E.E. Cummings additional papers, 1870-1969.

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E.E. Cummings additional papers, 1870-1969.

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Includes correspondence, manuscripts and working drafts of poems and other writings, notes, diaries, sketchbooks, travel notebooks, galley and page proofs, business papers, drawings, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, memorabilia, phonograph records, audio tapes, and one film. Cummings' correspondence includes long runs of family letters, letters from literary friends and publishers and from his agents Brandt & Brandt. Correspondents include: Kevin Andrews, Nancy (Thayer) Roosevelt Andrews, Alfred Jules Ayer, Edward Cummings, Jane Cummings, Rebecca Haswell Cummings, David Leo Diamond, John Dos Passos, Peter Monro Jack, Sheri Martinelli, Paul Nordoff, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth (Cummings) Qualey, Scofield Thayer, and Hildegard Lasell Watson, among others. Cummings' art work is represented by numerous drawings, portraits, and self-portraits as well as catalogues and clippings concerning his art. Also includes papers of his wife Marion Morehouse and some manuscripts by others. Includes drawings such as: Cummings' pencil drawing for Paul Rosenfeld (1945); and 8 watercolor and crayon drawings by Cummings on miscellaneous subjects (between 1890-1891).

156 boxes (78 linear ft.)

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