Bride Scratton/Peter Whigham papers 1894-1966

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Bride Scratton/Peter Whigham papers 1894-1966

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.scratton

The collection contains correspondence, writings and personal papers of Bride Scratton and of Peter Whigham, her nephew by marriage. The Scratton papers include letters from Ezra Pound to Scratton discussing their personal relationship, her writings, and Pound's social and political theories; manuscripts and typescripts of short stories and descriptive sketches by Scratton and typescript carbons of three Cantos by Pound; and a small amount of personal papers, including a copy of Scratton's divorce decreee and biographical notes on her by her son Michael. The Peter Whigham papers contain correspondence concerning Whigham's planned biography of the poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and manuscripts and typescripts of poems, translations, and radio scripts by Whigham.

Total Boxes: 4; Linear Feet: 1.46'

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Anderson, Margaret C.

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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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Gould Adams Scratton, B. M. (Bride M.)

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Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa ˜vonœ 1874-1927

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Whigham, Peter

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Anderson, Margaret C

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Margaret Caroline Anderson was an American editor, literary critic, and founder of "The Little Review" literary magazine. From the guide to the Margaret C. Anderson collection of papers, 1918-1973, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Margaret Anderson was born November 24, 1886 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Aubrey Anderson and Jessie Shortridge Anderson. The eldest of three d...