BIB_ID
188683
Accession number
MA 5659.1-30
Display Date
1944 Dec. 8-1980 July 31.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 folder (30 items), unbound ; size varies
Notes
Correspondents include Elizabeth Bishop, R.P. Blackmur, Paul Bowles, John Malcolm Brinnin, Henry Miller, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Rothko, Allen Tate, and Edmund Wilson.
The recipient of the letters was a Cuban who edited the magazine Orígenes in the 1940s and 50s.
The recipient of the letters was a Cuban who edited the magazine Orígenes in the 1940s and 50s.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Collection includes the following: three typed letters signed from Elizabeth Bishop (MA 5659.1-2, 4); one printed poem by Bishop with her manuscript corrections (MA 5659.3); three typescripts of poems by Bishop (MA 5659.5-7); one typescript of a poem by John Malcolm Brinnin (MA 5659.8); three typed letters signed from Brinnin (MA 5659.9, 11, 13); two autgraph letters signed from Brinnin (MA 5659.10, 12); four typed letters signed from Paul Bowles (MA 5659.14-17); one autograph letter signed from Edmund Wilson (MA 5659.18); one typed letter signed from R.P. Blackmur (MA 5659.19); one autograph letter signed from Mark Rothko (MA 5659.20); one autograph letter signed from Allen Tate (MA 5659.21); two typed letters signed from Tate (MA 5659.22-23); one autograph letter signed from Katherine Anne Porter (MA 5659.24); two typed letters signed from Porter (MA 5659.25-26); three autograph letters signed from Henry Miller (MA 5659.27-29); and an autograph letter signed from José Rodríguez Feo to "Peter" (MA 5659.30). Items are described in thirty separate records; see MA 5659.1-30 for details.
Housed in
Green four-flap archival folder (30.5 cm)
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