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Autograph revisions to a printed copy of "The Fish," [1940 or later].

BIB_ID
381515
Accession number
MA 5659.3
Creator
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Display Date
[1940 or later].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters to José Rodríguez Feo, a Cuban who edited the magazine Orígenes in the 1940s and 50s. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 5659 for more information.
Probably sent by Bishop to José Rodríguez Feo, editor of the magazine Orígenes.
This leaf, torn out of the Partisan Review (vol. VII, no. 2, March-April, 1940, p. 107-108), is the first appearance of "The Fish" in print.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Includes autograph revisions by Bishop on p. 108 (the second page of the poem).