David L. Harrison Papers 5
David L. Harrison Papers 5 
Collection Inventory
Box 13a
17.25” x 11.5” x 3.75”
Easy Poetry Lessons That Dazzle and Delight. New York: Scholastic, 1999.
1. Summary: Teachers’ Comments
2. Definitions
3. Suggested formatting
4. Table of Contents
5. Ideas for the first chapter
6. “Where Does the Line End?”—background
7. Memo to David Harrison and Wendy Murray
8. Glossary
9. Outline—6/22/96
10. Master List of Potential Strategies
11. Handwritten Notes
12. Children’s Poetry
13. Correspondence
14. List of Poems from “Random House Book of Poetry for Children”
15. Memo of poetic forms
16. Title page and Outline (2 copies)
Box 13b
17.25” x 11.5” x 3.75”
Easy Poetry Lessons That Dazzle and Delight (con’t)
17. Typed manuscript Chapters 1-6, 13—Poems and strategies
18. Galleys
19. Proof with revisions
20. Proof with revisions
21. Proof
Box 14
17.25” x 11.5” x 3.75”
Wild Country. Honesdale, PA: Wordsong, 1999.
1. Poetry
a. “Giants”—2 typed, 1 handwritten
b. “Love Song”—3 typed
c. “Mountain Flower”—2 typed
d. “Mountains”—2 typed
e. “Storm”—4 typed, 1 handwritten
f. “Valley of the Elk”—10 typed
g. “Muskoxen”—3 typed
h. “Star Watch”—1 typed
i. “The Glimpse”—9 handwritten
j. “Landlords”—2 typed
k. “Butterflies”—5 typed, 1 handwritten
l. “Song of the Tree Frogs”—3 typed
m. “Moose at dusk”—5 typed, 1 handwritten
n. “Spring Bug”—5 typed
o. “Breaking Through”—4 typed
p. “Low Tide”—2 typed
q. “Sandpipers”—2 typed
r. “Starfish”—3 typed, 2 handwritten
s. “Summer Vacation”—2 typed
t. “Vapor Trails”—5 typed
u. “Dall Sheep”—2 typed
v. “Eaglet”—1 typed
w. “The Mountain”—4 typed
x. “The Storm”—4 typed, 2 handwritten
y. “River Run”—6 typed
z. “Raven”—1 typed
aa. “Enchanted Forest”—1 typed
bb. “Bear Country”—3 typed
cc. “The Glimpse”—4 typed
dd. “The Pond”—1 typed
ee. “Salmon”—7 typed
ff. “At Low Tide”—1 handwritten
gg. “Seagulls”—4 typed
hh. “Seal”—7 typed
ii. “Sea Otter”—4 typed
jj. “No Words”—2 typed
kk. “Humpback”—4 typed
2. Typed manuscript—original
3. Typed manuscript—unrevised as of 12/23/98
4. Typed manuscript with editors notes
5. Typed manuscript with revisions
6. Typed manuscript with editors comments about poems
7. Typed manuscript with author’s response to comments
8. Typed manuscript with page layout sheets
9. Typed manuscript with revisions
10. Typed manuscript with illustrations and page layout sheet
11. Typed manuscript with revisions and page layout sheet
12. Handwritten notes
13. Correspondence
14. Galleys
15. Galleys
16. Proof
17. Proof with color book jacket
Box 15
17.25” x 11.5” x 3.75”
Farmer’s Garden. Honesdale, PA: Wordsong, 2000.
1. Poetry
a. “Farmers’ Garden”—2 typed,
b. “Earthworm” (worms)—1 typed, 3 handwritten copies
c. “Lizard”—6 typed
d. “Butterfly”—1 typed
e. “Redbird”—1 typed
f. “Bunny”—1 typed
g. “Strawberry”—1 typed
h. “Turtle”—1 typed
i. “Cow”—1 typed
j. “Corn”—1 typed
k. “Crow”—1 typed
l. “Caterpillar”—1 typed
m. “Bug”—1 typed
n. “Deer”—1 typed
2. Typed manuscript “How Farmer’s Garden Grew”
3. Typed manuscript with revisions and page layout
4. Galleys
5. Handwritten Notes
6. Correspondence
Dogs and Cats. New York: Scholastic, 2001.
1. Proposed story for “Clifford—The Truth About Dogs and Cats”
2. Typed script—Final 1/26/00
3. Handwritten manuscript
4. Typed manuscript with revisions
5. Typed manuscript with revisions—Version 2
6. Typed manuscript with revisions—Version 3, 7/22-24/00
7. Typed manuscript with revisions—7/27/00
8. Typed manuscript—Version 4
9. Typed manuscript with revisions—Version 4
10. Typed manuscript with revisions—Version 5
11. Typed manuscript—Version 6
12. Scenes from the script
13. PBS Promotional Brochure
14. Miscellaneous manuscript pages
15. Handwritten Notes
16. Correspondence
Clifford and the Big Surprise. New York: Scholastic, 2001.
1. Typed script #CL-32
2. Outline
3. Writing plan with revisions
4. Writing plan
5. Handwritten manuscript
6. Typed manuscript with revisions #1
7. Typed manuscript with revisions #2
8. Typed manuscript with correspondence—Final
The Big Sleepover. New York: Scholastic, 2001.
1. Typed manuscript #CL-30
2. Handwritten manuscript
3. Preliminary work for a rhyming storybook
4. Writing plan
5. Typed manuscript pages 1-3 with revisions
6. Typed manuscript—1st complete draft 3/3/00
7. Typed manuscript—final copy
8. Correspondence
To Catch A Bird
1. Typed script #CL-19
2. Outline based on script
3. Book outline
4. Handwritten manuscript
5. Handwritten manuscript—Version 2
6. Handwritten manuscript—Version 3
7. Typed manuscript with correspondence
8. Correspondence
Box 16
17.25” x 11.5” x 3.75”
Johnny Appleseed: My Story. New York: Random House, 2001.
1. Handwritten manuscript
2. Outline with revisions
3. Outline to editor
4. Outline with editor’s notes
5. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed”
6. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed” 2nd draft
7. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed” 3rd draft
8. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed” 4th draft
9. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed” 5th draft
10. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed” 6th draft
11. Pages 5-7 with revisions
12. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed: My Story” –1st draft with revisions
13. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed: My Story”—2nd draft
14. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed: My Story”—3rd draft with correspondence 8/24/00
15. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed: My Story”—3rd draft
16. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed: My Story”—4th draft
17. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed: My Story”—5th draft
18. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed: My Story”—5th draft with revisions
19. Typed manuscript “Johnny Appleseed: My Story”—5th draft with revisions
20. Copy of typed manuscript with revisions—6th draft
21. Typed manuscript—6th draft
22. Typed manuscript with revisions—7th draft
23. Editor’s notes
24. Typed manuscript—final 9/29/00
25. Pages 8-11 with revisions
26. Copies and page layout of illustrations
27. Proof
28. Color copy of book cover
29. Correspondence
Caves: Mysteries Beneath Our Feet. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mill Press, 2001.
1. Cave notes
2. Handwritten pages—1st copy
3. Typed manuscript—2nd copy
4. Typed manuscript with revisions—3rd copy
5. Typed manuscript with revisions—4th copy
6. Typed manuscript with revisions—5th copy
7. Typed manuscript with revisions—6th-8th copies
8. Typed manuscript with revisions—9th copy “Finding Caves “
9. Typed manuscript with revisions—10th copy
10. Typed manuscript with revisions—11th-13th copy “Amazing Caves”
11. Typed manuscript with revisions—14th-15th copies “Amazing Caves”
12. Typed manuscript with revisions—16th-18th copies “Amazing Caves”
13. Typed manuscript with revisions—“Amazing Limestone Caves” (3 copies)
14. Typed manuscript with revisions—“Amazing Limestone Caves”
15. Copy of “The Discovery of Howe Caverns”
16. Typed manuscript with revisions 4/12/00
17. Typed manuscript with copy of editor’s suggestions
18. BMP version of text
19. Jpeg image of some illustrations
20. Introduction and Notes to Teachers
21. Laser copy of dummy book
22. Proof
23. Correspondence
24. Handwritten notes
25. Sample of Cheryl Nathan’s illustrations
26. Bio information
27. Book layout
Box 17
17.25” x 11.5” x 3.75”
Heart to Heart. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.
1. Suggested List of Artists (2 copies)
2. Bio of David L. Harrison
3. Copies of poems returned by Jan Greenberg
4. Seven copies of “It’s Me” in various visual forms
5. Written thoughts behind poem
6. Handwritten notes
7. Correspondence
Dylan, the Eagle-Hearted Chicken. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mill Press, 2002.
1. Typed manuscript with revisions “Dylan”
2. Typed manuscript “How Dylan Turned Into an Eagle and Then Turned into a Chicken”
3. Typed manuscript “Dylan the Eagle-Hearted Chicken”
4. Correspondence
5. Promotional Brochure (2)
6. Proof
Rivers: Nature’s Wondrous Waterways. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mill Press, 2002.
1. Handwritten manuscript
2. Outline “The Life of a River”
3. Typed manuscript with revisions—7/5/00
4. Typed manuscript with revisions—7/7/00
5. Typed manuscript with revisions—7/14/00
6. Typed manuscript with revisions—7/16/00
7. Typed manuscript with revisions—7/17/00
8. Typed manuscript with revisions—7/18/00
9. Typed manuscript with revisions—7/26/00
10. Typed manuscript
11. Typed manuscript—final version (2 copies)
12. Miscellaneous manuscript pages
13. Illustrations with notes
14. Bibliographical information
15. Correspondence
16. Dummy book with notes
17. Copy of Dummy Book
18. Dummy book with correspondence
19. Proof—black and white
20. Proof—color
21. Proof—color