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Creator
Corman, Cid
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Corman
Physical description
846 items
Language
Some material in Japanese
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs, correspondence, and notebooks dating from 1966 to 1968.

Biographical/historical information

Cid Corman is an American poet, essayist, and translator.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs, correspondence, and notebooks dating from 1966 to 1968. The manuscripts and typescripts include essays, poems, stories, and miscellaneous material by the author, as well as typewritten works of, and galley proofs for, Martin Booth, Anselm Hollo, Charles Olson, John Perlman and James Weil with Corman's manuscript emendations. The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1951 to 1983, to Franco Beltrametti, his brother and sister-in-law Dr. Leonard and Doris Corman, James L. Weil, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1957 to 1968, from Louis Zukofsky to Babette Deutsch, and letters from miscellaneous correspondents to Corman, dating from 1966 to 1971. There are letters to Corman from Lorine Niedecker and James Weil, dating from 1960 to 1967.

The Cid Corman collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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