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Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1894-11-14 - 1962-09-03

Biography

Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), American poet, author, and painter

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Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

William Rose Benét Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1100
Scope and Contents:

The William Rose Benét papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, and personal and family papers documenting the life and work of American author and editor William Rose Benét. The collection spans the years 1847 to 1957, with the bulk of the collection dating from roughly 1900 to 1950.

Collection material is chiefly in English; with some material in French, Italiana, Russian, and Hebrew.

Dates: 1847-1957, bulk 1920-1950
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William Rose Benét Papers

Ken Campbell archive

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 25
Scope and Contents: The collection spans the years 1975-2003 and reveals Ken Campbell's creative process throughout his career as a book artist. The bulk of the collection contains Ken Campbell's artist book materials and separate prints which relate to several of his books. Proofs, extra sheets, letterpress forms, zinc etching plates, photographs, negatives and dummies document Campbell's creative process. The collection also includes materials about Campbell's unpublished book ...
Dates: 1975-2003
Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Institutional Archives > Ken Campbell archive

CUMMINGS, E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN), 1894-1962

 Sub-Series
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Dates: [ca. 1800-ongoing]
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > C

Dial/Scofield Thayer papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 34
Abstract: The papers document the life and activities of Scofield Thayer and the history of Dial Magazine under his ownership. They include the surviving Dial office files, with correspondence by Alyse Gregory, Marianne Moore, Gilbert Seldes, Kenneth Burke, and J. Sibley Watson; manuscripts, typescripts and corrected galleys of submissions to the magazine by authors including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, George Santayana, William Butler Yeats, and Glenway Wescott; and advertising material....
Dates: 1879-1982, bulk 1920-1925
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dial/Scofield Thayer papers

Muriel Draper Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 49
Abstract: The Muriel Draper Papers document the personal life and artistic and political interests of Muriel Draper. Major correspondents include George Antheil, Samuel Courtauld, Paul Draper, Max Ewing, Lincoln Kirstein, Walter Lowenfels, and Mark Tobey. The collection also contains manuscripts of many of Draper's writings, including the largely unpublished America Deserta, and records of her activities as a member of the Congress of American Women, the League of American Writers, and similar...
Dates: 1881-1977, bulk 1925-1950
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Muriel Draper Papers

E. E. Cummings and Marion Cummings correspondence, 1948 June 27, 1948 September 24, undated

 Part of Collection — Box 109: [Barcode: 39002140920878], Folder: 1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Typescript letter, signed, from E. E. Cummings to Charles Norman critiquing dramatists. Includes an enclosed typescript poem by Cummings titled “Poem”. Also includes an autograph manuscript letter, signed, from Marion Cummings to Norman congratulating him on finishing his novel; and two Christmas cards signed by E. E. and Marion Cummings. With two envelopes.

Dates: 1948 June 27, 1948 September 24, undated
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > C > CUMMINGS, E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN), 1894-1962

Furioso papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 75
Abstract: The Furioso papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts of submissions, editorial board files, and other office files relating to the publishing history of Furioso; a Magazine of Verse (1939-1953). Correspondents include E. E. Cummings, Richard Eberhart, Weldon Kees, Lawrence Olson, Ezra Pound, Peter Viereck, and William Carlos Williams. Manuscripts are primarily typescripts and setting typescripts of submissions to Furioso. The office files include advertising and publicity material, the...
Dates: 1938-1951
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Furioso papers

Hound & Horn records

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 458
Abstract: The Hound & Horn records contain correspondence, drafts of writings, financial records, and ephemera relating to the literary quarterly. The records feature original letters from well-known Modernist era authors during the tenure of the journal from the late 1920s through mid 1930s, including Bryher, Jean Cocteau, E. E. Cummings, René Daumal, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, François Mauriac, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Stephen Spender, Gertrude Stein, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos...
Dates: 1925-1940
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hound & Horn records

New World Writing records

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 388
Abstract: The collection documents all aspects of the production and promotion of the literary magazine New World Writing from its first issue in 1952 to its last issue in 1959. Correspondence, including letters by and about various authors whose work was published in the magazine, and manuscripts, including corrected typescripts of published works, shed light on the selection and editorial process. Highlights include the corrected typescript of "Catch-18" by Joseph Heller, originally published in...
Dates: 1952-1960
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > New World Writing records

Notes : New York, to Gordon S. Haight, 1955

 Part of Collection — Box 16: [Barcode: 39002137170255], Folder: GROUP 309, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Two typed postcards signed, postmarked 1955 Nov 18, declining an invitation to lecture, and 1955 Dec 5 regarding '"The Harvard Crimson"(etc)' including a quote from Rilke's Letters To a Young Poet.

Dates: 1955
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > C > CUMMINGS, E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN), 1894-1962

Norman Holmes Pearson Collection of “Art for the Wrong Reason”

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1031
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....
Dates: 1833-1979
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Norman Holmes Pearson Collection of “Art for the Wrong Reason”

Dudley Poore papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 599
Abstract: Collection contains correspondence, notebooks and diaries, writings, photographs, and other materials documenting the personal and professional life of American poet and author Dudley Poore. Poore was part of a circle of writers at Harvard University that included e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Robert Hillyer, Robert Stewart Mitchell, and Cuthbert Wright, and the correspondence features letters with these associates, as well as John Peale Bishop, Dudley Fitts, Robert Finch, Arthur K....
Dates: 1840s-1975
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dudley Poore papers

Portrait of Marion Morehouse, undated

 Part of Collection — Box 111: [Barcode: 39002140921439], Folder: 4
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Oil painting on pasteboard depicting Marion Morehouse by E. E. Cummings. Includes a pencil sketch of a nude female on the verso.

Dates: undated
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > C > CUMMINGS, E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN), 1894-1962

Ezra Pound Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 43
Abstract:

The Ezra Pound Papers document the literary career and political interests of Ezra Pound. Major correspondents include Richard Aldington, George Antheil, William Bird, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Laughlin, Wyndham Lewis, Marianne Moore, Odon Por, and Henry Swabey. The collection contains manuscripts of many of Pound's works, including the Cantos, Guide to Kulchur, and scripts of Pound's wartime radio broadcasts.

Dates: 1868-1976
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ezra Pound Papers

Ezra Pound papers : addition

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 53
Abstract: The Ezra Pound Papers Addition consists of material related to the life and career of the American poet Ezra Pound and includes correspondence, manuscripts, and a small quantity of personal papers and audiovisual materials. Correspondents include Homer and Isobel Pound, George Antheil, Basil Bunting, T. S. Eliot, James Laughlin, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Manuscripts inclue draft portions of The Cantos, autograph scores of Le Testament de Villon and...
Dates: 1862-1983, bulk 1960-1971
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ezra Pound papers : addition

Richard Hoffman correspondence with E. E. Cummings

 Unprocessed/Unavailable
Call Number: 2024-ycal-0035
Dates: 1862-1983, bulk 1960-1971
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

The Virgil Thomson Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 29, MSS 29A
Abstract:

Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer and critic Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)

Dates: 1804-1990 (inclusive)
Found in: Gilmore Music Library > The Virgil Thomson Papers

Tiger's Eye records

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 362
Abstract:

The records document all aspects of the production and distribution of the little magazine The Tiger's Eye, from its inception in 1947 through the decision to cease publication in 1951. Correspondence, manuscripts, and business records document the creative and editorial process, the enthusiasm of its readership, its subscription base, and the work involved in producing and distributing the issues.

Dates: 1939-1955
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tiger's Eye records

["Tom"]., n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box 29A/193: Series 11 [Barcode: 39002022374756], Folder: 23
Call Number: MSS 29, MSS 29A, Series XI, Sub-Series XXIXA/XI.A
Dates: n.d.
Found in: Gilmore Music Library > The Virgil Thomson Papers > MSS 29A [Part 2] - Miscellaneous Items > Writings by Others

T. C. Wilson Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 36
Abstract:

The T. C. Wilson Papers consist of correspondence, writings, and personal papers relating to the life and career of American poet-critic Theodore Carl Wilson.

Dates: (1928-1947)
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > T. C. Wilson Papers