Wilda Hamerman papers 1968-1985

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Wilda Hamerman papers 1968-1985

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Correspondence, writings, printed materials, clippings, photographs, and other papers related to Wilda Hamerman's work as secretary to Norman Holmes Pearson. Correspondents consist of Bryher, Pearson, and others, including several Japanese students. Bryher correspondence concerns the completion of the manuscript of The Days of Mars, which Wilda Hamerman typed. The bulk of the letters and postcards from Pearson date from a 1970 trip he took to Australia and many parts of Asia. Writings of others include typescripts and printed essays by Pearson, including a journal of his 1970 trip; an uncorrected proof of Ladislas Farago's Game of the Foxes; and an outline and excerpts from How I Enjoyed Studying in America by Tamotsu Nishiyama. Other papers include clippings of obituaries and printed materials related to Pearson. Photographs all feature Pearson, in individual or group portraits.

Total Boxes: 2 boxes and 1 broadside folder; Linear Feet: .83

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Hamerman, Wilda.

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During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wilda Hamerman worked as secretary to Norman Holmes Pearson, a professor of English and American Studies at Yale. Pearson was also faculty advisor to the Yale Collection of American Literature and literary executor of both H. D. and Bryher. Wilda Hamerman is married to Martin Hamerman. From the guide to the Wilda Hamerman papers, 1968-1985, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) ...

Nishiyama, Tamotsu, 1914-

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Bryher, 1894-1983

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Bryher (1894-1983) was a British author best known for her historical novels, including The Fourteenth of October (1952) and Coin of Carthage (1962), and her autobiographical writings. She also established Close-Up (1927-33), the first periodical devoted to film. Born Winifred Ellerman, she married Robert MacAlmon in 1919. They divorced in 1927, and in that year she married Kenneth MacPherson. Beginning in 1918, she was the close friend of American poet H. D., whose daughter she adopted. ...

Yale University.

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Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975

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Epithet: husband of Hilda Doolittle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0000fc ...

Farago, Ladislas. Game of the foxes.

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