E.E. Cummings letter, galley, and pamphlet, 1947.

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E.E. Cummings letter, galley, and pamphlet, 1947.

The collection consists of three items: letter from Cummings to Mr. MacLeod, 5 Oct. 1947, in poetic form, offering a poem to be printed provided Cummings's demand for proof after proof is granted; proof of Poem, by Cummings, with typed comment from the editor about spacing between lines; pamphlet titled Him and the critics, a collection of opinions on E.E. Cummings's play at the Provincetown Playhouse, undated.

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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...