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Handwritten early version of poem “Moving In” written to “Charlie and Doris” dated April 1, 1939. This poem was later published in Poetry, LV, December, 1939. (Note: wording is slightly different than published version.) Letter dated February 3, 1946 Undated typed note over reprint of “Three Poems” in envelope post-marked January 7,1951 Letter dated January 12,1951 Letter dated June 15, 1955 and enclosed privately printed poem on Averell Harriman Letter dated May 16, 1955 Letter dated December 22, 1955 Letter dated June 24, 1985 and copy of response from Foster dated July 1, 1985 1945 Engle Christmas card “For the Midwestern Dead” 1946 Engle Christmas card “Book and Child,” three sonnets by Paul Engle printed for his and his family’s friends, Christmas, 1956 Undated Christmas card designed by Sara Engle Undated Christmas card Photograph of Engle child April 29, 1962 Christian Science Monitor book review of Edmund Wilson’s Patriotic Gore by Perry Miller. Engle has written at the top of the page “Dear Charlie, You’ve been vindicated, Paul” and marked Miller’s criticism that Wilson had not given proper acknowledgement of his use of Foster’s writings in his new book. Although Wilson had reviewed The Rungless Ladder in the “New Yorker,” he seemed vague on his use of material from it in The Patriotic Gore to the dismay of Miller, Engle, and other scholars, as well as Foster. Undated reprint of “A Name”

Letter dated July 5, 1957 Letter dated July 16, 1957 Letter dated August 29, 1957 Letter dated December 30, 1957 “Something More Powerful,” The Alumni-Senior Chapel Address, June 8, 1957

(At one point in 1957, Wall and Foster had planned to collaborate on abook on the Abolitionist movement. The 1957 letters were written while Wall was on leave researching Andrew Carnegie and NY Senator Lehman, two projects that ultimately precluded the Abolitionist project.) Letter dated March 21, 1957 Letter dated February 19, 1957 Letter dated May 1, 1957 Letter dated June 12, 1957 Letter dated July 15, 1957 with attached transcript of an item Wall found in the Carnegie papers in the Library of Congress Letter dated August 15, 1957 Letter dated September 3, 1957? Letter dated October 27, 1957 Letter dated December 8, 1957 Letter dated March 4, 1961 with a March 9 response from Foster Wall’s Andrew Carnegie’s Hogmanay, 1970 with Christmas greeting from Joe and Bea Letter dated July 10, 1980

August 28, 1957 September 15, 1957 September 26, 1957 October 5, 1957 November 17, 1957 January 28, 1958 June 7, 1962 July 25, 1963 August 6, 1963

(Note: Novelist Harnack was also a former student of Foster at Grinnell College.) Letter dated February 13, (1956? Year is based on reference to Foster going to Minnesota to teach summer school) Letter dated July 26, 1957 Letter dated October 7, 1957 Letter dated November 24, 1957 Letter dated January 6, 1958 Letter dated January 12, 1958

Consists of material written by, about, and for Charles H. Foster.  Included are copies of lectures given by Foster, book reviews written by and about him, and correspondence with colleagues and friends.  This collection contains copies of correspondence written by Foster to Robert Frost and also letters received by Foster from MacKinlay Kantor, Paul Engle, Perry Miller, Curt Harnack, and Joseph F. Wall.  Additionally, this collection includes unpublished manuscripts (one incomplete) by Foster.  Also included are two signed Perry Miller books that were given to Foster from Miller.

(includes Harnack’s first published story) </span> “Mask of Snow,” The Antioch Review, Fall, 1957. In envelope sent by Curt Harnack from Iowa City. Foster has written on envelope “Curt Harnack’s first published story”