| Series | Box 4-11 Folder 1-237 |
Manuscripts The Manuscript Series includes a variety of poetic materials including handwritten and typed drafts, notes, and preliminary versions of both his published and unpublished works. Distinct from the notebooks, the Manuscript Series often includes several versions of a work, with notes, addenda, and corrections. While many of these manuscripts illustrate the evolution of published works, the contents also includes unpublished items. Exemplary of the latter are the book length manuscript for Confessions of a Red Sox Fan, States, and Raleigh. Confessions of a Red Sox Fan, set during the 1995 pennant race, was scheduled for publication by Commonwealth Publications of Edmonton, Alberta. Unfortunately, Commonwealth went out of business. The book was never published. A lengthy excerpt from the manuscript appeared in the Waltham, Massachusetts based web site, The Buffalo Head Society, a "Red Sox Journal", in 1996, and is available online at Confessions of a Red Sox Fan. A copy of the Buffalo Head Society excerpt is included in the Manuscript Series. The original handwritten draft and a typescript copy of the complete work, including laudatory comments by sports writers and fans are also in this series. Most of the poems and stories that were printed from Wilmarth's computer have been stamped with a date that was provided by Richard when he organized his manuscripts. Some dates on the manuscripts that are enclosed in brackets were ascertained by the archivist while processing the collection. The drafts, typed copies, and pristine versions of the poems and stories are filed alphabetically by title. At the beginning of each letter of the alphabet is a folder that contains manuscripts whose title begins with that specific letter. Titled and untitled works (filed by the first word of the text) are filed together in alphabetical order within the folder. The articles a, an, and the, were not used as filing terms, (e.g. The Black Cat is filed under Black). The same work might also be filed in more than place if we were not able to discern the final title for the work. For example, Confessions of a Red Sox Fan is filed under its first iteration "Red Sox Fan." |
1982-2002 |
| File | Box 1 Folder 19 |
Poems Scope and Contents note Baby Cat Baby in a Crib Baby's Joke Baby Wanted a Hobby Horse Bachelor's Parrot Told the Truth Bamboozle Banana Apple, A Barber, The Barge Canal, The Baywindow, The Beaming Eyes at Sixty-eight Beautiful Blonde, A Beautiful Hands; two versions Beautiful Maiden, A Beauty Masters The Strong Beauty of Life, The Beds of Sickness Behind the Bar-Room Doors Be Kind to Animals Bellflower Apple Bells of Joy Ring Forth Ben Davis Trees Beneath the Earth Benzoic Acid Berks County Dutchman Bessie and Tobiath Beware! Beware of Rugs Beware of Wrong Medicine Bible or Word of God, The; (see: "A Warm Heart") Big Black Horse, The Big Money Big Straw Stack, A Bills of the Birds Bimetallism Blacksmith Anvil Black Spot in a Diamond, The Black Walnut Rhind [sic] Blood Red Doors Blue Jay, The Boats are Coming, The Bolt; Thread; Washer; Nut Born to be Sacred, 1 Cor: 6:19 Born to Hard Work Boundry [sic] Line Fences Boys' Attendant at an Orphans' Home Boy Who Came Back, A Brain, The Brave Dog Saves Little Girl Bread, Cheese and Apple Butter Bread Crumbs My Wife Bakes; two copies; one also includes "Tippy." Bright Moon Bright Young Lady, A Broken Glass Broken Lives Brotherhood Brownies Brush-Off, The Buggy Ride, A Bumble Bee, The Bumblebee and a Mother Bear Bumblebees Burpee's Special Pole Lima Business Goes On, The Busy Man, A Buzzing Bumble Bee, A By the Grape Vine By the Old Fireside |