Galen Williams collection of letters, 1961-2010

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{"value"=>"Galen Williams collection of letters, 1961-2010"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1961-2010", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1961/2010"}

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note

{"value"=>"<p>The Galen Williams Collection of Letters was purchased by the Berg Collection from Galen Williams, in April 2014</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Collection comprises correspondence received by Galen Williams in her capacity as Director of the 92nd Street YMHA Poetry Center from 1961 to 1970, and as the founder, in 1970, of the organization Poets & Writers</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Contains ca. 250 letters and postcards by 167 distinguished writers and poets (as well as several non-literary notables), including Ai, Margaret Atwood, W. H. Auden, Marvin Bell, Saul Bellow, Paul Blackburn, Anthony Burgess, James Dickey, E. L. Doctorow, Margaret Drabble, T. S. Eliot (to William Kolodney, the former educational director of the 92nd Y), Allen Ginsberg, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Hardwick, Alan Harrington, Seamus Heaney, Charlton Heston, John Irving, Randall Jarrell, Erica Jong, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin, Archibald Macleish, Norman Mailer, Peter Matthiessen, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, Toni Morrison, Arthur Miller, Marianne Moore, Victor S. Navasky, Tillie Olsen, Charles Olson, Cynthia Ozick, Adrienne Rich, Perdita Schaffner, Anne Sexton, William Jay Smith, Susan Sontag, Jean Stafford, William Stafford, William Styron, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Diane Wakoski, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, Tom Wolfe, Jay Wright, and Richard Yates</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

acqinfo

{"method"=>"Purchase", "source"=>"GalenWilliams", "date"=>"April, 2014", "value"=>"<p>Purchase, GalenWilliams, April, 2014</p>"}

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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Williams, G", "type"=>"local_call"}

date_inclusive_start

1961

date_inclusive_end

2010

keydate

1961

extent_statement

4 linear feet (8 manuscript boxes)

prefercite

{"value"=>"Galen Williams collection of letters, 1961-2010, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library"}

date_start

1961

date_end

2010

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