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James Humphrey papers (Ms.2014.013)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Personal, 1972-2005

Series 1. Subseries A. Biographical information, 1972-1996

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 1	Biographical information about Humphrey from The Writer's Directory and Who's Who in the East	1971, undated
Box 1, Folder 2	Biographical information and letters of recommendation	1979-1996
Box 1, Folder 3	Entry from author index, quotations from various people, four articles by psychotherapist Nancy Leeming	1988-1996, undated
Box 1, Folder 4	Newspaper clipping and correspondence regarding Humphrey's talk "Abuse can be stopped" at Independence High School in Iowa	1989 Feb 16-Apr 20
Box 1, Folder 5	Fliers advertising poetry reading by Humphrey at Cav Restaurant in Providence, R.I.	1990 Sep 6
Oversize 3	Posters advertising poetry readings by James Humphrey Contents Note: This folder contains two posters: James Humphrey's 25 minute film adaptation of his poem "The Chance" (handmade poster) and The Harvard Advocate 1973 Spring Poetry Informals (printed poster)	1973, undated
Box 1, Folder 6	Short quotations	undated

Series 1. Subseries B. Correspondence, 1974-2005

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 7	Correspondence from Rhode Island College confirming Humphrey's poetry reading	1974 Jul 19
Box 1, Folder 8	Correspondence with James Schevill, Chazz Schiff and others	1976-1997 Jan 9
Box 1, Folder 9	Correspondence from Woody Allen, Charles Bukowski and Kurt Vonnegut	1981 Jan 15-2001 Nov 22
Box 1, Folder 10	Letters of encouragement and praise	1981-2001
Box 1, Folder 11	Correspondence from James Schevill to James Humphrey	1984 Jul 12-31
Box 1, Folder 12	Correspondence from Saroyan Humphrey to James and Norma Humphrey	1984 Jul 19-1987 Jan 2
Box 1, Folder 13	Suzanne Vega mail (two letters)	1988 Aug 5-16
Box 1, Folder 14	Saved Fairmount mail	1990 Apr 17-1997 Nov 5
Box 1, Folder 15	Some carbons of outgoing mail	1991 Sep 8-1996 Aug 1
Box 1, Folder 16	Correspondence from Betty and Ed Hill to James and Norma Humphrey (one letter)	1994 Sep 23
Box 1, Folder 17	Correspondence with Nancy Leeming	1995 Jun 24
Box 1, Folder 18	Correspondence from Poets Alive! Press to the Nobel Prize Committee nominating Humphrey for the "Nobel Prize in Poetry"	1996 Jun 26-Nov 11
Box 1, Folder 19	Correspondence, newspaper clippings and fliers from Humphrey to Encore Books regarding his poetry reading	1996 May 10-Sep 11
Box 1, Folder 20	Correspondence with Chazz Schiff	1996 Sep 30-1998 Aug 19, undated
Box 1, Folder 21	Correspondence with Adrian Lewis	1998 Jul 25-Sep 1
Box 1, Folder 22	Correspondence with Daniel Berrigan, S.J.	1998 Aug-1999 Jun
Box 1, Folder 23	Correspondence regarding the donation of Paying the Price and In Pursuit of Honour to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library	2000 Jul 13-Oct 4
Box 1, Folder 24	Correspondence between Robert Creeley and James and Norma Humphrey, including Creeley's letter to the American Academy of Arts and Letters regarding his request for financial help for Humphrey	2001 Jun 2-Sep 23
Box 1, Folder 25	Emails between Robert Creeley and James Humphrey	2001 Jun-Aug
Box 1, Folder 26	Postcard from James Humphrey to Saroyan Humphrey	2005 May 17

Series 2. Education and teaching, 1974-1996

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 27	American literature, 1885-1914 (Fall 1974)	1974 Sep-1975 Jan
Box 1, Folder 28	Introduction to the cinema (Fall 1974)	1974 Sep-1975 Jan
Box 1, Folder 29	Modern British poetry (Fall 1974)	1974 Sep-1975 Jan
Box 1, Folder 30	Solzhenitsyn: Literature in translation (Fall 1974)	1974 Sep-1975 Jan
Box 1, Folder 31	Schevill (Spring 1975)	1975 Jan-May
Box 1, Folder 32	"August 25, 1975", "A Conversation", "Hot Shoe"	1975 Sep 9-Oct 29
Box 1, Folder 33	English 193 (Fall 1975)	1975 Sep-1976 Jan
Box 1, Folder 34	"The Bastards", "Congratulations, John and Jane Allbright", "Decorate! Decorate!"	1976 Feb 4-1977 Mar 19
Box 1, Folder 35	"A Conversation"	1976 Apr 2
Box 1, Folder 36	"The Punishment"	1976 Apr 6
Box 1, Folder 37	Letters of recommendation, resume, transcripts from Brown University	1976 Dec 15-1996
Box 1, Folder 38	James Schevill's poetry class, grade reports	1976-1977
Box 1, Folder 39	Teaching poetry: notes, etc. Contents Note: Folder includes a photograph of James Humphrey	1977-1985
Box 1, Folder 40	Course syllabi, employment applications, letters of recommendation, resume	1979 Sep 27-1989 Jan 9
Box 1, Folder 41	Untitled story by Saroyan Humphrey written as a high school class assignment	1982 Sep 1
Box 1, Folder 42	Phoenix XIV Literary Festival at High Point College, North Carolina	1984 Oct-Nov
Box 1, Folder 43	"Hot Shoe for Steve Humphrey"	undated
Box 1, Folder 44	"The magic balloons"	undated

Series 3. Poetry - published, 1975-2006

After I'm Dead, Will My Life Begin?, 1982-1987

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 45	Lucky Me in Comfortable House	1982 Aug 10
Box 1, Folder 46	Lasting	1982 Nov-Dec 2, undated
Box 1, Folder 47	When Will There Be Enough Love to Go Around?	1982 Nov, undated
Box 1, Folder 48	For Norma	1982 Dec 1
Box 1, Folder 49	Possible to Be Sixteen Again?	1982 Dec 1-1984 Sep 18
Box 1, Folder 50	Poets, Remember to Play	1982 Dec 20-1984 Aug 28
Box 1, Folder 51	Two Athletes, Myself, My Son	1982 Dec 28
Box 1, Folder 52	Without Masks, for Norma	1982 Dec
Box 1, Folder 53	Merry Christmas, Jackson Library, You've Been Good to Me	1982-1984
Box 1, Folder 54	I Could Write the Words	1983 Jan 3-5
Box 1, Folder 55	Old, Used, True	1983 Jan 14
Box 1, Folder 56	41 1/2 for Federico Fellini	1983 Jan 19-20
Box 1, Folder 57	Rich Class High School Sweetheart	1983 Jan 20
Box 1, Folder 58	18 Degrees	1983 Jan 21
Box 1, Folder 59	For Richard Hugo, 1923-1982	1983 Jan 22-1984 Sep 14
Box 1, Folder 60	My First Girl Friend	1983 Jan 28, undated
Box 1, Folder 61	A Special Dream for Mae West	1983 Jan 28, undated
Box 1, Folder 62	Studying Great Writers	1983 Jan-1984 Jun
Box 1, Folder 63	Working Class Woman	1983 Jan
Box 1, Folder 64	For Beverly Knudson's Mom & Dad, Margaret & Rue	1983 Feb, undated
Box 1, Folder 65	Notes for the New Year, 1983	1983 Feb
Box 1, Folder 66	Watching It Rain from a Second Floor Downtown Window	1983 Feb
Box 1, Folder 67	LIttle Contents Note: Poem removed from the final version of the book	1983 Mar
Box 1, Folder 68	Welcome Back to Carrel 269	1983 Jun 17-20
Box 1, Folder 69	More poems taken out of Straight Talk: New title	1983 Jul-1984 Jan
Box 1, Folder 70	Warning	1983 Jul
Box 1, Folder 71	Old Wood School Desks Contents Note: Poem removed from the final version of the book	1983 Aug 8
Box 1, Folder 72	Forgotten	1983 Aug 15
Box 1, Folder 73	Correspondence with Susan Katz regarding her review of After I'm Dead, Will My Life Begin? Contents Note: This folder originally included a copy of Susan Katz's book Two Halves of the Same Silence (1985). The book has been transferred to the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays at Brown University. A copy of the book's title page, verso and Susan Katz's inscription to James Humphrey are included in the folder.	1983 Aug-1987 Aug
Box 1, Folder 74	Current Events	1983 Aug, undated
Box 1, Folder 75	Street Poet, NYC Contents Note: Poem removed from the final version of the book	1983 Nov 16
Box 1, Folder 76	Bob, This is for You & Your Phoenix Book Shop Contents Note: Poem removed from the final version of the book	1983 Nov 28
Box 1, Folder 77	From Notes on Industrial and Computer Revolutions, U.S.A., Parts 31-32-33 Contents Note: Poem removed from the final version of the book	1983 Nov
Box 1, Folder 78	Christmas Card from Saroyan	1983
Box 1, Folder 79	For Marilyn Monroe	1983-1984
Box 1, Folder 80	Still Trying	1983-1985
Box 2, Folder 1	Listen	1984 Jan 18
Box 2, Folder 2	What She Did to Me	1984 Jan 18
Box 2, Folder 3	For the NYC Subway Graffiti Writers	1984 Jan 19
Box 2, Folder 4	This Day Has Sung to Itself	1984 Jan 25
Box 2, Folder 5	Kitchen Table, Spring Morning	1984 Mar 26
Box 2, Folder 6	Parlor Poetess Speaking to Garden Club	1984 Mar 26
Box 2, Folder 7	Spring '84	1984 May
Box 2, Folder 8	Great is Mediocre, or Less	1984 Jun 18
Box 2, Folder 9	For My Son Saroyan on His HIgh School Graduation	1984 Jul 19
Box 2, Folder 10	Celebrating My Courage to Keep Trying	1984 Sep
Box 2, Folder 11	This Day Has Sung to Itself	1984 Oct 4-5
Box 2, Folder 12	For Marilyn Monroe	1984 Oct-Nov
Box 2, Folder 13	For the Old Woman on the Front Porch	1984 Nov 8
Box 2, Folder 14	For Beverly Knudson	1984
Box 2, Folder 15	Keeping Blood Going Third Consecutive Winter without Heat in the House	1984-1985
Box 2, Folder 16	Year End Notes, '84	1984
Box 2, Folder 17	Beautiful Housewives and Career Women!	1985 Jan
Box 2, Folder 18	In the Mouth of the Devil	1985 Apr 28-29
Box 2, Folder 19	Sons and Fathers	1985 May 4-9
Box 2, Folder 20	I Sit in This Tiny Room (for Charles Bukowski)	1985 May 27
Box 2, Folder 21	The Only Hope I Have Left	1985 Jun 10
Box 2, Folder 22	Sound	1985 Jun 21
Box 2, Folder 23	The Beaten Can't Stand	1985 Jul 15-16
Box 2, Folder 24	Heroes Are Hard to Find	1985 Jul 30-31
Box 2, Folder 25	More poems taken out of Straight Talk, now titled After I'm Dead, Will My Life Begin?	1985 Aug 7, undated
Box 2, Folder 26	Rapid (Gem Spa)	1985 Aug 27
Box 2, Folder 27	For May Van Vooren	1985 Aug, undated
Box 2, Folder 28	Life-long Carnival Trouper (for Red)	1985 Sep 22-Oct 4
Box 2, Folder 29	Recovering Alcoholic	1985 Nov 8
Box 2, Folder 30	Copy of After I'm Dead... to be typeset	1985 Dec
Box 2, Folder 31	Impersonating Ted in Warm Memory	1985
Box 2, Folder 32	Saroyan photos of me for After I'm Dead... Contents Note: Contains photographs of James Humphrey	1985
Box 2, Folder 33	Correspondence to James Humphrey from Monica Sawyer and Garland Toliver	1986 Feb-Mar
Box 2, Folder 34	American Poetry Review, v.15 no.3, v.15 no. 6 (2 copies), v.16 no.1 Contents Note: Issues contain advertisements for After I'm Dead, Will My Life Begin?	1986 Mar-1987 Jan
Box 2, Folder 35	Correspondence from places where fliers for After I'm Dead... were mailed Contents Note: Correspondence with Children's Self-Help Project, Davidson County Domestic Violence Services and Miriam Press	1986 Apr-May
Box 2, Folder 36	Ploughshares, v.12 no. 1-2 Contents Note: This issue contains an advertisement for After I'm Dead, Will My Life Begin?	1986
Box 2, Folder 37	Ploughshares, v.12 no. 3 Contents Note: This issue contains an advertisement for After I'm Dead, Will My Life Begin?	1986
Box 2, Folder 38	American Poetry Review, v.16 no.1 Contents Note: This issue contains an advertisement for After I'm Dead, Will My Life Begin?	1987 Jan-Feb
Box 2, Folder 39	Staying Sane	undated

Argument for Love, 1982-1985

Container	Description	Date
Box 2, Folder 40	Poem for Myself	1982 Dec 17, undated
Box 2, Folder 41	Poem for Myself	1985 Feb 25, undated

The Athlete, 1986-1991

Container	Description	Date
Box 2, Folder 42	Oh Jim Contents Note: This folder contains photographs of New York City taken by Saroyan Humphrey in March 1986.	1986 May 15-16
Box 2, Folder 43	They Walk By	1986 Jun 16
Box 2, Folder 44	What Happens to Girls Who Become Women in the Small Towns They Are Raised In	1986 Jun 26-30
Box 2, Folder 45	Killing the Man, Killing the Poet	1986 Sep 24-25
Box 2, Folder 46	Saving My Sanity	1986 Sep-Oct
Box 2, Folder 47	End of Two Seasons	1986 Nov 3-5
Box 2, Folder 48	For All the Abused Children	1986 Nov 3-5
Box 2, Folder 49	Street Survival	1986 Nov 3-5
Box 2, Folder 50	Cerebral Poets Gather in an Abandoned Tourist Stop	1986 Nov 14-18
Box 2, Folder 51	Poetry Readings in a Room with Less Confidence Than the Abandoned Alley behind the Building	1986 Nov 14-18
Box 2, Folder 52	Shock of Joy!	1986 Nov 14-19
Box 2, Folder 53	When Women Are Strong We Are All Stronger	1986 Nov 25-28
Box 2, Folder 54	There I Stood	1986 Nov 28-29
Box 2, Folder 55	The Brain, the Most Over-Rated Organ	1986 Nov
Box 2, Folder 56	A Love Poem	1986 Dec 6
Box 2, Folder 57	December 16, 1986	1986 Dec 16
Box 2, Folder 58	Scars: A Trilogy	1986-1988
Box 2, Folder 59	When It's Important or Essential to Me I'm Never Allowed to Have It	1986-1987
Box 2, Folder 60	Hospital Sunshine	1987 Jan 27-28
Box 2, Folder 61	The Final Julie Poem	1987 Apr
Box 2, Folder 62	Good-bye, Julie	1987 Mar
Box 2, Folder 63	Denial Can't Be Bliss or More People Would Be Happy	1987 May 18-20
Box 2, Folder 64	Maybe I Confuse Them	1987 May-Jun
Box 2, Folder 65	Whose Responsibility Is It to Look for Miracles?	1987 Jun 26-27
Box 2, Folder 66	If I Don't Write It Now, I Never Will, It's That Painful	1987 Jun
Box 2, Folder 67	While	1987 Jun
Box 2, Folder 68	A Beautiful 16 Year Old Girl Was in My House	1987 Sep 24-25
Box 2, Folder 69	The Athlete: Folder # 3	1987-1988
Box 2, Folder 70	The Athlete: Folder #2	1988
Box 2, Folder 71	No One Understands the Pain or Suffering of Another	1987-1988
Box 2, Folder 72	If I Don't Write It Now, I Never Will, It's That Painful	1988 Aug 26
Box 2, Folder 73	First folder for The Athlete, begun January 27th, '88	1988
Box 2, Folder 74	Correspondence between Poets Alive! Press and Don Johnson regarding permission to publish the poem "The Athlete" in an anthology	1990 Feb-1991 Aug
Oversize 1	Book cover for The Athlete	undated

Bud, 1982-1997

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 1	Incoming Bud letters	1982-1996
Box 3, Folder 2	Truckers	1996 Jan 26
Box 3, Folder 3	For Norma	1996 Jan
Box 3, Folder 4	For Norma, When 9	1996 Jan
Box 3, Folder 5	Poems for Bud	1996 Jan-Feb
Box 3, Folder 6	A brief history of how Bud came about seven years after Ice	1996 Jan-Feb
Box 3, Folder 7	Correspondence from Poets Alive! Press to Margaret Atwood and one reply from her assistant	1996 Jan-Feb
Box 3, Folder 8	Four Unpainted Masterpieces, the Wonder of This Moment	1996 Jan-Apr
Box 3, Folder 9	Sister Clara's Special Childhood Memory	1996 Feb 6
Box 3, Folder 10	Fox and Geese	1996 Feb 7
Box 3, Folder 11	Title poem for Bud	1996 Feb
Box 3, Folder 12	Barn's Death, 1994	1996 Apr 27
Box 3, Folder 13	Correspondence regarding Bud	1996 Apr-May
Box 3, Folder 14	Advance book information and newspaper clipping regarding poetry reading of Bud Contents Note: Two items found inside an express mail envelope	1996 Apr-Oct
Box 3, Folder 15	New Bud	1996 May
Box 3, Folder 16	Newspaper clipping regarding Humphrey's poetry reading in Independence, Iowa	1996 Jun 20
Box 3, Folder 17	Contents of manila envelope labeled "Bud Stuff", primarily correspondence	1996 Feb 9-Apr 22
Box 3, Folder 18	Handwritten poems for Bud	1996
Box 3, Folder 19	Typeset of Bud	1996
Box 3, Folder 20	Typeset of Bud with handwritten corrections	1996
Box 3, Folder 21	Four Unpainted Masterpieces	1997 Aug 5
Box 3, Folder 22	Robert Creeley quote for Bud	undated

The Five Cent Poem, 1975-1981

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 23	Spring Songs Are My Music	1975 May 27
Box 3, Folder 24	Original and rewritten poems	1976-1981
Box 3, Folder 25	Galley proof of The Five Cent Poem, note from Saroyan Humphrey, book jacket blurbs	1981 Oct
Box 3, Folder 26	Photographs, galley proofs of The Five Cent Poem Contents Note: Contains negatives and photographs of James Humphrey, as well as photographs of landscapes. None of the photographs is labeled.	1981 Oct, undated
Box 3, Folder 27	The Sun Chronicle review of The Five Cent Poem	1981 Nov 7

Ice, 1988-1990

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 28	Notes, correspondence, program from Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit, and other material related to Ice	1988 Nov 17-1989 Jan 11, undated
Box 3, Folder 29	Northeastern Iowa Field before First Snow, 1988	1988 Dec 7
Box 3, Folder 30	Crash	1989 Jan 3
Box 3, Folder 31	A Doe	1989 Jan 3
Box 3, Folder 32	Motel 6, Room 270, South Bend, Indiana	1989 Jan 3
Box 3, Folder 33	Week Day Morning	1989 Jan 3
Box 3, Folder 34	Driving into First Midwest Blizzard in Nineteen Years	1989 Jan 3-4
Box 3, Folder 35	The Strong Independent Spirit of Georgia O'Keeffe Rides with Me	1989 Jan 3-4
Box 3, Folder 36	Frozen Field, Northeast Iowa	1989 Jan 4
Box 3, Folder 37	Ice	1989 Jan 7
Box 3, Folder 38	Was the Moon Ever Promised to Another Here?/Abandoned Farmhouse	1989 Jan 7
Box 3, Folder 39	Rain to Sleet to Ice to Snow to 45 below Zero	1989 Jan 7-8
Box 3, Folder 40	Forgotten: Norma's First School	1989 Jan 9-23
Box 3, Folder 41	Barn	1989 Jan 9-15
Box 3, Folder 42	Window	1989 Jan 14
Box 3, Folder 43	Ditch	1989 Jan 15
Box 3, Folder 44	Dusk	1989 Jan 15
Box 3, Folder 45	Red	1989 Jan 16
Box 3, Folder 46	Wind	1989 Jan 16
Box 3, Folder 47	Relief	1989 Jan 18-Feb 28
Box 3, Folder 48	Rural Bus Depot	1989 Jan 20
Box 3, Folder 49	Rural Livestock Sale Just Ended	1989 Jan 20
Box 3, Folder 50	Six poems taken out of Ice: Drive-in Theatre, Hillside, Out on an Amish Family's Dining Room Window, Long Way from Park Avenue,West Rural Iowa Courtesy, Field	1989 Jan 20, undated
Box 3, Folder 51	Full Moon above the Prairie	1989 Jan 21
Box 3, Folder 52	Good-Bye, Northeast Iowa	1989 Jan 21
Box 3, Folder 53	Abandoned	1989 Jan 22
Box 3, Folder 54	Pink for Norma	1989 Jan 23
Box 3, Folder 55	Correspondence and publicity regarding Ice	1989 Jan-Jul
Box 3, Folder 56	Clear	1989 Feb 28
Box 3, Folder 57	Untitled	1989 Feb 28
Box 3, Folder 58	Letter to Saroyan about Ice	1989 Feb-Jun
Box 3, Folder 59	Correspondence regarding Ice, including gift acknowledgements, letter to Charles Bukowski from Humphrey, and letter to Humphrey from Edwin Honig	1989-1990

In New York City Air, 1983-1985

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 60	New York Air, 7,000 Feet Up, for Ted Berrigan Contents Note: Contains photographs of James Humphrey and New York City	1983 Jul 11-Nov 10
Box 3, Folder 61	Coordinated Bras, Girdles	1983 Aug 4
Box 3, Folder 62	New York City Morning: For Ted Berrigan	1983 Nov 15
Box 3, Folder 63	For the Golden Acorn	1983 Nov 28
Box 3, Folder 64	T.S. Eliot Goes Underground	1983 Dec 2-3
Box 3, Folder 65	Deep Winter Poem	1983 Dec 6
Box 3, Folder 66	Illustrations by Saroyan Humphrey for In New York City Air	1983 Dec 22
Box 3, Folder 67	In New York City Air	1983-1984
Box 3, Folder 68	Masters for Jim's In New York City Air readings	1984 Feb
Box 3, Folder 69	Crescent Observer article about In New York City Air	1984 Feb
Box 3, Folder 70	The Georgia Review, v.38 no.4: Review of In New York City Air	1984 Dec
Box 3, Folder 71	Reading in a Storefront Church	1985 Aug 4
Box 3, Folder 72	Illustrations for In New York City Air	undated
Box 3, Folder 73	Masters for In New York City Air	undated

In Pursuit of Honour, 1999-2000

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 74	For My Hospital Primary Care Nurse	1999 Jun 15
Box 3, Folder 75	Take Me out to the Ballgame	1999 Feb 16-20
Box 3, Folder 76	There Is No Pleasure in Reading This Poem	1999 Feb 20
Box 3, Folder 77	Through Extreme Hardships Too Many Times Contents Note: Contents missing as of 2014 Jul 14	1999 May 5
Box 3, Folder 78	Flunking First Grade	1999 Jun 30-Jul 1
Box 3, Folder 79	Hearts Call/Hearts Fail	1999 Jul 23-24
Box 3, Folder 80	Correspondence with St. Louis Cardinals baseball team's front office Contents Note: Folder cover is labeled "Opening poem for new collection, In Pursuit of Happiness", but that poem is not in this folder	2000 Feb 4-May 6
Box 3, Folder 81	In Pursuit of Honour praise, mail; Jim's first website	2000-2005
Box 3, Folder 82	James' hard copy, Norma's typeset copy	undated

In Tribute to Survivors, 1983-1984

Container	Description	Date
Box 4, Folder 1	A Long Time to Learn	1983 Jul 25-26
Box 4, Folder 2	Penny, This One's for You	1983 Aug 8
Box 4, Folder 3	Scraps	1984 Mar 3, undated
Box 4, Folder 4	Survivors mailbox	1984 Apr 10-20
Box 4, Folder 5	Survivor flats Contents Note: Folder includes photographs of James and Saroyan Humphrey	1984 May 15, undated
Box 4, Folder 6	In Tribute to Survivors, including notes and book jacket blurbs	1984
Box 4, Folder 7	In Tribute to Survivors masters	1984
Box 4, Folders 8-9	In Tribute to Survivors manuscript	undated
Box 4, Folder 10	Survivors master drawings	undated

Lef, 1988-1997

Container	Description	Date
Box 4, Folder 11	Halloween Love Story (Christmas Eve Love Story)	1988 Dec-1997 Jul
Box 4, Folder 12	Lef mail	1997 May 16-Oct 18
Box 4, Folder 13	My Heart Slows Writing This (for Charles van Vooren)	1997 Jun
Box 4, Folder 14	The Red Man Has Great Heroes Too	1997 Jun
Box 4, Folder 15	Imagination (for Norma, When 14)	1997 Jun-Jul
Box 4, Folder 16	If the Dark Ash Could Tell	1997 Jul
Box 4, Folder 17	Trapped	1997 Jul
Box 4, Folders 18-19	Lef longhands	1997
Box 4, Folder 20	About 3 a.m., Diamond Jim's	1997 Aug 7
Box 4, Folder 21	Zero	1997 Aug 7
Box 4, Folder 22	Handwritten poems, letter from the Fairmount Historical Museum in Indiana Contents Note: Folder is labeled "Lef and invoices, Autumn '97"	1997 Nov 5, undated
Box 4, Folder 23	Lef: Design for the book	1997
Box 4, Folder 24	Galley proof of Lef with author's notes	1997
Box 4, Folder 25	Typed copy of Lef with author's notes (2 copies)	1997

Mize & Kathy, 1993-2005

Container	Description	Date
Box 4, Folder 26	Mize & Kathy: typed copy with notes	1993-1997
Box 4, Folder 27	Beyond the Field of Dreams, for Mize	1995 Jun 7-2004 Dec, undated
Box 4, Folder 28	Correspondence regarding Mize & Kathy, including letters to Woody Allen regarding a screenplay of the book	1996-1998
Box 4, Folder 29	Individual poems: typed copies with notes	1997 May, undated
Box 4, Folder 30	Biography, back cover, first drafts, contents changes	1997 Oct
Box 4, Folder 31	Letters and notes from James Humphrey to Saroyan Humphrey Contents Note: Includes a photograph of Mize & Kathy corsage	1997 Oct-1998 Jan, undated
Box 4, Folder 32	Typed and handwritten poems with notes	1997, undated
Box 4, Folder 33	Correspondence from James Shervill to James Humphrey	1998 Mar 10-12
Box 4, Folder 34	Correspondence from Poets Alive! Press to Clint Eastwood	1998 Mar 22
Box 4, Folder 35	Gift acknowledgment from Merrily Taylor, Brown University Library	1998 Mar
Box 4, Folder 36	Folder cover labeled "Mize and Kathy copyright" (contents missing)	1998 Sep 6
Box 4, Folder 37	Poets Alive! Press description of Mize & Kathy, correspondence between James, Norma and Saroyan Humphrey	2001 Jan, undated
Box 4, Folder 38	Handwritten notes regarding Mize & Kathy	2003 Jul-2004 Nov, undated
Box 4, Folder 39	Mize & Kathy: bound copy and postal receipts	2004 Apr 26
Box 4, Folder 40	James Humphrey's artwork for Mize & Kathy: The Novel	2004 Apr-Nov
Box 4, Folder 41	Four computer discs containing the contents of Mize & Kathy: The Novel	2004 May 30, undated
Box 4, Folders 42-43	Manuscript of Mize & Kathy: The Novel 2	2004 Sep
Box 4, Folder 44	Correspondence between James Humphrey and publishers and literary agents regarding Mize & Kathy	2004 Oct-2008 Mar
Box 4, Folder 45	Pencils, pen and handwritten notes	2004 Nov 28, undated
Box 4, Folder 46	Artwork for Mize & Kathy	2004
Box 4, Folder 47	Greeting cards from Norma and Saroyan Humphrey to James Humphrey	2004
Box 4, Folder 48	Correspondence with the New York Yankees front office regarding Humphrey's gift of Mize & Kathy: The Trilogy	2005 May, undated
Box 4, Folder 49	Cover of box that contained a manuscript of Mize & Kathy (artwork by James Humphrey)	undated
Box 4, Folder 50	Current book cover statements	undated
Box 4, Folders 51-53	Manuscript of Mize & Kathy: The Novel	undated
Box 5, Folder 1	Manuscript of Mize & Kathy: The Novel 2, pp. 277-398	undated
Box 5, Folder 2	Synopses of three versions of Mize & Kathy: The Novel	undated

Naked: Poems Selected and New, 1969-2006, 1982-2006

Container	Description	Date
Box 5, Folder 3	Up, Up and Away	1982 Mar 22
Box 5, Folder 4	How Do Psychos Find Me?	2000 Mar-Apr
Box 5, Folder 5	An Unbelievable Encounter While Walking Along on My 67th Birthday	2000-2001 Mar
Box 5, Folder 6	Emails and fliers regarding "Jim's Last Night Out"	2006 Jan-Apr
Box 5, Folder 7	Miscellaneous material regarding "Jim's Last Night Out"	2006
Box 5, Folder 8	Beautiful, Beautiful Beauty, Who Sees Everything through Large Golden Eyes	undated

Paying the Price, 1992-1998

Container	Description	Date
Box 5, Folder 9	Meet Miss Iowa (earlier version of "Meet Mother")	1992 Aug 5-6
Box 5, Folder 10	4A Baseball III	1997 Feb
Box 5, Folder 11	The Elegance of All Things	1997 Sep
Box 5, Folder 12	Poem deleted from Paying the Price: The Poem It All Can't Be Said In	1997 Nov
Box 5, Folder 13	Jean	1997 Dec 5-8
Box 5, Folder 14	I'm Going to Be There with This Poem...	1997 Dec 16
Box 5, Folder 15	Miniature Rain People	1997 Dec 16
Box 5, Folders 16-17	Will One of Us Look Back	1997 Dec 17
Box 5, Folder 18	Poem deleted from Paying the Price: If You're Going to Write about Me...	1997 Dec 18
Box 5, Folder 19	Meet Mother	1997 Dec 23
Box 5, Folder 20	If You Ask for a Lot, Expect It to Cost a Lot	1997 Dec 27
Box 5, Folder 21	Giving Love to a Person with Destructive Habits...	1997 Dec 30
Box 5, Folders 22-23	Worthy Celebration!	1997 Dec 31
Box 5, Folder 24	40 Years a Poet	1997 Dec
Box 5, Folder 25	I'm Going to Be There with This Poem...	1997 Dec-1998 Jun
Box 5, Folder 26	Mislaid longhand pages of "To the Inactive Christians"	1997-1998
Box 5, Folders 27-28	9-Year-Old to Audience	1998 Jan 2
Box 5, Folder 29	Picnic	1998 Jan 6
Box 5, Folder 30	Poem deleted from Paying the Price: Encourage One Another and Build One Another Up	1998 Jan 11
Box 5, Folder 31	Her Only Joy, Simple Relief in Nature	1998 Jan 17-18
Box 5, Folder 32	Poem deleted from Paying the Price: To Give Meaningful Love...	1998 Jan 23
Box 5, Folders 33-34	4A Baseball IV	1998 Jan
Box 5, Folder 35	For Carol Cotton, 1939-1974	1998 Jan
Box 5, Folder 36	He Knew Something Only a Few Others Do	1998 Jan
Box 5, Folder 37	Poem deleted from Paying the Price: Being Open in a Country of Masks	1998 Jan
Box 5, Folder 38	The Poet Tries to Make Peace with a Useless Tragedy He Wasn't Responsible For Contents Note: Two folders were enclosed in one folder. The contents of Folder 1 were missing as of 2014 Aug 7.	1998 Jan
Box 5, Folder 39	To Inactive Christians	1998 Jan-Feb
Box 5, Folder 40	"January Night Music" and "Paying the Price" section stuff	1998 Jan-Apr
Box 5, Folder 41	Poem deleted from Paying the Price: Not One of Them Could Say I'm Sorry	1998 Feb 9-11
Box 5, Folder 42	Some of the original and new snow poems	1998 Mar
Box 5, Folder 43	January Night Music at Diamond J's	1998 Mar-Apr
Box 5, Folder 44	Correspondence regarding design of Paying the Price	1998 Mar-Jun
Box 5, Folder 45	Correspondence from Chazz Schiff to James Humphrey regarding Paying the Price	1998 Apr-May
Box 5, Folder 46	January Night Music news (correspondence from Chazz Schiff and Saroyan Humphrey to James Humphrey)	1998 Apr-May
Box 5, Folder 47	January Night Music at Diamond J's material	1998 Jun
Box 5, Folder 48	Paying the Price mail	1998 Jun-Jul
Box 5, Folder 49	Correspondence from Harold Ruplinger, C.S.C., to James Humphrey regarding Humphrey's gift of one of his books of poetry and his appearance at Holy Cross College (Indiana)	1998 Jul 21
Box 5, Folder 50	Correspondence regarding the design of and corrections to Paying the Price	1998 Jul
Box 5, Folder 51	Correspondence with Saroyan Humphrey and Chazz Schiff regarding Paying the Price	1998 Jul
Box 5, Folder 52	Shoot for the Stars, Don't Settle for the Ceiling	1998 Jul
Box 5, Folder 53	Lesson 10	1998 Aug 9
Box 5, Folder 54	Gift acknowledgement for Paying the Price from the Brown University Library	1998 Oct
Box 5, Folder 55	Correspondence regarding Paying the Price	1998 Jul-Aug
Box 5, Folder 56	Unbound mock-up of Paying the Price and related correspondence	1998 Sep-Oct
Oversize 2	Galley proof of Paying the Price	1998

The Re-Learning, 1976 Nov, undated

Container	Description	Date
Box 5, Folder 57	Letter to the editor by James Humphrey and an advertisement for The Re-Learning in Anyart Journal	1976 Nov
Box 5, Folder 58	Hellcoal Press fliers advertising The Re-Learning announcing the publication with quotes from other poets (1 copy) and its availability at the Brown Bookstore (2 copies signed by James Humphrey)	1976 April
Box 5, Folder 59	The Old Re-Learning 3	undated
Box 5, Folder 60	Original typed copies of The Re-Learning from the editor of Hellcoal Press	undated
Box 5, Folder 61	Paste-ups of The Re-Learning	undated
Box 5, Folder 62	Typed copy of The Re-Learning with author's notes	undated

Siz, 1998 Dec 7-2003 Feb

Container	Description	Date
Box 5, Folder 63	Guidelines for Breaking the Pain Habit	1992 Dec 7
Box 5, Folder 64	Guidelines for Holding Onto the Pain Habit during Siz	1992 Dec 7
Box 5, Folder 65	Some Still Trust	1996 Aug-1996 Oct 7
Box 5, Folder 66	Siz Dawn	1996 Sep 14
Box 5, Folder 67	Teen Slumber Party	1996 Sep 16
Box 5, Folder 68	Every Night	1996 Sep 17
Box 5, Folder 69	Heather Overplays Her Hand	1996 Sep 17
Box 5, Folder 70	Mary Remembers Horace	1996 Sep 24
Box 5, Folder 71	A County Crumbling	1996 Sep 29
Box 5, Folder 72	Farmers Are the Biggest Gamblers of All	1996 Sep 29
Box 5, Folder 73	Her Private Language to Him	1996 Sep 29
Box 5, Folder 74	Off to the University	1996 Sep
Box 5, Folder 75	The All-Night Senior Dance Breakfast	1996 Sep-Dec
Box 5, Folder 76	Lesson 2	1996 Sep-Dec
Box 5, Folder 77	At the Edge of Death We Can't Choose to Die without Screaming	1996 Oct 1
Box 5, Folder 78	Chains	1996 Oct 2
Box 5, Folder 79	Why Does It Always Hit You When It's Too Late?	1996 Oct 4
Box 5, Folder 80	A Change for the Better Will Come	1996 Oct 5
Box 5, Folder 81	This Teen Doesn't Need a Lute	1996 Oct 5
Box 5, Folder 82	How Much Practice Does It Take to Hide Lying Eyes; or, Are All Who Love, Blind?	1996 Oct 14
Box 5, Folder 83	During Siz's Worst Days, Mize's Heart Sang, Remembering	1996 Oct 16
Box 5, Folder 84	Dare to Remember the High School Song First Swept Your Heart Away?	1996 Oct 26-Nov 2
Box 5, Folder 85	Just before High School Graduation	1996 Oct Nov
Box 5, Folder 86	Still Trying to Find True Love through the Siz?	1996 Oct Nov
Box 5, Folder 87	4A Baseball two	1996 Nov 6
Box 5, Folder 88	Irreplaceable Losses	1996 Nov 19
Box 5, Folder 89	Preface	1996 Nov 21
Box 5, Folder 90	Siz dedication	1996 Nov 25
Box 5, Folder 91	Permanent Restraining Order	1996 Nov
Box 5, Folder 92	No One Leans in Summer Doorways	1996 Nov-Dec
Box 5, Folder 93	Lesson 2	1996 Dec 23
Box 5, Folder 94	Just before High School Graduation	1996 Dec 24
Box 5, Folder 95	Love, in the Beginning Made in Heaven	1996 Dec
Box 5, Folder 96	Some longhands with Mont Blanc fountain pen for Siz - will be out early spring '97	1996
Box 5, Folder 97	Siz fliers	1997 Jan
Box 5, Folder 98	Correspondence, notes and promotional materials regarding Siz	1997 Jan-2003 Feb
Box 5, Folder 99	Carbons of letters about Siz I wrote	1997 Apr
Box 5, Folder 100	Found Siz stuff	1997 Jul
Box 5, Folder 101	Incoming Siz mail plus Siz orders	1997
Box 5, Folder 102	The two quotes for beginning of Siz	undated
Box 5, Folder 103	What Will Be Thought in the Pauses of This Poem, or Will It Make Any Difference?	undated

Series 4. Poetry - published in journals, newspapers or anthologies, 1971-1991

Container	Description	Date
Box 5, Folder 104	Anyart Journal Contents Note: This issue includes the following poems by James Humphrey: "A Private Conversation", "Spring Songs Are My Music", "Upon Receiving a Rejection Letter from The American Poetry Review for Nine Poems I Had There for Fourteen Months", pp. 24-26.	1976 Sep
Box 5, Folder 105	Corraddi: The Magazine of the Arts at UNC-G (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Contents Note: This issue includes the following poems by James Humphrey: "Himalaya", "Watching It Rain from a Second Floor Downtown Window", p.40	1983 Apr-Jun
Box 5, Folder 106	Crescent Observer Contents Note: The folder contains p.10 of the Crescent Observer (v.1, no. 8), with the following poems by James Humphrey: "Working Class Woman", "Sound", "Warning", "New Flowers of Chance", and "Love Fails". The folder also contains drafts of the above poems.	1983 Nov
Box 5, Folder 107	The Face of Poetry, edited by LaVerne Harrell Clark and Mary MacArthur Contents Note: This book includes a portrait of James Humphrey (p. 124) and the following poem by him: "To the Young Poets, except Children, Who Haven't Earned the Title but Call Themselves Poets Anyway" (p. 125).	1976
Box 6, Folder 1	The Freedom Voice: Newspaper for PACA (People Allied for Child Advocacy) Contents Note: This issue includes the poem "For All the Abused Children", by James Humphrey (p. 10).	1987 Jun-Aug
Box 6, Folder 2	Hummers, Knucklers and Curves: Contemporary Baseball Poetry, edited by Don Johnson Contents Note: The folder contains correspondence from Don Johnson to James Humphrey, a copy of the title page of the book and a copy of Humphrey's poem "The Athlete", (pp. 58-60).	1991
Box 6, Folder 3	Maine Edition Contents Note: This issue includes the poem "Untitled", by James Humphrey (p. 12)	1973 Dec
Box 6, Folder 4	Maine Edition Contents Note: This issue includes the poem "After Writing All Night & into the Day, I Go to the Refrigerator for Another Beer & See a Young Girl through the Kitchen Window, Walking By", by Jame Humphrey (p. 15). The folder also includes correspondence from Stephen Charles Clark, the editor of Maine Edition, to James Humphrey.	1975 Dec-1976 Feb
Box 6, Folder 5	New Dog Two Contents Note: This issue includes the poem "Poetry Reading in a Windowless Room with Less Confidence Than the Abandoned Alley behind the Building", by James Humphrey (pp. 35-36). The folder also includes two letters to Humphrey from W. Scott Baker, the editor of New Dog Two.	1987
Box 6, Folder 6	Original Sin Contents Note: This issue includes the poems "For Beanbag" and "For Charles Bukowski and Kenneth Patcher", by Jame Humphrey (pp. 14-18). The folder also contains drafts of these poems.	1977 Dec-1978 Feb
Box 6, Folder 7	Ploughshares Contents Note: This issue includes the poem "And So On", by James Humphrey (p. 76)	1972 Jun
Box 6, Folder 8	Poets in the Schools: 1973 Connecticut Commission on the Arts Poetry Programs Contents Note: The folder contains a copy of an article about Humphrey's poetry workshops in elementary and high schools in New England, and a copy of his poem "Poem Written with My Son's Pencil", pp. 68-76. The book itself has been transferred to the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays at Brown University.	1973
Box 6, Folder 9	Softball Contents Note: This issue includes the poem "Poem for Norma", by James Humphrey (p. 1).	1971
Box 6, Folder 10	Stock Car Racing Contents Note: This issue includes the poem "Why Does It Have to Happen?", by James Humphrey (p. 16). The folder also includes correspondence between Humphrey and Dick Berggren, the editor of Stock Car Racing, and drafts of the poem.	1979 Jan
Box 6, Folder 11	Visual Showcase #1 Contents Note: This issue includes the article "Is that a real picture or did you paint it yourself?", by James Humphrey (p. 10).	1983 Dec
Box 6, Folder 12	Visual Showcase #2 Contents Note: This issue includes the poem "Penny, This One's for You" (p. 10) and the article "New York City graffiti writers" (pp. 12-14), by James Humphrey.	1984 Feb
Box 6, Folder 13	Visual Showcase #3 Contents Note: This issue includes an advertisement for In Tribute to Survivors (p. 23). It is inscribed by Saroyan Humphrey to his father.	1984 May

Series 5. Poetry - unpublished, 1957-2007

Container	Description	Date
Box 6, Folder 14	Abandoned Again	1982 Mar 4
Box 6, Folder 15	An Act of Love	1982 Apr 19
Box 6, Folder 16	Another Parade of Fools	1999 Dec 8
Box 6, Folder 17	Bayern Kurve (Performance Poems)	1985
Box 6, Folder 18	Beauties Everywhere in Sight	1983 Feb
Box 6, Folder 19	The Brain, the Most Over-Rated Organ (for Woody Allen)	1988 Jul 15
Box 6, Folder 20	Break Away	1985 Jan 12
Box 6, Folder 21	Breaking the Abuse Cycle	1992 Aug 6-7
Box 6, Folder 22	Christ, Let Me Die	1982 Oct 1
Box 6, Folder 23	Christmas Card to John Lennon	1982 Dec 8
Box 6, Folder 24	Christmas Eve Afternoon, 1981, Woodland Park, Colorado	1981 Dec 24
Box 6, Folder 25	Christmas Eve, 1961	1992 Sep 14
Box 6, Folder 26	Christmas Poem 1982 (Saturday Night Live)	1981 Oct-Dec
Box 6, Folder 27	Christmas, What I'm Thankful For	1982 Dec 20
Box 6, Folder 28	Cinderella LIberty	1982 Dec 29, undated
Box 6, Folder 29	Cold Winter Morning at the Conoco	1982 Feb
Box 6, Folder 30	Come, Babe for My New Family	1992 Aug 10
Box 6, Folder 31	Cowboy	1983 Jan 5
Box 6, Folder 32	Dad	1982 Mar
Box 6, Folder 33	Day's Work	1982 Jan
Box 6, Folder 34	Denial	1988 Jul 15
Box 6, Folder 35	Dreams	1983 Jan 11
Box 6, Folder 36	Drinking, Drugging We Settle for Less	1988 Aug 6-8
Box 6, Folder 37	Early writing 1957-1965 Contents Note: This folder contains the following poems by James Humphrey: "A Fallen Man Searching", "The Life You Save", "So, My Love, My Love Is for You", "The Guests", "Dust to Dust", "Morning", "Belief 1", "Flight", "A Walk One Evening in Spring", "A Modern Replacement", "On Loving an Average Woman", "The Young Pro", and "I Remember You". Also included are two short stories: "A Young Man and a Poet", and an untitled short story that is missing p.1.	1957-1965
Box 6, Folder 38	Eating Wheaties during Winter Olympics '84	1984 May 21
Box 6, Folder 39	Ema, This One's for You	1982 Aug 6-9
Box 6, Folder 40	An Explanatory Note	1982 May 21
Box 6, Folder 41	First Kiss	1982 Mar 2
Box 6, Folder 42	For Carmel LaRue, Finally	1982 Mar
Box 6, Folder 43	For Geniveve, Turning 60	1983-1984
Box 6, Folder 44	For John Lennon, for Saroyan Humphrey	1981 Mar-1982 Dec
Box 6, Folder 45	45 Exciting Carnival Pieces	1982
Box 6, Folder 46	Friendship for Clarence Williams	1982 Dec 30
Box 6, Folder 47	Getting Started	1983 Jan, undated
Box 6, Folder 48	Going through Oklahoma	1982 Mar 23
Box 6, Folder 49	Going to Sleep Christmas Night '82	1982 Dec 28
Box 6, Folder 50	Good-bye New York, You've Lost It	undated
Box 6, Folder 51	Happy Birthday, Norma	1982 Nov 20
Box 6, Folder 52	The Height of Epitomy	1983 Jan 14
Box 6, Folder 53	Here	1985 Jul 25
Box 6, Folder 54	Hi-Ho U-Haul, Again	1981-1982, undated
Box 6, Folder 55	High on You, Norma	1982 Nov 22-1984 Sep 12
Box 6, Folder 56	How I Became a Writer	1992 Sep 1-2
Box 6, Folder 57	How I Used to Be: For Marilyn Fink	1979
Box 6, Folder 58	How U.S. Big Businesses Prosper	1982 Mar 8
Box 6, Folder 59	Hummel's	1992 Aug 29-31, undated
Box 6, Folder 60	I Met a Young Woman Today	1985 Jan 3, undated
Box 6, Folder 61	Idle Time	1982 Nov 29
Box 6, Folder 62	It Will Happen, for My Son Saroyan	1982 Nov 15
Box 6, Folder 63	It's Not the Trauma That Immobilizes Us	1988 Oct 24-Nov 1
Box 6, Folder 64	January 20th, 1982, for Carole Harsted	1982
Box 6, Folder 65	Jim, Norma, Saroyan	1982 Nov 26, undated
Box 6, Folder 66	Last Night	1983 Dec 13
Box 6, Folder 67	Late Fall, 1982, for Jean Larson	1982 Nov 8
Box 6, Folder 68	LIttle Angel	1993 May 31
Box 6, Folder 69	A Little Sun	1974, undated
Box 6, Folder 70	Loser (Neighborhood Park)	1983 May
Box 6, Folder 71	Love in Spring is Best	1982 Mar
Box 6, Folder 72	Major Surgery in the Dentist's Office	1982 Apr-Jun
Box 6, Folder 73	Meet Mother, Stepfather and Father	1992 Jul 22-Aug 3
Box 6, Folder 74	Memorial Reading for James Humphrey	1983 Nov-2000 Mar 27
Box 6, Folder 75	My First Bike	1982 Mar
Box 6, Folder 76	My NYC Dream II	1988 Oct 12
Box 6, Folder 77	Near Death: Why Does It Have to Happen; Herbie; A Private Conversation; For Charles Bukowski and Kenneth Patchen; Poem for Myself Contents Note: This folder includes both unpublished and published poems. "A Private Conversation" and "For Charles Bukowski and Kenneth Patchen" were published in The Five Cent Poem (1981). "Poem for Myself" was published in Argument for Love (1970).	undated
Box 6, Folder 78	New Book	1982 Mar 10
Box 6, Folder 79	No Way Around	1983 Nov 28
Box 6, Folder 80	Notes, End of 1982	1982 Dec 9
Box 6, Folder 81	Once upon a Time	2000 Nov 21
Box 6, Folder 82	One in a Million, for Lynette Risch	1992 Nov 29
Box 6, Folder 83	Only Special People Are Allowed to Suffer	1988 Aug 1-5
Box 6, Folder 84	An Orphan of Society	1982 Feb
Box 6, Folder 85	Pearl in the Sun	1984
Box 6, Folder 86	Performance poems from "45 Exciting American Carnival Pieces for the Environmental Theater"	1985
Box 6, Folder 87	Phone Call	1982 Feb 19
Box 6, Folder 88	The Plea, Too Late	1982 Jul 12
Box 6, Folder 89	Please, Let Us Not Forget	1992 Sep 10-11
Box 6, Folder 90	Prayer	2000 Mar 15
Box 6, Folder 91	Prayer of Thanks, Christmas 1982	1982 Dec 8
Box 6, Folder 92	Pressing on Alone, Surrounded by Mediocrites and Sub-Mediocrities	1992 Jul-Sep
Box 6, Folder 93	Red & Green	1983 Aug 4
Box 6, Folder 94	Remembering John Lennon	1981 Dec
Box 6, Folder 95	Return of the Meadow Lark	1982 Mar 21
Box 6, Folder 96	The Rose Motel, Clarkesville, Arkansas	1982 Mar
Box 6, Folder 97	Running on Empty	1982 May
Box 6, Folder 98	Saroyan and Vanessa Sharp Humphrey's Wedding Poem	2003 Oct 3
Box 6, Folder 99	Sept Late Night Walk	1996 Nov 21
Box 6, Folder 100	Silence, Rejection, Crumbs	2000 Jan 28
Box 6, Folder 101	The Sky Will Never Explode in Fireworks for This Ball Player and Abused Kids	undated
Box 6, Folder 102	Such Flowers	1985 Jan 2
Box 6, Folder 103	Surviving When Sixteen	1983 Aug 1
Box 6, Folder 104	Thinking of Ted	1984 Jan 27
Box 6, Folder 105	This Age Is Silent Disintegration of the Human Heart	1988 Aug 1-5
Box 6, Folder 106	To an Apprentice Poet	1988 Sep 24-26
Box 6, Folder 107	Trying to Keep Up with "Love" in America	1998 Dec 6-14
Box 6, Folder 108	The Ugliness of Poets, Poetry and Poetry Bosses	1988 Jul 2-15
Box 6, Folder 109	Unemployment 1982, Recession 1982, 1983	1982-1983, undated
Box 6, Folder 110	Unpublished poems Contents Note: This folder includes a copy of a newspaper article from The Sun Chronicle, dated April 14, 1977. The article is about death threats received by James Humphrey during the time he taught creative writing in a federally funded program at South Boston High School. The threats concerned the use of his book The Re-Learning, but Humphrey believed the threats were linked to the busing issue and the presence of a federal program at South Boston High School.	1977-1978
Box 6, Folder 111	Unpublished poems	1981
Box 7, Folder 1	Unpublished poems	1999-2007
Box 7, Folder 2	Untitled	1989 Jan 8
Box 7, Folder 3	Untitled poem	1984 May 21
Box 7, Folder 4	Valentine King	1982 Mar 5
Box 7, Folder 5	Was a Road Once	1983 Jan 11, undated
Box 7, Folder 6	We Didn't Really Mean Nothin' By It, We Was Only Killin' Some Time	1982 Nov 29
Box 7, Folder 7	What Carmel Told Me	1992 Sep 12
Box 7, Folder 8	What I Often Think and Do When the Pain Is So Deep I Can Touch the Peace in Death	1988 Jul 25-28
Box 7, Folder 9	What Ted Told Me	1984 Jun 4-5
Box 7, Folder 10	What the Priest Told Me 50th Birthday	1989 Feb 20
Box 7, Folder 11	When I Died	1981-1982
Box 7, Folder 12	When Little	1992 Aug 7
Box 7, Folder 13	When You're Hot, You're Hot	1982 Dec 14
Box 7, Folder 14	Where I Took Saroyan When Very Young	1989 Jan 4
Box 7, Folder 15	Winter's Perfume	1989 Jan 12
Box 7, Folder 16	Woodland Park, Colo., poems	1981-1982
Box 7, Folder 17	Working for Money	1982 Jul 7
Box 7, Folder 18	Yesterday I Wrote Two Poems	1982 Jan 6
Box 7, Folder 19	You Have to Grab the Audience	2006 Mar, undated

Series 6. Prose - novels, 1979-2005

Container	Description	Date
Box 7, Folder 20	Abuse revision 1	1979
Box 7, Folder 21	From Orphanage to Destiny - correspondence with literary agents	2003 May-Nov
Box 7, Folders 22-24	From Orphanage to Destiny - typed manuscript	2004
Box 7, Folder 25	Hate is Simple, Love Complex	undated
Box 7, Folders 26-29	Hearts Call, Hearts Fail, Then Love Begins - typed manuscript	2005 Feb 1-Apr 1
Box 7, Folders 30-34	Hearts Call, Hearts Fail, Then Love Begins - handwritten and typed manuscript	undated
Box 7, Folder 35	Hookworm and Jellybean - emails to and from James, Norma and Saroyan Humphrey Contents Note: This folders includes the Certificate of Donation sent to James Humphrey from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, acknowledging Humphrey's donation of Paying the Price and In Pursuit of Honour.	2000 Nov-2002 Dec
Box 7, Folder 36	Hookworm and Jellybean - emails and other correspondence	2001 Jun-2002 Sep
Box 7, Folder 37	Hookworm and Jellybean - correspondence with literary agents	2002 Nov
Box 7, Folders 38-40	Hookworm and Jellybean - typed manuscript	2002

Series 7. Prose - screenplays, 1989-1994

Container	Description	Date
Box 8, Folder 1	Bye Bye Blackbird - notes and revisions	1991, undated
Box 8, Folders 2-4	Bye Bye Blackbird - longhands	1991
Box 8, Folders 5-6	Bye Bye Blackbird - typed screenplay	1991
Box 8, Folder 7	Bye Bye Blackbird - typed screenplay with James Schevill's comments	1991
Box 8, Folder 8	A Fine Romance - original first typing	1990 Nov
Box 8, Folder 9	A Fine Romance - typed screenplay and related correspondence	1990-1994
Box 8, Folder 10	Five Winter Commercials - submitted to General Foods Corporation	1989 Aug-Sep
Box 8, Folder 11	Five Winter Commercials - submitted to Nestle Foods Corporation	1989 Jun-Sep
Box 8, Folder 12	Five Winter Commercials - submitted to Proctor & Gamble Company	1989 Jun-Nov
Box 8, Folder 13	Five Winter Commercials - correspondence and scripts	1989 Aug-Oct
Box 8, Folder 14	Isn't Life Like a Fine Spring Day? - typed screenplay and sheet music	1994
Box 8, Folders 15-16	Isn't Life Like a Fine Spring Day? - longhand stuff	undated
Box 8, Folder 17	The Long Way Home - typed screenplay	1991
Box 8, Folder 18	Trying - original with additions	1989 Jul-Aug
Box 8, Folder 19	Trying - handwritten draft of the screenplay	1989
Box 8, Folder 20	Trying - typed copy of the screenplay and correspondence with James Schevill	1989
Box 8, Folder 21	Trying - correspondence with directors and theatrical agents	1990 Apr
Box 8, Folder 22	Trying - correspondence #4	1990-1991
Box 8, Folder 23	Trying - typed screenplay	1991 Sep 11
Box 8, Folder 24	Without the Consolation of Tears - correspondence	1989 Mar-1992 Mar
Box 8, Folder 25	Without the Consolation of Tears - correspondence with literary agents	1992 Apr
Box 8, Folder 26	Without the Consolation of Tears - typed screenplay	1992
Box 8, Folder 27	Letters from James Humphrey to actors and literary agents regarding the screenplays for Bye Bye Blackbird, A Fine Romance, and Trying	1991

Series 8. Prose - essays, letters to the editor, short stories, 1974-1995

Container	Description	Date
Box 9, Folder 1	Essays	1974-1995
Box 8, Folder 2	Letter from James Humphrey to the editor of The Sun Chronicle	1981 Jan 28
Box 8, Folder 3	"The Trouble Causer," published in Writers Forum, v.8	1982

Series 9. Artwork, 1994 Oct 2-2006 Apr 7

Container	Description	Date
Box 9, Folder 4	Abstract artwork on white typing paper	1994 Oct 2-Dec 17
Box 9, Folder 5	Abstract artwork mounted on cardboard or colored paper	2002 Apr 3-2006 Apr 7

Series 10. Audio, 1969 Oct-2009, undated

Container	Description	Date
Box 9, Folder 6	The 1st collage I ever made, October 1969, Cambridge, Mass., Boston, East Falmouth (1 reel-to-reel tape, 7")	1969 Oct
Box 9, Folder 7	Collage for poetry writing workshops, recorded at WCIB, Falmouth, Mass. (1 reel-to-reel tape, 5")	1972 Jan 8-9
Box 9, Folder 8	Luke and me, Falmouth, Mass. (1 reel-to-reel tape, 5")	1972 Jan 9
Box 9, Folder 9	Commercials for TV (1 reel-to-reel tape, 5")	1972 Dec
Box 9, Folder 10	Reach Out collage (1 reel-to-reel tape, 5")	1974 Aug
Box 9, Folder 11	Jim Humphrey, Jay Bolotin concert, Rhode Island College (1 reel-to-reel tape, 7")	1974 Nov 23
Box 9, Folder 12	Collage made by Saroyan (1 reel-to-reel tape, 5")	1974
Box 9, Folder 13	Jim remembering Ted Berrigan on Ted's memorial: broadcast on Nationa Public Radio (1 audiocassette)	1983 Nov 15
Box 9, Folder 14	James Humphrey: The Poetry Readings, Augument for Love, 1969-1974 (2 compact discs)	2009
Box 9, Folder 15	Saroyan driving Q.M. stockcar racing at Westboro; Jim reading at R.I.J.C. (Rhode Island Junior College) (1 reel-to-reel tape, 5")	undated

Series 11. Artifacts, photographs and scrapbooks, 1968 May-2008

Container	Description	Date
Box 9, Folder 16	Box of pencils
Box 9, Folder 17	Montblanc fountain pen
Box 9, Folder 18	Photographs of James Humphrey and material related to "Jim's Last Night Out"	1974-2008 May
Box 9, Folder 19	Photographs of James Humphrey taked by Saroyan Humphrey and Louise Schlesinger	1979 May
Box 9, Folder 20	"Scrapbook One" (Copy)	1969 May-1972 Mar
Box 9, Folder 21	Material found loose in "Scrapbook One"	1968 Nov-1998 Dec
Box 9, Folder 22	"Scrapbook Two" (Copy)	1972 Aug-1974 Oct
Box 9, Folder 23	Material found loose in "Scrapbook Two" Contents Note: This folder contains a small photograph of James Humphrey.	1974 May-2005 Jun
Box 9, Folder 24	Newspapers and newspaper clippings found loose in "Scrapbook Two"	1973-1987
Box 9, Folder 25	Photographs, fliers and correspondence found loose in "Scrapbook Two"	1973-2008