Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Poem, typescript, with manuscript annotations by Muriel Bernstein.

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Typescript letter, signed from Wade Crawford Barcley, associate editor of Sunday School Publications, asking Lindsay to provide a list of books for young men ages 18 to 24. The letter includes Lindsay’s autograph manuscript response on the same sheet, signed, saying that he believes young men of that age should read what they like.

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The Vachel Lindsay collection contains original correspondence and manuscripts by early twentieth-century American poet Vachel Lindsay. The collection features letters from Lindsay to poet Sara Teasdale, dating from 1913 to 1931, documenting their early courtship and ongoing friendship. Writings appear to have been sent to Teasdale as enclosures to the letters. There are also letters to Teasdale from Lindsay's widow, Elizabeth Connor Lindsay, following his death in late 1931.

Scope and Contents: The collection contains sixty-three sketches, drawings, paintings, and prints acquired by Yale faculty member Norman Holmes Pearson not for their aesthetic or artistic merit, but because they were created by poets and other authors; he titled his collection “Art for the Wrong Reason.” The works were executed in crayon, gouache, graphite, ink, charcoal, oil, and watercolor on paper, board, canvas, and panel, by fifty-three writers including E. E. Cummings, George Du Maurier, Victor Hugo, D....

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Pen-and-ink floral motif drawing with holograph note, "Wallpaper for Sara [Teasdale] from Vachel," with the annotation, "made Nov. 13, 1931, S T," presumably in Teasdale's hand.

Drawn on the verso of the personal letterhead of Mrs. S. T. [Sara Teasdale] Filsinger of New York.