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Box 1

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Contains 6 Results:

MacGreevy, Thomas to Deutsch, Babette, 1962 October 24

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 25
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Autograph letter signed, 6 pages. Discusses Deutsch's A view of the Piazza [poem]. "Anyhow, the poem is an evocation not a statement. Surely Mallarmé would approve." Brian Coffey's poetry is now being recognized in Dublin. Comments on a radio reading by Tom Kinsella, religious affairs.

Moore, Marianne to Deutsch, Babette, 1963 March 5

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 25
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Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. She has received Poetry in our time (Anchor Books, 1963), "...a most nutritive book." "All I can do is carry a hod or guide a donkey- (myself)."

Bishop, Elizabeth to Deutsch, Babette, 1963 July 10

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 25
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Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rio de Janeiro. She is delighted to have “your new book” [Poetry in our time]. “I think it must be a great deal harder to re-write a whole book like that than to write an entirely new one...” “Brazil is so broke I can't imagine what they're going to do next...” Her translations of Brazilian poetry will appear in October Poetry. Takes exception to Deutsch remarks on Edith Sitwell.

Moore, Marianne to Deutsch, Babette, 1963 October 20

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 25
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Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. Is glad to have Collected Poems [Indiana Univ. Press, 1963].

Moore, Marianne to Deutsch, Babette, 1964 February 18

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 25
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Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. Deutsch has sent a student's comment which pleases Moore “if it is true...for I am chaffed constantly about being self-entwined and making comprehension a test of ingenuity.” Moore is “impounded for observation” for high blood pressure.

Deutsch Babette. Note appended to Moore, Marianne to Deutsch, Babette., circa 1964 February 18-20

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Description

Autographed note. Would send Moore books if they were not forbidden, remarks Moore's “extravagant gratitude for trinkets? or tokens of regard...”