Viola Baxter letters from Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and H.D., 1906-1961.

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Viola Baxter letters from Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and H.D., 1906-1961.

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Collection comprises 113 letters and postcards plus 6 empty envelopes from Pound to Baxter, 1949-1954; 66 letters from Williams to Baxter, 1907-1950s; 26 letters from H.D. to Baxter, 1934-1954; one letter from Bryher to Baxter, 1961; one postcard from Mary de Rachewiltz (?) to Baxter, 1949; one letter from Florence Williams to Baxter, 1951; one letter from Pound to Eleanor Scott Baxter, 1906 (?); one postcard from Pound to Gwendolyn Baxter, 1933; two letters from Dorothy Pound to Baxter, 1950; one letter from St. Elizabeth's Hospital to Baxter, 1951; and one letter from Baxter to Pound, 1906 (?).

220 items (40 folders in 2 boxes).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6887160

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American l...

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961

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Hilda Doolittle was born in Bethlehem, Pa., in 1886. Doolittle made a name for herself as a poet, playwright and novelist. As an admirer of Ezra Pound, Doolittle established herself as part of the Imagist genre and was married to one of its leading exponents, Richard Aldington. From the description of Letter, [between 1921 and 1931]. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122541829 Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), American poet, published as H. D. at the suggestion o...

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963

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This collection covers the years of William Carlos Williams's medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, a year of service at a New York City hospital, a semester of medical study in Leipzig, and the period when he was setting up his medical practice and courting his future wife, Florence Herman, in his home town of Rutherford, N.J. During this time, his younger brother Edgar went from engineering and architectural studies at M.I.T. to further study of architecture at the American Academ...

Bryher, 1894-1983

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Bryher (1894-1983) was a British author best known for her historical novels, including The Fourteenth of October (1952) and Coin of Carthage (1962), and her autobiographical writings. She also established Close-Up (1927-33), the first periodical devoted to film. Born Winifred Ellerman, she married Robert MacAlmon in 1919. They divorced in 1927, and in that year she married Kenneth MacPherson. Beginning in 1918, she was the close friend of American poet H. D., whose daughter she adopted. ...

Jordan, Viola Baxter, 1887-1973.

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Viola Baxter (1887-1973) grew up in Utica, New York and met Ezra Pound through a church social group, while he was attending Hamilton College. She maintained friendships with Pound and his friends, William Carlos Williams and H. D., throughout her life. She married the economist Virgil D. Jordan in 1914; they had three children but divorced in the 1920s. She settled in New Jersey, where she remained for the rest of her life. Her mother was Eleanor Scott Baxter (b. 1865), and her sister was Gwend...

Rachewiltz, Mary de

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Daughter of Ezra Pound; poet and translator. From the description of Translations of Cantos by Ezra Pound, 1973-1975. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 15609675 ...