Hand and Flower Press collection, 1940-1966.

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Hand and Flower Press collection, 1940-1966.

The Hand and Flower Press collection contains manuscripts by Thomas Blackburn, Tom Boggs, Charles Causley, Arthur Constance, Thomas Fassam, Erica Marx, Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Nott, Juanita Peirse, Rosey E. Pool, and many others; page proofs for the anthologies Black and Unknown Bards and Beyond the Blues; business records including sales and royalty statements, contracts, receipts, ledgers, news clippings, and various documents relating to the production of Beyond the Blues; correspondence to Erica Marx from Donald Allen, Nancy Cunard, T. S. Eliot, Gael Turnbull, J. H. Prynne, and many others, including most of the authors published by Hand and Flower; correspondence from Marx; correspondence written on Marx's behalf by her secretary; business correspondence regarding book sales and publicity; miscellaneous photographs and some original copies of the artwork published in Hand and Flower books, including two colored drawings by Elizabeth Neild and a pencil drawing by Mariette Lydis; printing plates of the press⁰́₉ name and design from throughout its history; and various peripheral items.

201 boxes (50.25 linear feet)

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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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Marx, Erica, 1900-1969.

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