Robert [Liddell] Lowe (1908-1988) was an American poet. His works include Two Arnold Letters (1955), work based upon the topic of his Ph.D. dissertation (Princeton, 1947), which examined the poetic theory of Matthew Arnold. Lowe's work also includes The Liable Tree and Other Poems (1981) as well as Three Poems of Robert Liddell Lowe, a musical score of Lowe's "All Foxes," "This Glittering Grief," and "Phoenix Afire," written during the 1940's and set to music by Herbert Elwell (1898-1974) in 1969. In addition to having taught at the US Naval Academy and at Williams College, Lowe was Professor in the Department of English at Purdue University.
Henry Pettit was Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was named Honorary Curator of Rare Books in Norlin Library in the early 1950's, managing the collections and encouraging the acquisition of such materials as eighteenth-century English literature and examples of early printing. Pettit was a scholar of the English poet Edward Young (1683-1765), compiling A Bibliography of Young's Night Thoughts (1954) and editing The Correspondence of Edward Young (1971).
From the guide to the Robert Lowe Letter to Henry Pettit (MS 211), 26 June 1961, (University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.)
