Autograph letter signed : "Kingfisher Flat" [Santa Cruz], to Robert Hawley, 1986 Jan. 27.

Record ID: 
383544
Accession number: 
MA 8671.2
Author: 
Everson, William, 1912-1994.
Credit: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 32.8 cm + envelope
Notes: 

Envelope addressed to "Mr. Robert Hawley / The Ross Valley Book Co. / 1407 Solano Ave. / Albany, Calif. 94706." Return address is "W O Everson / 312 Swanton Road / Davenport, CA 95017."
Envelope with postmark.
Housed with a carbon typescript of WIlliam Everson's "Chronicle of Division" (MA 8671) and a typed statement by Everson dated 1986 Jan. 26 and cataloged separately as MA 8671.1.

Summary: 

Reporting that he "called up [Bill] Eshelman at Scarecrow Press in Metuchen, N.J. and he distinctly remembers typing the Chronicle of Division as a reading script for a Fine Arts seminar at Waldport"; adding that he has "revised [his] estimate as to the year it was made. 1945 was the year, because the fourth section, the last set in this typescript, was not composed till then"; noting that "a final Fifth Section emerged the following year at Berkeley"; concluding by saying that his copy is "almost certainly deposited at the William Andrews Clark Library at the University of California at Los Angeles."

Provenance: 
Carter Burden.