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Russell A. Fraser Papers on R. P. Blackmur
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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Russell A. Fraser (1927-2014) was an author, professor, and biographer of R. P. Blackmur (1904-1965). He was a professor of English at the University of Michigan from 1968 to 1995, and published his biography of Blackmur, A Mingled Yarn: The Life of R. P. Blackmur, in 1981.
The collection consists of Russell A. Fraser's papers concerning his biography of R. P. Blackmur, A Mingled Yarn: The Life of R. P. Blackmur, which was published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich in 1981. A significant portion of the collection comprises Fraser's correspondence with friends, family, and associates of Blackmur. Correspondents include Elizabeth Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, R. D. Darrell, Tessa Horton, Lincoln Kirstein, Robert Penn Warren, John Marshall, Katharine Brown, and Allen Tate. Also present is one letter (1949) by R. P. Blackmur to John Marshall and additional materials collected by Fraser, including a set of page proofs for Blackmur's volume of poetry, From Jordan's Delight (1937), Blackmur's typescript of an essay called "Phoenix in Ashes," and printed copies of published writings by and about Blackmur from the 1920s-1970s.
Arranged by material type.
Correspondence was a gift of Russell A. Fraser in 1983 (AM 83-116). Additional files kept by Fraser when working on his biography of R. P. Blackmur were a later gift of his spouse, Mary Zwiep, in 2018 (AM 2019-47).
Folder inventory prepared by Alicia Corona '13 in 2011.
Finding aid updated with new materials by Kelly Bolding in December 2018.
Five bound volumes of photocopies of typescripts were transferred to the ReCAP circulating collections at the point of accessioning in 2018.
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- Alicia Corona; Kelly Bolding
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- 2008
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Open for research.
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
Collection Inventory
Consists of correspondence of Fraser with friends, family, and associates of R. P. Blackmur, as well as one letter from R. P. Blackmur to John Marshall.
Fraser's correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent, with a Blackmur letter at the end.
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Mrs. Max Goldfrank.
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Mrs. William Hamovitch.
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Mrs. Philip C. Horton.
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Consists of drafts, proofs, and clippings of writings by R. P. Blackmur collected by Fraser, including a set of page proofs for Blackmur's volume of poetry, From Jordan's Delight (1937) and typescripts and clippings of his articles for Phonography Monthly Review (1930-1931).
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Page proofs, with minor annotations.
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Includes Blackmur's typescript of "Phoenix in Ashes," which seems to have been intended as a review in Phonography Monthly Review (PMR), along with a later typed letter from Robert Darrell, editor of PMR, about something Blackmur wrote for the magazine in 1931. There are also clippings of articles Blackmur published in PMR in 1930 and 1931.
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Consists of printed materials removed from two three-ring binders that Fraser kept containing copies or clippings of published writings by and about R. P. Blackmur, some of which are from obscure journals.
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