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Elizabeth Bishop Collection

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
C1014
Repository:
Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division
Extent:
  • 1 box
  • 0.2 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Citations should be as follows: Elizabeth Bishop Collection, Box #, Folder #, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1965-1979 (inclusive)
Creator:
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979
Form:
Correspondence. and Interviews.
Abstract:
Consists primarily of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop's correspondence with her friend Ashley Brown.

Bishop

American poet Elizabeth Bishop was born on February 8, 1911, in Worcester, Massachusetts. She graduated from Vassar College in 1934. Bishop traveled widely and lived for many years in Brazil with her partner Lota (Maria Carlota) de Macedo Soares. Among her many awards were the Pulitzer Prize for A Cold Spring(1955) and the National Book Award for Geography III (1976).

The collection consists of 31 typed letters (1965-1979), 13 note cards, 3 telegrams, and a newspaper clipping with a typed message by Bishop to her friend Ashley Brown, as well as a typescript (17 pp.) of an interview by Brown, with holograph corrections by Bishop. Much of this correspondence dates from Bishop's years in Brasil.

Organized by form/genre.

Purchased on April 8, 1987. AM87-97.

Finding aid written by James Flannery on January 12, 2006. Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager (2015) in 2012.

No appraisal information is available.

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Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2006
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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

32 Letters Typed, 13 post cards, and 3 telegrams from Elizabeth Bishop to Ashley Brown, 1966-1979. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Brown dicusses her work, life in Brazil, and her relations with other writers.

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter from Elizabeth Bishop to the Commission with an advertisement of her property which she wants to sell, 1971 July 15. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Typescript of an interview with Ashley Brown with holographic corrections by Bishop, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

It was published in Shenandoah magazine and in a book on Bishop published by the University of Michigan Press.

Physical Description

1 folder

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