Collection consists of approximately 120 letters and cards from James Purdy to his assistant and friend Elaine Benton, dating from 1983 to 1999, writings, and other materials. Benton served as Purdy's typist, and the writings include typescript drafts...
Collection consists of approximately 120 letters and cards from James Purdy to his assistant and friend Elaine Benton, dating from 1983 to 1999, writings, and other materials. Benton served as Purdy's typist, and the writings include typescript drafts...
The papers document Emily Farnham's research and writing of the biography Charles Demuth: Behind a Laughing Mask. The collection contains correspondence; questionnaires for interviewees; lists of Demuth collectors and collections; photographs of pain...
Description:
Emily Farnham is the author of Charles Demuth: Behind a Laughing Mask (Tulsa: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971).
Subject (Name):
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935., Ebberts, Carolyn May., and Farnham, Emily, 1912-
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Artists, American, and Authors, American
Letters to Havelock Ellis from H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Bryher, and Jessie Capper. There is one letter from Françoise Delisle to Meum Stewart. The letters regard their work and friendships, mutual friends, and books read. The letters date from 1922 t...
Description:
Havelock Ellis, essayist, editor, physician, and psychologist.
Subject (Name):
Bryher, 1894-1983., Capper, Jessie., Delisle, Françoise Roussel., Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939., H. D (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961., and Stewart, Meum.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, Editors, American, and Psychologists, American
Collection contains approximately 30 pieces of correspondence between Miller and French publisher Maurice Girodias, dating from the mid to late 1970s, and drafts, corrected, of several pieces of writing, including a fragment from Nexus and four essays...
Description:
Henry Miller (1891-1980), author and painter.
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France)
Subject (Name):
Fraenkel, Michael, 1896-1957., Girodias, Maurice., Man Ray, 1890-1976., and Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, and Intellectual life
Draft (483 pages) of "Nexus I" and "Nexus II," typescript carbon, with minor corrections and annotations, and draft (112 pages) of "Nexus: Vol.2," typescript carbon, dated "Nov. 30, 1961," accompanied by autograph letter, signed, from Miller to Emil W...
Papers feature material relating to Sikorsky's The Invisible Encounter (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947), including: drafts, autograph manuscript (incomplete) and typescript, corrected; a printed version, annotated, of the 1947 Scribner's edit...
Description:
Igor Ivan Sikorsky (1889-1972), aviator, engineer, and industrialist, was born in Kiev, Russia (now Ukraine) and emigrated to the United States in 1919.
Subject (Name):
Brasol, Boris, 1885-1963., Golokhvastov, G. (Georgiĭ), Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972., Charles Scribner's Sons., and Poushkin Society in America.
Papers include correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and printed material by or relating to Anne Waldman dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s, during which time Brownstein and Waldman were living in New York and Waldman was directing the Poe...
Description:
Michael Brownstein (1943-), poet and novelist.
Subject (Name):
Berkson, Bill., Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994., Brownstein, Michael, 1943-, Clark, Tom, 1941-2018., Padgett, Ron, 1942-, Waldman, Anne, 1945-, Warsh, Lewis., Angel Hair Books., Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics., and St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.). Poetry Project.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, American poetry, Authors, American, Beats (Persons), and Poets, American
Letters from Olga Rudge to Linda Melton, accompanied by a small group of papers relating to Ezra Pound. The letters date from between 1947 and 1960 and are almost entirely concerned with Rudge's efforts to win Pound's freedom from American custody in ...
Description:
Olga Rudge (1895-1996), musician and friend of Ezra Pound.
Subject (Name):
Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965 (Thomas Stearns),, Melton, Linda., Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972, Pound, Isabel Weston, 1860-1948., and Rudge, Olga, 1895-1996.
Subject (Topic):
Friends and associates, Public opinion, American literature, American poetry, and Authors, American
Collection of approximately 70 letters to Ted Berrigan, dating from the mid 1960s, from writers, editors, and literary organizations, including Carol Bergé, Joe Brainard, Edwin Denby, Kathleen Fraser, Lita Hornick, Joanne Kyger, Lewis MacAdams, Aram ...