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Dorothy M. Richardson Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 21

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf139

Scope and Contents 1940 January 21. Richardson to Miss Plater (probably Phyllis Plater, lifelong companion of author John Cowper Powys), commenting on the likeness of their thoughts, which gives her an indication of her success; general and specific comments on Richardson's series of novels, The Pilgrimage, in which Miriam is the central figure, 2 pages1940 March 11. Richardson to Miss Plater commenting on the author of a volume of essays concerned with female...

Found in: Manuscripts / Dorothy M. Richardson Collection

London. Notebook. Contains drafts of unidentified poetry, notes related to individual poems and personal affairs, including names, addresses of friends in Bombay and in and around London. Most names are not fully identified. Also included are what appear to be booklists, grouped under a particular publisher, including Eyre & Spottiswood, Peter Owen and Methuen. There are brief publishing history notes about Methuen with a list of the [board of directors]. Some of the author included in these listings are Patrick White, John Braine, Allen Tate, Bernard Malamud, R.P. Warren, Patience Stone, Helen Gurley Brown, and Eric Lambert. There are a few figures and faces sketched, some unidentified titles and Moraes' signature appears 4 times on page 51., circa 1961-1964

Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 4

Description

Brown paper covers [bound], ink. 6 x 4" 71 pages

Found in: Manuscripts / Dom F. Moraes Notebooks

London. Notebook. Contains drafts of poems, heavily revised. Titles include "Advice," "The Images", "Foreign Correspondent" [published as "War Correspondent"], and "Behind the Bar" [published as "After Hours, for Francis Bacon"]. Note: these titles were published in John Nobody (1965), which accounts for the date established above. The same names and addresses included here, are listed in the other notebook as well. Also contains same notes on Methuen and repeats several of the names on above book lists. Interspersed are similar unidentified names and addresses. Laid in are four sheets of unidentified poem, moderately revised, 7 pages, circa 1961-1964

Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 4

Description

Red paper covers [bound]. Front cover notes Exercise Book. Inside cover holds Moraes' name and address in London. Ink. 8 x 6 1/2" 79 pages

Found in: Manuscripts / Dom F. Moraes Notebooks

Roethke to "Dorothy" sending greetings, telling her where his poems have appeared recently and announcing that his second book will appear the next spring, 1947 November 9

Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 22

Description

Autograph letter signed, 2 pages

Found in: Manuscripts / Theodore Roethke Collection

The Waking: Poems 1933-1953 (Doubleday & Company, 1954). Disbound copy, with original hard covers. This copy was used as a setting copy for Part One of the Secker and Warburg edition of the author's Selected Poems, eventually published as Words for the Wind, 1957. Loosely inserted or stapled to the original pages are manuscript and typescript layouts for certain preliminary leaves, including the title-page and the contents leaves for both Parts One and Two. Each page of text bears pencil or ink instructions for the compositors. From the library of Roger Senhouse, a director of Secker and Warburg. Staples removed. Most of the signatures intact.

Item — Box: VMF 11, Folder: 22

Description

circa 119 pages

Found in: Manuscripts / Theodore Roethke Collection