Box: 36 Fold: 17 P.E.N. - Membership Lists Box: 36 Fold: 18 P.E.N. - Printed Items Box: 36 Fold: 19 Phillips Gallery (Washington, D.C.)
- Correspondence relating to the nomination for membership in the Cosmopolitan Club of Elizabeth Phillips (Mrs. Laughlin Phillips), 1960.
- Printed programs for readings by Katherine Biddle given at the Phillips Gallery (Washington, D.C., May 1953).
- Newspaper articles re Duncan Phillips, 1971-73.
Box: 36 Fold: 20 Poetry Center Box: 36 Fold: 21 Snarks Ltd. - Correspondence Box: 36 Fold: 22 Snarks, Ltd. - Notes & Scripts Box: 36 Fold: 23 Snarks Ltd. - Printed Items Box: 36 Fold: 24 World Congress of Poets Box: 36 Fold: 25 Literary Associations (Misc.) Box: 37 Fold: 1 Library of Congress - Leonie Adams Box: 37 Fold: 2 Library of Congress - Leonie Adams Box: 37 Fold: 3 Library of Congress - Conrad Aiken Box: 37 Fold: 4 Library of Congress - Roy Basler Box: 37 Fold: 5 Library of Congress - Roy Basler Box: 37 Fold: 6 Library of Congress - Elizabeth Bishop Box: 37 Fold: 7 Library of Congress - Richard P. Blackmur Box: 37 Fold: 8 Library of Congress - Cleanth Brooks Box: 37 Fold: 9 Library of Congress - Max Eastman
Box: 37 Fold: 10 Library of Congress - Luther Evans Box: 37 Fold: 11 Library of Congress - O.B. Hardison, Jr. Box: 37 Fold: 12 Library of Congress - Robert Hillyer Box: 37 Fold: 13 Library of Congress - Josephine Jacobsen Box: 37 Fold: 14 Library of Congress - Robert Lowell Box: 37 Fold: 15 Library of Congress - Archibald MacLeish Box: 37 Fold: 16 Library of Congress - Archibald MacLeish Box: 37 Fold: 17 Library of Congress - Archibald MacLeish Box: 37 Fold: 18 Library of Congress - Archibald MacLeish Box: 37 Fold: 19 Library of Congress - Archibald MacLeish Box: 37 Fold: 20 Library of Congress - L. Quincy Mumford Box: 37 Fold: 21 Library of Congress - Martha Rowland Box: 37 Fold: 22 Library of Congress - Karl Shapiro Box: 37 Fold: 23 Library of Congress - Harrison Smith Box: 37 Fold: 24 Library of Congress - William Jay Smith Box: 37 Fold: 25 Library of Congress - Allen Tate
Regarding the matter, includes memorandum 9/23/1949, signed by Allen Tate and Willard Thorp; TLS 9/19/1949 from Thorp and Tate to Luther Evans; typed Report of the Committee for the Bollingen Prize signed by Leonie Adams, chairman, 2/4/1949; and newspaper clippings (1950) re Librarian of Congress Luther Evans' comments on the awarding of the 1948 prize to Pound.
Also includes ALS 6/19/1949 (4 pages/2 sheets) from Tate to Alexis Leger re Katherine Biddle's statement to the SRL.
Box: 37 Fold: 26 Library of Congress - Willard Thorp Box: 37 Fold: 27 Library of Congress - Robert Penn Warren Box: 37 Fold: 28 Library of Congress - Correspondence (Misc.) Box: 37 Fold: 29 Library of Congress - Correspondence by Katherine Biddle
Box: 38 Fold: 1 Library of Congress - Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1948 Box: 38 Fold: 2 Library of Congress - Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1948 Box: 38 Fold: 3 Library of Congress Fellows in American Letters - Reports Box: 38 Fold: 4 Library of Congress - Literary Recordings Project Box: 38 Fold: 5 Library of Congress - National Poetry Festival Box: 38 Fold: 6 Library of Congress - National Poetry Festival Box: 38 Fold: 7 Library of Congress - National Poetry Festival Box: 38 Fold: 8 Library of Congress - National Poetry Festival Box: 38 Fold: 9 Library of Congress - Committee Room Renovation Box: 38 Fold: 10 Library of Congress U.S. Quarterly Book List Box: 38 Fold: 11 Library of Congress U.S. Quarterly Book List Box: 38 Fold: 12 Library of Congress U.S. Quarterly Book List Box: 38 Fold: 13 Library of Congress - Walt Whitman Exhibition Box: 38 Fold: 14 Library of Congress - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry Fund Box: 38 Fold: 15 Library of Congress - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry Fund Box: 38 Fold: 16 Library of Congress - Notes by Katherine Biddle Box: 38 Fold: 17 Library of Congress - Press Releases Box: 38 Fold: 18 Library of Congress - Newsclippings Box: 39 Fold: 1 Poetry Society of America - Correspondence (H-W) Box: 39 Fold: 2 Poetry Society of America - Schuyler Garrison Chapin Box: 39 Fold: 3 Poetry Society of America - Gustav Davidson Box: 39 Fold: 4 Poetry Society of America - Anthony Ostroff Box: 39 Fold: 5 Poetry Society of America - Aloysius Michael Sullivan Box: 39 Fold: 6 Poetry Society of America - Poetry Anthologies Box: 39 Fold: 7 Poetry Society of America - Shelley Memorial Award Box: 39 Fold: 8 Poetry Society of America - Address by Katherine Biddle Box: 39 Fold: 9 Poetry Society of America - Printed Items Box: 39 Fold: 10 Poetry Society of America Bulletin Box: 39 Fold: 11 Poetry Society of Virginia - Correspondence (H-T) Box: 39 Fold: 12 Poetry Society of Virginia - Roberta Cornelius Box: 39 Fold: 13 Poetry Society of Virginia - William W. Seward Box: 39 Fold: 14 Poetry Society of Virginia - Florence D. Stearns Box: 39 Fold: 15 Poetry Society of Virginia - Events Notices Box: 40 Fold: 1 Adam International Review - Miron Grindea Box: 40 Fold: 2 American Poetry Journal Box: 40 Fold: 3 The American Scholar Box: 40 Fold: 4 The Atlantic Monthly Box: 40 Fold: 5 Atlantic Monthly - Robert Evett Box: 40 Fold: 6 Audience Box: 40 Fold: 7 Contemporary Poetry - Mary Owings Miller Box: 40 Fold: 8 The Forum - Henry G. Leach Box: 40 Fold: 9 Harper's Magazine Box: 40 Fold: 10 Ladies' Home Journal Box: 40 Fold: 11 The Nation Box: 40 Fold: 12 The New Republic - Robert Evett
57 to 1967. Reference to publication of Biddle's poetry and reviews (including those of Conrad Aiken, Robert Frost and Delmore Schwartz). Includes clipping of article by Biddle on Alexis Leger, "Perse in Flight" (in "The New Republic," 9/23/1967).
Box: 40 Fold: 13 "The New Republic" - Reed Whittemore Box: 40 Fold: 14 The New Yorker Box: 40 Fold: 15 Paideuma Box: 40 Fold: 16 Poetry Digest Association Box: 40 Fold: 17 Poetry Magazine - Amy Bonner Box: 40 Fold: 18 Poetry Magazine - Hayden Carruth Box: 40 Fold: 19 Poetry Magazine - George Dillon Box: 40 Fold: 20 Poetry Magazine - Harriet Monroe Box: 40 Fold: 21 Poetry Magazine - Henry Rago Box: 40 Fold: 22 Poetry Magazine - Karl Shapiro Box: 40 Fold: 23 Poetry Magazine - Correspondence (Misc.) Box: 40 Fold: 24 Poetry Magazine - Editorial Material (Katherine Biddle) Box: 40 Fold: 25 Poetry Magazine - Clipping
- Archibald MacLeish, "In Challenge Not Defense."
- Alfred Kreymborg, "Bread and Poetry."
- Malcolm Cowley, "Poetry Project."
- Willard Maas, "A Brief Statement."
Box: 40 Fold: 26 Prairie Schooner - Karl Shapiro Box: 40 Fold: 27 Quagga Box: 40 Fold: 28 Saturday Review - William Rose Benet Box: 40 Fold: 29 Saturday Review - John Ciardi Box: 40 Fold: 30 Saturday Review - Norman Cousins
1956-70
DESCRIPTION: Membership lists for P.E.N. c.1956-70.
1954-73
DESCRIPTION: Printed items relating to P.E.N. including newsletters, annual report (1972-73), and article.
May 1953
DESCRIPTION: Items relating to the Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C. Includes:
1961-62
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Elizabeth Kray re the Poetry Center. Includes TL carbon 11/30/1962 from Roy Basler to Kray with reference to death of E.E. Cummings (the copy includes ANS to Biddle signed by Basler). Kray also mentions Marion Cummings in a preceding letter to Biddle (dated 10/25/1962?).
1937-69
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle re the amateur dramatic group, Snarks Ltd.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle re the dramatic group, Snarks Ltd. Includes typescripts for plays/skits.
c.1913-1945
DESCRIPTION: Printed items relating to Snarks Ltd. Includes constitution, programs, newsletter, articles.
August 1969
DESCRIPTION: Circulars relating to the World Congress of Poets held in Manila, Philippines, August 25-30, 1969.
c.1929-69
DESCRIPTION: Printed items relating to various literary (and other) associations including the Cosmopolitan Club, N.Y.; National Council on the Arts and Government (Annual Report 1965); National Institute of Arts and Letters (ballot information for candidates for the department of literature, 1941); National Poetry Foundation (ALS 6/29/1961 to Katherine Biddle from Carroll F. Terrell, executive director); the Poets' Guild, New York; Poetry Society of Georgia (TLS 3/15/1960 to Biddle from Gerald Chan Sieg); State Federation of Pennsylvania Women; Theatre Guild-American Theatre Society (subscription letter); Writers' War Board (typed carbon from Biddle re race relations especially regarding African-Americans in the armed forces).
1948-49
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Leonie Adams, secretary of the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters and Chair of Poetry. Includes references and related material concerning the awarding of the 1948 Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound for "Pisan Cantos."
1950s
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Leonie Adams regarding the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters.
1950-55
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle re the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters, from Conrad Aiken, Chair of Poetry: 10 TLS and 2 ALS dating from 1950 to 1955. Includes annual report for 1952 by Aiken.
1965-69
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Roy Basler, director, Reference Department of the Library of Congress re the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund: 5 TLS dating from 1965 to 1969. Includes information about the fund and programs of readings by Biddle under the fund's auspices.
c.1955-67
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Roy Basler: TLS 1/5/1955 re sending Biddle a recording of the Library of Congress Twentieth Century Poetry in English series. Includes ALS c.9/30/1967 from Biddle to Basler enclosing typescript of Tribute to William Jay Smith given by Williams College, May 1967.
1949-50
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Elizabeth Bishop writing as Library of Congress Chair of Poetry: 2 TLS dated 11/4/1949 and 1/13/1950. Reference to Luther Evans and Robert Penn Warren.
1952
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Richard P. Blackmur re the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters: 2 TLS dated 3/10/1952, 3/18/1952. Reference to the role of the Poetry Consultant.
1952-55
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Cleanth Brooks re the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters: 2 ALS dated 3/28/1952, 1 TLS dated 11/15/1955 with AL draft from Biddle in reply. Reference to membership of Conrad Aiken (includes carbon copy of letter by L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress, 8/31/1955).
1950
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Max Eastman regarding the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters and the awarding of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry 1948 to Ezra Pound: 2 TLS dated 2/15/1950 & 3/22/1950; ALS dated 4/17/1950. Includes TL copies and AL draft from Biddle.
1946-52
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Luther Evans, Librarian of Congress re the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters. Includes report submitted by Karl Shapiro from the fellows to Evans (May 29-30, 1947); and resolution passed by the fellows re the role of the Consultant in Poetry (1952).
May 26, 1972
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Talcott Parsons, president, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from O.B. Hardison, Jr., director, Folger Shakespeare Library: TLS copy 5/26/1972 with reference to the academy's denial of the 1972 Emerson and Thoreau Prize to Ezra Pound. Reference also to the 1948/49 controversy over the awarding of the Bollingen Prize to Pound.
1950-60
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Robert Hillyer regarding his article in the "Saturday Review of Literature," criticizing the support of the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters for the awarding of the 1948 Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound and to a subsequent address on the issue at a Poetry Society event by Max Eastman (1950): 2 ALS dated 3/18/1950 & 5/15/1960. Includes order forms for reprint of the SRL article by Hillyer.
1971-73
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Josephine Jacobsen with reference to the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters: 4 ALS dated 12/11/1971, 12/4/1972, 4/23/1973, 9/8/1972, 11/28/1972, (5/25/1973), (6/13/1973). Reference also to William Meredith and to being made honorary consultant to the Fellows in American Letters.
1947-48
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Robert Lowell: 3 TLS dated 12/10/1947, 1/20/1948, 2/25/1948. Reference to including poetry readings by Biddle in recordings to be issued by the Library of Congress.
1939-42
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Archibald MacLeish as Librarian of Congress: 2 TLS 1/11/1939 & 1/7/1942.
1944
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Archibald MacLeish re the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters: 5 TLS dated 1/12/1944, 1/19/1944, 7/5/1944, 9/4/1944, 9/25/1944.
1950-53
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Archibald MacLeish: 4 TLS dated 6/6/1950, 1/8/1951?, 1/9/1951?, 5/25/1953; ALS dated 1/28/1951 with envelope.
1960-70
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Archibald MacLeish: 3 TLS dated 12/5/1960, 7/15/1970, 7/31/1970; ALS 6/17/1970? Reference to Alexis Leger.
April 30, 1982
DESCRIPTION: Copy of printed obituary for Archibald MacLeish (in Library of Congress Information Bulletin, April 30, 1982). Includes blank comment review form for MacLeish's work, "This Music Crept by Me Upon the Waters."
1955-72
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Librarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford re the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters and the funding for a consultant in poetry: 9 TLS dated 8/31/1955, 9/15/1955, 10/3/1955, 3/19/1957, 4/3/1961, 6/4/1964, 2/6/1969 (copy), 3/5/1969 (copy), 2/23/1972. Includes TL carbon 4/23/1955 from Mumford to Conrad Aiken re funding for the Fellows; and telegram from Mumford to Biddle re the appointment of Randall Jarrell as poetry consultant, 3/23/1956.
1950
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Martha Rowland (a.k.a. Martha Keller) re the controversy over the awarding of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound by the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters. Related to the issue, Rowland's correspondence includes 2 TLS 4/6/1950 & 4/19/1950 from William Rose Benet to Rowland; and TLS 4/28/1950 from Roland Gelatt, Saturday Review of Literature, to Rowland.
1946-47
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Karl Shapiro, Library of Congress Chair of Poetry: 2 TLS dated 10/7/1946, 2/28/1947. Includes agenda for the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters, May 29-30, 1947, signed by Shapiro. Reference to the Quarterly Book List and Library of Congress Poetry Recording Project.
1949
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Harrison Smith, president, Saturday Review of Literature re the awarding of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound: 2 TLS dated 5/6/1949 & 5/16/1949. Includes clipping of review of Pound's "Pisan Cantos," and 2 copies of a statement to the Editors of the Saturday Review of Literature protesting the latter's publication of an article by Robert Hillyer attacking the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters for awarding the prize to Pound.
1969-70
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from William Jay Smith: TLS 8/22/1969 re an upcoming reading by Biddle at the Library of Congress. Includes Library of Congress news releases, bulletins and newspaper clippings re the appointment of Smith as Library of Congress Consultant in Poetry.
1944-54
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Allen Tate as Library of Congress Chair of Poetry: 6 TLS dated 3/20/1944, 5/17/1949, 10/2/1949, 3/31/1950, 4/11/1950, 1/23/1951; ALS dated 11/5/1954. Reference to Biddle and other Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters whose comments were invited by the Saturday Review of Literature on the awarding of the 1948 Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound; and to subsequent debate by the Fellows as to whether or not the prize should continue to be judged and awarded by the Library of Congress.
1950-51
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Willard Thorp re the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters: 3 ALS dated 1/15/1950, 1/17/1951, 1/30/1951. Includes order form for Thorp's book, "American Writing in the Twentieth Century."
1944
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Robert Penn Warren as Library of Congress Chair of Poetry: 2 TLS dated 11/13/1944 & 11/24/1944. Reference to the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters. Includes newspaper article on Warren (n.d.)
1946-70
DESCRIPTION: Miscellaneous correspondence to Katherine Biddle from various departments of the Library of Congress re various projects/publications to which Biddle contributed, included an article on Alexis Leger to the Library of Congress Quarterly Journal.
1949-56
DESCRIPTION: Typed carbons of correspondence from Katherine Biddle re matters relating to the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters. Includes reference to award of the 1948 Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound; and to William Carlos Williams' declining to take up the post of Library of Congress Poet-in-Residence.
1949
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of article from the Saturday Review of Literature re the 1948 awarding of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound. Includes the controversial articles by Robert Hillyer and subsequent rebuttals. Reference also to C.G. Jung and T.S. Eliot.
1949-50
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of articles re the controversial awarding of the 1948 Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound.
1944-51
DESCRIPTION: Typescripts of reports on meetings held by the Fellows of the Library of Congress in American Letters (1944-51).
1948-68
DESCRIPTION: Printed information/materials relating to the Library of Congress project to record twentieth century poetry in English.
October 22-24, 1962
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle re the Library of Congress National Poetry Festival, held in Washington, D.C., October 22-24, 1962. Includes: Leonie Adams (ACS, ALS undated); Roy Basler (TLS 3/29/1962); Henry J. Dubester; L. Quincy Mumford (3 TLS dated 5/7/1962, 6/5/1962, 11/5/1962).
October 22-24, 1962
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle re the Library of Congress National Poetry Festival (October 1962).
October 22-24, 1962
DESCRIPTION: Printed items relating to the Library of Congress National Poetry Festival, including announcements, programs, news releases.
October 22-24, 1962
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of articles re the Library of Congress National Poetry Festival (October 1962).
1944-53
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Woodville and Company Decorators re the renovation of the Library of Congress Committee Room.
1944-56
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Joseph P. Blickensderfer, editor of the Library of Congress U.S. Quarterly Book List.
c.1945-52
DESCRIPTION: Typescripts of book reviews for the Library of Congress U.S. Quarterly Book List, by Katherine Biddle.
c.1953
DESCRIPTION: Announcements and articles re the Library of Congress U.S. Quarterly Book List under the editorship of Joseph P. Blickensderfer.
1969
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Roy Basler, chief, Reference Department, Library of Congress: TLS 7/29/1969 re the library's exhibition of Walt Whitman's manuscripts, books and memorabilia commemorating the sesquicentennial of his birth (May 23, 1969). Includes printed announcement card and news releases.
1951-52
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle re the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund under the auspices of the Library of Congress.
1952-54
DESCRIPTION: Printed programs for readings given under the auspices of the Library of Congress Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. Readers include Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Basil Rathbone, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Burgess Meredith, Fredric Wertham, Merrill Moore and Katherine Biddle.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle concerning her work with the Library of Congress.
1952-59
DESCRIPTION: Press releases issued by the Library of Congress re events and readings.
c.1950s
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of newspaper articles relating to the Library of Congress.
1936-72
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle re the Poetry Society of America. Includes: Dorothy Hobson, Sally Hay Holden, Frances Mintern Howard, Sally Bruce Kinsolving*, Aaron Kramer, Elias Lieberman, Maurice E. Peloubet, John Schaffner, Charles A. Wagner and W.M. Williamson.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph drafts of correspondence from Katherine Biddle to Schuyler Garrison Chapin re possibility of sponsorship or the Poetry Society of America by the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York.
1949-64
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Gustav Davidson, bulletin editor for the Poetry Society of America: 17 TLS, 2 ALS dated 1949 to 1964.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Anthony Ostroff with reference to the Poetry Society of America and the Shelley Memorial Award 1959-60.
1941-50
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Aloysius Michael Sullivan, president, Poetry Society of America: 3 TLS dated 1941 to 1950. Reference to Gabriela Mistral and Biddle's poem, "Plain Chant for America."
1959 & 1970
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence and information to Katherine Biddle re publication of poetry anthologies by the Poetry Society of America, including the "Golden Year" (1959) and "Diamond Year" (1970) anthologies.
1949-1959
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle re the Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America.
1947
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes for address given by Katherine Biddle to the Poetry Society of America (1947).
1935-61
DESCRIPTION: Printed items relating to the Poetry Society of America, including its constitution, membership lists, events announcements and notices, and newspaper article clippings.
1957-61
DESCRIPTION: issues of the Poetry Society of America Bulletin for years 1957 through 1961 (incomplete series).
1955-70
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle re the Poetry Society of Virginia. Includes: Phyllis Hanson, vice-president; Henry Fairfax Conquest, contest committee; D.A. Coulson, chairman of contest committee; H.M. Meacham, president (1955); Emma Trigg.
1962-72
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Roberta Cornelius, member, advisory board of the Poetry Society of Virginia: letters dating from 1962 to 1972.
1954-64
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from William W. Seward, president, Poetry Society of Virginia: 2 TLS 10/6/1954 & 11/12/1964.
1941-44
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Florence Dickinson Stearns, president, Poetry Society of Virginia: 3 TLS and ALS dating 1941 to 1944.
1940-63
DESCRIPTION: Printed announcements/notices for events held by the Poetry Society of Virginia, including addresses and readings by Katherine Biddle.
1968-71
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Miron Grindea, editor, Adam International Review: 5 ALS & 2 TLS dating from 1968-71.
1934
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from the American Poetry Journal re contributions of her poems to the publication.
1951
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Hiram Haydn, editor, The American Scholar, re acceptance for publication of her poem, "Night Song": 2 TLS 10/12/1951, 11/14/1951.
1939-56
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from The Atlantic Monthly re publication of her poems. Includes TLS 9/4/1956 from Edward Weeks, editor.
1968-69
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Robert Evett, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: 2 ALS dated 12/22/1968 & 7/15/1969; TLS 7/11/1969 with attached typescript of Biddle's poem, "On a Sea-grape Leaf."
August 1956
DESCRIPTION: Issue of "Audience" (Volume IV, August 1956). Includes autograph notes by Katherine Biddle.
1945-67
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Mary Owings Miller, editor, Contemporary Poetry: 2 ACS, 6 ALS, 5 TLS dating from 1945 to 1967.
1934-5
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Henry G. Leach, editor, "The Forum": 2 ANS, 1 TLS dated 1934-35.
1929-49
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Harper's Magazine re publication of her poetry. Includes correspondence from Frederick L. Allen: 4 TLS dated 12/19/1929, 1/31/1934, 3/13/1935, 10/26/1949.
1938-60
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from the Ladies' Home Journal re publication of her poetry. Includes correspondence from Bruce and Beatrice Gould, editors.
1932-64
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from "The Nation." Includes: George G. Kirstein, publisher, TLS 5/26/1958; Denise Levertov, ALS 2/2/1964 (2 pages/1 sheet) with envelope, re review of a book by Marion Merrell (a.k.a. Clinch Calkins); Margaret Marshall, associate editor, TLS 8/3/1934; and Macha Louis Rosenthal, poetry editor, 2 ALS dated 5/3/1957, 11/29/1958 and ACS 10/23/1959.
1957-67
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Robert Evett, book editor, "The New Republic": 14 TLS (plus 1 TLS signed by proxy) dating from 19
1965-71
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Reed Whittemore re consideration for publication of her poetry in "The New Republic": 3 TLS, 5 ALS dated 1965 to 1971. Includes transcript forwarded to Biddle by Whittemore, of television broadcast, "A Renaissance Life: a Personal View of Bernard Berenson by Kenneth Clark," (WNET, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York, April 12, 1971).
1933-58
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from editors of "The New Yorker," including John Mosher and Howard Moss (TLS 3/4/1958).
1972
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Carroll F. Terrell, managing editor of "Paideuma" a journal for Ezra Pound scholarship.
1935-36
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Alan F. Pater, editor of "Poetry Digest," publication of the Poetry Digest Association: 4 TLS dated 1935 to 1936. Reference to selection of Biddle's poetry for publication in the annuals "Anthology of Magazine Verse" and "Year Book of American Poetry."
1937-41
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Amy Bonner, business representative for "Poetry" magazine. Reference primarily to Biddle's newest work, "Plain Chant for America."
1949
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Hayden Carruth, editor, "Poetry" magazine: TLS 5/19/1949 re funding problems for the publication.
1941-61
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from George Dillon, editor of "Poetry" magazine: 8 TLS, 3 ALS dating from 1941 to 1961. Reference to work by Biddle for publication in the magazine, including translation of poetry by Gabriela Mistral; and Biddle's own poetry. Reference also to publication of a translation of "Exil" by Alexis Leger; and to Dillon's meeting Denis Devlin and Karl and Evelyn Shapiro.
1932-36
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Harriet Monroe, editor of "Poetry" magazine: 8 ALS, 1 ACS dated 1932 to 1936, re publication of Biddle's poetry. Includes 3 ALS & 1 telegram dated 1936 from Jessica Nelson North, member of advisory committee for "Poetry," re death of Monroe.
1956-67
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Henry Rago, editor, "Poetry" magazine: 2 ACS, 13 TLS dating from 1956 to 1967. Reference to work by Biddle for the magazine including reviews of Alain Bosquet and Alexis Leger, publication of Biddle's own poetry, Library of Congress celebration of the 50th anniversary of the magazine (1962).
1947-50
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Karl Shapiro, editor of "Poetry" magazine: ALS 3/11/1947, TLS 11/9/1950 re funding for the publication. Includes undated Christmas card bearing autograph notes from both Evalyn and Karl Shapiro.
1967
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle re "Poetry" magazine, from Ruth Horwich, poetry day chairman (TLS 9/8/1967); and Lawrence W. Towner, president (TLS 8/3/1967).
undated
DESCRIPTION: Typescripts of poems by Dylan Thomas, Walter de la Mare, Conrad Aiken, Louise Bogan, Leonie Adams, Richard Wilbur, Carl Bode and I.L. Salomon, from files relating to Katherine Biddle's work for "Poetry" magazine as poetry editor.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Clipping of pages from an issue of "Poetry" magazine. Includes essays by the following:
1958-62
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Karl Shapiro, editor of the "Prairie Schooner": 4 TLS dated 3/13/1958, 5/22/1958, 1/11/1961, 2/4/1962, re contributions of Biddle's poems to the journal.
1961-63
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from James Weldon Smith, editor of "Quagga" poetry journal re contributions of Biddle's work.
1945
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from William Rose Benet, associate editor for the "Saturday Review of Literature," TLS 6/15/1945 (1 page) and TLS (copy, undated c.1945). Includes typed and autograph drafts of correspondence to Benet from Biddle.
1956-58
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from John Ciardi, poetry editor for the "Saturday Review of Literature": 4 ALS, TLS, TL dating from 1956 to 1958. Reference to Anne Lindbergh, Archibald MacLeish and Robert Penn Warren.
1943
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Norman Cousins, editor, "Saturday Review of Literature": TLS 7/24/1943 re requesting permission to publish Biddle's translation of "To the International Brigade," by poet Rafael Alberti, in an anthology edited by Cousins and William Rose Benet, entitled, "The Poetry of Liberty."
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