Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1965.

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Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1965.

Consists of a printed copy of Hoffman's poem, "Words for Dr. Williams," autographed by the author and dated April 1965. Also includes a letter of 27 April 1965 to Neda Westlake of the University Library, in which Hoffman donates the autographed copy to the Library's collection of material relating to Williams. The poem originally appeared in the fall 1963 isse of Prairie Schooner. The copy that Hoffman encloses is a page proof.

1 item (2 leaves).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6955492

University of Pennsylvania Library

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Hoffman, Daniel, 1923-

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Daniel Hoffman was a poet and a member of the Department of English Literature at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1965. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 190822116 Daniel Hoffman -- scholar, writer and teacher -- was born in New York and educated at Columbia University, receiving his Ph.D. there in 1956. He pursued a distinguished academic career, producing several scholarly works inc...

Westlake, Neda M.

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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...