Marianne Moore collection of papers

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Description: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, a notebook from 1923, financial documents, pictorial works, and portraits of the author. The manuscripts and typescripts include holograph and typescript poems, drafts of poems, and an essay. Also present are essays, poems, and fiction in typescript and manuscript by W. H. Auden, Kenneth Burke, Muriel Rukeyser, Glenway Wescott and others relating to the author. The collection includes correspondence by the author, from 1921 to 1971, to Kenneth Burke, Babette Deutsch, John Edmunds, Jean Garrigue, Howard Griffin, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Mayer, James Merrill, Howard Moss, May Sarton, Laurence Scott, Frances Steloff, James Sibley Watson, Jr., Glenway Westcott, Monroe Wheeler, and others. There are letters relating to the author, dating from 1945 to 1970, between various correspondents including Randall Jarrell, Frances Steloff, and others, as well as letters to the author from Herbert Mitgang. There are letters to Moore from W. H. Auden, Charles Baldwin, Gladys Edgerton, Robert Lowell, Herbert Mitgang, Howard Moss, David Posner, Louis Untermeyer, Monroe Wheeler, and others, dating from 1926 to 1975.
Names: Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 (Creator); Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 (Author); Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993 (Author); Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982 (Addressee); Edmunds, John, 1913-1986 (Addressee); Garrigue, Jean, 1912-1972 (Addressee); Griffin, Howard, 1915-1975 (Addressee); Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965 (Addressee); Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965 (Former owner); MacIver, Loren, 1909-1998 (Former owner); Mayer, Elizabeth (Addressee); Merrill, James, 1926-1995 (Addressee); Mitgang, Herbert (Author); Moss, Howard, 1922-1987 (Author); Moss, Howard, 1922-1987 (Former owner); Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980 (Author); Sarton, May, 1912-1995 (Addressee); Sarton, May, 1912-1995 (Former owner); Scott, Laurence (Addressee); Scott, Laurence (Former owner); Steloff, Frances, 1887-1989 (Addressee); Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894- (Addressee); Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894- (Former owner); Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987 (Author); Wheeler, Monroe, 1899-1988 (Addressee); Wheeler, Monroe, 1899-1988 (Former owner); Dial Press (Former owner); Gotham Book Mart (Former owner); Harper & Row, Publishers (Former owner); Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 (Author); Mitgang, Herbert (Addressee); Steloff, Frances, 1887-1989 (Correspondent)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1887 - 1975
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Moore, M
Topics: Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
Genres: Correspondence; Notebooks; Portraits; Sketchbooks
Notes: Biographical/historical: Marianne Moore was an American poet, playwright, literary critic, essayist, translator, and childrens' book author.; Content: Inventory list and card catalog available in repository; Acquisition: This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources, including May Sarton, Laurence Scott, Loren MacIver, Monroe Wheeler, Howard Moss, J. S. Watson, Randall Jarrell, the Dial Press, Gotham Book Mart, and Harper & Row Publishers.; Funding: Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.
Physical Description: Extent: 1,209 items
Type of Resource: Text; Still image
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15858182; MSS Unit ID: 19148; RLIN/OCLC: NYPW03-A220; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 04ef5d40-899f-0139-70e6-0242ac110002

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