urn:taro:utexas.hrc.01071 Robinson Jeffers: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp Harry Ransom Center, 2014 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley, 16 October 2014 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962 Robinson Jeffers Collection 1885-1967, undated 23 boxes (9.66 linear feet), 2 galley folders (gf), and 3 oversize folders (osf) Consists chiefly of works and correspondence of the American poet Robinson Jeffers. Present are manuscripts for The Double Axe, Medea, and The Women at Point Sur and drafts of many individual poems. Along with much correspondence to and from family, friends, colleagues, and admirers are letters, legal papers, and financial records from Jeffers' publishers. Also included are some papers of Jeffers's wife, Una Call Jeffers, and of the noted Jeffers biographer Melba Berry Bennett. English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish Manuscript Collection MS-2170 Access:

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This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.

 Container List Works: 1.1 Unidentified narrative poems: notes and fragments 1.2 Unidentified; A 1.3 At the birth of an age 1.4 B 1.5; gf 1 The beginning and the end 1.6 Birds and fishes 1.7 The bowl of blood 1.8 C-D 1.9-10 The Cretan woman 2.1 Die Doppelaxt 2.2-6 The double axe 2.7 E-F 2.8 Elizabeth and Mary 2.9 First book 3.1 G 3.2 Give your heart to the hawks 3.3 H 3.4-6 Hungerfield 3.7 I 3.8 J-L 3.9 M 3.10 Mara 4.1-12 Medea 4.13 Miscellaneous notes and fragments 5.1 N 5.2 Narrative poems: notes and fragments 5.3 Narrative poems: plots, notes and fragments 5.4 O 5.5 P-Po 5.6 Poems, with an introduction by B.H. Lehman 5.7 Poetry fragments 5.8 Pr-R 6.1 Real and half-real 6.2 Resurrection 6.3 S 6.4 Solstice 6.5 Solstice and other poems 6.6 Such counsels you gave me 6.7 T 6.8 Themes in my poems 7.1-7 The tower beyond tragedy 7.8 U-Z 7.9-10 The women at Point Sur Letters: 8.1 Unidentified; A-C 8.2 D-L 8.3 Friede, Donald, 1921-1931 8.4-5 Jeffers, Una Call, 1912-1943, undated 8.6 M-R 8.7 S-Z 8.8 Stookey, Lyman Brumbaugh, 1915-1929 Recipient: 9.1 Unidentified 9.2 A-Am 9.3 An-Az 9.4 Anderson, Judith. 1945-1960, undated 9.5 B-Bl 9.6 Beckh, Gustav F., 1943-1950 9.7 Bennett, Melba, 1939-1961, undated 9.8 Bo-Bz 9.9 C-Cl 9.10 Clapp, Frederick Mortimer, 1928-1967, undated 10.1 Co-Cz 10.2 D 10.3 E 10.4 F 10.5 G 10.6 Greene, Luther, 1946-1950, undated 10.7 H-He 10.8 Hesse, Eva, 1949-1961, undated 10.9 Hi-Hz 11.1 I-K 11.2 Jeffers, Una Call, 1910-1942, undated 11.3 L 11.4 Levy, William Turner, 1947-1961 11.5 Ma 11.6 Mason, Paul, 1960-1961, undated 11.7 Masters, Edgar Lee, 1926-1942 11.8 Me-Mi 11.9 Mo-Mz 12.1-2 Morris (William) Agency, Inc., 1945-1961 12.3 N-O 12.4 P 12.5 Q-Ri 12.6-7 Random House, 1933-1962 12.8 Ro-Sc 12.9 Rorty, James, 1930-1961, undated 13.1 Se-Sz 13.2 Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, 1931-1959 13.3 T 13.4 U-V 13.5 W-Z 13.6 Whitehead-Rea Productions, 1946-1948, undated 13.7 Wood, Erskine, 1932-1940, undated 13.8 Wood, Sara, 1931-1950, undated Miscellaneous: 14.1 Unidentified authors 14.2 Unidentified authors. Letters to Jeffers, Una, 1932-1950 14.3 A 14.4 Academy of American Poets, 1948-1951, undated 14.5 Albert, Sydney S., 1932-1946 14.6 B Bennett, Melba, letters to: 14.7 A-Z 14.8 Jeffers, Donnan and Lee, 1960-1961, undated 14.9 Jeffers, Lee, 1958-1961, undated 14.10 Jeffers, Una, 1935-1944, undated 15.1 C 15.2 Clapp, Frederick Mortimer, 1907-1959, undated 15.3 Clapp, Maud, 1938-1947, undated 15.4 D-F 15.5 G 15.6 H 15.7 I-J 15.8 Jeffers, Annie Tuttle, 1886-1892 Jeffers, Donnan. Letters to: 16.1 A-B 16.2 C-D 16.3 E-G 16.4 H-Ma 16.5 Me-R 16.6 S-Z Jeffers, Robinson: 16.7 A-L 17.1 Agreements with A-J 17.2 Agreements with K-Z osf 3 Certificates and diplomas 17.3 M-Z 17.4 Jeffers, Robinson and Una. A book of Gaelic airs for Una's melodeon 18.1 Jeffers, Robinson and George Sterling. A book collection: Two Carmel poets Jeffers, Una: 18.2; osf 2 A-Z 18.3-8 Diaries, 1912-1948 18.9 Letters to O'Sullivan, Ellen, 1935-1941, undated 18.10-19.1 Letters to Pinkham, Hazel, 1912-1946, undated 19.2 Visits to Ireland, with foreword by Robinson Jeffers 19.3 K-L 19.4 Liveright, Inc. Publishers. Royalty statements, 1926-1934 19.5 Ma-Mo 19.6 Matthias, Blanche, 1941-1946, undated Morris (William) Agency, Inc.: 19.7 Royalty statements, 1947-1959 19.8 Letters to Jeffers, Una, 1945-1949 19.9 Mu-Pa 20.1 Paquette, Donald J., 1949 20.2 Pe-Pz 20.3 Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1932-1946, undated 20.4 Q-R Random House: 20.5 A-Z 20.6-7 Royalty statements, 1934-1959 21.1-2 Letters to Jeffers, Una, 1931-1949, undated 21.3 Ruder, Barnet B., 1928-1933 21.4 S 21.5-6 Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles. Trust reports, 1921-1947 22.1 T-U 22.2 V-Z 22.3 Wood, Sara, 1932-1940, undated 23.1 Uncataloged (original empty envelopes and folders) Later acquisitions not described in card catalog: Gift 8717, 1995: 22.4 Letter from Robinson Jeffers to Stanley Willis, 14 March 1951. Letters from Una Jeffers to: 22.4 Gilbert, Rudolph, 19 items, 1937-1944. 22.4 Meikle, ____, 1 item, 12 June, 1942. 22.4 Willis, Stanley, 3 items, 1947-1949. Gift 10317, 1995: 22.5 Letter from Rudolph T. Gilbert to Stanley Willis, 17 August 1967. Also includes his Hamlet 1967: In memory of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robinson Jeffers…, typescript poem, 13 pages, undated. Gift 10592, 1996: 22.6 Correspondence re Robinson Jeffers, 1962-1965. Correspondents include Lawrence M. Bensky, William Turner Levy, Ann Ridgeway, Jonathan Williams, and Stanley Willis. Purchase R15055, 2002: 22.7 Jeffers, Robinson. Such counsels you gave to me and other poems, typescript / setting copy with printer's markings, 93 pages, undated. 2024.0009: 22.8 Point Alma Venus transcription 1977. Transcribed by Robert M. Kafka.