Haniel (Clark) Long, 1888-1956. American author

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Long began his literary career as a publisher while affiliated with the Carnegie Institute of Technology, when in 1918 he edited two volumes of well-received poetry. In 1920 he published his own volume, Poems. Six years later came probably his most popular book, Notes for a New Mythology. After moving to New Mexico for economic reasons, Long published the novella, Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca, which stands as his ultimate visionary statement on man’s place in the world. Other works that he subsequently produced were: Pinon Country (1941), Children, Students and a Few Adults (1942), French Soldier Home from Being a War Prisoner (1942), The Grist Mill (1945), and A Letter to St. Augustine (1950). His last finished work, Spring Returns, was published in 1956, shortly after his death.

Notebook of Haniel Long poems 1 item. Notebook is a small tan binder, with Long’s bookplate and a sticker annotated, “Poems at work on 1942 (copy left with Heari Haniel.” The 37 pp. notebook contains 11 pp. in typescript, corrected; 6 pp. manuscript (3 are fragments pasted in); 20 pp. uncorrected carbon typescript. Laid in are 1 p. typescript and 1 p. typescript carbon. Enclosed is a 5×7” black and white photo of Long, ca. age 60.

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