A Guide to the E[dward] E[stlin] Cummings Collection , 1951, 1954, 1955 #6246-g

A Guide to the E[dward] E[stlin] Cummings Collection 1951, 1954, 1955

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the Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6246-g

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Preferred Citation

E[dward] E[stlin] Cummings Collection, Accession # 6246-g, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This holding was purchased from David J. Holmes on October 2, 1996.

Scope and Content Information

This holding contains four letters: one from Cummings to James Shelley Hamilton and three from Cummings to Rudolph Von Abele.

Contents List

E.E. Cummings, New York, to James Shelley Hamilton, Cuttingsville, Vermont January 29, 1951

TLS, 1 p. with envelope

Cummings comments that he and [his wife] Marion were delighted to have his letter and that he is flattered by the news that [his book] Eimi , which was published in 1933, still thrives.

E. E. Cummings, New York, to Rudolph Von Abele, Washington, D.C. May 23, 1954

TPCS

Cummings writes that he cannot answer Von Abele's question as dates are not his strong point and suggests that he contact S.A. Jacobs himself.

E.E. Cummings, Silver Lake, New Hampshire, to Rudolph Von Abele, Washington, D.C. June 12, 1954

TLS, 1 p.

Cummings, answering Von Abele's letter of June 5th, again suggests that he contact S.A. Jacobs and relays that he does not remember meeting T.S. Eliot socially while at Harvard but does remember being in a play produced by the Cambridge Dramatic Club in 1913 "who hero Lord ---? subsequently mothered 'the Waste Land.'" [Eliot's The Waste Land was published in 1922].

E.E. Cummings, New York, to Rudolph Von Abele, Washington, D.C. January 6, 1955

TLS, 1 p.

Cummings comments on his knowledge of [Guillame] Apollinaire (1880-1918) and his books of poems, Caligrammes , a book of World War I poems, and Un Coup de Des . He also relates his various trips to Europe including visits to Portugal, Spain, Italy, England, Austria, Germany, Holland, North Africa, Russia, Turkey, and Greece.