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Letter for Melville, 1951 / Charles Olson.

Accession number
PML 186538
Creator
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970.
Published
[Black Mountain, N.C]. : [Printed at Black Mountain College], ©1951.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Cover title.
"Written to be read away from the Melville Society's 'One hundredth birthday party' for Moby-Dick at Williams College, Labor Day weekend, Sept. 2-4, 1951"--Leaf [1].
Library's copy housed in gray cloth clamshell box.
Description
[2] leaves ; 43 x 28 cm; folded to: 22 x 14 cm; in folder: 23 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on leaf [2]: Tessa - for herself & from me (Gloucester LXVI).
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Poem on two leaves, folded twice, tipped into pictorial folder.
Classification
Department