Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is housed in 136 boxes (the first 135 labeled by Bixby himself) which document the creative output of March Street Press between 1992 until 2009. The bulk of the collection contains correspondence between the editor (Robert J. Bixby) and authors, manuscripts, proofs, copyright documents, photographs, cover art and ephemera. It also contains a complete run of the magazine, Parting Gifts, as well as copy of each book published by the press. The...

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Printed and binded copy of Hadella's chapbook Flat Lands

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Order is for Paul Hadella's Flat Lands and the order placed is 10 copies; order form comes with a manuscript of Flat Lands to be printed

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Black-and-white printed version of the cover of Hadella's Flat Lands

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Letter contains a revised bio for Hadella and Hadella asks Bixby to make fifty additional copies of the book with the check that is enclosed with the letter: comes with a note on the front of the letter from Kinko's, saying "Print cover on EC5"

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Letter is actually a contract between Hadella and march Street Press, saying what Hadella gets from their venture and what March Street Press gets; contract is also signed and dated by Hadella; letter also ends with Bixby recommending Hadella change the title of his manuscript to something easier to say like "Flat Lands"

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Envelope from Hadella to Bixby contain three letters: first is a copy of the previous letter from Bixby with Hadella signature on it, second is a note saying "found this letter you asked me to sign", and the third letter is a short note telling Bixby that when Hadella wrote to The Cathartic to get a release form for his poem "The Rachel Complex", the letter came back to him from the post office and gave no forwarding address

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Contains many edits throughout the manuscript made in red marker and blue pen; manuscript set up similar to how it would look pre-binding

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The original title to Flat Lands, this manuscript contains only four poems and the title page, meaning some of the poems are misplaced; several edits made in red and blue ink

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Only contains a few poems, part of the table of contents, and the cover, meaning some parts of the manuscript got misplaced; comes with a note from Robert Bixby saying he would prefer the title to be two words rather than just one word as in "Flatlands"