Found 251 collections related to Correspondence

Comprises typescript, manuscript, email and post-card correspondence between author Annie Proulx and Joel Connaroe, author of books and essays about American poetry and fiction, editor of Six American Poets, and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1985 to 2002 ; with 143 color photographs. less

Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) was an American poet, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer. Kenneth Koch letters, 1961 and 1967, comprise his typed letter signed (2 pages) to "Don," dated [1961] February 10 at 69 Perry Street, New York City, and his typed letter signed (1 page) to poet James Schuyler ("Jimmy"), dated Thursday at 278 West 4th Street, with envelope postmarked 1967 June 1. The letter to Schuyler at Southampton, Long Island, encloses their collaborative poem "Titian Welds a Sculpture" (typescript with pencilled comment, 1 page), and a "mystery item," not present. The names James Schuyler & Kenneth Koch are typed below the poem's text. Koch's letter to Don discusses his work translating Haitian poetry and mentions his review of Frank O'Hara's poem "Second Avenue," appearing in the Partisan Review in 1961. Based on Koch's remarks regarding payment for his poems in The New American Poetry 1945-1960, it is likely that the recipient was Donald M. Allen, editor of the anthology less

Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) was an Irish painter and illustrator. He was the younger brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. John Quinn (1870-1924) was a corporation lawyer in New York City, and a noted private collector and patron of the arts. The collection comprises a letter (1 page) from [Jack B. Yeats] to "My Well Beloved John Quinn," written in the person of King Edward VII at Windsor, 1903 August 24, with an enclosed mock patent of nobility (1 page, folio). Both items are executed entirely in black ink, with the signatures "Edward" written upside down. Drawn at the top of the letter is a mock coat of arms, showing a unicorn and a lion with a straight razor shaving a pint, and the motto "Shave qui peut." The writer advises Quinn where "the artist fellah with whom you passed through my Western Empires" (Yeats himself) can obtain a patent similar to the one enclosed. The mock patent, made from a legal indenture form printed in Dublin by Hely's, Limited, is partially covered with pasted paper bearing Yeats's humorous bestowal of a knighthood on John Quinn of Broadway. A red wax seal attached to a green ribbon is affixed to the document less

Michael J. Dolan (1884-1954) was an Irish actor and theatrical stage manager, manager, and producer. He was associated with the Abbey Theatre of Dublin, Ireland, for most of his career. The collection (14 items) consists of letters written to Michael J. Dolan and by him as manager of the Abbey Theatre, 1923-1925 and undated; and six receipts, 1930-1934 [sic, 1935], for royalty and other payments made by the Theatre or its parent company the Irish National Theatre Society, Ltd. Also included are a black-and-white photograph of actors F.J. McCormick and Eileen Crowe as characters in "The Rugged Path," 1940; and a blank sheet of stationary for The Irish Academy of Letters at the Abbey Theatre. Correspondence comprises Dolan's typed letter, signed, to Frank J. Hugh O'Donnell about the hiring of a theater, 1925 March 4; three autograph letters signed by Lady Augusta Gregory to Dolan regarding the scheduling of play productions, 1925 February 11, August 17 and November 11 (no years); an autograph letter signed by Irish architect and theater historian Joseph Holloway, congratulating Dolan on his appointment as manager, 1923 [November] 29; and a typed letter, signed, from dramatist George Shiels to Dolan requesting a minor change to his play "Peter Duat," 1924 April 14. Receipts in chronological order are signed by actors, dramatists, and others; all receipts except one are initialled by Lady Gregory less

Autograph letter signed "Sean" (2 pages), from Irish playwright and theater critic Sean O'Casey to "Johnnie," 1926 November 18. After giving an amusing account of the burglary of his London apartment building and its aftermath, O'Casey attends to business matters regarding amateur productions of his work, and difficulties with J. B. Fagan. He ends the letter with the expectation that it will be a long time before he returns to Dublin. The letter is written on stationery addressed 32, Clareville Street, Kensington, S.W. 7. The recipient is likely J. H. (John H.) Perrin, Secretary of the Irish National Theatre Society and business manager of the Abbey Theatre less

Lady Isabella Augusta (Persse) Gregory was an Irish playwright, director, producer, poet, folklorist, translator and historian, co-founder of the Irish National Theater Society at the Abbey Theater, and patron of the Irish Literary Renaissance. Grace Gifford Plunkett (1888-1955) was an Irish artist and political activist. The collection consists of one autograph letter signed (two pages) from Lady Gregory to Grace Plunkett, 1929 December 30, thanking her for her letter and her gift depicting plays and players of the Abbey Theatre. The letter, written on stationery of the Standard Hotel, Dublin, is addressed to Mrs. Plunkett, and signed A. Gregory less

John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, and essayist. The collection comprises two autograph letters and one autograph postcard, all signed J. M. Synge: an autograph letter signed (one page) to his publisher [Joseph M.] Hone, 1907 March 11, sending the remaining copy and proof of an unidentified work, and advising Hone that he is feeling better; an autograph letter signed (two pages) at Glendalough House, Kingstown, Dublin to [Sir Hugh] Lane, 1907 December 29, asking for details regarding the opening of Lane's new art gallery, a reference to Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art; and an autograph postcard signed, at Glendalough House, Kingstown, Dublin, to A. Francis Steuart at Edinburgh, Scotland, 1907 November 21, sending his regrets that he will not be traveling to Edinburgh "with the others," referring to an upcoming Abbey Theatre tour less

Philip Levine (1928-2015) was an American poet who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his work The Simple Truth (1994). He served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2012. Rick Campbell (1952-) is an American poet and former director of the poetry publishing firm Anhinga Press. The collection comprises nine items written by Philip Levine to Rick Campbell: three computer-generated typed letters signed and two autograph letters signed, dated 2001 May 24 to 2011 April 11; three autograph postcards signed, dated or postmarked 2000 to 2005; and an undated autograph letter signed, written on two unstamped postcards; also, a four-page document capturing email exchanges between Levine and Campbell, 2014 May 27 to 2015 February 7, regarding the publication of a poem by Levine in the journal Kestrel. A re-typed printout of the letter dated 2011 April 11, returned from an unidentified recipient with a note thanking Campbell for it, is included. The collection charts the epistolary friendship of the two poets, originating in Anhinga Press's publication of work by winners of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, sponsored by California State University at Fresno. Levine's letters and postcards discuss the Prize and thank Campbell for sending him Anhinga Press imprints and volumes of Campbell's own poetry. Levine makes positive remarks about their work and that of other poets, while sharing brief reminiscences of his time in Iowa, Florida and California less

Typed letter signed (2 pages) from British author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), dated 1927 September 20, London, to Ellery Sedgwick (1872-1960), editor and owner of the Atlantic Monthly, in Boston. The letter pertains to the forthcoming publication of her article ["The Novels of E. M. Forster"] in both the American and English editions of the Atlantic Monthly. Woolf politely reminds Sedgwick that she had informed him of her intention to arrange for publication of the article in England; she thought the understanding was that the English rights should rest with her less