Crews, Judson. Papers, 1935-1981 (bulk 1940-1966).
Title:
Papers, 1935-1981 (bulk 1940-1966).
The Judson Crews Papers, 1935-1981 (bulk 1940-1966), include correspondence, drafts, notes, manuscripts, and newspaper clippings as well as page proofs, paste-ups, and various materials collected for publication. The bulk of the collection consists of Crews' correspondence with friends, colleagues, and editors, along with extensive correspondence with subscribers to his publications and customers of his book store service, the Motive Book Shop. Significant correspondents include: Wendell B. Anderson, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin, Robert Bly, Charles Bukowski, Glen Coffield, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carol Ely Harper, Langston Hughes, Aldous Huxley, John F. Kennedy, Meridel Le Sueur, Gordon Lish, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Larry McMurtry, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Alan Swallow, Louis Untermeyer, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. Manuscripts for Crews' poems spanning 1946-1965 are present, including poems published in individual chapbooks. A small amount of pseudonymous poetry is found here. Other works by Crews include two unpublished novels, as well as numerous essays and book reviews on topics such as contraception, sterilization, obscenity, and censorship. A 1974 journal of Crews' travel in Africa is also present. Little magazines edited or co-edited by Crews, 1940-1965, which are found in the collection include The Deer and Dachshund, The Flying Fish, The Naked Ear, Suck-Egg Mule: A Recalcitrant Beast, Poetry Taos, Taos: A Deluxe Magazine of the Arts, and Gale. The collection also contains manuscripts by several other writers, including Wendell B. Anderson, Carol Bergé, Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin, Scott Greer, Norman MacLeod, Mason Jordan Mason, Alfred Morang, and Robert Rivera. Among the Censorship Activities and Personal Papers series are found correspondence and printed matter generated by the various political and literary organizations concerned with issues in which Crews was interested. Newspaper clippings concern censorship, especially the Henry Miller obscenity trial of 1961. Copies of "The Horse Fly" (1935-1965), written by his friend Spud Johnson, are also included, as are brochures, catalogs, and advertisements for "nudist colonies" and other sexually-oriented ephemera.
ArchivalResource:
17 boxes (7.15 linear feet)
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