Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
Marianne Moore writes James S. Watson about his review of "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes. "I read your review with great interest, heartily approving until I came to the part where you make 'Nightwood' a companion piece to 'The Waste Land,'" as Moore explains. In addition, Moore mentions Watson's...
Location: I-Friends-2002-2
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Carrie A. W. Cobb writes to Professor Bradford Oliver McIntire, updating him in her life. Cobb discusses how members of the Class of 1881 became ministers, including "my husband Charles H. Rorer being one of the number, who received the medal for oratory from the Belles Letters Society." Cobb...
Location: I-Original-1937-2
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Stephen Vincent Benet asks his mother, Frances Rose Benet, to come to Thanksgiving.
Location: I-Friends-1991-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
William Rose Benet, the contributing editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, asks Mr. Roberts to "send the book."
Location: I-Friends-1974-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
Writer and poet Stephan Vincent Benét writes to his mother, Frances. He discusses a recent speaking engagement at Saybrook College, the cold weather, and his daughter Rachel's pet canary. Envelope included.
Location: I-Friends-1983-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
Poet Marianne Moore writes to an unspecified "Professor Wells," discussing the poems she plans to read at an event on January 19.
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-27
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
Poet Marianne Moore writes to an unspecified "Professor Wells," finalizing the poems she plans to read at an event on January 19. Moore also declines an invitation to lunch, but suggests visiting a museum after the reading as an alternative.
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-27
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
Whitfield Bell Jr. writes Brooks Kleber to catch up and discuss a number of different subjects. Bell congratulates Kleber on being selected for Officer Training School (OCS) and describes where their former classmates at Dickinson are serving in the United States military. Bell, a member of the...
Location: I-BellW-2000-1
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
Poet Marianne Moore writes to editor Joseph T. Shipley, thanking him for publishing her work in American Bookman.
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-26
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
Whitfield Jenks Bell Jr. writes to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Potter from Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany about some of his experiences during World War II and the current conditions in Europe. "There is no peace in Europe today; and from everyone’s [ hating?] Hitler, they have now all turned to...
Location: I-BellW-2000-1
Subject: International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
Two letters from William Rose Benét to Lawton Mackall: the first asking for details about a play Mackall has written; the second explaining that he has no room to publish a piece by one of Mackall's friends.
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
William Rose Benét writes to his sister, Laura Benét, with a clipping about the family from the Cape Ann Summer Sun.
Location: I-Friends-1982-4
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
Zatae Longsdorff Straw (Class of 1887) writes to Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Selby, accepting an invitation and explaining her (and her family's) connections to Dickinson College. Howard Selby was a member of Dickinson's class of 1913 and his wife, Ethel Wagg Selby, was a member of the class of 1915...
Location: I-Original-1951-1
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
In this letter Allen Tanner writes to Kirk Askew, owner of Durlacher Bros. art gallery, after Tchelitchew's death. Tanner recalls Tchelitchew's life and work, and expresses sadness over his passing.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F7
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
Allen Tanner writes to Morris Fish regarding obtaining his Pavel Tchelitchew paintings from Europe.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F30
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
Allen Tanner writes to Morris Fish asking for his advice regarding obtaining his artwork by Pavel Tchelitchew from Europe.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F30
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
In this draft letter, Allen Tanner writes to author Parker Tyler, promising to provide him with information and photos of Pavel Tchelitchew and their friends for Tyler's book The Divine Comedy of Pavel Tchelitchew.
Location: MC 2013.3, B2, F6
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
Josephine Meredith writes to Josephine Davis about a recent visit to Dickinson, her extended family, her life and activities in Iowa, and comments on health issues. Meredith, a member of the Class of 1901 and who later worked at Dickinson as Dean of Women and an English professor from 1919 to...
Location: I-DavisJ-1965-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Administration, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
Poet Marianne Moore writes to editor John Hunt to "hazard a specimen or two;" she includes a variety of poetic fragments.
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-73
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Poetry and Lyrics
Time Period: 1960-1979
Poet Marianne Moore writes to an unspecified "kind, kind Don." Moore thanks Don for "taking [his] time to help [her], and send for a taxi;" she is also grateful for his gift of "The Adoration of the Magi, the one true message for the days." Finally, Moore hopes that Christmas will help "lift [...
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-34
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
Roy Wilkins writes to John M. Bailey, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, asking how the Convention intends to implement the 1964 commitment to fully representative delegations. Wilkins includes a copy of a letter to Chairman Ray Bliss on the same subject (posted...
Location: I-Friends-1986-11
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
This is a carbon copy of a letter from Roy Wilkins to Democratic National Committee Chairman Ray C. Bliss, in which Wilkins implores the Party to ensure integrated delegations. Wilkins writes to Chairman John M. Bailey on the same subject (posted...
Location: I-Friends-1986-11
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
United States House of Representatives Minority Leader Gerald Ford writes to Paul R. Walker (Class of 1921), a longtime contributing editor and columnist for the Harrisburg Patriot-News. Ford thanks Walker for lunch during a recent visit to Harrisburg.
Location: I-Friends-1982-6
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
In this letter to Dick Fletcher, Allen Tanner writes about opera singer Mary Garden for a biography project. He describes meeting Garden in Chicago after watching her perform in "Pelleas" around 1916-1917.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F31
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
In this letter to Janet Figler, mother of donor Liz Hamill Howard, Allen Tanner writes that he no longer gives piano lessons due to ongoing health problems. He also offers musical training advice for Hamill Howard.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F28
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
