Elaine Self papers, 1949-1986.

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Elaine Self papers, 1949-1986.

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The collection includes 33 diaries which document her marriage to Robert M. Adams, her life as a faculty wife at Cornell, her second marriage to Peter Self and their subsequent life in England, her efforts to write fiction, and her psychological difficulties. Also, letters from the poet, Genevieve Taggard and her husband Kenneth Durand, and two letters from William Carlos Williams.

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Cornell University Library

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Cornell University

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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963

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This collection covers the years of William Carlos Williams's medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, a year of service at a New York City hospital, a semester of medical study in Leipzig, and the period when he was setting up his medical practice and courting his future wife, Florence Herman, in his home town of Rutherford, N.J. During this time, his younger brother Edgar went from engineering and architectural studies at M.I.T. to further study of architecture at the American Academ...

Self, Peter

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Adams, Robert Martin, 1915-1996

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Robert Martin Adams (born 1915, New York City-died December 16, 1996, Santa Fe, New Mexico), graduated from Columbia University, where he also received an M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He taught at Columbia, at the University of Wisconsin, and at Rutgers University before coming to Cornell University in 1950. At Cornell, he taught courses in the literature of the 17th century, the Renaissance and the modern period in the departments of English and Comparative Literature from 1950 to 1968. In 1968 he j...

Self, Elaine, 1921-1988

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Elaine Rosenbloom Adams Self was born in Middletown, Ohio in 1921. She attended Penn State University and graduated from Queens College. In 1944, she married Robert M. Krapp, who changed his name to Adams in 1946. They were divorced in 1958. She remarried Peter John Otter Self in 1960; they were divorced in 1982. She always wanted to be a writer, and late in life, she wrote a cookbook called A Passion for Garlic with her sister-in-law, Penny Drinkwater, and she edited with Rose Grant, a book tit...

Durant, Kenneth

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Taggard, Genevieve

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