Woolmer, J. Howard, 1929-

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Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.

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Consists of 89 handwritten letters and postcards, and 1 telegram to John E. Dobbin, Brion Gysin, and Sir Francis and Frederica Rose. Also included is one typed letter (as secretary to Gertrude Stein) to John Hinsdale Thompson.

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"I am adding this carbon typescript of the Denver Quarterly autobiographical article to the material I am at this time putting into your hands-..."

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"Please note: my new telephone number is:...This is an unpublished number- not procurable from Directory..." "Sonia Raiziss has suggested that I might want [?] still remaining material from the Chelsea #35 mm. typescripts:..."

Scope and Contents The Caroline Gordon - Allen Tate correspondence consists of 50 autograph and typescript letters from Gordon to Robert Lowell and/or Jean Stafford (undated but probably c1940s) as well as 37 autograph and typescript letters and postcards from Allen Tate to Jean Stafford and/or Robert Lowell (dating from 1938-1970). The Tate correspondence includes: a carbon copy typescript to Dr. Merrill Moore concerning Lowell's mental health; a carbon copy typescript letter of concern about Lowell to...

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"Alan- I am writing this next day after the mailing of my last letter to you to report the sense and the effect of a telephone conversation I had with Mr. Woolmer yesterday evening. I told him of your inclining to the co-operative plan I proposed..."

Scope and Contents The ephemera is grouped into five series: Correspondence, Writings, Photographs, Miscellaneous, and Library.The correspondence consists of photocopied and photographically reproduced autograph letters by Fitzgerald and two greeting cards signed by Zelda Fitzgerald.The writings, dating from 1920-1976, include two typescript draft poems attributed to Fitzgerald by S. Donovan Swann, Jr.; a facsimile of an autograph draft of a promotional piece for This Side of Paradise,...

Scope and Contents J. Howard Woolmer collecton of Poetry Bookshop research materials consists largely of Woolmer's research materials and pre-publication drafts of the bibliography but includes PBS manuscripts and ephemeral printing. The collection is organized into two series: Series 1: Correspondence: Joy Grant: letters from British writers and collegues of Harold Monro in reply to Grant as she wrote Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967) including correspondents...

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A collection of books sold by bookseller J. Howard Woolmer, unattached to any acquisition.

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Please note that this is a group of BOOKS and not manuscript materials.