Call Number:

C0663

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 4 boxes
• 1.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Sara Teasdale Correspondence, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1907-1972 (inclusive) and 1912-1928 (bulk)

Creator:

Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933

Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century and Musical scores -- United States -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists primarily of letters received by American poet Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Ernest Filsinger) from over 100 poets, authors, editors, and friends, many of whom enclose examples of their work and discuss their own and Teasdale's poetry.

Sara Teasdale, of St. Louis, Missouri, was an American poet. In 1918, Teasdale received the Columbia University Poetry Society prize (the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and the Poetry Society of America's prize for Love Songs. Teasdale was courted by the poet, Vachel Lindsay, prior to her marriage to Ernst Filsinger in 1914.

The collection consists primarily of letters received by Teasdale (Mrs. Ernest Filsinger, 1914-1929) from over 100 poets, authors, editors, and friends, many of whom enclose examples of their work and discuss their own and Teasdale's poetry. There is a large group of letters from Harriet Monroe, founder and editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Other correspondents include Sarah N. Cleghorn, Hugh M. Ferris, Hamlin Garland, Robinson Jeffers, Orrick Johns, Muna Lee, John Myers O'Hara, William Marion Reedy, Jessie B. Rittenhouse, Edwin A. Robinson, and Eunice Tietjens.

Also present are 22 letters (1924-1932) by Teasdale to Vachel and Elizabeth Lindsay, two original poems, genealogy notes, a royalty statement from Macmillan Company for the years 1916-1932, letters by Margaret Conklin and Eric Fenby to Teasdale biographer Margaret Carpenter, and printed musical scores of poems by Teasdale set to music by George R. Dyer, Wintter Watts, and others.

In this order: poems by Teasdale, letters by Teasdale to Vachel and Elizabeth Lindsay, letters received by Teasdale (A-Z), genealogy notes, Macmillan Co. royalty statement, letters by Margaret Conklin and Eric Fenby to Margaret Carpenter, and musical scores.