Repository: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division / Subject: Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Peyton Houston Papers, 1925-1994 (inclusive) 1950-1990 (bulk)

Extent:: 60 boxes and 2 items
Abstract:: Peyton Houston (Princeton Class of 1932) worked with the New York investment company Equity Corporation for forty years, while pursuing a career in poetry and freelance writing on the side. His papers include some of his poetry notebooks and drafts and manuscripts of his published works. The collection also contains his correspondence with family and friends, writers and publishers, and photocopied correspondence with Peter Yates. Some drafts of Yates' work and some personal memorabilia of Houston's complete the collection.

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Emily Hale Collection, 1929-1930 (bulk) 1929-1967 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists chiefly of selected letters of J. J. Hayes sent to Emily Hale related to the Irish theater in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

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Joseph Frank Correspondence, 1950-1987 (bulk) 1930-2013 (inclusive)

Extent:: 22 boxes and 8.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Joseph Frank (1918-2013) was an American literary scholar best known for his five-volume biography of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which he began in the early 1970s and completed in 2002. The collection consists of his personal and professional correspondence, including with Elizabeth Bishop, Yves Bonnefoy, Pierre Bourdieu, Ralph Ellison, Carlos Fuentes, Irving Howe, James Laughlin, Richard W. B. Lewis, Mary McCarthy, Allen Tate, and other writers, artists, and academics, as well as some family correspondence, writings, personal documents, and printed materials.

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Selected Papers of George Seferis, 1935-1993 (inclusive) 1940-1970 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 4 items
Abstract:: George Seferis was a Greek diplomat, ambassador, poet and translator. He held various posts with the Royal Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was ambassador to the United Nations, 1956-1957, and to Great Britain, 1957-1962. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, and was awarded an honorary degree from Princeton University in 1965.

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Brewster Ghiselin Papers, 1936-1991 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 1.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Brewster Ghiselin was an English professor, literary critic, editor, and poet. The collection contains some of Ghiselin's works and correspondence. Typescripts, proofs, galleys, Italian translations, phonograph records, a few books, and notes represent his works, while the correspondence consists of letters from his literary friends and colleagues.

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Katherine Anne Porter Collection, 1940-1945 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected letters, holograph and typewritten, of Katherine Anne Porter.

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Gertrude Claytor Collection, 1941-1956 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected correspondence, photographs, and printed material of the American poet Gertrude Claytor, some of which is related to the author Edgar Lee Masters.

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Eileen B. Simpson Papers, 1979-1991 (bulk) 1941-1991 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of papers primarily related to Eileen Simpson's book, Poets in their Youth: A Memoir, about her married years with poet John Berryman.

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Collection on New Poems, 1943, Edited by Oscar Williams, 1943-1944 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.42 linear feet (1 container)
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, galley proofs, and a typed manuscript relating to the poetry anthology New Poems, 1943 by the American poet and editor Oscar Williams (1900-1964).

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Theodore Holmes Papers, 1949-1976 (inclusive) 1951-1971 (bulk)

Extent:: 24 boxes
Abstract:: Consists primarily of published and unpublished poetry manuscripts, as well as correspondence with various publishers, of American poet Theodore Holmes (Princeton Class of 1951).

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