Box: 8 Fold: 26 re Alexis Leger - Roger Little Box: 8 Fold: 27 re Alexis Leger - Roger Little
- "Elements of the Jason-Media Myth in 'Exil' by Saint-John Perse," (Modern Language Review, July 1966).
- "T.S. Eliot and Saint-John Perse," (The Arlington Quarterly, 1969).
- "The Image of the Threshold in the Poetry of Saint-John Perse," (Modern Language Review, October 1969).
- "Language as Imagery in Saint-John Perse," (Forum for Modern Language Studies, April 1970).
Box: 8 Fold: 28 re Alexis Leger - Roger Little Box: 8 Fold: 29 re Alexis Leger - Archibald MacLeish Box: 8 Fold: 30 re Alexis Leger - William Maguire Box: 8 Fold: 31 re Alexis Leger - Salome Mandel Box: 8 Fold: 32 re Alexis Leger - Jackson Matthews Box: 8 Fold: 33 re Alexis Leger - Dorothy Norman Box: 8 Fold: 34 re Alexis Leger - Victoria Ocampo Box: 8 Fold: 35 re ALexis Leger - Charlton Ogburn Box: 8 Fold: 36 re Alexis Leger - John E. Palmer Box: 8 Fold: 37 re Alexis Leger - Kathleen Raine Box: 8 Fold: 38 re Alexis Leger - Robert Richman Box: 8 Fold: 39 re Alexis Leger - Karl Shapiro Box: 8 Fold: 40 re Alexis Leger - Stephen Spender Box: 8 Fold: 41 re Alexis Leger - Florence Dickinson Stearns Box: 8 Fold: 42 re Alexis Leger - Herbert Steiner Box: 8 Fold: 43 re Alexis Leger - Allen Tate Box: 8 Fold: 44 re Alexis Leger - Charles Torem (Coudert Brothers) Box: 8 Fold: 45 re Alexis Leger - Mark van Doren Box: 8 Fold: 46 re Alexis Leger - Sumner Welles Box: 8 Fold: 47 re Alexis Leger - Related Correspondence (Misc.)
- Vaun Gillmor, assistant editor, Bollingen Series: TLS 6/26/1958 re forwarding copies of the translation of Alexis Leger's "Amers" by Wallace Fowlie (Bollingen, 1958).
- Jack Sweeney: ALS 6/3/1966.
- Unidentified TLS 10/25/1958.
- 2 autograph letter drafts by Katherine Biddle re matters concerning Alexis Leger.
Box: 8 Fold: 48 by Katherine Biddle: List of Articles re Alexis Leger Box: 8 Fold: 49 by Katherine Biddle: "A Study of Contradictions in...St. John Perse" Box: 8 Fold: 50 by Katherine Biddle: "Some Poetic Conflicts in...St. John Perse" Box: 8 Fold: 51 by Katherine Biddle: "Notes on Saint-John Perse" Box: 9 Fold: 1 by Katherine Biddle: "Saint-John Perse: Notes on Some Poetic Contrasts Box: 9 Fold: 2 by Katherine Biddle: "Saint-John Perse: Notes on Some Poetic Contrasts Box: 9 Fold: 3 by Katherine Biddle: "Saint-John Perse: Notes on Some Poetic Contrasts Box: 9 Fold: 4 by Katherine Biddle: "Saint-John Perse: Notes on Some Poetic Contrasts Box: 9 Fold: 5 by Katherine Biddle: "St. John Perse: An American View" Box: 9 Fold: 6 by Katherine Biddle: "St. John Perse: An American View" Box: 9 Fold: 7 by Katherine Biddle: "Saint-John Perse, Poete Contemperain" Box: 9 Fold: 8 by Katherine Biddle: "A Poet of Wide Horizons:...About Saint-John Pers Box: 9 Fold: 9 by Katherine Biddle re "Birds": "Poet and Painter..." Box: 9 Fold: 10 by Katherine Biddle re "Birds": "Poet and Painter..." Box: 9 Fold: 11 by Katherine Biddle re "Birds": "On the Page of the Sky" Box: 9 Fold: 12 by Katherine Biddle re "Birds": "On the Page of the Sky" Box: 9 Fold: 13 by Katherine Biddle: "Saint-John Perse as Viewed by Contemporaries" Box: 9 Fold: 14 by Katherine Biddle re "Chronique": "St. John Perse: Time Confronted" Box: 10 Fold: 1 by Katherine Biddle re "Eloges": "Early Work of a Major Poet" Box: 10 Fold: 2 by Katherine Biddle re "Exil": "Note on a Literary Event" Box: 10 Fold: 3 by Katherine Biddle re "Exil": "Note on a Literary Event" Box: 10 Fold: 4 by Katherine Biddle re "Exil": "Syntax of the Lightning" Box: 10 Fold: 5 by Katherine Biddle re "Seamarks": "The Sea Within Us" Box: 10 Fold: 6 by Katherine Biddle re "Seamarks": "The Sea Within Us" Box: 10 Fold: 7 by Katherine Biddle re "Vents": Correspondence Box: 10 Fold: 8 by Katherine Biddle re "Vents" - Letters to Editors Box: 10 Fold: 9 by Katherine Biddle re "Vents": "Some Notes on a French Poet and Epic Box: 10 Fold: 10 by Katherine Biddle re "Vents": "Some Notes on a French Poet and Epic Box: 10 Fold: 11 by Katherine Biddle re "Vents" - Notes Box: 10 Fold: 12 by Katherine Biddle re Poems by Alexis Leger Box: 10 Fold: 13 by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger: American Academy of Arts & Letter Box: 10 Fold: 14 by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger: Academy of American Poets Box: 10 Fold: 15 by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger: Academy of American Poets Box: 10 Fold: 16 by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger: Academy of American Poets - Corre Box: 10 Fold: 17 Elizabeth Kray re Alexis Leger: Academy of American Poets Box: 10 Fold: 18 Robert Fitzgerald re Alexis Leger: Academy of American Poets Box: 10 Fold: 19 re Alexis Leger: Academy of American Poets Box: 10 Fold: 20 by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger: Institute of Contemporary Arts Box: 10 Fold: 21 by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger: Institute of Contemporary Arts Box: 11 Fold: 1 by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger: Library of Congress Box: 11 Fold: 2 by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger: Library of Congress Box: 11 Fold: 3 by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger: Library of Congress Box: 11 Fold: 4 by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger: Library of Congress
-Xerox copies of poems by Leger: "Chante Par Celle Qui Fut La" (in La Nouvelle Revue Francaise); and "Poeme pour Valery Larbaud" (in Quarterly Review of Literature).
- Xerox copies of articles by Biddle: "St. John Perse: An American View" (The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., 2/26/1961); and "Saint-John Perse" a review of "Les Cahiers de la Pleiade," (1950).
Box: 11 Fold: 5 by Katherine Biddle: Notes re Alexis Leger - "Les Vigneaux" Box: 11 Fold: 6 by Katherine Biddle: Notes re Alexis Leger Box: 11 Fold: 7 by Katherine Biddle: Notes re Alexis Leger Box: 11 Fold: 8 by Katherine Biddle: Notes re Alexis Leger Box: 11 Fold: 9 by Katherine Biddle: Notes re Alexis Leger Box: 11 Fold: 10 by Katherine Biddle: Notes re Alexis Leger Box: 11 Fold: 11 by Katherine Biddle: Notes re Alexis Leger Box: 11 Fold: 12 Newsclippings: Articles by Alexis Leger Box: 11 Fold: 13 Newsclippings re Alexis Leger: Marriage Box: 11 Fold: 14 re Alexis Leger: Nobel Prize for Literature Acceptance Speech Box: 11 Fold: 15 Newsclippings re Alexis Leger: Nobel Prize for Literature Box: 11 Fold: 16 Newsclippings re Alexis Leger: Dante 700th Anniversary Box: 11 Fold: 17 Newsclippings re Alexis Leger - Awards (misc.) Box: 11 Fold: 18 Newsclippings re Alexis Leger (Misc.) Box: 11 Fold: 19 Newsclippings re Alexis Leger (Misc.) Box: 11 Fold: 20 Newsclippings re Alexis Leger (Misc.) Box: 11 Fold: 21 Newsclippings re Alexis Leger (Misc.)
- Renato Poggioli: "The Poetry of St.-J Perse" (Yale French Studies, n.d.)
- Arthur J. Knodel: "On Approaching a 'Difficult' Poet: Saint-John Perse."
- Kathleen Raine: "St.-John Perse: Poet of the Marvellous" (Poetry)
- John Ciardi: reference to Leger in "SR's Quarterly Roundup."
Box: 11 Fold: 22 re Alexis Leger - Bollingen Series Publications Box: 11 Fold: 23 re Alexis Leger: "Amers" Publication Notice Box: 11 Fold: 24 re Alexis Leger - "Amers" - Reviews & Articles
Box: 11 Fold: 25 re Alexis Leger - "Anabasis" - Reviews/Articles
Box: 11 Fold: 26 re Alexis Leger - "Chronique": Reviews/Articles Box: 11 Fold: 27 re Alexis Leger - "Eloges" - Review Box: 11 Fold: 28 re Alexis Leger - "Exile" Review by Archibald MacLeish Box: 11 Fold: 29 re Alexis Leger - "Oiseaux" - Articles Box: 11 Fold: 30 re Alexis Leger - "Pluies" - Article Box: 11 Fold: 31 re Alexis Leger - "Vents" - Reviews/Articles Box: 11 Fold: 32 re Alexis Leger - Article by Arthur J. Knodel Box: 11 Fold: 33 re Alexis Leger - Lecture by Louis-Marcel Raymond Box: 11 Fold: 34 re Alexis Leger - Review by Peter Russell Box: 12 Fold: 1 Dorothy Leger to Katherine Biddle
* Dorothy Russell married Alexis Leger in 1958. To facilitate description and indexing she will be identified here as Dorothy Leger.
Box: 12 Fold: 2 Dorothy Leger to Katherine Biddle Box: 12 Fold: 3 Dorothy Leger to Katherine Biddle Box: 12 Fold: 4 Dorothy Leger to Katherine Biddle Box: 12 Fold: 5 Dorothy Leger to Katherine Biddle Box: 12 Fold: 6 Dorothy Leger to Katherine Biddle
1969-70
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Roger Little with reference to his doctoral work on Alexis Leger.
1966-70
DESCRIPTION: Reprints of articles by Roger Little on Alexis Leger:
c.1961?
DESCRIPTION: 9 b/w photographs of Alexis Leger with Katherine and Francis Biddle. The photographs were probably selected by Katherine Biddle at the request of Roger Little interested in obtaining illustrations for his dissertation on Leger (cf. TLS 12/31/1969, Folder 8:26).
1955
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Archibald MacLeish: 2 TLS dated 1/28/1955 & 2/7/1955 with autograph draft letter from Biddle. Reference to nominating Alexis Leger for a Nobel Prize.
1969
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from William Maguire, editor, Bollingen Series re publication of a volume of collected poems by Alexis Leger.
May 11, 1951
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Salome Mandel enclosing clippings of articles by Mandel about Biddle's address on Leger to the Club Feminin de Liason Franco-Americaine.
1967-68
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Jackson Matthews: TLS 3/21/1967, ALS 3/1/1968. Reference to arranging a meeting between Matthews' associate James Barros and Alexis Leger through the auspices of Biddle; a former reading and talk on Leger given in company with Matthews and Robert Fitzgerald; and an article by Biddle on Leger's "Oiseaux."
1957
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Dorothy Norman: 3 TLS dated 2/15/1952, 2/13/1957, 3/25/1957, with autograph draft letters and notes form Biddle. Reference to fund for restoring Alexis Leger's home, "Les Vigneaux," in France.
c.1957-8
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence from Katherine Biddle to Victoria Ocampo re the restoration of Alexis Leger's home, "Les Vigneaux," in France.
1949; 1958
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Charlton Ogburn: TLS 11/25/1949 & TLS 4/29/1958. Reference to an article on Alexis Leger by Katherine Biddle, and to Leger's poem, "Pluies."
1956
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from John E. Palmer, editor, "The Yale Review": ALS 5/22/1956 & TLS 7/26/1956. Reference to an article by Biddle on Alexis Leger, proposed for the Yale Review.
May 17, 1967
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Kathleen Raine: ALS 5/17/1967 (3 pages/2 sheet with envelope). Reference to publication of an article by Katherine Biddle on Alexis Leger by the Oxford University Press.
November 4, 1958
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Robert Richman inviting the former to chair an evening on Alexis Leger to be held by the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
1951
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Karl Shapiro: 3 TLS dated 5/7/1951, 6/5/1951, 8/27/1951; 2 ALS dated 8/1/1951, 8/14/1951. Reference to publication of a review by Biddle for "Poetry" of the French magazine, "Les Cahiers de la Pleiade," which had dedicated an issue to Alexis Leger. Also, reference to a translation by Wallace Fowlie for "Poetry" of Leger's "Et Vous Mers," ("Invocation" section of his long poem, "Amers").
c.1955-57
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Stephen Spender: TLS 10/28/1955 (1 page); ALS 11/28/(1955) (4 pages/2 sheet); ALS 5/28/1957(?) (1 page); ALS 1/17/19? (1 page). Reference to Biddle's offer of an article on Alexis Leger for the journal, "Encounter."
1942
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Florence Dickinson Stearns, president, Poetry Society of Virginia: 2 TLS 8/5/1942, 8/6/1942, re an article by Biddle on Alexis Leger.
1951
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Herbert Steiner: 5 ALS dated 1/1/1951, 4/3/1951, 4/13/1951, 5/16/1951, 12/14/1951?. Reference to an article by Biddle on Alexis Leger's poem, "Vents."
1950; 1959
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Allen Tate: TLS 2/12/1959 (2 pages/1 sheet). Includes autograph letter drafts from Biddle. Reference to an article by Biddle on Alexis Leger.
1957
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Charles Torem, Coudert Brothers, re receiving a check for the fund to restore Alexis Leger's home at "Les Vigneaux," in France.
c.1958
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence from Katherine Biddle to Mark Van Doren re nominating Alexis Leger for the Nobel Prize.
c.1957-58
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence from Katherine Biddle to Sumner Welles with reference to the fundraising project to restore and maintain Alexis Leger's home, "Les Vigneaux" in France.
c.1958-66
DESCRIPTION: Miscellaneous correspondence relating to Alexis Leger:
c.1952-67
DESCRIPTION: Autograph list of articles by Katherine Biddle on Alexis Leger.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle for an article on Alexis Leger. Prospective title: "A Study of Contradictions in the Poety of St. John Perse." A further note in the file suggests that these were preliminary to the final article entitled, "Saint-John Perse: Notes on Some Poetic Contrasts," (in "The Sewanee Review, 1952)(see ensuing folders).
October 1950
DESCRIPTION: Autograph manuscript for the first revision of Katherine Biddle's article on Alexis Leger, bearing original title: "Some Poetic Conflicts in the Poetry of St. John Perse." This was probably a version of the final article, "Saint John Perse: Notes on Some Poetic Contrasts," published in the Sewanee Review, 1952.
August 10, 1951
DESCRIPTION: Typescript of article on Alexis Leger by Katherine Biddle entitled, "Notes on Saint-John Perse." Includes 2 typescripts of a version entitled, "a Note on the Poetry of St. John Leger." The final version of these would be published as "Saint-John Perse; Notes on Some Poetic Contrasts," in the Sewanee Review, 1952. File includes drafted letter from Biddle to John E. Palmer, editor of the Sewanee Review, dated August 10, 1951.
1952
DESCRIPTION: Typescript (3 copies) for an article on Alexis Leger by Katherine Biddle: "Saint-John Perse: Notes on Some Poetic Contrasts." Published in the Sewanee Review, 1952.
1952
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes and typed fragments for article by Katherine Biddle: "Saint-John Perse: Notes on Some Poetic Contrasts."
1952
DESCRIPTION: Reprint of article by Katherine Biddle: "Saint-John Perse: Notes on Some Poetic Contrasts," (in The Sewanee Review, 1952).
1952
DESCRIPTION: Winter 1952 issue of The Sewanee Review which included article by Katherine Biddle, "Saint-John Perse: Notes on Some Poetic Contrasts."
1961
DESCRIPTION: Autograph manuscripts for article by Katherine Biddle: "St. John Perse: An American View."
February 26, 1961
DESCRIPTION: Typescript (including 2nd revision) for article by Katherine Biddle on Alexis Leger, "St. John Perse: An American View." Includes clipping of published version in The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., 2/26/1961.
April 12, 1961
DESCRIPTION: Typescript for address by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger, entitled, "Saint-John Perse, Poete Contemperain." This was the French translation of original article, "Saint-John Perse: An American View," (see folder 9:6).
1969
DESCRIPTION: Typescripts for article by Katherine Biddle on Alexis Leger: "A Poet of Wide Horizons: A Note About Saint-John Perse."
1966
DESCRIPTION: Typescript for a review by Katherine Biddle of Alexis Leger's "Birds," translated by Robert Fitzgerald (Bollingen-Pantheon, 1966). Article entitled, "Poet and Painter: Perse and Braque."
1966
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence from Katherine Biddle to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, regarding information on the artist, Georges Braque who illustrated Alexis Leger's "Birds," translated by Robert Fitzgerald, 1966.
1967
DESCRIPTION: Typed and autograph manuscripts by Katherine Biddle for a review of Alexis Leger's "Birds," translated by Robert Fitzgerald (Bollingen-Pantheon, 1966). Entitled, "On the Page of the Sky." (See also previous title, Folder 9:9).
1967
DESCRIPTION: Autograph and typed manuscripts for Katherine Biddle's review of Alexis Leger's "Birds," translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Entitled, "On the Page of the Sky."
1950
DESCRIPTION: Typescript for review by Katherine Biddle of the French quarterly, "Les Cahier de la Pleiade" which devoted it's Fall 1950 issue to Alexis Leger. Article entitled, "Saint-John Perse as Views by his Contemporaries."
1961
DESCRIPTION: Typescript and printed clipping of article by Katherine Biddle on Alexis Leger's "Chronique," entitled, "St. John Perse: Time Confronted."
1957
DESCRIPTION: Typed and autograph manuscripts by Katherine Biddle for a review of Alexis Leger's "Eloges," translated by Louise Varese, 1957. Includes printed version at it appeared in "Voices," and a review by William Jay Smith, "In Praise of Childhood," (The New Republic, 1957).
c.1943?
DESCRIPTION: Clipping of printed article by Katherine Biddle on Alexis Leger's, "Exil," entitled, "Note on a Literary Event," (in "Voices," c.1943?).
c.1943?
DESCRIPTION: Autograph and typed manuscripts for article by Katherine Biddle on Alexis Leger's "Exil," entitled, "Note on a Literary Event."
1949
DESCRIPTION: Autograph and typed manuscripts by Katherine Biddle for a review of "Exile and Other Poems," by Alexis Leger, translated by Denis Devlin (Pantheon Books, 1949).
1958
DESCRIPTION: Autograph and typed manuscripts by Katherine Biddle for review of "Seamarks (Amers)" by Alexis Leger, translated by Wallace Fowlie (Pantheon, 1958).
1958
DESCRIPTION: Clipping of the printed version of Katherine Biddle's review of Alexis Leger's "Seamarks," translated by Wallace Fowlie, 1958. Entitled, "Perse on the Sea Within Us," (in The New Republic, October 27, 1958).
1956
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle regarding publication possibility for an article on Alexis Leger's "Vents."
c.1946?
DESCRIPTION: Autograph drafts of letters to editors by Katherine Biddle regarding reviews of Alexis Leger's poem, "Vents."
1958
DESCRIPTION: Autograph and typed manuscripts, including printed clipping, of an article by Katherine Biddle on "Vents" by Alexis Leger. Entitled, "Saint-John Perse: Some Notes on a French Poet and an Epic Poem."
1958
DESCRIPTION: Winter 1958 issue of The Sewanee Review containing article by Katherine Biddle on Alexis Leger's poem, "Vents." Entitled, "Saint-John Perse; some Notes on a French Poet and an Epic Poem" (p.33).
c.1956
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle on "Vents" by Alexis Leger.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle on poems by Alexis Leger.
May 25, 1950
DESCRIPTION: Typescript of presentation speech for the award of the Merit Medal by the American Academy of Arts and Letters to Alexis Leger. Includes printed announcement and program.
1966
DESCRIPTION: Autograph and typed manuscripts for address by Katherine Biddle given at the Academy of American Poets on the occasion of the publication of the translation of "Birds" by Robert Fitzgerald, February 24, 1966.
1966
DESCRIPTION: Autograph speech cards for address by Katherine Biddle given in honor of Alexis Leger at the Academy of American Poets, February 24, 1966.
1966
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle including letters from Dorothy Herzog re an evening of readings in honor of Alexis Leger at the Academy of American Poets, February 24, 1966.
1965-66
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Elizabeth Kray, executive director, Academy of American Poets, re organizing an evening to honor Alexis Leger.
1965-66
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Robert Fitzgerald: TLS January 1966; ALS 1/22/1966. Reference to an evening honoring Alexis Leger given by the Academy of American Poets (2/24/1966). The occasion would mark the publication of Fitzgerald's translation of Leger's poem, "L'Ordre des Oiseaux" ("Birds").
1966
DESCRIPTION: Clipping of newspaper notice and printed brochure re an evening of poetry readings to honor Alexis Leger, held by the Academy of American Poets (2/24/1966).
1959
DESCRIPTION: Typescript (4 copies) for speech given by Katherine Biddle to introduce a symposium on Alexis Leger given at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, January 23, 1959.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes for introductory address given by Katherine Biddle at a symposium on Alexis Leger held by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, January 23, 1959.
1970
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence from the Library of Congress regarding Katherine Biddle's contribution to a project of the Modern Language Association to develop a collection of abstracts on English and the modern languages. Biddle's contribution to consist of an abstract of her writing(s) on Alexis Leger.
1970
DESCRIPTION: Autograph and typed manuscripts re Alexis Leger by Katherine Biddle relating to her work on an abstracting project for the Library of Congress.
1970
DESCRIPTION: Autograph manuscripts re Alexis Leger by Katherine Biddle for the Library of Congress abstracting project.
1970
DESCRIPTION: Miscellaneous printed items (copies) used by Katherine Biddle to prepare an abstract on Alexis Leger for the Library of Congress project:
1958
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle re the purchase and restoration of "Les Vigneaux" home of Alexis Leger in France.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger.
February 12, 1963
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger.
1961
DESCRIPTION: Autograph notes by Katherine Biddle re Alexis Leger.
12/15/1960
DESCRIPTION: Clipping of an address by Alexis Leger: "La Mission du Poete," (published in "L'Express," 12/15/1960).
1958
DESCRIPTION: Newsclipping announcing marriage of Alexis Leger to Dorothy Milburn Russell, April 28, 1958.
December 10, 1960
DESCRIPTION: Printed booklet containing Alexis Leger's acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded on December 10, 1960. Translated by W.H. Auden with the French text (Bollingen, 1961).
1960
DESCRIPTION: Newsclippings regarding the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Alexis Leger, October 1960.
May 1, 1965
DESCRIPTION: Printed invitation for the symposium on Dante Alighieri held by the Library of Congress in celebration of his 700th anniversary. Participants included Alexis Leger.
1950; 1959
DESCRIPTION: Clippings re literary prizes awarded to Alexis Leger including an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1950); the French National grand Prix of Letters (1959); and a prize from Poetry magazine.
1940s
DESCRIPTION: Newsclippings regarding Alexis Leger.
1950s
DESCRIPTION: Newsclippings regarding Alexis Leger.
1960s
DESCRIPTION: Newsclippings re Alexis Leger.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Undated newsclippings regarding Alexis Leger. Includes clippings of articles by:
1970-71
DESCRIPTION: Bollingen Series publications catalog including section of works by Alexis Leger (pp.26-27).
May 1962
DESCRIPTION: Printed publication notice for "Amers" by Alexis Leger (Editions des Bibliophiles de Provence, 1962).
c.1957-63
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of articles and reviews re "Amers" by Alexis Leger.
1949
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of articles and reviews of "Anabasis" by Alexis Leger.
1960-62
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of articles and reviews of "Chronique" by Alexis Leger.
1944
DESCRIPTION: Clipping of a review of "Eloges" by Alexis Leger.
1949
DESCRIPTION: Clipping of review of Alexis Leger's poem, "Exile," by Archibald MacLeish (in the Saturday Review, July 16, 1949.)
1967
DESCRIPTION: Articles on Alexis Leger's poem: "Oiseaux."
1945
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of article on Alexis Leger's poem, "Pluies."
1953
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of articles and reviews of "Vents" by Alexis Leger.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Copy of typescript of a paper by Arthur J. Knodel on Alexis Leger: "Marcel Proust and Saint-John Perse: the Unbridgeable Chasm."
1947
DESCRIPTION: Printed transcript of lecture by Louis-Marcel Raymond on Alexis Leger.
1962
DESCRIPTION: May-june 1962 issue of "Agenda" containing a review of Alexis Leger by Peter Russell (pp.18-21).
Postmarked 10/24/1951
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Dorothy (Russell) Leger*: ALS with envelope postmarked 10/24/1951 (6 pages/3 sheets).
Postmarked 10/16/1952
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Dorothy Leger: ALS with envelope postmarked 10/16/1952 (7 pages/4 sheets). Reference to health of Alexis Leger, to mutual friends William and Peggy Burden, and to Walter Lippmann.
1952
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Dorothy Leger: ANS 1952 requesting a copy of Biddle's poem, "Night Song."
Postmarked 2/29/1956
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Dorothy Leger: ALS with envelope postmarked 2/29/1956 (2 pages/1 sheet).
October 8, 1956
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Dorothy Leger: ALS 10/8/1956 with envelope (6 pages/3 sheets). Reference to Mina Curtiss and plans for Alexis Leger's new home at "Les Vigneaux," in France.
January 10, 1957
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to Katherine Biddle from Dorothy Leger: TLS dated 1/10/1957 (2 pages/1 sheet) with reference to the restoration of "Les Vigneaux."
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