabeth B., 23 May 1923, 14 October 1924, 25 October 1924, 12 November 1924, 13 March 1925. 1.5 TLS to Crane, Grace Hart, 23 March 1926. 1.3 ALS to Hart, Elizabeth B., 24 March 1926. 1.3 ALS, TLS, APCS to Loveman, Samuel, 20 December 1926, 26 December 1928, 10 March 1932. Miscellaneous: 1.7 Crane, Hart, 1899-1932. The bridge: list of names to receive review copies and production notes, signed handwritten manuscript, 9 pages in notebook, undated. 1.6 Brown, Harry. Hart Crane (poem), signed handwritten manuscript, 1 page, 16 September 1961. Written on personal stationery of Harry Brown. 1.6 Cowley, Malcolm, 1898- . TL / copy to Feldman, Lew re Hart Crane, undated. Enclosed with this: ANI re Crane manuscript.