Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964. Correspondence, 1872-1964.
Title:
Correspondence, 1872-1964.
The collection consists primarily of incoming correspondence, including typed and holograph manuscripts, postcards, Christmas cards, photographs, newspaper clippings, autographs, and a calendar that span Schauffler's lifetime. The letters cover a wide range of topics, including poetry, music composition, public taste in music and literature, and publishing. Among the more significant pieces of correspondence are a series of letters from Grace Hazard Conkling, in which she discusses the character and literary theories of Amy Lowell, Germany and German music, the image of porpoises in her own verse, George Saintsbury's A History of English Prose Rhythm, and Beethoven; letters written by the poet Louise Imogen Guiney to Edward A. Church; German translations of Schauffler's poetry done by Heinrich Barban; a lively discussion of music in the letters of Elizabeth C. Moore; letters from James Oppenheim, comparing poetry to music, questioning proper contemporary poetic subjects, and examining the differences between poetry of the nineteenth century and the twentieth; and, finally, correspondence from George Sterling, in which he touches upon the death of Jack London, his own impending divorce, sobriety, and the beauty of Carmel, California. In addition there are a number of typed and holograph manuscripts of poems, including Katherine Lee Bates's "The Debt," Robert Graves's "Burrs & Brambles," Clement Allison's "The Matter with the Poets" and others, poems by Clark Ashton Smith and George Sterling, Louis Untermeyer's "Spratt vs. Spratt" with corrections in his own hand, Edmund Gosse's "The Fear of Death," poems by Jessie Kemp Hawkins, Richard Hovey's "Matthew Arnold," Robert Underwood Johnson's "October" and "Portae Musarum," poems by Theda Kenyon, George Cabot Lodge's "Life and Death," poems by Charles F. Lummis, James Oppenheim, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, and Charles Hanson Towne's "Silence," among many others.
ArchivalResource:
6 boxes, 3 oversize folders (2.5 linear feet)
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