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".
Description:
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.".
Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor
Description:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century., Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), African American poet in Boston, Massachusetts., Lettering in English., and Title from lettering on plaque.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
Autograph manuscript letter, signed, praising Ellen Sturgis Hooper's poetry. Enclosed with the letter are autograph manuscript copies of three recent poems of his own in return: "Forerunners", "The House", and "Loss and Gain". Also includes a manuscript poem in an unidentified hand, possibly Ellen Sturgis Hooper's, titled "Persephone". With envelope
Description:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American author., Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812-1848) was an American poet and transcendentalist., and In English.
Subject (Name):
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882., Hooper, Ellen Sturgis, 1812-1848., and Persephone (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American, Poets, American, Transcendentalists (New England), and Women poets, 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 Saroyan, Peter Schjeldahl, and others
