Tram Combs correspondence 1953–1965

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Tram Combs correspondence 1953–1965

http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0178

This collection consists of correspondence between American poet and bookseller Tram Combs (1924– ) and John Malcolm Brinnin, Bill Read, and Frank Collymore.

.5 linear feet; (275 items)

eng,

University of Delaware Library - Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6363444

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Combs, Tram, 1924-

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Elisha Trammel (Tram) Combs, Jr. was born September 25, 1924 in Riverview, Alabama. The son of Elisha Trammel, a cotton mill superintendent, and LaFaye Hunt Combs, Combs was educated in Southern schools until 1936, when his family moved to San Francisco. He became a writer and bookseller and lived in the San Francisco Bay Area until 1951 when he moved to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, owning and operating a bookstore. He was associated with many well-known writers and was active in gay literary cir...