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MM to JWCH, T.PC.S. (initialed) 1958 Jul 14 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon) 1958 Dec 2 MM to JWCH, A.L.S. (with env.) 1958 Dec 8 MM to JWCH, T.L.S. (with env) 1958 Dec 10 MM to JWCH, A.PC.S. 1958 Dec 18 MM to JWCH, A.L.S. 1959 Jan 22 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon) 1959 Jan 28 MM to JWCH, A.N.S. (with env.) 1959 Jan 29 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon) 1959 Feb 1 MM to JWCH, A.PC.S. 1959 Feb 6 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon) 1959 Apr 15 MM to JWCH, T.L.S. 1959 Apr 18 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon, 2 p.) 1959 May 22 MM to JWCH, T.L.S. (with env.) 1959 Jun 23 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon) 1959 Jul 7 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon, 2 p.) 1959 Sep 12 MM to JWCH, T.PC.S. 1959 Sep 14 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon) 1959 Sep 16 MM to JWCH, A.N.S. (initialed; with env.) 1959 Sep 19 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon) 1959 Oct 27 MM to JWCH, T.PC.S. (initialed) 1959 Oct 31 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon) 1959 Dec 18 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon) 1960 Oct 14 MM to JWCH, A.N.S. (initialed; with envelope) 1960 Oct 16 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon) 1960 Oct 22 MM to JWCH, T.PC.S. (initialed) 1960 Oct 29 JWCH to MM, T.L.S. (with MM's reply, typed and signed, at foot, with evn., Nov 30) 1960 Nov. 25 JWCH to MM, T.L. (carbon) 1962 Mar 24 MM to JWCH, T.L.S. (with env.) 1962 Mar 31 |
Marianne Moore Correspondence with Jack W.C. Hagstrom (AC 1955), 1958-1966Finding AidFinding aid prepared by Sarah Sorscher 2005.Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.© 2003
Biographical NotePoet Marianne Moore was born November 15, 1887, near St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1909 with a B.A. in Biology. She went on to study and later teach at Carlisle Commercial College. In 1918 Moore and her mother moved to New York City, and in 1921 Moore became an assistant in the New York Public Library. Moore began to meet with other poets such as William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, and to contribute to the Dial, a prestigious literary magazine. She was acting editor of the Dial from 1925 to 1929. Her first book, Poems, was published in 1921 without her knowledge by a friend, H.D. Moore went on to publish other books, including Observations (1924), What Are Years? (1941), Collected Poems (1951; Pulitzer Prize), O to Be a Dragon (1959), and Complete Poems (1967). Moore was widely recognized for her work and honored with the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Jack W.C. Hagstrom was born December 2, 1933 in Rockford, Illinois. After receiving his undergraduate education at Amherst, Hagstrom attended Cornell University Medical College, from which he received a master's degree in 1959. Hagstrom remained at Cornell after graduation and eventually became Instructor of Pathology at Cornell University Medical College. He retained ties with Amherst College after graduation. His avocation of book and poetry collecting developed into a close and ongoing relationship with the Amherst College Library. Hagstrom is a collector of poetry by Robert Frost, whom Hagstrom met at Amherst College as a student. Hagstrom collected over 250 volumes of Frost's work and helped secure tape recordings of Frost's lectures for permanent placement in the Amherst College library. Hagstrom's interest in poetry also led him to develop a friendship with another poet, Marianne Moore. Their correspondence comprises the contents of this collection. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the Collection16 letters from Marianne Moore to Jack W.C. Hagstrom as well as carbon copies of 15 of Hagstrom's replies. The bulk of the collection covers the period from winter of 1958 to fall of 1959. The letters continue until March 1966. Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents
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