Box 1
Contains 153 Results:
Rexroth, Kenneth, to Deutsch, Babette, 1952 August 13
Autographed letter signed, 1 page. San Francisco. Thinks Tale of Genji probably “the greatest work of prose fiction ever written.” “...pretty comic... But as you read on you will discover that it is a religious novel of the most profound import...” “Perhaps it has played a role in my life similar to that played by the Gospels or Capital in the lives of disagreeable people.”
MacGreevy, Thomas to Deutsch, Babette, 1955 December 14
Autographed letter signed, 1 page. Dublin. Sends holiday greeting to her and husband Avrahm Yarmolinsky, children. Recounts his Italian trip. He was Wallace Stevens only Tom MacGreevy: Stevens had sent him poems, visited in New York. MacGreevy comments on friendship.
Moore, Marianne to Deutsch, Babette, 1953 August 23
Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. Brooklyn. Miss Moore feels “most of the work [her new book] is only half good.” Deutsch has apparently asked her to write something concerning Homage to John Skelton, which she will do. Of Deutsch's work: “Where you keep strictly within your idiosyncracies and characteristic temperament... you prepossess me every time... when you verge on somebody else's manner I become nervous and forget the note of individuality you've sounded."
Williams, William Carlos, to Deutsch, Babette, 1954 November 21
Typed postcard. Rutherford, NJ. ommends her poem to Dylan Thomas in Yale Review “or Yale Literary Magazine.” Asks if she'll start a salon.
Rexroth, Kenneth, to Deutsch, Babette, circa 1956 September 6
Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. San Francisco. Gives permission to quote six lines from Prolegomen on to a theodicy. Rexroth's wife has left him for Robert Creely; Rexroth is concerned about the care of the children, needs work.
Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1956 October 25
Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. She will have dinner with [Columbia University] faculty, read, on Dec. 12.
Williams, William Carlos, to Deutsch, Babette, 1957 January 19
Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Williams cannot attend Poetry Society dinner at which Deutsch is receiving a prize. Asks her to thank Elizabeth Jennings for her kind words about Williams.
Rexroth, Kenneth, to Deutsch, Babette, 1952 September 3
Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. San Francisco. Comments on Genji, notes his own dissatisfaction with Proust. Asks Deutsch to review 14 poems of O.V.L.-Milosz [published as 23 poems of O.V. Lubicz-Milosz, Peregrene Press, 1952], a practice he dislikes. Has just read a review in Mandrake of Brooks on poetry, summarizing Brooks. “Very handy to have - I disagree with every word of it.”
Aiken, Conrad to Deutsch, Babette, 1952 October 17
Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brewster, MA. Thanks her for writing him about his book [Ushant: an essay, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1952?]. She is not alone in disliking the style; he “can cheerfully admit to having had misgivings about it...”