Spencer Brown papers, 1909-1991.

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Spencer Brown papers, 1909-1991.

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The collection consists of writings, correspondence, printed material, scattered business records, and personal papers relating to aspects of Spencer's Brown career as an educator and poet. Writings include typescripts of articles, lectures, and poems, some of which are annotated, as well as a printed copy of the published collection, Verses by Two Not Old Hands (1930), by David Newton and Spencer Brown. Correspondence includes letters from friends, family, writers, editors, and admirers, as well as copies of outgoing correspondence and letters to Margaret Brown. Correspondents include Felix Stefanile, The Sewanee Review, Jack Stillinger, Dana Gioia, and Howard Moss, among others. Printed material includes clippings and book excerpts of various writings by Brown. Business records include agreements for the publication of My Father's Business and Other Poems and Child's Game, On a Journey, the latter published by The Elizabeth Press and edited by James L. Weil; and material relating to the copyright for My Father's Business and Other Poems and permission to reprint poems published in The New Yorker. Personal papers include birth and marriage certificates, grade reports from Harvard University, love poems to his wife, Elizabeth Boyle Brown, and biographical material. Also found is a video cassette (content unknown).

0.70 linear feet (2 boxes)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Elizabeth Press

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Weil, James L.

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Proprietor of Elizabeth Press, a small literary press in New Rochelle, N.Y. From the description of James L. Weil papers, 1963-1980. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28409154 James L. Weil was born 15 June 1929, in New York, New York, the son of Morris (a financier) and Charlotte (Ullman) Weil. He attended the University of Chicago (A.B., 1950) and Oxford University (certificate, 1954). He has been employed by the Dialight Corporation (manufacturer of electro...

Newton, David.

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Brown, Spencer, 1909-1989

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Spencer Brown was born in 1909 in Hartford, Connecticut, graduated from Harvard University with an A.B in 1930 and an A.M. in 1932, and taught at the Loomis School (1930-1931), Taft School (1932-1934), and Fieldston School (1938-1971), where he also served as principal (1965-1971). His published collections of poetry include: My Father's Business and Other Poems (1956), Looking into the Fire (1967), and Child's Game, On a Journey (1979). Brown died in Croton-on-Hudson, New York in 1989. ...

Stefanile, Felix, 1920-....

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Moss, Howard, 1922-1987

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Howard Moss (1922-1987) was an American poet, dramatist, essayist, and editor. Among his awards for literary work were the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, and the National Book Award. He was best known as the poetry editor of the New Yorker magazine, a post he held from 1948 until 1987. Other professional activities included his collaboration with the composer Ned Rorem. From the description of Papers, ca. 19...

Gioia, Dana

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American poet, literary critic, and translator. From the description of Ephemera, 1984-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122445555 From the description of Offprints and periodical appearances, 1981-2007. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 191726515 Dana Gioia (1950- ) is an American poet and critic. He was born in Los Angeles, California to Michael and Dorothy Gioia. Gioia received a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1973 and a Master ...

Stillinger, Jack

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