Latimer, Ronald Lane

Ronald Lane Latimer, editor and publisher of modern poetry. The papers contain correspondence from authors including: EE. Cummings, Ford Madox Ford, John Peale Bishop, Erskine Caldwell, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams and particularly Wallace Stevens.

From the description of Ronald Lane Latimer papers, 1926-1938 (inclusive) (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 636095441

Ronald Lane Latimer was an editor and publisher of modern poetry known particularly for his signed, limited editions of contemporary American poets under "The Alcestis Press" imprint. The Alcestis Press of New York was a publishing venture which in 1935 and 1936 issued several volumes of modern poetry beautifully printed on rag paper, some of them bound in parchment and boxed. Latimer backed the press as an experiment in fine printing while he was editor of Alcestis, a poetry quarterly which existed briefly from October, 1934, until July, 1935. He had edited two other periodicals under the name James G. Leippert: The New Broom and Morningside (January-April, The1932) and The Lion and Crown (Fall, 1932-Winter 1933?).

From the guide to the Latimer, Ronald Lane. Papers, 1926-1938, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.)