By Morning / Snow by Morning drafts

Item

Swenson, May, and The New Yorker. 1953. “By Morning Snow by Morning Drafts”. The New Yorker, May Swenson in the Modern Literature Collection, accessed March 29, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/swenson/item/59848

Title: By Morning / Snow by Morning drafts
Description: Draft pages toward the first of Swenson's 61 poems published in The New Yorker over the course of her career. Also includes a tear sheet of the poem as published, with "Snow" circled by Swenson. Editor Howard Moss accepted the poem on the condition he add that word to the title, as well as punctuation to the body of the poem.

Swenson would publish it with its original title and in its original form in her first collection, Another Animal, as well as in subsequent collections.
Date: circa 1953-1954
Type: Manuscripts; Clippings
Format: paper; jpeg
Creator: Swenson, May; The New Yorker
Extent: three leaves, recto only; one tear sheet; folder contains six drafts total
Language: English
Publisher: The New Yorker
Identifier: ms111-s02_1-b115-f4153-003
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Rights: In copyright