[Letter] 1940 Jan. 28, 35-34 77 Street, Jackson Heights, N.Y.C. [to] H. L. Seaver / Rolfe Humphries.

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[Letter] 1940 Jan. 28, 35-34 77 Street, Jackson Heights, N.Y.C. [to] H. L. Seaver / Rolfe Humphries.

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Humphries discusses his translations into Latin of 3 sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay published in: Fatal interview (1931). Humphries says in the letter that he had done so "for disciplines sake." The translations had been shared with Millay. Enclosed with the letter are carbon typescripts (signed) of two of the poems: Whereas at morning in a jewelled gown -- Moon that against the lintel of the West.

[2] p. ; 28 cm. + envelope and 2 leaves of ms.

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Humphries, Rolfe.

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Seaver, Henry Latimer,

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Seaver was born in Boston in 1878 and educated at Harvard University (B.A., 1900; M.A., 1914). He taught at Harvard, then joined the Department of English and History at M.I.T. in 1901. He later taught European art history in the Department of Architecture at M.I.T. and in the early 1940s the same at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women. Seaver was a collector of rare books, manuscripts and autographs. He was an amateur printer and photographer, as well as a printmaker and bo...

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950

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