Edward Butscher Collection of papers on Sylvia Plath, 1918-1976
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Edward Butscher Collection of papers on Sylvia Plath
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Edward Butscher (collector)
Biographical History for: Edward Butscher Collection of papers on Sylvia Plath
Biographical Note Edward Butscher was born in Flushing, New York, on September 30, 1943 to Edward J. and Lena Cutillo Butscher. He was educated at Queens College of the City University of New York (B.A., 1963), Long Island University (M.A., 1971), and New York University (Ph.D.) In addition to teaching English at several public schools in New York, Butscher was a member of the faculty at the New School for Social Research (1974) and an instructor at C. W. Post Center of Long Island University (1977-78). His writings include Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness (Seabury, 1976); Poems about Silence (Seabury, 1976); (editor) Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work (Dodd, 1977); Adelaid Crapsey (Twayne, 1979); (poems) Amagansett Cycle (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1979); Conrad Aiken: A Literary Biography (Dodd, 1980); (poems) Unfinished Sequence (Cross-Cultural Communications, c1981); Faces on the Barroom Floor (Contemporary Press, 1984); (editor) Paul Bowles Issue (Hofstra University Press, 1981); Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale (University of Georgia Press, c1988); (poems) Eros Descending (Dusty Dog Chapbook, 1992); Peter Wild (Boise State University, c 1992).
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Edward Butscher Collection of papers on Sylvia Plath contains Butscher's correspondence about Plath as well as copies of some of Plath's correspondence, writings, and family documents all of which were used by Butscher to write Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness (New York: Seabury Press, 1976). In addition to Butscher's research notes and drafts of his critical biography, the papers also contain critical essays about Plath, which Butscher collected and edited as Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977). The papers span the dates 1918-1976, but the bulk of the material covers the years 1946-1976. The papers were purchased from the House of Books, Ltd. in the late 1970s and presented to the Smith College Library Rare Book Room on July 2, 1992 by Ann Lee O'Connell Anderson, Class of 1955, and Mary Lee O'Connell Jamieson, Class of 1958, in honor of Helen Mary Lee O'Connell, Class of 1931. Edward Butscher's correspondence is housed in Boxes 1-2, and consists of 221 letters (mostly addressed to Butscher) about Sylvia Plath and her family. Many letters refer to interviews with Butscher. Tapes of these interviews are not part of the papers. A few of Butscher's responses to Olwyn Hughes (the literary executor of the Sylvia Plath estate) are interfiled in Box 1, folder 30. John Press's memoir of Sylvia Plath is enclosed with his letters (Box 2, folder 61). A memoir of Assia Wevill is included with Edward Lucie-Smith's May 14, 1975 letter (Box 1, folder 44). Ted Hughes is also mentioned in Elizabeth Sigmund's correspondence (Box 2, folder 72). Information about Otto Plath's college degree may be found with Butscher's letters from Northwestern College (Box 2, folder 53). Mary Ellen Chase's letter of recommendation for Sylvia Plath to teach at Smith College is filed separately (Box 2, folder 88). A transcript of Aurelia Plath's July 23 1953 letter to Marcia Brown Stem describes Sylvia's health before her suicide attempt. A later letter to Elizabeth Sigmund discusses Mrs. Plath's grandchildren. All of the 54 letters in Sylvia Plath's correspondence are copies or transcripts; some concern her student days at Smith College, while a few deal with her later appointment to the English Department at Smith College. Both sides of her correspondence with John Lehmann about writing submissions to The London Magazine are contained in Box 2, folder 95. Scholars should write directly to the University of Texas at Austin to see copies of these letters. The original typescript of Butscher's biography of Sylvia Plath is housed in Box 3. Galleys may be found in Box 4, along with the objections and corrections of Olwyn Hughes, Philip McCurdy, and Warren J. Plath. Only three essays for Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work are represented by typescripts in the papers. Of the 168 examples of Sylvia Plath's writing, only the essay "Snow Blitz" (Box 5, folder 136) is an original typescript and it was "supplied by Olwyn Hughes." Otherwise, Plath's thesis, poetry, essays, and short stories are printed versions or photocopies from the original manuscripts at the Lilly Library, Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and Smith College. In addition, there are some fragments of Letters Home and a copy of the radio script for "Three Woman. " The sixteen pieces about Sylvia Plath are copies of printed articles, except for a poem by Peter Davison, an article by Gordon Lameyer, and an excerpt from Marcia Brown Stern's diary. Besides clippings, Other Papers (46 items) contains copies of Sylvia Plath's death certificate and obituaries, a few of her college notes, and copies of the Plath-Schober family documents, such as death certificates. A group of fifteen photographs of Sylvia Plath, friends, and places she lived complete the papers. Many of these photographs were reproduced by Butscher in Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness.
Poets, American--20th century--Biography
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Butscher, Edward
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Davison, Peter
Hughes, Olwyn
Krook, Dorothea
McCurdy, Philip
Plath, Aurelia Schober
Roche, Clarissa
Sigmund, Elizabeth
Plath, Sylvia--Biography
series
Series I. Correspondence, 1951-76
Boxes 1-2 holds series 1, Correspondence, which is divided into the correspondence of Edward Butscher, Mary Ellen Chase, Aurelia Plath, and Sylvia Plath. Each subseries is arranged alphabetically by correspondent and then chronologically.
Series II. Writings, 1945-75
Boxes 3-6 hold series II, Writings, which is divided into the writings of Edward Butscher, Sylvia Plath, and writings About Sylvia Plath.
Series III. Other Papers, 1918-74
Box 6 holds series III, Other Papers, which is arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Series IV. Photographs, 1949-62
Box 6 holds series IV, Photographs.
EDWARD BUTSCHER (221 items)
Abels, Cyrilly (6 items) 1973-74
Anderson, Robert E., Jr. (2 items) 1973 Aug 10
Bailey, Norman S. (3 items) 1972-73
Baldwin, Francis E. (1 item) 1972 Nov 16
Barnhouse, Ruth T. (I item) 1972 Nov 28
Baskin, Leonard (I item) 1975 Feb 26
Botsford, Marion
See: Rydell, Barbara
Bradbury, Malcolm (1 item) 1973 May 14
British Broadcasting Corporation (2 items) 1969-73
British Library (1 item) 1973 Oct 16
Burton, Kay (4 items) 1972-74
Cahill, Linda (I item) 1972 Oct 3
Cambridge University (4 items) 1972-73
Cohn, Marge (2 items) 1975 Apr-May
Compton, David (1 item) 1975 May 1
Craig, Anna C. (I item) 1972 Nov 14
Crockett, Wilbury (6 items) 1969-73
Davis, Robert G. (1 item) 1972 Dec 11
Davison, Peter and Jane (5 items) 1973-74
Duncan, Stewart (1 item) 1973 Mar 1
Faber and Faber Ltd. (1 item) 1973 Apr 11
Fainlight, Ruth (2 items) 1973-74
Fulton, George P. (1 item) 1972 Nov 20
Gibian, George (4 items) 1972-73
Giesey, Mary L. (1 item) 1972 Nov 14
Grossman, Allen (I item) 1969 Apr 6
Harvard University (4 items) 1972-73
Henry, Clement Moore (2 items) 1972-73
Hirt, Howard (I item) n. y. Feb 14
Huggins, Gail E. (1 item) 1972 Oct 1
Hughes, Olwyn (26 items) 1972-75
Humphrey, Dorothy H. (1 item) 1973 Jan 4
Indiana University (2 items) 1973 Nov-Dec
Irish, Frank and Laura (4 items) 1972-73
Kahrl, Stanley J. (2 items) 1974 May
Kazin, Alfred (1 item) 1972 Oct 13
Kopp, Jane (5 items) 1972-73
Krook, Dorothea (4 items) 1972-74
Kunitz, Stanley (1 item) 1973 Jun-Aug
Lameyer, Gordon (4 items) 1973-74
Lape, James T. (3 items) 1969-72
Lawson, Helen L. (3 items) 1972-74
Lind, Louise T. (1 item) 1972 Dec 4
Lotz, Myron (7 items) 1972-74
Lucie-Smith, Edward (4 items) 1973-75
MacBeth, George (3 items) 1973-74
McCullough, Frances (I item) 1973 Apr 11
McCurdy, Philip E. (9 items) 1972-75
McLean Hospital (I item) 1972 Nov 16
Mademoiselle (1 item) 1973 Jul 10
Miller, Jonathan (I item) 1973 Jul 20
Modlin, Robert K. (2 items) 1973 Jul-Aug
Moore, Clement
See: Henry, Clement Moore
Nevada (4 items) 1974 Jun-Jul
See also: Box 6, folder 158
Northwestern College (2 items) 1974 May-Jun
Northwestern University (1 item) 1974 Mar 14
Norton, C. Perry, Richard, Shirley, and William B. (8 items) 1972-74
Oregon (2 items) 1974 May-Jun
Orton, Ora Mae (2 items) 1973 Sep-Nov
Oxford University (2 items) 1973 Aug-Sep
Pitt, Valerie (1 item) 1972 Dec 11
Plath, Aurelia S. (5 items) 1969-74
Press, John (2 items) 1974 Jan-Apr
Prouty, Olive H. (1 item) 1976 Oct 25
Public Library of Brookline (1 item) 1973 Oct 16
Rafferty, Janet Wagner (2 items) 1974 Apr-May
Rosenthal, M.L. (I item) 1974 Jun 18
Rydell, Barbara (3 items) 1972-73
Sachar, Neva (1 item) 1974 Jan 9
Salter, Elizabeth (2 items) 1973-74
Schendler, Sylvan (2 items) 1973 Feb-Dec
Selvin, Rhoda (1 item) 1973 Dec 13
Shapiro, Norman (1 item) 1972 Dec 12
Sigmund, Elizabeth (5 items) 1974 Jan-Dec
Small, Verna (1 item) 1973 Oct 21
Smith College (3 items) 1971-72
Stem, Marcia Brown (2 items) 1974 Mar-Nov
Steuble, Richard (1 item) 1973 Nov 17
Targett, May (2 items) 1973 Jan-Aug
The Times Literary Supplement (1 item) 1972 Oct 19
University of Texas. Humanities Research Center (2 items) 1972-73
University of Washington (1 item) 1973 Oct 15
Washington University Libraries (2 items) 1973 Jan-Feb
Wellesley Free Library (1 item) 1973 Sep 18
Willard, Addie L. (1 item) 1974 Jul 31
Winthrop, Massachusetts (4 items) 1974 Jun-Aug
Witten, Mrs. Robert C. (1 item) 1974 Jan 15
Wober, Mallery (1 item) 1972 Nov 25
Yaddo (1 item) 1972 Nov 27
Zavadil, Joseph B.
See: Kopp, Jane
MARY ELLEN CHASE
Davis, Robert G. (1 item) [1957] Feb 3
AURELIA SCHOBER PLATH
Sigmund, Elizabeth (1 item) 1967 Jan 29
Stem, Marcia Brown (1 item) 1953 Jul 23
SYLVIA PLATH
Aaron, Daniel (1 item) 1957 Jun 11
Brown, Marcia
See: Stem, Marcia Brown
Davis, Robert G. (5 items) 1956-57
Hughes, Olwyn (1 item) 1962 Jan
Kopp, Jane (1 item) 1958 Feb 20
Lehmann, John (18 items) 1955-63
(Restricted access)
McCurdy, Philip (9 items) 1954 Feb-May
Osborne, Charles
See: Lehmann, John
Stem, Marcia Brown (19 items) 1951-63
WARREN J. PLATH
Shields, Margot (editor, Seabury Press)
See: Box 4, folder 120
EDWARD BUTSCHER
Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness
Research notes (20 items) n.d.
Typescript, with author's corrections 1975 Jan
Typescript (photocopy) 1975 Jan
Preface: later typescript n.d.
"Insert A": typescript n.d.
Galleys, bound, with author's corrections 1975 Jul
Corrections of Olwyn Hughes n.d.
See also: Box 1, folder 30
Corrections of Philip McCurdy [1975 Feb 4-11]
See also: Box 1, folder 47
Corrections of Warren J. Plath 1975 Aug 31
Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work
Krook, Dorothea. "Recollections of Sylvia Plath": typescript, carbon, with corrections [1974 Aug 4]
See also: Box 1, folder 37
Roche, Clarissa. "Sylvia Plath: Vignettes from England": typescript n.d.
Sigmund, Elizabeth. "Sylvia in Devon, 1962": typescript, corrected n.d.
Letters Home (book)
Preface: typescript n.d.
Fragments 1974 Sep 6
Part seven: typescript (photocopy) 1975 Nov 1
Poems A-D (29 items)
"Admonition": 2 typescripts, photocopies n.d.
"Advice for an Artificer": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Apparel for April": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Apprehensions"
See: "Babysitters"
"April": typescript, photocopy 1947 May
"Aquatic Nocturne": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"The Babysitters": photocopy from New Yorker n.d.
"Bereft": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Black Rook in Rainy Weather": photocopy from Granta 1957 May
See also: "The Surgeon at 2 A.M."
"The Bronze Boy": photocopy n.d.
"By Candlelight"
See: "The Babysitters"
"Carnival": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Carnival Nocturne": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Circus in Three Rings": typescript, photocopy 1951-52
"City Streets": typescript, photocopy 1947 Nov
"City Wife": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Click-click; Tick-tick": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"The Complex Couch": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"The Courage of Shutting Up"
"Danse Macabre": 2 typescripts, photocopies n.d.
"The Dark River": typescript, photocopy 1948
"The Dead": typescript and typescript, photocopy 1954
"The Death of Myth Making"
See: "On the Decline of Oracles"
"Denouement": 2 typescripts, photocopies n.d.
"Dialogue en Route": 2 typescripts, photocopies 1953-55
"Dirge": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Dirge for a Joker": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"The Dispossessed": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Dream with Clam-Diggers"
See: "Resolve"
Poems E-I (27 items)
"Eavesdropper"
See: "Purdah"
"Elegy": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Elizabeth": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Ennui": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Epitaph in Three Parts": typescript, photocopy 1955
"Eve Describes Her Birthday Party": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Face Lift"
See: "Stars Over the Dordogne"
"Family Reunion"
See: "The Farewell"
"The Farewell": typescript, photocopy and photocopy from The Bradford 1950 Apr 29
"Finality": typescript, copy n.d.
"Fireside Reveries": photocopy of The Phillipian 1947 Feb
"Fog": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"For a Fatherless Son"
"Go Get the Goodly Squab": typescript, photocopy 1953 Apr
"Gone Is the River": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Harlequin Love Song": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Have You Forgotten?": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Heavy Woman"
"Humoresque": typescript, copy n.d.
"I Have Found the Perfect World": typescript, photocopy 1948
"I Reach Out": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"I Thought That I Could Not Be Hurt": typescript, photocopy 1947 May 30
"Ice Age": 2 typescripts, photocopies n.d.
"In Memorium": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"In Passing": 2 typescripts n.d.
"Incident": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Insolent Storm Strikes at the Skull": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"The Invalid": typescript, photocopy 1950
"Item: Stolen, One Suitcase": typescript, photocopy n.d.
Poems J-0 (21 items)
"Jilted": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Lament": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Latvian Threnody": typescript, with drawing, photocopy n.d.
"A Lesson in Vengeance"
"Let the Rain Fall Gently": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Love Is a Parallax": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Love Letter"
"Mad Girl's Love Song": photocopy from Granta 1957 May
"March"
See: "The Spring Parade"
"May": typescript, photocopy 1947 May 15
"Metamorphoses of the Moon": typescript photocopy 1953
"Moonsong at Morning": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Morning in the Hospital Solarium": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Neither Moonlight Nor Starlight": typescript, photocopy 1948
"Never Try to Know More Than You Should": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"New England Library": typescript, photocopy 1947 May
"New England Winter Without Snow": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Notes on Zarathustra's Prologue": typescript, photocopy 1950-51
"November Graveyard": photocopy from Mademoiselle 1965 Nov
"Obsession": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"October"
See: "To Miss Cox"
"Ode on a Bitten Plum": typescript, photocopy, and photocopy from Seventeen 1950 Nov
"On Looking into the Eyes of a Demon Lover": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"On the Decline of Oracles": photocopy from Poetry 1959 Sep
Poems P-R (16 items)
"Parallax": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Persecuted": typescript, photocopy 1948
"Pheasant"
"Portrait": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Portrait d'une Jeune Fille": typescript, photocopy 1949
"Prologue to Spring": 3 typescripts, photocopies n.d.
"Purdah": photocopy from Poetry 1963 Aug
"Question": photocopy from The Bradford 1949 Oct 27
"Rain": typescript, photocopy 1944
"The Rain": photocopy 1945 Jun
"Recognition": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Reflection": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Resolve": photocopy from Granta 1957 Mar
"Riddle": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Rondeau": typescript, photocopy n.d.
Poems S (18 items)
"The Scullion's Dream": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Sea Symphony": photocopy from The Phillipian 1947 Apr
"Second Winter": typescript, photocopy 1953
"The Sleepers": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"The Snowflake Star"
See: "A Winter Sunset"
"Soliloquy of the Solipsist"
See: "Mad Girl's Love Song"
"Song of the Daydreamer": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Sonnet: Crossing the Equinox": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Sonnet to a Dissembling Spring": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Sonnet to a Shade": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Sonnet to Time": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Sorrow": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Spinster": photocopy from Gemini 1957 spring
"Spring Again": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"The Spring Parade": photocopy from The Phillipian 1945 Apr
"Spring Sacrament": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Star Over the Dordogne": photocopy from Poetry 1962 Mar
"Stillborn"
See: "The Surgeon at 2 A.M."
"The Stoic": typescript, photocopy 1949
"Stopped Dead"
See: "Winter Trees"
"The Suitcases Are Packed Again": photocopy from Seventeen 1953 Mar
"The Surgeon at 2 A.M.": printed version 1971 Sep
Poems T-Z (22 items)
"Temper of Time": typescript, photocopy 1950s
"Terminal": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Three Women"
See: Box 5, folder 138
"The Times Are Tidy"
See: Box 6, folder 147
"To Ariadne": typescript, photocopy 1949 Jun 10
"To Miss Cox": photocopy from The Phillipian 1946 Nov
"The Trial of Man": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Triolet Frivole": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Tulips at Dawn": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Twelfth Night": photocopy from Seventeen 1952 Dec
"Twilight": typescript, photocopy 1949
"Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea": typescript, photocopy and photocopy from Mademoiselle 1955 Aug
See also: "Resolve"
"Valentine": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Vanity Fair"
See: "Spinster"
"Voices": typescript, photocopy 1950
"Wallflower": typescript, photocopy 1948
"When the Stars Are Pale and Cool": typescript, photocopy 1948
"White Phlox": typescript, photocopy 1949
See also: "Question"
"Widow"
"Wild Geese": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"A Winter Sunset": typescript, photocopy and photocopy from The Phillipian 1946 Feb
"Winter Trees": printed version from Mademoiselle 1972 Mar
"Winter Words": 2 typescripts, photocopies n.d.
Prose A-D (9 items)
"About a year ago I was babysitting..." holograph with drawing, photocopy n.d.
"All the Dead Dears": photocopy from Gemini 1957 summer
"America! America!": photocopy from Punch 1963 Apr 3
"Among the Bumblebees": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"And Summer Will Not Come Again": photocopy from Seventeen 1950 Aug
"The Bike Ride"
See: "Star Island"
"The Breakwater"
"Cambridge Letter": photocopy from The Isis 1956 May 16
"The Dark River": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"The Day Mr. Prescott Died": photocopy from Granta 1956 Oct
"Den of Lions": photocopy from Seventeen 1951 May
Prose E-H (5 items)
"An Evening at the Hoftizers": holograph, photocopy n.d.
See also: "Star Island"
"The Fifteen-Dollar Eagle": photocopy from Sewanee Review n.d.
"The Garden Party": holograph, photocopy n.d.
"Gramercy Park": typescript, photocopy 1948
"The Green Rock": typescript, photocopy 1948
"Heather Birds Eyebrows"
See: "Initiation," early draft
Prose I-M (8 items)
"In the Mountains": photocopy from Smith Review 1954 fall
"Initiation": photocopy of early draft and printed version in Seventeen 1953 Jan
"The International Flavor": photocopies of 2 typescript drafts 1950 summer
"It's All Yours": photocopy from Seventeen 1952 Oct
"A Morning in the Agora": photocopy from The Phillipian 1947 Feb
"The Mothers' Union": photocopy from McCall's 1972 Oct
Prose N-Z (11 items)
"New England Summer": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"The New Zealand spinach...": typescript and holograph with drawings, photocopy 1950
"None But the Lonely Heart"
"Party Girl"
"The Pink Comb"
"Snow Blitz": typescript n.d.
"Spring Song": photocopy from The Phillipian 1946 Apr
"Star Island": holograph with drawings, photocopy n.d.
"Sunday at the Mintons'": photocopy from Smith Review and photocopy from Mademoiselle 1952
"Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit": photocopy from Smith Review 1955 spring
"Tea With Olive Higgins Prouty": typescript, photocopy 1955 Jul 19
"Two Gods of Alice Denway": typescript, photocopy n.d.
"Victory": photocopy from The Phillipian 1947 Apr
"The Wishing Box": photocopy from Granta 1957 Jan
Thesis "The Magic Mirror": 2 photocopies 1955
"Three Women": photocopy of radio script and audience research report 1962 Jul-Sep
ABOUT SYLVIA PLATH
Alvarez, A. "Sylvia Plath: A Memoir": photocopy from New American Review and review of The Savage God from Boston Review of the Arts 1972 Jun
Davison, Peter. "The Heroine": typescript 1970-72
Duffy, Martha. "The Triumph of a Tormented Poet": printed version from Life 1971 Nov 12
Hardwick, Elizabeth. "On Sylvia Plath": printed version from New York Review 1971 Aug 12
Horowitz, Israel. "Some God Got Hold of Me": printed version from The Village Voice and "Success in Spite of Suicide": printed version from The Village Voice 1971 Oct 28, Nov 4
Klein, Elinor. "A Friend Recalls Sylvia Plath": printed version from Glamour 1966 Nov
Krook, Dorothea. "Recollection of Sylvia Plath"
See: Box 4, folder 121
Lameyer, Gordon. "Letters from Sylvia": typescript, photocopy and printed version 1975-76
Oates, Joyce Carol. "One for Life, One for Death": printed version 1972 Nov 19
Plath, Aurelia Schober. "Preface" to Letters Home
See: Box 5, folder 124
Robins, Corinne. "Four Young Poets": photocopy from Mademoiselle 1959 Jan
Roche, Clarissa. "Sylvia Plath: Vignettes from England"
See: Box 4, folder 122
Rosenstein, Harriet. "Reconsidering Sylvia Plath": photocopy from Ms. 1972 Sep
Scholes, Robert. Review of The Bell Jar: printed version from The New York Times Book Review 1971 Apr 11
Sigmund, Elizabeth. "Sylvia in Devon, 1962"
See: Box 4, folder 123
Steiner, Nancy Hunter. "Sylvia Plath: A Roommate's Memoir": printed version 1973 Jan
Stem, Marcia Brown. Diary (excerpt) 1951 Jul 24
Vendler, Helen. "Sylvia Plath Playing Pygmalion to Her Own Galatea": printed version from The New York Times Book Review 1971 Oct 10
Clippings about Sylvia Plath (5 items) 1949-50
Clippings about Sylvia Plath at Mademoiselle (1 item) 1953 Aug
Clippings about "Sylvia Plath" (play) (3 items) 1974 Jan
Clippings about Sylvia Plath's suicide attempt (9 items) 1953 Aug
Death certificate of Sylvia Plath: COPY 1963 Feb 11
Documents of Plath and Schober families (23 items) 1918-56
- Birth certificate for Frank Richard Schober
- Death certificates for Otto Plath, Theodore Plath, and Aurelia Greenwood Schober
- Divorce of Otto and Lydia Plath
- Marriage certificate for Frank and Louise Schober
- Street listings for 892 Shirley St. and 92 Johnson Ave., Winthrop, Massachusetts
- Tax reports for 892 Shirley St. and 92 Johnson Ave., Winthrop
- Voter registrations for Aurelia S. Plath, Frank Schober, and Frank R. Schober
- Winthrop Cemetery Plot Record
Obituaries of Sylvia Plath (3 items) 1963
School notes of Sylvia Plath for "The Novelist & the Unknown": photocopy n.d.
Photographs of Sylvia Plath, her children, places she lived, her grave, Otto Plath's grave, and Wellesley High Track Team (15 items) 1949-62