Typescript photocopy mock-up with autograph corrections and annotations. The notes describe text sources and other information about the poems, and instructions for typesetting the manuscript. Also includes a front cover and additional pages of front matter created by Berrigan. The cover incorporates a clipped image from a newspaper and drawings in red and black pen; the front matter includes a black and white photograph of Berrigan by an unidentified photographer. The front cover is, according to a note by Berrigan on the item, "accidentally on back upside down".
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Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), American poet. He was married to the American poet Alice Notley (1945-)., In English., Title from title page., and With a dedication from Berrigan to Alice Notley on the verso of the penultimate leaf: "This copy completed (for Alice) 3-4 a.m., Thurs., Apr. 24th, in Needles, California.".
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, an address book, a newspaper clipping, and a bookmark relating to Natalie Barney collected by Joan Schenkar, Box 1 contains correspondence, photographs, a legal document, an address book, and a newspaper clipping. The correspondence is among Barney, Bettina Bergery, Berthe Cleyrergue, Laura Dreyfus-Barney, Marcelle Fauchier-Delavigne, Nadine Hwang, Janine Lahovany, André Rouveyre, and Crédit Suisse Berne, dated 1935-1973. The bulk of the correspondence consists of eighty-five letters from Barney to Cleyrergue, dated 1940-1968. The photographs depict several individuals, including Barney, Dolly Wilde, Valery Larbaud, Hwang, Eva Palmer, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, Antoinette Gentien, Renée Vivien, Laura Dreyfus-Barney, and Marie Laurencin. The legal document is a typescript copy of a page from an April 1918 voir dire, detailing the troubled marriage between Colette and Henry de Jouvenal. The newspaper clipping is an undated cartoon of the temple de l'amitié in Barney's garden. The leather-bound address book belonged to Barney and contains two cartes de visite, Box 2 contains a photographic portrait of Barney at age sixteen, and Box 3 contains a metal bookmark with a butterfly design that belonged to Barney
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Joan Schenkar is an American playwright and biographer., Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women., Accompanied by a vendor list (in box 1)., and In French and English.
