Letters to Elizabeth Cummings Qualey, 1917-1963.

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Letters to Elizabeth Cummings Qualey, 1917-1963.

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Collection contains letters from E. E. Cummings to his sister, Elizabeth. Letters are mostly stream of consciousness, oftentimes resembling poetry or quotes from others. Letters are often accompanied by pen or pencil sketches and drawings to illustrate a point in the letter. Correspondence also contains advice from E. E. Cummings to Elizabeth, descriptions of Paris, New Hampshire and New York, personal finance issues, art at the Whitney museum, and a trip to the Rockies and Mount Wilson. Letters also discuss E. E. Cummings' Christmas and holiday plans, employment opportunities, World War II and Hitler, and difficulties he faced with his mother. Also included are postcards and cartoons by E. E. Cummings.

2 boxes, 1 v. (1.01 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6771496

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Whitney Museum of American Art

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American art museum; New York, N.Y. Founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and formally opened in 1931. Previous to its opening as a museum it was known as the Whitney Studio Club (1914-28) and Whitney Studio Galleries (1928-30). From the description of Whitney Museum of American Art artists' files and records, 1914-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86133455 The Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art is an upper level membershi...

Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...

Qualey, Elizabeth Cummings,

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