Items

• Loft Mentor Series

  Poster promoting Stanley Elkin reading and workshop in February 1985 presented by the Loft Mentor Series.
• US Brazilian Embassy Memo

  Elkin served as an American specialist in Brazil and Venezuela in February 1978. These two reports note that Elkin fulfilled his portion of the project of “The Writer in Society.”
• Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Mailer
• The Conventional Wisdom - Poster

  Poster promoting Elkin reading "The Conventional Wisdom" at Boston University.
• "Creative Evolution"

  Story about WashU's writing program in the summer 1982 edition of the university magazine.
• WashU MFA in Creative Writing Mailer
• Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Mailer

  Mailer advertising the fifty-first annual session of the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference.
• Memorial Program

  Program for the memorial for Stanley Elkin.
• Borchardt to Hammerle

  Georges Borchardt's letter to Melissa Hammerle with the program for Stanley Elkin's memorial.
• Wristband

  Stanley Elkin's wristband when in the morgue.
• Obituaries

  Clippings of various obituaries for Stanley Elkin.
• Dedication of the Elkin Plaque

  1 typescript page of speech by an unidentified person dedicating the Elkin home plaque that reads "Stanely Elkin, 1967 - " at 225 Westgate Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri.
• Toast for Philip Elkin's Bar Mitzvah

  Stanley Elkin's typescript toast for Philip Elkin's Bar Mitzvah.
• Toast for Molly Elkin and Ivan Wasserman’s Wedding

  Two typescript drafts and one autograph draft of Stanley Elkin's toast for his daughter's wedding.
• Sketches

  Sketches by Bob Kane and Naomi Lebowitz. Kane's marker sketch is signed "To My Friends, Joan, Stanley, Phil, Bernie and Molly - "Bats" of Happiness - Always".
• The Great Elkin/Finkel Cave Trip, 1969

  Slides featuring a caving trip taken by Elkin, Don Finkel, Richard "Red" Watson and their children. Title from slide box.
• Proud of New Classroom

  Two clippings relating to Joan Elkin teaching 5th grade at the Flossie Wiley Elementary School.
• Acting, 1955-1956

  A program and three clippings featuring Stanley Elkin as an actor at the Virginia Museum Theatre and a program and two photographs of Elkin as "Antonio" in The Merchant of Venice at the Lincoln Hall Theatre.
• Blooming Idiot

  Undergraduate paper "Blooming Idiot".
• The Coffee Room - Studio Set

  Studio Set, the program guide for KWMU-FM National Public Radio, featuring "The Coffee Room" with a painting by Joan Elkin on the cover.