Box VMF 11
Container
Contains 13 Results:
John Crowe Ransom Collection
Collection — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 19
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf136
Scope and Contents
Largely consists of correspondence between Ransom and Robert Duncan dicussing the subject of homosexuality and poetry.
Found in:
Manuscripts
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John Crowe Ransom Collection
Ransom to Weldon Kees discussing several poems by Kees being considered for publication in The Kenyon Review, 1939 October 25
Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 19
Description
Typed letter signed, 1 page
Found in:
Manuscripts
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John Crowe Ransom Collection
Ransom to Robert Duncan declining to publish The African Elegy, a poem by Duncan, which had previously been accepted by The Kenyon Review, after Ransom became aware of its references to homosexuality, 1944 October 26
Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 19
Description
Typed letter signed, 1 page
Found in:
Manuscripts
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John Crowe Ransom Collection
Robert Duncan to Ransom defending the publication of The African Elegy on the basis of the poet's right to use his experience as the matter of his poetry and appealing to the right of free speech, 1944 November
Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 19
Description
Typed and autograph letter, 3 pages
Found in:
Manuscripts
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John Crowe Ransom Collection
Ransom to Robert Duncan further explaining his rejection of The African Elegy, and disagreeing that it ought to be printed on the basis of the right of free speech, 1944 December 6
Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 19
Description
Typed letter signed, 2 pages
Found in:
Manuscripts
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John Crowe Ransom Collection
Ransom to Robert Duncan refusing to consider publication of the Ransom-Duncan correspondence on the subject of homosexuality and poetry, 1945 March 1
Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 19
Description
Typed letter signed, 1 page
Found in:
Manuscripts
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John Crowe Ransom Collection
Robert Duncan to George Leite regarding the above Ransom-Duncan correspondence, 1945 September 29
Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 19
Description
Typed letter signed, 1 page
Found in:
Manuscripts
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John Crowe Ransom Collection
Ransom to Robert Duncan thanking him for his recent note and rejecting another of Duncan's poems, "Mother Noah", 1957 September 23
Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 19
Description
Autograph letter signed, 1 page
Found in:
Manuscripts
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John Crowe Ransom Collection
Ransom to Evalyn Bloodworth, 1964 May 12
Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 19
Description
Autograph letter signed, 1 page
Found in:
Manuscripts
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John Crowe Ransom Collection
Robert Duncan to Henry Wenning explaining the group of Ransom-Duncan correspondence, 1967 November 9
Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 19
Description
Autograph letter signed, 2 pages
Found in:
Manuscripts
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John Crowe Ransom Collection