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Box 1

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Contains 153 Results:

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

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
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.

Richardson, Dorothy, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 December 6

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Description

Autographed letter signed, 4 pages. [Cornwall.] Thanks Deutsch for her Rilke book [Poems from The book of hours, [1947]]. Comments on Deutsch's appraisal of herself as a materialist.

MacGreevy, Thomas to Deutsch, Babette, 1949 July 18

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Description

Autographed letter signed, 6 pages. Dublin. Comforts her in a family death. The Padraic Colums visited him. He has been reading a life of Lord Lansdowne, went to a circus.

Williams, William Carlos, to Deutsch, Babette, circa 1950 January 26

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Description

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Explains that [The yachts] is in two parts, the picture of the yachts, and the sea of arms. The race is “the last international race for the America's cup,” coming during the depression. Thus “the yachts, the symbols of wealth ride over and crush the human sources of their grace and beauty which supports them.” Notes she may use this.

Roethke, Theodore to Deutsch, Babette., 1950 January 23

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. Seattle. Explains that letter of Jan. 22, 1948 [in collection] was typed in carbon, shown to K. Burke, later incorporated in preface to Mid-Century American Poets. Assures her he “wasn't just throwing around a letter, a purely personal one, to you.”

Rexroth, Kenneth to Deutsch, Babette, 1950 August 22

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Description

Autographed letter signed, 1 page. San Francisco. Thinks poems in Take them, stranger are good, have “lucidity, control of the medium and the mind of the poet...”

Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1950 November 10

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Description

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn, NY. Commends poem just appearing in the N.Y. Herald Tribune, thanks her for sending the newspaper.

Williams, William Carlos to Deutsch, Babette, 1950 December 18

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Description

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Thanks her for a review, notes that her discovery of the omission of a section of the Collected Later Poems “floored me.” Perhaps these, others are contained in the Selected poems

Rexroth, Kenneth, to Deutsch, Babette, 1952 December 1

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Description

Autographed letter signed, 1 page. San Francisco. as read Partisan Review article on Leslie Stephen by Virginia Woolf. “Silly stuff.” She “...was a poor guide to her father's personality.” Thinks he is Post War generation, thinks Kenneth Burke, R.P. Blackmur “silly fustian.” Will send Deutsch a copy of In what hour.

MacGreevy, Thomas to Deutsch, Babette, 1952 December 14

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Description

Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. Dublin. Replies to her letter [possibly concerning election of Eisenhower]. He lost faith in Liberals after WW II. Comments on his sister, who has recently died.