Papers, 1870-1969.

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Papers, 1870-1969.

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The Cummings collection includes most of the papers that were in his possession at the time of his death. Includes correspondence, manuscripts and working drafts of poems and other writings. There are letters by Cummings to his mother and father, and carbon copies of most of the outgoing letters from the later years of his life. Cummings' correspondence includes long runs of family letters, letters from literary friends, and letters from publishers (chiefly from Harcourt, Brace), and from his agents Brandt & Brandt. I. MS Am 1823: Letters to Edward Estlin Cummings. While this correspondence is mainly dated from 1940 on, and much of it concerns arrangements for speaking engagements, there is also a considerable personal correspondence, letters from Cummings' publishers, literary agents, and translators, and letters from Cummings' parents dating from 1901. Persons interested in Cummings' early years should also consult the section "Notes, drawings and tapes" (bMS Am 1823.7) and the "Additional correspondence" (bMS Am 1823.10).

116 boxes (18 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Brandt & Brandt,

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Morehouse, Marion, 1906-1969

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Cummings family.

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Cummings, Rebecca Haswell Clarke, b. 1859.

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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...

Harcourt Brace & Company

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Gross was an editor at the publishing company. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1957. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863411 Brooks edited a book by Constance Rourke for Harcourt Brace. From the description of Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1921-1962. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 180851633 ...

Edward Estlin Cummings

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