Box 6

Includes letters from Harry Ford and two pages of Justice's suggested corrections.

Correspondence regarding their suggestions of poems. Includes lists of possible inclusions with their choices marked, plus autograph notes by Justice.

Most of the letters are from editor Harry Ford are regard the book's publication. Also includes text for the dust jacket, a Knopf catalog, and an announcement for the book.

Photocopies of articles.

Program and medal awarded for being a National Book Award finalist.

Autograph and typescript drafts (bearing extensive autograph revisions) of an untitled, and now abandoned, poem related to Yaddo. Also includes an information sheet about Yaddo (1984).

A libretto by Justice, with music by Edward Miller, which was performed by the Opera Department of Hartt College of Music at the University of Hartford (1969 Apr 30-May 3). Includes programs and several scripts.

Text written by Justice and music composed by Edward Miller. Includes typescript of text and copy of sheet music.

Includes a program for the University of Illinois School of Music choral performance of Justice's libretto. The libretto is based on Herman Melville's poem, "The Martyr," which was inspired by Lincoln's assassination in 1865.

Includes research regarding John Wilkes Booth, notes for the libretto, and draft pages with revisions.

Includes research notes, general notes, as well as autograph and typescript drafts of scenes. Also includes drafts of prologue and epilogue.

Autograph, typescript, and photocopied drafts with extensive autograph revisions.

Photocopy with autograph revisions.

Correspondence with the National Endowment for the Arts regarding his Composer/Librettist Fellowship-Grant for 1973-1974, the Contemporary American Opera Studio regarding the 1980 production, and with composer Edwin London.

Programs and flyers for performances by the Contemporary American Opera Studio (1980) and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony (1991).

Autograph notes for the publication of The Death of Lincoln.

Galley bears a few autograph corrections. Galley removed to oversize.

Two pages of autograph notes.

Four pages of autograph notes, plus drafts of the poems, "The Grandfathers" (see also F32) and "But That Is Another Story" (see also F109).

Autograph and typescript drafts for an unfinished play.

Autograph and typescript drafts for an intended verse play, portions of which appeared in the Donald Justice Reader.

Mimeographed typescript with Justice's autograph revisions and productions notes. See also "Narcissus at Home," (F247) for a copy of the program for both plays.

Mimeographed and carbon typescript scripts which bear extensive autograph revisions. Also includes two programs for the 1966 production of both "Narcissus at Home" and "A Dream of Don Juan." See also F43 for drafts of this poem.

Includes mimeographed typescript with autograph revisions and a flyer for the studio production at the American Place Theater in 1967.

Four typescript pages of notes and ideas for a play based on this poem.