Charles Burkhart collection of Nancy Cunard, 1951-1965.

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Charles Burkhart collection of Nancy Cunard, 1951-1965.

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A majority of the Nancy Cunard to Charles Burkhart letters concern travel, meetings between the two, antiquing, selling Wyndham Lewis drawings and an Arp painting, life in France, health problems, and other personal matters. Several other letters concern her work on African ivory and the problems she has locating museums which exhibit this kind of art. Although she occasionally sends him poems, she never writes about her poetry in her letters.

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Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Lewis, Wyndham 1884-

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Burkhart, Charles (Charles L.), 1928-

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Pianist, composer, musicologist, and music theorist. ...

Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965

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Nancy Clare Cunard (March 10, 1896 - March 17, 1965) was an English writer, editor, publisher, political activist, anarchist and poet. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, and Louis Aragon, who were among her lovers, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brancusi, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams. In later years she suffered from mental illness, and her p...