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Nanos Valaōritēs Papers
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Nanos Valaōritēs was born on July 4, 1921 in Lausanne, Switzerland, to Greek parents Kōnstantinos and Aikaterinē (Leōnida) Valaōritēs. He spent his youth in Greece, and following a family tradition -- he was the great-grandson of the Greek poet Aristotelēs Valaōritēs -- would later become an internationally known post-surrealist poet.
Valaōritēs's first published poems appeared in the Greek review Ta Nea Grammata in 1939. His higher education included studying law, literature, and languages at the universities of Athens, London, and Paris. In 1944 he leaves Greece and from 1944 to 1953 he lives in London. The violence of World War II was a strong influence on Valaōritēs's early writing; Hē timōria tōn magōn [ The Punishment of the Magicians] (1947), his first published collection of poems, includes graphic war imagery. During the 1940s, he translated writings by George Seferis and Odysseas Elytēs, for British reviews and, in collaboration with Bernard Spencer and Lawrence Durrell, produced the first book of modernist Greek poetry in translation, The King of Asine (1948) by George Seferis.
Valaōritēs married Anne Firth, an actress known by her stage name Anne Valery, in 1947. Together they had a son, Daniēl-Kōnstantinos, who suffered an accident and died young. The couple later divorced.
While in Athens, 1940-1944, Valaōritēs was strongly influenced by the Greek surrealist group. During his years in Paris in the 1950s, and through his friendship with Marie Wilson, an American painter, Valaōritēs became involved with the French surrealists under the guidance of André Breton. The influence of the surrealists on Valaōritēs's work marked a shift from pessimistic war poems to more optimistic themes and images.
Nineteen fifty-nine was a prolific year for Valaōritēs: His plays Nightfall Hotel [ L'hotel de la nuit qui tombe] was produced in Paris, and The Log was produced in both Athens and Denmark; in addition, his collaboration with Marie Wilson, Terre de diamant [ Diamond Land], was privately printed in Athens.
In 1960, Valaōritēs married Marie Wilson, and together they had three children: Katerina, Zōē, and Dino. From 1963 to 1968, he directed the literary review Pali in Athens. In 1968, shortly after the Greek military coup came to power, Valaōritēs and his family moved to the United States, where he taught comparative literature and creative writing at San Francisco State University until his retirement in 1993.
Valaōritēs has received various awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1981, and the Greek State Prize of Poetry for Some Women in 1983. In 1994 he was a poet-in-residence for the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. His most recent works are Grammatokivōtion anepidotōn epistolōn (2010) and Ho Homēros kai to alphavēto (2010).
The collection consists primarily of nearly fifty years of personal and professional correspondence received by Valaōritēs. Correspondents include Mantō Aravantinou, Laura Beausoleil, Sinclair Beiles, Nicolas Calas, Andrei Codrescu, Markos Dragoumēs, Andreas Empeirikos, Cecil Helman, Jan Herman, Jack Hirschman, Alain and Manina Jouffroy, Helenē Karkazē, Michaēl Mētras, Opal and Ellen Nations, Harold Norse, Nicole Ollier, Alexandros Schinas, Nikos Stangos, and Kōstas Tachtsēs. There are also letters written by Valaōritēs, as well as letters between others. Furthermore, the collection contains poetry and prose writings, notebooks, sketchbooks, printed and miscellanea matter.
The following standard abbreviations are used to identify materials in this collection: AMs=autograph manuscript and TMs=typed manuscript.
Organized into the following series and subseries:
The papers were purchased with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.
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Part of the collection was processed by Karla J. Vecchia in 2004. The collection was reprocessed and completed by Kalliopi Balatsouka in 2011. A new finding aid was compiled by Kalliopi Balatsouka in 2011. Additional papers were processed by Kalliopi Balatsouka in 2013.
Nothing was removed from the collection.
People
- Aravantinou, Mantō
- Beiles, Sinclair Simon Maurice
- Calas, Nicolas (1907-1988)
- Codrescu, Andrei (1946)
- Dragoumēs, Markos (1926)
- Empeiríkos, Andréas (1901-1975)
- Helman, Cecil (1944-2009)
- Herman, Jan (1942)
- Hirschman, Jack (1933)
- Jouffroy, Alain (1928)
- Mētras, Michaēl (1944)
- Nations, Opal L.
- Norse, Harold.
- Ollier, Nicole
- Schinás, Aléxandros (1924)
- Stangos, Nikos (1936)
- Tachtsēs, Kōstas (1927-1988)
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2011
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Collection Inventory
This series has been organized alphabetically by correspondent or organization, with unknown letters located at the end of the series. Correspondents with four or fewer letters are grouped together in general folders. For each author's folder or author name within a general folder, the letters are organized chronologically, with undated letters at the beginning. At the end of the series, there is also a box of envelopes that do not have corresponding letters.
This series consists primarily of nearly fifty years of correspondence received by Nanos Valaōritēs, although there are some letters written by him, as well as letters between others. Principal correspondents include Mantō Aravantinou, Laura Beausoleil, Sinclair Beiles, Nicolas Calas, Andrei Codrescu, Markos Dragoumēs, Andreas Empeirikos, Cecil Helman, Jan Herman, Jack Hirschman, Alain and Manina Jouffroy, Helenē Karkazē, Michaēl Mētras, Opal and Ellen Nations, Harold Norse, Nicole Ollier, Alexandros Schinas, Nikos Stangos, and Kōstas Tachtsēs. Some letters include poetry or other writings, photographs, printed and miscellaneous material.
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Included are four original letters from Seferis to Valaōritēs dated from 1953 to 1962. There are also photocopies of many letters written by Valaōritēs to George Seferis and Geōrgios Katsimpalēs dated from 1947 to 1968. All letters are written in Greek.
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Includes printed matter.
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This series consists of autograph and typed manuscript drafts of assorted writings by Valaōritēs.
This series has been arranged by form or genre.
Physical Description14 boxes
This subseries consists mainly of autograph and typed manuscript drafts of Valaōritēs's works published in books. At the end of the subseries, there are untitled and miscellaneous writings that it is uncertain whether or not they have been published.
This subseries has been arranged alphabetically by the title of the work and chronologically.
Physical Description10 boxes
Includes originals and photocopies of autograph and typed manuscript drafts (3 complete copies).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typed manuscript drafts with handwritten annotations.
Physical Description4 folders
TMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes photocopies of the book.
Physical Description1 folder
TMs drafts.
Physical Description3 folders
Includes typescript drafts of the English translation with heavy autograph manuscript annotations in pencil.
Physical Description2 folders
Includes author's copy with the temporary title Grammata apo to Londino (epistoles tou Nanou Valaōritē pros ton Giōrgo Sepherē kai ton Giōrgo Katsimpalē which was later published under the title: Nanos Valaōritēs-Giōrgos Sepherēs allēlographia 1945-1968 kai trianta tesseris epistoles tou N. Valaōritē ston G.K. Katsimpalē 1947-1950.
Physical Description2 folders
TMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes originals and photocopies of typed manuscript drafts and a galley.
Physical Description3 folders
Includes photocopies of annotated typescript drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typescripts of two stories: "Hē dolophonia" and "To skotōmeno kantēlaki me to phōs tēs alētheias" under the general title "Sto eleos tou megalou egō," according to a note on the discarded folder.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes originals and photocopies of typescript drafts.
Physical Description3 folders
Includes originals and photocopies of annotated typescript drafts. Autograph note on the folder states that this is an early proof dated 1969-1971. A second note by Valaōritēs in red ink reads "18 Ian. 1995: Tetradia tou Enchrōmou stylographou" (notebooks of the Colored stylograph). Title on the first page: "Hē automatē mousa ē to megalo euretērio tēs pagkosmias empneusēs" hōs prologos ston Enchrōmos stylographo.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typed manuscript drafts of two short stories with heavy handwritten corrections: "Dermatines tzaketes gia mia kakokairia" and "Feugontas."
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typed manuscript drafts of Flash Bloom, as well as the poem "Marmalade Bombs on Breakfast Tables."
Physical Description6 folders
Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts with heavy handwritten corrections.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typed manuscript drafts and printed matter.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typescripts with handwritten corrections.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typescripts with handwritten corrections of the first part of the book.
Physical Description1 folder
TMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
TMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes annotated typescript drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes page proofs (bound copy) and typescript drafts with heavy handwritten annotations.
Physical Description1 folder
AMs and TMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typescripts (incomplete copy).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes page proofs (2 sets).
Physical Description2 folders
TMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
AMs and TMs drafts.
Physical Description3 folders
TMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts with handwritten annotations.
Physical Description2 folders
Includes page proofs and annotated typescripts (bound copy).
Physical Description2 folders
Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts with handwritten corrections.
Physical Description3 folders
Includes autograph and typed manuscripts with handwritten corrections.
Physical Description4 folders
TMss.
Physical Description3 folders
TMss.
Physical Description2 folders
Includes the author's first autograph manuscript drafts, as well as copies and originals of typescripts.
Physical Description3 folders
AMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of a collection of autograph and typed manuscript drafts of short stories: "Epimetro. Ho kathēmerinos mythos ē ho akephalos anthrōpos"; "Dōstou kai psēlōne"; "Hē pio megalē nychta"; "Hē taphē tou apothamenou"; "Dinontas ta cheria me tē theia ē prin chasoun ta dontia tous hoi tigreis tōn ethnōn"; "Stēn polē"; "Se mian atmosphaira thysias"; "Katholou periergo"; "Hē kalogria"; "Phovou tous Danaous kai dōra pherontes"; "Ho anthrōpos pou phovotane to tipota"; "Gnōthi sauton"; "Zētō hoi varvaroi"; "Epops; "Mē en tō ama to eu"; "Architektoniko paralērēma"; Hē diastasē mias diasēmēs prosōpikotētas"; and loose pages of an untitled short story. Most of the stories are published in Valaōritēs's book Paramythologia. Handwritten note on the discarded envelope states: "Grapta, megala kai mikra" and crossed out title on the first loose page of the collection reads: "Hē philosophia tou paralērēmatos ē to paralērēma tēs philosophias."
Physical Description1 folder
This subseries has been arranged approximately chronologically.
Consists of Valaōritēs's poems written from 1938 to 1989.
Physical Description4 boxes
Includes autograph manuscript drafts of three groups of poems. The first one is entitled "Diaphora poiēmata 1938-9" ["Miscellaneous Poems 1938-9"], including the poems: "Tessereis eikones," "Theoi antēlioi," "To magnētiko nero," "Poiēma gia tēn Helenē." The second group is entitled "Hē anthismenē leōphora 1940." Also included are "Syllogismoi panō sto skaki," "Nēsia," "Elsē," "Elsinorē," and "Phovos" (March 1939).
Physical Description1 folder
AMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph manuscript drafts of the poems: "Aposynthesis B'. Eisagōgē stēn 'Erēmōmenē ektasi,'" "Ispania," "Alvania," "Ōdē s'henan koino anthrōpo," and "To chryso gephyri".
Physical Description1 folder
Included are three collections of poems: "Hēmeromēnies," "Kairoi," and "Toichos under the general title Palaiotera poiēmata.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph manuscript drafts of the poems: "Agōnas 1941," "Sto prosōpo sou to chlōmo," "To tragoudi tou polemistē," "Gynaika tou syntrophou," and "Gramma sto xeno pallēkari." Handwritten proposed title on second page reads: "Parangelies. Apo to dentro tēs zōes."
Physical Description1 folder
Included are autograph manuscript drafts of the poems: "To Tragoudi tou triklinou"; "Hoi xenoi" or "Hoi agnōstoi"; "Tesseres ōdes chōris synecheia"; "Chorika tēs laspēs"; "Meres"; "Hēmeromēnia"; "Alvania"; "Oneiro se syllogismous gia ton Antrea Kampa"; "He chōra"; and "Ho ephialtēs."
Physical Description1 folder
Autograph note on the folder reads: "Poiēmata, schedia, gymnasmata prin apo to 'Mathēma charaugēs.' Dēl. prin apo to kalokairi tou 1943." Included are autograph manuscript drafts of: "The Silent Women," "Nekrikē ōdē," "To nekro pallēkari," "Satyriko moirologi," "Diathēkē," "Hoi astrologoi" (1942), "Ho hēlios hē nychta kai to agouro pallēkari," "Mia siōpēlē gynaika," "Oneiro," "Anemomylos," "1941-1943," and many others. There are also autograph manuscript drafts of undated poems, including "To mathēma tēs charaugēs," "Tethnēkasin gar[...]," "Ston Niko Gkatso," "Ho hēlios kai to pallēkari," "To the Woman of 'Ecstasy'," and "Ho telalēs."
Physical Description1 folder
Included are typed manuscript drafts of the poems: "Ekecheiria," Anakalypsē," "Kalokairia" (1980-1981), "Zōnē phōtos" (Madourē, 19 July 1981); "Aphetēria" (May 1983); "Kaphedaki" (May 1983); "Hē kōmōdia tēs anavrochias" (16 May 1983); "Portokalia apochrōsē"; "Petrino antikeimeno" (October 1982); "Epiphainomena"; "Diagraphes"; "Sta dasē tēs dysēs kai tou hēliou" (1984); "Apo tēn epochē tēs apagoreusēs tēs graphēs tou vivliou" (1983); "Kathysterēsē"; "To vrachykyklōma tēs historias" (1979-1980); "Ichneumōn" (California, 1983); "Deinosauros" (9/4/83); "Magnētiko pedio"; and "Prōtophanes" (14.12.83/85/87).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph manuscript drafts of several poems written in English.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typed manuscript drafts of the poems: "Petrino antikeimeno" (October 1982); "Aphetēria" (May 1983); "Psycheros (28/1/84); "Nekrē physē" (October 1984); "Ta en leukō"; "Iskenter"; "Magnētiko pedio"; "Il. 6, 169"; "Prōtarchikes skēnes"; "Mia prasinē skepsē"; "Asygkoinōnounta docheia"; Melodrama II"; Paraxenes anamnēseis"; Deipnosophistes"; "Anaptyxē epixheirēmatos gia dyo Anglides"; "Deukaliōn," and many others. Most of the poems belong to the book Hēlios hō dēmios mias prasinēs skepsēs but they have not been separated. They will remain in the author's order as they were kept in the folder with the handwritten note on it: "Poiēmata / Monologoi gia mia peristasē / Prōtes graphes / Anekdota kai ochi."
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typed manuscript drafts of poems entitled "Ta en leukō."
Physical Description2 boxes
Included are the poems: "Mia griphōdēs parermēneia"; "Hoi apodēmoi"; "Ekeinē pou"; "Ekeinē pou 2"; Ekeinē pou 3"; "Henas kataramenos"; "Anamnēseis apo tē Germania"; and "Hē omorphologia tou paramythiou."
Physical Description1 folder
Included is the poem "Therinē" written in red ink accompanied by a small notepad with Valaoritēs's sketches. There is also an autograph manuscript draft of the poem "Hē magikē [...]"; a typed manuscript of the poem "Hena epeisodio ap'tē zōē mou"; and a signed carbon copy of the poem "Sior Patrik Spens" with autograph corrections.
Physical Description1 folder
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AMss.
Physical Description1 folder
AMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
AMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists mainly of Valaōritēs's essays published in book form and many other texts.
This subseries has been arranged in a chronological order.
Physical Description4 boxes
Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts with handwritten collections of the following essays: "Hē technē genika kai idiaitera hē logotechnia san koinōniko phainomeno"; "Ho Megas Anatolikos"; "Ho logos tou dēmotikou tragoudiou"; "Hē Olympiakē paradosē"; "Hē grammē tou Pali"; Valaōritēs's thoughts ["Skepseis"], dated 1938; and an interview with Valaōritēs. Most of the writings are undated.
Physical Description1 folder
TMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of typed manuscript drafts of the following essays: "Andreas Empeirikos, Ho Rēgas Pheraios mias neas epochēs" (1983); "Mia mikrē endeixē gia to pōs douleue ho Empeirikos sta 'Grapta'"; and a printed article entitled "Merikes skepseis gyrō apo to ergo tou Andrea Empeirikou" published in Hē Lexē.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typed manuscripts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph manuscript drafts of a scenario prepared for the Surrealistes grecques and a notebook with a maquette of the diaporama.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes photocopies of autograph manuscript drafts of the introduction to Valaōritēs's book Surréalistes grecs with a letter to Monsieur Gautier dated March 7, 1991.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes page proofs and typescripts.
Physical Description3 folders
Includes typed manuscripts and a galley of "My Autobiography." There is also a galley entitled "Nanos Valaoritis" published in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, 26 [1999] and some photocopies of photographs of Valaōritēs's personal life.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typescripts and photocopies of poems both in Greek and English of several Greek poets, as well as an essay on Procrustes by Valaōritēs.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of Valaōritēs's poetry and school notebooks.
This subseries has been arranged by type of material.
Physical Description1 box
AMs drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph manuscript drafts and several loose pages kept together in a folder.
Physical Description3 folders
This series consists of autograph manuscripts published in Pali, volumes 1-6, but not the complete issues. There are also autograph and typed manuscripts possibly intended to be published in Pali, some identified by author but not arranged alphabetically (Box 28, folders 1-6) and some others only by title (Box 29, folders 1-3).
This series has been arranged chronologically.
Physical Description3 boxes
Consists of autograph and typed manuscript drafts, many with handwritten corrections in Greek, including writings by Aldous Huxley, Harold Norse, Octavio Paz, Kōstas Tachtsēs, Denegrēs Tasos, Aravantinou, Mantō, Ted Joans, and Virginia Woolf. There is one notebook of the Greek translation of Paz's poem Petra tou hēliou [Piedra del Sol] (Mexico 1957). There are also galleys (almost the entire volume) and many book covers.
Physical Description3 folders
The folder consists of autograph and typed manuscript drafts, many with handwritten corrections both in Greek and in English, including writings by Nicolas Calas, Kyriakos Phrankoulēs, and Jean Tardieu (incomplete volumes).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts, miscellaneous page proofs, ink drawings, and copies of illustrations, including works by T. K. Papatsōnēs, Dēmētrēs Poulikakos, Giannēs Tsarouchēs, Tiggie Ghika, and Christos Karas (incomplete published manuscripts).
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of typed manuscript drafts in Greek with heavy autograph corrections, 1 illustration proof, including writings by Jean Benoit, Allen Ginsberg (1960), Octavio Paz, Panos Koutroumpousēs, Andreas Empeirikos, Leon Trotsky, Papapolitēs Sōtērēs, Michalēs Papanikolaou, Joan Miro, Nanos Valaōritēs, and André Breton.
Physical Description2 folders
Consists of autograph and typed manuscript drafts in Greek with some handwritten corrections, including writings by John Esam, Joyce Mansour, George Seferis (original), Tasos Denegrēs, and Spyros Meimarēs.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a handwritten text of "Auta ta lyrika sphachtaria" and the poem "Hē Hellada pote den pethainei."
Physical Description1 folder
Included are writings by Bill Barker, Zina Rachevski (1964), Gerard Belart (1967); one bound copy of poems by Emmett Jarrett (Crete 1967), Frederic Brown, Harold Norse (Nov. 1963), Nanos Valaōritēs, Inez Cavanaugh, Leōnidas Chrēstakēs, Papapolitēs Sōtērēs, Peter Stevens (1959, 1963), Poulikakos Dēmētrēs, Philip Lamantia, Panos Koutroumpousēs (1964), Kyriakos Phrangoulēs, Vasilēs Ziōgas (1956), Ted Joans (2 autograph poems, 1947 and 1954), and Barbara Rubin.
Physical Description1 folder
Included are writings primarily written or translated into Greek by various authors, such as: Terpē Ziankou, Dēmētrēs Rikakēs (1953), Samuel Beckett, Dēmētrios A. Koromēlas (1964), Dēmētrēs Zormpas, Nikos Stangos, Alexis Stephanou (1963), Kōnstantinos Nikoloudēs (1959), Panos Koutroumpousēs (1965), Spyros Charmpourēs, and Stelios Skopelitēs (1963).
Physical Description1 folder
Included are writings in English, Greek, and French by several authors, such as Alain Jouffroy, Fernando Pessoa (1928), Angus Maclice; Eric J. Solibakke, Norse Harold, Nikos Engonopoulos, and Kaiē Tsitselē (May 30, 1964).
Physical Description1 folder
Included are writings in Greek, French and English, or translations in Greek by Juan José Arreola, Sheldon Cholst, Samuel Beckett, Iliasa Papadakē, Algis Budrus, P.I. Makrēs (1965) (his poem is accompanied by a letter to Valaōritēs regarding a possible publication in Pali), Kōstas Tachtsēs, Jean-Clarence Lambert, Pierre Dhainaut (1964), and Alan Ansen.
Physical Description1 folder
Included are writings in Greek, English, and French by Ken Taharally, Sheldon Cholst, Alan Trist, George Dupin, Gerard Belard (Jan. 1967), Alan Ansen, Jack Hirschman, Paul Éluard, Alan Brownjohn, Ole Sarvig, Angus Maclise, John Goumas, Inez Cavanaugh (1965), and Nicolaos Calas (3 autograph poems).
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of writings primarily written in Greek, with some in English. The manuscripts are described by tittle or first line: "Parapoiēsē," "Hē poiēsē en drasei," "Alexandra hē Kassandra," "Sēmeiōmata gyrō apo tēn ekdosē tou Pali," "Ho stratos tōn anexēgētōn," "Perierga kai paradoxa gegonota," "The Ghost Goes East" (Sept. 1954), "Six Poems from Greece," "Ētane mia phora," "Big Bright Walls," "Il faut etre deux," "Barracks of Larissa" (2.1.53), and "Meros."
Physical Description3 folders
This series has been arranged chronologically.
This series consists of works by several literary figures.
Physical Description2 boxes
Included are works of several writers and poets, such as Nicolas Calas, Andreas Nomikos, Dēmētrēs Korsos, Giōrgos Likos (15/3/42), Paulos Vlachos (1942), R.D. Smith, T.S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Arēs Alexandrou (September 1940), Krishnamurti, and H.L.R. Edwards. There are also two short stories of the book Rainbow pour Rimbaud by Jean Teulé (1991). Valaōritēs's handwritten note on the folder states that the folder contains poems and other works of his friends, acquaintances, or other unknown persons.
Physical Description1 folder
TMss
Physical Description3 folders
Includes a typed article.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes page proofs and a letter from Laura [Beausoleil] to Valaaoritēs.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of typescripts of five short stories by Hariette Surovell accompanied by a holograph to Nanos Valaōritēs.
Physical Description1 folder
This series has been arranged by type of material.
This series consists of sketchbooks with works by Valaōritēs.
Physical Description3 boxes
Included are 23 sketchbooks and notepads of various sizes containing pencil and ink drawings. Two of them also contain autograph manuscript drafts of Valaōritēs's poems.
Physical Description7 folders
The folder consists of 8 sketchbooks and several loose pencil and ink sketches, as well as watercolor drawings.
Physical Description4 folders
1 box
This series consists of miscellaneous typescripts and printed matter.
This series has been arranged by type of material.
Physical Description2 boxes
Includes a record cover of Manos Chatzidakēs work "Ho sklēros Aprilēs tou 45" (record is not included) accompanied by an holograph of Kōstas Tachtsēs dated 21.12.74.
Physical Description1 box
Includes a short biographic data of Nanos Valaōritēs; a copy of the program of the Fourth International Poetry Festival at the University of Texas, Austin in April 1974. Also included are notes, lists, a few drawings, a typescript of the Dictionary of the United States Military Terms for Arms and Services (Ts), dated January 1953, and a typescript copy of "La Vie Intellectuelle en France (du ler Avril au 30 Mai 1944)," Bulletin no. 5 (25 June 1944).
Physical Description1 folder
The folder consists of miscellaneous printed matter such as pamphlets, programs, brochures, or invitations to conferences, exhibitions, and readings; a copy of a special edition of the Bulletin de la Société Littéraire des PTT; an offprint of Neohelicon, 3-4 (1976); P.E.N. International, 7, no. 1 (Spring 1965); Mandragoras, 27 (March 2002); and a few clippings of Greek, French, and American newspapers.
Physical Description5 folders