William Carlos Williams collection, 1902-1960.

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William Carlos Williams collection, 1902-1960.

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Totaling approximately 20,000 pages, the William Carlos Williams collection contains manuscripts including the working papers for "The Wedge" (1944) and Books 1 and II of "Paterson," early fragments, a working journal, and several drafts for the plays "A Dream of Love" (1948) and "Many Loves" (1942); and 1,200 letters of Williams's correspondence to and from Charles Abbott, James Laughlin, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, and others. These materials are described in Neil Baldwin and Steven L. Meyers's "The Manuscripts and Letters of William Carlos Williams in The Poetry Collection of The Lockwood Memorial Library, State University of New York at Buffalo: A Descriptive Catalogue" (1978). In 1982 Williams' letters to his son William Eric Williams were added to the collection. Supplementing these materials is Williams' desk and typewriter and The Poetry Collection's complete set of first editions of Williams' books and virtually every book of Williams criticism.

88 boxes (22 linear ft.)

SUNY at Buffalo, University at Buffalo

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SNAC Resource ID: 7080261

SUNY at Buffalo, University at Buffalo

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Poetry Manuscripts Collection (State University of New York at Buffalo)

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State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection

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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...