Finding-Aid for the Lee Anderson Papers (WTU00004)

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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Note

Scope and Contents Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Collection Outline

Collection Outline

I. Correspondence.

II. Manuscripts.

III. Material Toward Books.

IV. Notebooks.

V. Audiotapes.

VI. Manuscript Material by Others.

VII. The Yale Series of Recorded Poets.

VIII. Miscellaneous

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Descriptive Summary
	Creator	Lee Anderson, 1896-1972
	Creator	Anderson, Lee, 1896-1972.
	"Title"	Lee Anderson Papers
	Quantity:	ca. 5000 items
	Identification:	WTU00004

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Biographical Note

Standard biographical and bibliographical information may be found in Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1R.

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Scope and Contents Note

Ser. I. CORRESPONDENCE. I. 1. Personal correspondence, 1933-1974; letters filed chronologically by author, includes selected mss, by others filed with letters, Boxes 1-7. I. 2. Misc, correspondence, 1933-1972, letters filed chronologically, Box 8, I. 3. John Trimmer Journal, 1963-1969, consists of letters Lee Anderson wrote to his friend John Trimmer, which he regarded as journal entries.

Ser II. MANUSCRIPTS. II. 1. Titled Poems, arranged alphabetically, Boxes 10-11. II. 2. Untitled poems and fragments, Boxes 12-13. II. 3. Essays, Box 14. Ser. II. 4. Classroom and teaching, Box 15.

Series III. MATERIAL TOWARD BOOKS. III. 1. Prevailing Winds; III. 2. The Floating World and Other Poems; III. 3. Nags Head; III. 4. Bearstone Tetralogy; III. 5. The Treasure Hunt Murder; III. 6 [The Oral Interpretation of Literature]; III. 7. Misc. Galleys, Boxes 16-26.

Ser. IV. NOTEBOOKS. Boxes 27-33.

Ser. V. AUDIOTAPES, Boxes 34-38.

Ser. VI. MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL BY OTHERS (Excluding mss. located in Ser. I. 1 and Ser. V.) V. 1. Book of Gems, authograph book containing holograph poems by various authors, Box 39; VI. 2. Unpublished essays by others on the work of Lee Anderson, Box 39.

Ser. VII. THE YALE SERIES OF RECORDED POETS. Material relating to Anderson's involvement with this project, Box 40.

Ser. VIII. MISCELLANY, Boxes 41-42.

TOTAL: 42 boxes

ca. 4760 items

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open.

Use Restrictions

Users of the collections must read and abide by the Rules for the use of manuscript collection materials.

Users of the collections who wish to use items from this collection, in whole or in part, in any form of publication (as defined in the form) must sign and submit to the Washington University Department of Special Collections a hard copy of the Notification of intent publish manuscript collection materials form.

All publication restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder.

Copyright to large portions of the collection held by Washington University Libraries, <Department of Special CollectionsWashington University in St. Louis

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I. Correspondence.

Filed chronologically, this correspondence covers the period 1933-1972.

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1-7/-

I. 1. Personal Correspondence.

Except where noted all correspondence is directed to Lee Anderson. "ac" designates "autograph card.

Abercrombie, Lascelles Brit. poet

[1933]:

May 30

ca. 1938:

July 28

Adams, Leonie Amer. poet

ca. 1951:

7 items

[1951]:

1 item

1951:

April 22

[1954]:

1 item

1956:

Mar 14 (ac)

ca. 1957:

1 item (ac)

1959:

Sept 17

Nov 28

1960:

Feb 26

[n.d.]:

2 items (ac)

Aiken, Conrad Amer. author

1940:

Nov 30

1941:

July 8

1942:

March 13

1945:

Nov 5

Nov 23

1948:

Jan 23

Apr 8 (ac)

Dec 2

1949:

[Dec]

1950:

Dec 18 (ac)

1951:

Jan 9

ca. 1952:

1 item (ac)

1952:

June 5,

Aug 9,

Sept 7

ca. 1953:

1 item

1954:

May 12 (ac)

June 5

Oct 20

Dec 9,

ca. 1955:

1 item

1955:

Apr 11

May 26

Nov 26 (ac)

1958:

Feb 17 (ac)

Apr 6

Oct 12 (ac)

1959:

Dec 27

[1960]:

Jan 27

Apr 5

July 13

Sept 6

1961:

June 6 (ac),

1962:

Nov 23 (ac)

Dec 9 (ac)

1963:

Mar 13 (ac)

1964:

Dec 23 (ac)

1965:

Aug 15 (ac)

1967:

Dec 31

1969:

Jan 4 (ac)

Aug 15 (ac)

ca. 1970:

1 item (ac)

1971:

Jan 26 (ac)

Aug 25

[n.d.]:

1 item

To Helen Anderson

[1960]:

Apr 19 (ac)

Aiken, Mary

1941:

April 16

ca. 1950:

3 items (ac)

1951:

May 16

1952:

Sept 10

1960:

Jan 28 (ac)

ca. 1970:

1 item (ac)

1973:

Jan

Anderson, Helen

To Anne Trimmer

1964:

Aug 10,

12,

17,

Anderson, Lee

To Conrad Aiken

1951:

May 10

1952:

June 27

To Helen Anderson

1956:

4 items

1960:

April 19,

[21],

23,

25,

30,

[n.d.]

[May],

May 4,

11,

13,

15,

17,

21,

[June],

[June]

n.d.:

6 items

[1963]:

1 item

To Richard P. Blackmur

1951:

Sept 25

Oct 8,

17,

1957:

Dec 2

To Walter Bradbury

1964:

March 6

To Merikay Bryan

1968:

Feb 9

March 12

To Elliott Coleman

1967:

May 29

To Thomas Copeland

1967:

Dec 8

To Scott Donaldson

1970:

Jan 3

To Richard Eberhart

1951:

Oct 29

1961:

Feb 22

1967:

May 29

June 21

Nov 11

To Dudley Fitts

1959:

June 7,

To Isabella Gardner

1961:

Feb 22

To Don Geiger

1962:

Sept 11

Nov 14

1963:

Feb 7

June 29

1966:

March 19

To Rolfe Humphries

1958:

March 1

To Jeremy Ingalls

1962:

Sept 2

1966:

March 26

To Hans Juergensen

1966:

March 7,

To Carolyn Kizer

1967:

May 29

To Chester Long

1965:

March 7

To Robert Lowell

1951:

July 16

1953:

July 8

1959:

Sept 21,

To James Merrill

1951:

June 5

To Richard Moore

1952:

July 1

To John Morey

July 12,

Nov 27

To Philip Murray

1951:

July 3,

10,

Oct 30

To Thomas Parkinson

1965:

Nov 25

To Arabel Porter

1954:

July 3

To Paul Ramsey

1968:

March 12

To Theodore Roethke

1951:

July 12

To Delmore Schwartz

1951:

Oct 30

To Winfield Townley Scott

1951:

Oct 9

To Karl Shapiro

1951:

Apr 6

May 4

July 10,

20,

Aug 9,

16,

Oct 9,

1952:

April 17,

May 2,

Sept 3

Oct 17

1953:

July 9

To Ray and Sandra Shavers

1964:

Nov 4

To Richard Shelton

1964:

Dec 1

To Robert Stallman

1955:

Dec 8

To Mark Van Doren

1951:

Aug 7

To Robert Penn Warren

1951:

July 10

Oct 9

Nov 28

1967:

May 29

1968:

Jan 25

To Theodore Weiss

1951:

Sept 24

Oct 25

Nov 2

To Oscar Williams

1951:

Oct 9

To William Carlos Williams

1951:

Oct 9

Archibald, R C Brown Univ.

1952:

May 17

Oct 16,

24 w/enc.

Dec 31

1953:

Jan 28,

30,

April 26

Banks, Dick Yale Univ. News Bureau

1960:

March 30

1961:

Feb 20

Sept 12

1962:

Jan 28

1965:

Oct 26

Basler, Roy Director, Ref Dept., LC

1955:

Oct 31

Dec 3

1956:

March 8

May 10

1957:

April 17

June 20

Sept 26 (ac)

1958:

June 9

Sept 5

Dec 29

1959:

April 20

May 17

Aug 12

Oct 9

1961:

March 23

caMay

June 19

Aug 22

Sept 18

1962:

Oct 11

Nov 20

1963:

March 12

1964:

Apr 16

1965:

Oct 4

Nov 9

1966:

March 17

Aug 17

[Dec]

1967:

Jan 25

1968:

Feb 8

July 11

1969:

May 15,

June 11,

July 24

Aug 5 w/enc.

Sept 8,

Oct 31

1970:

Jan 7,

Feb 11,

March 6,

April 3,

13,

May 7,

July 13

Aug 12

Sept 22,

Oct 23

Nov 12

Dec 11

1971:

April 13 w/enc.

June 7

Aug 5

Dec 6

1972:

Jan 27

Feb 24

May 4

Basler, Roy

To Helen Anderson

1972:

July 25

Sept 8,

Basler, Virginia

1960:

July 5

1962:

Nov 6

1972:

Aug 7

Beecham, Audrey Brit. poet

1960:

May 25,

30 (pc)

June 1,

Oct 3,

Dec 16

Belitt, Ben Amer. poet

1940:

March 16

1951:

July 30

1958:

March 15

April

Beloof, Robert Amer. poet

1957:

Dec 30

1964:

May 10

1965:

Sept 22

Nov 8

1966:

Jan 25

To Roger W. Heyne

1965:

Nov 16

Berryman, John Amer. poet

1951:

Aug 2

Nov 21

Betjeman, John Brit. poet

1960:

March 30

Apr 12

Blackmur, Richard P Amer. poet

1942:

Aug 3

1945:

April 15

1951:

Aug 16

1955:

July 15

Nov 23

1960:

June 1

Sept 9

1962:

Nov 29

Bogan, Louise

1951:

Oct 6 (pc)

Oct 14 (pc)

1953:

Dec 21 (pc)

1956:

Sept 28 (pc)

Oct 17 (pc)

[Nov]

1960:

Jan 18

Nov 23 (pc)

1961:

June 30

Booth, Philip Amer. poet

1956:

Jan 2

July 29

1958:

March 5,

May 18

n.d.:

2 items (ac)

Bradbury, Walter I. Amer. publisher

1959:

Aug 7,

Sept 2,

Oct 2,

20,

Nov 30

1960:

Aug 8

Dec 27

1963:

Dec 13

Brinnin, John Malcolm

1956:

July 30

1958:

Jan 20

Brodeur, Clarence and Marie

1961:

Nov 9

Nov 27

ca. 1962:

1 item

1963:

Dec 20

1964:

Dec 28

1968:

July 9 (ac)

ca. 1970:

1 item

1971:

Dec 13

To Helen Anderson

1972:

Sept 9

Brooks, Cleanth

1960:

June

Aug 2,

[1961]:

Mar 19

April 6

May 1

1963:

April 25

1964:

April 18

Sept 1

Nov 28

Dec 4

1969:

Dec 18

Brooks, Tinkham(Mrs. Cleanth)

1959:

[Dec 25]

1960:

Dec 11

1961:

Jan 27

Feb 18

March 5

April 10,

18,

23, w/enc.

May 1

May 9,

11,

June 10

July 10,

1964:

Feb 13

1965:

Dec 28

1972:

Aug 9

n.d.:

2 items (ac)

Brown, Spencer

1956:

July 27

1958:

April 12

Oct 29

ca. 1960:

[Dec] (ac)

1961:

July 10 (ac)

Aug 23

1963:

July 8

Aug 18

1969:

June 10

1970:

July 9

To Helen Anderson

1972:

Aug 13

[Dec]

Bryan, Merikay

1967:

May 26

June 29

July 17

Aug. 16,

Sept 27,

Oct 12

Nov 2,

1968:

Jan 22

Feb 19

March 11

April 11

To W. H. Auden

1967:

Nov 16

To Richard Eberhart

1967:

Aug 16

Oct 23

Bryan, Merikay

To Robert Lowell

1967:

Aug. 16

To Robert Penn Warren

1967:

Aug 29

Burford, William

1953:

Feb 5

July 4

[1956]:

Jan 6

Oct 17

1963:

Sept 27

1970:

March 13

1972:

May 30

To Helen Anderson

1972:

July 31

Burnshaw, Stanley

1959:

June 10,

16,

26,

July 14

Sept 16,

23,

Oct 2,

1960:

Jan 10

Feb 9

March 31

July 26

Oct 25

Nov 7

Dec 25,

1961:

Jan 31 (ac)

Sept 18,

1962:

Oct 2,

Nov 2,

9 (ac),

18,

1963:

Jan 15

April 16,

May 4,

June 25

Aug 20

Dec 11

1964:

April 11,

June 5,

1965:

March 17

May 14

Oct 15

Nov 10,

Dec 11

Burr, Gray

ca. 1959:

2 items

1959:

Feb 4,

Burton, Kathryn

1955:

[Dec 25]

1958:

Dec 11 (ac),

21 (ac),

28 (ac)

1963:

Sept 4

Cairnes, Gordon

1958:

April 4

1959:

Mar 9

Oct 3

Carrier, Constance

ca. 1954:

2 items

ca. 1955:

1 item

1955:

July 26

ca. 1956:

1 item

ca. 1958:

1 item

[1962]:

[Jan]

[1969]:

[Dec]

[1971]:

[Dec]

Causley, Charles

1960:

[Spring]

May 24,

27 (ac),

Ciardi, John

1955:

May 20 (ac)

June 14

1956:

April 10

July 19

1957:

Sept 7

1960:

July 17

ca. 1961:

1 item

1962:

Nov 26 (ac)

To Helen Anderson

1972:

Aug 13

Clarke, Sylvia

49 letters, including fragments, bulking the late 1930's to 1972

Cole, Thomas

ca. 1948:

1 item

1949:

Nov 29

1956:

May 16

ca. 1957:

1 item (ac)

1969:

May 29

June 5

1970:

Aug 27

Coleman, Elliott

1958:

Dec 17

1959:

Jan 15

[Sept]:

Oct 13

1962:

Nov 26

Dec 4

1963:

Jan 4

Feb 7

May 6

June 17

1964:

[Dec]

Dec 19,

1965:

Jan 5,

14,

18 w / enc

Feb 1,

1966:

Aug 4,

25 (ac)

1967:

June 5

1968:

March 9

May 7

1969:

Mar 26

May 6

1970:

Nov 3

1971:

Sept 23

To Helen Anderson

1972:

July 30

To Merikay Bryan

1967:

Aug 28

Commins, Saxe

1945:

Nov 26

Dec 11

1946:

Sept 17

Copeland, Thomas

1935:

Mar 18

1936:

[Jan 11]

Feb 5

Aug 21

1937:

June 15

1948:

Jan 28

April 13

May 29

Dec 26

1949:

Jan 25

1950:

Jan 13

Dec 13

1951:

Feb 19

1952:

Dec 9,

1953:

Jan 14,

April 12

1954:

April 10

Dec 1,

1955:

Jan 23

April 22

1956:

Oct 22

1957:

Aug 25

Nov 12 (ac),

1958:

Dec 12

1960:

[Jan]

Jan 5

Feb 21

Mar 20

Dec 27

1961:

Feb 5

1962:

Feb 3

1963:

Dec 16

1964:

June 20

[1965]:

1 item

1966:

April 16

1968:

Dec 5

1969:

Mar 23

May 31

1970:

Jan 13