The University of Texas at Austin holds the Eric Walter White: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center (Manuscript Collection MS-4489) (PDF Version) in their Harry Ransom Center.
The papers of Eric Walter White, like those of Sylvia Plath's, are divided between archival repositories as a forthcoming post will discuss.
The Plath materials can be found in several boxes and folders:
"Series III. Correspondence, 1923-1985, undated (5 boxes)" has the most important material in it: three letters from Plath to White dated October 23 and October 26, 1962 and November 14, 1962. The letters are very excellent ones and in "These Ghostly Archives 5: Reanimating the Past", Gail Crowther and I discuss the letters in some detail. See pages 51-53 of that paper specifically for these letters.
There are additional Plath-related materials in the White papers, and these are transcriptions and printings of some of Plath's poems: "A Birthday Present" [transcribed and printed poem] -- 17.8, 42.5; "Cut" [transcribed poem] -- 17.5-6; and "Morning Song" [transcribed poem] -- 42.5. But these are not in Plath's hand, so there is no need to request them. The handwriting, I believe, is Eric White's as it looks to be the same as an item that recently sold at auction in "The Roy Davids Collection. Part III. Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets. Second Session (L-Y)" (Auction number 20923) via Bonhams.
You can see more libraries and archives that hold Sylvia Plath archival materials here.
The papers of Eric Walter White, like those of Sylvia Plath's, are divided between archival repositories as a forthcoming post will discuss.
The Plath materials can be found in several boxes and folders:
"Series III. Correspondence, 1923-1985, undated (5 boxes)" has the most important material in it: three letters from Plath to White dated October 23 and October 26, 1962 and November 14, 1962. The letters are very excellent ones and in "These Ghostly Archives 5: Reanimating the Past", Gail Crowther and I discuss the letters in some detail. See pages 51-53 of that paper specifically for these letters.
There are additional Plath-related materials in the White papers, and these are transcriptions and printings of some of Plath's poems: "A Birthday Present" [transcribed and printed poem] -- 17.8, 42.5; "Cut" [transcribed poem] -- 17.5-6; and "Morning Song" [transcribed poem] -- 42.5. But these are not in Plath's hand, so there is no need to request them. The handwriting, I believe, is Eric White's as it looks to be the same as an item that recently sold at auction in "The Roy Davids Collection. Part III. Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets. Second Session (L-Y)" (Auction number 20923) via Bonhams.
You can see more libraries and archives that hold Sylvia Plath archival materials here.
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