Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1883 - 1963
William Carlos WIlliams (1883-1963), American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Barnard papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 524
Overview:
The papers document the life and literary career of Mary Barnard and consist of writings, correspondence, travel papers, diaries, photographs, and audiovisual materials, dating from the 1890s to 2001. Writings include drafts of published and unpublished works, research materials, and notebooks. Correspondence pertains mostly to Barnard's writing career and personal relationships, but also includes family correspondence. Correspondents include Ezra and Dorothy Pound and William Carlos Williams....
Dates:
1890-2001, bulk 1933-2001
Dial/Scofield Thayer papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 34
Overview:
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
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
Fantasy Magazine papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 55
Overview:
The Fantasy Magazine Papers consist of manuscripts, correspondence, and other materials documenting the life of the magazine.
Dates:
1929-1979
Robert Fitzgerald papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 222
Overview:
Series I, Correspondence, consists chiefly of incoming personal and professional correspondence and family correspondence. The collection is particularly rich for its correspondence with poets, editors, translators, publishers, and literary scholars and critics during the middle part of the 20th century. There are letters from many well-known poets writing in English during this period, including W.H. Auden, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, James Dickey, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney,...
Dates:
1892-1986
Charles Henri Ford papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 32
Overview:
The Charles Henri Ford Papers contain correspondence, writings, and artwork that document Ford's activities as an author and journal editor,with the bulk of the material dating from 1928 to 2002. Much of the material acquired before 1982 relates to the journals Blues and View, while the 2004 acquisition includes documentation of broader range of Ford's activities.
Dates:
1918-2003, bulk 1928-2002
Furioso papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 75
Overview:
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
Marsden Hartley collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 578
Overview:
The collection consists of writings, correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the personal and professional affairs of Modernist-era painter Marsden Hartley. Writings contain notes and drafts, autograph and typescript, for numerous writings, chiefly essays. Correspondence is spread out over the many groupings in the collection and features large files of outgoing letters to Norma Berger, Hartley's niece, Carl Sprinchorn, and Adelaide S. Kuntz, as well as incoming letters...
Dates:
1885-1978
Anselm Hollo papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1701
Overview:
The Anselm Hollo Papers contains correspondence, subject files, writings, teaching files, personal and professional papers, artwork, printed materials, computer media, and audiovisual media by or relating to Anselm Hollo. Notable correspondents include John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ted Berrigan, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Grenier, Langston Hughes, Gerrit Lansing, Ron Padgett, and John Taggart. Writings contain Hollo's translations of works by Ginsberg, Pentti Saarikoski, Dylan Thomas,...
Dates:
circa 1907-2013, circa 1907-2013
Hound & Horn records
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 458
Overview:
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
Viola Baxter Jordan papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 175
Overview:
The collection contains letters to Jordan from Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D. and Bryher, as well as manuscripts of poems by Pound and Williams and a small quantity of personal papers. Subjects of the Pound letters include personal and family news; his writing and the literary world in general; his political and economic opinions; and his confinement at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letters from Williams discuss relationships between men and women; poetry; and arrangements for social...
Dates:
1905-1951
Letter : to Mrs. A. W. Parker, Rutherford, N.J., 1954 Jul 22
Part of Collection — Box: 13, Folder: GROUP 264, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
TLS discussing a vacation on the Connecticut shore.
Dates:
1954 Jul 22
Letter from an unidentified writer, 1952 Sep 26
Part of Collection — Box: 13, Folder: GROUP 264, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS, written on a greeting card, to William Carlos and Florence Williams from "Charlotte," briefly describing a visit to Carmel, California.
Removed from Cape Horn and Other Poems, by Ernest Kroll (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952).
Removed from Cape Horn and Other Poems, by Ernest Kroll (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952).
Dates:
1952 Sep 26
Letters : to Dorothy M. Goodrich, 1942-1944
Part of Collection — Box: 13, Folder: GROUP 264, F-4
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Collection of letters from William Carlos Williams and his wife, Florence ("Flossie") Williams, to Dorothy ("Dottie") Goodrich, a Navy nurse engaged to their son, Bill Williams Jr. There are three typescript letters, signed, from William Carlos Williams and twelve autograph letters, signed, with eleven envelopes, from Florence ("Flossie") Williams.
Dates:
1942-1944
Robert McAlmon papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 293
Overview:
The Robert McAlmon Papers consist of letters to McAlmon from literary friends, including William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein; manuscripts of several of his writings; and a small quantity of photographs and related papers.
Dates:
1916-1980, bulk 1930-1952
New World Writing records
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 388
Overview:
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 issue...
Dates:
1952-1960
Dorothy Norman papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 792
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, writings, literary manuscripts, notes, subject files, scrapbooks, and printed material documenting Dorothy Norman's activities, writings, and publications including the journal she founded and edited, Twice A Year: a Book of Literature, the Arts, and Civil Liberties. The papers also document Norman's relationships with the photographer Alfred Stieglitz and his circle of artists and writers, in particular her involvement with his...
Dates:
1903-1996
Papers, 1948-71, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 77 (Broadside), Folder: GROUP 264, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Papers include correspondence, clippings, two prescriptions signed by Williams, and one photograph of Robert Meixner. Correspondence includes two ALS, with one envelope, one signed postcard, and one Christmas card from Williams to [Francis A. and Cecilia Marie] Meixner. Clippings include reviews and articles relating to Williams.
Dates:
1948-71, n.d.
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. H....
Dates:
1833-1979
Photographs of William Carlos Williams, undated
Part of Collection — Box: 97, Folder: 13
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Dates:
undated