Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1895-07-24 - 1985-12-07
Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, author, and translator
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Esquire correspondence concerning The question of Ezra Pound
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 180
Overview:
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.
Dates:
1957
William S. Reese Collection of Robert Graves
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1137
Scope and Contents:
Papers relating to English author Robert Graves and his literary and social circle, collected by William S. Reese. The papers contain correspondence, 1916-1987 and undated, most autograph letters, signed, from Graves to correspondents including Desmond Flower, Dorothy and Ward Hutchinson, Violet and Walter McCormack, W. S. Merwin, Albert R. Mills, Frank Sanders, Siegfried Sassoon, Martin Secker, and other literary colleagues, friends, and family, with third-party correspondence about Graves,...
Dates:
1916-1987, bulk 1920-1980
Letter : Mallorca, Spain, to Maynard Mack, New Haven, 1961 Jul 25
Part of Collection — Box: 9, Folder: GROUP 181, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS, with envelope, regarding honorary memberships.
Dates:
1961 Jul 25
Letters, 1929-63, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 9, Folder: GROUP 181, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
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.
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.
Dates:
1929-63, n.d.
Letters : Deya, Mallorca, to Cleopatra Usher, 1115 N. Genesse, Los Angeles 46, California, EE.UU, 1968-1977, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 9, Folder: GROUP 181, F-6
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Nineteen ALS and one TLS, many on Grave's personal letterhead, to an American admirer. With eighteen envelopes.
Dates:
1968-1977, n.d.
Maynard Mack papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 111
Overview:
The collection consists of material created and accumulated by Maynard Mack in the course of his scholarly and teaching activities, including extensive documentation relating to his research on Alexander Pope and Shakespeare. Research and writing files include notes, copies of archival material, card files, lists, drafts, page proofs, printed material, and related material. Teaching files include notes, lectures, and course material. Correspondence consists largely of single letters to Mack...
Dates:
1928-1997
Notes : London, to Rudi Holzapfel, 1959-60
Part of Collection — Box: 9, Folder: GROUP 181, F-4
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Three ANS and one TNS on postcards.
Removed from The Undying Day by Robert Greacen (London: Falcon Press, 1948).
Removed from The Undying Day by Robert Greacen (London: Falcon Press, 1948).
Dates:
1959-60
Poems by Terence Hards, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 9, Folder: GROUP 181, F-3
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Poems, "Life is no joke to laugh at," and "I hate you all; yes, for your part in this," 2 TM by Terence Hards.
Dates:
n.d.
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 76
Overview:
The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers contain manuscripts of writings, letters, clippings, photographs, artworks, and personal papers relating to the life and work of Gertrude Stein and her companion, Alice B. Toklas, and to Gertrude's brother, Leo Stein, an artist and writer. As well as holding the bulk of Stein's literary output (often described as "experimental" or "cubist" writing), the materials document Stein and Toklas' involvement with the literary and art...
Dates:
1837-1961
"The Dead Foxhunter", n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 9, Folder: GROUP 181, F-5
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
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).
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).
Dates:
n.d.