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Haniel Long Notebook

 Collection — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf100

Notebook of Long poems. Notebook is a small tan binder, with Long's bookplate and a sticker annotated, "Poems at work on 1942 (copy left with [Heari] Haniel." Contains 11 pages in typescript, corrected; 6 pages in manuscript (3 are fragments pasted in); 20 pages uncorrected carbon typescript, 37 pages. Laid in are 1 page typescript and 1 page typescript carbon. Enclosed is a 5x7" black and white photograph of Long, circa age 70

Dates

  • Creation: undated

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Open

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Extent

4.00 items

1 folders

Biographical Information

Haniel Clark Long (March 9, 1888 – October 17, 1956) was an American poet, novelist, publisher and academic. He is best known for his novella, Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca (1936), a fictionalized account of the true story of a Spanish conquistador in 16th century North America.

Born to Methodist missionaries Samuel P. and May Clark in what is now Myanmar (then known as Rangoon, Burma), Long was taken to Pittsburgh at the age of three with his family. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, Long started a career as a reporter for the New York Globe but returned to Pittsburgh to teach at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon). He was promoted to head the English Department in 1920, the same year his first book was published, Poems, a collection of his poetry. In 1926, he published a collection of fairy tale-like short stories called Notes for a New Mythology.

Long moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1929 with his wife Alice and his son Anton for health reasons, and spent the rest of his life there. He helped founding a publishing organization called Writers' Editions, which concentrated on works by New Mexican authors. The organization published Long's poetry collection, Atlantides, in 1933 and his Pittsburgh Memoranda in 1935. In 1936, Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca appeared, considered Long's best statement of his beliefs on man's place in the world.

Long continued to publish other works over the next two decades: Walt Whitman and the Springs of Courage (1938), Malinche (Dona Marina) (1939), Pinon Country (1941), Children, Students and a Few Adults (1942), French Soldier Home from Being a War Prisoner (1942), The Grist Mill (1945), and A Letter to St. Augustine (1950). He also wrote for the New Mexico Sentinel, editing its writers' page. Long finished his final novel, Spring Returns, in 1956 shortly before his death. It was published posthumously, as were two other works: If He Can Make Her So (1968) and My Seasons (1977).

Source of Acquisition

Accession 1749. Gift of Howard Nemerov, July 27, 1987

Processing Information

Processed February 1988

Title
Haniel Long Notebook
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
eng

Revision Statements

  • 2021 March 17: Resource record updated in ArchiveSpace by Sarah Schnuriger.

Collecting Area Details

Part of the Manuscripts Collecting Area

Contact:
Joel Minor
Olin Library, 1 Brookings Drive
MSC 1061-141-B
St. Louis MO 63130 US
(314) 935-5495