Researching Lorine Niedecker

This page presents resources for anyone who is interested in conducting further research into Lorine Niedecker’s life or poetry.

Niedecker Bibliography

The Friends of Lorine Niedecker maintains a bibliography of material about Lorine Niedecker in a public Zotero group. If you’d like to help us maintain this list, please send a request to join this group to contact@lorineniedecker.org.

Lorine Niedecker Archival Material

A variety of archival material from Niedecker’s life and writing is held by research institutions across the United States. The most significant of these collections are described below.

Niedecker collection at the Hoard Historical Museum (Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin)

The largest collection of Lorine Niedecker materials are held by the Hoard Historical Museum in her home town of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The Hoard Historical Museum also has a permanent exhibit dedicated to Niedecker in an upstairs room.

Some of the material held by the Hoard Museum was digitized by University of Wisconsin-Digital Collections in 2007 with support from a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant and is available on the UWDCC’s website as the “Historic Fort Atkinson” collection. This online collection includes 125 individually catalogued documents, 80 photographs, and roughly 20 audio/video recordings. The Digital Public Library of America has provided a useful interface for working with this archive which allows the collection results to be refined and sorted.

In addition to the manuscript and audiovisual collection, the Hoard Historical Museum now houses all the surviving books from Niedecker’s personal library as some booklets and papers previously available at the Dwight Foster Public Library relating to Niedecker’s writings and to her life in the community. In 2013, Margot Peters prepared a printable bibliography of the titles from Niedecker’s library. A searchable version of this list appears below, along with a description of marginalia in each title, transcribed by Tom Montag:

Niedecker Library [with annotations]

Margot Peters’ 2013 bibliography of all titles in Niedecker’s library (now held by the Hoard Historical Museum in Fort Atkinson), along with notes and marginalia found in each title (transcribed by Tom Montag). This list does not yet include the material returned in 2016.

Title	Author First Name	Author Last Name	Editor	Publisher	Publication Place	Year	Notes	Type	URL	Rights
The law of civilization and decay	Brooks	Adams		Vintage Books	New York	1955		Book
Apollinaire	Marcel	Adema		Heinemann	London	1954	translated by Denise Folliot	Book
Heliodora and other poems	Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)	Aldington		Houghton Mifflin and Co.	Boston	1924	p. 11: X at top of page, marks in margin near lines: to mould a clear and frigid statue; rare, of pure texture, beautiful space and line, marble to grace your inaccessible shrine. p. 18: X at top of page, poem is “Heliodora.” p. 25: X at top of page, poem is “Nossis.” p. 33: Second stanza in poem “Thetis” is bracketed in margin. The entire stanza of same poem at top of page 34 is also bracketed. On p. 36, the line “I, Thetis, alone” is marked. p. 39: These lines in “At Ithaca” are marked in margin: … and the sea takes on that desperate tone of dark that wives put on when all their love is done. pp. 46-47: 18 lines from “Fragment 36” are bracketed. p. 60: Lines marked in margin: “yet to sing love,/love must first shatter us.” p. 109: Lines marked in margin where the Ethiopians “are divided into two parts,/(half watch the sun rise,/half, the sun set)….” pp. 119-120: These lines seem to be marked: “… save the broad ledge of sea/which no man takes….” On second last page: “Thetis = Aneaid /sea symbol/mother of Achilles.” Inside back cover: “What’s O’clock? 2.15 Pictures of World Sandburg 2.50.”	Book
Birds and their attributes	Glover Morrill	Allen		Dover	New York	1962		Book
The school of Donne	A.	Alvarez		Mentor	New York	1967		Book
Santayana and the sense of beauty	Willard E.	Arnett		Indiana Univ. Press	Bloomington, IN	1957		Book
Passages from the prose writings of Matthew Arnold	Mathew	Arnold	William E. Buckler	New York University Press	New York	1963		Book
Meditations	Marcus	Aurelius		Dent	London	1948	p. xiii: Five lines beginning with “The Stoics aspired to…” appear to be marked near bottom of the page. p. 111: Paragraph XXVII seems to be marked; it begins “Within a while the earth shall cover us all, and then she herself shall have her change.” p. 113: Paragraph XXX appears to be marked; it reads: “Many of those things that trouble and straiten thee, it is in thy power to cut off, as wholly depending from mere conceit and opinion; and then thou shalt have room enough.” p. 119 This sentence seems to be marked: “Thou shalt one day be full, and want for no external thing: not seeking pleasure from anything, either living or insensible, that this world can afford; neither wanting time for the continuation of thy pleasure, nor place and opportunity, nor the favour either of the weather or of men.” pp. 124-125: These sentences appear to be marked: “And when shalt thou attain to the happiness of true simplicity, and unaffected gravity? When shalt thou rejoice in the certain knowledge of every particular object according to its true nature: as what the matter and substance of it is; what use it is for in the world: how long it can subsist: what things it doth consist of: who they be that are capable of it, and who they that can give it, and take it away?” Notation on last page of book: “xiii, 17, 103 – mind straight to object, 111, 113, 119, 125.	Book
Essays and The New Atlantis	Francis	Bacon	Gordon S. Haight	Van Nostrand	New York	1942	p. 17: These are underlined: “Revenge is a kind of wild justice…” and “It is the glory of a man to pass by an offense….” p. 39: In top margin: “amongst, hath, doth, remaineth.” These are underlined: “love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies…,” “amongst all the great and worthy persons,” [“there is a” is handwritten] “mad degree of love which shows that great spirits and great business” [“to keep out” is handwritten] “weak passion.” Also underlined: “love can find entrance, not only into an open heart, but also into a heart well fortified…” [“encouraged” is handwritten]. p. 40 These are marked with an asterisk and underlined: “That it is impossible to love and be wise.” “[L]ove is [“ever” crossed out, replaced with “always] “with [“and inward and” is crossed out] secret [“contempt” seems to be replaced with “scorn”]….” “[T]imes kindle love, and make it more fervent” is changed to read “time kindles love, and makes it more ‘warm’.” p. 41. Underlined “They do best who” “cannot [‘but’ is crossed out] admit love, yet make it [‘keep quarter’ is crossed out and replaced with ‘secret’]” “if it [‘check’ crossed out and replaced with ‘interferes’ possibly] with business, it troubleth men’s fortunes” “[‘Nutial’ crossed out, replaced with ‘(marriage)’] love maketh mankind, friendly love [‘perfecteth’ replaced with ‘perfects’] it, but [‘wanton’ replaced with ‘wanted’] love [‘corrupteth’ replaced with ‘corrupts’] and embaseth it.”	Book
The narrow road to the deep north and other travel sketches		Basho		Penguin	Baltimore	1966	Translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa	Book
Flowers of evil	Charles	Baudelaire		New Directions	New York	1958		Book
The rise of American civilization	Charles A. and Mary R.	Beard		Macmillan	New York	1939		Book
Margaret Fuller: a biography	Margaret	Bell		C. Boni	New York	1930	p. 197: In fourth full paragraph on the page, sentences are marked along the side of the text from “She felt that there was a bond between man and nature in England…” to the end of the page.	Book
Patterns of a culture	Ruth	Benedict		New American Library	New York	1953		Book
The two sources of morality and religion	Henri	Bergson		Doubleday	New York	1954	Translated by R. Ashley Audra & Cloudesley Brereton	Book
The creative mind	Henri	Bergson		Philosophical Library	New York	1946		Book
Creative evolution	Henri	Bergson		Modern Library	New York	1944	Arthur Mitchell (Translator), Irwin Edman (Foreword)	Book
Mary Shelley	Eileen	Bigland		Appleton-Century-Crofts	New York	1959		Book
Blaise Pascal	Morris	Bishop		Dell	New York	1966		Book
Complete poetry of each	John	Blake		Random House, N.Y.		1941		Book
Life of Samuel Johnson	James	Boswell		New American Library	New York	1968		Book
The Greek experience	C.M.	Bowra		New American Library	New York	1959		Book
Primitive song	C.M.	Bowra		New American Library	New York	1962		Book
Jesus, a myth	Georg	Brandes		Albert & Charles Boni	New York	1926	“L. Niedecker ’26” in ink at top of first page. p. 40: “Iphigenia” is underlined. p. 41: An “X” near the sentence: “The cult of the Syrian god Attis had in common with Christianity the cleansing of the soul by the shedding of blood.” An exclamation point and question mark in margin near the end of “No one any longer regards the Gospel according to John as documentary evidence of historical facts. It is pure symbolism, pure theology.” p. 71: The paragraph beginning “Later the common people’s curiosity…” may be marked near the beginning and end of it. p. 73: Near third line on page: “Corinthians” is written in pencil in the margin. “Attis” seems to be check marked at start of final paragraph on page. p. 85: These lines are marked: “A logical way of finding what is really historic would be to start eliminating what cannot possible be held such, and then see what remains. It is to be feared that the outcome would be the same as when Peer Gynt began….” p. 119: The paragraph beginning “In Genesis already, work was regarded as a curse…” and ending “… which neither sow nor reap, and yet are fed and clothed by their heavenly father” is marked in the margin. p. 184: The following sentence is marked in the margin: “In addition, their many beautiful stories and parables have for many centuries brought inspiration to poetry, painting, sculpture, and music.” Notations on blank page near back of book: “bribe into betraying redundancy explicable to bring home -“	Book
The common sense of science	J.	Bronowski		Random House	New York			Book
The poetical works of Rupert Brooke	Rupert	Brooke	Geoffrey Keynes	Faber & Faber	London	1967		Book
The world of Washington Irving	Van Wyck	Brooks		World Publishing	Cleveland, OH	1946		Book
Fenollosa and his circle	Van Wyck	Brooks		Dutton	New York	1962	Table of contents is marked up with full names of people listed and their the dates of their births and deaths. Writing is in pencil; it does not appear to be in LN’s typical handwriting.	Book
Pomegranates from an English garden: a selection from the poems	Robert	Browning		Chautauqua Press	New York	1885	p. i: First paragraph of introduction is bracketed. p. ii: Marked in margin: “It would, of course, be absurd to claim for the pomegranate the bloom and beauty of the peach….” p. iii: Bracketed: “His work is full of thought, and the thought is never commonplace. There is so much of it, and all is so fresh, and therefore unfamiliar, that some mental effort is necessary to grasp it.” Also bracketed: “The expression is always the briefest. Not only are no words wasted, but, where connecting ideas are easily supplied, they are often left unexpressed, the intelligence and mental activity of the reader being always taken for granted.” Also bracketed: “…as Shakespeare must be studied in order to an appreciation other than second-hand, so must Browning be studied in order to be appreciated at all; for his writings are not yet old enough to secure much second-hand enthusiasm.” pp. iii-iv: The entire paragraph numbered “4” is bracketed. pp. iv-v: The first two sentences of the paragraph at the bottom of p. iv and the beginning of page v are bracketed. The first three sentences of the paragraph starting in the middle of p. v are bracketed. p. vii: The first and last sentences of the first paragraph to start on p. vii are bracketed. p. 64: Section IX of “ABT VOGLER” is bracketed. p. 75: These lines are bracketed: “God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures/Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,/One to show a woman when he loves her!” pp. 80-81: These lines of “ABT VOGLER” are bracketed, beginning with “Have I knowledge?…” on p. 80 and ending with “I climb to his feet” on p. 81. pp. 83-84: All of section XVIII of “ABT VOGLER” is bracketed.	Book
Loquitur	Basil	Bunting		Fulcrum Press	London	1965		Book
Briggflatts	Basil	Bunting		Fulcrum Press	London	1968		Book
Poems: 1950	Basil	Bunting		Cleaner’s Press	Galveston, TX			Book
The life and works of Beethoven	John N.	Burk		Modern Library	New York	1946	p. 65: Beneath page number, “146” lightly in pencil. p. 460: “Rondo A Capriccio in G Major, Op. 129” is marked with check mark. p. 478: “Rondo A Capriccio in G Major, Op. 129” is marked again.	Book
Poems and songs	Robert	Burns		Dutton	New York	1963	Notations on a slip of paper tucked between pp. 224-225. On one side: “Burns – He said poetry was ‘a darling walk for my mind.’ Gie me ae spark of…” On the other side: “‘Gie me ae spark of nature’s fire,’ That’s a ‘the learning I desire;’ ————.”	Book
Life and world of George Santayana	Father Richard	Butler, OP		Regnery	Chicago	1960	Copy of hand-written noted inserted before page 3: “all that country, a massive grand corruption of nature (rocks) and language (basho is bon jour); Marais (Grand Marais) is to the sailors [sailors is circled] seamen more refuge than swamp. A noted dated 9-10-92 by another states: “Original of this hand-written note filed in protective Box #1 (Believed to be that of Lorine’s). Probably written in late 60s when L. & AL toured around L. Superior.”	Book
The selected letters of Lord Byron	Lord	Byron	Jacques Barzun	Grosset & Dunlap	New York	1953		Book
Beyond life: Dizaine des Demiurges	James Branch	Cabell		Modern Library	New York	1919	pp. 56: Mark in margin for two lines reading: “… and might even afford the sinner control of superhuman powers. Men have always dream thus of evading the low levels of everyday existence….” p. 248 is dog-eared, mark in margin next to: “… and to proclaim that ‘All this is truth’ is really on a par with observing ‘All this is carbon.’” p. 264 is dog-eared and margin is marked near: “If ‘realism’ is a form of art, the morning newspaper is a permanent contribution to literature. Undeniably, the ‘realist’ invents his facts a trifle more daringly than the police reporter, and soars above mere veracity on an approximate level with the editorial writer….” p. 268 is dog-eared and marked in the margin near: “Facts must be kept in their proper place, outsideof which they lose veracity” and “There in brief you have the damnatory frailty of ‘realistic’ novels, which endeavor to show our actual existence from a viewpoint wherefrom no human being ever saw it.” p. 326 is dog-eared and marked in the margin near: “‘Realism’ is the art of being superficial seriously.”	Book
War commentaries	Julius	Caesar		New American Library	New York	1960	Translated by Rex Warner	Book
Silence	John	Cage		M.I.T. Press	Cambridge, MA	1961		Book
Letters	Jane W.	Carlyle	Trudy Bliss	Arrow	London	1959		Book
The sea around us	Rachel L.	Carson		Signet		1961		Book
(Cai Valeri Catulli Veronen-sis Liber)		Catallus		Cape Goliard Press, London		1969	An article about Zukofsky by Hugh Kenner entitled “Louis Zukofsky: All the Words” has been tucked in the center of the book. Article was published in the New York Times Book Review, June 18, 1978.	Book
The poems of ____		Catullus		Penguin Books, Baltimore, MD		1969		Book
Melville	Richard	Chase		Prentice		1962	p. 5 Sentence at beginning of 3rd paragraph “Melville’s humor enlivens…” marked in margin with an X. p. 5 Second sentence in of 4th paragraph “Melville came to writing a novel…” marked in margin with an X. p. 9 Beginning of sentence “If PIERRE is a book that tries…” in 3rd full paragraph is underlined and marked with an X in the margin.	Book
The lonely sea and the sky	Francis	Chichester		Ballantine		1964		Book
Painting as a pastime	Sir Winston	Churchill		Cornerstone Library		1950		Book
Ruskin today	Kenneth	Clark		Penguin Books, Baltimore, MD		1967		Book
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court	Samuel L.	Clemens		Pocket Books		1917		Book
Life on the Mississippi	Samuel L.	Clemens		Bantam Books		1945	Note on blanket sheet at back of book: “p.170”	Book
Reason and nature	Joseph	Cohen		Collier Macmillan, London		1960		Book
The conduct of life		Confucius		Murray		1920	“H.W. Hein” is written at top of first page of book. p. 7: “Analecta preceded” is written before start of text. p. 14: “…one instant…” is underlined in the sentence “The moral law is a law from whose operation we cannot for one instance in our existence escape.” p. 16: “… central clue…” is underlined in quote from Confucius: “To find the central clue to our moral being which unites us to the universal order, that indeed is the highest human attainment.” p. 19: “… moral reform…” is underlined in the sentence “In short, moral reform must precede all and every other reform.” p. 25: A portion of this sentence from a quote of Confucius is underlined: “When men take up something away from the actuality of human life as moral law, that is not the moral law.” p. 26: This sentence is underlined: “What you do not wish others should do unto you, do not do unto them.” p. 27: Check mark in margin at beginning of this sentence: “Finding himself in uncivilized countries, he lives as becomes one living in uncivilized countries.’ pp. 32-33: This sentence seems to be marked: “When a man understands how to put in order his personal conduct and character, he will understand how to govern men.” p. 35: The line “… discretion in the employment of their subordinates…” is marked in the margin. p. 37: The paragraph that begins “In order to acquire truth…” is marked at the start. p. 38: The space above the start of Chapter XVII is marked with a bracket. p. 39: The paragraph that begins “For God in giving life to all created things…” is marked at the start. p. 42: The line reading “… above in pledging the company, in order to show…” is marked in the margin. p. 43: The line reading “… with us: this is the highest achievement of true…” is marked in the margin. p. 46: One line in the sentence “It is only he who possesses absolute truth in the world who can create” is marked in the margin. The sentence reading “When it is evil, it can also be known beforehand” is marked in the margin. p. 51: Question mark next to the paragraph starting with “To no one but the supreme head of the empire…” p. 55: The last line of the sentence that reads “These moral laws form one system with the laws by which Heaven and Earth support and contain, overshadow and canopy all things” is marked in the margin. p. 57: “Except for himself” is underlined in the sentence: “Now, where does such a man derive his power and knowledge except from himself?” p. 59: This line from a quote from the Book of Songs is marked in the margin: “See you do nothing to blush for….”	Book
Analects		Confucius		Random		1938		Book
Wisdom of the saints	Francis X.	Connolly		Pocket Books		1963		Book
The mirror of the sea and a personal record	Joseph	Conrad		Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.		1960		Book
Selections from Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley	Charles T.	Copeland		American Book Company		1909	On the first page: “Lorine Niedecker 9-8 Junior English ’21.” On title page: “Source Book 90, 91, 92” p. 21: First sentence of first paragraph on page is marked in margin. “Result of Byron’s poems, Scott [illegible] novels” in bottom margin. p. 23: Rhyme scheme of “Sonnet on Chillon” is marked in margin. “Can’t endure restraint – dissipated life” in top margin. “Opposite from Wordsworth” in bottom margin. p. 24: Line marked in margin, and has underlining: “A sunbeam which hath lost its way….” p. 25: “Repetition” in margin. p. 26: “Pathos” in margin. p. 27: For section V, this note in margin: “contrast 2nd suffer more.” p. 28: “Alit” in top margin near: “A double dungeon wall and wave….” “Rep and alit” in side margin near “And then the very rock hath rocked/And I have felt it shake, unshocked….” p. 29: Faint marking in margin near line: “The range of the steep mountain’s side….” p. 32: Much of section IX is bracketed, note in margins says “sounds like Poe?” Three lines are marked for “repet” and “alit.” p. 34: Lines number 307 and 308 are numbered in pencil. p. 37: All of section XIV seems to be marked in margin. p. 38: In margins: “Pool’toog” and “Look up setting and men” and “Wed.” “Charles III” next to “the royal Swede.” “Votaries” underlined, with ? in margin. “Fate” written above first line of section II. p. 39: “Vassals” underlined, ? in margin. p. 40: In top margin: “Mazeppa = 70 years old.” “Hetman” underlined, with “Read – Mon” in margin. p. 41: Mark in margin near line: “Though firm of heart and strong of hand….” p. 42: “20 years old” in margin next to line: “I think ’twas in my twentieth spring….” pp. 44-45: Section V is bracketed at the start. “Port” is underlined, “face” is written in margin. These lines are marked: “For Time, and Care, and War have ploughed/My very soul from out my brow….” p. 47: “Browning” in margin near lines: “Wherewith we while away the day;/It is – I have forgot the name….” p. 49: “100,000 soldiers” in top margin. “Bile” is underlined, question mark in margin. “Wroth” is underlined. “Cap-a-pie” is underlined, check mark in margin. p. 52: “Portcullis” is underlined. p. 54 “Gore is underlined in the line: “Meantime my cords were wet with gore,” with a question mark in the margin. p. 57: Next to a line with “erred” in it, this in the margin: “urred.” p. 58: Section XIV is bracketed at the beginning. p. 60: Two check marks in the margin behind the line: “His savage force at length o’erspent….” p. 64: Lines are bracketed beginning with “All that was beautiful and new” through “But as their nerves may be endured.” “Hereafter condition of nerves not fear” written in the margin. Check mark in margin in front of this line: “To rule – to shine – to smite – to save….” p. 66: Page number is bracketed. p. 68: “Prince Uhraine [or Ithraine or Uhroine or Ithroine ??]” in top margin. “Moral – revenge app – & hardships action interest” in bottom margin. p. 71: This sentence in the Introduction to the work of William Wordsworth is bracketed: “The joy and excitement of such active play, of runninfg about the fields or woods by day and night, first woke and stirred the deep impulses of genius.” p. 73: Page number is circled. “Sister Dorothy” and “Coleridge – Words” are written in margin. p. 76: Last paragraph on page is bracketed, with this note in bottom margin: “Contrast to Byron.” pp. 79-80: Last eight lines of page and first wo of next page are bracketed, wherein Coleridge is quoted saying that Wordsworth’s purpose was “… to give the charm of novelty to things of every day,” etc. p. 82: Perhaps “lingua franca” is underlined. p. 83: “Queen Vict” in margin. p. 84: The titles “Written in Early Spring” and “The World Is Too Much With Us, Late and Soon” are checked marked in margin. p. 85: The lines “Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;/Like Twilight’s, too, her dusky hair” are checkmarked. “A Spirit, yet a Woman too!” is underlined, “charateristic of W” is written in margin. The lines “A creature not too bright and good/For human nature’s daily food” are bracketed. p. 86: In margin: “half way [between?] practical & ideal – poet sees practical in her.” Between end of section I and start of section II: “Lucy.” First lines in second stanza of section II are bracketed: “A violet by a mossy stone/Half-hidden from the eye!/ – Fair as a star, when only one….” “Solitude” is written in left margin, “metaphor” in the right margin. In bottom margin: “ode to England patriotic Page 174.” p. 88: Page number is bracketed. “Eye” in margin next to second full stanza on the page, “ear” in margin next to the third full stanza. p. 89: “Axis part of earth” in margin next to second stanza of section V. p. 91: In margin: “What thots do you [in shorthand: have with regard to??] Lucy’s poems?” p. 92: Near end of section VI: “person never dies – memory.” Rhyme scheme for “To a Distant Friend” is marked. In bottom margin: “Different rhyme scheme in each sonate [sic].” p. 93: Rhyme scheme for “Desideria” is marked. “Conciseness” at end of the poem. p. 94: The line “From vain temptations dost set free” is check marked. p. 95: “To humbler functions” and “I myself commend” are underlined. “Mere man” is written in margin. p. 96: With “England and Switzerland, 1802”: “one is of the Sea” is underlined, with “England in margin; “One of the Mountains” is underlined, with “Switzerland” in margin. In the line “Then cleave, O cleave to that which still is left” “Liberty is inserted between “cleave” and “O” and “[Eng.]” written at end of line. “Napoleonic War no doubt” is written in right margin. “Austrian subjugation of Switzerland” is written in left margin. “Sonnett” is written at end of poem. With the poem “On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic” “Venice” is written above “Venetian.” “French Napoleanic” is written in right margin. p. 97: Above “London, 1802” is written “George III.” In right margin: “Prevaling not in Eng life during 18th cent was material.” “Isn, Agr. & Mefg.” in margin next to lines: “To think that now our life is only drest/For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook” and these lines each have a check mark. “The wealthiest man among us is the best” is check marked, with “money” in the margin. “Took ~ strides” in margin next to last stanza on page. pp. 98-99: “London” written next to title “The Same.” “Mean ?” written in left margin. “Sonnett” written in margin at end of poem. In left margin of next poem, “XIV,” is “different – times goes on.” In bottom margin: “Eng. [check mark] help other nations.” Lines at top of p. 99 are bracketed, with question mark in margin: “For dearly must we prize thee; we who find/In thee a bulwark for the cause of men….” p. 100: The line “In liveried poverty” is check marked; “servants” is written in margin. p. 101: “think” is underlined in line: “It is no tale; but, should you think….” p. 103 “Spleen” is underlined, “spleen = disliking it” is written in margin. Lines are bracketed: “O Man! that from thy fair and shining youth/Age might but take the things Youth needed not!” Question mark in margin. “Strength & freshness gone” is written in margin. p. 104: “Uncertainty” written in top margin. “Seven years, alas! to have received/No tidings of an only child” are each check marked. “I sent him forth” is underlined in second full stanza on page. p. 105: These lines are bracketed: “I now can see with better eyes;/And worldly grandeur I despise/And fortune with her gifts and lies.” p. 107: “privacy” is underlined in the line “A privacy of glorious light is thine” and “surely up there” is written in the margin. p. 108: “linnett” is written in margin next to first full stanza on page. p. 109: In bottom margin on page with start of the poem “To the Cuckoo” is written “It’s a good thing he lived in younger days any way.” p. 110: Between the end of “To the Cuckoo” and the beginning of “Upon Westminster Bridge” is written “Daffodils = memory.” Rhyme scheme of the second of these poems is written out. The line “Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!” is bracketed. p. 111: The rhyme scheme of first stanza of “Composed at Neidpath Castle” is written out. The lines “To level with the dust a noble horde,/A brotherhood of venerable trees” are bracketed. The sentence “Many hearts deplored/The fate of those old trees…” is backeted. pp. 112-113: “14” is written in margin next to “Twice seven….” Numbering for lines 663, 664, 672, 683, and 684 are written out. The line “This little bay, a quiet road” is bracketed. These phrases are underlined: “Vision as thou art,” “Benignity,” and “a random seed,/Remote from men.” pp. 114-115: “Just saw her” is written in left margin. Number for line 719 is written out, lines there are bracketed: “Joy have I had; and going hence I bear away my recompense.” “Our Memory” is underlined. Last five lines of the poem are bracketed, “Spirit” is underlined, “Memory” is written in margin next to them. In the next poem, “The Reaper,” “solitary Highland Lass!” and “by herself” are underlined. p. 116: The first four lines at top of page from “The Reaper” have check marks, “plaintive” is underlined. Last two lines of poem are bracketed: “The music in my heart I bore/Long after it was heard no more.” “Wood Street” is bracketed in “The Reverie of Poor Susan.” “City girl working – came from country” is written in margin. p. 117: The line “And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove’s” is underlined. “I wander’d lonely” in first line of “The Daffodils” is underlined. “Happiness” is written in margin next to second stanza; “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance” is check marked. The lines “A Poet could not but be gay/In such a jocund company!” is bracketed. p. 118: Last stanza of “The Daffodils” is bracketed, “of solitude” is underlined, “memory” is written in the margin. In “To the Daisy” “… unassuming Common-place/Of nature, with that homely face…” is underlined, as is “play with similes.” The last four lines on the page are bracketed: “And many a fond and idle name/I give to thee, for praise or blame/As is the humour of the game,/While I am gazing.” p. 119: “similes” is written in the top margin, and numbers 1-7 written in margin to correspond, one assumes, to the count of similes. “Names” in margin next to “Thy appellations.” “Reveries are past” is underlined. p. 120: “… repair/My heart with gladness, and a share/Of thy meek nature!” is underlined. “Braes” is underlined in “Yarrow Unvisited.” p. 121: “holms” is underlined, “lowlands” is written in margin. “Float double, sawn and shadow!” is underlined. pp. 122-123: “Yarrow ? Scotland” is written before start of “Yarrow Visited.” “For not a feature of those hills/Is in the mirror slighted” is bracketed. p. 124: These lines are bracketed: “But thou that didst appear so fair/To fond imagination/Dost rival in the light of day/Her delicate creation….” “A softness still and holy” and “pastoral melancholy” are underlined. p. 125: “Inward eye” is written in margin next to “I see – but not by sight alone.” p. 126: “Memory” is written in margin next to last four lines of “Yarrow Visited.” “Trying to go to sleep” is written in margin next to first four lines of “To Sleep.” p. 127: “And could not win thee” is underlined. “Tribute” is written in margin next to last stanza of “To Sleep.” The last two lines of “The Inner Vision” are bracketed: “The Mind’s internal heaven shall shed her dews/Of inspiration on the humblest lay.” p. 128: These lines from the poem “Written in Early Spring” are bracketed: “And much it grieved my heart to thinki/What Man has made of Man.” “Nature” and “idealistic” are written in margin near the third and fourth stanzas. The lines “Have I not reason to lament/What Man has made of Man?” are bracketed. ” “Material W,. [or Et] = antithesis” is written in bottom margin. p. 131: These lines are bracketed: “He told of the magnolia, spread/High as a cloud, high over head!” These lines are bracketed: “Cover a hundred leagues, and seem/To set the hills on fire” and “like that” is written in the margin. p. 135: “Regrets” in margin before start of first full paragraph on page. “Resolves” in margin near line “No more of this – for now, by thee….” p. 140: The third through eighth lines on the page are bracketed, “Death of Brotherhood in shipwreck” is written in the margin. p. 141: “Not without hope we suffer and we mourn” is bracketed, “Hope anyway” is written in the margin. “Ossian” in the poem “Glen-Almain, the Narrow Gate” is underlined, with arrow to “Celtic poet – Celtic = Scotch Oshan [with short vowel mark and accent mark over the O].” These lines are bracketed: But this calm; there cannot be/A more entire tranquility.” p. 142: “Materialism” is written in margin alongside the poem “The World is too much with us, late and soon.” “The winds that will be howling at all hours/And are up-gather’d now likie sleeping flowers” are backeted, “often quoted” is written in margin. “Creed outworn” is underlined. “Beautiful [does she mean Beauty?]& happiness are in nature – simplicity.” p. 143: Before “Within King’s College Chapel, Cambridge” is written “omit.” p. 145: “Comparison to nature again” is written in margin next to stanza that reads: “No fountain from its rocky cave/E’er tripp’d with foot so free;/She seem’d as happy as a wave/That dances on the sea.” p. 146: “Memory again” is written in top margin. p. 147: This stanza is bracketed: “The blackbird amid leafy trees,/The lark above the hill,/Let loose their carols when they please,/Are quiet when they will.” p. 148: “We have been glad of yore” is marked in margin, “memories” is written in margin. p. 149: “bewilder’d chimes” is underlined. “Omit” is written next to title “The Trosachs.” pp. 150-157: “The Child is father of the Man” is bracketed. “Memories” is written in the margin. In the next poem, “Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” these two lines are bracketed: “To me did seem/Apparell’d in celestial light.” The lines “Oh evil day! If I were sullen/While Earth herself is adorning” are bracketed. “Setting” in top margin of p. 152, several lines are bracketed, and these words are written in the side margins: “Existence/birth,” “true,” “Philosophy,” Lowell,” “custom,” and “convention.” On p. 153 check mark next to: “At length the Man perceives it die away,/And fade into the light of common day.” “Lowell” in margin next to line “Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own.” On p. 154: “little child” is written in margin nesxt to “Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie/Thy soul’s immensity….” “Eternal mind” is underlined, with “not end or death” written in margin. “On whom those truths do rest/Which we are toiling all our lives to find” is bracketed. “Custom” is written in margin next to these bracketed lines: “Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight,/And custom lie upon thee with a weight/Heavy as frost and deep almost as life!” p. 155: “With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast” is underlined. Lines 1754-1756 are bracketed, “memory” is written in the margin. p. 156: “Immortalilty is [ bent dash] master” is written in top margin. “So often quoted” in margin next to lines “Ye that pipe and ye that play,/Ye that through your hearts to-day/Feel the gladness of the May!” “Memory” in left margin, “with nature” in right margin next to “In the primal sympathy,” “hereafter in right margin near “In the faith that looks through death.” p. 157: “47 years old” in right margin near lines 1800-1805. The lines “To me the meanest flower that blows can give/Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears” are bracketed. In bottom margin: “‘The Cloud’ by Shelley. ‘We are seven’ by Wordsworth. In Lake Geneva on boundary [between] France and Switzerland. Comment on poem ‘We are Seven’.” p. 159: In introduction to Shelley: “1822 [less] 1792 [equals] 30.” “Unworldly and so ethereal” are underlined with check mark in margin. “Tempest” next to “Ariel.” p. 160: Short vowel sound over “a” with accent mark on the “flam” syllable in “inflammable.” Check mark in margin next to: “for his whole life was a protest against all established customs which had any trace of oppression or tyranny.” p. 161 “Zastrozzi” is underlined, “tzi” is written in margin. p. 162: “somewhat [shorthand sign – like?] Byron” in top margin. Check mark near sentence about Shelley firing pistols everywhere, “so recklessly as to be a danger to others and to himself.” Caret near “He read, says Hogg sixteen hours out of the twenty-four….” Title of pamphlet “The Necessity of Atheism” is underlined. “Fag is one who serves another = a drudge” is written in bottom margin. p. 163: “For all compromise he had an inborn, fiery hatred” is bracketed, with check in margin. Check mark in margin near “Shelley now determined to marry. Harriet Westbrook….” Check margin near “And when, a fortnight after separating from his wife, he departed for the Continent with Mary Godwin, he became, like Byron, a sort of English monster.” In bottom margin: “Byron more active.” p. 164: “not narrative poetry” is written in top margin. Check mark near “The list of his important works is very short.” Check mark near “the Cornish rover and free-lance, Captain Trelawny.” Bracket in margin for eight lines relating what Trelawny “has told us how Shelley passed his days.” p. 165: Check mark and “like that” in margin near: “it might have been taken for a sketch of a marsh overgrownh with bulrushes, and the blots for wild ducks.” pp. 166-167: Marks in margin near these passages: “Alleggra, Byron’s dead child, rose laughin from the sea to beckon him.” “Shelley’s body was found on the san near Via Reggio. In one pocket was ‘the volume of Sophocles… and Keats’ poems in the other, doubled back, as if the reader, in the act of reading, had hastily thrust it away.’” “Only the poet’s ashes could be taken to Rome for burial.” “Byron and Leigh Hunt arrived by carriage.” And then most of the first paragraph on page 167 is marked in the margin. Check mark next to second last line on page 167. p. 168: Short vowel mark over “y” in Bysshe, with “two s’s” in top margin. p. 169: Check mark next to: “A solitary man, and none other, must have written such lines as -” then the eight lines quoted are bracketed, with a check mark next to the first of them: “Alas! I have nor hope nor health….” pp. 170-171: Three big check marks next to last paragraph on page, which explains that for Shelley “beauty lay at the end of a quest, in some region as far off as the No Man’s Land….” Check mark on page 171 near explanation that Shelley “brings before your inward eye fewer actual scenes of natural beauty than his companion poets.” “… nearly disembodied and dissolved in light and space” and “Light and spacfe, indeed, are Shelley’s own domain” are bracketed, with the second of these also underlined. Check mark in margin and bracketing for sentence: “Shelley is not a narrative poet, for the reason that no story could find a foothold in his airy medium.” p. 172: Check mark near “the source of his [Shelley’s] most beautiful and magical effects.” These sentences are bracketed: “Where has aspiration been given greater depth and distance than in his line ‘The desire of the moth for the star’? And as for the description of sights in Nature, no poet has left more lasting pictures of lights [underlined], calm or stormy, seen in the heavens, in pools, or upon the sea.” p. 173: These sentences and quoted from a poem are bracketed: “He changes all objects into something rich and strange, not of the sea, but of the sky; and so radiant is the sky, in his best and highest moments, that like his lark he becomes – ‘… a poet hidden/In the light of thought.’” p. 174: The titles of these poems are checked marked: “The Indian Serenade,” “To the Night,” “The Flight of Love,” “Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples,” “To a Skylark,” “The Recollection,” and “Music, When Soft Voices Die.” pp. 175-176: Check mark near title of “The Indian Serenade.” “They” in first line of second stanza is bracketed. “Champak” is underlined, “specie of magnolia tree” is written in margin. “It” in sixth line of second stanza is bracketed. “Superior to other two in vverse-rhyme” written in bottom margin. Bracket mark at end of poem. p. 177: Check mark near title “To the Night. “Indefinite” written in margin near first line: “Swiftly walk over the western wave….” The wored “opiate” is underlined. pp. 178-179: “Likened night to death” is written in margin. Check mark near the title “The Flight of Love. These lines are bracketed “When the lute is broken,/Sweet tones are remember’d not” and “Wordsworth said – not [short hand notation ?]” Note in bottom margin across both pages: “These poems help to analyze the man ———– that is all, his philosophy is not minel Epicurines?” A question mark next to “One word is too often profaned” at start or next poem, “thee” is underlined with question mark next to it in fourth line. p. 180: Check mark next to: “I can give not what men call love….” These lines are bracketed: “The desire of the moth for the star,/Of the night for the morrow,/The devotion to something afar/From the sphere of our sorrow?” “He always died [two short hand notations] far off” is written in left margin. Next to the first stanza of “Stanzas Written In Dejection Near Naples” is written “beautiful.” Next to second stanza is written: “No solitude for him.” p. 181: These lines are bracketed: “Till death like sleep might steal on me,/And I might feel in the warm air/My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea/Breathe o’er my dying brain its last monotony.” Check mark near title: “To a Skylark.” “Cuckoo of [illegible]” written in right margin. p. 182: “unpremeditated art” is underlined, “high up far off” is written in margin. “Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun” is underlined, “spirit” is written in margin. p. 183: A line is drawn to connect the lines “What thou art we know not;/What is most like thee?” to the lines “Like a poet hidden/In the light of thought.” Check mark and “words” next to the lines “Like a glow-worm golden/In a dell of dew.” p. 185: These lines are bracketed: “We look before and after,/And pine for what is not.” p. 189: Check mark near the title “The Invitation.” p. 191: Check mark near the title “The Recollection.” Mark in margin near: “Rise, Memory, and write its praise!” p. 194: A line is drawn to separate the final eight lines from the poem preceding them. The last two lines are bracketed: “Less oft is peace in Shelley’s mind/Than calm in waters seen!” p. 196: These lines are bracketed: I hasten’d to the spot whence I had come/That I might there present it – O! to whom?” p. 205: Check mark near the lines: “Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!/I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” pp. 207-208: Check mark near the title: “Threnos” or the first line: “O World! O Life! O Time!” Check mark near the start of poem XX, with first two lines bracketed: “Music, when soft voices die,/Vibrates in the memory….” Check mark and “Like this – love it” next to these lines: “And so thy thoughts, when Thou art gone,/Love itself shall slumber on.” p. 209: “Died at 25” in top margin of first page of introduction to John Keats. p. 210: In margin near a description of Keats’s school days: “athletic.” p. 212: Check mark in margin near: “In that same fortunate spring, Keats chose his career, and gave the world his first volume of poems.” p. 213: Long vowel mark over “y” of “ydon” to help with pronunciation of Haydon? In bottom margin: “Lay – Hunt.” p. 216: “Mary” in ink next to “Bright star, would I were as steadfast as thou art.” Mark in margin near “‘Bring me the candle, Brown, and let me see this blood.’” p. 218: Bracketed: “…some, too zealous [underlined] in his praise have called Keats a poet of Greek life, and his spirit the Greek spirit.” There is also a capital D in the margin, apparently unrelated to anything but near a quoted passage starting “Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?” p. 219: Check mark near the passage reading “the moon in this poet’s sky is not the pale weary satellite that Shelley watched….” This sentence is bracketed: “‘Poetry,’ he once wrote, ‘must surprise by a fine excess.’” p. 220: This sentence is bracketed: “Behind the life which is in all these things, Keats rarely, if ever, suggests thye presence – so real and so full of awe to Wordsworth – of a mighty impulse and everlasting purpose.” p. 222: This sentence is bracketed: “When later you come to know the whole range of Keat’s poetry, you will see in the odes a growing melancholy, a sense, unknown in his earlier delighted freedom, that beauty is transient, that all living forms of beauty pass into oblivion.” p. 223: This prose quotation from Keats is bracketed: “If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me – nothing to make my friends proud of my memory; but I have loved theprinciple of beauty in all things, and if I had had time, I would have made myself remembered.” This quotation from Keats’ poetry is bracketed “‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” and “Creed” is written in the margin. p. 224: The title of these poems are marked: “Ode on the Poets,” “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” “To One Who Has Been Long in the City Pen,” “The Realm of Fancy,” “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” and “The Human Seasons.” p. 225: “Elysium = pagan conception of heaven” is written in top margin. “Tented” is underlined in the line “Underneath large blue-bells tented.” “Perfume” is underlined, “pronunciation” is written near it in the margin. p. 226: These lines are bracketed: “Thus ye live on high, and then/On the earth ye live again.” “Cloying” is underlined, with question mark in the margin. “Repetition of first 4 lines” is written near last four lines of “Ode on the Poets.” p. 231: Check mark near the title of “The Terror of Death.” Rhyme scheme of poem is written out in ink. p. 232: Check mark near the title of “Ode To a Nightingale,” with “Tribute” in margin also. In right hand margin: “Lethe = river of forgetfulness.” In bottom margin: “short poem that might be set to music.” “Lethe-wards” is underlined, and “river leading to Hades” is written in bottom margin, too. p. 233: “Dryad” is underlined, “nymph” is written in margin. These words are underlined: “Flora,” “Provencal,” and “Hyppocrene.” These lines are bracketed: “That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,/And with thee fade away into the forest dim.” “Nightingale” is written in the space of the stanza break. “Death of brother” is written in the right margin. “Bachus = God of wine” is written in the bottom margin. p. 234: The line “I cannot see what flowers are at my feet” is bracketed and “night” is written in margin. “Departed music” is written in bottom margin, pointed at the line “To thy high requiem become a sod.” p. 235: These lines are marked in the margin: “Thou was not born for death, immortal Bird!/No hungry generations tread thee down;/The voice I hear this passing night was heard/IKn ancient days by emperor and clown.” p. 236: Check mark near title “Ode to Autumn.” p. 237: Check mark near title “The Realm of Fancy.” “Imagination” in margin nearby. p. 240: These lines are bracketed: “Too much gazed at? Where’s the maid/Whose lip mature is ever new?” Written in margin: “Everything spoilt by use.” These lines are bracketede: “Let the winged Fancy roam,/Pleasure never is at home.” p. 241: Check mark near the title of “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” These lines are bracketed and marked in the margin, with “imagine” in the stanza break above: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter; therefore, yet soft pipes, play on;/Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,/Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.” p. 242: In top margin: “Beauty is transient / thought people on urn would live forever.” These lines are bracketed: “‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” In bottom margin: “learn” and “attic = urn.” p. 243: “Imagine” is written next to first stanza of “The Human Seasons.” “Think of youth” is written next to the second. Check mark near this passage: “to let fair things/Passed by unheeded as a threshold brook.” p. 245: “Monday” in top margin. p. 247: In top margin: “good exp / plajerism [sic] = taking other person’s words.” This phrase is underlined: “spectacle of that distant, pulsing mystery.” In bottom margin and not clearly related to anything: “how pronounced.” p. 251: “Thought is so involved -” is written in bottom margin, after discussion of Browning’s poems is opened and the Tennyson quote about understanding only the first and last lines of ‘Sordello’ is cited. p. 252: This entire paragraph is bracketed, and three passages of it are underlined: “This fact is, that Browning wrote the greater part of his verses, whether songs or stories, in a fashion wholly different from the fashion of his companion poets. The difference you will quickly see: except in comparatively rare instances, he does not speak to you directly out of his own heart, like Wordsworth, or Byron, or Shelley, or Keats, but indirectly out of the heart and from the lips of some real or imagined character. Browning is, in other words, a dramatic poet.” p. 256: “lyrical dramatist” is underlined. p. 257: “The wisdom of Browning is not the wisdom of this world” is underlined. This quote from Ecclesiastes is bracketed: “The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him thataruleth among fools.” p. 258: This sentence is underlined: “To him, glory and honour lie with the man who has done good work, and with that man only.” p. 259: The titles of these poems are marked: “Cavalier Tunes” and “Pheidippides.” p. 260: “Dramatic monolgue differs from a soliloquy in this: mono = one. While there is 1 speaker the presence of a silent second person is supposed, to whom the arguments of the speaker are addressed. Late day appreciation originated dramatic monologue. Soliloquy = 1 person alone on stage.” p. 261: In top margin: “quick movement of poems. Always optimistic, sure of hereafter.” In lines of “Marching Along” that have words in middle of line rhyming with words at end, both are underlined. “Pym” has “member of house of Commons” in margin near it. p. 262: “member of Commons” in top margin near “Hampden.” In margin “Prince – nephew of C [Charles] I” referring to Rupert. In secftion IV, “[short-hand symbol] King Charles” is pointed at Pym. “Rude fellows” is pointed at “carles.” “Internal” is written in left margin, referring perhaps to the internal rhymes? p. 264: In top margin: “Roundheads = purit [??] anon [??] commoner.” “Faith” in margin near “fay.” In first line of “Incident of the French Camp,” “stormed Ratisbon” is underlined. p. 265: In margin next to section IV of “Incident of the French Camp” is written: “boy put flag in city.” p. 267: The last four lines of the second section of “The Lost Leader” are bracketed. p. 268: In the poem “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix,” the “o” in the word “postern” appears to have a long vowel sound over it; then in the margin next to section III is written: “place to place.” p. 277: Faint marks in margin near four lines on this page. p. 278: “Get sense” in left margin next to final stanza of “The Boy and the Angel:” “One vanished as the other died:/They sought God side by side.” “Write Herve Riel” is in the right margin. p. 287: Check mark near the title of “Herve Riel.” “Northern coast of France” is pointed at “Hogue.” “St. Malo” is underlined, “Rance” is underlined with question marked nearby. “Damfreville” is underlined with “[three short-hand symbols ??] ship or man” in margin. p. 288: “Right ?” in margin, pointed at “starboard; “port” underlined, with “left” written above it. “Twenty tons” is underlined. p. 289: At end of section IV of “Herve Riel” this is written in the margin: “coasting pilot? offing?” p. 290: “distance off shore” and “deep H-2-0″ are pointed at”offing.” p. 292: These lines are bracketed: “In the frank blue Breton eyes,/Just the same man as before.” p. 294: “Louvre” is underlined. Last two lines of “Herve Riel” are backeted: “In my verse, Herve Riel, do thou once more/Save the squadron, honour France, love they wife the Belle Aurore!” Check mark near the title of “Pheidippides.” “Zeus” and “Her” are underlined, “aegis” is circled. “Pan” is underlined with [short-hand symbols ??] – Zeus” pointed at it. p. 295: “Archons” is underline	Book
What to listen for in music	Aaron	Copland		Mentor		1939	Inserted between pp. 24-25, a small clipping about volcanoes on Mars erupting about as frequently as those on earth – from Popular Mechanics	Book
Plight, a book of poems	Cid	Corman		Elizabeth Press		1968		Book
The Manchester affair	John	Corry		Putnam		1967		Book
Gasoline	Gregory	Corso		City Lights Books		1958		Book
Lost Horizons	Leonard	Cotrell		Dells Publ. Inc. N.Y.		1964		Book
Greek art	Thomas	Craven		Pocket Books, N.Y.		1950		Book
The whip	Robert	Creeley		Migrant Books		1957		Book
Century readings for a course in English	John William	Cunliffe		Century		1910		Book
Do these bones live	Edward	Dahlberg		Harcourt		1941	Fourteen pages (seven sheets) with Dahlberg’s “Cipango’s Hinder Door” have been cut out of New Directions 15 and tucked between pp. 22-23.	Book
The sorrows of Priapus	Edward	Dahlberg		New Directions		1957		Book
Truth is more sacred	Edward	Dahlberg		Horizon		1961	First page has bios for Sir Herbert Read and Edward Dahlberg glued in. On last page of book: “p. 105” Page 105 contains quiotes from D.H. Lawrence related to sea and water.	Book
Epitaphs of our times letters	Edward	Dahlberg		Braziller		1967	p. 173: Faint mark in margin next to this passage from a letter to Josephine Herbst: “I have had the feeling that no matter how many books a man writes in the United States he is always the author of one volume, that is the last one he wrote. The others are automatically expunged, because nobody bothers to think about them….”	Book
A history of science	Sir William C.	Dampier		Cambridge		1948		Book
The divine comedy	Alighieri	Dante		Random House	New York, NY	1950	Notation on half title page: “From Zukofskys Easter 1951.” Note on back page, “Sordello p. 228” “beautiful reading-p. 446 Canto VIII. Paradise” “Love-XVIII, Pergatorio” On blank last page: “Sordello p. 228. beautiful reading -mp. 446 Canto VIII Paradisio. Love – XVIII, Purgatorio.”	Book
Flowers and leaves	Guy	Davenport		Williams		1966		Book
Do you have a poem book on e.e. cummings?	Guy	Davenport		Jargon Society		1969		Book
Opera	Edward J.	Dent		Penguin Books		1940		Book
New poetry out of Wisconsin	August	Derleth		Stanton		1969	Notation on first blank page of copy 1: “To Mr. Roub from me.” No marginalia in copy 2.	Book
The journals of Lewis and Clark	Bernard	Devoto		Houghton Mifflin, Boston, N.Y.		1953		Book
Selected poems and letters of ____	Emily	Dickinson		Doubleday Co., Inc. N.Y.		1959		Book
The recognition of ____	Emily	Dickinson		Univ. of Michigan Press		1964		Book
Love poems	Emily	Dickinson		Peter Pauper Press, Mt. Vernon, N.Y.				Book
Rameau’s nephew and D’Alembert’s dream	Denis	Diderot		Penguin Books, England		1966		Book
The human situation	W. MacNeile	Dixon		Oxford		1937	Inserted before p. 155: a child’s crayon drawing of a flower.	Book
Green universe	Edward F.	Dolan		Dodd		1959		Book
Complete poetry of each	Wm.	Donne		Random House, N.Y.		1941		Book
Gunslinger, book 1	Edward	Dorn		Black Sparrow Press		1968		Book
The secret life of the flowers	Anne Ophelia	Dowden		Odyssey Lib. Press, N.Y.		1964		Book
The natural history of a yard	Leonard	Duekin		Henry Regnery Co., Chicago		1955		Book
Letters’	Robert	Duncan		Williams		1958		Book
The story of philosophy	Will	Durant		Simon		1926	Book is signed by Will Durant on the first page. p. 288: This sentence is marked in the margin: “He applied philosophy even to holding up his stockings – by bands passing up into his trousers’ pockets, where they ended in springs contained in small boxes.” p. 289: In the phrase “the distorting channels of sense” the word sense is underlined. The sentence following is marked in the margin: “For ‘pure’ reason is to mean knowledge that does not come through our senses, but is independent of all sense experience; knowledge belonging to us by the inherent nature and structure of the mind.” p. 290: The following sentence is marked in the margin, with an exclamation point along side: “But what if we have knowledge whose truth is certain to us even before experience – a priori?” p. 293: Portion of a sentence marked in the margin: “only those sensations are selected that can be moulded into perceptions suited to your present purpose, or that bring those imperious messages of danger which are always relevant.” p. 300: This sentence is marked in the margin: “The moral imperative which we need as the basis of religion must be an absolute, a categorical imperative.” p. 302: The start of the paragraph beginning “Notice, meanwhile, that this absolute command…” is marked in the margin. p. 313: Portion of a sentence appears to be marked in the margin with an “X:” “… and that the mind is no mere helpless tabula rasa, the inactive victim of sensation, but a positive agent, selecting and reconstructing experience as experience arrives.” p. 341: A portion of the following sentence from a quote by Schopenhauer is marked in the margin: “As the human body generally corresponds to the human will generally, so the individual body generally corresponds to the individually modified will, the character of the individual.” p. 350: A portion of the sentence quoted from Schopenhauer that begins “Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free, even in his individual actions…” is marked in the margin. A portion of a sentence from the same quote, ending “… he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns, and as it were, play the part which he has undertaken, to the very end” is also marked in the margin. p. 382: A portion of the sentence including “… later, the same subject reach the metaphysical stage, and was explained by metaphysical abstractions – as when the stars moved in circles because circles were the most perfect figure…” is marked in the margin. p. 385: A great portion of the sentence reading “As mathematics had dominated philosophy in the seventeenth century, giving to the world Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, and Pascal; and as psychology had written philosophy in Berkeley and Hume and Condillac and Kant; so in the nineteenth century, in Schilling and Schopenhauer, in Spencer and Neitzsche and Bergson, biology was the background of philosophic thought.” is marked in the margin. p. 398: A portion of the sentence that begins “The growth of planets out of nebulae; the formation of oceans and mountains on the earth; the metabolism of elements by plants, and of animal tissues by men; the development of the heart in the embryo, and the fusion of bones after birth…” is marked in the margin. p. 419: A portion of the sentence beginning “The professed ethic of Europe and America is a pacifistic Christianity…” may be marked in the margin.	Book
Key to modern poetry	Lawrence	Durrell		Peter Nevill		1952		Book
Lawrence Durrell – Henry Miller, a private	Lawrence	Durrell		Dutton		1963	p. 398: In blank space at end of index: “Balzav 144 Seraphita.”	Book
Men of power, volume 2	Fred	Eastman		Cokesbury		1938	On first page: “Xmas 1938 To The Heins from Margaret Goetsch	Book
Another time in fragments	Larry	Eigner		Fulcrum		1967	A poem by Larry Eigner beginning “in all the smog” has been torn out of a magazine (p. 31) and tucked between the poems numbered 16 and 17.	Book
The firmament of time	Loren	Eiseley		Atheneum , N.Y.		1966		Book
The unexpected universe	Loren	Eiseley		Harcourt, Brace and World, N.Y.		1969	Tucked between pp. 132-133 is a newspaper feature about La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, from the Milwaukee Journal, date unknown.	Book
The immense journey	Loren	Eiseley		Vintage		1957		Book
Four quarters	T.S.	Eliot		Harcourt		1943		Book
The dance of life	Havelock	Ellis		Houghton		1923	“Lorine Niedecker ’24” written at top of first page of book. Written in pencil on last page of book: “Bertrand Russell – 1. ‘Principles of Social Reconstruction.’ 2. ‘Studies in the Psychology of Sex’ – Elis. 3. Principles of Sociology – Barnes-Haynes categorical imperative” Written in pencil on inside of back cover: “110, 111, 109, 103, 89, 85, 84, 70, 134, 135, 140, 155, 163, 169, 320, 325, 342, 348 [underlined in ink, ‘versus Senor’ written behind it in ink], 190 Explanation [??] of derangement from rule – old as Aristotle.” p. v: Line reading “Rodin that ‘slowness is beauty,’ and certainly it is…” is marked in margin. p. vi: One line of sentence reading “We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our own past selves” is marked in the margin. p. vii: Marks in margin near the sentence “I have never seen the same world twice.” p. viii: Portions of these sentences have been marked in the margin: “The diversity of the Many is balanced by the stability of the One. That is why life must always be a dance, for that is what a dance is: perpetual slightly varied movements which are yet always held true to the shape of the whole.” p. xiii: Something seems to have been erased near the final three lines on the page. p. 18: A portion of this sentence has been marked in the margin: “It was felt to be the conquered rather than the conqueror who needed consolation, and it also seemed desirable to show that no feeling of animosity was left behind.” p. 30: A portion of this sentence has been marked in the margin: “That is why it is only to-day that we in the West have reached the point of nervous susceptibility which enables us in some degreee to comprehend the aesthetic supremacy which the Chinese reached more than a thousand years ago.” p. 36: Something appears to have been erased next to the footnote at the bottom of the page. p. 41: Apparent erasure in margins by: “The auto-intoxication of rapturous movement brings the devotees, for a while at least, into that self-forgetful union with the not-self which the mystic ever seeks.” p. 70: Two lines including the phrase “Science consists in knowing, Art consists in doing” have been marked in the margin. p. 84: A mark appears to have been erased from the margin near the 5th-7th lines on the page. p. 103: The following sentences have been marked in the margin: “Freud regards dreaming as fiction that helps us to sleep; thinking we may regard as fiction that helps us to live. Man lives by imagination.” p. 109: The following sentence portion is marked in the margin: “Ferrero, who occupied himself with psychology before attaining eminence as a brilliant historian, suggested thirty years ago that the art impulse and its allied manifestations are transformed sexual instinct; and the sexual impulse is ‘the raw material, so to speak, from which art springs….” p. 110: The end portion of this quote have been marked in the margin: “… the external features of the male and his external activities … have been developed out of the impluse of repressed organic sexual desire striving to manifest itself ever more urgently in the struggle to overcome the coyness of the female….” p. 111: Two lines of this portion of a sentence have been marked in the margin: “… though I was careful to add that the transmutation of sexual energy into other forms of force must not be regarded in itself as completely accounting for all the finest human aptitudes of sympathy and art and religion.” p. 134: Portions of these sentences about Einstein are marked in the margin: “… while those who know him well say that he is ‘essentially as much an artist as a discoverer.’ As a matter of fact he is an artist in one of the most commonly recognized arts, being an accomplished musician, a good violinist….” p. 135: Portions of this sentence about music have been underlined and/or marked in the margin: “”It is the most abstract, the most nearly mathematical of the arts – we may recall how music and mathematics had their scientific origin together in the discover of Pythagoras – and it is not surprising that it should be Einstein’s favorite art.” p. 137: One line of this sentence appears to have been marked in the margin: “He is disposed to regard many scientific discoveries commonly regarded the work of pure thought as really works of art.” p. 140: Three lines containing “… ‘possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture…” have been marked in the margin. p. 144: There appears to have been an erasure near the last four lines of the paragraph completing on this page. p. 146: There is a erasure plus a mark remains near the sentence “An absolute prohibition in this matter [split infinitives] is the mark of those who are too ignorant, or else too unintelligent, to recognise a usage which is of the essence of English speech.” p. 149: The line “… modern French to call cliches. We mean thereby the…” is marked with an “X” in the margin. p. 155: Three lines containing the following sentence are marked in the margin: “It [style in writing] is also defined – and, sometimes I think, supremely well defined – as ‘grace seasoned with salt.’” p. 163: There appears to have been an erasure near the final five lines on the page. p. 167: There appears to have been an erasure near four lines containing “… where he [Keats] seemed to be concerned with beautiful things, he was really concerned with beautiful words.” p. 168: There appears to have been an erasure near three lines containing “But the attitude of the poet in the presence of Nature is precisely that of Huysmans in the presence of art: it is the programme that interests him.” p. 169: The sentence “We see that the artist in speech moves among words rather than among things” is marked in the margin. p. 170: There seems to be an erasure marking six lines that start with “… strong love of Nature. The poets who describe Nature….” p. 190: There is an erasure near this sentence: “It is by the instinctive stress of a highly sensitive, or slightly abnormal constitution, that he is impelled to instil these tendencies into the alien magic of words.” p. 245: Two lines are marked, including the words “… and the word morals essentially means custom.” p. 248: There seems to be an erasure near seven lines starting with “So influential a moralist as Aristotle….” p. 254: There appears to be an erasure in the margin, underlining of the word “categorical” appears to have been erased, underlining of the word “imperative” remains. p. 270: Four lines are marked in the margin, including “The artist’s work in life is full of struggle and toil; it is only the spectator of morals who can assume the calm aesthetic attitude.” p. 275: Erasure near the phrase “… and even shortly before his death wrote in deprecation of the notion that conformity to duty is the final aim of morality.” p. 276: Erasure near the word “dilettante” which remains underlined. p. 277: Large erasure in the margin of this page. p. 278: This sentence appears to be marked in the margin: “To exalt pleasure is to exalt pain; and we cannot understand the meaning of pain unless we understand the place of pleasure in the art of life.” p. 280: Large erasure in this margin of this page. “Zarathustra” remains underlined. Illegible remnants of words are visible. p. 281: Spinoza is underlined. Question mark in margin near statement by Jules de Gaultier to the effect that “Morality is a fact of sensibility….” p. 299: The word “eugenics” is underlined. p. 304: The line beginning “spake Zarathustra…” may be marked. The book Studies in the Psychology of Sex appears to be marked in the footnote at bottom of the page, where he recalls suggesting “that we now have to lay the foundation of a new casuistry, no longer theological and Christian, but naturalistic and scientific.” p. 306: The line with “Principles of Social Reconstruction” at top of page is marked. p. 312: Is there the hint of an erasure near the sentences “… each has mistaken the one drop of water he has measured for the whole ocean. Art cannot be defined because it is infinite.” p. 320: The sentence “That is ‘intuition,’ an instinct that has become disinterested” appears to be marked. Some erasure in the margin. p. 322: Lines including “… an art must not be consciously pursued for any primary useful end outside itself” are marked in the margin. p. 325: The last seven lines on the page are marked, with two of them marked again. pp. 340-341 These sentences may or may not be marked intentionally with dots in margin: “We must seek in the human ego an instinct in which is manifested a truly autonomous play of the power of imagination…” and “The aesthetic instinct alone answers to that double demand.” p. 342: Four lines including the following have been marked in the margin: “Like Gaultier, he believes in what has been called, perhaps not happily, ‘the law of irony’; that is to say, that the mark we hit is never the mark we aimed at….” p. 348: “Ah yes” is written in pencil next to “because they, too, illustrate that faith transcending sight, without which no art is possible.” In addition, written in ink beneath the “Ah yes” is “versus Senor!” Written in ink in top outside corner of page: “3 reasons for seclusion: 1. cultivate a detached manner; 2. to watch the world; 3. to instill a faith and a feeling of aloneness” with arrow pointing to phrase “without which no art is possible.”	Book
The selected writings of ____	Ralph Waldo	Emerson		Random House, Inc., N.Y.		1950	p. v: “The Over-Soul” in “Contents” is marked with a checkmark.	Book
The portable Emerson	Ralph Waldo	Emerson		Viking Press		1956	p. 180: The line with the sentence beginning “We must obtain that, if we can…” is marked in the margin.	Book
Society and solitude	Ralph Waldo	Emerson		Houghton		1912	A review by Lewis Mumford of Emerson’s Journals and and a book of his early lectures is tucked into the book. Review appears to have been published in the New York Review [of Books?], January 18, 1968.	Book
The heart of Emerson’s journals	Ralph Waldo	Emerson		Dover		1939		Book
Basic writings of America’s saga	Ralph Waldo	Emerson		Penguin Books		1947	Paper clip on page 165-166. Near “An Addrerss” delivered before a senior class in divinity college, this note: “4 months after leaving ministry.” In first sentence of address the word “refulgent” is underlined. p. 166: Underlines “The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws.” Nearby: “religion.” In margin: “[illlegible] relationhip to inanimate [illegible].” p. 167: “vitiate” underlined. “Corrupt, weaken” written between lines. pp. 168-169: In margin at top of page: “Reason is highest faculty of soul – power [illegible] we apprehend truth immediately without calculation & proof.” “Understanding – everyday truth – intellectual [illegible] varying degrees when reason – deepest truths – is perfect – [illegible].” “Depressing” written next to “privative” at top of page. “god [illegible]” next to word “deifying” in second complete paragraph on page. “Blessing” next to the word “beatitude.” The word “Reason” is underlined. “Correctness” in margin next to “rectitude.” p. 170: “Tropes” underlined in last paragraph on page, with illegible note. p. 171: Star (*) in top margin next to sentence: “It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.” In sentence “The soul knows no persons” “knows no” is underlined. p. 172: Star next to, and parts of this sentence are underlined: “To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.” p. 173 “Coeval” is circled; in margins: “contemporaneous” and “of same age.” p. 177 Portions of sentence underlined: “…out of memory, and not out of the soul” and “historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching, by withdrawing it from the exploration of the moral nature of man…”. p. 178: “degrading the character of Jesus” is underlined. p. 179: First seven lines of last paragraph on page (beginning “Yourself a newborn bard…”) are marked in the margin.	Book
Basic selections from essays, poems &	Ralph Waldo	Emerson		Mentor		1954	Table of Content: Check mark by The American Scholar p. 103: Circles “poesy”. Brackets “[Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect] of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. [Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.] The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.”, bracketed portions of this quote are underlined as well. p. 104: Underlines, “new days and events have thrown on his character and his hopes.”, “social state these functions are parceled out to individuals”, “joint work”. Brackets, “The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters–a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.”, “Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.”. Underlines, “Man on the farm”. X at line, “The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work, but is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul is subject to dollars.” Brackets, “In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.” Underlines within this quote, “Man Thinking” and “other men’s thinking” p. 105: Underlines, “man a student,” and “things exist for the student’s behoof?”. Underlines, “first in importance”, “mind is that of nature”, “winds blow”, “grass grows”, “What is nature to him?”, “resembles his own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending”, “the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself”, “two things and see in them one nature”, “science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.”. X by line going onto next page, “Thus to him, to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and it proceed from one root; one is leaf and one is flower; relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein.” p. 106: Underlines, “what is that root? Is not that the soul of his soul?”, “natural philosophy”, “the laws of his own mind.”. Brackets, “So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess.”. Underlines, “‘Know thyself,’ and the modern precept, ‘Study nature,’” and “mind of the Past”. Underlines, “into truth”, “a book of pure thought”. Brackets, “Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.” p. 107: Underlines, “the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.”, “on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent”, “accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles.”, “young men”, “only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.”, “What is the right use?What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.”, “The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.” (x by this last underlining), “as yet unborn”, “the sound estate of every man”. Brackets, “The books, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius.” Underlines, “the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hind-head: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;–cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.”. There is a note written in the margin next to this last quote but it is difficult to read. p. 108: Underlines, “solitude”. Brackets starting on previous page, “On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive from another mind its truth, though it was in torrents of light, without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done. Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by overinfluence. The literature of every nation bears me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakespearized now for two hundred years.” Underlines, “Books are for the scholar’s idle time.”, “time”, “awe mixed with the joy”, and “One must be an inventor to read well.” p. 109: Brackets the first full paragraph, and underlines, “various genius to their hospitable halls and by the concentrated fires”. Underlines, “their day”, “he is not yet man.”, and “cowardice”. p. 110: Underlines, “a loss of power”, “yet a part of life”, “the mind”, and “an angel of wisdom”. Circles “empyrean”. p. 111: Underlines, “Life is our dictionary.”, “intercourse”, “the way”, “Character is higher than intellect.”, and “Living is the functionary.” p. 112: Brackets, “I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by nature, by books, and by action. It remains to say somewhat of his duties.”. Underlines, “he must accept–how often!–poverty and solitude.” p. 113: Underlines, “which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy”, “let him hold by himself”, “that this day he has seen something truly”, and “nature”. p. 114: Underlines, “As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it.” p. 115: Underlines, “the great man’s light, and feel it to be their own”, “heart beat”, “and we live in him.”, “life of one man”, “illustrious monarchy”, and “The man who has never lived that can feed us ever.” p. 116: Marks start of fourth paragraph. Underlines, “not in the state of mind of their fathers, and regret the coming state as untried”. X by, “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” and underlines, “if we but know what to do with it.” p. 117: Underlines, “Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.”, “the visible, audible, tangible world.”, and “that allies moral evil to the foul material forms”. p. 118: Underlines, “Help must come from the bosom alone. The scholar is that man who must take into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.”, “The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame.”, “indomitably on his instincts” and “one character.” p. 119: Underlines, “study of letters shall be no longer a name”, “inspired”, and “inspires all men”. Check at end of reading. p. 125: In “Works and Days,” the entire paragraph beginning “The days are made on a loom whereof…” has been bracketed in the margin. p. 201: The entire paragraph beginning “It is not a convenience to have a person in town…” is bracketed in the margin. Notation on the inside back cover: “p. 125, 201.”	Book
A modern anthology	Ralph Waldo	Emerson		Laurel		1958		Book
Her Eugen Duhring’s revolution in science	Frederick	Engels		International Publishers		1939		Book
The place where I am standing: poems	Theodore	Enslin		Elizabeth Press		1964		Book
The insect world of ____	J. Henri	Fabre		Dodd, Mead & Co., N.Y.		1949		Book
Greek science, books 1 and 2	Benjamin	Farrington		Penguin Books		1944		Book
The story of Thomas Moore	John	Farrow		All Saints Press		1954	Tucked between pp. 54-55, an article from January 17, 1962 Milwaukee Journal regarding Thomas More.	Book
Citizen Tom Paine	Howard	Fast		Bantam Books		1943		Book
Interpretations of American literature	Charles	Fiedelson		Oxford		1959		Book
Gandhi	Louis	Fisher		New American Library		1946	p. 8: Marks in the margin and underlining for the first, third, fourth, and fifth paragraphs on the page. p. 18: Mark in margin from the words “‘He is a devotee who is jealous of none…” to the end of the paragraph. Bracketing in next paragraph from the words “‘He who is ever brooding…’” to the end of the paragraph.	Book
Poems from the Greek – Anthology	Dudley	Fitts		New Directions, N.Y.		1956		Book
Tender is the night	F. Scott	Fitzgerald		Bantam Books		1934		Book
Selected letters	Gustave	Flaubert		Hamilton		1954		Book
Portraits from life	Ford Madox	Ford		Henry Regnery Col		1937	p. 169: The beginning and end of the paragraph beginning “These slightest shades of English ruling-class life…” are lightly marked in the margin. p.196: Mark in margin by, “It was told amongst other items of affectionate making fun of poor Ralston at Spasskoye. It appeared that Ralston’s singular physical approximation to Turgenev had caused amazement, and even concer, to the Master’s serfs.”	Book
Two cheers for democracy	E.M.	Forester		Harcourt		1951		Book
Modern science and its philosophy	Philipp	Frank		Harvard		1949		Book
Ezra Pound	G.S.	Fraser		Grove Press		1960		Book
The age of belief	Anne	Fremantle		Mentor		1954		Book
Letters	Sigmund	Freud		McGraw		1960		Book
May man prevail	Erick	Fromm		Doubleday Co. Inc., N.Y.		1960	p. 30: Several lines beginning with the sentence that starts “We feel superior to the Aztecs” have been marked in the margin. p. 69: Several lines beginning with “… materialism is supposed to mean that the main motivation in man…” have been marked in the margin. p. 71: Several lines beginning with “A man who lives by the favor of another…” have been marked in the margin. p. 81: Several lines beginning with “The Soviet system is an efficient…” have been marked in the margin.]	Book
Basic teachings of the great philosophers	S.E. Jr.	Frost		Barnes & Noble, Inc., N.Y.		1956		Book
Vision and design	Roger	Fry		Penguin		1920		Book
A history of philosophy	B.A.G.	Fuller		Holt		1955		Book
Winslow Homer	Albert T.E.	Gardner		Bramhall		1961	Post card of Homer’s “Palm Tree, Nassau” to Lorine in Ft. Atkinson tucked between pp. 180-181, from Bob Nero, postmarked Feb. 12, 1970 from New York, NY: “Just noteds in Jim Lowell’s Asphodel catalog that he has a copy of Mina Loy’s Lunar Baedeker & Time Tables for sale for $10.00 – Expensive or else I’d get it for you – But perhaps you are interested in getting it. Bob Nero.” Post card of Homer’s “Sloop Bermuda” to Mrs. Al Millen in Milwaukee tucked between pp. 216-217, from GR [Gail Roub?], postmarked Ft. Atkinson, Jan. 13, 1967: “Delighted to hear of your poem’s acceptance. Perhaps they agonized over the JFK as I did – or needed the reference toi Bay of Pigs. I must subscribe to Poetry. Envy you the fresh paint job. Could use one myself. GR”	Book
The creative process	Brewster	Ghiselin		Mentor		1952		Book
The creative process	Brewster	Ghiselin		New American Library, N.Y.				Book
Life with Picasso	Francoise	Gilot		New American Library		1964	pp. 52-54: X in the margin on p. 52 at the sentence starting “On the easel was a canvas….” X in the margin on p. 54 at the end of the paragraph beginning “I told him that if he had never painted…” which is where a section of the chapter ends.	Book
Howl, and other poems	Allen	Ginsberg		City Lights Pocket Bookshop		1956		Book
The great writings of ____		Goethe		Mentor Books, N.Y.		1958		Book
Only in America	Harry	Goldern		Permabooks		1958		Book
Winslow Homer	Lloyd	Goodrich		Braziller		1959	Newspaper clipping with color copy of Homer’s “West Point, Prout Neck” tucked between 30 and 31.	Book
Wine of life	Charles	Gorham		Dial		1958		Book
Sound and the form in modern poetry	Harvey	Gross		Univ. of Michigan Press		1968		Book
The Roman way	Edith	Hamilton		W.W. Norton Co., N.Y.		1932		Book
The Greek way to western civilization	Edith	Hamilton		New American Library, N.Y.		1949	On blank page at front: “Xmas 1949.” Then, in a child’s hand: “Paul.” Tucked between pp.42-43 is a newspaper feature article entitled “The City Planners of Ancient Greece” from the Milwaukee Journal, November 25, 1962.	Book
Selected peoms of ____	Thomas	Hardy		Macmillan Co.		1961		Book
Scientists and writers	James	Harrison		Mass. Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.		1965		Book
The good soldier, Schweik	Jaroslav	Hasek		Penguin		1930		Book
Philosophy for pleasure	Hector	Hawton		Fawcett		1956		Book
The Hazlitt sampler	William	Hazlitt		Fawcett		1961		Book
Bitter-sweet poems	Henrich	Heine		Peter Pauper Press, N.Y.		1956		Book
Men at war	Ernest	Hemingway		Berkley		1942		Book
A moveable feast	Ernest	Hemingway		Cape		1964		Book
William Morris	Philip	Henderson		McGraw Hill Book Co., N.Y.		1957	Tucked between the cover and first page is a newspaper clipping of a review entitleed “Wholly Innocent,” from the New York Times Book Review, January 21, 1968, by John Russell. The review examines this biography of Morris by Philip Henderson and Ray Watkinson’s William Morris as Designer. On first page: “Millen” in LN’s handwriting, in ink. In ballpoint pen on back flyleaf: “born 24 March 1834.”	Book
An introduction to haiku	Harold G.	Henderson		Doubleday, N.Y.		1958		Book
New Green World	Josephine	Herbst		Hastings		1954		Book
Some poems	Robert	Herrick		New Directions, Norfolk, CN		1941		Book
Essays in criticism	John	Hollander		Oxford Press, England		1968		Book
The odyssey		Homer		Penguin Books, N.Y.		1947		Book
The odyssey		Homer		New American Library		1937	Inscribed on blank page at front of book: “Happy Thanksgiving from Paul Zukofsky, 1949.”	Book
The iliad		Homer		New American Library		1950	Incribed on blank page at front of book: “from Paul to Lorine, Feb. 14, 1952.”	Book
A selection of his poems and prose	Gerard Manley	Hopkins		Penguin Books Ltd., Middlesex		1954	Notation on inside of back cover: “14, 188, 189, 190, 191, 197, 198, 199, 225.” p. 188: “… undo the very buttons of my being…” is underlined. pp. 190: Paragraphs beginning “What you write of Apuleius…” and “By the by when I was at Oxford…” are marked with small dots in the margin. p. 191: The line that reads “… vexation of spirit” is marked with small dot in the margin. p. 197: The paragraphs beginning “I have some musical matters…” and “You saw and liked some music…” are marked with small dots in the margin. pp. 198-199: Paragraphs beginning “If this letter is dull…,” “Nov. 12 – You asked me for some time…,” and “I must write something…” are marked with small dots in the margin.	Book
The complete works of ____		Horace		Random House, Inc., N.Y.		1936		Book
The sense of Shakespear’s sonnets	Edward	Hubler		Princeton		1952		Book
An enquiry concerning human understanding	David	Hume		Washington Square Press, N.Y.		1963		Book
New poems by American poets	Rolfe	Humphries		Ballantine		1953		Book
Autobiography	Leigh	Hunt		Cresset		1948	A tiny news clipping is tucked between pp. 8-9, apparently quoting from “Byron’s Letters” about Leigh Hunt. p. 502, in bottom margin of index page: “fire-fly – 390.”	Book
On art and artists	Aldous Leonard	Huxley		Harper		1960		Book
Man in the modern world	Julian	Huxley		New American Library		1943		Book
Knowledge, morality, and destiny, essays	Julian	Huxley		New American Library		1957		Book
The lost weekend	Charles	Jackson		Popular Library		1960		Book
Daisy Miller	Henry	James		Penguin Books, N.Y.		1947		Book
The American novels and stories	Henry	James		Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y.		1947		Book
Daumier	Henry	James		Rodale Press, London		1954		Book
The art of travel	Henry	James		Doubleday Co. Inc., N.Y.		1958		Book
Parisian sketches	Henry	James		Colliers Books, N.Y.		1961		Book
The turn of the screw	Henry	James		New American Library, N.Y.		1962		Book
The American scene	Henry	James		Scribner		1946		Book
Selected letters	Henry	James		Doubleday		1955		Book
Casebook of ‘The Turn of the Screw’	Henry	James		Crowel		1960	Note on blank last page: “Index The Sacred Fount – Edmund Wilson p. 123.”	Book
The tragic muse	Henry	James		Dell		1961		Book
The picture history of painting from cave	H.W.	Janson		Washington Square Press		1961	Notes on last page of book naming “Rococo: 17th cent., Watteau, Boucher, Chardin” painters; 18th century painters, “18th Cent: Gainsborough (Eng.), West, Conely, Greeze, David, Goya”; and 19th century painters, “19th Cent: Gericault, Delacroix, Constable, Turner, Bingham (Am.), Homer, Courbet, Manet, Renoir, Cezanne, etc.”. Additional notes on inside back cover are covered over by library’s pocket for date due card.	Book
Poetry and the age	Randall	Jarrell		Vintage		1953		Book
Autobiography of ____	Thomas	Jefferson		Capricorn Books, N.Y.		1959	p. 109: The line reading “the rest with pistols, swords, pikes, pruning-hooks, scythes…” may be marked in the margin with a dot.	Book
The Soviet power	Hewlett	Johnson		Modern Age Books		1940		Book
Lives of the poets	Samual	Johnson		Avon books		1965		Book
Life on other worlds	H. Spencer	Jones		New American Library		1940	p. 39: Page number is circled. Words underlined in second full paragraph on page: “…may be expected to possess an atmosphere” and “telescope.” p. 70: Portion of first complete paragraph on page is marked in margin at sentence beginning “Such a distance may seem large…” to the end of the paragraph. Notation on last (blank) page: “. 70.”	Book
A portrait of the artist as a young man	James	Joyce		Modern Library		1916		Book
Letters to Milena	Franz	Kafka		Corgi Books		1953		Book
The poetical works of ____	John	Keats		Oxford Univ. Press, London		1925		Book
Selected letters	John	Keats		Doubleday		1951	Notation on blank last page: “Feb. 14-May 3 to Ginger in Kentucky.”	Book
Keats’ will-read urn, an introduction to literary	John	Keats		Holt		1958		Book
Wyndham Lewis	Hugh	Kenner		New Directions		1954		Book
The journals of …		Kierkegaard		Harper and Bros., N.Y.		1959		Book
I was Hitler’s doctor	Kurt	Krueger		Biltmore		1943		Book
Fables		La Fontaine		Viking		23408		Book
Political philosophy	Robert M.	LaFollette		Author		1920	On first page: “Lorine Niedecker – Junior Year.” Several check marks on table of contents by, III, XIV, XV, XVII, XIX, and XX p. 29: “coming up” is written in top margin. p. 55: Marked in margin: “The perfect political machine is fast superseding the lobbyist.” p. 141: Mark under date “1917” at end of a speech “On Children’s Bureau.” pp. 168-169: Three sentences are bracketed, “I was a member of the house of representatives in 1886. I was the youngest member of the house then. I want to say right now so as not to have any misunderstanding about my age.” pp. 175: 177: The paragraph starting at bottom of p. 175 and much of p. 176 are marked in the margin. p. 177: Marked in the margin, “…the interests of Wall Street, their successful labors in so reconstructing the railway rate bill as to make it a public benefit instead of a positive public injury–if you would maintain Wisconsin as the leader of this great progressive movement to restore government to the people…” p. 190: First three paragraphs of Chapter XIV “Militarism – Prepared Should Be For Defense” are bracketed and marked with big check mark, “The present congress will pass a military program that will impose upon the people of the United States the greatest tax burden for an alleged preparedness against an alleged danger that has ever been known in any country at peace with all the world./The appropriations by the present congress for all military purposes, that is to say for army and navy and coast defense, military academies, naval academies and pensions, will approximate the sum of $840,000,000./For the same purpose a year ago congress appropriated in round numbers $429,000,000. The appropriation for this year is nearly double that of a year ago.” p. 224: Most of the only complete paragraph on the page is marked in margin with a bracket, “Jay Gould and Black Friday, Morgan and his unsavory munition contracts, which were the subject of a congressional investigation; Vanderbilt, the ship-purchasing agent of the Government, who purchased and sold to the government condemned and worthless vessels, as the result of which he made unnumbered millions of dollars–all will be readily recalled upon mere mention. Rockefeller, Carnegie, and many others laid the foundations of their great wealth in the necessities of the Government in the civil war. That was not the patriotism we are commending so highly today, which leads a man to shoulder a gun and die in the front rank of battle. But they had cunning and sagacity, and the determination to grow rich out of the opportunities for profit which the war offered, while the great mass of the people were giving their property and their lives to defend and perpetuate our Government.” p. 228: Bracketed passage: “Who does the senator think are the people of this country? Is it the 2 per cent, owners of two thirds of the wealth, or is it the 98 percent of the population who have to divide among themselves….” p. 251: Second half of first paragraph of Chapter XIX on the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations is bracketed in margin, with a big question mark, “They locked the chains on the subject peoples of Ireland, Egypt, and India. They partitioned territory and traded off peoples in mockery of that sanctioned formula of 14 points, and made it our Nation’s shame. Then, fearing the wrath of the outraged peoples, knowing that their new map would be torn to rags and tatters by the conflicting, warring elements which they had bound together in wanton disregard of racial animosities, they make a league of nations to stand guard over the swag!” p. 254: Check mark by first paragraph of The Treaty and the Constitution p. 255: Brackets and check marks by first full paragraph, “I am not arguing that a good treaty should be rejected or amended merely because a president disregarded the constitution in refusing to advise the senate concerning it; but I do say that any treaty which comes into the senate under such a cloud should be regarded with suspicion. The presumption is against it.” Underlines with checkmark, “3,972,000 square miles” p. 256: First complete paragraph on p. 256 is bracketed, with “Very Good” written in margin. All of “Denial of Justice to Egypt” is bracketed. p. 257. Final ten lines on page, about “The War in Retrospect,” is bracketed, “He will find that judgement as harsh as truth, as unrelenting as justice./From the first sentence to the last the league of nations is a sham and a fraud./It pretends to be a league to preserve the peace of the world./It is an alliance among the victorious nations of Europe to preserve for themselves the plunder and the power they gained by the war.” p. 258: Three paragraphs on page are bracketed, with “quote” in margin near the first of them, “Woodrow Wilson and his three associates at Versailles were not peace makers. They were war makers.”, “The dazzling rhetoric is now but shabby tinsel, much of the eloquence seems hollow and insincere, and the loudest appeals to patriotism smack of profiteering.”, and “This country never before engaged in a war in which public opinion was so falsified and the convictions of a nation so stifled, and never before were the rights of the individual citizen so ruthlessly and brutally trampled under foot as during and after the war.” with “confidence in Wilson? No.” near the third. p. 259. Two passages on page are bracketed, “..created a new crop of millionaires to further menace American democracy”, and “This was a war of big business for bigger business. It was a war for trade routes, and commercial advantages. It was a war for new territory and the right to exploit weaker peoples. It was a mean, sordid, mercenary war.” The word “hatred” is in margin on page, unrelated to brackets.. p. 260: Brackets in margin, “It is the great commercial and exploiting interests in whose behalf this war was fought that are to be protected by the League of Nations and the Treaty, upon the ratification of which Woodrow Wilson still doggedly insists.” with checkmark. Brackets end of last paragraph of War Destroys Human Rights. “Status Quo” is circled in “League of Nations to Preserve Status Quo” with question mark near it. First paragraph of this speech is bracketed and marked “good”, “Mr. President, there is one agency to which Great Britain may look for aid in holding her rebellious subjects in check, and that agency is the league of nations.” p. 261: End of first paragraph on page is bracketed, with question mark, “Like the Holy Alliance of 1815, it is couched in the language of idealism and peace. But, like the Holy Alliance, it will be used for the suppression of nationalities and for the prosecution of oppressive warfare.” “This covevant” in second paragraph is marked. “Well, war in India?” is written in margin nearby. p. 262: Two passages are marked in margin, with check marks, “Asia has produced the great moral teachers of history–Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed, Christ.”, and “It will be a continental war–a race war, in which the white races will be hopelessly outnumbered.” p. 266: “Rebuttal” is written in margin and paragraph ending at top of page is marked in margin, “The ask simply that we shall do nothing to hinder them in their struggle for independence from the power which once held sway over the American colonies.” p. 267: Paragraph “How puny appear the ambitions of Germany compared to the imperial power now actually attained by Great Britain!” is bracketed, with check mark in margin. p. 268: Last paragraph on page is bracketed, with check mark in margin, “If we ratify the treaty of Versailles, after pledging ourselves to a peace based upon the 14 points–which had been approved by the allies and accepted in good faith by the central powers–we shall stand convicted before the world as a nation without honor, and unworthy to be trusted to fulfill the pledges it has made.” p. 272: Two paragraphs are bracketed, with check mark, “Sweden, Holland and Switzerland have made like declarations./Thus do these Christian nations rebuke the three men who control at Versailles, for applying the same savage policy of starvation of a people to force acceptance of “peace,” which they employed in prosecuting the war.” p. 273: Paragraph marked in margin, “These jugglers with the world’s destiny at Versailles have for six months locked themselves away from the peoples they are supposed to represent.” p. 274: “The commercial interests of the British Empire overtopped the human rights of martyred Ireland.” p. 417: Two paragraphs on page are bracketed and marked with check marks in margin, “II. We are opposed to the League of Nations as a standing menace to peace, and we denounce the Treaty as a violation of the pledges made to the world and a betrayal of the honor of this nation. It would make us a party to the enslavement of Egypt and India, the rape of China, and the ruthless oppression of Ireland.” and “…with proper guaranties, to abolish compulsory military service, and provided further, that the several nations mutually bind themselves to a speedy disarmament, reducing the land and naval forces of each nation to the strict requirements of a purely police and patrol service.” p. 418: Second paragraph on page is bracketed and marked with check mark in margin, “VI. We oppose compulsory military service in time of peace. We denounce the use of our soldiers in countries with which we are not at war, and we favor the speedy reduction of world armaments.” p. 419: Second full paragraph on page is bracketed, “XIII. We condemn the system that permits 18,000 millionaires to be produced from war-profits–one millionaire for every three American soldiers killed in France.” p. 423: Large check mark in margin near index entry for the League of Nations.	Book
The Philosophy of Humanism	Corliss	LaMont		Philosophical Library, N.Y.		1957		Book
Dialogue on George Santayana	Corliss	Lamont		Horizon		1959		Book
The way of life		Lao Tzu		New American Library		1955	p. 17: in top margin of page: “A sound Confucianism is the outward manifestation of Taoism (as Lao-Tze himself taught it). Lao – – mysticism in the form of natural truths. Havelock Ellis: ‘has the mystic’s heart but also the physicist’s touch & the biologist’s eye.” p. 93: Two lines including “describes the highest good as being like water” are marked in the margin. p. 105: Lines reading “Live within yourself; do not exhaust yourself in the world as it is” are marked in the margin. At top of second last page of the book, these (page?) numbers are listed: 11, 15 [crossed out], 14, 23, 25, 35, 40, 46, 47 [inserted above], 48, 51, 52, 67, 68.	Book
Quello che la matita scrive	James	Laughlin		Guanda		1970	Inscription on blank page at front of book: “for Lorine Niedecker – I’m a devoted admirer of her work – J Laughlin” p. 12: Corrects typo “ligth” to “light.” p. 22: Corrects typo “nigth” to “night.” p. 40: Corrects wrong order of lines and wrong stanza break in final two stanzas. p. 86: Corrects “Way” to “May” in attribution of a quote from Fortune magazine.	Book
Etruscan places	D.H.	Lawrence		Viking Press, N.Y.		1957	Two newspaper clippings have been tucked between pp. 66-67. One is “Estruscans, the Mystery People” by Jay Scriba, published by the Milwaukee Journal, Sept. 25, 1970. The other is part of an article about “Whistler’s Mother,” no date, no newspaper of publication. Last page: “Asphodel p. 19.”	Book
Twilight in Italy	D.H.	Lawrence		Viking Press, Inc., N.Y.		1963		Book
Seven pillars of wisdom	T.E.	Lawrence		Doubleday and Co., N.Y.		1963		Book
Studies in classic American literature	D.H.	Lawrence		Doubleday		1951	In list of Anchor Books at back, this title is marked in the margin: Lawrence, D.H. Sea and Sardinia and Selections from Twilight in Italy.	Book
St. Mawr and the man who died	D.H.	Lawrence		Vintage		1928		Book
Pansies, poems	David Herbert	Lawrence		Knopf		1929		Book
Motive and method in the Cantos of Ezra	Lewlis	Leary		Columbia		1954		Book
Human destiny	Pierre	Lecomte du Nouy		New American Library		1947	p. 70: The entire paragraph “The Pre-Cambrian sandworms were probably not very different from those of our shores. Their adaptation was remarkable and very superior to that of man. Having attained equilibrium, living under only slightly changed conditions, they had no reason to transform themselves further, and they have subsisted almost without a change for hundreds of millions of years. One of these worms, however, continued to evolve because it was less well adapted than the others, and probably possessed a kind of instability which did not constitute an advantage at that time, but was conducive to still greater changes and could be called “creative instability.” We must naturally not be taken in by this expression. Instability is not in itself creative, but express the aptitude to evolve. This worm, less perfect as worm, may have been our ancestor.” is marked in the margin. p. 78: The sentence “Evolution continues in our time, no longer on the physiological or anatomical plane but on the spiritual and moral plane.” at the start of the last paragraph on the page is marked in the margin.	Book
Cider with Rosie	Laurie	Lee		Penguin		1959		Book
Thomas Jefferson, American humanism	Karl	Lehmann		University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois		1966		Book
Materialism and empirio-criticisms	Vladimir Ilich	Lenin		International		1927		Book
Practical English for high schools	William D.	Lewis		American Book Company		1916	“Lorine Niedecker” is on first line of first page.” “A.T.” is on second line. p. 32: Notations in margin: “J. Sp. loon gone G.” p. 37: In margin: “Fire.” p. 40: Brackets, “3. Write outlines for paragraphs developing five of the following statements:” Check mark by (a) p. 41: Check marks by (c),(f),(i), and (k). Question mark by (e). Brackets, “5. Write paragraphs on three of the statements you selected in 3 above.” p. 42: Marks in margin: “1. The Indian in his wigwam had little protection against storm or frost./2. Gold populated California and built cities as if by magic; but wheat and fruit have long since become the basis of California’s prosperity./3. The soil is the foundation of all permanent prosperity./ 4. Nevertheless, his mode of life was largely independent of soil and climate, except as these affected the game which he pursued./5. As with mining, so with lumbering; the forests once cut away, and the lumber camps and towns deserted, the country relapses into wilderness until such time as a new forest shall have grown to merchantable size, unless the soil be fit for farming./6. Savage man, living by the chase, was indeed exposed in person to all the rigors of climate. Margin marks connect 1, 4, and 6, with note, “Topic”. 2,5, and 8 are noted together with the number 1. 7 has a number 2 written in the margin next to it. p. 43: Writes 20 next to number 9. Brackets in margin, “Find in one of your textbooks a paragraph that has a summary or clincher sentence. Note at bottom, “summed up sentence” p. 46: Brackets in margin for section of Practice assignments. Crosses out “one” with note, “all” in sentence, “Write a paragraph giving a specific illustration of one of the following statements:” Check marks by “(c) The thing one works hardest to get frequently proves to be a disappointment.” and “(e) The profoundest peace is no guarantee against the horrors of war. p. 47: Brackets end of Practice above The Paragraph of Comparisons. Scribbles above Practice on page, possibly a note, but illegible. p. 49: “Write” next to an assignment. p. 50: Brackets, “Some of the ways by which paragraphs amplify single ideas are by the addition of details, by the use of illustrations, and by comparisons or contrasts.” Notations, including “oral” spelled “orral.” Crosses out “three” and replaces with “one” in sentence, “Write out three of the paragraphs.” p. 63: Bracketing of text started. p. 68: Bracketing of text ended. pp. 108-111: In practice section, lots of verb tenses are written out. p. 118: In margin: “Than and as are conjunctions, not prepositions.” pp. 121-122: Words written out again in practice section. pp. 129-130: Notations, underlinings, and practice in margins, including: “ly – manner of.” p. 142: “Bring in list” in margin. pp. 147-148: Notations re. “Terms Often Confused In Use.” pp. 150-152: Usage of “shall/will” marked in margin. Underlining. “Supercilious” underlined, with “superficial” in margin. pp. 156-158: Underlinings. p. 167: “When used” and “necessary marks?” in margin. p. 169: “O’clock” at top of page. Question mark next to paragraph about nonrestrictive phrases and clauses. pp. 171-173: Notation and bracketing re. Rules od Punctuation and restrictive/nonrestrive clauses. pp. 175-177: Notation about apostrophe, practice with question mark and exclamation, etc. p. 196: Very light writing or erasure, illegible. p. 200: “Summary sentence” in mkargin. p. 267: Check mark in margin next to: “A pleasing method of presentation helps to persuade.” p. 390: The rhree books that are marked in list of ones “useful to one who is studying the vocations:” Fowler, Starting in Life. Parsons, Choosing a Vocation. Weaver, Profitable Vocations for Girls. On last page: “like ~ .”	Book
Time and western man	Wyndham	Lewis		Beacon Press		1957		Book
The four loves	Clive Staples	Lewis		Harcourt		1960		Book
The wisdom of China and India	Yu-t’ang	Lin		Modern Library		1942		Book
The letters of Franz Liszt to Mare zu	Franz	Liszt		Harvard		1953	This notation on last page: “Prefaces page 21, 29, 34, 37, 68, 72, 102, 110, 115, 123, 129, 135, 175, 205, 216, 237, 242, 274, 275.”	Book
On the nature of things		Lucretius		Clarendon Press, Oxford, England		1948		Book
Letters	Niccolo	Machiavelli		Capricorn Books		1961	Review of The Life of Niccolo Machiavelli by Roberto Ridolfi has been tucked between pp. 90-91.	Book
The life of the bee	Maurice	Maeterlinck		New American Library		1954		Book
Thure Kumlien–Koshkonong naturalist	Angie Kumlien	Main		Wisconsin Magazine of History		1944	Handwritten on the inside front cover: “Autographed by the author Angie Kumlien Main, for Lorine Niedecker.”	Book
Yellow-headed blackbirds at Lake	Angie Kumlien	Main		Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and				Book
Selected poems	Stephane	Mallarme		University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA		1965		Book
Jefferson and the right man	Dumas	Malone		Little Brown Co., Boston, Mass		1951		Book
Anti-Memoirs	Andre	Malroux		Holt, Rinehart and Winston, N.Y.		1968		Book
Journal	Katherine	Mansfield		Knopf		1927	These numbers are recorded on the last page of the book: 13, 62, 71, 83, 89, 227, 231, 248, 200, 210	Book
Beethoven	George R.	Marek		Funk		1969		Book
Creative intution in art and poetry	Jacques	Maritain		World Publications, Co., N.Y.		1965		Book
Creative intuition art and poetry	Jacques	Maritain		Meridian books		1953		Book
Frames of a story	Daphne	Marlatt		Ryerson		1968	On first page: “Novembver, 1970. To Lorine – with deep admiration – Daphne”	Book
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels	Karl	Marx		International		1934	p. 548: Under index entry “Science and dialectic” p. 322 is marked. On second last page: “p. 322.”	Book
Portraits (In French) Le Cercle du Liore de	Andre	Maurois				1955		Book
Introduction to Aristotle	Richard	McKeon		Random House, N.Y.				Book
Selected poems	Herman	Melvill		Doubleday		1964		Book
Stories, poems and letters	Herman	Melville		Dell		1962	In Copy #1, p. 363: first and second paragraphs of letter to Evert A. Duyckinck are marked. No marginalia in Copy #2.	Book
The confidence-man	Herman	Melville		New American Library		1954		Book
Raids on the unspeakable	Thomas	Merton		New Directions Publications, N.Y.		1960	Tucked between pp. 138-139 is a newspaper clipping of a New York Times Book Review review by Robert Coles of two books by Thomas Mereton; the article is entitled “Bringing Words Out of Silence.” Date is December 23, 1984.	Book
Genoa	Paul	Metcalf		Jonathan Williams		1965		Book
On liberty, representative government, and	John Stuart	Mill		Oxford		1912	Note on first page, “Lorine Niedecker, Phil. 22.” and “Niel[?] 1806-1873” p. 5: Underlines “this Essay” and “Liberty of the Will” in sentence starting, “The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity…” p. 6: Question mark by sentence, “And so long as mankind were content to combat one enemy by another, and to be ruled by a master, on condition of being guaranteed more or less efficaciously against his tyranny, they did not carry their aspirations beyond this point.” p. 8: Marks in margin, “The ‘people’ who exercise the power are not always the same people with those over whom it is exercised…”, and “…and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.” p. 9: Note at top, “not in America”. Marks in margin, “…and in political speculations ‘the tyranny of the majority’ is now generally included among the evils against which society requires to be on its guard.” Underlines, “against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling”. p. 10: Underlines from previous page, “how to make the fitting adjustment between individual independence and social control–is a subject on which nearly everything remains to be done.” Marks in margin, “The rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self-evident and self-justifying.” and “People are accustomed to believe, and have been encouraged in the belief by some who aspire to the character of philosophers, that their feelings, on subjects of this nature, are better than reasons, and render reasons unnecessary.” p. 11: Question mark in margin by sentence, “Sometimes their reason–at other times their prejudices or superstitions: often their social affections, not seldom their antisocial ones, their envy or jealousy, their arrogance or contemptuousness: but most commonly, their desires or fears for themselves–their legitimate or illegitimate self-interest.” Writes, “by” above word “of” in sentence, “…between men and women, has been for the most part the creation of these class interests and feelings”. Notes in right margin toward bottom of page, “certainly”. p. 12: Note at top, “antipathies = aversions”. Underlines, “it made men burn magicians and heretics.” p. 13: Question mark by sentence, “Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed.” p. 14: Brackets, “When they do so, individual liberty will probably be as much exposed to invasion from the government, as it already is from public opinion.” Underlines into next page, “The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion.” p. 15: Check mark by underlining from previous page. Underlines “nonage” with definition at bottom, “nonage=legal minority” p. 17: Underlines, “responsible to society for not doing.” p. 18: Numbers 1-3 next to first paragraph on page for, “firstly”, “secondly”, and “thirdly” p. 19: Mark in margin by line, “…prevented so great an interference by law in the details of private life…” p. 20: Underlines, “to stretch unduly the powers of society” with question mark in margin. p. 22: Note at top, “3 divisions” p. 23: Note at bottom, “noxious=hurtful” p 24: Marks in margin, “But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.” and “Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory…” p. 25: Underlines, “authority on its own judgement and responsibility.” p. 26: Underlines, “conscientious conviction” with note, “yep”. Underlines, “and must assume our opinion to be true for the guidance of our own conduct” p. 27: Marks in margin, “…is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.” and “Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted.” p. 28: Underlines, “has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct.” p. 29: Marks in margin, “This is the amount of certainty attainable by a fallible being, and this is the sole way of attaining it./Strange it is, that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to their being ‘pushed to an extreme’” p. 30: Marks in margin, “If we would know whether or not it is desirable that a proposition should be believed, is it possible to exclude the consideration of whether or not it is true?” p. 32: Marks in margin, “indeed his accuser asserted (see the Apologia) that he believed in no gods at all.” Note at bottom, “Socrates got M.A. closest[?]” p. 34: Note at top, “well written”. Marks in margin, “…thinking himself the best and most enlightened among his contemporaries, it was the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.” and “This man, a better Christian in all but the dogmatic sense of the word, than almost any of the ostensibly Christian sovereigns who have since reigned, persecuted Christianity.” Note at bottom, “Aurelius feared falling to pieces of society–[shorthand?]” p. 35: Marks in margin, “…under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine. But it would be equally unjust to him and false to truth, to deny, that no one plea which can be urged for punishing anti-Christian teaching…” with question mark. Note at bottom, “He seems not to assume infallibility for MA, why not?” p. 36: Underlines with question mark, “…think that new truths may have been desirable once, but that we have had enough of them now.” p. 37: Two dots at top of page. Brackets, “The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favourable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it.” with note, “Truth crushed to earth, will rise again. [?]” p. 41: Marks in margin, “For a long time past, the chief mischief of the legal penalties is that they strengthen the social stigma.” Underlines, “pecuniary”, “the goodwill of other people”, “we do not now inflict so much evil on those”, and “we do ourselves as much evil as ever by our treatment of them.” p. 43: Underlines, “it is not the minds of heretics”, and “not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped, and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.” p. 44: Underlines, “the subjects which are large and important enough to kindle enthusiasm.” with note, “of such”. Underlines, “Of such”, and “our mental freedom.” Brackets with number “2”, “Let us now pass to the second division of the argument, and dismissing the supposition that any of the received opinions may be false, let us assume them to be true”. Marks end of last paragraph on page. p. 46: Marks in margin, “He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.” p. 49: Marks in margin, “The fact, however, is that not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself.” p. 51: Check mark by sentence by sentence, “To what an extent doctrines intrinsically fitted to make the deepest impression upon the mind may remain in it as dead beliefs…” Underlines, “majority” and “Christianity.” with note, “09.[?]” Note in margin by last paragraph on page, “Yes” p. 52: Marks in margin entire paragraph starting with sentence, “All Christians believe that the blessed are the poor and humble, and those who are ill-used by the world; that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven; that they should judge not, lest they be judged; that they should swear not at all; that they should love their neighbour as themselves; that if one take their cloak, they should give him their coat also; that they should take no thought for the morrow; that if they would be perfect, they should sell all that they have and give it to the poor. THey are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do not believe them, as people believe what they have always heard lauded and never discussed. But in the sense that living belief which regulates conduct, they believe these doctrines just up to the point to which it is usual to act upon them. The doctrines in their integrity are serviceable to pelt adversaries with; and it is understood that they are to be put forward (when possible) as the reasons for whatever people do that they think laudable. But anyone who reminded them that the maxims require an infinity of things which they never even think of doing, would gain nothing but to be classed among those very unpopular characters who affect to be better than other people. The doctrines have no hold on ordinary believers–are not a power in their minds. They have an habitual respect for the sound of them, but no feeling which spreads from the words to the things signified, and forces the mind to take them in, and make them conform to the formula. Whatever conduct is concerned, they look round for Mr. A and B to direct them how far to go in obeying Christ.” p. 57: Mark at top of first full paragraph on page. p. 58: Underlines, “belief that” p. 59: Marks in margin with exclamation point, “On any of the great open questions just enumerated, if either of the two opinions has a better claim than the other, not merely to be tolerated, but to be encouraged and countenanced, it is the one which happens at the particular time and place to be in a minority.” p. 60: Marks in margin, “That is the opinion which, for the time being, represents the neglected interests, the side of human well-being which is in danger of obtaining less than its share.” with note, “why how wise” p. 61: Brackets, “Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than active; Innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of GOod: in its precepts (as has been well said) ‘thou shalt not’ predominates unduly over ‘thou shalt’.” with note, “so?” p. 62: Underlines, “of passive obedience” with note, “yes”. p. 65: Marks in margin, “We have now recognized the necessity to the mental well-being of mankind (on which all their other well-being depends) of freedom of opinion, and freedom of the expression of opinion, on four distinct grounds; which we will now briefly recapitulate./First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility./Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied./Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds.” Underlines, “the truth has any chance”, “prejudice”, and “fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself” p. 68: Note at bottom of page, “4 divisions” p. 69: Note at bottom of page, “press but not oral[?]” p. 72: Brackets, “in making a choice.” p. 87: Underlines, “of custom” p. 93: Brackets sentence, “This conduct consists first, in not injuring the interests of one another…”	Book
Letters	Edna St. Vincent	Millay		Grosset		1952	Notation on last page of the book: “105.”	Book
The wisdom of the heart	Henry	Miller		New Directions Publications, Norfolk		1941		Book
Stand still like the hummingbird	Henry	Miller		New Directions Publications, N.Y.		1962		Book
On writing	Henry	Miller		New Directions Publications, N.Y.		1964		Book
Together with notes and commentary by H.D.	Perry	Miller		Houghton		1958		Book
The disappearance of God	J. Hillis	Miller		Schocken Books		1963		Book
L’Allegro, Il penseroso	John	Milton		Ginn and Co., N.Y.		1900	Notes on inside front cover and first page of book: – “No. 7 Oshkosh, Wisconsin” – “St. Peter’s High School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin” – “Helena Gerdes” – “T. Herkel Artist” – “10 cents” – “St. Peter’s High School” – “John McCormick” – “Rose Wuech” – “Wally Gerdes” p. 1: Six words on page are underlined. “Zone, corn, cur” are written near line 11. p. 2: Lines 25-36 are marked in the margin with the word “Memory” near. Line 41 has “X” and “Morn” in margin. p. 3: Line 69 has “X” and “Morn” in margin. p. 4: Three words on page are underlinied. “Noontide” in margin near line 90. “Afternoon” in margin near line 99. p. 5: “X” and “end” in margin at line 114. “Hymen” checked in line 125 and “god of morning” written in margin. p. 8: Lines 32-44 are bracketed in margin. Line 31 is check marked. “Choir of Angels Mem.” written in margin. Line 45 has “Companion” written near it. “Peace” in line 45, “Fast” in line 46, and “Contemplation” in line 54 have a “C” near them. p. 25: In space at middle of page “[illegible] Begin Mon” is handwritten. p. 28: “X” near the end of line 18. p. 31: “X” in margin at top of page. p. 39: Line 730 is marked in margin. p. 54: Lines 131 & 132 are each marked with an “X.” p. 55: Line 177 is marked with an “X.” Notation on inside back cover: “p. 139-158.”	Book
Areopagitica	John	Milton		Oxford University Press, London		1947	Name on first page of book: “Patricia Sigl.” p. 4: Check mark next to line 27. p. 5: “Outline” in margin next to line 12. Portions of olines 26-28 are underlined. p. 6: Portions of lines 3-5 and 18-21 are underlined. p. 12: “X” in margin near line 26; lines 26-32 are underlined. p. 15: Line 28 is underlined. p. 18: Portions of lines 9-13 are underlined. p. 37: Lines 24-25 are marked in margin. p. 38: Check marks in margin at lines 22 and 29. p. 43: Check mark in top outside corner of the page. Lines 3 and 4 each have a check mark in margin, plus an “X” in margin. p. 44: “Collection” is handwritten above line 12 near the word Syntagma. p. 49: Line 10 is partially underlined and lines 10-15 are marked in the margin. Notation on a slip of paper between pages 66-67: “I – Authors of the book licensing system.” p. 67: Check mark in the margin near Note #7.	Book
Man–his first million years	Ashley	Montagu		New American Library, N.Y.		1958		Book
Selected essays		Montaigne		Random House Publications		1949	Notation on title page: “‘With all my heart I embrace the grand old sloven.’ – Emerson”	Book
The leading facts of English history	D.H.	Montgomery		Atheneum		1912	On first page: “Harold W. Hein.”	Book
The complete poems of ____	Marianne	Moore		Macmillan Co., Viking Press, N.Y.		1967		Book
Nevertheless	Marianne	Moore		Macmillan		1944	No marginalia. Printed errata regarding transposed lines is also noted in handwriting on p. 5.	Book
The intelligent heart	Harry T.	Moore		Grove Press		1962		Book
Humanism as the next step	Lloyd	Morain		Beacon Press		1954	A printed slip about the authors is tucked between pp. 56-57.	Book
The last days of Shelley and Byron	J.E.	Morpurgo		Doubleday		1960	pp. 81-82: Paragraph beginning “‘Luff!’ said Williams…” is marked at the start and next paragraph beginning “The main-sheet was jammed…” is marked at its end. p. 83: Paragraph beginning “People think I must be a bit of a sailor…” is marked at start and end.	Book
Memoirs	Lady Ottoline	Morrell		Knopf		1963		Book
The story of my boyhood and youth	John	Muir		University of Wisconsin Press, Madison		1965		Book
The human prospect	Lewis	Mumford		Beacon Press, Boston, Mass.		1955		Book
New directions in prose and poetry	John M.	Murry		New Directions		1966		Book
William Blake	John M.	Murry		McGraw		1964		Book
Poets on poetry	Howard	Nemerov		Basic Books		1966		Book
Voyages to the moon	Marjorie H.	Nicolson		Macmillan		1948		Book
North central	Lorine	Niedecker		Fulcrum Press		1968		Book
My life by water: collected poems, 1936-1968	Lorine	Niedecker		Fulcrum Press		1970		Book
Blue chicory	Lorine	Niedecker		Elizabeth Press		1976		Book
Adams Papers	Lorine	Niedecker					Cream colored scrapbook missing binding string. Tied shut with white cotton ribbon. Twenty pages on the “Adams Papers, Part I and Part II.” Articles on Adams are cut from “Life” magazine. The front cover of the scrapbook has parts of the article glued to it.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FAAdamsPapers	For information on use contact the Hoard Historical Museum: info@hoardmuseum.org.
Agate – history of : remembering rocks	Lorine	Niedecker					Handmade book of four typed pages with extensive handwritten notes. Cover is pink construction paper bound with masking tape and paper brads.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FAAgate	For information on use contact the Hoard Historical Museum: info@hoardmuseum.org.
Cooking Book	Lorine	Niedecker					Maroon autograph book inscribed “Merry Christmas to Maude from Lorine and Al.” Contains commentary on recipes, dialogue with Al plus two fold out sheets on “How to Prepar Pike from the Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, first printing, year 1653.”	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FACooking	For information on use contact the Dwight Foster Public Library: info@fortlibrary.org.
Lake Superior American lake series – Ft. Atkinson	Lorine	Niedecker					Thirty-six typed pages with some handwriting. Extensive corrections and additions.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FALakeSeries	For information on use contact the Hoard Historical Museum: info@hoardmuseum.org.
Lake Superior Canada and Minnesota ’66	Lorine	Niedecker				1966	Cream colored scrapbook with brown tie and round picture of rocks on Lake Superior glued to the front cover. Contains items from Lorine and Al’s trip in 1966 including snapshots, postcards, maps, stamps, money and travel brochures. Near the back a small envelope is pasted in the scrapbook and labeled “Door County Sept. ’67.” This envelope contains snapshots and postcards from Door County.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FALakeSuperior	For information on use contact the Hoard Historical Museum: info@hoardmuseum.org
Lorine’s handmade book for Aeneas	Lorine	Niedecker					Black Mountain Review (North Carolina), Spring 1956: 6: 191-193, 4 poems collage with pictures and poems added by LN. Item is very fragile, originally taped together, most tape has let loose.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FAAeneas	For information on use contact the Dwight Foster Public Library: info@fortlibrary.org.
Minn. alphabetized	Lorine	Niedecker					Handmade book of twenty typed pages, some with handwritten comments, covered with blue construction paper, bound with masking tape and paper brads.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FAMinn	For information on use contact the Hoard Historical Museum: info@hoardmuseum.org
Notes	Lorine	Niedecker					Hand-made book of twenty-five typed pages with extensive handwritten notes. Cover is black construction paper bound with masking tape and paper brads. Subjects are Green Bay, Michigan, Mackinaw Island and other locations.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FAGreenBay	For information on use contact the Hoard Historical Museum: info@hoardmuseum.org.
Paean to Place	Lorine	Niedecker				1969	Cream colored autograph book containing handwritten Paean to Place. On “This book belongs to” page Lorine has written: “Florence Dolasse from Lorine Niedecker Aug. 1969 with love.” Includes 3 page note to Florence thanking her for an article she sent from the Jefferson County Union.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FAPaeanPlace	For information on use contact the Dwight Foster Public Library: info@fortlibrary.org
Personal cookbook	Lorine	Niedecker					Small brown plastic 3-ring notebook of looseleaf pages with handwritten recipes and clipped recipes.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FANiedeckerCook	For information on use contact the Hoard Historical Museum: info@hoardmuseum.org
Schoolcraft	Lorine	Niedecker					Handmade book of twenty-five typed pages with some handwritten additions placed in a rust colored construction paper cover secured with masking tape and paper brads.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FASchoolcraft	For information on use contact the Hoard Historical Museum: info@hoardmuseum.org.
[Scrapbook of Lorine Niedecker’s on travels in 1967-68 to Lake Superior, Michigan, Canada, North Dakota, and Minnesota]	Lorine	Niedecker					Light green scrapbook with green tie. Contains photos and postcards from travels to Lake Superior, Michigan, Canada, North Dakota and Minnesota.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FALightGreenScrap	For information on use contact the Hoard Historical Museum: info@hoardmuseum.org
[Scrapbook of Lorine Niedecker’s trip to South Dakota in 1965]	Lorine	Niedecker					Dark green scrapbook tied with green. On the first page Lorine has handwritten “South Dakota.” The scrapbook contains photographs and postcards from the trip she and Al took in 1965.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FADarkGreenScrap	For information on use contact the Hoard Historical Museum: info@hoardmuseum.org.
Small handwritten notes	Lorine	Niedecker					Collection of small handwritten notes on miscellaneous subjects.	Archive Document	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.FANotes
Thus spake zarathustra	Friedrich	Nietzsche		Boni and Liveright, N.Y.			p. 11: Marks made in margin along paragraph that concludes at top of the page, “…–the Superman, who is now put before us with overpowering passion as the aim of our life, hope, and will. And just as the old system of valuing, which only extolled the qualities favourable to the weak, the suffering, and the oppressed, has succeeded in producing a weak, suffering, and ‘modern’ race, so this new and reversed system of valuing ought to rear a healthy, strong, lively, and courageous type, which would be a glory to life itself.” p. 19: Mark and illegible notation made near sentence “My most creative moments were always accompanied by unusual muscular activity.” p. 32: Paragraph is marked in margin, “No shepherd and one herd! Every one wanteth the same; every one is equal: he who hath other sentiments goeth voluntarily into the madhouse.” p. 52: Paragraphs are marked in the margin, “And lo! Then hast thou its name in common with the people, and hast become one of the people and the herd with thy virtue!” and “Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.” p. 58: Paragraph is marked in the margin: “Zarathustra smiled, and said: ‘Many a soul one will never discover, unless one first invent it.’” p. 60: Notation in the margin: “I gave up my highest hope to be merely a sensualist.” p. 72: Paragraphs are marked in the margin, “Far too long hath there been a slave and a tyrant concealed in woman. On that account woman is not yet capable of friendship: she knoweth only love.” and “As yet woman is not capable of friendship: women are still cats, and birds. Or at the best, cows.” p. 74: Paragraph is marked in the margin, “Older is the pleasure in the herd than the pleasure in the ego: and as long as the good conscience is for the herd, the bad conscience only saith: ego.” p. 77: Paragraph is marked in the margin, “‘He who seeketh may easily get lost himself. All isolation is wrong’: so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.” p. 80: Paragraphs are marked in the margin, “Two different things wanteth the true man: danger and diversion. Therefore wanteth he woman, as the most dangerous plaything.” and “A plaything let woman be, pure and fine like the precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.” p. 81: Paragraphs are marked in the margin, “The happiness of man is, ‘I will.’ The happiness of woman is, ‘He will.’” and “Thou goest to woman? Do not forget thy whip!” p. 199: Paragraphs are marked in the margin, “One must learn to love oneself–thus do I teach–with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about./ Such roving about christeneth itself ‘brotherly love’; with these words hath there been the best lying and dissembling, and especially by those who have been burdensome to every one.” p. 200: Paragraphs are marked in the margin, “And verily, it is no commandment for to-day and tomorrow to learn to love oneself. Rather is it of all arts the finest, subtlest, last and patientest./For to its possessor is all possession well concealed, and of all treasure-pits one’s own is last excavated–so causeth the spirit of gravity.” p. 204: Paragraphs beginning “There was it also where I picked up from the path the word “Superman,’ and that man is something that must be surpassed./–That man is a bridge and not a goal–rejoicing over his noontides and evenings, as advances to a new rosy dawns:” are marked in the margin, along with this note: “ideas of N.” p. 214: Paragraph is marked in the margin. “All the swarming vermin of the ‘cultured,’ that–feast on the sweat of every hero!–“ p. 285: Paragraphs are marked in the margin, “Thus spake Zarathustra; the king on the right however answered and said: ‘Strange! Did one ever hear such sensible things out of the mouth of a wise man?/And verily, it is the strangest thing in a wise man, if over and above, he be still sensible, and not an ass’” and “Ye higher men, learn this from me: On the market-place no one believeth in higher men. But if ye will speak there, very well! The populace, however, blinketh: ‘We are all equal.’” p. 286: Paragraphs are marked in the margin, “‘Ye higher men,’ – so blinketh the populace– ‘there are no higher men, we are all equal; man is man, before God– we are all equal!’/Before God!–Now, however, this God hath died. Before the populace, however, we will not be equal. Ye higher men, away from the market-place!” and, “The most careful ask to-day: ‘How is man to be maintained?’ Zarathustra however asketh, as the first and only one: ‘How is man to be surpassed?” p. 290: All of Section “12” is marked in the margin, “Ye creating ones, ye higher men! Whoever hath to give birth is sick; whoever hath given birth, however, is unclean./Ask women: one giveth birth, not because it giveth pleasure. The pain maketh hens and poets cackle./Ye creating ones, in you there is much uncleanness. That is because ye have had to be mothers./ A new child: oh, how much new filth hath also come into the world! Go apart! He who hath given birth shall wash his soul!” p. 314: “idea” is written in the margin next to paragraph beginning “But we do not all want….” In “Complete List of Titles” at the back of the book, the following titles are marked: A Modern Book of Criticisms edited by Ludwig Lewisohn; Short Stories by Balzac; Sapho by Daudet; Free and other stories by Dreiser; Madame Bovary by Flaubert; A Doll’s House etc. by Ibsen; Sons and Lovers by Lawrence; In a Winter City by Ouida; Poems by Swinburne; Salome, etc. by Oscar Wilde; The Woman Question symposium; Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by Yeats. On blank last page and inside the endsheet, these numbers and notations are recorded: “58, 59, 32, 72, 74, 77, 80, 11, 81, 52, 199, 200, 204, 214, 285!, 286, 290, 314” and “Where did phrase ‘Happiness of the greatest number’ originate – it merely opposed to concentration of goodness & happiness? Did the expression Will to Power originate – N.? How many people know Neitzsche? Such a thing as this is so far removed from daily life – ‘All [illegible] is wrong’ saith the herd. (My hatred of common [illegible – people??])” Written crossways: “he wants old values of things broken up.”	Book
Ezra Pound	Charles	Norman		Macmillan, N.Y.		1960	A clipping from The New Republic of an article about Ezra Pound by Reed Whitmore is tucked between pp. 106-107. A newspaper clipping from the Milwaukee Journal, November 2, 1972, reporting the death of Ezra Pound, is tucked between pages 232-233.	Book
The legend of the master	Simon	Nowell-Smith		Scribner		1948		Book
Call me Ishmael	Charles	Olson		Grove		1947		Book
Selected writings	Charles	Olson		New Directions		1966		Book
Discrete series	George	Oppen		Objectivist Press		1934		Book
1984	George	Orwell		New American Library		1940		Book
The Paris review, no. 31, Winter-Spring 1964	George	Orwell						Book
The metamorphoses		Ovid		Viking Press, New American Library, N.Y.		1960		Book
Magic into science: the story of Paracelsus	Henry M.	Pachter		Shuman		1951		Book
Golden treasury	Francis T.	Palgrave		Macmillan		1928		Book
Pensees	Blaise	Pascal		Modern Library		1941		Book
Safe conduct	Boris	Pasternak		New Directions		1958	Notation on last page: “p. 270 – last two verses”	Book
Canada	Derek and Marjory Whitelaw	Patmore		Viking		1967		Book
Scottsboro boy	Haywood	Patterson		Bantam Books		1950		Book
The gold of Troy	Robert	Payne		Library Incorporated, N.Y.		1961		Book
The white pony		Payne Robert		Day		1947	Tucked between the front cover and the first page is an October, 1956, magazine article by Doo Soo Suh entitled “The Korean Mind: As Revealed Through Classical Poems. On it in green ink, apparently directed to LN, is this note: “I found this when I was clipping some magazines – I thought you might enjoyh it for your collection.” Comment on one of the poems quoted in the text: “wonderful.” The line “The delight of a mountain hermit?” has “or a bachelor lady?” behind it. Accompanying it is a 1957 New Directions pamphlet entitled Six Poems, containing brief pieces by Dudley Fitts, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, and Ezra Pound. On last page of text: “p. 267.” This may refer to discussion of the poem “The Everlasting Sorrow” by Po Chu-i.	Book
Dizzy	Hesketh	Pearson		Grosset		1951		Book
The man whistler	Hesketh	Pearson		Methuen		1952	A clipping of a short review of The Etruscans Begin To Speak by Zacharie Mayani marked “Summer 1964” is tucked between pp. 130-131.	Book
An almanac for moderns	Donald C.	Peattie		Putnam		1935	On second last page: “July 23.” Entry is about how “there are no truly wild spots hereabouts unless they may be the marshes….” On last page: “Field sparrow – 97.” Second line is: “14 [with check mark],” entry is about how “it touches a man his blood is sea water….”	Book
Flowering earth	Donald C.	Peattie		Viking		1939		Book
Exciting days in —–	Samuel	Pepys		Peter Pauper Press, Mt. Vernon, N.Y.		1966		Book
The thought and character of William James	Ralph Barton	Perry		George Braziller Pub., N.Y.		1954		Book
Birds	St. John	Perse		Pantheon, N.Y.		1966		Book
Essays in philosophy	Houston	Peterson		Pocket Books, N.Y.		1959	In table of contents on page x, “Ludwig Wittgenstein” is checkmarked. Tucked between pp. 96-97, a slip of paper with this written on it: “My lush locale.”	Book
Great American short novels	William	Phillips		Dial		1946		Book
Gerard Manley Hopkins-priest and poet	John	Pick		Oxford University Press, N.Y.		1966	Notation on last page of book: “p. 92 Goldengrove.” p. 152: “souls” corrected to “soul.”	Book
High on the walls	Tom	Pickard		Fulcrum Press		1967		Book
Five great dialogues		Plato		D. Van Nostrand Co., N.Y.		1942	On first page: “Xmas 1949 – from us all – Paul.”	Book
The river of life	Rutherford	Platt		Simon		1956		Book
The agony of modern music	Henry	Pleasants		Simon		1955		Book
Lives of the noble Romans		Plutarch		Dell, N.Y.		1959		Book
Confucius to cummings	Marcella	Pound		New Directions, Norfolk, CN		1944		Book
The cantos of ____	Ezra	Pound		Faber & Faber, London		1960	Notes on slip of paper tucked between pp. 164-165: “Pisan Cantos p. 451 ff. Adams-Jefferson – p. 357 ff. p. 445 – expl. of previous pages. John Adams – p. 357 [crossed out: 446] ff. Section: Rock-Drill 377 ff. Thrones 681.” A newspaper clipping the Milwaukee Journjal May 24, 1964 of a review of Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell is tucked between pp. 356-357.	Book
Confucius to cummings	Marcella	Pound		New Directions, N.Y.		1963		Book
Personae	Ezra	Pound		New Directions		1926	Inside back cover: “112, 113, 116, 117.”	Book
Translations	Ezra	Pound		New Directions		1963		Book
Active anthology	Ezra	Pound		Faber		1933	“Lorine Niedecker” on first page. p. 112: In line 27 of Zukofsky’s “Poem Beginning ‘The’,” the word “wraithless” is corrected in pencil to “wrathless.” p. 144: “Lads’ and Lasses’” in the excerpt from Zukofsky’s poem “A” is corrected in pencil to “Lads’ and lasses’.” p. 153: After word “bro” in Zukofsky’s poem “Seventh Movement,” an apostrophe is corrected to a comma.	Book
Letters	Ezra	Pound		Harcourt		1950		Book
The classic anthology defined by Confucius	Ezra	Pound		Harvard		1954		Book
A short history of the Civil War	Fletcher	Pratt		Pocket books		1948		Book
Three Russian poets		Pushkin – Lermontor – Tyutchev		New Directons, Norfolk, CN		1944		Book
The nature of literature	Herbert	Read		Grove Press		1958	Tucked between pp. 94-95 is a newspaper clipping of a review of Herbert Read’s The Philosophy of Modern Art. Tucked between pp. 176-177 is a half page torn from a magazine with Herbert Read’s poem “Gala” being the only complete item on either side of the sheet.	Book
Ten days that shook the world	John	Reed		The Modern Library, N.Y.		1935		Book
Jean Renoir, my father		Renoir		Little, Brown & Co., Boston, Mass.		1962		Book
100 poems from the Japanese	Kenneth	Rexroth		New Directions, Rutland, Vt.		1955		Book
Five groups of verse	Charles	Reznikoff		Author		1927		Book
By the waters of Manhatten	Charles	Reznikoff		New Directions		1959	First page of book is signed by Reznikoff, Sept. 25, 1962. Slip of paper tucked into back of book with these page numbers: “9, 23 – 2, 24, 25 – 2, 26, 29, 42, 43, 57, 63, 72, 79 with check mark, 88 with check mark, 101 with check mark, 103 with check mark, 107.” Tucked into back of book is also a newspaper clipping of an article by Leslie Cross, Milwaukee Journal Book Editor, about C.P. Snow.	Book
In memoriam: 1933	Charles	Reznikoff		Objectivist Press		1934		Book
Jerusalem the golden	Charles	Reznikoff		Objectivist Press		1934		Book
Separate way	Charles	Reznikoff		Objectivist Press		1936	Tucked at the contents page is a slip of paper with four poems typed on it, signed by Charles Reznikoff.	Book
Early history of a sewing-machine operator	Nathan	Reznikoff		Author		1936		Book
Inscriptions: 1944-1956	Charles	Reznikoff		Shulsinger		1959		Book
Selected letters	Rainer Maria	Rilke		Doubleday		1960	Notation on inside of back cover: “Duse 138-140.”	Book
Prose poems from the illuminations	Arthur	Rimbaud		New Directions				Book
Civilization, science and religion	A.D.	Ritchie		Penguin Books		1945		Book
See America free	S.A.	Robbins		Bantam Books		1967	p. 124: Paragraph about Battle Creek, Michigan, is marked in the margin. pp. 128-131: Paragraphs about Holland, Houghton, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Marquette, Monroe, Muskegon, and Traverse City, Michigan, are marked in the margin. p. 132: Paragraph about Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, is marked in the margin. p. 134: Paragraph about Pipestone, Minnesota, is marked in the margin. pp. 144-146: Paragraphs about Billings, Browning, Crow Agency, Great Falls, Helena, Hungry Horse, Missoula, Moiese, and Virginia City, Montana, are marked in the margin. pp. 191-192: Paragraphs about Devil’s Lake, Dunseith, Fargo, Grand Forks, Jamestown, Rugby, and Williston, North Dakota, are marked in the margin. pp. 239-240: Paragraphs about Interior, Pierre, Rapid City, and Yankton, South Dakota, are marked in the margin, including notation “seeds – nursery” at Yankton entry. pp. 267-270: Paragraphs about Beaver Dam, Madison, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Rhinelander, and Wausau, Wisconsin, are marked in the margin.	Book
An anthology of Greek drama, first series	C.A.	Robinson		Holt		1949		Book
rulers of America	Anna	Rochester		International Publishers		1936		Book
100 American poems	Selden	Rodman		New American Library		1948		Book
100 Modern poems	Selden	Rodman		New American Library		1949		Book
The confessions		Roisseau		Penguin Books, Baltimore, MD		1954	On inside back cover: “Diderot – begins 270.”	Book
The darkening glass	John D.	Rosenberg		Columbia		1961		Book
Selected poems of ____	Bertrand	Russell		The Modern Library, N.Y.		1927	This notation on Contents page: “No. 15 of blaze and bronze.”	Book
Unpopular essays	Bertrand	Russell		Simon and Schuster, N.Y.		1950	On last page: “Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind, 3.75.”	Book
Bertrand Russell’s best	Bertrand	Russell		New American Library, N.Y.		1958		Book
Autobiography of ____	Bertrand	russell		Little Brown & Co., Boston, Mass		1968		Book
A history of western philosophy	Bertrand	Russell		Simon		1945		Book
Understanding history	Bertrand	Russell		Wisdom Library		1957	This notation is on the inside back cover: “Shakespeare – Macbeth – page 40.”	Book
The will to doubt	Bertrand	Russell		Philosophical Library		1958	p. 23: The paragraph which starts with the following is marked with a dot at first and last lines: “What would have happened if Einstein had advanced something equally new in the sphere or religion or politics?” On last page: “p. 23.”	Book
Confessions		Saint Augustine		Pocket Books	New York	1958		Book
Discussions of the novel	Roger	Sale		Heath		1960		Book
College reading	George	Sanderlin		Heath		1953	On first page of book: “For Lorine, Happy birthday, Paul, 5/12/53”	Book
Persons and places	George	Santayana		Chas. Scribner’s Sons, N.Y.		1944	Paper from The New York Public Library tucked into p. 56: written note, “Beuefib [?]-Yofal[?]- (G.B. Stern)”	Book
Three philosophical poets	George	Santayana		Doubleday		1910		Book
Scepticism and animal faith	George	Santayana		Dover		1923		Book
The last puritan	George	Santayana		Scribner		1936		Book
Letters	George	Santayana		Scribner		1955		Book
The sense of beauty	George	Santayana		Modern Library		1955		Book
Character and opinion in the U.S.	George	Santayana		Doubleday		1956		Book
Interpretations of poetry and religion	George	Santayana		Harper		1957		Book
Winds of doctrine and platonism and the	George	Santayana		Harper		1957	On copyright page, date of original publication of each title has been indicated in handwriting.	Book
The origins of scientific thought	Giorio de	Santillana		Mentor		1961		Book
Translation		Sappho		Univ. of CA Press, Berkeley		1958		Book
Lyrics of ____		Sappho		Doubleday, N.Y.		1965		Book
A thousand days: John F. Kennedy in the	Arthur Jr.	Schlesinger		Fawcett		1965		Book
A treasury of the world’s greates letters	M. Lincoln	Schuster		Simon and Schuster, N.Y.		1960		Book
Out of my life and thought	Albert	Schweitzer		New American Library, N.Y.		1953	p. 54: Check mark in margin near “at Bayreuth in the ‘Black Horse Inn’….” p. 55: X in margin near: “Music appeals to the creative imagination of the hearer, and endeavors to kindle into life in it the emotional experiences and the visions from which it came into being itself.” p. 171: Mark in margin near: “By the spirit of the age, then, the man of today is forced into skepticism about his own thinking, in order to make him receptive to truth which comes to him from authority.” p. 172: Notes in top and side margin: “Pressure to conformity has resulted in spiritual weakness and scepticism.” “?? – argument too absolute: a fallacy in condemnation of [illegible].” “The modern man” is bracketed and underlined, “who?” in margin pointed to it. p. 177: Bracketed: “The truth of a view of the world must be proved by the fact that the spiritual relation to life and the universe into which that view brings us makes us into inward men with an active ethic.”	Book
The Sewanee Review, October-December	Albert	Schweitzer				1967		Book
Goethe: five studies	Albert	Schweitzer		Beacon Press		1961		Book
What is philosophy?	Howard	Selaam		International Publications		1983		Book
The complete works of ____	William	Shakespeare		Oxford Univ. Press, London		1924		Book
Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	William	Shakespeare		Macmillan		1903	“Lorine Niedecker” on first page. p. 6: Opening bracket at top of page, Horatio: “That can I….” p. 10: Closing bracket at end of Scene I, “Where we shall find him most conveniently.” Line “Together with remembrance of ourselves” is bracketed. “[S]ometimes sister” is underlined. “Have me” is underlined. p. 11: “Taken to wife” is underlined. p. 19: Faint X penciled into top margin. p. 22: Check mark in margin re. lines: “My father’s spirit in arms! All is not well;/I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!” p. 50: Check mark next to line: “Guildenstern: But we both obey….” p. 51: Check mark next to line: “Guildenstern: Heavens makes our presence and our practices….” p. 57: Check mark next to: “Enter Hamlet, reading O, give me leave….” p. 71: Checkmark next to line: “First Player. But who, O who had seen the mobled queen – ….” p. 79: Opening bracket for beginning of Hamlet’s: “To be, or not to be, – that is the question….” p. 80: A line marks the line “what dreams may come.” “[C]ontumely” is underlined. Closing bracket after “With a bare bodkin?” p. 117: Check mark in bottom margin. p. 127: “Fussed” in margin, pointing to “To fust in us….” p. 128: Closing bracket at end of Scene IV. p. 136: Check mark for line: “Laertes. Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge….” p. 157: Opening bracket for Hamlet’s “Alas, poor Yorick!” On third last page: “All history (?) / how. Falling Action/Climax/Compilation: Denoument. Introduction. Setting. Citing force. On last page: “Theme at least 500 words Hamlet test soliloqy.” Upside down on page: “Lake Koshkonong – not a history – old man tells hunting tales etc. history of the Lake.” Inside back cover: “Hamlet England – pirate ship – Rosen Guild go to king.”	Book
Shakespeare without tears	William	Shakespeare		Fawcett		1942		Book
Introducing Shakespeare	William	Shakespeare		Penguin Books		1947		Book
Four great comedies	William	Shakespeare		Pocket Books		1948	Notation on first page inside the front cover: “p. 286 Full fathom five.”	Book
Famous scenes from Shakespeare		Shakespeare		Permabooks		1950		Book
Discussions of Hamlet	William	Shakespeare		Heath		1960		Book
Shakespeare for everyman	William	Shakespeare		Washington Square		1964		Book
Histories and poems, vol. 2	William	Shakespeare		Modern Library			p. 972: These lines from Sonnet XXX are bracketed: “Then can I drown an eye, unus’d to flow,/For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,/And weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe,/And moan the expense of many a vanish’d sight.” p. 1010: At Sonnet CXXVII: “Here begins those addressed tro rthe lady.” Fourth page from end: “Sonnets 1 thru 17 – he urges his friend (man) to marry & beget a child – celebrates his physical beauty. 18 begins a change – celebrates an inner beauty also, plus an eternal beauty that belongs to the poet as well. Reproves the young man for havinig an affair with the poet’s lady. 127 to 152 – to the lady who awakensw lust in him rather than quiet romance.” On second last page: “18, 26-62, 27-, 29-, 30-, 43, 55, 64, 73-74, 94 irony, 128 129, 147*, 152.”	Book
Beyond the observatory	Harlow	Shapley		Chas. Scribner’s Sons, N.Y.		1967	Notes on slips of paper tucked between pp. 126 and 127: On the first slip: “pp. 115 to end of chapter.” On second slip: “3/ wonder of the whole natural world, not only of life. Is not the creed of Schweitzer too narrow? “Why not revere also the amino acids & the simple proteins [from] which life emerged? Or why not go all the way & avow reverence for all things that exist?” — “We foresee tornado destroyers, forestation of an iceless Greenland, & cows that produce calves in litters.”	Book
A treasury of science	Harlow	Shapley		Harper		1943		Book
Four plays	George Bernard	Shaw		Laurel		1957		Book
Seven one-act plays	Bernard	Shaw		Penguin Books		1958		Book
Plays unpleasant	Bernard	Shaw		Penguin Books		1961		Book
Mammonart	Upton	Sinclair		Author		1924	Back cover has “Lorine Niedecker” in pencil. Notation on title page: “[illegible] traveler with rich and elegant but for dramatic [illegible] ridicules and belittles.” p. 47: Line beginning “turning to their ancestral halls…” is marked in the margin. Last full paragraph on page is marked in margin, and “unrestrained in their emotions and limitless in their desires” is underlined. p. 48: Line reading “is to read and appreciate Latin and Greek literature” is marked in the margin; lines are marked in margin from the sentence beginning “Only once does a common man lift…” to the end of the paragraph. p. 50: Paragraph ending at the top of the page is marked in the margin. p. 51: Lines are marked in margin for the paragraph beginning “Another dramatist arose….” Notation is made at end of this paragraph reading: “is that essential to art?” Entire paragraph beginning “But now came another dramatist…” is marked in margin. “Euripides” is underlined. p. 52: Part of first paragraphof Chapter XX is marked in margin. p. 54: Several lines in paragraph starting “Also Aristophanes loathed…” are marked in the margin. p. 55: Several lines are marked in margin, starting at “- that is pictures of the fashions…” to the end of the paragraph. p. 57: Line starting “… and Sir Gilbert Murray, who knows… ” is marked in the margin. p. 59: Several lines are marked in the margin in the paragraph beginning “The Roman mob had the vote….” p. 60: Paragraph beginning “It was to be an epic…” is marked in the margin. p. 63: Two lines in paragraph ending at top of page are marked in the margin. Two lines at the bottom of the page, including the phrase “a feeling of affection for Mr. Quintus Horatius Flaccus…” are marked in the margin. p. 70: About six lines are marked in the margin, beginning with the line that starts: “‘over-correction.’ The two favorite themes….” p. 74: The first three lines of Chapter XXVIII are marked in the margin. p. 77: The end of the first paragraph of Chapter XXIX and the beginning of the second paragraph are marked in the margin. p. 78: “14th” is written in the margin next to two lines that start “The two popes of his own….” Two lines near “that art out not to preach” are marked in the margin. p. 87: Six lines at the beginning of the paragraph that starts “Another pope came, and wanted…” are marked in the margin. p. 88: The beginning of Chapter XXXII is marked in the margin. p. 92: Much of the paragraph beginning “It is interesting to note how many…” is marked in the margin. p. 98: Two lines are marked in the margin, beginning with the line that starts: “of Shakespeare’s time, when twelve editions….” p. 100: Paragraph concluding at top of page and first full paragraph on page are marked in the margin. p. 101: Line beginning “but never hesitated to change the characters…” is marked in the margin. p. 104: Four lines at beginning of the paragraph starting “The answer is…” are marked in the margin. p. 110: “Not so much!” follows the sentence ending “… and that in technical skill the modern work is superior.” p. 112: The paragraph beginning “The forms of things change…” is marked in the margin. p. 114: Nine lines are marked in the margin starting near: “He took to writing heroic plays…” Dashed line beneath “language of polite obscenity” in the next paragraph. p. 117: Three lines at beginning of paragraph starting “These three dogmas of play-writing…” are marked in the margin. p. 121: Two lines are marked in the margin near: “The great gentlemen scorned to work at art….” Three lines are marked in the margin starting with “… located in what the poets of those days…” to the end of the paragraph. p. 127: An “X” is in the margin near the lines with the phrase “It is called ‘Tartuffe…’.” p. 128: An “X” is in the margin where paragraph begins “Then came a play called ‘The Misanthrope…’” p. 129: Two lines are marked in the margin near: “… find Kipling ridiculing the notion that Hindus….” p. 132: Something seems to have been erased near lines with phrase “… cherishing the aristocratic superstition that art exists for the cultured classes….” p. 136: Entire paragraph beginning “His first important book was…” is marked in the margin. “Man was born free…” is underlined. p. 137: An “X” in the margin near “Then came another novel, ‘Emile…’.” p. 139: An “X” and question mark are in the margin near phrase “… a stately volume, ‘Rousseau and Romanticism….” p. 145: The line with “Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded…” is marked in the margin. p. 159: The last three lines of the first full paragraph on the page, and nearly all of the second paragraph are marked in the margin. p. 169: Twelve lines beginning at “Moreover – and here is the point essential…” are marked in the margin. Mark in margin near phrase “…so we call it ‘magic’” at bottom of page. p. 180: Lines are marked in the margin near the phrase “… wrote a drama, ‘Prometheus Unbound’….” p. 183: Phrase “liberated workers” is underlined. p. 188: “Well, Coleridge??” is written in margin near sentence that begins “It is not just as much ‘teaching’ to proclaim….” p. 198: An “X” in margin near “When inspiration does not come to him….” p. 199: “Theophile” near end of first paragraph is underlined. Two lines beginning with “…purely and simply an artist…” are marked in the margin. p. 201: Paragraph ending at top of page is marked in the margin. Three lines at bottom of page beginning with “… is important to get clear in our minds…” are marked in the margin, with this notation: “Music highly intellectualized?” p. 203: “Ah!” written in margin next to sentence: “It was a time when a poet could make a national reputation by comparing the moon above a church-steeple to a dot on the letter i.” p. 207: In last full paragraph on page, “Minn.” is underlined in phrase “Grand Prairie, Minn.” At end of paragraph “…genital” is underlined. p. 209: “Heine” is underlined at start of second full paragraph on page. p. 246: Lines in paragraph at beginning of Chapter LXXVIII are marked in the margin. p. 247: Page number is bracketed. p. 254: Exclamation point and a mark near the sentence: “Does a poet necessarily have to be appreciated by those of whom he writes?” p. 267: Six lines near the line beginning “… a Slavophile, or mystical Russian patriot…” are marked in the margin. The last full paragraph (about Dostoievski’s ‘The Idiot’) on the page is marked in the margin. p. 268: “Scientist,” “interpret,” “economist,” and “remedy” are underlined in first full paragraph on page. p. 275: Several lines are marked in margin at beginning of paragraph that starts: “In his later years he wrote….” Mark in margin near phrase “art has to do with moral questions….” p. 292: Mark in margin near phrase “… and was taken as the spiritual director of the invasion of Belgium.” Four lines marked in margin near sentence beginning “Nietzsche explained Christianity as a slave religion….” p. 294: Something seems to have been erased near phrase “… preserving weaklings and parasites, and putting commercial hogs in power.” Two lines near “lofty idealists whom Nietzsche dreamed…” are marked in margin. p. 304: “Oh Help!” [underlined twice] written in margin next to passages including “He went back to London and wrote more plays, one of them, ‘Salome,’ assuredly the most cruel, cold, and disgusting piece of lewdness in the English language.” p. 328: Line beginning “… always this strange thing was noticed…” is marked in the margin. Line beginning “… author who had aimed at the public’s heart…” is marked in the margin. p. 329: Two lines near “completely cowed, shamed, and tormented…” are marked in the margin. p. 332: Several lines following “The damned and mangy human race…” are marked in the margin. p. 333: Seven lines at top of page are marked in the margin; something illegible is written just above. p. 338: “Nonsense!!” is written next to sentence “If poets saw things as they are they would write no more poetry.” Tucked between pp. 356-357 a newspaper clipping containing a paragraph by Tolstoi entitled “The Little Work of Art.” p. 390: At end of index, this notation: “Resurection [sic] – Tolstoy, Zola, Whitman, Whittier, Milton, Tolstoi, Shelley, Nietzsche. He doesn’t appreciate Wilde!” Notations on second last page of book: “Wordsworth – conservative in religion & poetics – in poetry.” “Gopher Prairie, Minn.” [Minn. underlined twice]. “Balzac out for money. Notations on last page of book: “48, 51, 78, 87, 92, 104, 112, 114, 117, 129, 132, 180, 209, 267, 327, 332. Euripides – Greek. Dante – Italy. (acrobatic ability – charging) S. Richardson – Pamela of Virtue Rewarded. dilettante. Roman – Virgil – [illegible] – Eneans – Horas.”	Book
The Chinese on the art of painting	Osvald	Siren		Schocken Books		1963		Book
Your body and your mind	Frank G.	Slaughter		Signet		1947	p. 120: “We know, too, that even such simple psychosomatic conflicts as the oral desires, which lead to so much gastrointestinal disturbance, are fundamentally sexual in nature” is marked in the margin. On last page of book: “120.”	Book
The southern review	Frank G.	Slaughter				1967		Book
The southern review	Frank G.	Slaughter				1969		Book
The southern review	Frank G.	Slaughter				1970		Book
The southern review	Frank G.	Slaughter				1967		Book
The southern review	Frank G.	Slaughter				1968		Book
Variety of men	C.P.	Snow		Chas. Scribner’s Sons, N.Y.		1966	“Lorine” on the back cover of dust jacket. No other marginalia.	Book
A range of poems	Gary	Snyder		Fulcrum Press		1966		Book
The crisis of our age	Pitirim A.	Sorokin		Dutton		1941		Book
The pocket book of verse	M.E.	Speare		Pocket Books		1940		Book
Philosophy, selected from his chief works	Benedict de	Spinoza		Modern Library		1927	A spent match from book matches is laid in between pp. xvi-xvii.	Book
Spinoza dictionary	Benedict de	Spinoza		Philosophical Library		1951		Book
The red and the black		Stendahl		Modern Library		1926		Book
Harmonium	Wallace	Stevens		Knopf		1923	Photostatic copy of three typed Wallace Stevens poems is tucked inside front cover, with this note on backside: “9-10-92 The original of these three poems is now filed in the protective File Box #1.”	Book
Letters of Wallace Stevens	Jolly	Stevens		Knopf		1966		Book
A Net of Fireflies	Harold	Stewart		Charles E. Tuttle Company	Rutland, Vermont	1960	Papers tucked into the front of the book. First is an anniversary card signed, “Love, Julie, Gene, Bonnie”. Notes written on first fold, “Living Legend ‘Now long ago there lived a wicked witch…’ The withered pampas grass begins to twitch![?] -Issa” [Dividing line] New Year’s Day On New Year’s Day, the sky has cleared and leaves chattering sparrow-gossip in the eaves -Ransetsu [Note upside-down] All this gone [word crossed out] over– some copied 0″ On another fold, a series of math problems: “9×12=108”, “90+18=108”, “90×3=270”, “30×3=90”, “40×2=80+30=110” On another fold: “The Poetry of Takuboku by H.H. Honda T. said “Poetry must not be so-called poetry. It must be accurate reports, and honest diaries relating happenings in the author’s emotional life. Poems, therefore, should not be thorough and complete, but piecemeal and fragmentary.” [Break] “Lament Autumn loneliness: a cricket grieves This evening in the scarecrow’s ragged sleeves.” -Chigetsu On Last fold, Harold Steward, Australian” Haiku Last Signature The moon has shown its selfless light to me; As for this world, I am respectfully, Chiyo [Break] Perfection The host said not a word. The guest was distant. And silent too, the white chrysanthemum. -Ryota Sacrilege Befoe this perfect white inviolate Chrysanthemum–the scissors hesitate! -Buson” On the back of a Birthday card, signed, “Julie, Gene & Bonnie”: “18×50=900”, “Write Clark of Harvard” On other fold: “Next week Biography of Literaria spreads construction paper red & blue or red & blue stringed gift paper” Birthday card tucked in by p. 110 signed, “George, Alice, Kathy & Mike	Book
The life of Ezra Pound	Noel	Stock		Pantheon		1970		Book
Lust for life	Irving	Stone		Pocket Books		1934		Book
The web of life	John H.	Storer		Signet		1953		Book
Poetics of music	Igor	Stravinsky		Vintage		1947		Book
The limitations of science	J.W.N.	Sullivan		Mentor		1933	Notation inside back cover: “166.” p. 13: This sentence is marked in the margin: “The poetry of science and its sense of unlimited adventure are conveyed by Kepler in the most magnficent prose that any scientific man has ever written.” p. 166: Notation in top margin: “Aesthetic basis of mathematics.” This sentence is marked in the margin: “If nature did not possess a harmony that was beautiful to contemplate, said Poincare, science would not be worth pursuing, and life would not be worth living.”	Book
Walter Savage Landor	R.H.	Super		N.Y. University		1954		Book
Renaissance in Italy	John Addington	Symonds		Capricorn Books, N.Y.		1961	pp. 3-4: The paragraph beginning “The speech of the Italians at that epoch” is bracketed from there up to the sentence ending “… but which remain so rich in masterpieces.” Later there are defective pages which were not opened when the book was trimmed, and they have not been opened by any reader. pp. 312-313: The paragraph beginning “We are hardly able to appreciate the ‘Last Judgment…” and ending “‘… the rest of the wortldf is seized with fear and goes mad’” is bracketed. On last page of book: “312-313 Michelangelo Stendhal.”	Book
Complete works		Tacitus		Modern Library		1942		Book
The life and mind of Emily Dickenson	Genevieve	Taggard		Knopf		1930		Book
The man of letters in the modern world	Allen	Tate		Meridian Books		1936		Book
The acquisitive society	Richard Henry	Tawney		Harcourt		1920	“Lorine Niedecker” on first page. Beneath it, another name which is not legible. On second page: “jelly — cromo Damascus.” p. 1: In margin: “unspeculative / no use foer theories / incurious.” p. 3: Underlinings in paragraph at top of page. p. 5: Underlinings and note: “he is interested in function.” pp. 5-6: several notations about “function” and “industry.” p. 8: “Underlying principles” at top of page. p. 9: Underlining and marks in margin, plus “yes” in margin next to: “and it was natural that in those regions of England, as in the American setrtlements, the characteristic philosophy should be that of the pioneer and the mining camp.” pp. 10-11: Underlinings and marks in margins. pp. 12-13: Underlinings and marks in margins, plus “Good” in margin next to sentence in brackets: “There was a limited monarcxhy in Heaven, as well as upon earth.” pp. 14-17: Marginal notes and underlinings. p. 20: At top of page: “right precedes or supercedes service.” Near “acquisitive” is written “wealth,” near “this doctrine” is written “utility.” p. 24: Bracketed sentence: “For the definition of a privilege is a right to which no corresponding function is attached.” p. 27: “… inevitable harmony between private interests and public good” is underlined. p. 28-31: Lots of underlining and other marks, plus “monopoly” in margin. pp. 34-35: Underlinings, including: “the degradation of those who labor, but who do not by their labor command large rewards; that is of the great majority of mankind.” pp. 38-39: Underlinings, including sentence about the production of trivialities. p. 42: Underlinings. “Certainly” in the margin. p. 47: “Good” in margin next to paragraph about making industry “a desert of unnatural dreariness….” pp. 52-53: Underlinings, question mark in margin next to “French Declaration of the Rights of Man,” “obscure in margin next to “recondite.” p. 56. Underlining related to description of the right of propertry. p. 59: “Function” in margin. “Property was to be an aid to creative work, not an alternative to it” is underlined. pp. 60-63: Several underlinings. “Exactly” in margin next to “to most of those who own property to-day it is not a means of work but an instrument for the aquisition of gain or the exercise of power, and that there is no guarantee that gain bears any relation to service, or power to responsibility.” “Function” and “rights” in margin next to a list of proprietory rights. p. 66: “True” in margin next to: “It is probable that war, which in barbarous ages used to be blamed as desatructive of property, has recently created more titles to property than almost all other causes together.” p. 70: “Exactly” in margin next to: “His sentiments about property are those of the simple toiler who fears that what he has sown another may reap.” p. 72: “Security” in margin. p. 78-83: Underlinings. “What is the point” in margin of p. 82 next to passage saqying that functionless property “cannot create; it can only spend, so that the number of scientistsw, inventors, or men of letters who have sprung in the course of the last century from hereditary riches can be numbered on one hand.’” “Undermines creative energy” in margin on p. 83. p. 84: Question mark in margin next to sentence about education being crippled in England “for the sake of industry.” Chapter number is circled. p. 86: “Of course” in margin in discussion of corruption of the principle of industry, next to: “It all depends what sort of propertry it is and for what purpose it is used.” p. 89: Part of a sentence quoted from Mill is underlined: “The reasons which form the justification … of property in land….” pp. 90-92: Underlining and bracketing, including discussion of a profession as being a trade organized “for the performancle of function.” pp. 96-108. Underlinings and marks in margins. “Good” in margin on p. 96 next to paragraph starting “The idea that there is some mysterious difference between making munitions of war and firing them….” Sentence on p. 106 about ending “the payment of profits to functionless shareholders” is underlined. p. 115: In discussion of nationalization, “necessarily inefficient” is underlined and there’s a question mark in the margin farther on. p. 117: “administration” is underlined. pp. 118-119: “Esch-Cummins Act” is underlined. Line with “a financial guarantee, of a public authority” has check mark in margin. p. 130: “Eminent persons, who are not obviously producing more than they consume, explain to the working classes that unless they produce more they must consume less” is marked in the margin. “For how can the consumer be supplied with cheap goods, if, as a worker, he insists on higher wages and shorter hours” is marked in the margin. p. 142: “For the object of industry is to produce goods, and to produce them at the lowest cost in human effort” is marked in the margin. p. 167: Part of a paragraph is underlined related to profits going to shareholders rather than “brain workers in industry.” p. 176: Discussion of difference between “business” and “management” is marked in margin. pp. 178-179: Underlinings, and note about workers being responsible to community instead of to shareholders. p. 183: Mark in margin next to discussion of industry holding “a position of exclusive predominance among human interests.”	Book
Our heritage or world literature	Stith	Thompson		Dryden		1942		Book
Walden or life in the woods	Henry David	Thoreau		Everyman’s Library, E.P. Dutton, N.Y.		1927	On slip of paper tucked between front cover and first page: “Of Thoreau – He chose to be rich by making his wants few. – Emerson” Tucked between pp. 68-69 us a page from the New York Times Review of Books, May 6, 1962, with a column by J. Donald Adams called “Speaking of Books,” which commemorates the 100th anniversary of Thoreau’s death.	Book
A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers	Henry David	Thoreau		Houghton		1961		Book
Adventures of the mind	Richard	Thruelsen		Vintage		1959		Book
Anna Karenina	Leo	Tolstoy		Pocket Books		1948		Book
Short masterpieces	Leo	Tolstoy		Laurel		1963		Book
Les Philosphes	Norman L.	Torrey		Capricorn		1960		Book
World Literature, vol. 1	Buckner B.	Trawick		Barnes		1953		Book
Mozart, the man and his works	W.J.	Turner		Doubleday		1938	Notation on last page of book: “21, 31, 34, 39 [underlined], 55 [underlined], 99, 114 [with ? following].” p. 45: “8 yrs.” is written in pencil in space above a letter dated August 9, 1764. p. 55: “7 yrs.” is written in space following the date: October 14, 1763. pp. 99: “14 yrs.” is written in space before the date “April 14, 1770.” p. 182: The first seven lines of the paragraph beginning “I beg you to write soon to the poor Mysliweczek…” are marked in the margin. p. 374: The following item in the appendix is marked: “525 Eine kleine Nachtmuik 1787.”	Book
The changing nature of man	J.H.	Vandenberg		Dell Publ., N.Y.		1964		Book
The pastorial poems		Virgil		Penguin, Hunt, Barnard, Ltd.		1949		Book
The aeneid		Virgil		Doubleday & Co., N.Y.		1953		Book
The portable Voltaire		Voltaire		Viking Press		1961		Book
The personality of Chaucer	Edward	Wagenknecht		Univ. Oklahoma Press, Norman OK		1958		Book
Madly singing in the mountains	Arthur	Waley		Walker and Col, N.Y.		1970		Book
Six centuries of great poetry	Robert Penn	Warren		Dell		1955		Book
The way of zen	Alan W.	Watts		New American Library, N.Y.		1959		Book
Renaissance	Edward H.	Weatherly		Dell		1962		Book
Pocket book of old masters	Herman J.	Wechsler		Pocket Books		1949		Book
The outline of history	H.G.	Wells		Garden City Publications, N.Y.		1949	The front panel of an envelope, cut away from the rest of the envelope, is tucked between pp. 548-549. The envelope was addressed to: Lorine Niedecker Route 3 Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin It is postmarked Fort Aktinson, Wis., Dec. 20, 1951, 3 p.m. There’s a 2 cent stamp on it.	Book
12 American poets	Stephen	Whicher		Oxford		1961		Book
The natural history of Selborne	Gilbert	White		Penguin Books		1941	Notations inside front cover: “Plestor = the village playground. Meald = wild land. A holt = a grove. A hangar = a hanging wood, that stand of beech trees which still leaves out \___/ steep cliff behind ‘The Wakes.’”	Book
The age of analysis	Morton	White		Mentor		1955		Book
Adventures of ideas	Alfred N.	Whitehead		Mentor		1933		Book
Dialogues, as recorded by Lucien Price	Alfred N.	Whitehead		Mentor		1954		Book
Leaves of grass	Walt	Whitman		Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., N.Y.		1943		Book
Specimen days	Walt	Whitman		Signet		1961		Book
Portable Oscar Wilde	Oscar	Wilde		Viking		1946		Book
New voices	Marguerite	Wilkinson		Macmillan		1921	On first page: “Lorine Niedecker Last Half Century English Lit.” On third page: “human body if sold = between $70 and $90.” p. 1: Mark near sentence: “Poetry is like the Pool of Bethesda. Until they have been plunged into eddies of rhythmical and imaginative beauty, many human intellects are, to a certain extent, sick and infirm.” p. 5: “Scepticisms” by Conrad Aiken is underlined. This sentence is marked: “Poetry is often thought to be a painless twilight sleep out of which beauty is accidentally born.” p. 7: End of this sentence is marked: “The person who goes strutting about with all the air of being a genius and saying that he does not need to work, that he writes ‘by inspiration,’ is saying, in effect, ‘Michelangelo, Beethoven, Shakespeare, of course, had to labor for their sucess, poor souls! It is quite unnecessary for me!’” p. 10. Second full paragraph on page is marked “1” and the word “design” is underlined. Third paragraph is marked “2.” and “exactly” is written in margin next to: “They [rhythms] must be used flexibly and fluidly….” The word “concise” is underlined, with question mark in the margin, near sentence: “He believes that poetry differs from prose partly in being more concise.” p. 11: Mark in margin near: “When he has been published a poet may have inferiors, equals and superiors, but he has no rivals.” Mark in margin near “To-day too much is being written and admired that is merely novel.” p. 13: “Heart of Man” is underlined. p. 14: “Mark in margin near: “It is well to remember that great poetry is the result of a noble synthesis of all the powers of personality.” p. 22: “symmetry” is underlined. In margin: “harmonious relation of parts. Last paragraph on page, about Amy Lowell and her poem “Patterns” is bracketed. p. 24: “Oh – yes” next to examples after sentence “The cadence is reiterated in lines like the following.” In bottom margin: “cadence, rhythm, each kind of rhythm suggesting a mood.” p. 25: “Good” in margin near: “…. so that, when the poem swings back into the familiar cadence, we know an instantaneous delight.” p. 27: “symbol” and “story” underlined. p. 28: X in margin and “rhyme in” underlined in sentence: “And now we are brought face to face with the question of the real importance of rhyme in the designing of poems.” p. 32: In top margin, re. rhyme: “can be used tritely, insincerely [underlined], and inappropriately.” p. 33: In top margin: “Structures Patterns – Amy Lowell Deirdre – Steffans.” Next to poem Patterns: “1 2 – ” In bottom margin: “a poem can have variety and [underlined] pattern.” p. 34: Mark next to a line of the poem. p. 35: Next to line “We would have broke the pattern” is “walking up and down – garden in stiff brocade.” In bottom margin: “rigid and severe = pattern.” p. 36: “3.” next to lines “In a pattern called a war. Christ! What are patterns for?” “Sure” is underlined in line: “But, sure, the sky is big, I said.” p. 41: These lines are marked: “God, I can push the grass apart/And lay my finger on Thy heart!” p. 47: Several lines of the poem “Deirdre” are marked. p. 51: “Rhythm” and “to flow” underlined. In bottom margin: “rhythm from Greek root ‘to flow’.” p. 53: In top margin: “English blank verse, Greek hexameter – stately, dignified, lofty [underlined twice].” p. 57: “Strong” in margin next to the lines: “Over the roof-tops race the shadows of clouods;/Like horses tghe shadows of clouds charge down the street.” p. 58: Mark in margin next to: “Perhaps she [Miss Lowell] would say that her own polyphonic prose is like a line undulating more regularly than the line of ordinary prose.” p. 63: “Robert Frost” is underlined, and so is: “he is the greatest living master of the poetry that talks.” p. 64: In top margin: “organic rhythm – Vachel Lindsay – Santa Fe Trail.” p. 66: “hearing” is bracketed. Question mark in margin near: “Nothing is artistically worse than indignation waltzing, unless it is sorrow capering to the lift of a tango or joy droning a dirge.” p. 76: “Living [?] traveler to follow or communicate w those thata have gone – but not successful” in margin near Lindsay’s poem “The Listeners.” p. 85: The words “concisely, vividly, memorably, emotionally” are underlined in sentence: “Images and symbols, then, are valuable in literature because they present truth far more concisely, vividly, memorably, and emotionally than literal statement.” p. 87: In top margin: “metaphors.” p. 93: “Marks in margin near sentences: “In hot countries everlasting heat is the symbol of damnation; in cold countries, everlasting cold. Again and again the seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter are made to mean birth, growth, maturity, death. A winding river is life. The seed of the man is the child. The banner is the nation. The summit is success. The uphill climb is effort. The tree is the race, the family, the strong man.” p. 95: X in margin near: “This mayh be because the making of strong symbols is a task for leisure and meditation, and the Orient loves leisure and meditation as the Occident loves action and thought.” “Rabindranath Tagore” is underlined. p. 96: “symbolism” is underlined in sentence: “But great poets of the Occident are also masters of symbolism.” “Commerce in three great periods” and “democracy” are underlined. “Image & symbolism” and “banks of ours” in margin near Masefield”s poem “Cargoes.” “1., 2., and 3.” are added beside the three stanzas of the poem. p. 111: In bottom margin: “Imagery – suggested mood, mere photography. Symbolism – deeper emotion, means to an end.” p. 120: Phrase underlined: “such [trite and stereotyped] diction is the result of laziness or mental sterility.” p. 123: “Of course” in margin near: “But to-day most of us have accepted it [the beginning of the quarrel between Bill and Saul in Masefield’s ‘The Everlasting Mercy’] as an essential ugliness in a great poem full of spiritual beauty….” “Essential ugliness” is underlined. p. 125: This line in Masefield’s “The Everlasting Mercy’” is marked: “Up the slow slope a team came bowing….” Also there are marks in a sentence about that same line: “One line alone for truth and vitality would make this passage memorable….” p. 150: Underlinings in this sentence: “Most of these ultra-conservative poets are men and women of unquestioned culture, men and women whose minds are saturated with literature, especially the literature of the past.” “Poetry of the learned” in margin nearby. p. 153: In bottom margin: “Noyes – 1. Argumentative poems not convincing. 2. Lyrics lack concentration and power. 3. Popular sentimentality.” p. 154: In bottom margin: “for 1. ballads rhythm imaginative 2. dramatic 3. technique of Forty Singing Seamen memorable 4. just what a ballad rhythm ought to be – in keeping w/ mood of poem.” p. 176: “humanitarian” underlined in second line of first full paragraph on page. Facing p. 217: “Sandburg – p. 217, 180, My Hansen, Untermeyer {expression of persohnality sometimes, not poetry.” p. 220: Much of the page is marked in the margin. In bottom margin: “Wisdom of Bye Street – Harding – esque.” p. 221: Underlined phrase: “words as clean as silver, firm as bronze, and ruddy as gold….” p. 222: “Dauber” underlined and marked in margin. p. 250: Bracketed: “One of the finest of these picture-poems is ‘Out of Trenches: The Barn, Twilight.’ Just to read it is to join a group of Tommies and listen to their songs and their talk. It is admirably done. But it is not verse to be quoted. It should be read as a whole.” p. 320: Marked in margin: “Thomas Hardy gives expression to the same idea with greater austerity [than ‘April Rain’ by Conrad Aiken], and more nobly, in his admirable poems ‘Transformations’ and ‘The Wind Blew Words.’” p. 322: “she is not alone” is written side-wise in margin of bottom half of page. p. 326: A sentence about Aiken’s “The Morning Song of Senlin” is marked in the margin. p. 327: “336” in bottom margin. p. 330: First four lines of Thomas Hardy’s poem “Transformations” are marked in margin. p. 336: Marks in poem of John Masefield. Marks and marginal notes in “A Day of Wandering” by Clinton Scollard: “Trite! Unending montonous deark and light sky where there is nothing.” p. 344: Marks in margin at Aiken’s “The Morning Song of Senlin.” p. 348: In top margin: “Advance in science – truth.” p. 351: Bracketed sentences: “His poems [Walter de la Mare’s] are all combinations of twilight shades, charming compositions in violet, ivory and olive. But his pictures, made with colors that would seem to be evanescent, succeed in fixing themselves indelibly in our minds.” X near: “John Masefield is know the world over as the poet of the wanderer and the outcast….” p. 352: X in margin near: “Having made their acquaintance in these tales we know them as we know our neighbors.” X near line about Masefield’s story “Dauber.” p. 354: Margin in margin near: “But in shrewd understanding of personality and as a brilliant analyst of character, Edwin Arlington Robinson has no superior among living American poets.” p. 356: Four lines of Robinson’s poem “Flammonde” are marked in the margin. p. 454: In bottom margin: “It’s suggestiveness that poetry is after – done by rhythm, Lindsay; words and rhythm, Sandburg. Express your emotion – any way – just express it. Rhytm but in time/melody – Kipling (lyrical). On second last page of book: “Masefield – for diction. Lindsay for rhythm. Sandburg, sincerity. Amy Lowell – polyphonic prose. Adelaide Crapsey – form [illegible]. Imagist (impressions) Sandburg. Masefield’s Cargoes. Amy Lowell. Conrad Aiken. ‘Silver’ by Walter de la Mare.” On last page: “Masefield – much praised by Wilkinson. Personality – Masefield, Walter de la Mare (Miss Loo). Wilfred Wilson Gibson. Vachel Lindsay. Edwin Arlington Robinson. Robert Frost. Edgar Lee Masters. Birthday?” Inside of back cover: “Masefield poetry pages 96, 228, and 146, 336. Everlasting Mercy – Diction rough – severe. Subject & diction {Edgar Lee Masters form – conventional – rhyme and meter. Net: dress – Thur.”	Book
The autobiography of ____	William Carlos	Williams		Random House, N.Y.		1951		Book
Journey to love	William Carlos	Williams		Random House		1954		Book
An ear in Bartram’s tree	Jonathan	Williams		Univ. of N.C. Press, Chapel Hill		1959	Card on gold stock tucked into center of book: “Jonathan Williams Executive Director::The Jargon Society Penland School at Penland, North Carolina 28765”	Book
Selected poems	William Carlos	Williams		New Classics		1949		Book
Kora in hell: improvisations	William Carlos	Williams		Four Seas		1920	p. 20: These sentences are marked in the margin: “But to weigh a difficulty and to turn it aside without being wrecked upon a destructive solution bespeaks an imagination of force sufficient to transcend action. The difficulty has thus been solved by ascfnt to a higher plane. It is energy of the imagination alone that cannot be laid aside.” p. 69: Sentences marked in the margin: “The moon masquerading for a tower clock over the factory, its hands in a gesture that, were time real, would have settled all.” “And rubber gloves, the color of moist dates, the identical glisten and texture: means a ballon trip to Fez.”	Book
Collected poems, 1921-1931	William Carlos	Williams		Objectivist		1934		Book
The broken span	William Carlos	Williams		New Directions		1941		Book
The desert music	William Carlos	Williams		Random		1954		Book
Immortal poems of the English language	Oscar	Williams		Washington Square		1952	In Table of Contents these names are marked in the margin: Emerson, Whittier, Longfellow, Poe, Holmes, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Lanier, George Santayana, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington Robinson, W.H. Davies, Robert Frost, Sarah N. Cleghorn, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Pound, Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Peale Bishop, Archibald MacLeish, E.E. Cummings, Allen Tate, Hart Crane, Ogden Nash, Richard Eberhart, Elizabeth Bishop, Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shapiro, and Robert Lowell.	Book
Selected letters	William Carlos	Williams		McDowell		1957	Tucked between pp. 70-71 are pages cut out of an issue of Poetry magazine, pp. 385-392 from an unspecified issue; on pp. 386-391 there is a series of poems by William Carlos Williams under the heading “Some Simple Measures in the American Idiom and the Variable Foot.” p. 347: The index is corrected in pencil, in LN’s handwriting, I believe, to add “112” to the list of pages for “Zukofsky, Louis, mentioned.”	Book
A piece of my mind	Edmund	Wilson		Doubleday & Co., Garden City, N.Y.		1958	Notation written on front cover of book: “Essay on Religion. p. 58 – bath tub culture.” p. 58: Perhaps a check mark in margin near paragraph beginning “A certain kind of European….”	Book
Axel’s castle	Edmund	Wilson		Scribner		1931	p. 229: Bracket in margin from sentence about James Joyce beginning “A single one of Joyce’s sentences, therefore, will combine two or three different meanings…” to the end of the paragraph. p. 306: Marks in margin beside discussion of Proverbe magazine and Soupalt’s characterization of its collaborators.	Book
A literary chronicle: 1920-1950	Edmund	Wilson		Diybkedat		1952		Book
The bare hills, a book of poems	Yvor	Winters		Four Seas		1927	Note tucked after copyright page, typewritten onto watermarked bond paper: “relationship of oneself as man and non-God that drives one to the madness of the hysterical mysticism or the discipline of art. Art functions for Mr. Winters as a moral discipline. For him the only godhead left for man is the evaluation and renunciation of life, through the practice of art and philosophy. Review of Bare Hills in Poetry – April 1928.”	Book
A tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy	Perry	Wolff		Dell		1962		Book
Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey, letters	Leonard	Woolf		Harcourt		1956	A lock of reddish brown hair is preserved between pp. 144-145.	Book
Handbook of composition	Edwin C.	Woolley		Heath		1920	This book may lend considerable insight as to what LN was taught about grammar and composition. First page: “Lorine Niedecker.” Other written material, not all of it legible. Second and third pages: information on assignments and lessons is written out. p. 27: Marks in margin near discussion of pronoun reference. p. 28: Arrow in margin to “bad” example. p. 29: “faulty reference” in margin. p. 30: Marks in margin where working examples/problems. pp. 48-49: Marks in margin and text where working examples/problems. pp. 51: Marks in discussion of joining coordinate verbs, arrow in margin to example. Marks related to items on the following pages: 56, 60, 105, 109, 110, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 129, 132, 135, 127, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 167, 169, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 201, 207, 208, 209, 210. On third last page of book: “cerebrate = think very vigorously.” “Rewrite theme for Dec. 1.” Other words are not legible. Last page of book: notes on several casesa of usage under heading “Remember.”	Book
Complete poetical works	William	Wordsworth		Burt			pp. 129-130: The poem “Michael” appears to be marked from the line beginning “Made all their household” through the line ending “The Clipping Tree, the name which yet it bears.”	Book
Victorian literature	Austin	Wright		Oxford		1961		Book
Autobiography	William Butler	Yeats		Doubleday		1944	Notation on contents page: “1865-1939.” Notation on page 1: “born 1869, died 1839.” Notation at section title “The Trembling of the Veil” on page 73: “Mallarme” and ” “of the Temple.” p. 155: Paragraph beginning “If, as I think, minds and metals correspond…” is bracketed in the margin.	Book
Selected poems and two plays	William Butler	Yeats		Macmillan		1962		Book
Emerson’s Montaigne	Charles Lowell	Young		Macmillan		1941		Book
Nana	Emile	Zola		Pocket Books		1941		Book
Little	Louis	Zukofsky		Grossman, N.Y.		1970		Book
All the collected short poems, 1923-1958	Louis	Zukofsky		Norton		1965	Slip inserted into book indicates this is a “Review Copy from W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. – This book will be published on April 28, 1965.	Book
Anew, poems	Louis	Zukofsky		Decker		1946		Book
A test of poetry	Louis	Zukofsky		Objectivist Press		1948		Book
A test of poetry	Louis	Zukofsky		Routledge		1952	On first page: “For Lorine (p. 41) touching May 12, 1953 from Celia, Paul, Louis by Louis Zukofsky indited 4/18/53.”	Book
Bottom: on Shakespeare 2v.	Louis	Zukofsky		Ark Press		1963		Book
Prepositions	Louis	Zukofsky		Rapp & Carroll		1967		Book
A bibliography of Louis Zukofsky	Celia	Zukofsky		Black Sparrow Press		1969	On the colophon page: signed by Celia and Louis Zukofsky, with this additional: “N Lorine’s copy – Love, Celia, on May 12, 1969.”	Book
Autobiography	Louis	Zukofsky		Grossman		1970		Book
Handbook of Marxism			Emile, Burns	International Publishers	New York	1935	p. 7: Checkmark in table of contents next to XXIV. V.I. Lenin – What is to be done: Dogmatism and ‘Freedom of Criticism’ – Trade Union Politics and Social Democratic Politics. p. 9: In table of contents page number 855 is boxed with pencil for item V.I. Lenin – ‘Left-Wing’ Communism: an Infantile Disorder. p. 724: The end of a quote from Engels is marked in the margin “… whose purpose is to moderate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of ‘order’; and this power arising out of society, but placing itself above it, and increasingly separating itself from it, is the State.” Just below this quote, a sentence is marked in the margins with a double line ” The State is the product and the manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms.” pP. 730-731: Quote by Kautsky is marked in the margin with “US?” – “… there are periods whedn the warring classes so nearly attain equilibrium that the State power, ostensibly appearing as a mediator, assumes for the moment a certain independence in relation to both.” Paragraph beginning “Such, we may add, is now the Kerensky government…” on page 730 is marked in margin. Paragraph beginning “In a democratic republic…” at top of page 731 is marked in margin. Seven lines beginning with “A democratic republic is the best possible…” in last full paragraph on paged 731 are marked in margin and have a question mark along side. This sentence is marked in margin and has two question marks along side: “We must also note that Engels quite definitely regards universal suffrage as a means of bourgeois domination.” p. 732: Portion of a quote from Engels is marked boldly in margin: “We are now rapidly approaching a stage in the development of production at which the existence of these classes has not only ceased to be a necessity but is becoming a positive hindrance to production.” p. 734: Four lines of a quote from Engel at top of page are marked in the margin, starting with: “…a State, is no longer necessary..” The following sentence is marked in the margin along with a question mark: “The current popular conception, if one may say so, of the ‘withering away’ of the State undoubtedly means a slurring over, if not a negation, of revolution.” p. 738: Five lines beginning with “Eclecticism is substituted for dialectics…” are marked in the margin, with a question mark along side.	Book
Haiku – Translated from masters of the seventeen—-				Peter Pauper Press, Mt. Vernon, N.Y.		1955		Book
The new American poetry: 1945-1960			Donald M. Allen	Grove	New York	1960	Inserted between pp. 132-133: bottom of p. 6 from Aug. 26, 1960 New York Times Book Review, with photos of Denise Levertov, Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan, Jonathan Williams, and Kenneth Koch.	Book
Philosophers: the Renaissance, the age of				New American Library, New York		1961		Book
Paris Review, Writers at Work				Viking Press, New York		1965		Book
Haiku – Japanese Series III				Peter Pauper Press, Mt. Vernon, N.Y.		1966		Book
Elson’s pocket music dictionary				Ditson		1909	“Lorine Niedecker” written in blue ink on front cover. p. 25: “fa do” in pencil after “Cadence, plagal.” p. 34: Note added to treble clef, a-note above and below treble clef identified in discussion of “Clarinet.” pp. 84-85: Table of instruments is numbered 1-4; “=” written near Tuba and Saxhorns; check marks after Bass-drum and Tambourine. p. 177: “rate of vibration” underlined in definition of “Pitch.”	Book
Those who built Stalingrad				International Publishers		1934		Book
New directions in prose & poetry, 1938				New Directions		1938		Book
Bhagavad-Gita: the song of God				New American Library	New York	1951	Christopher Isherwood (Translator), Aldous Huxley (Introduction), Swami Prabhavananda (Translator)	Book
The religion of beauty: selections from the aesthetes			Richard Aldington	Heinmann	London	1950		Book
Plutarch-Life stories of men who shaped history				New American Library		1950		Book
Every man’s Bible				Lion		1953		Book
The American tradition in literature			Sculley Bradley, Richard Croom Beatty & E. Hudson Long	Norton	New York	1957		Book
The book of Tao				Peter Pauper		1962		Book
Italy, vacation guidebook				Cornerstone Library		1963		Book
Paris Review, Poetry				Doubleday and Co., Chicago, Illinois		1968		Book
Art and literature, an International quarterly								Book
Contemporary literature: Spring 1968								Book
Contemporary literature: Summer 1968								Book
Contemporary literature: Winter 1967								Book
Contemporary literature: Winter 1969								Book
Contemporary literature: Winter 1970								Book
Holy Bible				Inter. Natl. Press, Philadelphia			Notation on the page at front listing the names of the Old and New Testament books: “Job written 5th or 4th cent. B.C.” pp. 378-379: The following verses are marked: 1 Kings 6: 4, 7, 9, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 35, 37, 38. The word “years” is added in the margin at the end of the chapter. p. 387: The following verses are marked: 1 Kings 10: 23. 1 Kings 11: 9. p. 389: The following verses are marked: 1 Kings 11:36. “40 years” is written near verse 42. p. 426-427: The following verses are marked: 2 Kings 15:34-35, 2 Kings 17:7-8 p. 429: The following verse is marked: 2 Kings 17: 33. pp. 436-438: The following verses are marked: 2 Kings 23: 3, 26, 27, 37. pp. 439-440: The following verse is marked: 2 Kings 25: 9, 21 pp. 942-943: The following verses are marked: Matthew 5: 16, 20, 26, 38 , 43. pp. 944-945: The following verses are marked: Matthew 6: 1, 9-13, 24, 34. p. 945: The following verse is marked: Matthew 7: 1. p. 985: The following verses are marked: Mark 7: 23, 37. p. 988: The following verse is marked: Mark 9: 29. p. 997: The following verse is marked: Mark 14: 72. p. 1002: The following verse is marked: Luke 2: 20. p. 1025: The following verse is marked: Luke 15: 32 pp. 1068-1069: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 1: 2, 7, 11, 26. P. 1073: The following verse is marked Acts 4: 35. p. 1074: The following verse is marked: Acts of the Apostles 5: 11. p. 1075: The following verse is marked: Acts of the Apostles 6: 7 Underlined “company” p. 1077: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 7: 33, 47. pp. 1078-1079: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 8: 3, 40. p. 1080: The following verse is marked: Acts of the Apostles 9: 31. p. 1082: The following verse is marked: Acts of the Apostles 10: 45. p. 1083: The following verse is marked: Acts 11: 18. pp. 1085-1086: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 13: 1-3, 50-52. p. 1089: The following verse is marked: Acts of the Apostles 15: 35. pp. 1091-1092: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 17: 21, 23, 28. p. 1093: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 18: 22; Acts of the Apostles 19: 9. p. 1094: Acts of the Apostles 19: 24 has a question mark in margin next to it. p. 1095: Acts of the Apostles 20: 4 has “Omit” in margin and parens around “into Asia.” p. 1097: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 21: 21, 23, 28. p. 1100: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 23: 28-29.	Book
Lamb’s tales from Shakespeare				Hurst			On first page: From Mrs. Bowen – 1918. Bottom of page 77: “1380 word.” p. 79 Marks in the margin for the line “who had the art of covering treacherous purposes with smiles” pp. 80-81: Lines in pencil between four lines of the text, apparently unrelated to anything. p. 83: Bracket and question mark in margin for: “From the Fleance descended a race of monarchs who afterwards filled the Scottish throne, ending with James the Sixth of Scotland and the First of England, under whom the two crowns of England and Scotland were united.” p. 84: “with distracted words” is underlined. p. 85: Bracket and question mark for: “… he called Macbeth by name, and bid him beware of the thane of Fife; for which caution Macbeth thanked him….” p. 86: Bracket and underlined re. “… he began to envy the condition of Duncan, whom he had murdered, who slept soundly in his grave….” p. 87: Another apparent random line at: “should come to Dunsinane: and now….” p. 88: Underlining re. “… in which Macbeth though feebly supported by those who called themselves his friends…,” with “men [illegible ?] him” in margin. p. 89: Question mark and bracket in margin for the paragraph beginning “‘Accursed be the tongue which tells me so,” said the trembling Macbeth….” In bottom margin: “convulsive-action self-delusion (?) self-abuse.” p. 347: In bottom margin: “67 minus 7 equals 60. 1623 she died minus 7 equals 1616 died minus 60 equals 1556 born.”	Book
Origin (Volumes 1, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 20)				Cid Corman, Editor, Kyoto, Japan				Book
Oxford book of English verse 1250-1918				Oxford				Book
American Poetry: the Twentieth Century				The Library of America	New York	2000		Book

In 2016, several color photographs and books from Niedecker’s personal library were returned to the Hoard Historical Museum by a researcher who had borrowed them in the early 1970s. Ann Engelman of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker prepared an inventory of this accession.

While there is not a comprehensive digital finding aid for the Hoard Museum’s Niedecker-related holdings, the collection can be accessed by scholars and interested members of the public upon request. To arrange a visit to the Hoard’s Collection contact them by phone at (920) 397-9914 or by email at info@hoardmuseum.org.

Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas-Austin

The letters exchanged between Lorine Niedecker and Louis Zukofsky (1933-1970) are included in the Zukofsky collection held at the Harry Ransom Center [HRC] at the University of Texas, Austin. Many of the letters from Niedecker to Zukofsky in this collection were published by Jenny Penberthy in her Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky 1931-1970. The Zukofsky collection also includes a large number of Niedecker manuscripts. The HRC has other Niedecker items too.

Finding Aid: search “Niedecker” in the Harry Ransom Center search box.

Berg Collection at the New York Public Library

The letters from Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman (1960-1970) are held in the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection. These were edited and annotated by Lisa Pater Faranda and published in “Between Your House and Mine”: The Letters of Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman, 1960 to 1970.

Finding Aid: search “Niedecker” in the Cid Corman collection of papers.

Poetry Collection at SUNY-Buffalo

Letters from Lorine Niedecker to Jonathan Williams (1956-1970) are included in the Jargon Society Collection, 1950-2008.

Letters from Lorine Niedecker to the English literary critic Kenneth Cox are included in the Kenneth Cox Collection, 1965-2005.

Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University

Three of Niedecker’s late manuscripts are included in the Niedecker Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.