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Renée Weiss Papers
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Renée Karol Weiss (1923-2021) was an editor, writer, musician, and dancer. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Abraham S. Karol and Elizabeth (Levitt) Karol, Weiss graduated from Bard College in 1951. She studied dance and violin, and was a member of multiple orchestras and music ensembles. Renée and her husband, poet and professor Theodore Weiss (1916-2003), edited the literary magazine, Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL), for nearly sixty years from 1944 to 1999. In their last years together, Renée and Theodore wrote poems together. The final QRL publication, The Always Present Present, (2003) was a collection of their jointly written poems, love letters from Theodore to Renée, and a biography of the magazine.
The collection consists of various personal and professional papers of editor and writer Renée Karol Weiss (1923-2021). Materials include incoming correspondence to Renée and her husband Theodore Weiss (1916-2003), as well as an almost daily run of love letters from Theodore to Renée from 1939 to 1941 that the couple published in The Always Present Present (2003). Other materials include travel diaries and related ephemera, notebooks, writings, and a few files of primarily correspondence relating to the Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL).
Some of the correspondence and writings relate specifically to Theodore Weiss. Most of the original folder titles, when descriptions did exist, were maintained.
Gift of Theresa Roth Schaff, niece and executor of Renée Weiss, in April 2021 (AM 2022-009).
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This collection was processed by Faith Charlton in May 2022. Finding aid written by Faith Charlton in May 2022.
No materials were removed from the collection during 2022 processing beyond routine appraisal practices.
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- American literature--20th century
- Editors -- United States -- 20th century
- Little magazines–United States–20th century
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- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Faith Charlton
- Finding Aid Date
- 2022 May
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Collection Inventory
Includes travel diaries and notebooks, photographs, and souvenir ephemera
Physical Description6 folders
1 folder
One notebook includes information regarding later editions of QRL
Physical Description1 folder
Correspondence and publication-related materials with Macmillan Publishers
Physical Description1 folder
3 folders
Publication materials
Physical Description1 folder
Draft and notes for "Soiled in the Working: Hamlet and Eliot for The American Poetry Review (Vol. 29, no. 6 November/Decemeber 2000)
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Almost daily correspondence.
Physical Description12 folders
1 folder
1 folder
Includes letters from Renée's parents around the time of their marriage
Physical Description1 folder
Correspondence from and friends, colleagues, and former students, including several letters from Warren Carrier. Some are related to QRL.
Physical Description4 folders
Includes mostly correspondence along with copies of writings and articles, and writing submissions, including some with revisions.
Physical Description8 folders
1 folder
Includes correspondence with James Dashow and others.
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
4 folders