Paul Engle Papers, 1927-1991

Creator: Engle, Paul 1908-91

Dates: 1831-1992 bulk of collection 1927-91

Collection Number: ZZ 38

Quantity: 18 linear feet, 63 boxes, includes 1 multimedia and 2 photograph boxes.

Repository: George T. Henry College Archives, Stewart Memorial Library, Coe College

Copyright: Copyright is retained by Hualing Nieh Engle

Restrictions on Access: Unrestricted

Abstract: Paul Engle was a noted poet and a professor at the University of Iowa. His noted accomplishments include director of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and as one of the founders of the International Writing Program also at the University of Iowa. His collection includes: personal and business correspondence, poetry and manuscript drafts, galleys, publications, and financial documents. The collection also includes papers from the Iowa Writers Workshop papers and International Writing Program, newspaper clippings, photographs, audio tapes, and works from other authors.

Language: English

Location: George T. Henry Archives

Preferred Citation: Paul Engle Papers, George T Henry Archives, Stewart Memorial Library, Coe College

Acquisition: Part of this collection was given to Coe College by Paul Engle during his lifetime. Other materials were given by Hualing Nieh Engle in 2002.

Processing Information: Processed by Hongbo Xie and Sara Pitcher (2006-08)

Paul Hamilton Engle, son of Thomas Allen and Evelyn Reinheimer Engle, was born on October 12, 1908, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, of German ancestors. He attended public school in Cedar Rapids. As a teenager, Engle had his first real job behind the soda fountain counter in the neighborhood pharmacy. In his memoirs, he described the experience as his “window into the whole area.” He also took part in the family’s business, training horses.

After graduating from Washington High School, he enrolled at Coe College. Engle graduated from Coe in 1931 with a major in English. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated Cum Laude with departmental honors. His thesis was an extended essay on the relations of John Keats and Leigh Hunt. He obtained his masters from the University of Iowa in 1932. His master’s thesis was a volume of poems titled Worn Earth which was published by Yale University Press in the same year, winning the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His thesis was one of the first instances in American higher education of a creative piece being accepted. Engle spent two years at Columbia University and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. While at Oxford he studied under the poet, Edmund Blunden, earning a Bachelor of Arts A.B. from Merton College, Oxford in 1936. A Master’s in Arts A.M. degree followed in 1939.

While still in England, his second volume of poems, American Song, was published. J. Donald Adams on page 1 of the New York Times Book Review, proclaimed Engle “A New Voice in American Poetry” (July 29, 1934). Adams closed his lengthy review with this statement. “Paul Engle is a poet to be watch[ed], a writer who will play his part in the resurgence of creative force that will mark this decade in our literary history.” On July 3, 1936, Engle married Mary Nissen, a former neighbor in Cedar Rapids. They exchanged vows at the Oxford Registry Office. The marriage produced two daughters – Mary and Sara, but ended in divorce in 1970.

Engle returned to the University of Iowa in 1937 as a faculty member in the English department with a focus on poetry. In 1941, he assumed the acting director’s position of the Writer’s Workshop replacing Wilbur Schramm who was serving in the military. He became the director the next year, and is credited with developing the workshop into the premier writing program in the world over the next quarter of a century. He resigned as director in 1965.

In 1967, Engle co-founded the International Writing Program at of the University of Iowa with Hualing Nieh, a Chinese novelist. They married in 1971. Engle devoted his energies full time to the International Writing Program, until his wife succeeded him as director in 1977. In 1976 Paul and Hualing were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by close friend Averell Harriman who Paul met on an earlier fund-raising trip. Harriman wrote in his nomination: “I have known the Engles and watched their dedicated efforts to bring peace and understanding to the world by bringing writers of every country, language and culture to their program in Iowa City.”

During his retirement, Paul continued to write and provide consultant services to his wife. Engle died of a heart attack at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago en route to Poland to receive an award in 1991. His memoir, A Lucky American Childhood, was published posthumously in 1996.

Engle wrote and edited more than 20 books, was a frequent contributor to poetry journals, scholarly journals, and popular magazines. His book reviews appeared in the New York Times and other publications. It is arguable that his greatest contribution to the literary world was the nurturing of young writers.

The Engle collection is eighteen linear feet, consisting of sixty boxes of papers, two boxes of photographs, and five sound recordings. The collection contains material covering the various aspects of Engle’s life as a poet, educator, administrator, and personal life. Approximately twenty of the sixty boxes contain correspondence including family and friends both in and out of the writing community, Iowa Writers Workshop, International Writing Program, University business, as well as letters relating to the publication of Engle’s work. Some influential writers that are represented include Robert Frost, English author Edmund Blunden, Czeslaw Milosz, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakravarti, Flannery O’Connor, Kurt Vonnegut and Janusz Glowacki. Correspondence can be found in a large part of the personal and professional series and also in series seven and eight the Iowa Writers Workshop and the International Writing Program.

The focus of Engles collection is the seventeen boxes devoted to his works. In Series 3 every poem found in the collection has been listed either in poetry a-z, collections, or drafts, notes and fragments. Also listed is his prose: articles, essays, short stories, and book reviews. Galleys, typescripts, and drafts of published works appear in Series 5. Interesting pieces in these series include an opera by Paul Engle, composed by Philip Bezanson. This opera was originally titled Western Child and performed by the school of fine arts at the University of Iowa in 1959. A remake of the opera was broadcast by the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1960 titled Golden Child. Nineteen sixty-two saw the publication of the children’s book Golden Child. The collection contains galleys and marked proofs for the book, and drafts and typescripts for the opera. Golden Child was not the only work by Engle put to music. There are several scores created for Engle’s poetry in the collection as well. The collection spans more than forty years from the late 1920s to the late 1980s and show Engle’s development as a writer.

The collection contains the administrative papers, correspondence and publications from the Iowa Writers Workshop. In 1967 Engle and novelist Hauling Nieh co-founded the International Writing Program, a residency program that brought established international writers to the workshop. Series 8 includes administrative, financial, and personal correspondence concerning the International Writing Program (IWP) along with records and translations from the program. Of note is correspondence from the resident writers relating their experiences writing in their own countries, their travel frustrations, and their appreciation for the program. Correspondence from international writers can also be found in Series 1. Two folders in Series 8 contain correspondence concerning Engle and Hualing’s nomination for a Nobel Peace Price in 1976 for their work with the International Writing Program.

Interesting points in the collection include Engle’s diary from 1929-31 and papers, including correspondence, photographs, and genealogy on Engle’s ancestors beginning in 1831. There are also works from other authors including, but not limited to, private publications from Robert Frost and Tate Allen, a play by Art Buchwald, an essay by John Drury, a paper by Harris T George, a thesis by Denis Johnson, and a short story by Jean Kerr. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings, film scripts, ephemera, awards, and financial and legal documents.

* Copy is from the University of Iowa

The collection is divided into 13 Series:

Series 1: Personal - Correspondence and documents from Engle’s personal life, includes correspondence from other writers.

Series 2: Professional - Correspondence relating to lectures, speeches and the publication of Engle’s poetry.

Series 3: Poetry - Drafts, notes, fragments, research material and printed copies of finished poems.

Series 4: Prose - Articles, short stories, essays, book reviews, and research material.

Series 5a: Publications - Drafts, notes, proofs, galleys and promotions for Engle’s published works.

Series 5b: Publications, Complete - Journals and publications containing work by or about Engle.

Series 6: Notebooks and Diaries - Address books from Engle’s travels, notebooks containing poetry fragments, notes on horses, and a diary from 1929-31.

Series 7: Iowa Writers Workshop - Administrative papers, correspondence, and workshop publications.

Series 8: International Writing Program (IWP) - Administrative papers, personal correspondence, IWP records, poetry translations, and financial records.

Series 9: Newspaper Clippings - Newspaper clippings by and about Engle, research material.

Series 10: Other Authors, Works - Works by other writers and artists.

Series 11: Photographs, Awards, Ephemera - Photographs, awards and ephemera.

Series 12: Oversized - Oversized material from the collection.

Series 13: Multimedia - Four sound recordings and a videocassette.

Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981
American Fiction
American Fiction – 20th Century – Book Reviews
American Poetry – 20th Century
Amis, Kingsley, 1922-1995
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943
Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000
Cheever, John, 1912-1982
Coe College
Engle, Paul – Correspondence
Engle, Paul, 1908-1991
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
International Writing Program (University of Iowa)
Iowa
Iowa Poetry Workshop
Justice, Donald Rodney, 1925-2004
Letters
Levine, Philip, 1928-
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982
Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005
Nie, Hualing, 1926-
Nieh, Hualing, 1926-
O'Connor, Flannery, 1925-1964
Poetry – 20th Century
Poetry – Translations
Poets
Roth, Philip, 1933-
Stafford, William, 1914-1993
University of Iowa
Vonnegut, Kurt 1922-2007
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
Washington High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
Wouk, Herman, 1915-

Collections:

Greenblatt, Joan: Paul Engle Collection 1934-1997 (ZZ 127.1)

Hiersteiner, Jean and Walter: Paul Engle Collection (un-catalogued)

Geiger, Diane (Mrs. Waldo): Paul Engle Collection (un-catalogued)

Videotapes:

“Paul Engle country:” Iowa Public Television, produced by Zell, Marty, written and directed by Zell, Marty and Manigal, Tom 1984 (ZZ 117.23)

“Paul Engle Special:” Iowa Public Television, produced Schram, Marilyn; Hany, Nancy; Gourly, Chris and Vogel, Lance, directed by Smith, Clay 1991 (ZZ 117.24)

Music and Periodicals:

See Coe Catalog for music put to Engle’s poetry and periodicals containing his early work.

Abstract: This series contains correspondence and documents from Engle’s personal life. Of note is the correspondence from friends, many of whom are influential writers in their own right. Such as: Robert Frost, English author Edmund Blunden, Czeslaw Milosz, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakravarti, Flannery O’Connor, Kurt Vonnegut and Janusz Glowacki. This correspondence is in both the general and individual folders. This series also includes correspondence and documents from Engle’s ancestors dating back to the eighteen hundreds

Series Notes:

• Correspondence, Individual: These names were divided out when the collection was first appraised.

• Correspondence, Family: Individuals may also appear in the miscellaneous folders.

• Correspondence, General: The general correspondence is divided by decade. The lists of names do not represent all the individual correspondents located in the general folders. There are notable writers in these folders that do not appear in Individual Correspondence.

• * copy from the University of Iowa

Series 1 Contents:

Box	Folder
		Correspondence, Individual
1	1	Algren, Nelson    1958
	2	Anderson, Curtiss    1958, 1970-80s
	3	Anderson, Robert    1980-90s
	4	Astor, Lord [invitation]    n.d.
	5	Baker, Mrs. Falcon O.    1984 January 16
	6	Bankier, Jean    1970 February 5
	7	Bell, Marvin    1989
	8	Belvin, Bill    1989, 1991
	9	Benet, Stephen Vincent    1950s
	10	Berryman, John    September 10
	11	Blackburn, Alex    1979
	12-13	Blunden, Edmund    1930-60s    (see also: other authors)
	14	Brooks, Gwendolyn    1940-80s
	15	Chakravarti, Nirendranath    1971-72, 1976
	16	Childress, William    1970-71
	17	Cummings, E.E.    1938, 1950-63    (photocopy)
2	18	Degnan, James    1970-72
	19	Dickey, Bill    1961 October 23
	20	Dimić, Moma    1987-88
	21	Elliott, George    1963, 1980
	22	Embree, Charles    1969, 1971, 1974
	23	Erich, Alvin C.    1968-69
	24	Finkel, Don    1971-72
	25	Frost, Robert    1930-40s
	26	Garment, Leonard    1969-72
	27	Gerber, John    1967, 1969, 1970-72
	28	Gish, Lillian    1968, 1975
	29	Glowacki, Janusz    1981-83
	30	Grever, Barbara Birkbeck    1967-70, 1978
3	31	Hall, James B.    1970
	32	Hall, Oakley    1959, 1966, 1971
	33	Hamilton, Charles    1968-73
	34	Hamilton, William F.    1978 December 30
	35	Hanks, Nancy    1969, 1973, 1979
	36	Harriman, W. Averell    1950-70s
	37	Hayden, Robert    1977 February 2
	38	Hearst, James    n.d.
	39	Hennessey, Peter    1972 June 26
	40	Hess, Jack    1970-71, 1976
	41	Johnson, Lyndon [inauguration]    1965
	42	Justice, Donald    1959-80s
	43	Keeley, Edmund    1965, 1971
	44	Kim, Richard    1970, 1975
	45	Knight, Eric    1940-43    (photocopy*)
	46	Knight, Jere    1962, 1976, 1983, 1990
	47	Koch, Kenneth    1970
	48	Laugen, Jack    1977 January
	49	Lavine, Mel    1975-79
	50	Levine, Harry    1959-60, 1982-83
	51	Levine, Philip    1960s
	52	Lowell, Robert    1959 [original]; 1947, 1955-56    (photocopy* )
4	53	MacAlister, Ian    1965
	54	MacLeish, Archibald    1930-40s
	55	Mallon, Thomas V.    1970s
	56	Marquand, Adelaide    1950-60s
	57	Miller, Arthur    1983
	58	Miller, Warren    1959, 1961
	59	Milosz, Czeslaw    1970-80s
	60	Moershel, H.G.    1970
	61	Newburger, G.F.    1931
	62	Nieh, Hualing    1981    (see also: correspondence, family)
	63	O'Connor, Flannery    1950s
	64	Rago, Henry    1955
	65	Ray, Robert D.    1981, 1985
	66	Remen, Gloria [calligraphy]    1972
	67	Reppert, Emma    1965-69
	68	Richter, Victor and Alice    1960-80s
	69	Rockefeller, Blanchette    1959-60, 1964
	70	Roth, Philip    1961, 1964
5	71	Salamon, Joanna and Martien    1984-85
	72	O'Laughlin[?], Sean    1937, 1963, 1986
	73	Sigmund, Jay G.    1920-30s
	74	Simmons, John and Gelfand Lawrence    1980
	75	Sinkler, Becky and Students [Montezuma Community School, Iowa]    1990
	76	Snodgrass, W.D.    1960s
	77	Snow, C.P.    1960, 1964
	78	Stafford, William    1960-80s
	79	Tate, Allen    1959, 1961
	80	Tree, Marietta    1960, 1962
	81	Truesdell, Nelda [Coe '31, contains poetry]    1930s, 1983
	82	Untermeyer, Louis    1969 September 16
	83	Vonnegut, Kurt    1970-90s
	84	Warren, Robert Penn    1940s
	85	Williams, William Carlos    1950s
	86	Williams, Wirt    1959
	87	Wouk, Herman    1980s
		Correspondence, Family
6	88	Engle, Eva    1930s
	89-90	Engle, Mary Nissen    1930s
	91	Engle, Mary Nissen    1940-60s
	92	Engle, Mary Nissen [inheritance]    1960-70s
	93	Engle, Sara    1950-80s
7	94	Margot and Olive    1930s, 1980-90s
	95	Miscellaneous    1831-98
	96-97	Miscellaneous    1950-90s
	98	Engle's Parents    1930s
	99	Reinheimer, Jacob    1869
		Correspondence, General
8	100	1927
		Ruth [from Engle]
	101	1930s [includes but not limited to]
		Campbell, Bill    1934
		Heyberger, Anna    1938
		Wolfe, Thomas    1936
	102	1940s [includes but not limited to]
		Litterst, Helene    1947
	103	1950s [includes but not limited to]
		Bean, William B.    1957
		Birney, Earle    1957
		Boutwood, Dredda    1956
		Elliott, Owen    1959    (see also: 1976)
		Floyd, Carlisle    1959
		Greer, Gordon    1958
		Harper, Harry H.    1959
		July, Robert W.    1957
		Knocalton, Arline    1959
		Kojima, Hobuo    1957
		Laser, Marvin    1959
		Lawrence, Seymour    1955
		McNamara, Robert C.    1955
		Mehta, Ved    1957
		Merwin, W.S. (William Stanley)    1957
		Rapp, Anna    1955
		Robertson, Robert    1954
		Williams, Oscar    1955
		Young, Stanley    1955
	104	1960s [includes but not limited to]    (see also: oversized box 57)
		Amis, Kingsley    1962
		Atkinson, Brooks    1962
		Bellow, Saul    1962
		Bird, Lance    1969
		Bourjaily, Vance    1964
		Bradshaw, Jack    1969
		Campbell, Paul N.    1969
		Dickey, Bill    1961
		Engels, John    1969
		Gehman, Richard    1969
		Grant, Beatrice R.    1968
		Houghton, H. Clark    1961
		Kitterman, Douglas B.    1969
		Kivivuori, Kristiina    1965
		McCarthy, Dick    1963
		Moul, Francis    1965
		Nechardt, John G.    1960
		Olsen, Frederick Bruce    1964
		Prude, Agnes De Mille    1967    (see also: 1976)
		Reppest, Emma L.    1966
		Schott, Webster    1969
		Weinhaum, Eleaneor    1969
		White, Nancy    1969
	105	1960s [includes but not limited to]
		Auslaudes, Joseph    1965
		Barlow, Arthur    1965
		Bowen, Howard R.    1964
		Brzekowski, Jan    1967
		Calisher, Hortense    1967
		Fakir, Asoke    1965
		Fisk, Shirley C.    1962
		Gissen, Max    1964
		Godfrey, Dave    1961
		Hall, Earl    1966
		Harrison, A.R.W.    1965
		Hess, John    1964
		Holland, Leslie A.    1965
		Kanwar, H.I.S.    1967
		Kwang-chung, Yu    1964
		MacMahon, Bryan    1965
		Marquand, Lonny    1961
		Mukherjee, Bharati    1962
		National Council of the Arts    1965
		O'Conner, Frank    1961
		Pranam, Jyoti    1966
		Sai, Selma    1962
		Salisbury, Ralph    1965
		Stegner, Wallace    1961
		Stevens, Roger L.    1967
		Stoddard, George D.    1963
		Szlaga, Krystyna    1967
		Walker, Gerald    1964
		White, Nancy    1969
		Wilson, Angus    1960
		Won, Ko    1966
	106	1970s [includes but not limited to]
		Breban, Nicolae    1977
		Cho, Byung Hwa    1979
		Clark, Dick    1977
		Crook, Arthur    1972
		Culver, John C.    1973
		Cuninggim, Merrimon    1976
		Cursaru, Lucian    1972
		Deane, Elizabeth    1978
		Decker, William B.    1973
		Degnan, James    1978
		Hall, Margaret D.    1977
		Hanes, R. Phillip Jr.    1975
		Hilbert, Marilyn    1978
		Husa, Karel    1976
		Kizer, Carolyn    1977
		Laube, Paul J.    1976
		MacDonald, Kenneth    1973
		McClellan, Edwin    1974
		McFadden, Mary    1978
		Mihelič, Mira    1972
		Miltner, Pat and Leo    1972
		Shelton, Mark    1977
		Sigovich, Donald    1979
		Stutsman, Loraine [Mrs. Melvin C.]    1970
		Telpaz, Gideon    1977
		Walsh, John E.    1975
		Williams, Linda    1977
		Wyatt, Wyatt Laurence    1976
		Zarzecki, Krzysztof    1972    (see also: 1981)
	107	1970s [includes but not limited to]
		Adler, Philip D.    1970
		Akel, Abdullatif    1978
		Andrews, Clarence    1976
		Badawy, Fouad    1978
		Barba, Harry    1970
		Basler, Roy P.    1971
		Bly, Robert    1975
		Ciardi, John    1972
		Culver, John    1973
		Elliott, Owen    1976
		Freeman, Lorraine O'Grady    1970
		Gerard, Bert S.    1978
		Hunt, John    1972
		Johnson, Ira    1971
		Jonas, Carl    1972
		Kluger, Richard    1970
		Knapp, J. Burke    1970
		Kosinski, Jerzy    1973
		McGee, Frank    1972
		O'Connor, Phil    1971
		Payne, Robert    1975
		Prude, Agnes De Mille    1976    (see also: 1967)
		Richter, Vic    1970
		Varma, Shrikant    1971
		Wallace, Irving    1975
		Williams, Linda    1976
9	108	1980s [includes but not limited to]    (see also: oversized box 57)
		Abruquah, Joe W.    1984
		Benton, Nicholas    1982
		Cheever, John    1980
		Ferreter, Ed    1980
		Hart-Davis, Rupert    1983
		Jay, Peter    1981
		Kerry, Alan    1988
		Kesler, Roby    1988
		Kohlhasse, Wolfgang    1981
		Lengyel, Balars    1984
		Lindquist, Robert J.    1981
		McCarthy, Colman    1983, 1987
		Megged, Aharon    1985
		Miedzyrzecki, Artur    1981, 1983-84
		Nalle, David    1980
		Qian, Ziao    1983
		Remmert, James    1984
		Salinger, Steven D.    1987    (see also: 1991)
		Smart, William    1984
		Taylor, John D.    1981
		Thomas, John    1980
		Tóth, Éva    1984
		Verma, Shrikant    1982, 1985
		Vik, Bjog    1982
		Walsh, Richard    1983
		Ward, Robert J.    1984
		Zarzecki, Krzysztof    1981    (see also: 1972)
	109	1980s [includes but not limited to]
		Ahern, Mary V.    1983
		Barańczak, Stanislaw    1983
		Brown, William    1985
		Colloton, John W.    1983
		Conley, John    1983
		DeVries, Peter    1983
		Donoso, José    1983
		Erbe, Norman A.    1983
		Fisk, Shirley C.    1980
		Friendly, Pie    1984
		Hall, Jim    n.d.
		Harnack, Curtis    1984
		Holm, T.L.    1984
		Jammet, Anna    1983
		Mason, Charles    1984
		McCollister, Betty    1984
		McGowin, Nicholas S.    1983
		Murthy, U.R. Anantha    1983
		Myer, Randall    1984
		Przeździecki, Jerzy    1981-82
		Rinden, Robert Watland    1983
		Rosenthal, Alee M.    1984
		Salinger, Steve    1986
		Secor, Philip B.    1984
		Sprieser, John R.    1984
		Stevens, Roger L.    1980
		Winokur, George    1984
		Zhao, Y.H.    1983
	110	1980s [includes but not limited to]
		Baker, Mrs Falcon O.    1985
		Balaban, John    1987
		Czestochowski, Joseph S.    1985
		Freeman, John H.    1988
		Frehde, Joachim    1985
		Freund, Gerald    1985
		Halevy, Yoav Levitas    1988
		Halpern, Daniel    1985
		Heckman, A.A.    1987
		Hoyos, Juan José    1988
		Hubbell, James W.    1984
		Kinney, Richard R.    1987
		McCleary, Gordon    1985
		Miyamoto, Yokichi    1985
		Murray, Pauli    1985
		Newton, Michael    1987
		Peterson, Walter F.    1987
		Phocas, Nichos    1987
		Salinger, Steven    1986
		Salinger, Steven D.    1985-86
		Shammas, Anton    1987
		Skellings, Edmund    1987
		Telpaz, Gideon    1987
		Verna, Shrikant    1985
		Ward, Bob    1986, 1988
		Weissbort, Daniel    1987
		Weissbort, Danny    1985
		Williamson, Daniel    1985
		Yee, Gilbert Y.    1984
	111	1990s [includes but not limited to]
		Buchanan, Ellen    1990, 1992
		Moon, Dok Su    1990
		Mulroy, Kevin    1990
		Parisi, Joseph    1990
	112	1990s [includes but not limited to]
		Gillespie, Ross    1990
		McGhee, George C.    1990
		Morgan, Michael    1991
		Salinger, Steven D.    1991
	113	No Date [includes but not limited to]
		Barlow, S.L.M.
		Butcher, Fanny
		Cosby, Mrs. Michael
		Dalrymple, Jean
		Datta, Jyoti
		Day Lewis, Cecil
		Ellison, Ralph and Fanny
		Fisk, Shirley Carter
		Friedman, Bill
		Ginsberg, Allen
		Gloudon, Barbara
		King, Bob
		Lampson, David
		Macauley, Robie
		Field, Mrs. Marshall
		Miyamoto, Yokichi
		Petersen, William J.
		Sigmund, James B.
		Strut, Pavel
		Stryk, Lucien
		Witt, Carol
		Documents
10	114	Art Collection: Appraisal
	115	Family: Miscellaneous
	116	Correspondence: Divorce    (see also: oversized box 57)
	117	Engle, Mary Nissen: Documents, Legal Correspondence    1960    (see also: oversized box 57)
	118	Documents, Legal: General    (see also: oversized box 57)
	119	Engle, Paul: Memorial Service    1991
		Ephemera: Miscellaneous (see: box 53, 61a-b)
	120	Financial: Medical, Life Insurance, Retirement    1961, 1980
	121	Reports, Annual Bank    1968-70, 1972-74    (see: oversize box 57)
	122-123	Tax Returns    1971-80s, 1990
11	124	Fredrich, John Tower: Interview, Jean Wylder
	125	Genealogy
	126	Manuscript, Unknown [Engle ed.?]
	127	Marshall College, Correspondence: Communist Accusation    1952    (photocopy*)
	128	Miscellaneous
	129	Newspaper Clippings    (photocopy)
	130	Photographs: Family    (see: photograph box 55)
	131	Travel Abroad: Correspondence    1963, 1975

Abstract: This series contains correspondence relating to business matters including lecture arrangements and the publication of Engle’s poetry. Items of interest include a broadcast script of Engle reading and discussing his poetry from 1934, scripts of films about Engle, and lectures and speeches.

Series 2 contents:

Box	Folder
12	132	Awards: Miscellaneous    (see: awards box 53, 61a)
	133	Broadcast: "Talk to America"    1934 December 9, Sunday (oversize: see box 57)
	134	Brochures and Pamphlets
	135	Business: General
	136	Conferences    1965, 1980s
		Correspondence, Business
	137	Adams Press    1970-80s
	138	Bobbos-Merrill    1968
	139	Contemporary Authors Autobiographical series    1989-90s
	140	Contemporary Films    1968-69
	141	Dial Press    1968-69
	142	F.A.S. International    1972
	143	Florida International University    1970-80s
	144	Follett    1960-70s
	145	Goldwater and Flynn    1969
	146	Good Housekeeping    1969
	147	Grove Press    1970
	148	Hallmark [card company]    1963-70s
	149	Holiday    1970s
	150	Holt, Rinehart, and Winston    1977-78
	151	Houghton Mifflin Company    1970-80s
13	152	Iowa Educational Broadcasting Network, The Iowa Arts Council    1976
	153	John Deere    1973-74
	154	Kansas City Star    1970
	155	McCall's    1969-70
	156	Meredith Corporation [Better Homes and Gardens]    1981 February 3
	157	Mobil Oil    1978-90
	158	Mobil Oil: Pegasus Prize for Literature    1970s
14	159	Pushcart Press    1970-80s
	160	Readers Digest    1970-80s
	161	William Morris    1960-70s
	162-166	Miscellaneous    1950-70s
15	167-168	Miscellaneous    1980s
		Correspondence, Organizations
	169	Academy of American Poets    1969-75
	170	American Assembly    1969-70
	171	Cambridge Poetry Festival    1981
	172	Coe College    1970-90s
	173	Iowa State Fair    1970 July 31
	174-175	University of Iowa    1953-80s [majority 70s and 80s]
	176	Miscellaneous    1930s, 1970s
16	177	Faculty Status: University of Iowa    1960-70s
		Films
	178	Funding: "Poetry the Worlds Voice"    1970
	179	Presentation: Script, "Of Men and Mountains," Pikes Peak State Park    1973 June 16
	180	Proposal: Chen, Angelica, "Paul Engle: A Poet of Vision,"    1980
	181	Script: "No streets have been named for Paul Engle..."    n.d.
	182	Script: Arriette, Nelson, "The Artist in America"    1970
	183	Script: "Things of Christmas Speak"    1970
	184	Grants and Proposals    1960-70s
		Lectures and Speeches
	185	Convocation    n.d.
	186	Jakarta, Art Council Indonesia    n.d.
	187-188	Miscellaneous
	189	"Poetry is Ordinary Language Raised to the Nth Power"    n.d.    (see: oversized box 57)
	190	Promotion: General
17		Lectures and Speeches, Correspondence
	191	1950s
	192	1960-61
	193	1962-63
18	194	1964
	195	1965
	196	1966-69
	197	1970s
19	198-199	1970s
	200	1980s
20	201	Official Notes: Writing Conference, Song of Songs
		Organizations
	202	Business Committee for the Arts    1970s
	203	Friendship Ambassador Foundation    1970s
	204	Lannon Foundation    1987
	205	National Endowment for the Arts    1970-80s
	206	National Endowment For The Humanities    1982
		Resumes
	207	Engel, Hualing Nieh
	208	Engle, Paul
	209	Reports: Trips    1980s
	210	Tuthil, Samuel J    (see: box 16, folder 180)

Abstract: This series contains Engle’s poetry, including his drafts, research material notes, fragments and printed copies of finished poems. Of note are the poems that were turned into musical compositions and Engle’s early poetry from the 1920s-1930s.

Series Notes:

• Poetry A-Z: These are typed and completed poems alphabetized in the folders and listed on the finding aid.

• Collections: These poems were found paper clipped together. Where possible a title was given to the collection indicating a common factor that tied the poems together.

• Drafts, Notes, and Fragments: We maintained the original order and folder titles where possible.

Series 3 Contents: