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Papers of John Hall Wheelock, Accession #8997, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was purchased and deposited on 1968 September 26 & 1971 January 11.
John Hall Wheelock to Melvin Rosenthal, w/env., encl. 2p. AmsS poem, "The Gardener" [manuscript]
Apologizes for overlooking the earlier communication of Rosenthal, a member of the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee; discusses his age and caring for his wife after a recent fall in which she fractured her thighbone; mentions reading in the Poets for Peace program; refuses to let his name be used to sponsor activities for peace in Viet Nam; shows goodwill by including the first draft of his poem, "The Gardener," first published in The New Yorker , to be sold at a literary auction; explains that it was the title poem of his book, The Gardener and other Poems , which won the Bollingen Prize; explains that the signature and an autograph note were affixed to the manuscript for an exhibition of his work when he was elected to the Academy of Arts and Letters; and tells prices he received from the sale of other manuscripts. 2 p.