The Prokosch Papers are dominated by heavily revised holograph and typescript manuscripts, along with some page proofs and galleys, of his novels and poetry, ca. 1917-1989. Manuscripts for 28 novels (including THE ASIATICS, THE SEVEN WHO FLED, THE MISSOLONGHI MANUSCRIPT and AMERICA, MY WILDERNESS) are present, 14 of which were never published. Among these unpublished novels are two works about Rimbaud, "Arthur" and "The Gypsy," upon which Prokosch was working just prior to his death in 1989. Manuscripts of 23 individual poems or small collections of poems are present, including "The beautiful merciless lady," his first "book" of poems in 1928, self-published in an edition of 2 copies. Three drafts with corrections, the printer's copy, and 3 sets of galleys with corrections represent Prokosch's autobiographical VOICES, A MEMOIR. Also present are juvenilia ("Maerchen") and Prokosch's Ph. D. dissertation ("The Chaucerian Apocrypha"). Few letters written by Prokosch are present in these papers: most of the correspondence is that which he received from other authors discussing his own and their own works. Among the significant correspondents are W.H. Auden, A.E. Coppard, Cyril Connolly, Lawrence Durrell, T.S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, Aldous Huxley, John Masefield, Somerset Maugham, Marianne Moore, Vita Sackville-West, Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, Sir Hugh Walpole, and Thornton Wilder.
