Notes

Abbreviations

AR Papers	Adrienne Rich Papers, Schlesinger Library
CRD	Carol Rupert Doty
DA–Dodd	Archives and Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs
DA Collection–Dodd	The (Donald) Allen Collection, Collection of Frank O’Hara Letters, 1950–1966, Archives and Special Collections, Dodd Research Center
DA Collection–Mandeville	Donald Allen Collection, Mandeville Special Collections and Archives, University of California at San Diego
DAL	Deerfield Academy Library, Deerfield, MA
DAP	Daisy Aldan Papers, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
FB	Frank Boyden
FO	Frank O’Hara
Gregg Papers	Richard A. “Sandy” Gregg Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University
HEL	Henry E. Lawrence
HL Papers	Harry Levin Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University
JA	John Ashbery
JA Alumni File	Ashbery Alumni File, Deerfield Academy Library, Deerfield, MA
JA mss–uncatalogued	Uncatalogued James Schuyler Manuscripts, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library
JA Papers	John Ashbery Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University
JAPC	John Ashbery Private Collection, Hudson, NY, and New York City
JF Papers–Houghton	Jane Freilicher Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University
JF	Jane Freilicher
JS	James Schuyler
JS mss–uncatalogued	Uncatalogued James Schuyler Manuscripts, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York
JS Papers–Mandeville	James Schuyler Papers, Mandeville Special Collections and Archives, University of California at San Diego
KK	Kenneth Koch
Living Theatre Records	Living Theatre Records, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
LR	Larry Rivers
LR Papers	Larry Rivers Papers, Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University
MW	Mary Wellington
MW Letters	John Ashbery letters to Mary Wellington, Houghton Library, Harvard University
RHPC	Robert Hunter Private Collection, Thetford, VT
SG	Sandy Gregg
Typewriter-paper Box	a sheaf of early poems that survived unknown for years in a typewriter-paper box, John Ashbery Private Collection
WH	William Haddock
YUP Records	Yale University Press, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Preface

0.     Author interviews with JA, July 2009, Hudson, NY.

0.     Guggenheim correspondence, AM6 Box 24, JA Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Knopf correspondence (1961–62), Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records, Harry Ransom Center.