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Shelley, Philip Allison, 1907-. Philip Allison Shelley correspondence related to the Simmons Series, 1947-1959.

Title: Philip Allison Shelley correspondence related to the Simmons Series, 1947-1959.

The collection consists of four folders of correspondence and papers concerning the Simmons Series, during the period when the series was under the guidance of Philip Allison Shelley, 1947-1959. Includes carbon copies of Shelley's letters, with the originals from his correspondents. Among the correspondents: Karl Viëtor, Stephen Spender, Robert Lowell, Richard P. Blackmur, C.M. Bowra, George Kingsley Zipf, Harry Levin, Peter Viereck, Ernest Simmons, David Daiches, G. Edwin Brumbaugh, Al Capp, John Crowe Ransom, Whitney Jennings Oates, and Dylan Thomas' agent John Malcolm Brinnin. Also, Thornton Wilder, Edgar Mertner, Lois B. Hyslop, John C.B. Moore, Donald Morgan and Belva Kibler, Carl F. Schreiber, Erich Kahler, Janice Harsanyi, Louis MacNeice's agent J.M. Brinnin, the Tudor Singers, Herbert J. Muller, Paul Engle, Allen Tate, and David Wagoner. Also includes internal memoranda, clippings, brochures, and various related correspondence, including poster designer Frances Boldereff and agent Elizabeth D. Kray.

ArchivalResource: .17 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55059416 View

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982. Kenneth Rexroth papers, 1940-1982 (bulk 1969-1981).

Title: Kenneth Rexroth papers, 1940-1982 (bulk 1969-1981).

The papers of Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and activist, comprise manuscripts, notes, printed material, publications, correspondence, ephemera, and artwork related to poetry, writing, speaking engagements, and teaching, primarily from the last decade of his life; also included are correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and edits compiled by Geoffrey Gardner for a Kenneth Rexroth festschrift published in 1980.

ArchivalResource: 16.34 linear ft. (26 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700957718 View

V. R. Lang papers, 1929-1974 (inclusive) 1943-1959 (bulk).

Title: V. R. Lang papers, 1929-1974 (inclusive) 1943-1959 (bulk).

Manuscripts and correspondence of the American poet, playwright, and actress V. R. Lang.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00344/catalog View

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Additional papers, 1917-1962 and undated.

Title: E. E. Cummings additional papers, 1917-1962 and undated

Additional papers of American poet E.E. Cummings.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01861/catalog View

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Additional papers, 1917-1962 and undated.

Title: E. E. Cummings additional papers, 1917-1962 and undated

Additional papers of American poet E.E. Cummings.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01861/catalog View

V. R. Lang papers, 1929-1974 (inclusive) 1943-1959 (bulk).

Title: V. R. Lang papers, 1929-1974 (inclusive) 1943-1959 (bulk).

Manuscripts and correspondence of the American poet, playwright, and actress V. R. Lang.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00344/catalog View

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Additional papers, 1917-1962 and undated.

Title: E. E. Cummings additional papers, 1917-1962 and undated

Additional papers of American poet E.E. Cummings.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01861/catalog View

Kenneth Rexroth papers, Bulk, 1969-1981, 1940-1982

Title: Kenneth Rexroth papers Bulk, 1969-1981 1940-1982

The papers of Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and activist, comprise manuscripts, notes, printed material, publications, correspondence, and ephemera related to poetry, writing, speaking engagements, and teaching, primarily from the last decade of his life; also included are correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and edits compiled by Geoffrey Gardner for a Kenneth Rexroth festschrift published in 1980. The collection is partially processed.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet; 25 boxes

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2p30310v View

Boston College Humanities Series director's records

Title: Boston College Humanities Series director's records

These records comprise correspondence, financial records, documents, photographs, publicity items, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and ephemera covering the first forty years of Boston College's Humanities Lecture Series, related lecture series, and events. The materials also documents Director Francis W. Sweeney, SJ's life-long relationship with many prominent writers, theologians, and academics of the twentieth century. The bulk of the records are composed of correspondence. The correspondence in Series I, Subseries A. includes literary agents, lecture circuit organizations, newspapers, and funding sources, as well as general correspondence related to the routine operations of the Humanities Series and related lecture series. Notable correspondents include Elizabeth Kray, from the Poetry Center and the Academy of American Poets (an important source of lecturers for the Humanities), the New England Poetry Circuit (which provided many speakers for the Younger Poets Series) and John Lowell of the Lowell Institution (a nonprofit organization which began funding the Humanities Series in the late 1980s). The subseries also contains significant correspondence relating to funding and operations of the Stylus and David Steinman Visiting Poets Lecture Series prior to the inauguration of the Humanities Series in 1958. Series VI. Lecturers contains Sweeney’s correspondence with individuals who participated in or were approached to participate in the Humanities Series and the related lecture series. This series also includes posters, promotional items, newspaper clippings, and articles written by Sweeney about individual lecturers, and for scholars for whom he managed lecture tours. These include the tours of theologian Hans Küng and Martin Cyril D'Arcy, SJ. Of particular note among this ephemera are two signed copies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's broadside “Populist Manifesto for Poets with Love” and original artwork by Gregory Corso and Andre Girard. These records also contains photographs of lecturers and artists who participated in the events administered by Sweeney. There are both publicity images and images taken on-site during lectures or events. Of particular note are images of poet Robert Frost.

ArchivalResource: 33.75 Linear Feet (66 containers)

https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/284 View

Berryman, John, 1914-1972. John Berryman collection, 1938-1971.

Title: John Berryman collection, 1938-1971.

Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: ca. 55 items (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122486626 View

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Additional papers, 1870-1969.

Title: E. E. Cummings additional papers, 1870-1969

Correspondence, poems, prose, notes, and drawings by American poet Edward Estlin Cummings. Also includes papers of his third wife Marion Morehouse Cummings.

ArchivalResource: 156 boxes (78 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01075/catalog View