Box 1

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Personal letters, including three letters addressed to Richard Jones' father Gus (two from Richard, one from Major General H.K. Mooney, his commanding officer in Air Force training); several replies from the Clinton and Obama White Houses; a draft of a fan letter from Jones to Mookie Betts; two notes from Marty Sachs included with issues of a newspaper titled Cruel Sister (removed to oversize storage, Box 11, Folder 1)

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Report cards, academic transcripts, resumes and employment histories, and a family genealogy.

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Awards and diplomas related to Richard Jones's academic career and service in the Air Force.

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings about Richard Jones's career; program for the 1972 Iowa Artists' Exhibition, in which he entered a painting; an announcement of a poetry reading he performed at the LeMars Public Library; a handwritten award presented by the Kent Denver Science Department; an ad he posted offering to teach mathematics in a chapbook titled "Medieval University: An Alternative For People Who Wish to Grow Intellectually."Two newspaper clippings and a caricature of Jones have been...

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"Human" and "Chrysalis" chapbooks and an issue of Scientific American, each featuring 1-2 poems by Richard Jones.

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Poetry written by Richard Jones between 1970 and 1995. Many poems appear in multiple drafts with handwritten edits, and are collected for publication in various forms, including a project tentatively titled "Change for a Wooden Nickel." Eventually all were published under the title Bippie Poems: Collected Poems 1970-1995 (2004).