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Collection of correspondence and documents regarding Stolen apples by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1967-1972.

Accession number
PML 187484.1-25
Creator
Updike, John.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Material related to Updike's involvement as a translator in Stolen apples: poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1971).
Updike has hand-corrected typescripts for several versions of the title poem, Stolen apples, and The rhythms of Rome.
Description
26 items (61 p.)
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Typescripts and photocopied typescripts of poems in English and in Cyrillic, some hand-corrected; with 5 copies of Updike's signed contract from Doubleday, and numerous pieces of correspondence, incl. 1 letter from Stewart Richardson to Updike, dated 1967, complimenting him on his translations and Updike's letter in response, dated 26 Feb. [1967]; letters and a postcard from Updike to Kathryn Medina, dated variously 1969-1972, regarding contract terms, corrections to the translations and proofs, and other matters.
Binding
Housed in grey drop-spine box.
Classification
Department