Letters of E.E. Cummings and Marion Cummings, 1942-1960.

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Letters of E.E. Cummings and Marion Cummings, 1942-1960.

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The collection consists of letters to the writer Lloyd Frankenberg and his wife, the painter, Loren MacIver. Topics include Marion Cummings' health, a Guggenheim fellowship, cummings' art, and life at Silver Lake (N.H.). One letter contains nonsensical references to "The enormous room" and Joseph F. Gould. With the letters is a catalog for an exhibition of paintings by e.e. cummings at the American British Art Center, N.Y.

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University of Virginia. Library

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MacIver, Loren, 1909-

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d. May 3, 1998. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 83858326 ...

Cummings, Marion Morehouse, 1906-1969,

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Frankenberg, Lloyd, 1907-1975

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Silver Lake (N.H.)

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Gould, Joe, 1889-1957

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Noted American eccentric, known as Professor Seagull; subject of the movie "Joe Gould's Secret." From the description of Joe Gould letters to Edmund R. Brown [manuscript], 1934-1935. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 680286820 ...

Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...