Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Dates
- Existence: 1895-07-24 - 1985-12-07
Biography
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, author, and translator
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Esquire correspondence concerning The question of Ezra Pound
The collection consists of alphabetically arranged correspondence between readers of Esquire Magazine and the magazine's editors concerning an article by Richard Rovere on the question of Ezra Pound's possible release from his continuing incarceration in St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane. Respondents include John Dos Passos, Robert Graves, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, and Richard Wilbur.
William S. Reese Collection of Robert Graves
Letter : Mallorca, Spain, to Maynard Mack, New Haven, 1961 Jul 25
ALS, with envelope, regarding honorary memberships.
Letters, 1929-63, n.d.
Four ALS including letter to Harold Monro dated 1929 Aug 27; 2 letters to Terry Hards with envelopes, dated Feb 7 and Apr 12 1963; and an undated letter to Miriam Benkovitz with envelope.
TLS from William Jackson Books dated 1935 Nov 8 is annotated with an ANS by Graves dated 1935 Nov 13.
With "Forward," for a book of poems by Terence Hards, TM carbon with manuscript corrections in Graves' hand.
Letters : Deya, Mallorca, to Cleopatra Usher, 1115 N. Genesse, Los Angeles 46, California, EE.UU, 1968-1977, n.d.
Nineteen ALS and one TLS, many on Grave's personal letterhead, to an American admirer. With eighteen envelopes.
Maynard Mack papers
Notes : London, to Rudi Holzapfel, 1959-60
Three ANS and one TNS on postcards.
Removed from The Undying Day by Robert Greacen (London: Falcon Press, 1948).
Poem drafts, undated
Six autograph manuscript drafts of an untitled poem by Graves. Includes autograph manuscript corrections.
Poems by Terence Hards, n.d.
Poems, "Life is no joke to laugh at," and "I hate you all; yes, for your part in this," 2 TM by Terence Hards.
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers
"The Dead Foxhunter", n.d.
Poem, autograph manuscript, in the hand of Edith Somerville.
A note written and initialled by Somerville reads: "Robert Graves refused to allow me to include this poem in my anthology, saying that Poets should be classed, and not Poems."
Removed from Notes of the Horn... collected by E. E. Somerville (New York, 1934).