Scope and Contents From the Collection: These Richard Lyons Papers supplement those donated to the Institute in 1972 and 1976 which are processed as Mss 10; and a 2000 accession that was processed as Mss 259. The focus of these papers is his poems. The poems are collected and filed according to decades. There are also manuscript versions of many of the longer poems or books, and a collection of periodicals and books containing published poems and articles. An important source of information for interpreting and evaluating the poems...