Contents

• DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
• BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
• COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
• SERIES LIST
• SEPARATED MATERIAL
• INFORMATION FOR USERS
• SUBJECTS
• CONTAINER LIST

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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra papers, 1960-2014.
Collection Number: 8511

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

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Books - cataloged individually in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

1. de Souza, Eunice. Learn from the Almond Leaf, 2016. Signed.
2. Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna. Bharatmata: a prayer, 1967. Offprint from Poetry India.
3. Kolatkar, Arun. The Boatride, circa 1960s. Signed self-made book, with experimental paper treatment.
4. Kolatkar, Arun. The Policeman, 1969. 1st edition.

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INFORMATION FOR USERS

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CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Manuscripts, Drafts, Personal Materials and Reviews
Box 3	Folder 1	Loose Sheets, Ezra 1 and 2
Box 3	Folder 2	Damn you/Ezra contributions
		Scope and Contents Including Agha Shahid Ali, letters from Adil (new writing in India), Tornado #5 (expenses), letters from US Poets
Box 3	Folder 3	Review clippings, Clearing House	1977-1983
Box 3	Folder 4	Early writings	late 1960s
Box 3	Folder 5-6	Drafts and manuscripts	late 1970s
Box 1	Folder 1	Reviews of Damn you/ Ezra
		Scope and Contents In Century (1966), Poetry India (1967), Manhattan Review(1966-1967)
Box 1	Folder 2-4	Contributions to other US, UK, and Indian magazines
		Scope and Contents Includes NPW/Kruti and Tornado #4, Bombay Duck
Box 3	Folder 7	TLS with poems	1978, 1965
Box 1	Folder 5-9	Poems, manuscripts and drafts	2000-2013
Box 2	Folder 12-15	Songs of Kabir MSS and drafts	2000
Box 2	Folder 17	Shakti Chattopadhyay
Box 2	Folder 16	History of Indian Literature in English file
Box 2	Folder 18	History of Indian Literature in English initial stages	1997
Box 2	Folder 19	History of Indian Literature in English correspondence	1996-1997
Box 2	Folder 20	Looking for A.K. Ramanujan clippings, notes and drafts
Box 2	Folder 21	Iowa materials, bound	1971-1973
Box 3	Folder 14	DH Law review essay materials
Box 2	Folder 25	The Transfiguring Places drafts of poems
Box 2	Folder 26	MSS drafts of poems that first appear under New Poems in Collected Poems	1998
Box 4	Folder 1	Copies of The Nation, MPT (17), Romanian Bulletin, all with AK Mehrotra poems or translations; Penguin News with announcement of Adil Jussawalla's "New Writing in India".
Box 4	Folder 3	The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature publishing information, photocopy with corrections of "The Emperor Has No Clothes".	2000
Box 4	Folder 4	MSS of the Absent Traveller with AK Ramanujan's corrections/suggestions in pencil, with letters from Selby and Ramanujan	1988
Box 4	Folder 4-5	MSS of the Absent Traveller, notes and drafts, with letter from Selby	1988
Box 3	Folder 15	The Absent Traveller notes and drafts	1988
Box 4	Folder 7	Mehrotra's Curriculum Vitae, book selection photocopies, materials for a grant/fellowship that never came through
Box 4	Folder 8-10	The Transfiguring Places proofs, drafts, letters to Ravi Dayal
Box 4	Folder 12	Clippings and notes related to History of Indian Literature in English
		Scope and Contents Includes Prathibha Nandakumar letter and photocopies of AK Ramanujan letters/poems to her.
Box 4	Folder 13	Articles and reviews received from Adil Jussawalla, including letters from Jussawalla
Box 4	Folder 18	AK Mehrortra early chapbooks: "Woodcuts on Paper" and "Pomes, Poemes, Poemas"	1967, 1971
Box 4	Folder 21	List of early publications, early letters to publishers, translations of poems in German	1965-1976
Box 4	Folder 22	Three early Mehrortra essays, one unpublished;, international writing program Iowa presentations and materials; Center for New Performing Arts Iowa publications	1971-1973
Box 4	Folder 23	Manuscripts	1973-1977, 1995-1996
Box 4	Folder 24	Distance in Statute Miles typescript	1981
Box 4	Folder 25	Kabir beginnings, including signed copy of Robert Bly's chapbook "The Fish in the Water is Not Thirsty (1971), and poster for the Indian edition of "Songs of Kabir"
Box 4	Folder 26	"All to Remember", unpublished typescript of Amit Rai (1948-1966) collected poems, prose, and letters edited by Mehrortra.	1971
		Scope and Contents Rai was one of the three editors of Damn You.
Box 4	Folder 27	The Absent Traveller drafts
Box 5	Folder 1-2	Making books, including final MSS of Distance to Statute Miles	1971-1982
Box 5	Folder 3-5	History of Indian Literature in English
Box 5	Folder 6-8	After Maluk MS, Paper Aeroplane, Poems from the goof surrealist MS, Partial recall essay, Nirala MS, letters from Helsa, Gulam Sheikh, the Yaddo file, GRE scores
Box 6	Folder 10-13	Miscellaneous press books and manuscripts
Box 6	Folder 14	Address book, notebook
Box 7	Folder 5	Genesis copies and notebook	1964-1965
		Scope and Contents Two copies of Genesis, Mehrotra's first "book," produced when he was 17 (one bound, one unbound); small notebook with Siva on cover—poems, pieces, doodles.
Box 7	Folder 6	News clippings	1970-1972
Box 7	Folder 7	Certificates	1962-1963
		Series II. Publications
Box 1	Folder 11	"Imprint" Magazine, with reviews	February, May 1987
Box 1	Folder 12-13	"Debonair" Magazine	1981-1990
Box 1	Folder 14	Joseph Bruchac publications
		Scope and Contents Flow, Indian Mountain and Other Poems, The Road to Black Mountain
Box 1	Folder 15-16	Miscellaneous small publications
		Scope and Contents Including Row With Your Hair, Troll Songs, Zuk, Cold Mountain Press, Nights of Naomi, Let the Wild Rumpus Start, Wondering Where You Are, Westbeth Poetry
Box 1	Folder 17	"The Dolphin with the Revolver in its Teeth", "Shaded Room" (1), "Quark" (1967), "Maelstro" (1967), "Earthword" (1971), "Bear"
Box 1	Folder 18	"The Beauties of Travel", "The Poor Devil Eire", "Llamas Allmanac", "Margins" (1975)
Box 1	Folder 19	Journal of South Asian Literature (1974), Mahfil
Box 1	Folder 20	"Toothpaste", "The Very First Love Letter"
Box 1	Folder 21	"Red Crow"	1972, 1973
Box 2	Folder 1	University of Tampa	1966
Box 2	Folder 2	"The Nation", with Grace Shulman's poems and correspondence	1973
Box 2	Folder 3	"Keeper's Voice"	1966
Box 2	Folder 4	"Ole!" with letter from Doug Blazeg	1967
Box 2	Folder 5	Klacto, Suction	1967
Box 2	Folder 6	"Kolkata du Haazar"	1986
Box 2	Folder 7	"Indian Horizons"	1985
Box 2	Folder 8	"Contra '66" full set
Box 2	Folder 9	Gulam Sheikh catalogue, and letter	1999
Box 2	Folder 10	Vrishchik	1969
Box 2	Folder 11	"Saint Botolph's Review" #2
Box 2	Folder 11	Weissbort's 'Home'
Box 2	Folder 11	"Black Graphics International"
Box 2	Folder 22-23	British and US little magazines, including "Intrepid" special issue on India
Box 4	Folder 15	TriQuarterly 37: Going to Heaven, with a letter from Elliott Anderson	1976
Box 4	Folder 16	"Town Poems" by Ashok Chopra, an Ezra-Fakir publications, and single copy of Ezra #2
Box 4	Folder 17	"Damn You" issues 1-6 and "An Odd Thing" by Anil Saari, a Damn You press publications
Box 4	Folder 19	"Three" by Bogomil Gjuzel, translated by Mehrotra, Ezra-Fakir press	1973
Box 4	Folder 20	"Ezra" 1, 3-5; Fakir; "Bharatmata"; "Concrete poetry" loose sheets; twelve poems from the "Good Surrealist"; Clearing House cards and flyers
Box 5	Folder 9	"Salt Lick" materials
Box 6	Folder 10-15	Miscellaneous programs and small press books
		Series III. Other Authors and Miscellaneous
Box 3	Folder 8	Agha Shahid Ali, Keki Daruwalla, Dilip Chitre clippings and letters
Box 3	Folder 9	Saklatvala and Kabraji xerox copies
Box 3	Folder 10	Dom Moraes, Arun Kolatkar, and notes on Jejuri
Box 3	Folder 11	Adil Jussawalla, Manohar Shetty
Box 3	Folder 12	Eunice de Souza, Vikram Seth
Box 3	Folder 13	Jayanta Mahapatra poems, clippings, and letters
Box 3	Folder 14	Nissim Ezekiel xeroxes, reviews, Edinburgh interlude, note on Ezekiel
Box 2	Folder 24	Arun Kolatkar unpublished MSS of his novel 'Royan'
Box 4	Folder 2	"Nile" poems by Tomaz Salamun, autographed typescript	1972
Box 4	Folder 6	Arun's 'Sarpa Satra', Adil's poems
Box 4	Folder 14	Copy of Adil Jussawalla "Land's End" with his corrections and letter; photocopies of Jussawalla's "Trying to Say Goodbye" and "The Right Kind of Dog"; copies of Dilip Chitre chapbooks; Mehrotra's notes on translation and unpublished interview with Vijay Kumar
Box 3	Folder 18	Michael Lally items
Box 7	Folder 8	Arun Kolatkar writing	1964, 1974
		Scope and Contents In English, an unsewn manuscript signature of notes, poems, and sketches (1960s?); in Marathi, two manuscript signatures of poetry, hand-written and water-stained; Signed typescript of Jejuri in English, 1974.
		Series IV. Correspondence
Box 4	Folder 11	Family Letters
		Scope and Contents Including letters from Ved Mehra and Palash Krishna Mehrotra; letter from Arun Kolatkar's nephew
Box 4	Folder 28	Correspondence to Leonard S. Marcus	1983
Box 3	Folder 16	Miscellaneous letters	1990s
		Scope and Contents Including letters from Adil, Manohar, Jeet, Ranjit, Allan, Pankaj (postcard about first impressions of the US)
Box 3	Folder 17	Correspondence	1989-1999
Box 5	Folder 10-11	Letters from writers: Adil Jussawalla, Shetty, Jayanta, Daniel Weissbort, Timothy Hyman, and others
Box 5	Folder 12-14	Letters from friends and academics, including Bruce King, Martha Selby, and others	1980s-1990s
Box 6	Folder 1-6	Letters from Adil, Shetty, Allan Sealy, Weissbort and others
Box 6	Folder 7-9	Miscellaneous correspondence
Box 7	Folder 1	Correspondence	Undated
Box 7	Folder 2	Correspondence	1966-1967
Box 7	Folder 3	Correspondence	1971-1972
Box 7	Folder 4	Oxford University Press Correspondence	1990
		Scope and Contents Three photocopied letters from Rukum Advani of OUP soliciting permission on any terms to publish Arun Kolatkar's work.