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Contains 153 Results:

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 July 5

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Description

Autographed letter signed, 7 pages. Dublin. Comments on broadcasting, rebukes her on [adverse] remarks about MacDowell's music, Cable's The Grandissimes. Recollects early reading of Henry James, finding a copy of Alice James' Journals, recounts a remark by Catherine Corswell about novelist Dorothy Richardson, a drive with painter Jack Yeats and Samuel Beckett; discusses religious matters, a conversation with D.H. Lawrence.

Williams, William Carlos, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 July 31

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Description

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Discusses her criticism of The pink church [poem], noting his distrust of a militant church and religious action to right social wrongs. Commends her view that he has underrated Paterson's labor problems.

Williams, William Carlos to Deutsch, Babette, 1943 June 4

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Description

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Commends her letter in P[artisan] R[eview], encloses his reply to [Sidney] Hook, [Meyer?] Shapiro. [Deutsch letter commending PR for its integrity appeared in v. 8, no. 1, Jan-Feb, 1940 issue]

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1946 January 18

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
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Autographed letter signed, 11 pages. Dublin. Discusses painter Jack Yeats, her remarks about Yeats' father, antisemitism, comments at lengthon lines “we are members, one of another, and we are sick” in Take them, stranger, other poems in book

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1946 September 9

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
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Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. Dublin. Pleased that she has again referred to his poetry in a Herald Tribune review, July 28.

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 March 31

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Description

Autographed letter signed, 6 pages. Dublin. Comments further on Dublin winter, thanks her for a blanket she is sending. Relates an anecdote about Samuel Beckett, discusses him at length. Remarks a Protestant Catholic feeling in Ireland, a program of records he presented in the United States, the unauthorized reprinting of his poems.

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 April 10

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Description

Typed letter signed, 4 pages. Dublin. Discusses religious matters, disputes Deutsch contention that Hell is here, comments on his music broadcast selection of records.

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 April 26

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Description

Autographed letter signed, 4 pages. Dublin. Reminisces about his childhood, discusses an uncredited Lawrence Campbell head of Jack Yeats, Irish painter, found in a catalog.

Williams, William Carlos, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 July 28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Description

Typed letter signed, 3 pages. Rutherford, NJ. Enjoyed Utah literary conference, shared with AllenTate, Ray West, Mark Shorer [sic], Waltervan Tilbury [sic] Clark, Brewster Ghiselin, Eric Bently [sic]. Discusses labor violence in Paterson, tells her plan for remaining three parts, notes he is not a Marxist. Comments on Jarrell reviews of his work, discusses “that green bottle piece” [unnamed poem]. Incomplete in Selected letters, pp. 258-259.

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 September 22

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Description

Autographed letter signed, 10 pages. Dublin. Describes his vacation in Kerry, an evening with Herbert Read discussing Eliot and Joyce, an anecdote, other personal affairs.