{"value"=>"<p>This series - the most extensive in the collection - includes correspondence (personal, professional, and concerning published works), papers related to Taggard's editorial work, journals and notebooks, legal documents, memorabilia, musical scores, poetry and prose (ranging from handwritten drafts to published work), transcripts and notes for radio broadcasts, and teaching materials. Materials are arranged alphabetically by format.</p> <p>Correspondence comprises much of the series and includes letters to and from friends, family, colleagues, and publishers, as well as letters concerning two of Taggard's published works: The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson and A Part of Vermont. Many important figures in 20th century American literary and publishing circles numbered among her correspondents, including Katherine Anne Porter, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Rose Benét, Louise Bogan, Louis Untermeyer, Erskine Caldwell, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Josephine Herbst, Max Eastman, Grace Hazard Conkling, Ernest Hemingway, Sara Bard Field, Rolfe Humphries, Floyd Dell, George Sterling, Ernst Waldinger, and Van Wyck Brooks. Of particular note are letters from British writer Sylvia Townsend Warner about World War II which describe its effects on her daily life and perceptions. Taggard also corresponded with artists Alexander Calder, Paul Strand and Andrée Ruellan. Her correspondence with publishers includes that with small, literary journals as well as larger and more mainstream publishing houses, and through these letters one may better understand the reception of Taggard's work in her own time. Researchers should note that some folders also contain Kenneth Durant's correspondence with the individual, as he solicited letters to add to the collection from friends and colleagues following Taggard's death.</p> <p>Journals and notebooks in this series range from Taggard's childhood friendship book to the notebooks in which she later kept ideas for writing and teaching projects. Legal documents include various iterations of her will, marriage certificates and a bill of divorce, publishing contacts and permissions records, two passports, and a certificate of death. Memorabilia includes a lock of hair sent to Taggard, a press pass to the 1939 World's Fair in New York, ration books issued during World War II, and various cards, certificates, bookplates, and book jackets.</p> <p>Also in this series are musical scores, in which Taggard's poetry was set to music, as well as programs from events at which these pieces were performed. In addition, there are drafts of many of Taggard's poems and prose pieces, including extensive research notes, drafts, and galley proofs of her best known work, The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson. Taggard published numerous book reviews, essays, and translations, and drafts of many of those works are in this series.</p> <p>The series includes newspaper and journal clippings about Taggard and her work, as well as obituaries and memorials. There are notes and transcripts for radio broadcasts, one of her preferred means of public reading, and teaching materials created during her tenure at Mt. Holyoke, Bennington, and Sarah Lawrence Colleges. Taggard organized these files by topic - often an individual poet - and they contain lecture notes and outlines, suggested reading lists, and some student work.</p> <p>The wide range of materials in this series documents Taggard's adult life, as manifested through the roles of poet and writer, editor, teacher, mother, wife, and politically minded citizen, as well as some of her childhood experiences. Her correspondence provides an understanding of the ways in which her personal relationships influenced her work, and vice versa, and drafts and research notes provide insight into her mind and writing process.</p>"}