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Series 1: Correspondence, 1974-2006; Series 2: Writings, circa 1977-1999; Series 3: Printed materials, 1980-2005; Series 4: Academic files, 1980-1996; Series 5: Business and personal files, 1980-2000; Series 6: Born-digital materials, undated; Series 7: Sheila Brady materials, 1975-2005; Series 8: Collected materials, 1996.","Larry Patrick Levis was a poet and a professor of poetry. He was born on September 30, 1946 to parents\nWilliam Kent Levis and Carol Mayo Levis in Fresno, California, the youngest of four children. Levis\ngrew up on his family's ranch, a large farm of vineyards and orchards in Selma, California. During his childhood, he helped his father and the farm workers employed by the family\nwith the daily operations of the ranch.","Levis earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1968, from Fresno State College, later renamed California\nState University, Fresno, where he formed what would become a lifelong friendship with Philip Levine.\nTwo years later, he earned a master's degree in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Following his\ngraduation, Levis became a lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles, where he taught from\n1970 to 1972. In 1972, the University of Pittsburgh Press published his first book of poems, Wrecking\nCrew, which won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum. That same year he\njoined the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa where he taught and was a writing fellow\nfrom 1972 to 1974. From 1972 to 1973, Levis served as West Coast Editor of the literary magazine\nCrazyhorse, and in 1973, he received his first National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.","In 1974, Levis earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa and took a job as an assistant\nprofessor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he taught from 1974 to 1983. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor and was tenured in 1980, and he also served\nas co-editor and founding editor of the Missouri Review from 1978 to 1981. \nHis second book\nof poems, The Afterlife, was published in 1977 by the Windhover Press of the University of Iowa and the\nUniversity of Iowa Press and was awarded the Lamont Poetry Selection of the American Academy of\nPoets. \nLevis returned to the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa as a visiting poet from 1980 to 1982, and again in 1991. His third book of poems, The Dollmaker's Ghost, which was the winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, was published by E.P. Dutton in 1981. In 1983, Levis was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled through Mexico and several countries in Europe.","Levis took a position as an associate professor at the University of Utah in 1984. That same year, he\nreceived his second National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. The University\nof Pittsburg Press released his fourth book of poems, Winter Stars, in 1985. Levis was promoted to the position\nof full professor in 1988, and he served as director of Utah's Program of Creative Writing from 1988\nto 1992. Levis also served as associate editor of the Western Humanities Review from 1987 to 1992.\nIn 1988, he received a Senior Fulbright Fellowship and traveled to Yugoslavia, and he was\nawarded a third National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1989. In 1991, the University of Pittsburgh Press\npublished Levis's fifth book of poems, The Widening Spell of the Leaves.","Levis moved to Richmond, Virginia, in 1992, having taken a job as a professor and senior poet at\nVirginia Commonwealth University. That same year, Peregrine Smith published Black Freckles, a book of\nLevis's short prose pieces. In 1993, Levis became director of the master's of fine arts program in Creative\nWriting at Virginia Commonwealth University. At this time, Levis was also a faculty member of the Warren Wilson College's master's of fine arts Creative Writing Program. He continued teaching and mentoring students in the low-residency program into 1996.\nOn May 9, 1996, Levis was found dead from cardiac arrest at the age of 49 in his home in the Church\nHill neighborhood of Richmond.","Over the course of his career, Levis's poems were published in a number of magazines and journals\nincluding American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Field, Southern Review, and Antioch Review,\namong others. In addition to the publications noted above, Levis also had several other limited edition\nchapbooks published including The Rain's Witness in 1975, The Leopard's Mouth Is Dry and Cold Inside\nwith Marcia Southwick in 1976, and Sensationalism in 1983, as well as a limited edition broadside, The Two\nTrees, in 1994.","Levis has one child, Nicholas Levis, born in 1978, the son of Marcia Southwick, to whom Levis was\nmarried from 1975 to the early 1980s. He had also been married to Barbara Campbell from 1969 to 1973\nand Mary Jane Hale from 1989 to 1990.","Extant documentation of the state in which Levis's materials were initially found following his death\nindicates that Levis likely maintain only a very rudimentary organizational system. John Venable,\nthe graduate student tasked with the organization of Levis's office papers by Levis's sister, Sheila\nBrady, noted in a letter to Brady that \"Larry's method of filing drafts and revisions of poems is,\nsimply, unlike anything I've ever seen: drafts are not dated, some drafts switch from handwriting to\ntypescript and back again, further drafts are found in other, unmarked folders.\" Venable stated that\nhe consolidated groupings of Levis's academic files and his literary materials, the latter of which\nhe subdivided into three subgroups: drafts of poems and prose both from published collections and\nunpublished works, personal and professional correspondence, and \"indecipherable\" handwritten\npages. Following this organizational effort, it is likely that the salvaged materials were transferred to\nthe custody of the New Virginia Review.","Following their transfer, the exact date of which is unknown, the materials were stored, handled,\nadded to, and mailed among multiple parties, including several of Levis's friends, colleagues, and\nfamily members, who actively used the materials as they compiled, edited, and published several\nposthumous collections of Levis's work: Elegy (1997), The Selected Levis (2000), The Gazer Within\n(2001), and The Darkening Trapeze (2016), as well as Condition of the Spirit (2004), a compilation of\nLevis's essays and writings about Levis by others.","Details of this collaborative process are described by David St. John in his afterword to The\nDarkening Trapeze. He notes that content was pulled from Levis's computers and his home office\nin addition to his university office, and that the endeavor to collect and organize Levis's drafts was\nled by Mary Flinn, Gregory Donovan, and Amy Tudor, the three of whom also collaboratively\ndetermined which were the most recent drafts of given poems among those found. Editing of the\nresulting posthumous volumes was variously completed by Philip Levine, David St. John, James\nMarshall, Andrew Miller, John Venable, Mary Flinn, and Christopher Buckley. All posthumous\npublications were created either at the request or with the permission of Levis estate administrator\nSheila Brady.","Materials pertaining to the compilation of these works seems to have been added to the collection\nduring this time. It is clear, judging from David St. John's account as well as notations on folders,\nenvelopes, and sticky notes found during the reappraisal process, that the collection's intermediary\ncustodians sorted the materials in order to facilitate their use, though it is unknown how many\nseparate attempts at arrangement were made before the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing.","Born digital materials are housed on 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks.","When the collection was originally processed by VCU Special Collections and Archives in 2013, staff\nfound virtually no evidence of original order, and so an order was imposed at that time. Writings by\nLevis were organized chronologically and correspondence was arranged alphabetically. Materials\ndocumenting Levis's academic career were organized by institution, and his personal effects and\nposthumous materials were arranged by material type.","During the 2013 processing of the collection, materials acquired through a separate donation by Sheila\nBrady in 2011 were interfiled into the materials purchased in 2009. As provenance information was\nretained by that processor at the folder level, it was possible during the 2016 reprocessing effort\nto separate and arrange the materials donated by Brady into a single series, Series 7: Sheila Brady\nmaterials.","Materials which seems to have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady have been grouped into Series 8: Collected materials during the 2016 reprocessing. This series will also encompass any future accruals to the collection, should they occur.","During the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing, where order was discernable, whether it may be the result\nof Levis's design or that of the collection's custodians following his death, all efforts have been made to\npreserve it. This was done because any such order may hold clues to the creator's intent,\nwhether that order had been established by Levis himself or by those who knew him well and therefore may\nhave possessed unique insights into his creative process. Where order was found to be lacking, an\narrangement was imposed on the collection in order to facilitate intellectual control and access.\nThis imposition of order consisted of grouping materials either by record type or provenance, where\npossible.","Evidence of arrangement attempts made by Levis's colleagues and family after his death has been\nretained as much as possible through preservation photocopying of notes and the inclusion of relevant\ndescriptive information added by those other than Levis in folder titles placed within brackets. These retained notes include location information, description of content, and,\nfor some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts.","The Larry Levis papers consist of materials created and accumulated by Levis, his colleagues, and members of his family. Materials date from 1974 to 2006 and document Levis's literary career and legacy, his career in academia, and aspects of his personal life.","The great majority of Series 1: Correspondence is made up of letters, cards, notes, and postcards received by Levis as well as a lesser number of letters written by Levis. Correspondents include friends, colleagues, family members, and editors. These letters provide insight into Levis's personal and professional relationships. The folder of unidentified correspondence holds materials lacking an identifiable correspondent as these letters, cards, and postcards are marked with only a first name, illegible signatures, or no name at all. Miscellaneous envelopes are those that do not correspond with a letter or card in the series. Also found in this series are sets of correspondence in which Levis was neither the sender nor the recipient. These include the correspondence of James Marshall, Mary Flinn, and a set of other correspondence that includes single instances of exchanges between unique pairs of individuals. Most folders in this series hold only a few pieces of correspondence, with the exception of correspondence with Philip Levine which is substantial, but consists largely of photocopies.","Series 2: Writings, the largest series in this collection, is broken into three subseries: Subseries 2.1: Collected works, Subseries 2.2: Other works, and Subseries 2.3: Writings of others. These materials illuminate aspects of Levis's creative process, his professional and artistic relationships with peers, and the evolution of his literary career and legacy.","Subseries 2.1: Collected works makes up the bulk of this series and consists of drafts of Levis's writing, including drafts of individual poetry and prose pieces, manuscript drafts of collected works, journals, and unarranged or unidentified poem and prose drafts, many of which are handwritten. Some drafts include comments of Levis's colleagues, including Philip Levine. Content related to Levis's early works and limited edition publications is largely absent. Best represented are the works The Dollmaker's Ghost, Winter Stars, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, Black Freckles, Elegy, and The Gazer Within.","Evidence of posthumous arrangement activities is most prominent in this subseries, and all efforts have been made to preserve it as it may hold clues to the creator's intent. Preservation photocopies of sticky notes and notes written on envelopes are included in their corresponding folders. Descriptive information added by those other than Levis has been included in folder titles placed within brackets. The retained notations give location information, description of content, and, for some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts.","Drafts of poems and prose not identified and grouped with a specific collected volume have been placed in Subseries 2.2: Other works. Though the majority of these folders lacked distinct titles indicating why certain materials were placed in a folder together at the time of processing, there may be unknown meaning to their arrangement. Therefore, these items have been kept in their original folder groupings. Drafts marked at \"unidentified\" could not be identified in terms of genre.","Materials in Subseries 2.3: Writings of others include drafts or otherwise unpublished versions of poetry and prose pieces by other individuals. Some pieces are about Levis, while others were, presumably, acquired by Levis or his associates at some point.","In this series, many copies of poem drafts, including a number of the drafts for the collected work Elegy as well as unidentified drafts are photocopies. Dates given on folders holding these materials reflect the dates of the original content, when provided.","Series 3: Printed materials contains published poems, articles, and interviews by Levis and others as well as advertisements, flyers, and other printed ephemera. Items in this series provide examples of Levis's public presence, analysis and interpretation of his work in the press, and works by others that Levis or his associates acquired and retained. Published works by Levis are identified first by genre, then by title, whereas works by others are identified by the name of the author, then by title. Materials grouped by type include advertisements mentioning Levis, articles and press releases about Levis, articles about Philip Levine, postcards, and reviews.","Materials in Series 4: Academic files include academic administrative materials, course materials, student correspondence, and student work that document aspects of Levis's life in academia, his roles as a professor, and his approach to teaching. The bulk of materials in this series pertain to Levis's work with Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College. Academic materials that do not indicate an institution have been labeled as unidentified. Administrative materials include department correspondence and policy documents, employment forms, and similar materials. Course materials encompass syllabi, photocopied readings, and other materials related to the preparation and delivery of instruction. Correspondence with students, attendance and grade sheets, and submitted student work may be protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.","Series 5: Business and personal files holds appointment books, personal effects, photographs, audiovisual materials, awards, and other materials of a personal or professional nature that are not primarily made up of correspondence or writings. These items provide insight into Levis's personal life and also document his memorial services. Personal materials, such as photographs, lacking contextual information have been labeled as unidentified.","The disks in Series 6: Born-digital materials hold content created by Levis or his associates on a variety of topics. It is likely that some portion of the born-digital materials currently housed on these 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks is duplicated in the paper records, although the extent of this duplication is unknown at this time. Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for generation of access copies.","Series 7: Sheila Brady papers consists of materials donated by Brady, Levis's sister, in 2011. During the 2013 processing of the collection, these materials were interfiled into the materials previously purchased from Nicholas Levis. Notation made by the processor at the time enabled the separation of these files during the 2016 reprocessing effort into their own series. In terms of subject and content, materials in this series run the gamut of the collection as a whole. Materials include academic files from Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College; correspondence with colleagues of Levis, publishers, academic institutions, family, and friends; personal effects; obituaries; various printed materials and reviews; drafts and manuscripts of Levis collected works; and writings by others. Access to materials that may be protected by FERPA must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.","Series 8: Collected materials holds items which have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady. Currently, this includes a set of posters. 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He was born on September 30, 1946 to parents\nWilliam Kent Levis and Carol Mayo Levis in Fresno, California, the youngest of four children. Levis\ngrew up on his family's ranch, a large farm of vineyards and orchards in Selma, California. During his childhood, he helped his father and the farm workers employed by the family\nwith the daily operations of the ranch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLevis earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1968, from Fresno State College, later renamed California\nState University, Fresno, where he formed what would become a lifelong friendship with Philip Levine.\nTwo years later, he earned a master's degree in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Following his\ngraduation, Levis became a lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles, where he taught from\n1970 to 1972. In 1972, the University of Pittsburgh Press published his first book of poems, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWrecking\nCrew\u003c/title\u003e, which won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum. That same year he\njoined the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa where he taught and was a writing fellow\nfrom 1972 to 1974. From 1972 to 1973, Levis served as West Coast Editor of the literary magazine\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c/title\u003e, and in 1973, he received his first National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1974, Levis earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa and took a job as an assistant\nprofessor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he taught from 1974 to 1983. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor and was tenured in 1980, and he also served\nas co-editor and founding editor of the Missouri Review from 1978 to 1981. \nHis second book\nof poems, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Afterlife\u003c/title\u003e, was published in 1977 by the Windhover Press of the University of Iowa and the\nUniversity of Iowa Press and was awarded the Lamont Poetry Selection of the American Academy of\nPoets. \nLevis returned to the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa as a visiting poet from 1980 to 1982, and again in 1991. His third book of poems, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Dollmaker's Ghost\u003c/title\u003e, which was the winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, was published by E.P. Dutton in 1981. In 1983, Levis was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled through Mexico and several countries in Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLevis took a position as an associate professor at the University of Utah in 1984. That same year, he\nreceived his second National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. The University\nof Pittsburg Press released his fourth book of poems, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWinter Stars\u003c/title\u003e, in 1985. Levis was promoted to the position\nof full professor in 1988, and he served as director of Utah's Program of Creative Writing from 1988\nto 1992. Levis also served as associate editor of the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWestern Humanities Review\u003c/title\u003e from 1987 to 1992.\nIn 1988, he received a Senior Fulbright Fellowship and traveled to Yugoslavia, and he was\nawarded a third National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1989. In 1991, the University of Pittsburgh Press\npublished Levis's fifth book of poems, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Widening Spell of the Leaves\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLevis moved to Richmond, Virginia, in 1992, having taken a job as a professor and senior poet at\nVirginia Commonwealth University. That same year, Peregrine Smith published \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eBlack Freckles\u003c/title\u003e, a book of\nLevis's short prose pieces. In 1993, Levis became director of the master's of fine arts program in Creative\nWriting at Virginia Commonwealth University. At this time, Levis was also a faculty member of the Warren Wilson College's master's of fine arts Creative Writing Program. He continued teaching and mentoring students in the low-residency program into 1996.\nOn May 9, 1996, Levis was found dead from cardiac arrest at the age of 49 in his home in the Church\nHill neighborhood of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver the course of his career, Levis's poems were published in a number of magazines and journals\nincluding \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eField\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Review\u003c/title\u003e, and \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAntioch Review\u003c/title\u003e,\namong others. In addition to the publications noted above, Levis also had several other limited edition\nchapbooks published including \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Rain's Witness\u003c/title\u003e in 1975, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Leopard's Mouth Is Dry and Cold Inside\u003c/title\u003e\nwith Marcia Southwick in 1976, and \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSensationalism\u003c/title\u003e in 1983, as well as a limited edition broadside, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Two\nTrees\u003c/title\u003e, in 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLevis has one child, Nicholas Levis, born in 1978, the son of Marcia Southwick, to whom Levis was\nmarried from 1975 to the early 1980s. He had also been married to Barbara Campbell from 1969 to 1973\nand Mary Jane Hale from 1989 to 1990.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Larry Patrick Levis was a poet and a professor of poetry. He was born on September 30, 1946 to parents\nWilliam Kent Levis and Carol Mayo Levis in Fresno, California, the youngest of four children. Levis\ngrew up on his family's ranch, a large farm of vineyards and orchards in Selma, California. During his childhood, he helped his father and the farm workers employed by the family\nwith the daily operations of the ranch.","Levis earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1968, from Fresno State College, later renamed California\nState University, Fresno, where he formed what would become a lifelong friendship with Philip Levine.\nTwo years later, he earned a master's degree in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Following his\ngraduation, Levis became a lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles, where he taught from\n1970 to 1972. In 1972, the University of Pittsburgh Press published his first book of poems, Wrecking\nCrew, which won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum. That same year he\njoined the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa where he taught and was a writing fellow\nfrom 1972 to 1974. From 1972 to 1973, Levis served as West Coast Editor of the literary magazine\nCrazyhorse, and in 1973, he received his first National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.","In 1974, Levis earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa and took a job as an assistant\nprofessor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he taught from 1974 to 1983. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor and was tenured in 1980, and he also served\nas co-editor and founding editor of the Missouri Review from 1978 to 1981. \nHis second book\nof poems, The Afterlife, was published in 1977 by the Windhover Press of the University of Iowa and the\nUniversity of Iowa Press and was awarded the Lamont Poetry Selection of the American Academy of\nPoets. \nLevis returned to the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa as a visiting poet from 1980 to 1982, and again in 1991. His third book of poems, The Dollmaker's Ghost, which was the winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, was published by E.P. Dutton in 1981. In 1983, Levis was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled through Mexico and several countries in Europe.","Levis took a position as an associate professor at the University of Utah in 1984. That same year, he\nreceived his second National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. The University\nof Pittsburg Press released his fourth book of poems, Winter Stars, in 1985. Levis was promoted to the position\nof full professor in 1988, and he served as director of Utah's Program of Creative Writing from 1988\nto 1992. Levis also served as associate editor of the Western Humanities Review from 1987 to 1992.\nIn 1988, he received a Senior Fulbright Fellowship and traveled to Yugoslavia, and he was\nawarded a third National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1989. In 1991, the University of Pittsburgh Press\npublished Levis's fifth book of poems, The Widening Spell of the Leaves.","Levis moved to Richmond, Virginia, in 1992, having taken a job as a professor and senior poet at\nVirginia Commonwealth University. That same year, Peregrine Smith published Black Freckles, a book of\nLevis's short prose pieces. In 1993, Levis became director of the master's of fine arts program in Creative\nWriting at Virginia Commonwealth University. At this time, Levis was also a faculty member of the Warren Wilson College's master's of fine arts Creative Writing Program. He continued teaching and mentoring students in the low-residency program into 1996.\nOn May 9, 1996, Levis was found dead from cardiac arrest at the age of 49 in his home in the Church\nHill neighborhood of Richmond.","Over the course of his career, Levis's poems were published in a number of magazines and journals\nincluding American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Field, Southern Review, and Antioch Review,\namong others. In addition to the publications noted above, Levis also had several other limited edition\nchapbooks published including The Rain's Witness in 1975, The Leopard's Mouth Is Dry and Cold Inside\nwith Marcia Southwick in 1976, and Sensationalism in 1983, as well as a limited edition broadside, The Two\nTrees, in 1994.","Levis has one child, Nicholas Levis, born in 1978, the son of Marcia Southwick, to whom Levis was\nmarried from 1975 to the early 1980s. He had also been married to Barbara Campbell from 1969 to 1973\nand Mary Jane Hale from 1989 to 1990."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eExtant documentation of the state in which Levis's materials were initially found following his death\nindicates that Levis likely maintain only a very rudimentary organizational system. John Venable,\nthe graduate student tasked with the organization of Levis's office papers by Levis's sister, Sheila\nBrady, noted in a letter to Brady that \"Larry's method of filing drafts and revisions of poems is,\nsimply, unlike anything I've ever seen: drafts are not dated, some drafts switch from handwriting to\ntypescript and back again, further drafts are found in other, unmarked folders.\" Venable stated that\nhe consolidated groupings of Levis's academic files and his literary materials, the latter of which\nhe subdivided into three subgroups: drafts of poems and prose both from published collections and\nunpublished works, personal and professional correspondence, and \"indecipherable\" handwritten\npages. Following this organizational effort, it is likely that the salvaged materials were transferred to\nthe custody of the New Virginia Review.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing their transfer, the exact date of which is unknown, the materials were stored, handled,\nadded to, and mailed among multiple parties, including several of Levis's friends, colleagues, and\nfamily members, who actively used the materials as they compiled, edited, and published several\nposthumous collections of Levis's work: \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eElegy\u003c/title\u003e (1997), \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Selected Levis\u003c/title\u003e (2000), \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Gazer Within\u003c/title\u003e\n(2001), and \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Darkening Trapeze\u003c/title\u003e (2016), as well as \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCondition of the Spirit\u003c/title\u003e (2004), a compilation of\nLevis's essays and writings about Levis by others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetails of this collaborative process are described by David St. John in his afterword to \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe\nDarkening Trapeze\u003c/title\u003e. He notes that content was pulled from Levis's computers and his home office\nin addition to his university office, and that the endeavor to collect and organize Levis's drafts was\nled by Mary Flinn, Gregory Donovan, and Amy Tudor, the three of whom also collaboratively\ndetermined which were the most recent drafts of given poems among those found. Editing of the\nresulting posthumous volumes was variously completed by Philip Levine, David St. John, James\nMarshall, Andrew Miller, John Venable, Mary Flinn, and Christopher Buckley. All posthumous\npublications were created either at the request or with the permission of Levis estate administrator\nSheila Brady.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials pertaining to the compilation of these works seems to have been added to the collection\nduring this time. It is clear, judging from David St. John's account as well as notations on folders,\nenvelopes, and sticky notes found during the reappraisal process, that the collection's intermediary\ncustodians sorted the materials in order to facilitate their use, though it is unknown how many\nseparate attempts at arrangement were made before the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History"],"custodhist_tesim":["Extant documentation of the state in which Levis's materials were initially found following his death\nindicates that Levis likely maintain only a very rudimentary organizational system. John Venable,\nthe graduate student tasked with the organization of Levis's office papers by Levis's sister, Sheila\nBrady, noted in a letter to Brady that \"Larry's method of filing drafts and revisions of poems is,\nsimply, unlike anything I've ever seen: drafts are not dated, some drafts switch from handwriting to\ntypescript and back again, further drafts are found in other, unmarked folders.\" Venable stated that\nhe consolidated groupings of Levis's academic files and his literary materials, the latter of which\nhe subdivided into three subgroups: drafts of poems and prose both from published collections and\nunpublished works, personal and professional correspondence, and \"indecipherable\" handwritten\npages. Following this organizational effort, it is likely that the salvaged materials were transferred to\nthe custody of the New Virginia Review.","Following their transfer, the exact date of which is unknown, the materials were stored, handled,\nadded to, and mailed among multiple parties, including several of Levis's friends, colleagues, and\nfamily members, who actively used the materials as they compiled, edited, and published several\nposthumous collections of Levis's work: Elegy (1997), The Selected Levis (2000), The Gazer Within\n(2001), and The Darkening Trapeze (2016), as well as Condition of the Spirit (2004), a compilation of\nLevis's essays and writings about Levis by others.","Details of this collaborative process are described by David St. John in his afterword to The\nDarkening Trapeze. He notes that content was pulled from Levis's computers and his home office\nin addition to his university office, and that the endeavor to collect and organize Levis's drafts was\nled by Mary Flinn, Gregory Donovan, and Amy Tudor, the three of whom also collaboratively\ndetermined which were the most recent drafts of given poems among those found. Editing of the\nresulting posthumous volumes was variously completed by Philip Levine, David St. John, James\nMarshall, Andrew Miller, John Venable, Mary Flinn, and Christopher Buckley. All posthumous\npublications were created either at the request or with the permission of Levis estate administrator\nSheila Brady.","Materials pertaining to the compilation of these works seems to have been added to the collection\nduring this time. It is clear, judging from David St. John's account as well as notations on folders,\nenvelopes, and sticky notes found during the reappraisal process, that the collection's intermediary\ncustodians sorted the materials in order to facilitate their use, though it is unknown how many\nseparate attempts at arrangement were made before the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing."],"phystech_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBorn digital materials are housed on 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"phystech_heading_ssm":["Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements"],"phystech_tesim":["Born digital materials are housed on 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWhen the collection was originally processed by VCU Special Collections and Archives in 2013, staff\nfound virtually no evidence of original order, and so an order was imposed at that time. Writings by\nLevis were organized chronologically and correspondence was arranged alphabetically. Materials\ndocumenting Levis's academic career were organized by institution, and his personal effects and\nposthumous materials were arranged by material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring the 2013 processing of the collection, materials acquired through a separate donation by Sheila\nBrady in 2011 were interfiled into the materials purchased in 2009. As provenance information was\nretained by that processor at the folder level, it was possible during the 2016 reprocessing effort\nto separate and arrange the materials donated by Brady into a single series, Series 7: Sheila Brady\nmaterials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials which seems to have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady have been grouped into Series 8: Collected materials during the 2016 reprocessing. This series will also encompass any future accruals to the collection, should they occur.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing, where order was discernable, whether it may be the result\nof Levis's design or that of the collection's custodians following his death, all efforts have been made to\npreserve it. This was done because any such order may hold clues to the creator's intent,\nwhether that order had been established by Levis himself or by those who knew him well and therefore may\nhave possessed unique insights into his creative process. Where order was found to be lacking, an\narrangement was imposed on the collection in order to facilitate intellectual control and access.\nThis imposition of order consisted of grouping materials either by record type or provenance, where\npossible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvidence of arrangement attempts made by Levis's colleagues and family after his death has been\nretained as much as possible through preservation photocopying of notes and the inclusion of relevant\ndescriptive information added by those other than Levis in folder titles placed within brackets. These retained notes include location information, description of content, and,\nfor some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["When the collection was originally processed by VCU Special Collections and Archives in 2013, staff\nfound virtually no evidence of original order, and so an order was imposed at that time. Writings by\nLevis were organized chronologically and correspondence was arranged alphabetically. Materials\ndocumenting Levis's academic career were organized by institution, and his personal effects and\nposthumous materials were arranged by material type.","During the 2013 processing of the collection, materials acquired through a separate donation by Sheila\nBrady in 2011 were interfiled into the materials purchased in 2009. As provenance information was\nretained by that processor at the folder level, it was possible during the 2016 reprocessing effort\nto separate and arrange the materials donated by Brady into a single series, Series 7: Sheila Brady\nmaterials.","Materials which seems to have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady have been grouped into Series 8: Collected materials during the 2016 reprocessing. This series will also encompass any future accruals to the collection, should they occur.","During the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing, where order was discernable, whether it may be the result\nof Levis's design or that of the collection's custodians following his death, all efforts have been made to\npreserve it. This was done because any such order may hold clues to the creator's intent,\nwhether that order had been established by Levis himself or by those who knew him well and therefore may\nhave possessed unique insights into his creative process. Where order was found to be lacking, an\narrangement was imposed on the collection in order to facilitate intellectual control and access.\nThis imposition of order consisted of grouping materials either by record type or provenance, where\npossible.","Evidence of arrangement attempts made by Levis's colleagues and family after his death has been\nretained as much as possible through preservation photocopying of notes and the inclusion of relevant\ndescriptive information added by those other than Levis in folder titles placed within brackets. These retained notes include location information, description of content, and,\nfor some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Larry Levis papers consist of materials created and accumulated by Levis, his colleagues, and members of his family. Materials date from 1974 to 2006 and document Levis's literary career and legacy, his career in academia, and aspects of his personal life. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe great majority of Series 1: Correspondence is made up of letters, cards, notes, and postcards received by Levis as well as a lesser number of letters written by Levis. Correspondents include friends, colleagues, family members, and editors. These letters provide insight into Levis's personal and professional relationships. The folder of unidentified correspondence holds materials lacking an identifiable correspondent as these letters, cards, and postcards are marked with only a first name, illegible signatures, or no name at all. Miscellaneous envelopes are those that do not correspond with a letter or card in the series. Also found in this series are sets of correspondence in which Levis was neither the sender nor the recipient. These include the correspondence of James Marshall, Mary Flinn, and a set of other correspondence that includes single instances of exchanges between unique pairs of individuals. Most folders in this series hold only a few pieces of correspondence, with the exception of correspondence with Philip Levine which is substantial, but consists largely of photocopies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: Writings, the largest series in this collection, is broken into three subseries: Subseries 2.1: Collected works, Subseries 2.2: Other works, and Subseries 2.3: Writings of others. These materials illuminate aspects of Levis's creative process, his professional and artistic relationships with peers, and the evolution of his literary career and legacy. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubseries 2.1: Collected works makes up the bulk of this series and consists of drafts of Levis's writing, including drafts of individual poetry and prose pieces, manuscript drafts of collected works, journals, and unarranged or unidentified poem and prose drafts, many of which are handwritten. Some drafts include comments of Levis's colleagues, including Philip Levine. Content related to Levis's early works and limited edition publications is largely absent. Best represented are the works \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Dollmaker's Ghost\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWinter Stars\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Widening Spell of the Leaves\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eBlack Freckles\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eElegy\u003c/title\u003e, and \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Gazer Within\u003c/title\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvidence of posthumous arrangement activities is most prominent in this subseries, and all efforts have been made to preserve it as it may hold clues to the creator's intent. Preservation photocopies of sticky notes and notes written on envelopes are included in their corresponding folders. Descriptive information added by those other than Levis has been included in folder titles placed within brackets. The retained notations give location information, description of content, and, for some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafts of poems and prose not identified and grouped with a specific collected volume have been placed in Subseries 2.2: Other works. Though the majority of these folders lacked distinct titles indicating why certain materials were placed in a folder together at the time of processing, there may be unknown meaning to their arrangement. Therefore, these items have been kept in their original folder groupings. Drafts marked at \"unidentified\" could not be identified in terms of genre. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials in Subseries 2.3: Writings of others include drafts or otherwise unpublished versions of poetry and prose pieces by other individuals. Some pieces are about Levis, while others were, presumably, acquired by Levis or his associates at some point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this series, many copies of poem drafts, including a number of the drafts for the collected work \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eElegy\u003c/title\u003e as well as unidentified drafts are photocopies. Dates given on folders holding these materials reflect the dates of the original content, when provided.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Printed materials contains published poems, articles, and interviews by Levis and others as well as advertisements, flyers, and other printed ephemera. Items in this series provide examples of Levis's public presence, analysis and interpretation of his work in the press, and works by others that Levis or his associates acquired and retained. Published works by Levis are identified first by genre, then by title, whereas works by others are identified by the name of the author, then by title. Materials grouped by type include advertisements mentioning Levis, articles and press releases about Levis, articles about Philip Levine, postcards, and reviews. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials in Series 4: Academic files include academic administrative materials, course materials, student correspondence, and student work that document aspects of Levis's life in academia, his roles as a professor, and his approach to teaching. The bulk of materials in this series pertain to Levis's work with Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College. Academic materials that do not indicate an institution have been labeled as unidentified. Administrative materials include department correspondence and policy documents, employment forms, and similar materials. Course materials encompass syllabi, photocopied readings, and other materials related to the preparation and delivery of instruction. Correspondence with students, attendance and grade sheets, and submitted student work may be protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5: Business and personal files holds appointment books, personal effects, photographs, audiovisual materials, awards, and other materials of a personal or professional nature that are not primarily made up of correspondence or writings. These items provide insight into Levis's personal life and also document his memorial services. Personal materials, such as photographs, lacking contextual information have been labeled as unidentified.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe disks in Series 6: Born-digital materials hold content created by Levis or his associates on a variety of topics. It is likely that some portion of the born-digital materials currently housed on these 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks is duplicated in the paper records, although the extent of this duplication is unknown at this time. Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for generation of access copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 7: Sheila Brady papers consists of materials donated by Brady, Levis's sister, in 2011. During the 2013 processing of the collection, these materials were interfiled into the materials previously purchased from Nicholas Levis. Notation made by the processor at the time enabled the separation of these files during the 2016 reprocessing effort into their own series. In terms of subject and content, materials in this series run the gamut of the collection as a whole. Materials include academic files from Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College; correspondence with colleagues of Levis, publishers, academic institutions, family, and friends; personal effects; obituaries; various printed materials and reviews; drafts and manuscripts of Levis collected works; and writings by others. Access to materials that may be protected by FERPA must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8: Collected materials holds items which have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady. Currently, this includes a set of posters. This series will also encompass any future accruals to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Larry Levis papers consist of materials created and accumulated by Levis, his colleagues, and members of his family. Materials date from 1974 to 2006 and document Levis's literary career and legacy, his career in academia, and aspects of his personal life.","The great majority of Series 1: Correspondence is made up of letters, cards, notes, and postcards received by Levis as well as a lesser number of letters written by Levis. Correspondents include friends, colleagues, family members, and editors. These letters provide insight into Levis's personal and professional relationships. The folder of unidentified correspondence holds materials lacking an identifiable correspondent as these letters, cards, and postcards are marked with only a first name, illegible signatures, or no name at all. Miscellaneous envelopes are those that do not correspond with a letter or card in the series. Also found in this series are sets of correspondence in which Levis was neither the sender nor the recipient. These include the correspondence of James Marshall, Mary Flinn, and a set of other correspondence that includes single instances of exchanges between unique pairs of individuals. Most folders in this series hold only a few pieces of correspondence, with the exception of correspondence with Philip Levine which is substantial, but consists largely of photocopies.","Series 2: Writings, the largest series in this collection, is broken into three subseries: Subseries 2.1: Collected works, Subseries 2.2: Other works, and Subseries 2.3: Writings of others. These materials illuminate aspects of Levis's creative process, his professional and artistic relationships with peers, and the evolution of his literary career and legacy.","Subseries 2.1: Collected works makes up the bulk of this series and consists of drafts of Levis's writing, including drafts of individual poetry and prose pieces, manuscript drafts of collected works, journals, and unarranged or unidentified poem and prose drafts, many of which are handwritten. Some drafts include comments of Levis's colleagues, including Philip Levine. Content related to Levis's early works and limited edition publications is largely absent. Best represented are the works The Dollmaker's Ghost, Winter Stars, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, Black Freckles, Elegy, and The Gazer Within.","Evidence of posthumous arrangement activities is most prominent in this subseries, and all efforts have been made to preserve it as it may hold clues to the creator's intent. Preservation photocopies of sticky notes and notes written on envelopes are included in their corresponding folders. Descriptive information added by those other than Levis has been included in folder titles placed within brackets. The retained notations give location information, description of content, and, for some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts.","Drafts of poems and prose not identified and grouped with a specific collected volume have been placed in Subseries 2.2: Other works. Though the majority of these folders lacked distinct titles indicating why certain materials were placed in a folder together at the time of processing, there may be unknown meaning to their arrangement. Therefore, these items have been kept in their original folder groupings. Drafts marked at \"unidentified\" could not be identified in terms of genre.","Materials in Subseries 2.3: Writings of others include drafts or otherwise unpublished versions of poetry and prose pieces by other individuals. Some pieces are about Levis, while others were, presumably, acquired by Levis or his associates at some point.","In this series, many copies of poem drafts, including a number of the drafts for the collected work Elegy as well as unidentified drafts are photocopies. Dates given on folders holding these materials reflect the dates of the original content, when provided.","Series 3: Printed materials contains published poems, articles, and interviews by Levis and others as well as advertisements, flyers, and other printed ephemera. Items in this series provide examples of Levis's public presence, analysis and interpretation of his work in the press, and works by others that Levis or his associates acquired and retained. Published works by Levis are identified first by genre, then by title, whereas works by others are identified by the name of the author, then by title. Materials grouped by type include advertisements mentioning Levis, articles and press releases about Levis, articles about Philip Levine, postcards, and reviews.","Materials in Series 4: Academic files include academic administrative materials, course materials, student correspondence, and student work that document aspects of Levis's life in academia, his roles as a professor, and his approach to teaching. The bulk of materials in this series pertain to Levis's work with Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College. Academic materials that do not indicate an institution have been labeled as unidentified. Administrative materials include department correspondence and policy documents, employment forms, and similar materials. Course materials encompass syllabi, photocopied readings, and other materials related to the preparation and delivery of instruction. Correspondence with students, attendance and grade sheets, and submitted student work may be protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.","Series 5: Business and personal files holds appointment books, personal effects, photographs, audiovisual materials, awards, and other materials of a personal or professional nature that are not primarily made up of correspondence or writings. These items provide insight into Levis's personal life and also document his memorial services. Personal materials, such as photographs, lacking contextual information have been labeled as unidentified.","The disks in Series 6: Born-digital materials hold content created by Levis or his associates on a variety of topics. It is likely that some portion of the born-digital materials currently housed on these 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks is duplicated in the paper records, although the extent of this duplication is unknown at this time. Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for generation of access copies.","Series 7: Sheila Brady papers consists of materials donated by Brady, Levis's sister, in 2011. During the 2013 processing of the collection, these materials were interfiled into the materials previously purchased from Nicholas Levis. Notation made by the processor at the time enabled the separation of these files during the 2016 reprocessing effort into their own series. In terms of subject and content, materials in this series run the gamut of the collection as a whole. Materials include academic files from Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College; correspondence with colleagues of Levis, publishers, academic institutions, family, and friends; personal effects; obituaries; various printed materials and reviews; drafts and manuscripts of Levis collected works; and writings by others. Access to materials that may be protected by FERPA must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.","Series 8: Collected materials holds items which have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady. Currently, this includes a set of posters. 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Series 1: Correspondence, 1974-2006; Series 2: Writings, circa 1977-1999; Series 3: Printed materials, 1980-2005; Series 4: Academic files, 1980-1996; Series 5: Business and personal files, 1980-2000; Series 6: Born-digital materials, undated; Series 7: Sheila Brady materials, 1975-2005; Series 8: Collected materials, 1996.","Larry Patrick Levis was a poet and a professor of poetry. He was born on September 30, 1946 to parents\nWilliam Kent Levis and Carol Mayo Levis in Fresno, California, the youngest of four children. Levis\ngrew up on his family's ranch, a large farm of vineyards and orchards in Selma, California. During his childhood, he helped his father and the farm workers employed by the family\nwith the daily operations of the ranch.","Levis earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1968, from Fresno State College, later renamed California\nState University, Fresno, where he formed what would become a lifelong friendship with Philip Levine.\nTwo years later, he earned a master's degree in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Following his\ngraduation, Levis became a lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles, where he taught from\n1970 to 1972. In 1972, the University of Pittsburgh Press published his first book of poems, Wrecking\nCrew, which won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum. That same year he\njoined the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa where he taught and was a writing fellow\nfrom 1972 to 1974. From 1972 to 1973, Levis served as West Coast Editor of the literary magazine\nCrazyhorse, and in 1973, he received his first National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.","In 1974, Levis earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa and took a job as an assistant\nprofessor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he taught from 1974 to 1983. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor and was tenured in 1980, and he also served\nas co-editor and founding editor of the Missouri Review from 1978 to 1981. \nHis second book\nof poems, The Afterlife, was published in 1977 by the Windhover Press of the University of Iowa and the\nUniversity of Iowa Press and was awarded the Lamont Poetry Selection of the American Academy of\nPoets. \nLevis returned to the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa as a visiting poet from 1980 to 1982, and again in 1991. His third book of poems, The Dollmaker's Ghost, which was the winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, was published by E.P. Dutton in 1981. In 1983, Levis was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled through Mexico and several countries in Europe.","Levis took a position as an associate professor at the University of Utah in 1984. That same year, he\nreceived his second National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. The University\nof Pittsburg Press released his fourth book of poems, Winter Stars, in 1985. Levis was promoted to the position\nof full professor in 1988, and he served as director of Utah's Program of Creative Writing from 1988\nto 1992. Levis also served as associate editor of the Western Humanities Review from 1987 to 1992.\nIn 1988, he received a Senior Fulbright Fellowship and traveled to Yugoslavia, and he was\nawarded a third National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1989. In 1991, the University of Pittsburgh Press\npublished Levis's fifth book of poems, The Widening Spell of the Leaves.","Levis moved to Richmond, Virginia, in 1992, having taken a job as a professor and senior poet at\nVirginia Commonwealth University. That same year, Peregrine Smith published Black Freckles, a book of\nLevis's short prose pieces. In 1993, Levis became director of the master's of fine arts program in Creative\nWriting at Virginia Commonwealth University. At this time, Levis was also a faculty member of the Warren Wilson College's master's of fine arts Creative Writing Program. He continued teaching and mentoring students in the low-residency program into 1996.\nOn May 9, 1996, Levis was found dead from cardiac arrest at the age of 49 in his home in the Church\nHill neighborhood of Richmond.","Over the course of his career, Levis's poems were published in a number of magazines and journals\nincluding American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Field, Southern Review, and Antioch Review,\namong others. In addition to the publications noted above, Levis also had several other limited edition\nchapbooks published including The Rain's Witness in 1975, The Leopard's Mouth Is Dry and Cold Inside\nwith Marcia Southwick in 1976, and Sensationalism in 1983, as well as a limited edition broadside, The Two\nTrees, in 1994.","Levis has one child, Nicholas Levis, born in 1978, the son of Marcia Southwick, to whom Levis was\nmarried from 1975 to the early 1980s. He had also been married to Barbara Campbell from 1969 to 1973\nand Mary Jane Hale from 1989 to 1990.","Extant documentation of the state in which Levis's materials were initially found following his death\nindicates that Levis likely maintain only a very rudimentary organizational system. John Venable,\nthe graduate student tasked with the organization of Levis's office papers by Levis's sister, Sheila\nBrady, noted in a letter to Brady that \"Larry's method of filing drafts and revisions of poems is,\nsimply, unlike anything I've ever seen: drafts are not dated, some drafts switch from handwriting to\ntypescript and back again, further drafts are found in other, unmarked folders.\" Venable stated that\nhe consolidated groupings of Levis's academic files and his literary materials, the latter of which\nhe subdivided into three subgroups: drafts of poems and prose both from published collections and\nunpublished works, personal and professional correspondence, and \"indecipherable\" handwritten\npages. Following this organizational effort, it is likely that the salvaged materials were transferred to\nthe custody of the New Virginia Review.","Following their transfer, the exact date of which is unknown, the materials were stored, handled,\nadded to, and mailed among multiple parties, including several of Levis's friends, colleagues, and\nfamily members, who actively used the materials as they compiled, edited, and published several\nposthumous collections of Levis's work: Elegy (1997), The Selected Levis (2000), The Gazer Within\n(2001), and The Darkening Trapeze (2016), as well as Condition of the Spirit (2004), a compilation of\nLevis's essays and writings about Levis by others.","Details of this collaborative process are described by David St. John in his afterword to The\nDarkening Trapeze. He notes that content was pulled from Levis's computers and his home office\nin addition to his university office, and that the endeavor to collect and organize Levis's drafts was\nled by Mary Flinn, Gregory Donovan, and Amy Tudor, the three of whom also collaboratively\ndetermined which were the most recent drafts of given poems among those found. Editing of the\nresulting posthumous volumes was variously completed by Philip Levine, David St. John, James\nMarshall, Andrew Miller, John Venable, Mary Flinn, and Christopher Buckley. All posthumous\npublications were created either at the request or with the permission of Levis estate administrator\nSheila Brady.","Materials pertaining to the compilation of these works seems to have been added to the collection\nduring this time. It is clear, judging from David St. John's account as well as notations on folders,\nenvelopes, and sticky notes found during the reappraisal process, that the collection's intermediary\ncustodians sorted the materials in order to facilitate their use, though it is unknown how many\nseparate attempts at arrangement were made before the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing.","Born digital materials are housed on 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks.","When the collection was originally processed by VCU Special Collections and Archives in 2013, staff\nfound virtually no evidence of original order, and so an order was imposed at that time. Writings by\nLevis were organized chronologically and correspondence was arranged alphabetically. Materials\ndocumenting Levis's academic career were organized by institution, and his personal effects and\nposthumous materials were arranged by material type.","During the 2013 processing of the collection, materials acquired through a separate donation by Sheila\nBrady in 2011 were interfiled into the materials purchased in 2009. As provenance information was\nretained by that processor at the folder level, it was possible during the 2016 reprocessing effort\nto separate and arrange the materials donated by Brady into a single series, Series 7: Sheila Brady\nmaterials.","Materials which seems to have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady have been grouped into Series 8: Collected materials during the 2016 reprocessing. This series will also encompass any future accruals to the collection, should they occur.","During the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing, where order was discernable, whether it may be the result\nof Levis's design or that of the collection's custodians following his death, all efforts have been made to\npreserve it. This was done because any such order may hold clues to the creator's intent,\nwhether that order had been established by Levis himself or by those who knew him well and therefore may\nhave possessed unique insights into his creative process. Where order was found to be lacking, an\narrangement was imposed on the collection in order to facilitate intellectual control and access.\nThis imposition of order consisted of grouping materials either by record type or provenance, where\npossible.","Evidence of arrangement attempts made by Levis's colleagues and family after his death has been\nretained as much as possible through preservation photocopying of notes and the inclusion of relevant\ndescriptive information added by those other than Levis in folder titles placed within brackets. These retained notes include location information, description of content, and,\nfor some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts.","The Larry Levis papers consist of materials created and accumulated by Levis, his colleagues, and members of his family. Materials date from 1974 to 2006 and document Levis's literary career and legacy, his career in academia, and aspects of his personal life.","The great majority of Series 1: Correspondence is made up of letters, cards, notes, and postcards received by Levis as well as a lesser number of letters written by Levis. Correspondents include friends, colleagues, family members, and editors. These letters provide insight into Levis's personal and professional relationships. The folder of unidentified correspondence holds materials lacking an identifiable correspondent as these letters, cards, and postcards are marked with only a first name, illegible signatures, or no name at all. Miscellaneous envelopes are those that do not correspond with a letter or card in the series. Also found in this series are sets of correspondence in which Levis was neither the sender nor the recipient. These include the correspondence of James Marshall, Mary Flinn, and a set of other correspondence that includes single instances of exchanges between unique pairs of individuals. Most folders in this series hold only a few pieces of correspondence, with the exception of correspondence with Philip Levine which is substantial, but consists largely of photocopies.","Series 2: Writings, the largest series in this collection, is broken into three subseries: Subseries 2.1: Collected works, Subseries 2.2: Other works, and Subseries 2.3: Writings of others. These materials illuminate aspects of Levis's creative process, his professional and artistic relationships with peers, and the evolution of his literary career and legacy.","Subseries 2.1: Collected works makes up the bulk of this series and consists of drafts of Levis's writing, including drafts of individual poetry and prose pieces, manuscript drafts of collected works, journals, and unarranged or unidentified poem and prose drafts, many of which are handwritten. Some drafts include comments of Levis's colleagues, including Philip Levine. Content related to Levis's early works and limited edition publications is largely absent. Best represented are the works The Dollmaker's Ghost, Winter Stars, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, Black Freckles, Elegy, and The Gazer Within.","Evidence of posthumous arrangement activities is most prominent in this subseries, and all efforts have been made to preserve it as it may hold clues to the creator's intent. Preservation photocopies of sticky notes and notes written on envelopes are included in their corresponding folders. Descriptive information added by those other than Levis has been included in folder titles placed within brackets. The retained notations give location information, description of content, and, for some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts.","Drafts of poems and prose not identified and grouped with a specific collected volume have been placed in Subseries 2.2: Other works. Though the majority of these folders lacked distinct titles indicating why certain materials were placed in a folder together at the time of processing, there may be unknown meaning to their arrangement. Therefore, these items have been kept in their original folder groupings. Drafts marked at \"unidentified\" could not be identified in terms of genre.","Materials in Subseries 2.3: Writings of others include drafts or otherwise unpublished versions of poetry and prose pieces by other individuals. Some pieces are about Levis, while others were, presumably, acquired by Levis or his associates at some point.","In this series, many copies of poem drafts, including a number of the drafts for the collected work Elegy as well as unidentified drafts are photocopies. Dates given on folders holding these materials reflect the dates of the original content, when provided.","Series 3: Printed materials contains published poems, articles, and interviews by Levis and others as well as advertisements, flyers, and other printed ephemera. Items in this series provide examples of Levis's public presence, analysis and interpretation of his work in the press, and works by others that Levis or his associates acquired and retained. Published works by Levis are identified first by genre, then by title, whereas works by others are identified by the name of the author, then by title. Materials grouped by type include advertisements mentioning Levis, articles and press releases about Levis, articles about Philip Levine, postcards, and reviews.","Materials in Series 4: Academic files include academic administrative materials, course materials, student correspondence, and student work that document aspects of Levis's life in academia, his roles as a professor, and his approach to teaching. The bulk of materials in this series pertain to Levis's work with Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College. Academic materials that do not indicate an institution have been labeled as unidentified. Administrative materials include department correspondence and policy documents, employment forms, and similar materials. Course materials encompass syllabi, photocopied readings, and other materials related to the preparation and delivery of instruction. Correspondence with students, attendance and grade sheets, and submitted student work may be protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.","Series 5: Business and personal files holds appointment books, personal effects, photographs, audiovisual materials, awards, and other materials of a personal or professional nature that are not primarily made up of correspondence or writings. These items provide insight into Levis's personal life and also document his memorial services. Personal materials, such as photographs, lacking contextual information have been labeled as unidentified.","The disks in Series 6: Born-digital materials hold content created by Levis or his associates on a variety of topics. It is likely that some portion of the born-digital materials currently housed on these 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks is duplicated in the paper records, although the extent of this duplication is unknown at this time. Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for generation of access copies.","Series 7: Sheila Brady papers consists of materials donated by Brady, Levis's sister, in 2011. During the 2013 processing of the collection, these materials were interfiled into the materials previously purchased from Nicholas Levis. Notation made by the processor at the time enabled the separation of these files during the 2016 reprocessing effort into their own series. In terms of subject and content, materials in this series run the gamut of the collection as a whole. Materials include academic files from Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College; correspondence with colleagues of Levis, publishers, academic institutions, family, and friends; personal effects; obituaries; various printed materials and reviews; drafts and manuscripts of Levis collected works; and writings by others. Access to materials that may be protected by FERPA must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.","Series 8: Collected materials holds items which have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady. Currently, this includes a set of posters. 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In 1972, the University of Pittsburgh Press published his first book of poems, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWrecking\nCrew\u003c/title\u003e, which won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum. That same year he\njoined the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa where he taught and was a writing fellow\nfrom 1972 to 1974. From 1972 to 1973, Levis served as West Coast Editor of the literary magazine\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c/title\u003e, and in 1973, he received his first National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1974, Levis earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa and took a job as an assistant\nprofessor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he taught from 1974 to 1983. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor and was tenured in 1980, and he also served\nas co-editor and founding editor of the Missouri Review from 1978 to 1981. \nHis second book\nof poems, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Afterlife\u003c/title\u003e, was published in 1977 by the Windhover Press of the University of Iowa and the\nUniversity of Iowa Press and was awarded the Lamont Poetry Selection of the American Academy of\nPoets. \nLevis returned to the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa as a visiting poet from 1980 to 1982, and again in 1991. His third book of poems, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Dollmaker's Ghost\u003c/title\u003e, which was the winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, was published by E.P. Dutton in 1981. In 1983, Levis was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled through Mexico and several countries in Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLevis took a position as an associate professor at the University of Utah in 1984. That same year, he\nreceived his second National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. The University\nof Pittsburg Press released his fourth book of poems, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWinter Stars\u003c/title\u003e, in 1985. Levis was promoted to the position\nof full professor in 1988, and he served as director of Utah's Program of Creative Writing from 1988\nto 1992. Levis also served as associate editor of the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWestern Humanities Review\u003c/title\u003e from 1987 to 1992.\nIn 1988, he received a Senior Fulbright Fellowship and traveled to Yugoslavia, and he was\nawarded a third National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1989. 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He continued teaching and mentoring students in the low-residency program into 1996.\nOn May 9, 1996, Levis was found dead from cardiac arrest at the age of 49 in his home in the Church\nHill neighborhood of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver the course of his career, Levis's poems were published in a number of magazines and journals\nincluding \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eField\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Review\u003c/title\u003e, and \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAntioch Review\u003c/title\u003e,\namong others. In addition to the publications noted above, Levis also had several other limited edition\nchapbooks published including \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Rain's Witness\u003c/title\u003e in 1975, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Leopard's Mouth Is Dry and Cold Inside\u003c/title\u003e\nwith Marcia Southwick in 1976, and \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eSensationalism\u003c/title\u003e in 1983, as well as a limited edition broadside, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Two\nTrees\u003c/title\u003e, in 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLevis has one child, Nicholas Levis, born in 1978, the son of Marcia Southwick, to whom Levis was\nmarried from 1975 to the early 1980s. He had also been married to Barbara Campbell from 1969 to 1973\nand Mary Jane Hale from 1989 to 1990.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Larry Patrick Levis was a poet and a professor of poetry. He was born on September 30, 1946 to parents\nWilliam Kent Levis and Carol Mayo Levis in Fresno, California, the youngest of four children. Levis\ngrew up on his family's ranch, a large farm of vineyards and orchards in Selma, California. During his childhood, he helped his father and the farm workers employed by the family\nwith the daily operations of the ranch.","Levis earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1968, from Fresno State College, later renamed California\nState University, Fresno, where he formed what would become a lifelong friendship with Philip Levine.\nTwo years later, he earned a master's degree in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Following his\ngraduation, Levis became a lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles, where he taught from\n1970 to 1972. In 1972, the University of Pittsburgh Press published his first book of poems, Wrecking\nCrew, which won the United States Award from the International Poetry Forum. That same year he\njoined the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa where he taught and was a writing fellow\nfrom 1972 to 1974. From 1972 to 1973, Levis served as West Coast Editor of the literary magazine\nCrazyhorse, and in 1973, he received his first National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.","In 1974, Levis earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa and took a job as an assistant\nprofessor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he taught from 1974 to 1983. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor and was tenured in 1980, and he also served\nas co-editor and founding editor of the Missouri Review from 1978 to 1981. \nHis second book\nof poems, The Afterlife, was published in 1977 by the Windhover Press of the University of Iowa and the\nUniversity of Iowa Press and was awarded the Lamont Poetry Selection of the American Academy of\nPoets. \nLevis returned to the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa as a visiting poet from 1980 to 1982, and again in 1991. His third book of poems, The Dollmaker's Ghost, which was the winner of the Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, was published by E.P. Dutton in 1981. In 1983, Levis was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled through Mexico and several countries in Europe.","Levis took a position as an associate professor at the University of Utah in 1984. That same year, he\nreceived his second National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. The University\nof Pittsburg Press released his fourth book of poems, Winter Stars, in 1985. Levis was promoted to the position\nof full professor in 1988, and he served as director of Utah's Program of Creative Writing from 1988\nto 1992. Levis also served as associate editor of the Western Humanities Review from 1987 to 1992.\nIn 1988, he received a Senior Fulbright Fellowship and traveled to Yugoslavia, and he was\nawarded a third National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1989. In 1991, the University of Pittsburgh Press\npublished Levis's fifth book of poems, The Widening Spell of the Leaves.","Levis moved to Richmond, Virginia, in 1992, having taken a job as a professor and senior poet at\nVirginia Commonwealth University. That same year, Peregrine Smith published Black Freckles, a book of\nLevis's short prose pieces. In 1993, Levis became director of the master's of fine arts program in Creative\nWriting at Virginia Commonwealth University. At this time, Levis was also a faculty member of the Warren Wilson College's master's of fine arts Creative Writing Program. He continued teaching and mentoring students in the low-residency program into 1996.\nOn May 9, 1996, Levis was found dead from cardiac arrest at the age of 49 in his home in the Church\nHill neighborhood of Richmond.","Over the course of his career, Levis's poems were published in a number of magazines and journals\nincluding American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Field, Southern Review, and Antioch Review,\namong others. In addition to the publications noted above, Levis also had several other limited edition\nchapbooks published including The Rain's Witness in 1975, The Leopard's Mouth Is Dry and Cold Inside\nwith Marcia Southwick in 1976, and Sensationalism in 1983, as well as a limited edition broadside, The Two\nTrees, in 1994.","Levis has one child, Nicholas Levis, born in 1978, the son of Marcia Southwick, to whom Levis was\nmarried from 1975 to the early 1980s. He had also been married to Barbara Campbell from 1969 to 1973\nand Mary Jane Hale from 1989 to 1990."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eExtant documentation of the state in which Levis's materials were initially found following his death\nindicates that Levis likely maintain only a very rudimentary organizational system. John Venable,\nthe graduate student tasked with the organization of Levis's office papers by Levis's sister, Sheila\nBrady, noted in a letter to Brady that \"Larry's method of filing drafts and revisions of poems is,\nsimply, unlike anything I've ever seen: drafts are not dated, some drafts switch from handwriting to\ntypescript and back again, further drafts are found in other, unmarked folders.\" Venable stated that\nhe consolidated groupings of Levis's academic files and his literary materials, the latter of which\nhe subdivided into three subgroups: drafts of poems and prose both from published collections and\nunpublished works, personal and professional correspondence, and \"indecipherable\" handwritten\npages. Following this organizational effort, it is likely that the salvaged materials were transferred to\nthe custody of the New Virginia Review.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing their transfer, the exact date of which is unknown, the materials were stored, handled,\nadded to, and mailed among multiple parties, including several of Levis's friends, colleagues, and\nfamily members, who actively used the materials as they compiled, edited, and published several\nposthumous collections of Levis's work: \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eElegy\u003c/title\u003e (1997), \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Selected Levis\u003c/title\u003e (2000), \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Gazer Within\u003c/title\u003e\n(2001), and \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Darkening Trapeze\u003c/title\u003e (2016), as well as \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCondition of the Spirit\u003c/title\u003e (2004), a compilation of\nLevis's essays and writings about Levis by others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetails of this collaborative process are described by David St. John in his afterword to \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe\nDarkening Trapeze\u003c/title\u003e. He notes that content was pulled from Levis's computers and his home office\nin addition to his university office, and that the endeavor to collect and organize Levis's drafts was\nled by Mary Flinn, Gregory Donovan, and Amy Tudor, the three of whom also collaboratively\ndetermined which were the most recent drafts of given poems among those found. Editing of the\nresulting posthumous volumes was variously completed by Philip Levine, David St. John, James\nMarshall, Andrew Miller, John Venable, Mary Flinn, and Christopher Buckley. All posthumous\npublications were created either at the request or with the permission of Levis estate administrator\nSheila Brady.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials pertaining to the compilation of these works seems to have been added to the collection\nduring this time. It is clear, judging from David St. John's account as well as notations on folders,\nenvelopes, and sticky notes found during the reappraisal process, that the collection's intermediary\ncustodians sorted the materials in order to facilitate their use, though it is unknown how many\nseparate attempts at arrangement were made before the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History"],"custodhist_tesim":["Extant documentation of the state in which Levis's materials were initially found following his death\nindicates that Levis likely maintain only a very rudimentary organizational system. John Venable,\nthe graduate student tasked with the organization of Levis's office papers by Levis's sister, Sheila\nBrady, noted in a letter to Brady that \"Larry's method of filing drafts and revisions of poems is,\nsimply, unlike anything I've ever seen: drafts are not dated, some drafts switch from handwriting to\ntypescript and back again, further drafts are found in other, unmarked folders.\" Venable stated that\nhe consolidated groupings of Levis's academic files and his literary materials, the latter of which\nhe subdivided into three subgroups: drafts of poems and prose both from published collections and\nunpublished works, personal and professional correspondence, and \"indecipherable\" handwritten\npages. Following this organizational effort, it is likely that the salvaged materials were transferred to\nthe custody of the New Virginia Review.","Following their transfer, the exact date of which is unknown, the materials were stored, handled,\nadded to, and mailed among multiple parties, including several of Levis's friends, colleagues, and\nfamily members, who actively used the materials as they compiled, edited, and published several\nposthumous collections of Levis's work: Elegy (1997), The Selected Levis (2000), The Gazer Within\n(2001), and The Darkening Trapeze (2016), as well as Condition of the Spirit (2004), a compilation of\nLevis's essays and writings about Levis by others.","Details of this collaborative process are described by David St. John in his afterword to The\nDarkening Trapeze. He notes that content was pulled from Levis's computers and his home office\nin addition to his university office, and that the endeavor to collect and organize Levis's drafts was\nled by Mary Flinn, Gregory Donovan, and Amy Tudor, the three of whom also collaboratively\ndetermined which were the most recent drafts of given poems among those found. Editing of the\nresulting posthumous volumes was variously completed by Philip Levine, David St. John, James\nMarshall, Andrew Miller, John Venable, Mary Flinn, and Christopher Buckley. All posthumous\npublications were created either at the request or with the permission of Levis estate administrator\nSheila Brady.","Materials pertaining to the compilation of these works seems to have been added to the collection\nduring this time. It is clear, judging from David St. John's account as well as notations on folders,\nenvelopes, and sticky notes found during the reappraisal process, that the collection's intermediary\ncustodians sorted the materials in order to facilitate their use, though it is unknown how many\nseparate attempts at arrangement were made before the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing."],"phystech_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBorn digital materials are housed on 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"phystech_heading_ssm":["Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements"],"phystech_tesim":["Born digital materials are housed on 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWhen the collection was originally processed by VCU Special Collections and Archives in 2013, staff\nfound virtually no evidence of original order, and so an order was imposed at that time. Writings by\nLevis were organized chronologically and correspondence was arranged alphabetically. Materials\ndocumenting Levis's academic career were organized by institution, and his personal effects and\nposthumous materials were arranged by material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring the 2013 processing of the collection, materials acquired through a separate donation by Sheila\nBrady in 2011 were interfiled into the materials purchased in 2009. As provenance information was\nretained by that processor at the folder level, it was possible during the 2016 reprocessing effort\nto separate and arrange the materials donated by Brady into a single series, Series 7: Sheila Brady\nmaterials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials which seems to have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady have been grouped into Series 8: Collected materials during the 2016 reprocessing. This series will also encompass any future accruals to the collection, should they occur.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing, where order was discernable, whether it may be the result\nof Levis's design or that of the collection's custodians following his death, all efforts have been made to\npreserve it. This was done because any such order may hold clues to the creator's intent,\nwhether that order had been established by Levis himself or by those who knew him well and therefore may\nhave possessed unique insights into his creative process. Where order was found to be lacking, an\narrangement was imposed on the collection in order to facilitate intellectual control and access.\nThis imposition of order consisted of grouping materials either by record type or provenance, where\npossible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvidence of arrangement attempts made by Levis's colleagues and family after his death has been\nretained as much as possible through preservation photocopying of notes and the inclusion of relevant\ndescriptive information added by those other than Levis in folder titles placed within brackets. These retained notes include location information, description of content, and,\nfor some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["When the collection was originally processed by VCU Special Collections and Archives in 2013, staff\nfound virtually no evidence of original order, and so an order was imposed at that time. Writings by\nLevis were organized chronologically and correspondence was arranged alphabetically. Materials\ndocumenting Levis's academic career were organized by institution, and his personal effects and\nposthumous materials were arranged by material type.","During the 2013 processing of the collection, materials acquired through a separate donation by Sheila\nBrady in 2011 were interfiled into the materials purchased in 2009. As provenance information was\nretained by that processor at the folder level, it was possible during the 2016 reprocessing effort\nto separate and arrange the materials donated by Brady into a single series, Series 7: Sheila Brady\nmaterials.","Materials which seems to have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady have been grouped into Series 8: Collected materials during the 2016 reprocessing. This series will also encompass any future accruals to the collection, should they occur.","During the 2016 reappraisal and reprocessing, where order was discernable, whether it may be the result\nof Levis's design or that of the collection's custodians following his death, all efforts have been made to\npreserve it. This was done because any such order may hold clues to the creator's intent,\nwhether that order had been established by Levis himself or by those who knew him well and therefore may\nhave possessed unique insights into his creative process. Where order was found to be lacking, an\narrangement was imposed on the collection in order to facilitate intellectual control and access.\nThis imposition of order consisted of grouping materials either by record type or provenance, where\npossible.","Evidence of arrangement attempts made by Levis's colleagues and family after his death has been\nretained as much as possible through preservation photocopying of notes and the inclusion of relevant\ndescriptive information added by those other than Levis in folder titles placed within brackets. These retained notes include location information, description of content, and,\nfor some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Larry Levis papers consist of materials created and accumulated by Levis, his colleagues, and members of his family. Materials date from 1974 to 2006 and document Levis's literary career and legacy, his career in academia, and aspects of his personal life. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe great majority of Series 1: Correspondence is made up of letters, cards, notes, and postcards received by Levis as well as a lesser number of letters written by Levis. Correspondents include friends, colleagues, family members, and editors. These letters provide insight into Levis's personal and professional relationships. The folder of unidentified correspondence holds materials lacking an identifiable correspondent as these letters, cards, and postcards are marked with only a first name, illegible signatures, or no name at all. Miscellaneous envelopes are those that do not correspond with a letter or card in the series. Also found in this series are sets of correspondence in which Levis was neither the sender nor the recipient. These include the correspondence of James Marshall, Mary Flinn, and a set of other correspondence that includes single instances of exchanges between unique pairs of individuals. Most folders in this series hold only a few pieces of correspondence, with the exception of correspondence with Philip Levine which is substantial, but consists largely of photocopies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2: Writings, the largest series in this collection, is broken into three subseries: Subseries 2.1: Collected works, Subseries 2.2: Other works, and Subseries 2.3: Writings of others. These materials illuminate aspects of Levis's creative process, his professional and artistic relationships with peers, and the evolution of his literary career and legacy. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubseries 2.1: Collected works makes up the bulk of this series and consists of drafts of Levis's writing, including drafts of individual poetry and prose pieces, manuscript drafts of collected works, journals, and unarranged or unidentified poem and prose drafts, many of which are handwritten. Some drafts include comments of Levis's colleagues, including Philip Levine. Content related to Levis's early works and limited edition publications is largely absent. Best represented are the works \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Dollmaker's Ghost\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eWinter Stars\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Widening Spell of the Leaves\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eBlack Freckles\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eElegy\u003c/title\u003e, and \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Gazer Within\u003c/title\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvidence of posthumous arrangement activities is most prominent in this subseries, and all efforts have been made to preserve it as it may hold clues to the creator's intent. Preservation photocopies of sticky notes and notes written on envelopes are included in their corresponding folders. Descriptive information added by those other than Levis has been included in folder titles placed within brackets. The retained notations give location information, description of content, and, for some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafts of poems and prose not identified and grouped with a specific collected volume have been placed in Subseries 2.2: Other works. Though the majority of these folders lacked distinct titles indicating why certain materials were placed in a folder together at the time of processing, there may be unknown meaning to their arrangement. Therefore, these items have been kept in their original folder groupings. Drafts marked at \"unidentified\" could not be identified in terms of genre. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials in Subseries 2.3: Writings of others include drafts or otherwise unpublished versions of poetry and prose pieces by other individuals. Some pieces are about Levis, while others were, presumably, acquired by Levis or his associates at some point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this series, many copies of poem drafts, including a number of the drafts for the collected work \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eElegy\u003c/title\u003e as well as unidentified drafts are photocopies. Dates given on folders holding these materials reflect the dates of the original content, when provided.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Printed materials contains published poems, articles, and interviews by Levis and others as well as advertisements, flyers, and other printed ephemera. Items in this series provide examples of Levis's public presence, analysis and interpretation of his work in the press, and works by others that Levis or his associates acquired and retained. Published works by Levis are identified first by genre, then by title, whereas works by others are identified by the name of the author, then by title. Materials grouped by type include advertisements mentioning Levis, articles and press releases about Levis, articles about Philip Levine, postcards, and reviews. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials in Series 4: Academic files include academic administrative materials, course materials, student correspondence, and student work that document aspects of Levis's life in academia, his roles as a professor, and his approach to teaching. The bulk of materials in this series pertain to Levis's work with Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College. Academic materials that do not indicate an institution have been labeled as unidentified. Administrative materials include department correspondence and policy documents, employment forms, and similar materials. Course materials encompass syllabi, photocopied readings, and other materials related to the preparation and delivery of instruction. Correspondence with students, attendance and grade sheets, and submitted student work may be protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 5: Business and personal files holds appointment books, personal effects, photographs, audiovisual materials, awards, and other materials of a personal or professional nature that are not primarily made up of correspondence or writings. These items provide insight into Levis's personal life and also document his memorial services. Personal materials, such as photographs, lacking contextual information have been labeled as unidentified.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe disks in Series 6: Born-digital materials hold content created by Levis or his associates on a variety of topics. It is likely that some portion of the born-digital materials currently housed on these 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks is duplicated in the paper records, although the extent of this duplication is unknown at this time. Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for generation of access copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 7: Sheila Brady papers consists of materials donated by Brady, Levis's sister, in 2011. During the 2013 processing of the collection, these materials were interfiled into the materials previously purchased from Nicholas Levis. Notation made by the processor at the time enabled the separation of these files during the 2016 reprocessing effort into their own series. In terms of subject and content, materials in this series run the gamut of the collection as a whole. Materials include academic files from Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College; correspondence with colleagues of Levis, publishers, academic institutions, family, and friends; personal effects; obituaries; various printed materials and reviews; drafts and manuscripts of Levis collected works; and writings by others. Access to materials that may be protected by FERPA must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 8: Collected materials holds items which have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady. Currently, this includes a set of posters. This series will also encompass any future accruals to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Larry Levis papers consist of materials created and accumulated by Levis, his colleagues, and members of his family. Materials date from 1974 to 2006 and document Levis's literary career and legacy, his career in academia, and aspects of his personal life.","The great majority of Series 1: Correspondence is made up of letters, cards, notes, and postcards received by Levis as well as a lesser number of letters written by Levis. Correspondents include friends, colleagues, family members, and editors. These letters provide insight into Levis's personal and professional relationships. The folder of unidentified correspondence holds materials lacking an identifiable correspondent as these letters, cards, and postcards are marked with only a first name, illegible signatures, or no name at all. Miscellaneous envelopes are those that do not correspond with a letter or card in the series. Also found in this series are sets of correspondence in which Levis was neither the sender nor the recipient. These include the correspondence of James Marshall, Mary Flinn, and a set of other correspondence that includes single instances of exchanges between unique pairs of individuals. Most folders in this series hold only a few pieces of correspondence, with the exception of correspondence with Philip Levine which is substantial, but consists largely of photocopies.","Series 2: Writings, the largest series in this collection, is broken into three subseries: Subseries 2.1: Collected works, Subseries 2.2: Other works, and Subseries 2.3: Writings of others. These materials illuminate aspects of Levis's creative process, his professional and artistic relationships with peers, and the evolution of his literary career and legacy.","Subseries 2.1: Collected works makes up the bulk of this series and consists of drafts of Levis's writing, including drafts of individual poetry and prose pieces, manuscript drafts of collected works, journals, and unarranged or unidentified poem and prose drafts, many of which are handwritten. Some drafts include comments of Levis's colleagues, including Philip Levine. Content related to Levis's early works and limited edition publications is largely absent. Best represented are the works The Dollmaker's Ghost, Winter Stars, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, Black Freckles, Elegy, and The Gazer Within.","Evidence of posthumous arrangement activities is most prominent in this subseries, and all efforts have been made to preserve it as it may hold clues to the creator's intent. Preservation photocopies of sticky notes and notes written on envelopes are included in their corresponding folders. Descriptive information added by those other than Levis has been included in folder titles placed within brackets. The retained notations give location information, description of content, and, for some collected works, numerical or potentially sequential identification of drafts.","Drafts of poems and prose not identified and grouped with a specific collected volume have been placed in Subseries 2.2: Other works. Though the majority of these folders lacked distinct titles indicating why certain materials were placed in a folder together at the time of processing, there may be unknown meaning to their arrangement. Therefore, these items have been kept in their original folder groupings. Drafts marked at \"unidentified\" could not be identified in terms of genre.","Materials in Subseries 2.3: Writings of others include drafts or otherwise unpublished versions of poetry and prose pieces by other individuals. Some pieces are about Levis, while others were, presumably, acquired by Levis or his associates at some point.","In this series, many copies of poem drafts, including a number of the drafts for the collected work Elegy as well as unidentified drafts are photocopies. Dates given on folders holding these materials reflect the dates of the original content, when provided.","Series 3: Printed materials contains published poems, articles, and interviews by Levis and others as well as advertisements, flyers, and other printed ephemera. Items in this series provide examples of Levis's public presence, analysis and interpretation of his work in the press, and works by others that Levis or his associates acquired and retained. Published works by Levis are identified first by genre, then by title, whereas works by others are identified by the name of the author, then by title. Materials grouped by type include advertisements mentioning Levis, articles and press releases about Levis, articles about Philip Levine, postcards, and reviews.","Materials in Series 4: Academic files include academic administrative materials, course materials, student correspondence, and student work that document aspects of Levis's life in academia, his roles as a professor, and his approach to teaching. The bulk of materials in this series pertain to Levis's work with Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College. Academic materials that do not indicate an institution have been labeled as unidentified. Administrative materials include department correspondence and policy documents, employment forms, and similar materials. Course materials encompass syllabi, photocopied readings, and other materials related to the preparation and delivery of instruction. Correspondence with students, attendance and grade sheets, and submitted student work may be protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.","Series 5: Business and personal files holds appointment books, personal effects, photographs, audiovisual materials, awards, and other materials of a personal or professional nature that are not primarily made up of correspondence or writings. These items provide insight into Levis's personal life and also document his memorial services. Personal materials, such as photographs, lacking contextual information have been labeled as unidentified.","The disks in Series 6: Born-digital materials hold content created by Levis or his associates on a variety of topics. It is likely that some portion of the born-digital materials currently housed on these 3.5 and 4.25 inch floppy disks is duplicated in the paper records, although the extent of this duplication is unknown at this time. Access to these materials must be requested in advance to allow for generation of access copies.","Series 7: Sheila Brady papers consists of materials donated by Brady, Levis's sister, in 2011. During the 2013 processing of the collection, these materials were interfiled into the materials previously purchased from Nicholas Levis. Notation made by the processor at the time enabled the separation of these files during the 2016 reprocessing effort into their own series. In terms of subject and content, materials in this series run the gamut of the collection as a whole. Materials include academic files from Virginia Commonwealth University and Warren Wilson College; correspondence with colleagues of Levis, publishers, academic institutions, family, and friends; personal effects; obituaries; various printed materials and reviews; drafts and manuscripts of Levis collected works; and writings by others. Access to materials that may be protected by FERPA must be requested in advance to allow for review by the archivist.","Series 8: Collected materials holds items which have a provenance distinct from the 2009 purchase from Nicholas Levis and the 2011 donation of Sheila Brady. Currently, this includes a set of posters. 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Sometimes attendance reached as high as 100 people, and First Friday Potlucks were hosted at Mary Gay's house for about 10-15 years.","Mary Gay was also involved in Richmond WomensBooks, a book co-op downstairs from a food co-op. She did work hours and was on the board. The board received a letter from Olivia Records, whose records were sold at the co-op. They were starting to do cruises geared towards, as their site says now in 2026, \"lesbians and LGBTQ+ women\". Olivia Cruises wanted someone to throw a party to introduce the women in the Richmond area to the concept of Olivia Cruises. Mary Gay organized the party at The Pyramid, and for doing the party, she got a two-for-one cruise. She later worked with Olivia Cruises as a solo coordinator on a cruise.","In her time in Richmond, Mary Gay Hutcherson organized golf tournaments for CampOut (formerly InTouch). CampOut is a members-only, private campground for women and home of the Virginia Women's Music Festival. CampOut was started by a couple of friends of Mary Gay on land halfway between Charlottesville and Richmond. The friends had investors and purchased the property, and many people helped build the stage for music festivals. The golf tournaments were for lesbians and held at different golf courses in Richmond, partly as a fundraiser, but more as public relations for people who were not interested in camping at InTouch. It was at these golf tournaments that she met the developers of Carefree, Gina Razete and Cathy Groene. Carefree Resort is a retirement community that caters to lesbians, located in North Fort Myers Florida.  Carefree broke ground in 1996 and opened in 1997. 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Sometimes attendance reached as high as 100 people, and First Friday Potlucks were hosted at Mary Gay's house for about 10-15 years.","Mary Gay was also involved in Richmond WomensBooks, a book co-op downstairs from a food co-op. She did work hours and was on the board. The board received a letter from Olivia Records, whose records were sold at the co-op. They were starting to do cruises geared towards, as their site says now in 2026, \"lesbians and LGBTQ+ women\". Olivia Cruises wanted someone to throw a party to introduce the women in the Richmond area to the concept of Olivia Cruises. Mary Gay organized the party at The Pyramid, and for doing the party, she got a two-for-one cruise. She later worked with Olivia Cruises as a solo coordinator on a cruise.","In her time in Richmond, Mary Gay Hutcherson organized golf tournaments for CampOut (formerly InTouch). CampOut is a members-only, private campground for women and home of the Virginia Women's Music Festival. 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They flew Mary Gay down to see it, because, in Mary Gay's words, she \"talked to so many women\", and to perform duties as the Olivia Cruises coordinator, such as at information booths for Olivia Cruises.","Mary Gay's community building extended beyond RLF, NOW, Richmond WomensBooks, Olivia Cruises, CampOut, and Carefree. Mary Gay also chaired Richmond Pride one year, a Richmond gay film festival one year that was held at VCU, and the Run for Equality on Women's Equality Day.","Mary Gay worked as a school social worker for Chesterfield County Public Schools from 1992 until 2002 when she retired. She was able to remain completely closeted at work for the school system, while at the same time living an active and eventful life in the Richmond lesbian and gay community. Richmond had a network of \"gay people who were all connected,\" but were all closeted at work, because most people would've lost their jobs at the time if their employer knew. 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Washington Community Services Award (1988) \nStyle Magazine's Richmonder of the Year (1991) \nHousing Opportunities Made Equal (H.O.M.E.) Fair Housing Award \nH.O.M.E. Sallie Wilson Peake Memorial Award for Outstanding Support of Fair Housing \nNational Multiple Sclerosis Society, Silver Hope Award (1994)","Honorary Degrees Mrs. McClenahan has received:","Doctor of Humanities from University of Richmond \nDoctor of Humane Letters from St. Paul's College \nDoctor of Humane Letters from Washington and Lee University \nDoctor of Humane Letters from Hollins College \nDoctor of Humane Letters from Virginia Commonwealth University","The collection includes correspondence, notes, clippings, various organizational minutes, reports and files, drafts of speeches, manuscripts and published materials dating from 1933 through 1993. 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The materials in these containers, boxes 91-109, were added to the end of the collection and are divided as follows: Correspondence (n.d., 1930-1998); Maymont Foundation (n.d., 1983-1997); Richmond Better Housing Coalition (n.d., 1988-1999); Richmond Renaissance (n.d., 1987-1996); miscellaneous colleges and schools (n.d., 1967-1997); Richmond Urban Forum (19- 19); Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation (1968-1993); St. Paul's Episcopal Church (n.d., 1984-1998); Stratford Hall (n.d., 1984-1989); Virginia Historical Society (n.d., 1983-1992); Virginia Union University (n.d., 1988- 1993); and miscellaneous civic and volunteer organizations (n.d., 1967-1998).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is divided into a series of eight sections. Series I is primarily correspondence to Mrs. McClenahan. Series II consists of material of twelve major civic and volunteer organizations with which she was involved. Because of the volume of the materials, each organization in this series was divided into its own subseries. Series III is composed of other organizations in which she was active, but of sufficient quantity to justify its own subseries. The material in this series is divided alphabetically. Series IV is a collection of her speeches and articles. The speeches in this series are unidentified by audience or sponsor or affiliated with a group not otherwise not listed in another series. Additional speeches may be found in organizational series by checking folder headings. Series V contains material regarding political candidates and issues. Series VI consists of material relating to the various schools, colleges and universities she has been associated with and is divided alphabetical. Series VII contains material relating to her work with St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Series VIII consists of a variety of material reflecting Mrs. McClenahan's daily activities, social plans, and wide range of interests. 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The materials in these containers, boxes 91-109, were added to the end of the collection and are divided as follows: Correspondence (n.d., 1930-1998); Maymont Foundation (n.d., 1983-1997); Richmond Better Housing Coalition (n.d., 1988-1999); Richmond Renaissance (n.d., 1987-1996); miscellaneous colleges and schools (n.d., 1967-1997); Richmond Urban Forum (19- 19); Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation (1968-1993); St. Paul's Episcopal Church (n.d., 1984-1998); Stratford Hall (n.d., 1984-1989); Virginia Historical Society (n.d., 1983-1992); Virginia Union University (n.d., 1988- 1993); and miscellaneous civic and volunteer organizations (n.d., 1967-1998)."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMary Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan is a Richmond community leader, activist and philanthropist. She has been described as the \"conscience of Richmond\" for her contributions to the Richmond community in the areas of racial harmony, housing, Richmond revitalization and historic preservation. She has also been active in the arts, her church, and education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBorn in Richmond on April 6, 1917, Mary Tyler is the daughter of Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953), noted historian and journalist, and Inez Goddin Freeman (1891-1974). She attended St. Catherine's School and Vassar College, receiving an A.B. in English-Creative Writing in 1937.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter college she worked briefly as a secretary in the Department of Fine Arts of William and Mary College where she met Leslie Cheek, Jr. (1908-1992), then head of the department. They married in 1939. The Cheeks lived in Baltimore for three years while Mr. Cheek was Director of the Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts and in Washington, D.C. during World War II. While Mr. Cheek served in the Army, Mrs. McClenahan volunteered as a nurse's aid. After Cheek's discharge from the Army in 1945, they lived in New York City where Cheek had been hired as an Associate Editor of Architectural Forum Magazine. The couple returned to Richmond when Cheek became the first director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1948-1968). The Cheeks had four children. After Mr. Cheek's death in 1992, Mrs. Cheek married Dr. John Lorimer McClenahan, a retired Pennsylvanian radiologist, the following year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. McClenahan is responsible for a number of Richmond civic initiatives, including bringing together the 35 groups that make up the Richmond Better Housing Coalition and founding the Richmond Urban Forum. She was twice president of the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood and has participated as a volunteer and board member of numerous Richmond civic organizations, including Richmond Renaissance and Richmond-On- The- James. 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Lee Memorial Association which administers Stratford Hall, the birthplace of Robert E. 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Washington Community Services Award (1988) \nStyle Magazine's Richmonder of the Year (1991) \nHousing Opportunities Made Equal (H.O.M.E.) Fair Housing Award \nH.O.M.E. Sallie Wilson Peake Memorial Award for Outstanding Support of Fair Housing \nNational Multiple Sclerosis Society, Silver Hope Award (1994) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eHonorary Degrees Mrs. McClenahan has received: \u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoctor of Humanities from University of Richmond \nDoctor of Humane Letters from St. Paul's College \nDoctor of Humane Letters from Washington and Lee University \nDoctor of Humane Letters from Hollins College \nDoctor of Humane Letters from Virginia Commonwealth University \u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan is a Richmond community leader, activist and philanthropist. She has been described as the \"conscience of Richmond\" for her contributions to the Richmond community in the areas of racial harmony, housing, Richmond revitalization and historic preservation. She has also been active in the arts, her church, and education.","Born in Richmond on April 6, 1917, Mary Tyler is the daughter of Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953), noted historian and journalist, and Inez Goddin Freeman (1891-1974). She attended St. Catherine's School and Vassar College, receiving an A.B. in English-Creative Writing in 1937.","After college she worked briefly as a secretary in the Department of Fine Arts of William and Mary College where she met Leslie Cheek, Jr. (1908-1992), then head of the department. They married in 1939. The Cheeks lived in Baltimore for three years while Mr. Cheek was Director of the Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts and in Washington, D.C. during World War II. While Mr. Cheek served in the Army, Mrs. McClenahan volunteered as a nurse's aid. After Cheek's discharge from the Army in 1945, they lived in New York City where Cheek had been hired as an Associate Editor of Architectural Forum Magazine. The couple returned to Richmond when Cheek became the first director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1948-1968). The Cheeks had four children. After Mr. Cheek's death in 1992, Mrs. Cheek married Dr. John Lorimer McClenahan, a retired Pennsylvanian radiologist, the following year.","Mrs. McClenahan is responsible for a number of Richmond civic initiatives, including bringing together the 35 groups that make up the Richmond Better Housing Coalition and founding the Richmond Urban Forum. She was twice president of the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood and has participated as a volunteer and board member of numerous Richmond civic organizations, including Richmond Renaissance and Richmond-On- The- James. She has also been an active member of Richmond's historic St. Paul's Episcopal Church.","Some of the organizations Mrs. McClenahan has been associated with include:","Member, Executive Committee and Board of The Arts Council of Richmond \nMember, 175th Anniversary of the Executive Mansion Commission \nAdvisory Committee Girl Scouts \nMember, Board of Historic Richmond Foundation \nDame and Member of the Board of Governors of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem \nMember, National Committee, Jefferson Poplar Forest Fund \nMember, Board of Leadership Metro Richmond \nMember, Board of Maymont Foundation \nChairman, Film Committee of the National Council for America's First Freedom: The Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom \nRichmond AIDS Ministry \nCo-Chairman, Richmond Better Housing Coalition \nMember, Board of Richmond Hill \nMember, Board of Richmond-On-The-James \nMember, Executive Committee and Board of Richmond Renaissance \nFounder and Honorary Chairman, Richmond Urban Forum \nDirector for Virginia and Past President, Robert E. Lee Memorial Association which administers Stratford Hall, the birthplace of Robert E. Lee \nFormer Vestry member and Junior Warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church \nMember, Board of Theatre Virginia Past President (twice) and honorary board member of Virginia League for Planned Parenthood \nTrustee, Virginia Union University","Clubs include:","Cosmopolitan Club, NYC \nHroswitha Club, NYC \nJames River Garden Club, Richmond \nRichmond First Club \nRichmond Kiwanis \nVirginia Writer's Club \nWoman's Club of Richmond","Awards Mrs. McClenahan has received include:","Richmond's Christmas Mother (1973) \nAssociation for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities' Mary Maso Williams Award (1977) \nJunior League of Richmond's Barbara Renson Andrews Award for Distinguished Volunteer Service (1982) \nSt Catherine's School's Distinguished Alumni Award (1983) \nVirginia League of Planned Parenthood Distinguished Service Award (1984) \nNational Conference of Christian and Jews' Brotherhood Citation (1985) \nOmicron Delta Kappa's Conspicuous Attainment Award (1986) \nYWCA of Richmond's Outstanding Woman of the Year (1986) \nRichmond First Club's Good Government Award (1987) \nRichmond Urban League's Charlotte T. Washington Community Services Award (1988) \nStyle Magazine's Richmonder of the Year (1991) \nHousing Opportunities Made Equal (H.O.M.E.) Fair Housing Award \nH.O.M.E. Sallie Wilson Peake Memorial Award for Outstanding Support of Fair Housing \nNational Multiple Sclerosis Society, Silver Hope Award (1994)","Honorary Degrees Mrs. McClenahan has received:","Doctor of Humanities from University of Richmond \nDoctor of Humane Letters from St. Paul's College \nDoctor of Humane Letters from Washington and Lee University \nDoctor of Humane Letters from Hollins College \nDoctor of Humane Letters from Virginia Commonwealth University"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBox/Folder, Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan Papers, M 302, Special Collection and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Box/Folder, Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan Papers, M 302, Special Collection and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes correspondence, notes, clippings, various organizational minutes, reports and files, drafts of speeches, manuscripts and published materials dating from 1933 through 1993. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1970s through the early 1990s and focuses on Mrs. McClenahan's involvement on issues of race, housing, historic preservation, and Richmond revitalization.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizational records in the collection include material from many of Richmond's major civic organizations, including Planned Parenthood, the Richmond Better Housing Coalition, Richmond-On-The-James, Richmond Renaissance and the Richmond Urban Forum. The activities of other organizations are also represented to a lesser degree. A number of these organizations are represented in other collections within Special Collections \u0026amp; Archives. Please ask a staff member for more information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also contains material documenting Mrs. McClenahan's involvement in education, the arts and politics in Richmond and Virginia, in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and speeches she has given. Other material in the collection ranges from correspondence of friends and family to material on her daily life, social plans, family holidays and vacations to information on her various interests\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection includes correspondence, notes, clippings, various organizational minutes, reports and files, drafts of speeches, manuscripts and published materials dating from 1933 through 1993. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1970s through the early 1990s and focuses on Mrs. McClenahan's involvement on issues of race, housing, historic preservation, and Richmond revitalization.","The organizational records in the collection include material from many of Richmond's major civic organizations, including Planned Parenthood, the Richmond Better Housing Coalition, Richmond-On-The-James, Richmond Renaissance and the Richmond Urban Forum. The activities of other organizations are also represented to a lesser degree. A number of these organizations are represented in other collections within Special Collections \u0026 Archives. Please ask a staff member for more information.","The collection also contains material documenting Mrs. McClenahan's involvement in education, the arts and politics in Richmond and Virginia, in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and speeches she has given. 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