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R. Ellsworth Larsson Papers

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Larsson

Raymond Ellsworth Larsson was born in 1901 and grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His writing career began during high school, when he secured a job on the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Later, he went from newspaper to newspaper in cities like Marquette, Michigan, Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City. In 1923, he began writing poetry and felt inspired by abstract art. He went to France in 1926, visited England and Belgium, and then returned to America in 1928, thereafter publishing his first book, O City, Cities! (New York: Payson and Clarke, Ltd., 1929). In 1929, he became an advertising manager for a firm that later dissolved. Under the direction of the Jesuit and Paulist Fathers, he entered the Catholic Church in 1932. His published works include Wherefore: Peace (New York: Modern Editions Press, 1932), Poetry Out of Wisconsin (New York: H. Harrison, 1937), Weep and Prepare (New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1940), Saints at Prayer (New York: Coward-McCann, 1942), and Book Like a Bow Curved (University of Detroit Press, 1961).

The collection consists primarily of autograph poetry manuscripts (1949-1958); but there is one autograph prose manuscript, "Hemingway at a Scene's Edge," written for Carlos Baker to use in his biography of Hemingway. There are also over 100 abstract pencil drawings (1950-1953), as well as a small selection of correspondence.

The following standard abbreviations, or their variations, are used to identify materials in this collection: ALS = autograph letter signed, TLS = typed letter signed, ACS = autograph card signed, and AMsS = autograph manuscript.

Gift of the author.

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This collection was processed by Ran Tao, Princeton Class of 2006 in 2004. Finding aid written by Ran Tao, Princeton Class of 2006 in 2004.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Author
Ran Tao, Princeton Class of 2006
Finding Aid Date
2004
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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Consists of manuscripts for poems such as "Maybe Some Darker Leaf," "Toward the Fullness," and "A Letter in These Times," as well as others.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Physical Description

2 boxes

"A Letter in These Times," AMs, written in honor of John Peale Bishop, 1949, 3 pp., 1949. 1 folder.
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1 folder

ALS by Larsson regarding poem, undated, 1 p., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Maybe Some Darker Leaf," AMs, 1950 February 5, 6 pp., 1950 February 5. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Elegy Toward the Fullness," AMs, 1950 May 14, 1 p., 1950 May 14. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Toward the Fullness," pencil drawing, 1950. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems, AMs, 1950 May 5-December 29, 37 pp., 1950 May 5-December 29. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Three Poems: To e. e. cummings (1, 11) and Invocation," AMs, 1951 March 9-10, 1951 January 24, 1951 February 25, 6 pp., 1951 March 9-10. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems, AMs, 1951 January 1-July 27, 166 pp., 1951 January 1-July 27. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems, AMs, 1951 September 22-November 21, 23 pp., 1951 September 22-November 21. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems, AMs, 1952 February 18-July 26, 182 pp., 1952 February 18-July 26. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems, AMs, 1952 August 10-December 31, 159 pp., 1952 August 10-December 31. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems, AMs, 1953 January 1-April 16, 75 pp., 1953 January 1-April 16. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems, AMs, 1952 January 2-1953 December 29, 152 pp., 1952 January 2-1953 December 29. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems, AMs, 1954 January 1-1955 January 1, 120 pp., 1954 January 1-1955 January 1. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems, AMs, 1955 October 8-December 31, 16 pp., 1955 October 8-December 31. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems, AMs, 1956 January 11-December 8, 147 pp., 1956 January 11-December 8. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

1957 February 8, 3 pp., 1957 February 8. 1 folder.
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1 folder

1958 December 21, 10 pp., 1958 December 21. 1 folder.
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1 folder

undated, 2 pp., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of manuscripts for "Hemingway at a Scene's Edge."

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Physical Description

1 box

"Hemingway at a Scene's Edge," AMs, 1964 December 31, 10 pp., 1964 December 31. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Written for Carlos Baker to use in his biography of Hemingway.

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of 106 pencil drawings.

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Physical Description

1 box

106 pencil drawings, 1950-1953. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence with R. Ellsworth Larsson and Amy Loveman.

Arrangement

Arranged by correspondent.

Physical Description

1 box

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1 box

Clark, Alexander: 24 ALsS, 1950-1958. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Putnam, Samuel: 7 ALsS, 1929. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Loveman. Amy: ALS, 1953 November 23, 2 pp., 1953 November 23. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Seldes, Gilbert: ALS, 1954 February 5, 4 pp., 1954 February 5. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Akihito, Emperor of Japan: ALS, 1954 February 17, 2 pp., 1954 February 17. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

TLS, 1953 January 26. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

"Lines to Amy Loveman" and "To Pegasus: With an Eye to the Price-Tag," AMss, 1953 January 30 [on verso of TLS], 1953 January 30. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

5 ACsS by Larsson to Samuel Putnam and wife, 1930. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Envelope from Mrs. Putnam, 1951. 1 folder.
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1 folder

C (printed) to Alexander Clark regarding books by August Derleth, 1952. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Booklet signed by August Derleth, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Print, Suggest