Robert Siegel Papers
SC-11
Siegel, Robert, 1939-
51 Boxes(20 linear feet)
1945-1997 (bulk: )
Collection Inventory
I. Biographical
Box I1
Childhood Memorabilia
1. Boy Scout uniform pieces
2. Badges and emblems
3. Jewelry Box of pins, scout cards, and badges
4. Junior High Newspapers
5. Two book-bags of school reports
6. Pair of (tiny) glasses
7. Tassel
8. Artwork and stories from childhood
Box I2
School Age Keepsakes
1. Awards
2. Church Related Keepsakes
3. Grade Reports
4. Health and Recreation Keepsakes
5. Newspaper Clippings
6. Photographs
7. School Age Keepsakes
8. Spelling Bee News Clippings
9. Spelling Bee Words
Box I3
Academic Material
1. Certificates, Graduation and Degree Programs, Awards
2. College Keepsakes
3. Awards
4. Diplomas
5. Pamphlets
6. Notebook
7. Yearbook
Box I:4 Writing and Papers
1. Writing (includes Old Poet's Corner)
2. Papers (includes high school and college assignments)
3. Term Papers
4. Philosophy Papers
5. Theology Papers
6. Andrew Hudgins' Poetry Manuscript (Saints & Strangers)
7. Whale Society Material
8. Announcements for readings
9. “Going on” (poetry)
10. Book Reviews on the whale trilogy
II. Correspondence
Box II:1
1. Greeting Cards/Post Cards
2. Loose Papers (includes children's artwork)
Box II:2
19501959
19601970, to his parents (Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Siegel).
Box II:3
1960 1963
Box II:4
1964 1971
Box II:5
1972 1975
Box II:6
1976 1979
Box II:7
1980 1982
Box II:8
1983 - 1984
Box II:9
1985 - 1986
Box II:10
1987 - 1989
Box II:11
1989 - 1997
Box II:12
Undated (A M)
Box II:13
Undated (N S)
Undated, from Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Siegel
Undated (T Z)
Unidentifiable
Box II:14
Greeting Cards sent to the family
III. Manuscripts: Books
Box III:1
The Beasts and the Elders
• Manuscript (4 folders)
• Duplicate Manuscript
• First set of proofs1973
Box III:2
Alpha Centauri
• Manuscript I
• Manuscript and outline
• Manuscript II (2 folders)
• Papers
Box III:3
Alpha Centauri
• Chapters 15
• Chapters 612
• Chapters 1316
• Chapters 1718
• Early portions of ManuscriptIncomplete
• Galley Proofs
Box III:4
In a Pig's Eye
• Manuscript (two folders)
• Proofs (three folders)
• Promotion
• Manuscript IB, May 1977
• Manuscript II, June 1977
• Manuscript II, Correction Copy
• Manuscript IIIA, Summer/Fall 1978
• Manuscript IIIB, 1979
• Manuscript IVA, June, 1979 (2 folders)
Box III:5
In a Pig's Eye
• Manuscript IV
Box III:6
Whalesong
• Manuscript I
• Manuscript I, photocopy
• Manuscript II and Postscript
• Manuscript III (2 folders)
• Page proofs and illustrations for cover
• Copy of galley proofs
• Papers
Box III:7
• The Kingdom of Wundle Manuscript (3 folders)
• The Kingdom of Wundle Manuscript II
• The Kingdom of Wundle Manuscript
• The Kingdom of Wundle Manuscript, 7/15/82
• The Kingdom of Wundle Illustrations
• "The Worm of Grog" Manuscript I
• "The Worm of Grog" Manuscript II
• "The Worm of Grog" Manuscript
• ManuscriptsMiscellaneous papers
Box III:8
"Waters Under the Earth"
Box III:9
"Waters Under the Earth"
Box III:10
"Waters Under the Earth"
• Typescript, older versions
• Typescript, older versions
• Typescript, older versions
• Typescript, older versions
Box III:11
"Waters Under the Earth"
• Typescript, older versions
• Typescript, older versions
Box III:12
• "The Stargoose" (a.k.a. "The Man Who Could Fly")
Box III:13
White Whale
• Typescript I, chapters 1-8
• Typescript I, chapter 9-afterword
• Typescript (version I)
• Typescript II
Box III:14
White Whale
• Typescript III
• Typescript IV
• Typescript VI
Box III:15
White Whale
• Typescript IX
• Typescript, copy-edited, part I
• Typescript, copy-edited, part II
• Typescript (untitled)
Box III:16
Ice
• Typescript 1
• Typescript 2
• Typescript 3
Box III:17
Ice
• Typescript 5
• Typescript 7
Box III:18
Ice
• Typescript 8-9, copy edited
• Typescript proofs
• Typescript final proofs
IV. Manuscripts: Poetry
Box IV:1
A B
1. "Advent: Grantchester"
2. "Aelbert Cuyp: "A Hilly River Landscape'"
3. "After Hopkins" January 1975
4. "AH" July 1975
5. "Air" September 1977
6. "Air Field"
7. "All the King's Horses" ("Humpty Dumpty") JuneJuly 1975
8. "Ambleside, Westmoreland" July 1971 April 1977
9. "Among the futurific shocks" June 1974
10. "An Alphabet of Ancient Vices and Contemporary Virtues"
11. "And Overran the World"
12. "Anne Hathaway's Cottage"
13. "Anne Hathaway's Orchard"
14. "To Ann on Our 15th" August 1976 April 1977
15. "Antietam, 1962" August 1970
16. "Aphis"
17. "Apocalypse" April 1971
18. "Approaching Dover" February September, 1971
19. "Ariel" January 1971
20. "Armageddon" April 1971
21. "Ash Wednesday in Chicago" May 1971
22. "At Home in her Kitchen. . ." April 1971
23. "At the Edge" September 1972
24. "Auto Races" February 1971 October 1972
25. "Backside of the Moon" September/October 1975
26. "Back Yard Obsequies"
27. "Ballad" March 1975 July 1977
28. "Barely Audible" August 1971
29. "The Bare Maximum" January 1975 February 1976
30. "Barney Bodkin" September 1973 October 1976
31. "Bassenthwaite Lake" May 1977
32. "Bath"
33. "The Bear" February/March 1970 April 1971
34. "Beavers, Dunsfold, Surrey" June 1972
35. "The Beggars are Coming to Town" June 1974
36. "The Betcher Girl" July 1975 February 1979
37. "Blackberrying: A Sestina" September 1974 January 1978
38. "Bloody Angle" November 1970 July 1972
39. "Blowing like a field in his fur. . ."
40. "Blue Jay" January/February 1970
41. "'B' Movie" June 1970 April 1972
42. "Bear" October 1976
43. "Borrowdale" July 1971 April 1978
44. "Boy Blue" January 1975
45. "Boy Scout Honor Guard"
46. "Breathing Your Name"
47. "Buckingham Palace, Winter Dress"
48. "Bull" October 1975
49. "Bunratty Castle"
50. "Buttstroked a man in white garb"
51. "Byron's Pool"
52. "By the Teeth of My Skin" January July 1975
Box IV:2
C F
1. "Canada Geese" May 1971
2. "Cannot, Cannot Do Much About It Riding" May 1971
3. "The Caretaker" January 1971
4. "The Catch" August 1970 April 1971
5. "Cello: Queen of Hearts" August 1971 January 1972
6. "The Center of America" March 1978
7. "The Chair" July 1972
8. "A Charm" July 1975 April 1977
9. "Chaucer's Mill"
10. "Chester's Roman Fort: Bath House"
11. "Christmas Eve" November 1973 October 1976
12. "Christopher" January 1971
13. "Cleaning Rainbows" October 1976
14. "Cleaning the roof today. . ."
15. "Cloud to Cloud Answers. . ."
16. "Coed Summer in Oxford" April 1976 January 1978
17. "Comfort Me With Apples" August 1971 January 1972
18. "On Coming Across Richard Eberhart in New England"
19. "Compost Heap" April 1976 January 1978
20. "Conjugation" January 1976
21. "The Cow" January 1971 June 1972
22. "The Cow Stands, Sweetly Abstracted" Dec 1973 April 1977
23. "Crow" April May 1971
24. "Culloden" February 1972
25. "A Decent Pig" April 1977
26. "Delaware and Raritan Canal" November 1975
27. "Delivery"
28. "The Desert Sighs in the Bed"
29. "Devon Coast"
30. "Direct Distance Dialing" November 1976 January 1976
31. "Dog Days" January 1971
32. "The Dome"
33. "Dominican Tableau"
34. "Double Vision" January 1971
35. "Dover" July 1971 January 1972
36. "Down by the canal. . ." April 1977
37. "Draining a Mosquito Swamp"
38. "The Dream of the Rood" November
39. "The Duck" October 1970 May 1971
40. "The duck moved. . ." April 1970
41. "Dunollie Castle" September 1971
42. "Easedale Tarn" February 1976 May 1977
43. "Easedale Tarn" March 1977
44. "Easy Rider" November 1977
45. "The Effigy" September 1970
46. "Ego" MarchApril 1971
47. "Eileen Doran" January 1972
48. "El Manuscript/LightPurple Crocus April 1979
49. "Elsie Marley"
50. "Equation" May 1971
51. "Escaping to the Zoo" July 1972
52. "Essay on Rime" February 1976
53. "Fall" August September 1971
54. "Falling in the Concord River" February August 1971
55. "Farmer MacGregor's Cabbage Patch"
56. "The Farms of Morning Elegy" Manuscript 1
57. "The Farms of Morning" Manuscript 2
58. "The Farms of Morning" Manuscript 3
59. "The Farms of Morning" Manuscript 4
60. "Father's Chair" June/July 1970 June 1972
61. "Fen Churches"
62. "Fen Ditton"
63. "Field of Poppies"
64. "The figure of tragedy rolls past. . ."
65. "First Landlady"
66. "Fish" May 1971
67. "Fishing" September 1970 April 1971
68. "Flame in a fissure" May 1970
69. "For Richard Eberheart" March 1974
70. "For Roberta Berfore Childbirth" May 1971
71. "For Rudolph Ruzicka" February 1971
72. "For Somebody Else's Student" (For My Student) August/September 1973 April 1977
73. "For two weeks afterward. . ." April 1971
74. "The Foundering" May 1971
75. "The Fourth" July 1970 February 1971
76. "Frog"
77. "Fun City" April 1971
78. "Furor" August 1971
Box IV:3
G I
1. "Galahad" July 1972
2. "The Garden"
3. "Garter Snake" April 1977
4. "Gawain" June 1972 September 1973
5. "Getting Up"
6. "Gettysburg: The Wheatfield:"
7. "The Giants Dance"
8. "The Giant Worms" February 1980
9. "Glastonbury: Isle of Avalon"
10. "Glastonbury II"
11. "Glen Coe" I and II
12. "Gone to Sea" February 1975 April 1977
13. "Good Grief"
14. "Grackle" March 1977 February 1978
15. "Grackle"
16. "Granchester Fields" January 1972
17. "Granchester Meadows"
18. "Grandfather Chance" April 1971 September 1972
19. "Grasmere I" August September 1971
20. "Graveyard Walk" December 1973 March 1975
21. "Great Murderers" June 1972
22. "Green as a twig" March 1977
23. "Green Knight" June 6 October 1973
24. "The Green Path" September 1971 August 1979
25. "Green Rider" August 1971
26. "Gwendolyn"
27. "Hampstead Heath"
28. "Hampstead II"
29. "The Hand in the Tree" January 1971
30. "Hans and His Wife" September 1973
31. "Hark, Hark, The Dogs Do Bark" March/April 1976
32. "The Hatch" October/November 1977
33. "Have to neutralize. . ." April 1971
34. "He Gives Instructions on How to Achieve Happiness" Mar 1977
35. "He Smiled and the Sunrise Spread" January 1978
36. "He Stuck in His Thumb" September/October 1971
37. "Himmelman's Brother" January 1975 May 1977
38. "His Ground" April 1976
39. "Hobson's Brook"
40. "Hog Heaven" April 1977
41. "Homecoming" May 1971
42. "Homo Suspens" July September 1972
43. "Horse" April December 1975
44. "The Horses" April 1977
45. "The Horses" September 1973
46. "Horses in Setting Sun" April 1977
47. "The House" March 1971 September 1972
48. "House in the Wood" September 1973
49. "House Warming" October/November 1970 May 1971
50. "Hovercraft" September 1973 May 1977
51. "How Does Your Garden Grow?" March 1976
52. "Hubris"
53. "Humpty Dump" January March 1975
54. "The Hunt" November 1970 July 1979
55. "Hunter's Moon" May July 1971
56. "Hunting in Widener Library" November 1970 January 1973
57. "Hunting Metaphor" January 1975 December 1978
58. "I am not sure where the light went. . ."
59. "I feel the Night Tide Arch" April 1971 July 1972
60. "If he could have gone to sea again" July 1970
61. "In a Deep Combe" August 1971
62. "In a Farmhouse near Porlock"
63. "In a Garage of New Leaves" August 1971
64. "In a Pig's Eye" April 1977
65. "In the Green Swim of Trees" January 1971 September 1972
66. "In the moon that dropped. . ." June 1970
67. "The Invisible Zoo"
68. "Iona" January 1971 January 1972
69. "I raised my air pistol" April 1976
70. "I see a white hand. . ."
71. "It is late afternoon. . ." April 1971
72. "I walk in sun and stars. . ." January 1971
73. "I Walk the Dark"
Box IV:4
J O
1. "Jack Be Nimble" May 1977 January 1978
2. "Jack Horner" AprilAugust 1971
3. "Jerbil"
4. "Jesus Prayer" August 1976 March 1977
5. "Jill" February 1978
6. "Johnson's House"
7. "The Journey" December 1970
8. "June Bug" JanuaryMay 1971
9. "Kenilworth"
10. "Kilmartin" I and II November 1971 January 1972
11. "Knave of Hearts" MaySeptember 1973
12. "Konigschlossen"
13. "A Lady that Loved a Swine" MaySeptember 1973
14. "Lament of the MiddleAged Maker" November 1975
15. "Lancelot"
16. "Laodicea, New Hampshire"
17. "The Laryn Forms" September 1977
18. "On Last Teaching Keats' Sonnet in which Balboa is Confused with Cortez" April 1975
19. "Late Shopper" November/December 1970 May 1971
20. "Lavenham"
21. "Leaves of Grass, 1860" January 1971
22. "Letter to the Enemy" April 1970
23. "Leviathan" September 1975 May 1977
24. "Lights"
25. "Lightwalk" AprilSeptember 1971
26. "Like Butter" May 1976
27. "Links"
28. "Loch Katrine" February 1972
29. "Loch Ness"
30. "The Lone Ranger's Silver Bullet" August 1971
31. "The Long Ploughmen"
32. "Lost Continent"
33. "Love pinches my nose" August 1971
34. "Love Story 1965" April 1971September 1972
35. "Mad Dog" April 1971
36. "March Moon" April 1971 June 1972
37. "Marion, Ohio" October 1970
38. "Mary"
39. "A marine helps two children"
40. "The Mating" April 1977
41. "Matins" May 1978
42. "May the Bees and the Flower"
43. "May ThirtyFirst" AprilAugust 1971
44. "Memento Mori" March 1971
45. "Memorial Day Salute" November 1975 March 1977
46. "Midnight Ordeal"
47. "The Mill in Chaucer" May/June 1972
48. "Miss Foster" September 1970 April 1971
49. "The Moment Just Before" AprilJuly 1971
50. "Moon Coasting High" October 1974 March 1977
51. "Moon Dream" September June 1973
52. "Moonfeather" July 1971
53. "The moon is lowered. . ."
54. "Moonseed" April/May 1977
55. "Moonwheel" May 1977
56. "The Moose on Ledyard Bridge"
57. "Mr. Fiddler" April 1971
58. "Mulberry Tree" September 1971
59. "Munich"
60. "Muskie" February 1978
61. "The Muskrat" May 1971
62. "My Lei" April 1971
63. "Navy Air Show"
64. "Nether Stowey"
65. "New England Pastoral" July 1971
66. "News Photo"
67. "Nickel Woman"
68. "Night Thoughts at the Zoo" FebruaryApril 1971
69. "Night Train to Florida" February 1976
70. "Night Walk" May 1971
71. "Nine Wells"
72. "No Weather is as Lonely as a Bird" December 1979
73. "Nude" JulySeptember 1972
74. "Offended in an Apple" September 1971
75. "Old Woman in a Shoe" January 1975 April 1977
76. "O Look, Look up at the Stars" May 1977
77. "On a Saturday" April/May 1977
78. "One Sum of Happiness" February 1976
79. "On Reading Keats "Urn" in Class" February 1976
80. "The Optometrist's Story" March 1976
81. "Orioles and Oranges" June 1979
82. "The Other"
83. "Oxford and Cambridge"
Box IV:5 (P S)
1. "Peonies"
2. "Petshop" September 1970
3. "Pinakothek" August 1971
4. "Poem of the Heart" April 1975 April 1976
5. "Poet" February 1971
6. "The poet has a modest place" April 1972
7. "To the Poetry Reader" February 1976
8. "Polar Gall" JanuaryMay 1971
9. "Pomfret Apples" November 1973 April 1977
10. "Porker" February 1977 March 1977
11. "Present" February 1973
12. "Processional" April 1971
13. "The Prowler" January 1975 April 1976
14. "Pumpkin" February 1978 January 1979
15. "Pumpkin Eater" September 1971 February 1973
16. "Quest"
17. "Quote from [Berifilld?] January 1971
18. "The rain speaks here something forgotten"
19. "Raking" August 1973 January 1978
20. "Rathouse Tower" August 1971 January 1972
21. "Red Crosse"
22. "Reflecting in the Bath" February May 1971
23. "Reflection" July 1972
24. "Release"
25. "Reluctantly, I advise. . ."
26. "Renoir's Path through the Long Grass"
27. "The Retirement" April 1971
28. "Ring of Stones"
28.5 "Rinsed With Gold, Endless, Walking The Fields"-Sept. 1986
29. "River After Flood" August 1979 February 1980
30. "River of Life"
31. "Roberta Rising"
32. "Robinson planted all these fir. . ." July 1971
33. "The Rock" April 1971
34. "Rothenburg" August 1971 January 1972
35. "Rydal Mount"
36. "St. Joseph of Copertino" November 1971 January 1972
37. "Sam"
38. "Samarcand" August 1971
39. "Schoolbus" May 1971
40. "Sea of Glass"
41. "Second Growth" JulyOctober 1971
42. "Secret Agent" January 1974 January 1975
43. "Seventeen Times as High as the Moon" May 1973
44. "Sheep" March 1975 August 1971
45. "She Shall Have Music Wherever She Goes" June 1974April 1978
46. "Shopping Together" January 1978
47. "Shore" January 1972
48. "The Shot" April 1971
49. "Shoveling Snow Off the Roof" AprilSeptember 1971
50. "The Shroud" JanuaryJune 1975
51. "Simple Joseph, idiota. . .
52. "Sir Columbine"
53. "Sirius: The Dog Star"
54. "Sir Roger de Trumpington" SeptemberNovember 1971
55. "Sir Satyrane"
56. "The sleeping fields" May 1978
57. "Sleepwalk" November 1970 May 1971
58. "Slip out of this disguise. . ." March 1974
59. "The Smile on the Face of the Tiger" September 1972
60. "Snake" April 1975
61. "Snakesong" July 1970 April 1971
62. "Some Ideal State"
63. "Someone's planted the white seed. . ."
64. "Some say it was in the stars" November 1975 March 1977
65. "Something Else"
66. "Something You Got" January 1975
67. "Song" May 1970
68. "Song"
69. "Song: Black Sheep"
70. "A Song of Things" September 1977 January 1978
71. "Sow Moon" August 1976 August 1977
72. "Spastic" March 1976 February 1978
73. "The Spine Straightens" October
74. "The Squeeze" February 1972
75. "'Starlit Stonehenge'"
76. "State Hospital" October 1970 September 1977
77. "Stiff Dreams" May 1971
78. "The Stiff Handle of My Rake" January 1978
79. "Straight at the Blue" October/November 1977
80. "Strapped we wake" April 1972
81. "Stratford"
82. "Summer Palace"
83. "Summer Reading" April 1971
84. "Sun" May 1971
85. "Sweet Anger of My Fathers" October 1973 April 1977
Box IV:6
T Z
1. "Take Your Delight"
2. "Them" September 1974 October 1975
3. "Then blazing like a furnace. . ."
4. "Then, from under his fallen tree. . ."
5. "They stand one with his thumbs. . ." April 1971
6. "Three Black Bears" January 1975 April 1977
7. "Three Paintings by Rousseau" May 1971
8. "Tiger"
9. "Tintern Abbey"
10. "To Amenhotep, Overseer of Pharoah's Wheat" May 1971
11. "To Clean Rainbows"
12. "To Market, To Market" June 1974 May 1977
13. "Tonight in rain the summer found relief" June 1970
14. "To My Fellow" January 1978
15. "The Tower"
16. "Traherne" September 1971 June 1972
17. "Traherne" II, III September 1971 1972
18. "The tree is standing" August 1971
19. "The trees offer escape under the bridge"
20. "The Tree's Shadow" February 1970
21. "The Trees Swing, Brandishing" April 1971 July 1972
22. "Tristan" September 1973
23. "Trumpington Oaks"
24. "TV Documentary" June 1975
25. "Twenty Below Zero" January 1970
26. "Ullswater" January 1972
27. "The University Zoological Gardens" May 1971
28. "Vacation" January 1970 May 1971
29. "Valentine's Day" May 1971
30. "2 Vertigo" August 1971 January 1972
31. "Viewing the Early Deaths of Poets" JulyNovember 1971
32. "Violence is something. . ." MarchApril 1977
33. "Vision"
34. "Visiting the WallFort at Cilurnum"
35. "A Visit to the Farm" September 1970 April 1971
36. "Voice of Many Waters" April 1971 July 1972
37. "The Vows"
38. "Voyage" April 1970 July 1972
39. "Waking"
40. "Walk" April 1979
41. "Walleyes" January 1975 February 1978
42. "Wandlebury" February 1972
43. "Was it the Lone Ranger's silver bullet" April 1971
44. "Waterbirds in an Egyptian Burial Mural" April 1970
45. "Water Snake" AprilSeptember 1978
46. "The Way I Hear It" April 1971 February 1977
47. "Week I" December 1969
48. "Well, come thou Traftons fair and free. . ." March 1971
49. "Wentworth Place"
50. "What zeppelin skies" February 1970
51. "When at Last My Silver Muscles Fail" Jan 1977 March 1978
52. "When the Trees Stood Out" AprilAugust 1971
53. "Whiletta Song" March 1971
54. "While walking down the tunnel. . ."
55. "The White Horse at Uffington"
56. "The White Horse Inn"
57. "White Miller" June 1973
58. "The White Sow of Trumpington" December 1976
59. "Whittier in Concord" July 1974 April 1976
60. "Whoever colored the moon tonight"
61. "Whose Dog Art Thou?" October 1973
62. "Wichita Song" May 1971
63. "Widower Dilver" September 1973 February 1975
64. "Wiesbaden" (I and II) August 1971 January 1972
65. "Winchester Cathedral"
66. "Windsor Castle"
67. "Winter's Morning" August 1970 July 1971
68. "Within a Point" September 1974 January 1975
Box IV:7 Poetry and Essays
1. Loose Miscellaneous Poems
2. Miscellaneous Grouped Poems
3. Essays
4. Cabin PoemsDrafts [AH]
5. Cabin PoemsDrafts [IZ] and loose sheets
6. Poetry Worksheets
V. Journals/Magazines
Box V:1
1. Bibliography of published poetry
2. Journals 1959 1969
Box V:2
1970 1971
Box V:3
1971/72 1974
Box V:4
1975 1976
Box V:5
1977 1978
Box V:6
1979
Box V:7
1980 1982, 1986, 1992, 1993, 1997, undated.
Box V:8
1. "The Retirement," Chicago Tribune Magazine 102068
2. "Reading in the Treehouse," Chicago Tribune Magazine 4873
3. "The Duck," The Carrousel Press No. 1, Fall 1970
