Box MSS 026 Box 14

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes correspondence, accounting ledgers, and trustee meeting materials and minutes. Some pages have been removed from their original three-ring binders for preservation purposes. Receipts, invoices, and checks were also removed from the ledgers.The earliest materials in this series chronicle Ploughshares' struggle to obtain recognition as a non-profit organization. In 1976, Ploughshares was officially denied tax-exempt status, which also rendered the magazine...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Scope and content note: This series contains production notes, original cover artwork and photographs, cover stock, and correspondence. Many of the materials relate to the physical design and layout of the magazine. An e-mail exchange with founder DeWitt Henry sheds light on the early production process: in the 1970's, the typewriter was the key production tool used to assemble each issue. The Exacto knives, scissors, spray adhesive, and brushes used to piece the magazine together are...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Scope and content note: This series contains production notes, original cover artwork and photographs, cover stock, and correspondence. Many of the materials relate to the physical design and layout of the magazine. An e-mail exchange with founder DeWitt Henry sheds light on the early production process: in the 1970's, the typewriter was the key production tool used to assemble each issue. The Exacto knives, scissors, spray adhesive, and brushes used to piece the magazine together are...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Scope and content note: This series contains production notes, original cover artwork and photographs, cover stock, and correspondence. Many of the materials relate to the physical design and layout of the magazine. An e-mail exchange with founder DeWitt Henry sheds light on the early production process: in the 1970's, the typewriter was the key production tool used to assemble each issue. The Exacto knives, scissors, spray adhesive, and brushes used to piece the magazine together are...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains ad rate cards, flyers, mailings, newspaper clippings, articles, photographs, audiocassettes, a homemade banner, a tote bag, and a scrapbook. Flyers and mailings advertise Ploughshares' benefits and reading series that featured writers such as: Robert Lowell, John McGahern, Siobhan McKenna, Marilyn Hacker, and Brian Moore. This series also includes six audiocassettes of recorded readings by authors including: Seamus Heaney, Frank Conroy, Mary Lavin, and Richard Yates....

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains ad rate cards, flyers, mailings, newspaper clippings, articles, photographs, audiocassettes, a homemade banner, a tote bag, and a scrapbook. Flyers and mailings advertise Ploughshares' benefits and reading series that featured writers such as: Robert Lowell, John McGahern, Siobhan McKenna, Marilyn Hacker, and Brian Moore. This series also includes six audiocassettes of recorded readings by authors including: Seamus Heaney, Frank Conroy, Mary Lavin, and Richard Yates....

Scope and Contents From the Series: Scope and content note: This series contains production notes, original cover artwork and photographs, cover stock, and correspondence. Many of the materials relate to the physical design and layout of the magazine. An e-mail exchange with founder DeWitt Henry sheds light on the early production process: in the 1970's, the typewriter was the key production tool used to assemble each issue. The Exacto knives, scissors, spray adhesive, and brushes used to piece the magazine together are...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Scope and content note: This series contains production notes, original cover artwork and photographs, cover stock, and correspondence. Many of the materials relate to the physical design and layout of the magazine. An e-mail exchange with founder DeWitt Henry sheds light on the early production process: in the 1970's, the typewriter was the key production tool used to assemble each issue. The Exacto knives, scissors, spray adhesive, and brushes used to piece the magazine together are...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains correspondence between the editors, guest editors, contributing writers, and supporters of the magazine. When applicable, the original order and folder headings have been maintained, as in correspondence by issue or guest editor. Where no order existed, general correspondence has been arranged chronologically. Correspondence with notable writers includes: Seamus Heaney, Thomas Lux, Tim O'Brien, Joyce Carol Oates, Fanny Howe, Andre Dubus, Tess Gallagher, Sue Miller, and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Book Affair, Inc. was a small press distribution project started by Ploughshares' founder DeWitt Henry. Book Affair helped establish the state funding of literary magazines in Massachusetts. With funding from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, the project subsidized library purchases of small press books and literary magazine subscriptions. Book Affair also received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to host a yearly book fair with exhibits, panels, and a...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Book Affair, Inc. was a small press distribution project started by Ploughshares' founder DeWitt Henry. Book Affair helped establish the state funding of literary magazines in Massachusetts. With funding from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, the project subsidized library purchases of small press books and literary magazine subscriptions. Book Affair also received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to host a yearly book fair with exhibits, panels, and a...