Papers, 1725-1961.

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Papers, 1725-1961.

General, literary, and family correspondence. Incoming correspondence which is of significant depth and/or duration includes that of: Conrad Aiken (23 letters, 1929-1945); LeBaron Russell Briggs (39 letters, 1916-1933); Van Wyck Brooks (16 letters, 1923-1947); Witter Bynner (31 letters, 1939-1961); Charles T. Copeland (35 letters, 1923-1944); S. Foster Damon (34 letters, 1924-1962); Clarence Decker (13 letters, 1957); John Dos Passos (56 letters, 1921-1961); Gene Fowler (66 letters, 1941-1960); Robert Frost (16 letters, 1938-1962); Olive St. John Gogarty (50 letters, 1952-1957); Thomas H. Johnson (25 letters, 1955-1959); Louis Kent (83 letters, 1945-1961); Arthur Machen (99 letters, 1922-1938); Daniel G. Mason (18 letters, 1947-1951); William Maxwell (11 letters, 1932-1949); Howard Nemerov (29 letters, 1947-1961); Winfield Townley Scott (12 letters, 1957-1961); Leonora Speyer (11 letters, 1938-1949); Louis Untermeyer (18 letters, 1929-1947); Peter Viereck (13 letters, 1948-1961); and Marya Zaturenska (30 letters, 1921-1953). Other correspondents include William Rose Benʹet (9 letters, 1940-1950); Millicent Todd Bingham (8 letters, 1945-1955); Ben Lucien Burman (8 letters, 1952-1961); Frederick Chamberlin (10 letters, 1922-1924); James Gould Cozzens (6 letters, 1949-1961); Max Eastman (6 letters, 1929-1961); Kimball Flaccus (5 letters, 1956-1958); Horace Gregory (1941-1947); Ralph Hodgson (6 letters, 1949-1951); Robert Huff (1960-1961); Amy Lowell (4 letters, 1923-1925); Archibald MacLeish (7 letters, 1935-1938); Marianne Moore (6 letters, 1941-1958); James B. Munn (8 letters, 1936-1949); Robert Nathan (7 letters, 1929-1961); John Neihardt (5 letters, 1928-1960); Louise Townsend Nicholl (9 letters, 1953-1956); Bliss Perry (8 letters, 1934-1950); Lizette Reese (5 letters, 1922-1923); Lennox Robinson (8 letters, 1932-1949); Paul Rosenfeld (7 letters, 1927-1932); Mark Schorer (8 letters, 1942-1956); Walter Magnes Teller (8 letters, 1958-1961); Mark Van Doren (7 letters, 1938-1953); and Edward Weeks (9 letters, 1951-1962). Writings include holograph and typescript drafts of essays, poems, poetry readings, reviews, and speeches, as well as a notebook of Hillyer's early poems. Also included are book manuscripts, galleys and plate proofs. Memorabilia includes photographs and clippings, and some 18th and 19th century family material, including genealogies, daguerreotypes, miniatures, Bibles, and hymnals.

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Speyer, Leonora, 1872-1956

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Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1950

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American poet and critic. From the description of Correspondence, works, and clippings, 1910-1952, nd. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122453062 John Gould Fletcher, born in Little Rock, Arkansas and educated at Phillips Academy and Harvard (1903-1907), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author. Fletcher lived in England for years before returning home to Arkansas where, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was act...

Burman, Ben Lucien, 1896-1984

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Hodgson, Ralph, 1871-1962

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Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1855-1934

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Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935

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Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947

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Welsh novelist and essayist, a forerunner of 20th century Gothic science fiction. From the description of Eleusinia / by a former member of H. C. S. 1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122598531 From the guide to the Eleusinia, 1881, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Machen was a Welsh writer of tales, mystical, romantic, and macabre. From the description of Introduction to Lady Benson's Memoirs : manuscript, 1926. (Peking University Library). WorldCat...

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972

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Teller, Walter Magnes.

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Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950

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Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961

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Robert Hillyer was born in East Orange and he taught English and rhetoric at Harvard for several decades. In 1934 he won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "The Collected Verse of Robert Hillyer." From the description of Correspondence-Manuscripts, 1937-1943. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 727944299 Hillyer graduated from Harvard in 1917 and taught English at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Robert Silliman Hillyer, 1940-1945 (inclusi...