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Box 1

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Contains 153 Results:

Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1957 June 8

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Description

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. Values emendations [made by Deutsch in Moore poems?]. She is glad to have met [Avrahm] Yarmolinsky.

Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1957 July 1

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Description

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. The [Poetry] Handbook “seems better than ever.” “Difficult compression is gathered into very small compass - not to mention lucidity...” Offers testimony for Funk and Wagnalls.

Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1957 July 5

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Description

Typed letter, 1 page. Brooklyn. She is correcting misprints in a book of her poems. She has again written to Funk and Wagnalls. “I just wish I could contribute anything solid like the Handbook.

Williams, William Carlos, to Deutsch, Babette, 1957 July 6

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Description

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Preface [to Poetry handbook] is fine. “Your advice to the beginner is more in accord with my line.” “The silent hours of skilled attention which you devotedly served is saluted by one poet at least with gratitude.” New Directions anthology contains his “lost or mislaid poems.”

Rexroth, Kenneth to Deutsch, Babette, 1952 November 7

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Description

Autographed letter signed, 1 page. San Francisco. Disparages lack of “literary journalists,” apparently in answer to Deutsch complaint about a review of her book in Saturday Review. Rexroth's issue of Perspectives is done except for reviews. J[ames] L[aughlin] allows one poet an issue. “It is...a reprint medium."

Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1958 January 28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Description

Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. Brooklyn. Thanks her for stockings, which will replace a pair she had for 15 years, “speckled dull, cocoa silk mercerized sort of gauze stockings which I conservingly wore only on presentation at court occasions...”

Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1952 November  20

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Description

Typed postcard. Brooklyn, NY. Quotes Ephesians 6: 23

Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1958 June 11

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Description

Autographed postcard signed. Brooklyn. She plans to visit an invalid friend in Boston, will try to see Deutsch. “Sisters of Charity and travellers with a mission, eat up my time.”

Williams, William Carlos, to Deutsch, Babette, 1957 July 9

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Description

Type letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Disagrees with her comments on measure in [Poetry handbook]. “Measure... is the generic term. All verse starts with measure after which comes foot."

Roethke, Theodore, to Deutsch, Babette, 1957 September 2

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Description

Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. Seattle. He is enclosing a reprint of Words for the wind. They have not been set to music, though Chester Kallman praised them. Thanks her for Poetry handbook. Beatrice [Roethke] was hospitalized for tuberculosis.