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| Creator: | Swallow, Alan, 1915-1966. |
| Title: | Alan Swallow Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1934-1965 |
| Quantity: | 5.0 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Papers of the American author, poet, publisher. Correspondence (1942-1964); manuscript poems and essays; and published materials, including articles and clippings by and about Swallow, book reviews, poems, and stories by Swallow, and photographs. Correspondence includes that of Louise Bogan, Norman A. Brittin, Bob Brown, Carroll Coleman, J.V. Cunningham, Gustav Davidson, James A. Decker, David Cornel DeJong, George P. Elliott, Lincoln Fitzell, John T. Frederick, Herbert Gold, Yvan Goll, Caroline Gordon, Weldon Kees, Stanley Kunitz, Archibald MacLeish, Josephine Miles, Henry Miller, Clark Mills, Bucklin Moon, Marianne Moore, Merrill Moore, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ann Stanford, Wallace Stevens, Genevieve Taggard, Allen Tate, Mark Van Doren, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams, and others. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Alan Swallow was born February 11, 1915, in Powell, Wyoming. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Wyoming in 1937 and an M.A. degree from Louisiana State University in 1939. At LSU he studied under Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks.
Swallow was an instructor at the University of New Mexico (1940-1942) and associate professor of English at Western State College (1942-1943). He then taught at the University of Denver as assistant professor(1948-1954). He also directed the writing program at U. of Denver and from 1947 to 1953 was director of the University Press. In 1940, Swallow became the founder, owner, and single employee of his publishing firm, Alan Swallow, Publisher. He sought to promote the poetry and fiction of contemporary writers who are often unrecognized by the larger commercial publishers. His list included J.V. Cunningham, Thomas McGrath, Janet Lewis, and the more well known Yvor Winters and Allen Tate. Swallow has also written and published several books of poems and has edited anthologies of poetry and of prose. He lectured at various writers' conferences and was a member of the Western Writers of America, Colorado Authors League, Denver Westerners, and American Civil Liberties Union. He died on November 27, 1966 in Denver, Colorado.
The Alan Swallow Papers consist of correspondence, subject files, manuscripts and published material. Correspondence is divided into incoming (primarily business) and outgoing (copies of letters sent by Swallow).
Subject files contains conference and writers' workshop programs, legal contracts, photographs of Swallow, a printers specimen sheets, and various trade lists, mailing pieces and notices from Alan Swallow, Publisher, and his subsidiary presses (e.g. Sage Books).
Manuscripts consists of typescripts of books, essays, a foreword, poems, and a speech by Swallow and by others.
Published material consists of articles, book reviews, newspaper clippings (a newspaper column), pamphlets, poems, and short stories by Swallow. In addition, there are articles about Swallow, magazines published by him, books written by others, and some published by Swallow, pamphlets published by Swallow, pamphlets written and published by others, and miscellaneous magazines. Some of the articles, books, and pamphlets are inscribed by their authors.
Incoming correspondence is arranged alphabetically while outgoing correspondence is arranged chronologically. Subject files and manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by subject or title respectively. Published material is also arranged in alphabetical order except for the newspaper clippings, which are arranged chronologically. An index to incoming letters is located at the end of this finding aid.
There are no access restrictions on this material
Wri tten permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
A large number of additional books have been removed from the collection and catalogued separately. Please refer to SUMMIT, our main catalog for a complete listing.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Alan Swallow Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of Alan Swallow, 1964.
Created by: -
Date: May 25 1966
Revision history: 4 Jan 1967 - additions (-);
24 Sep 2007 - converted to EAD (JPK)
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Incoming | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | A-C 1942-1943 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | D-K 1942-1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | M-W 1942-1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Unidentifiable 1942-1943 | ||||||||||
| Outgoing | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1943 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1964 | ||||||||||
| Subject Files | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Check | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Conference and workshop programs | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fisher, Vardis | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Greeting card | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Legal contracts | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notes | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Photographs | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Printer's specimen sheet | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Trade lists, mailing pieces, advertisements, notices to authors - from A.S. | ||||||||||
| Manuscripts | |||||||||||
| Books | |||||||||||
| Box 1, 2 | The Harvest Waits by Lorene Pearson - pp. 1-512 in Box 1, pp. 513-659 in Box 2 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Stars Ploughed Under by Stephen Tolland Griggs | ||||||||||
| Essays | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | (Untitled) by J.V. Cunningham | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "The Death of the Novel and/or the Disappearing Audience" by Jarvis Thurston | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Foreword (untitled) by Alan Swallow | ||||||||||
| Poems | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Several poems and epigrams by J.V. Cunningham | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "The Mad Huntsman" by S.F. Damon | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Speech, "Poetry of the West" by Alan Swallow | ||||||||||
| Published Material | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Abstract of thesis by Alan Swallow | ||||||||||
| Articles | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | About Swallow | ||||||||||
| By Swallow | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | A-O (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | P-W | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | By others | ||||||||||
| Books | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Index to Little Magazines, 1948 comp. by Alan Swallow, H. Colgrave, A. Smith 1948 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Moods in Melody by Jesse L. Kraft | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The 1943 Curecanti 1943 - yearbook | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | A Season of Grace by N. V. M. Gonzalez | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Silver Souvenirs published by Alan Swallow | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Book reviews by Alan Swallow | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Legal briefs | ||||||||||
| Magazines | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Published by Alan Swallow | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Miscellaneous (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | About Swallow | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | About others | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | By Swallow 1957, undated (5 folders) | ||||||||||
| Pamphlets | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | By Alan Swallow | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | By others, published by Swallow | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | By others | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Miscellaneous advertising | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Poems by Alan Swallow (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Poem/greeting card by Alan Swallow | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Poem by Genevieve Taggard | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Publisher's catalogs (miscellaneous) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Short stories by Alan Swallow | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Songs translated by James Schevill | ||||||||||
