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George Dillon Papers

An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Dillon, George, 1906-1968.
Title: George Dillon Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1862-1982
Quantity: 13 linear ft.
Abstract: The papers of the American poet include correspondence (1862-1973), family as well as that related to his editorship of Poetry magazine; minutes of the Modern Poetry Association (1950-1962); family diaries, financial papers, photographs, scrapbooks, and manuscripts that include material on a translation of "Les Fleurs du Mal" by Baudelaire, produced in collaboration with Edna St. Vincent Millay, and other translations of French authors, including Giraudoux, Prévert, and Ronsard. Correspondents include Helen S. Arthur, Robert Ballou, Morris Bishop, Eugen Boissevain, Amy Bonner, Inez Boulton, Augustine Bowe, Jean Burden, Witter Bynner, Gladys Campbell, Margaret Carpenter, Hayden Carruth, John Ciardi, Jean Cocteau, Malcolm Cowley, James Daly, Peter DeVries, Benjamin Huebsch, Nicholas Joost, Hugh Kenner, James Laughlin, Vachel Lindsay, Katinka Loeser, Je ssica MacDonald, Archibald MacLeish, Marcia Lee Masters, Harry Meacham, Arthur Meeker, Paul Mellon, William Meredith, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bonner Mitchell, Adrienne Monnier, Harriet Monroe, Marianne Moore, Gilbert Neiman, John Nerber, Louise Townsend Nicholl, John F. Nims, Sterling North, Gil Orlovitz, Henry Rago, Jean Rivier, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Florence Stearns, Marion Strobel, Allen Tate, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Monroe Wheeler, and Morton Zabel.
Language: English
Repository: Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

Biographical History

George Dillon (1906-1968) was an American poet and editor.

Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Dillon's parents moved around frequently when he was a child and he lived in Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri, before moving to Chicago after high school. As a student at the University of Chicago, Dillon began to write and edit poetry.

Dillon's first poetry collection, Boy in the Wind, appeared when he was barely twenty-one, yet the critic for the Dial stated: "There is no timidity of evasion, no suggestion of frailty or wavering. His lines have always the assurance of authority, the finality of complete mastery." Louis Untermeyer, in the Saturday Review of Literature, wrote: "His pages...tempt one to cast aside criticism for scarcely reserved enthusiasm." Untermeyer decided that Dillon had not fulfilled his earlier promise, however he was omitted from subsequent editions.

Of his second volume, The Flowering Stone - which won the Pulitzer Prize - Babette Deutsch, the critic for the New York Herald Tribune Books, wrote that though Dillon had been attentive to the lessons of more established poets, "no poet save himself can have brought him to the source of his poetry, or unsealed that bright fountain to our refreshment and joy. Only a searching mind and an alert, sensitive body could have combined to produce poetry of this calibre." Dillon translated poems by Ronsard, Aragon, Eluard, and Michaux, all of which were published in Poetry. Indeed, he is now chiefly remembered for these, since he failed to develop the promise shown in his first volumes. Now chiefly remembered for his Baudelaire and Racine translations, Dillon failed to add to his reputation after his second volume of poetry. [From World Authors 1900-1950 (1996)]

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The George Dillon Papers comprise Correspondence-subject files, Writings and Memorabilia. Spanning the years 1862 to 1982, the collection illuminates both the family relationships and the creative work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (The Flowering Stone, 1931) and translator of the works of such luminaries of French belles-lettres as Baudelaire, Giraudoux, Racine and Ronsard.

Among the Correspondence-subject files are both personal and business letters, the latter chiefly in connection with Dillon's tenure with Poetry, first as associate editor (1925-27) during his undergraduate years at the University of Chicago, and later as successor to its founder and editor, Harriet Monroe. The correspondence which is of greatest depth and duration includes letters from Amy Bonner, Eugen Boissevain, Inez Boulton, Jeanne Daladier, Alix Du Poy Daniel, Carl Hillerns, Ben Huebsch, Nicholas Joost, Marcia Lee Masters (Schmid), Arthur Meeker, Lila Michaelides, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Nerber, Henry Rago, Karl Shapiro, Florence Dickinson Stearns, Marion Strobel, Geraldine Udell and Jean Starr Untermeyer. Also in the collection is an extensive assortment of family correspondence including letters of Adah Hill and William S. Dillon (parents) to George, other family members, and friends. Among the other family correspondents are Alice Sinclair Hill and Alice Baur Hodges, and various members of the Dillon and Hill families.

The Writings (Boxes 12-14) encompass articles, books, and poetry in printed and/or manuscript form. Book manuscripts include typescript drafts and revisions of Dillon's translations of Baudelaire (Flowers of Evil) and Racine (Three Plays of Racine), together with two unpublished translations: Giraudoux's Le Guerre de Trois n'aura pas Lieu ("No War in Troy") and Ronsard's sonnets and lyrics, "Four Seasons of Love." Also among Dillon's poetry translations is the work of Jean Cocteau, Jacques Prévert, and Jules Supervielle.

Boxes 15-16 of the Memorabilia have been categorized as either family material or George Dillon's personal mementos. Among the family memorabilia is genealogical material relating to the Dillon, Hill, and Sinclair families as well as financial, legal and miscellaneous documents and clippings. George Dillon's personal memorabilia has been arranged chronologically, from childhood through his academic career, his military assignment, and his activities from 1945 until his death in 1968. Also categorized under personal memorabilia is financial, legal and printed material, the latter including a number of theater programs and musical scores. Boxes 17-19 are comprised of photographs and scrapbooks relating to George Dillon and other family members. Eleven oversized packages contain diaries of Alice Sinclair Hill, drawings by George Dillon as well as scrapbooks of clippings and theatrical memorabilia.

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Arrangement of the Collection

Alphabetical by type or topic.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.

Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

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Subject Headings

Persons

Arthur, Helen S.
Ballou, Robert O. (Robert Oleson), 1892-1977.
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. -- Fleurs du mal -- Translations.
Bishop, Morris, 1893-1973.
Boissevain, Eugen, -1949.
Bonner, Amy.
Boulton, Inez.
Bowe, Augustine Joseph, 1892-1966.
Burden, Jean.
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968.
Campbell, Gladys.
Carpenter, Margaret Haley.
Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008.
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986.
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989.
Daly, James Joseph, 1901-
De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993.
Dillon, George, 1906-1968.
Giraudoux, Jean, 1882-1944. -- Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu -- Translations.
Huebsch, B. W. (Benjamin W.), 1876-1964.
Joost, Nicholas.
Kenner, Hugh.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997.
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931.
Loeser, Katinka.
MacDonald, Jessica North, 1894-
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982.
Masters, Marcia Lee.
Meacham, Harry M. (Harry Monroe), 1901-1975.
Meeker, Arthur, 1902-1971.
Mellon, Paul.
Meredith, William, 1919-2007.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
Mitchell, Bonner.
Monnier, Adrienne.
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936.
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Neiman, Gilbert.
Nerber, John.
Nicholl, Louise Townsend.
Nims, John Frederick, 1913-1999.
North, Sterling, 1906-1974.
Orlovitz, Gil, 1918-1973.
Prévert, Jacques, 1900-1977 -- Translations.
Rago, Henry, 1915-1969.
Rivier, Jean, 1896-1987.
Ronsard, Pierre de, 1524-1585.
Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000.
Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015.
Stearns, Florence (Dickinson), 1883-
Strobel, Marion, 1895-
Tate, Allen, 1899-1979.
Untermeyer, Jean Starr, 1886-1970.
Wheeler, Monroe, 1899-1988.
Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 1901-1964.

Corporate Bodies

Modern Poetry Association.

Associated Titles

Poetry (Chicago)

Subjects

American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century.
French literature -- Translations into English.
Periodical editors -- United States.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
Poets, American.

Genres and Forms

Diaries.
Genealogies (histories)
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Programs (documents)
Scrapbooks.

Occupations

Editors.
Poets.
Translators.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

George Dillon Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Gift of George Dillon and Alice Hodges.

Finding Aid Information

Created by: ASD
Date: 1977
Revision history: Aug 1989 - rev. - AE; 20 Mar 2007 - converted to EAD (AMCon); 23 Feb 2016 - rehoused, barcoded, inventory updated (MRC)

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Inventory

Correspondence-subject files
Box 1 Biographical material
Box 1 A
Box 1 Alsberg, Henry G. 1938
Box 1 Armour, Alexander W. 1940-1954, undated
Box 1 Arthur, Helen S. 1938, 1939
Box 1 Avrett, Robert 1960
Box 1 B
Box 1 Baker, Aaron W. 1862, 1863
Box 1 Ballou, Robert Oleson 1961, 1966-1968
Box 1 Bauer, Robert 1957-1961
Box 1 Baur, Emil 1906-1910, 1932
Box 1 Baur, George A. 1946-1948, undated
Box 1 Baur, Nannie Hill 1906-1912, 1923-1966, undated (11 folders)
Beach, Sylvia
See Princeton University Library.
Box 2 Bell, Charles Greenleaf 1957-1962
Box 2 Bertele, Rene 1960
Box 2 Bird, Dorothy Maywood 1967
Box 2 Bishop, Morris 1961, 1962, 1971
Box 2 Boissevain, Eugen 1928, 1930, 1937-1939, undated
Box 2 Bonner, Amy 1937-1940, 1949, 1953-1957, undated
Box 2 Boulton, Inez 1941, 1942, 1949-1952, 1957, undated
Box 2 Boulton, Rudyerd (and Louise Rehm) 1959-1963
Box 2 Bowe, Augustine Joseph (and Julia) 1945, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1968
Box 2 Boynton, Percy H. 1938
Box 2 Bradley, Jenny 1973, 1975, 1982
Box 2 Bridges, Betsy Eden 1939, 1962-1966, 1972, 1973
Box 2 Brittin, Norman A. 1964, 1973-1980
Box 2 Brown, John L. 1945, 1946
Box 2 Burden, Jean 1951-1968, undated (2 folders)
Box 2 Bynner, Witter 1947, 1949, 1961, 1962
Box 2 C
Box 2 Cairns, Huntington 1946
Box 2 Campbell, Gladys 1938, 1949-1968, undated (6 folders)
Box 2 Campbell, Kathleen Winifred 1950, 1957, 1958, 1961
Box 2 Cannon, Isabelle C. 1940, 1944, 1951, undated
Box 2 Carpenter, Margaret Haley 1958-1961 (2 folders)
Box 3 Carpenter, Margaret Haley 1962-1982, undated (2 folders)
Box 3 Carruth, Hayden 1949, undated
Box 3 Castle, Marian 1946, 1956
Box 3 Catel, Jean 1945?, 1946
Box 3 Chapin, Katherine Garrison 1961
Box 3 Ciardi, John 1946
Box 3 Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce 1961
Box 3 Clemens, Cyril 1968
Box 3 Cocteau, Jean 1960
Box 3 Coignard, James 1945, 1974
Box 3 Coleman, Elliott 1962
Box 3 Colony, Horatio 1961, 1966
Box 3 Covington, Annette 1935
Box 3 Cowley, Malcolm 1946
Box 3 Daladier, Jeanne 1935-1941, undated (2 folders)
Box 3 Daly, James Joseph 1937, 1938, 1941
Box 3 de Daura, Louise 1930, 1937-1938, undated
Box 3 Davidson, Gustav 1957, 1959, 1960
Box 3 De Vries, Peter 1941-1945, 1950, 1959, 1961
Box 3 Dietz, Frieda Meredith 1939
Box 3 Dillon, B. F. 1906, 1910, undated
Box 3 Dillon, B. F. Jr. (Frank) 1910, 1942-1944
Box 3 Dillon, Diane 1965, 1968
Box 3 Dillon, James Thomas 1949, 1951
Box 3 Dillon, Walter B. 1945-1954, 1964
Box 3 Dillon, William S. and Adah Hill 1905-1913, 1930-1935, 1883, 1897, 1927 (7 folders of 36)
Box 4 Dillon, William S. and Adah Hill 1936-July 1944 (16 folders of 36)
Box 5 Dillon, William S. and Adah Hill Aug. 1944-1962, undated (13 folders of 36)
Box 6 Ditmars, Ann 1906, 1937-1941, 1949, 1953, 1955, undated
Box 6 Drew, Fraser Bragg 1950, 1961
Box 6 Du Poy Daniel, Alix 1935-1938, 1949-1967 (4 folders)
Box 6 E
Box 6 Elinor Wylie Poetry Fellowship 1938
Box 6 Elton, George 1969
Box 6 Elton, William R. 1949
Box 6 Emery, Ola Bland 1963, 1964, 1966
Box 6 English, Maurice 1966-1975, undated
Box 6 F
Box 6 Flaccus, Kimball 1955
Box 6 Flint, Edith Foster 1927, 1931, 1934, 1944, 1949
Box 6 Friar, Kimon 1937, 1962
Box 6 Frost, Elizabeth Hollister 1929
Box 6 Frost, Robert 1937
Box 6 G
Box 6 Galland, Georgette 1962-1964, undated
Box 6 Giroux, Robert 1947
Box 6 Gordon, Alvin J. 1946
Box 6 Greene, Luther 1948, 1949
Box 6 Gresham, Hattie Belle 1937, 1952, undated
Box 6 H
Box 6 Hall, Gordon Langley 1966, undated
Box 6 Hanna, Alfred Jackson 1942
Box 6 Harcourt, Brace, and Company 1946
Box 6 Harper & Row, Publishers 1962, 1963, 1967
Hayakawa, Margedant Peters
See Peters, Margedant.
Box 6 Hill, Alice Sinclair 1906-1914, 1927, 1931, undated
Box 6 Hill, George W. 1875, 1885, 1907-1911, 1941, undated
Box 6 Hill, Marshall A. 1906, 1907, 1931-1937
Box 6 Hill, Tom E. 1941-1963, 1967, 1968, undated
Box 6 Hillerns, Carl 1937-1941, 1947, 1951-1961, undated (2 folders)
Box 6 Hodges, Alice Baur 1910, 1926, 1939-1941, 1949-1960, 1927 - George's cousin; nickname "Missy" (2 folders)
Box 7 Hodges, Alice Baur 1961-1977, 1982, undated - George's cousin; nickname "Missy" (7 folders)
Box 7 Hodges, Alice Baur, "Lila" - with editorial comment by George Dillon (1 folder)
Box 7 Hoffman, Minna Bonner 1956, 1958
Box 7 Huebsch, Ben 1952-1964, undated
Box 7 Indiana University Press 1959, 1961, 1973
Box 7 J
Box 7 Jacoby, Grover 1967, 1968
Box 7 James, Bertha Ten Eyck 1937, 1945, 1961
Box 7 Joost, Nicholas 1953-1962
Box 7 K
Box 7 Kenner, Hugh 1961
Box 7 L
Box 7 Lacoste, Maurice 1947
Box 7 Laughlin, James 1946, 1948, undated
Box 7 Lea, Thomas C. 1949-1955, 1961
Box 7 Le Breton, Maurice 1946, 1961
Box 7 Lee, Lawrence 1938, 1961
Box 7 Lengyel, Cornel Adam 1968
Box 7 Lesemann, Maurice 1961, 1962
Box 7 Lieberman, Elias 1937, 1938
Box 7 Lindsay, Vachel 1914
Box 7 Little, Virginia Skilling 1941, 1948, undated
Box 7 Loeser, Katinka 1945, 1947, undated
Box 7 Lovett, Robert Morss 1934, 1937
Box 7 Lowe, Robert Liddell 1959
Box 7 M
Box 7 MacDonald, Jessica Nelson (North) 1937, 1950, 1953, 1958, 1961, 1968
Box 7 Macdougall, Allan Ross 1951
Box 7 MacLeish, Archibald 1937, 1942, 1944-1945
Box 7 Malone, Ted 1939
Box 7 Manderfeld, Viola 1957-1961, undated
Box 7 Masters, Marcia Lee 1942, 1946, 1955, 1961, 1967-1968, undated
Box 8 Meacham, Harry M. 1954-1962, 1967-1968
Box 8 Meeker, Arthur 1934-1939, 1950-1961, 1965-1968
Box 8 Mellon, Paul 1949, 1961
Box 8 Meredith, William 1969
Box 8 Michaelides, Lila 1934-1940
Box 8 Michaux, Henri 1943?
Box 8 Milford, Nancy 1973-1979
Box 8 Millay, Edna St. Vincent 1928-1940, 1952, 1957-1962, undated (2 folders)
Box 8 Millay, Norma 1962, 1968
Box 8 Miller, Cecilia Parsons 1960
Box 8 Mitchell, Joan 1935, 1966, 1967, undated
Box 8 Mitgang, Herbert 1965-1966
Box 8 Modern Poetry Association 1950-1962, undated
Box 8 Molloy, Paul 1965
Box 8 Monnier, Adrienne 1946, 1965, 1973
Box 8 Monroe, Harriet 1927-1938, undated
Box 8 Monroe, William Stanton 1946
Box 8 Moore, Marianne 1961, 1966
Box 8 Morot-Sir, Edouard 1961
Box 8 N
Box 8 Neiman, Gilbert 1959-1962
Box 8 Nerber, John 1945-1962, 1967, undated (2 folders)
Box 8 Nicholl, Louise Townsend 1959-1960
Box 8 Nims, John Frederick 1942, 1946, 1950, 1960
Box 8 North, Sterling 1955
Box 8 O
Box 8 O'Connor, William Van 1961
Box 8 Orlovitz, Gil 1955
Box 8 P
Box 8 Parker, Elinor Milnor 1962
Box 8 Pearson, Norman Holmes 1962
Box 8 Peters, Margedant 1946, 1950, 1961
Box 8 Pocket Books, Inc. 1962-1963
Box 8 Poetry, a Magazine of Verse 1940, 1941, 1949, 1950, 1954-1969, undated (3 folders)
Box 8 Pratt, Edwin John 1962
Box 8 Princeton University Library 1973, 1976
Box 8 Princeton University Press 1975
Box 9 R
Rago, Henry
See Poetry, a Magazine of Verse.
Box 9 Rivier, Jean 1947, 1961, 1963, 1970, 1974, 1975
Box 9 Roberts, Ruby Altizer 1953-1956
Box 9 Ross, David 1939, 1961
Box 9 S
Box 9 Schultz, Hanns Stefan 1961
Box 9 Seiffert, Marjorie Allen 1961
Box 9 Seward, William Ward 1968
Box 9 Shapiro, Karl Jay 1946-1954 (2 folders)
Box 9 Siebel, Julia 1957-1961
Box 9 Simms, Mary 1936-1939
Box 9 Smith, William Jay 1946
Box 9 Solomont, Susan 1967
Box 9 Stearns, Florence (Dickinson) 1938, 1939, 1943, 1952-1961, undated (2 folders)
Box 9 Stephan, Ruth 1944, 1960, 1964
Box 9 Stevenson, Ellen (Mrs. Adlai) 1955
Box 9 Strobel, Marion 1936, 1937, 1949-1965, undated (3 folders)
Box 9 Strull, Harold 1945-1947, 1961
Box 9 Sullivan, A. M. 1961
Box 9 Supervielle, Jules 1960, 1961
Box 9 Sussman, Nan Bright 1961
Box 9 T
Box 9 Takacs, Stefan 1933
Box 9 Tate, Allen 1946
Temple University Press
See English, Maurice.
Box 9 Trigg, Emma Gray (White) 1937, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1968, undated
Box 9 Tunstall, Virginia Hunter Lyne 1950, 1955, 1961
Box 9 Turbyfill, Mark 1950, 1965
Box 9 U
Box 9 Udell, Geraldine 1939-1967, undated (2 folders)
Box 10 University of Chicago Press 1946, 1949, 1957-1967
Box 10 Untermeyer, Jean Starr 1965-1968
Box 10 Valsa, M. 1938, 1957
Box 10 Viking Press 1932, 1938, 1951
Box 10 W
Box 10 Wescott, G. L. undated
Box 10 Wheeler, Monroe 1960
Box 10 Whiteley, Mary N. S. undated
Box 10 Wilder, Isabel 1936
Box 10 Wood, Audrey 1939
Box 10 Y
Box 10 Zabel, Morton Dauwen 1936-1937
Box 10 Telegrams 1906, 1910, 1912, undated
Box 10 Unidentified (3 folders)
Writings
Articles
Box 11 "Modern Poetry," Proceedings of Conference on Contemporary Culture, Purdue University undated
Box 11 "A Note on the Obvious," A Casebook on Ezra Pound 1959
Box 11 "Style and the Many-headed Beast" June 1955 - typescript manuscript with corrections
Books
Translations
Box 11 Baudelaire, Charles. Flowers of Evil - typescript ms.
Box 11 Baudelaire, Charles. Flowers of Evil 1962, undated - revisions
Box 11 Three Plays of Racine, first comments from teachers 1961 - excerpts from letters
Box 11 Three Plays of Racine, "Notes on Racine and French Classicism" undated
Box 11 Three Plays of Racine - introductory notes - typescript drafts with holograph corrections (3 folders)
Box 11 Three Plays of Racine, Introduction - typescript drafts with holograph corrections (2 folders)
Box 11 Racine, Jean Baptiste. Andromaque
Box 11 "Andromache" - holograph draft
Box 11 "Andromache" - typescript draft with holograph corrections (2 folders)
Box 11 Racine, Jean Baptiste. Britannicus
Box 11 "Britannicus" - holograph draft
Box 11 "Britannicus" - typescript draft with holograph corrections (2 folders)
Box 12 "Britannicus" - typescript draft with holograph corrections (2 folders)
Box 12 Racine, Jean Baptiste. Phedre
Box 12 "Phaedra" - typescript draft with holograph corrections (3 folders)
Translations, unpublished
Box 12 Giraudoux, Jean. La Guerre de Trois n'aura pas Lieu
Box 12 Giraudoux, Jean. "No War in Troy" - typescript draft with holograph corrections (2 folders)
Box 12 Ronsard, Pierre de. "Four Seasons of Love" - typescript draft (5 folders)
Box 13 Ronsard, Pierre de. "Four Seasons of Love" - typescript draft (1 folder)
Poetry
Box 13 Miscellaneous poems - typescript and holograph manuscripts
Poetry translations
Box 13 Cocteau, Jean. "L'Adieu aux Fusiliers Marins"
Box 13 Prevert, Jacques. "Barbara"
Box 13 Prevert, Jacques. "Je Suis Comme Je Suis"
Box 13 Prevert, Jacques. "This Love"
Box 13 Supervielle, Jules. "Homage to Life"
Box 13 Miscellaneous authors
Box 13 Unidentified
Box 13 Miscellaneous notes on translation
Miscellany
Box 13 "George Dillon Presents the Library" May 1938 - transcript of address delivered at the dedication of the Harriet Monroe Library of Modern Poetry, printed in the Courier
Box 13 Reader's reports May 27, 1967
Box 13 Miscellaneous fragments
Box 13 Notes (miscellaneous)
Galleys
Box 14 Baudelaire, Charles. Flowers of Evil (4 folders)
Box 14 Three Plays of Racine
Memorabilia
Family
Oversize 4 Certificate of membership in the Florida Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, B.F. Dillon July 8, 1908
Oversize 2 Diaries, Alice Sinclair Hill 1906
Box 15 Genealogical material, Dillon family
Box 15 Genealogical material, Hill family
Box 15 Genealogical material, Sinclair family
Box 15 Genealogical material, miscellaneous
Box 15 Financial material, William S. and Adah Hill Dillon (4 folders)
Legal material
Box 15 Dillon, Adah Hill, Estate of
Box 15 Dillon, William S., Estate of
Box 15 Hill, Alice S., Estate of
Box 15 Hill, George W., Estate of
Box 15 Patent information
Box 15 Cemetery and monuments
Box 15 Dillon, Adah Hill, memorial book
Box 15 Dillon, Adah Hill, recitation book
Box 16 Dillon, Adah Hill, scrapbook of postcards from William S. Dillon
Box 16 Dillon, William S.
Box 16 Dillon, William S. and Adah Hill, 30th anniversary book of William and Jennie Dillon 1938
Box 16 Dillon, William S. and Adah Hill, wedding book and dishes 1906
Box 16 House plans
Box 16 Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Box 17 Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Box 17 Clippings circa 1890s-1960
George Dillon
Box 17 Childhood-academia - notebooks
Box 17 Childhood-academia - miscellaneous
Oversize 3 Chinese robes, George Dillon from Harriet Monroe (2 items)
Oversize 4 The Echo 1923 - original drawings by George Dillon, Webster High School
Military
Box 17 Radio engineering section - "com. zone radio circuits"
Box 17 Radio engineering section - notebook
Box 18 Signal School notebooks 1942
Box 18 Documents and medals
Box 18 Job applications
Box 18 Advertising and mail order information
Box 18 International Correspondence Schools - business course 1954-1956
Box 18 Correspondents and address lists
Box 18 Personal documents
Box 18 Financial material (2 folders)
Legal material
Box 18 Estate
Box 19 Miscellaneous
Printed material
Box 19 Clippings 1932-1968, 1974 (2 folders)
Box 19 Poetry
Box 19 Theater programs (3 folders)
Box 19 German menus
Box 19 Music scores
Box 19 Miscellaneous
Oversize 4 Magic show poster
Box 20 Photographs
See also Scrapbooks, below, some of which contain photogaphs.
Oversize 3 Scarf
Scrapbooks
Box 21 "Houses" - photographs
Box 21 "B. F. Dillon" - photographs
Box 21 "George Dillon from 3 mo's old through early maturity" - photographs
Box 21 "George W. Hill (1845-1918)" - photographs
Box 21 "Relatives" - photographs
Box 22 "Mr. Dillon" 1925-1928 - reviews of Boy in the Wind, miscellaneous printed poems
Box 22 Pulitzer Prize 1932
Box 22 "Poetry Magazine"
Box 22 Poems, letters, clippings sent to Adah Hill Dillon 1933-1937
Oversize 2 "A Christmas Letter to G.D. from R.B. and I.B. Washington D.C." December 1950
Oversize 5 Clippings circa 1945-1968 - including 1946 book reviews by George Dillon
Oversize 1 Clippings - press reviews of Flowers of Evil
Oversize 4 Theater - clippings of actors and actresses
Oversize 1 Theater, "The Play and the Players" - clippings of actors and actresses
Oversize 5 Theater programs and clippings 1917-1923

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