Box: 31 Fold: 44 Kathleen Raine Box: 31 Fold: 45 Kathleen Raine
- June 13 (2 pages/1 sheet) with reference to meeting Robert Kennedy at a birthday party for Robert Frost; writing a memorial for Herbert Read.
- June 15th (4 pages/4 sheets with envelope) with reference hearing that Miron Grindea will publish a poem by Biddle; receiving the bequest of an Order of the Garter pin from Gavin Maxwell. Includes typescript of poem by Raine, "Homage to C.G. Jung."
- June 25th (5 pages/3 sheets) with reference to reading Francis Biddle's memoir, "A Casual Past"; receiving a letter from Conrad Aiken; reading and remembering Malcolm Lowry.
- June 26 (2 pages/1 sheet) with reference to T.S. Eliot and Conrad Aiken; Alexis Leger; and Mildred Bliss.
Box: 31 Fold: 46 Kathleen Raine
- September 4th (4 pages/2 sheets), with reference to submitting a poem by Biddle to be published in the literary journal, "Adam," edited by Miron Grindea.
- November 10th (4 pages/2 sheets), with reference to reading an article by Biddle on Alexis Leger's poem, "Oiseaux." Reference also to Mildred Bliss and Conrad Aiken.
- November 30th (2 pages/1 sheet) with reference to introducing friend and painter Winifred Nicholson and daughter Kate Nicholson.
- December 11th (2 pages/1 sheet) with reference to Alexis Leger and Roger Little.
Box: 31 Fold: 47 Kathleen Raine Box: 31 Fold: 48 Kathleen Raine Box: 31 Fold: 49 Kathleen Raine
- Small b/w photograph of Kathleen Raine, undated.
Box: 31 Fold: 50 Margaret Reynolds
Box: 31 Fold: 51 Dorothy Lee Richardson Box: 31 Fold: 52 Dorothy Lee Richardson Box: 31 Fold: 53 Samuel Rosenbaum
Includes ALS 5/22/19? from wife Edna Rosenbaum.
Box: 31 Fold: 54 James Rowe Box: 31 Fold: 55 Martha Rowland Box: 31 Fold: 56 Margaret Rullman Box: 31 Fold: 57 Elmo Russ Box: 31 Fold: 58 Elmo Russ Box: 31 Fold: 59 Elmo Russ Box: 31 Fold: 60 Elmo Russ
Box: 31 Fold: 61 Elmo Russ Box: 31 Fold: 62 Elmo Russ Box: 31 Fold: 63 Elmo Russ - Music Score: "Come on, Superstition" Box: 31 Fold: 64 Elmo Russ - Concert Programs & Articles about Box: 31 Fold: 65 Peter Russell Box: 31 Fold: 66 Sydney King Russell Box: 31 Fold: 67 Sydney King Russell - Printed Items Box: 32 Fold: 1 Isidore Lawrence Salomon Box: 32 Fold: 2 Isidore Lawrence Salomon Box: 32 Fold: 3 Isidore Lawrence Salomon Box: 32 Fold: 4 Isidore Lawrence Salomon
Includes typed transcription of letters from a) Salomon to Lucius Battle, assistant secretary, U.S. State Department, re assistance with accepting an invitation to lecture at the University of Bologna (10/26/1962); and b) Robert Frost to Carlo Izzo, chair of American Literature, University of Bologna (10/3/1962).
Box: 32 Fold: 5 Isidore Lawrence Salomon
Box: 32 Fold: 6 Isidore Lawrence Salomon Box: 32 Fold: 7 Isidore Lawrence Salomon Box: 32 Fold: 8 Isidore Lawrence Salomon Box: 32 Fold: 9 Isidore Lawrence Salomon Box: 32 Fold: 10 Isidore Lawrence Salomon: Poem "Reflections" Box: 32 Fold: 11 Isidore Lawrence Salomon - Printed Items
- Clipping of printed poem by Isidore Lawrence Salomon: "Child of Adam."
Box: 32 Fold: 12 Helene Sardeau Box: 32 Fold: 13 Helene Sardeau Box: 32 Fold: 14 Helene Sardeau Box: 32 Fold: 15 Helene Sardeau Box: 32 Fold: 16 Helene Sardeau Box: 32 Fold: 17 Helene Sardeau Box: 32 Fold: 18 Helen Sardeau - Sculpture Exhibition (Notice) Box: 32 Fold: 19 Edith Scarlett Box: 32 Fold: 20 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Box: 32 Fold: 21 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Box: 32 Fold: 22 Delmore Schwartz Box: 32 Fold: 23 Delmore Schwartz: "Summer Knowledge" Review by K. Biddle Box: 32 Fold: 24 Delmore Schwartz: "Summer Knowledge" Reviews Box: 32 Fold: 25 Elizabeth Sergeant
- ALS 2/11/1941 (2 pages/1 sheet) with envelope. Reference to invitation to attend Biddle's speaking engagement as guest of honor at the Cosmopolitan Club.
- ALS 3/17/1941 (2 pages/1 sheet), with thanks for poems that Biddle sent.
Box: 32 Fold: 26 Lillian Eugenia Smith Box: 32 Fold: 27 Muriel B. Smith Box: 32 Fold: 28 Muriel B. Smith - Photographs
- 2 3x3" b/w headshots of Muriel B. Smith. Photo credit to Lotte Meitner-Graf, London.
Box: 32 Fold: 29 Muriel B. Smith - Printed Items Box: 32 Fold: 30 James Stephen Box: 32 Fold: 31 Mildred Stillman Box: 32 Fold: 32 Leopold Stokowski Box: 32 Fold: 33 Jack Sweeney Box: 32 Fold: 34 Jack Sweeney Box: 32 Fold: 35 Maire Sweeney Box: 32 Fold: 36 May Swenson Box: 32 Fold: 37 May Swenson - Poems (clippings) Box: 32 Fold: 38 Genevieve Taggard Box: 32 Fold: 39 Genevieve Taggard Box: 32 Fold: 40 Genevieve Taggard: "Collected Poems..." Review by K. Biddle Box: 32 Fold: 41 Genevieve Taggard - Printed Items
- Printed notice of lecture series by Taggard, Spring 1931.
- Clipping of article by Taggard, "Express Yourself; How to Teach Poets - with Examples." (Undated)
Box: 32 Fold: 42 Telford Taylor Box: 32 Fold: 43 Dylan Thomas Box: 32 Fold: 44 "Dylan Thomas" by Edith Sitwell (article) Box: 32 Fold: 45 Dylan Thomas - Article about (clippings) Box: 32 Fold: 46 George Hyman Thompson Box: 32 Fold: 47 Rosamund Tirana Box: 32 Fold: 48 Edwin Tribble Box: 32 Fold: 49 Lionel Trilling Box: 32 Fold: 50 Louis Untermeyer Box: 32 Fold: 51 Louise Varese Box: 32 Fold: 52 Henry A. Wallace
Box: 32 Fold: 53 Walter Wanger Box: 32 Fold: 54 Robert Penn Warren Box: 32 Fold: 55 Robert Penn Warren Box: 32 Fold: 56 Robert Penn Warren - Article about Box: 32 Fold: 57 Franklin C. Watkins Box: 32 Fold: 58 Franklin C. Watkins Box: 32 Fold: 59 Franklin C. Watkins Box: 32 Fold: 60 Sumner Welles Box: 32 Fold: 61 John Hall Wheelock Box: 32 Fold: 62 John Hall Wheelock: "New and Collected Poems" (Review) Box: 32 Fold: 63 William Smith White Box: 32 Fold: 64 Jasper Whiting Box: 32 Fold: 65 Arnold Whitridge Box: 32 Fold: 66 Thornton Wilder Box: 32 Fold: 67 Thornton Wilder: "Our Town" (Facsimile of a MSS Page) Box: 32 Fold: 68 Oscar Williams Box: 32 Fold: 69 William Carlos Williams Box: 32 Fold: 70 Edmund Wilson Box: 32 Fold: 71 Edmund Wilson Box: 32 Fold: 72 Edmund Wilson: "The Bit Between My Teeth" (Review) Box: 32 Fold: 73 Ann Winslow Box: 32 Fold: 74 Owen Wister Box: 32 Fold: 75 Owen Wister Box: 32 Fold: 76 Margaretta Wright Box: 33 Fold: 1 Correspondence 1927-1929
Incomplete dates
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Kathleen Raine: 2 ALS dated February 7th and May 20th (total: 8 pages/4 sheets with envelope). Reference to the Vietnam war; Conrad Aiken; Lelia and Hubert Howard; Alexis Leger; to being invited to France by Pierre Hamilton to read her poetry; and to getting Hamish Hamilton to publish poetry by William Jay Smith.
Incomplete dates
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Kathleen Raine: 4 ALS
Incomplete dates
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Kathleen Raine: 5 ALS
undated
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Kathleen Raine: 3 ALS undated. Reference to Alexis Leger, Conrad Aiken, Isabella Gardner.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Kathleen Raine: 5 ACS.
1969
DESCRIPTION: - Reprint of article by Kathleen Raine, "Herbert Read as a Literary Critic." Inscribed to Katherine Biddle, dated October 1969.
1928-35
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from friend Margaret Reynolds: 5 ALS dating from 1928 to 1935. Reference to Biddle's poetry.
1958-68
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from poet and friend Dorothy Lee Richardson (1900-1986): ACS postcard 5/2/1958; 3 ALS dated 5/11/1963, 6/13/1967, 9/13/1967; and ACS postcard 9/13/1967. Reference to Biddle's poetry.
October 23, 1970
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Dorothy Lee Richardson: ALS 10/23/1970 with comments on typescripts of Biddle's poetry (included in folder).
1931-64
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Samuel Rosenbaum: 2 ALS dated 2/22/1931 with attached typescript by Rosenbaum, "April Nocturne"; and 8/15/1933. Also, 3 TLS dated 2/9/1942 with reference to meeting composer Benjamin Britten; 5/3/1961; and 3/5/1964 with reference to attending an exhibition by artist Franklin Watkins. Includes 2 typed copies of form letters advertising broadcast readings by Biddle of her poetry for WFIL Broadcasting Co., Philadelphia, of which Rosenbaum was president (4/13/1937).
1945-72
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from James Rowe: 4 TLS dating from 1970 to 1972. Reference to Gertrude Ely and to Ezra Pound.
1940-69
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from friend Martha Rowland: 12 ALS dating from 1940 to 1967. Includes 3 undated letters and 2 Christmas cards. Also includes TL carbon 1/25/1969 from Biddle with reference to death of poet Clinch Calkins (a.k.a., Marion Merrell).
1930-68
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from friend Margaret Rullman: 7 ALS dating from 1930 to 1968. Includes newsclipping about Biddle 10/12/1939.
December 7, 1934
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from composer and musician Elmo Russ: ALS 12/7/1934 (2 pages). Reference to enjoying reading Biddle's poetry and to setting some to music.
1935
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Elmo Russ: 2 TLS 5/19/1935 & 9/5/1935 (total: 2 pages). Reference to Biddle's poem, "Night Song," which Russ had adapted for vocal music.
August 28, 1935
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Elmo Russ: ALS 8/28/1935 (4 pages). Reference to sending Biddle the music score for her poem, "Night Song." Also reference to plans for a concert program of pieces Russ had composed from poems by contemporary women poets.
1936
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Elmo Russ: ALS c.1936 (4 pages/2 sheets). Reference to ideas for an off-Broadway production of his own works. Includes copy of TLS 4/1/1936 from Russ's agent J. Clarksburg Smith re obtaining a biographical sketch of Biddle for an upcoming performance of her poem, "Night Song," set to music for voice by Russ. The letter also includes a copy of publicity blurbs on Russ.
February 19, 1938
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Elmo Russ: ALS 2/19/1938 (1 page).
1959
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Elmo Russ: 3 TLS dated 3/25/1959, 7/29/1959, 11/5/1959 with attached typescript of concert program of works by Russ, "Elmo Russ in a Recital of his Songs to English Words" (12/8/1959). Includes ALS 5/14/1959 (verso includes concert program of works by Russ, 5/8/1959).
1939
DESCRIPTION: Facsimile of music score by Elmo Russ, "Come On, Superstition," with lyrics by Carl Sandburg (1939).
c.1935-37
DESCRIPTION: Printed programs and notices for concerts of works by Elmo Russ. Includes newsclipping of an article re Russ.
1964-67
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from poet and book dealer Peter Russell: 5 letters dating from 1964 to 1967. Includes information about Russell and a reprint of his article, "Kathleen Raine's New Poems," (1966). Also includes AL draft from Biddle attaching typescripts of her poetry.
1944-62
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from composer Sydney King Russell: 5 TLS dated 3/20/1944, 2/9/1945, 11/8/19?, "Monday." Reference to setting Biddle's poetry to song music, including "Spring Sabbath Morning," and "Night Song."
undated
DESCRIPTION: Printed publication notices of works by composer and poet Sydney King Russell. Includes typescript for poem by Russell, "Decision."
1959
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from poet Isidore Lawrence Salomon: 9 TLS dated 3/5/1959, 5/7/1959, 5/30/1959, 6/23/1959, 9/15/1959 with attached blurb by Biddle for Salomon's book "Unit and Universe" (1959), 10/3/1959, 11/14/1959, 11/30/1959, 12/25/1959 (total: 10 pages). Reference to the Poetry Society of America, to Robert Frost, and Biddle's poem, "The Other Journey."
1960
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Isidore Lawrence Salomon: 7 TLS dated 1/7/1960, 1/23/1960, 1/26/1960, 7/30/1960, 8/23/1960, 11/16/1960, 11/27/1960. Includes 2 ALS dated 1/20/1960 including autograph manuscript for Salomon's new poem, "Child of Adam"; and 6/6/1960. Reference to the Poetry Society of America and dinner attended by Robert Frost, Thomas Ferril, Louis Untermeyer, Robert Graves and Ogden Nash among others.
1961
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Isidore Lawrence Salomon: 5 TLS dated 1/1/1961, 2/23/1961, 5/2/1961, 5/7/1961, 12/28/1961. Includes ALS 2/13/1961. Reference to Salomon's translation work on poet Carlo Betocchi; and to Robert Frost and Robert Graves.
1962
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Isidore Lawrence Salomon: 6 TLS dated 1/4/1962 with envelope and clipping of translation by Salomon of "The Mass Deserted," by Carlo Betocchi; 1/13/1962; 2/3/1962 with envelope; 2/16/1962 with envelope and clipping of review of Salomon's book, "Unit & Universe"; 6/12/1962; 11/6/1962 with envelope. Also, 3 ALS dated 10/21/1962 with envelope, 10/25/1962, 11/11/1962 with reference to volume two of Francis Biddle's autobiography, "In Brief Authority."
1963
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Isidore Lawrence Salomon: 7 TLS dated 1/28/1963, 2/13/1963, 2/27/1963, 3/11/1963, 4/18/1963, 6/16/1963, 7/6/1963. Also, ALS 2/15/1963. Reference to death of Robert Frost; to Francis Biddle's autobiography; and to Salomon's own work.
1964
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Isidore Lawrence Salomon: 3 TLS dated 1/5/1964, 6/25/1964, 12/13/1964. Reference to death of Marguerite Caetani; to meeting Bernard Berenson at his home I Tatti; and to visiting with Giuseppe Ungaretti. Reference also to publication of Salomon's translation of Carlo Betocchi, "Poems" (New York: Clarke & Way, 1964).
1966-67
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Isidore Lawrence Salomon: 4 TLS 6/28/1966 with attached clipping of poem, "The Chimera," by Dino Campana translated by Salomon; 8/4/1966; 8/5/1966; 5/2/1967. Also includes typescript of Salomon's translation of Campana's poem, "Franco-Italian Proletarian Song."
1970-71
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Isidore Lawrence Salomon: 2 TLS 10/25/1970 and 5/25/1971. Reference to translation work on Italian poets Mario Luzi and Alfred de Palchi. Reference also to Allen Tate.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Isidore Lawrence Salomon: ALS undated. Reference to John Ciardi and Robert Graves.
1963
DESCRIPTION: Greeting card bearing printed poem by Isidore Lawrence Salomon, "Reflections" (1963).
c.1960-63
DESCRIPTION: - Printed announcement of "A Talk and Reading" by Isidore Lawrence Salomon, entitled, "Poetry and the Art of Translation," delivered at Trinity College, 12/3/1963.
December 28, 1949
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Francis and Katherine Biddle from Helene Sardeau: ALS 12/28/1949 (2 pages/1 sheet), with thanks for Christmas gifts.
1952-59
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Francis and Katherine Biddle from Helene Sardeau: 3 ALS dated 3/2/1952, 10/5/1954, 12/30/1959 (total: 7 pages/6 sheets). Includes ACS card dated 10/24/1958 with printed notice of a Japanese exhibition of lithographs by Sardeau's husband, George Biddle. Reference also to life in Taormina (12/30/1959).
1960-63
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine and Francis Biddle from Helene Sardeau: 7 ALS dated 3/11/1960, 3/27/1960, 5/2/1960, 10/30/1962, 11/12/1962, 12/26/1962, 2/26/1963 (total: 22 pages). Reference to health of George Biddle; to son Michael Biddle; to visiting with Marguerite and Roffredo Caetani; to Katherine Biddle's review of Conrad Aiken; to Francis Biddle's second biographical volume, "In Brief Authority"; and to poet Pauline Hanson.
1964-65
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine from Helene Sardeau: 6 ALS dated 10/26/1964, 12/4/1964, 7/16/1965, 8/11/1965, 8/20/1965, 9/9/1965 (total: 11 pages + postcard), written mostly during trip to Greece.
1966-67
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine and Francis Biddle from Helene Sardeau: 5 ALS dated 8/19/1966, 12/27/1966, 7/10/1967, 9/4/1967, 9/9/1967 (total: 10 pages).
undated
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine and Francis Biddle from Helene Sardeau: 9 ALS + postcard, undated.
June 1-24, 1944
DESCRIPTION: Printed notice for an exhibition of sculpture by Helen Sardeau, Associated American Artists Galleries, New York, June 1-24, 1944. (2 copies). Includes newspaper article about an exhibition of Sardeau's sculpture at the Mellon Galleries, New York.
1933-37
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from friend Edith Scarlett: 4 ALS dating from 1933-37.
1959-65
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: TLS 4/8/1959 with attached copy of letter to the president and fellows of Harvard University re policy on honorary degrees. Also includes list of potential honorees. Also: TLS 10/20/1959; ALS 12/11/1963; TLS 9/14/1964 to Francis Biddle; ALS 5/21/1965 to Francis Biddle; and 2 ALS + 1 TLS undated to Katherine Biddle.
1964
DESCRIPTION: Typescript of foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to an anthology of poetry dedicated to John F. Kennedy, entitled, "Of Poetry and Power; Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and by the Death of John F. Kennedy," edited with introduction by Erwin A. Glikes and Paul Schwaber (New York: Basic Books, 1964).
1959-66
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from poet and writer Delmore Schwartz: TLS 11/18/1959 with envelope and typescript (with carbon copy) of a poem by Schwartz (11/21/1959). Includes ACS New Year's greeting and telegram dated 10/1/1962. Also includes clipping of newspaper obituary (Washington Post, 7/15/1966).
1959
DESCRIPTION: Typed manuscripts of review by Katherine Biddle of book of poems by Delmore Schwartz, "Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems, 1938-1958," (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1959).
1959
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of reviews of book of poetry by Delmore Schwartz, "Summer Knowledge," by Katherine Biddle and Babette Deutsch.
February 1941
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from writer Elizabeth Sergeant:
July 11, 1944
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from writer Lillian Eugenia Smith: TLS 7/11/1944 (1 page), with reference to Smith's novel, "Strange Fruit," (1944).
1952-55
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from singer Muriel B. Smith: 3 ALS dated 1/1/1952, 1/19/1953 and 6/30/1955 + envelope with clipping and b/w photograph of Smith. Includes ALS undated.
undated
DESCRIPTION: - 8x10" b/w full-length studio portrait of singer Muriel B. Smith. Signed by Smith; dated London, 1951. Copyright of Baron Studios, London.
1949-58
DESCRIPTION: Performance programs, notices and clippings of reviews of singer Muriel B. Smith (dating 1949-58).
undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph poem, "The Main Deep," signed by James Stephen.
1930-41
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from friend Mildred Stillman: letters dating from 1930 to 1941. Includes ALS 8/20/1933 to Charlotte Mason.
April 18, 1941
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Leopold Stokowski: TLS 4/18/1941 (1 page).
1960-66
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Jack Sweeney: 10 ALS dating from 1960 to 1966. Reference to Conrad and Mary Aiken; meeting with Greek poet George Seferis (a.k.a., Giorgos Stylianou Seferiades).
1967-71
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Jack Sweeney who established a library at Harvard University for recordings of poets and writers reading their own works. He lived in Ireland after retirement and was an admirer of the artist and poet David Jones (see also Harman Grisewood Papers II). 10 ALS to Katherine Biddle dating from 1967 to 1971. Reference to Alexis Leger; to Conrad Aiken and award from Brandeis University; young poet James Tate; Allen Tate; Robert Fitzgerald; and Duncan Phillips (with clipping about the Phillips Gallery in Washington, D.C.).
1962-69
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Maire Sweeney (wife of Jack Sweeney): 5 ALS dating from 1962 to 1969. Reference to Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Conrad Aiken, Robert Fitzgerald.
October 29, 1969
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from poet May Swenson: ALS 10/29/1969 (1 page). Reference to her poem "The Lowering," soon to be published by Scribner's in her book, "Iconographs." Reference also to Conrad Aiken's being awarded the National Medal for Literature (1969). Includes AL draft from Biddle.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of poems by May Swenson published in "The New Yorker," (no date). Includes: "Above the Arno," and "Notes Made in the Piazza San Marco."
1927-37
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from poet and critic Genevieve Taggard: TLS 3/7/1927; 3 ALS dated 4/16/1934, 9/3/1935, and 4/10/1937. Reference to Biddle's poetry and to Taggard's own work.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Genevieve Taggard: 4 ALS undated.
1938
DESCRIPTION: Typescript of a review by Katherine Biddle of "Collected Poems, 1918-1938," by Genevieve Taggard (New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1938).
c.1927-31
DESCRIPTION: - Clippings of review by Genevieve Taggard of the "Anthology of Junior League Poetry," edited by ruth Fitch Bartlett (New York: Minton Balch and Company, 1927).
January 14, 1970
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from writer and historian Telford Taylor: TLS 1/14/1970. Reference to Francis Biddle autobiography, "In Brief Authority," and to Dorothy Leger.
September 15, 1951
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from poet Dylan Thomas: ALS 9/15/1951 (1 page/1 sheet), expressing regret at missing seeing the Biddles in London and mentioning prospective trip to the U.S.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Clipping of journal article by Edith Sitwell, "Dylan Thomas."
1953-57
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of reviews and articles re Dylan Thomas (dated 1953-57).
January 11, 1965
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from George Hyman Thompson: TLS 1/11/1965 with reference to a book review by Biddle of "Selected Letters of Robert Frost."
undated
DESCRIPTION: ALS undated from Rosamund Tirana to Katherine Biddle with compliments on the latter's poem about Ninfa. Includes typescripts of poetry by Rosamund Tirana.
1961-69
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from journalist and editor Edwin Tribble: ALS 2/27/1961; 2 TLS 1/9/1969 and 9/10/1969.
March 1, 1965
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Lionel Trilling: TLS 3/1/1965 (1 page/1 sheet). Reference to Biddle's review of published letters of Robert Frost.
August 21, 1961
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Louis Untermeyer: TLS 8/21/1961 (1 page), with reference to anticipating a meeting with Biddle.
January 20, 1965
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from poet and translator Louise Varese: ALS 1/20/1965 (2 pages/1 sheet with envelope), with praise for Biddle's poetry.
June 19, 1940
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Henry A. Wallace: TLS 6/19/1940 (1 page). Reference to poets William Butler Yeats and Heinrich Heine.
1941
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence from film producer Walter Wanger to Francis Biddle with reference to Katherine Biddle: TLS 9/23/1941. Includes press releases and newspaper clipping regarding the purchase of Walter Wanger Productions by United Artists.
March 15, 1952
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from poet Robert Penn Warren: TLS 2/15/1952 (1 page/1 sheet). Reference to business concerning the Library of Congress(?), with mention of Luther Evans and Conrad Aiken.
December 24, 1965
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Robert Penn Warren: TLS 12/24/1965 (1 page/1 sheet with envelope), bearing Christmas greetings.
1970
DESCRIPTION: Newspaper clipping re award of the National Medal for Literature to poet Robert Penn Warren (1970).
1965
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from artist Franklin C. Watkins: ALS 11/24/1965 (2 pages) requesting permission to reprint Biddle's poem, "Portrait in Winter," in a monograph to be produced by Ben Wolf. Includes TLS 12/3/1965 from Wolf to Biddle and TL carbon from Wolf to the University of Minnesota Press about reprinting the poem.
1965-69
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Franklin C. Watkins: 2 TLS dated 12/24/1965 and 5/10/1966 (total: 4 pages/2 sheets). Includes ACS postcard postmarked 12/12/1969.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Franklin C. Watkins: 2 ALS and ACS undated.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Sumner Welles: ALS undated (2 pages/1 sheet), with thanks for an inscribed copy of one of Biddle's books of poetry.
1929-39
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from writer and poet John Hall Wheelock: 2 TLS dated 11/25/1929 and 1/9/1939; 1 ALS dated 9/9/1939. Reference to enjoying Biddle's poetry, especially , "Lament for the Stolen."
1970
DESCRIPTION: Clipping of review article of John Hall Wheelock's, "New and Collected Poems, 1904-1970," (Scribner's, 1970).
April 9, 1964
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from American political historian William Smith White: TLS 4/9/1964, with reference to reviews of Bernard Berenson by Biddle.
1931-43
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from friend Jasper Whiting: 4 ALS dating from 1931-34, with reference to enjoying Biddle's poetry.
May 23, 1971
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from literary editor, critic and historian Arnold Whitridge: TLS 5/23/1971, with praise for Biddle's poem, "Bright Mariner."
April 4, 1948
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder: ALS dated 4/4/1948 (2 pages/1 sheet) with praise for Biddle's work on a play about Sojourner Truth.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Printed facsimile of a page from the manuscript of "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder.
c.1940
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from poet Oscar Williams (1900-64): TLS 8/21/19? with reference to the publication of "New Poems: 1940. An Anthology of British and American Verse." Also reference to enjoying Biddle's poem, "And They Lynched Him from a Tree."
January 6, 1954
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from American poet, writer William Carlos Williams: TLS 1/6/1954 (1 page), acknowledging the receipt of a Christmas card from Biddle.
1952
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from poet Edmund Wilson: 2 ALS dated 10/1/1952 and 11/4/1952 (total: 3 pages/3 sheets). Reference to Alexis Leger; to meeting old friends Padraic Colum and wife Molly in New York.
1956 & 1967
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Edmund Wilson: 2 ALS dated 10/22/1956 and 11/28/1967 (total 2 pages/2 sheets). Reference to the "Botteghe Oscure."
July 2, 1966
DESCRIPTION: Clipping of review by Richard Gilman of Edmund Wilson's "The Bit Between My Teeth," (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966).
August 16, 1935
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Ann Winslow: ANS undated and TLS 8/16/1935. Reference to the College Poetry Society of America for which Winslow was secretary.
January 13, 1933
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Owen Wister: ACS 1/13/1933 with envelope and enclosure of ALS 9/11/1899 from Francis Biddle to his grandmother(?).
June 16, 1938
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Owen Wister: ALS 6/16/1938 (1 page), with praise for Biddle's newest book of poems, "Lament for the Stolen."
1935-63
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from friend Margaretta Wright: letters dating from 1935 to 1963.
1927-29
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from: Katherine Lamont Boyd, Fairman Furness*, Margaret Noland, Eleanor F. Riesman.
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