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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

Tomislav Sabljak (born 1934 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian writer, translator, and retired university professor, associated with the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the University of Zagreb. The collection comprises letters, postcards, and a telegram received by Tomislav Sabljak at Zagreb in Yugoslavia, later Croatia, from English poets W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, and Stephen Spender, as well as Americans Mark Schorer, author, and Karl Shapiro, poet, dated 1963-1972, and 1995. The correspondence, conveying a sense of literary fellowship, chiefly concerns the translation of the writers' works into Croatian, and their publication. Travel plans are also discussed. Auden and Spender answer questions about meanings held in their poems, with Spender explaining two terms with small pen drawings (1966 January 6). Present are thirteen autograph and typed letters signed by W. H. Auden, and a telegram, 1964-1972, including the typed text of his poem "August 1968" (1969 February 14); eight autograph and typed letters signed by Stephen Spender, 1964-1967, 1995; two typed letters signed by T. S. Eliot, 1963 August 27 (aerogramme) and 1964 May 7, thanking Sabljak for articles he sent; and a typed letter signed by Ted Hughes, 1968 December 3, enclosing typescripts of three poems for translation: "Carrion Tiresias Examines the Sacrifice," "A Kill," and "Notes for a Little Play." Two postcards from Mark Schorer in Italy, 1964, concern his intention to visit Zagreb, and a typed letter signed by Karl Shapiro from Nebraska, 1966 February 23, expresses his thanks. The writers mention Auden and Spender, respectively. Also present is an undated autograph letter signed by Natasha Spender, postmarked 1995 August 31, advising of her husband's death less

Samuel Menashe (1925-2011) was an American poet. The collection comprises two autograph letters signed by Samuel Menashe to American author Meredith Hall (1949-), a recent acquaintance, dated April 17 and May 14, 2007. The letter of April 17 (one page with envelope), with his poem "April" written at top, thanks Hall for a book. His letter of May 14 (three pages with envelope), commenting briefly on her memoir Without a Map, contains two poems, "Consider the Buttercup" and "Nothing New." Both envelopes bear Menashe's home address in New York City and are addressed to Hall in Pownal, Maine less

The item is a poetry notebook, dated circa 1820s-1840s, containing original and published vernacular poems with themes of death, loss, and spiritual consolation. The unbound volume probably originated in the Hudson River Valley of New York, based on references in the works. The identity of the notebook's creator is unknown. Poems tell of the deaths of promising youths, separation from family and friends occasioned by marriage or distant travels, the presence of God in nature, and illness. Dates referred to in the poems are not in chronological order, and only a few poems are dated. The last dated poem of April 20, 1843 describes a child's sighting of the Great Comet of that year. Notebook entries are written in ink by one person, probably a woman, with occasional misspellings; some entries are completed in different hands. The names Ann Catharine Hasard (i.e. Ann Catharine Hazard, Quaker educator, died 1830), Ruth Spencer or RS, "D .... Wing," and J. Haight appear as apparently unpublished poets. Quaker connections can be seen in poems by or about John Mott, Job Scott, Mary Peisley, and Hugh Judge, and in an elegy on the death of Mercy E. Read at Nine Partners Boarding School in Dutchess County. Some unattributed works can be traced to contemporary periodicals, hymns, and miscellanies of 18th- and 19th-century British and American poetry. Also found are copied popular American broadside elegies such as "A Tribute to the Memory of Catherine Berrenger." less