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Ezra Pound collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC096
  • Collection
  • 1908 - 1961

The collection consists firstly, of poetry manuscripts and proofs including "Personae", "Lustra", and "Canzoni and Ripostes"; secondly, a prose manuscript of "That Audience, or the Bugaboo of the Public"; and thirdly, of correspondence to Elkin Mathews (publisher), St. John Adcock, Harry and Caresse Crosby (Black Sun Press), Louis Zukofsky, The British Union of Fascists, T. S. Eliot, Montgomery Belgion, Michael Harald, Clifford Gessler, and others.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

Michael Fraenkel collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC126
  • Collection
  • 1945 - 1951

The collection consists of correspondence from Michael Fraenkel to Jasper Wood on literary matters, containing many references to Henry Miller.

Fraenkel, Michael, 1896-1957

Leonard Bacon collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC146
  • Collection
  • 1941 - 1967

The collection consists of two letters from the poet to George and Florence Noyes concerning his preparation of foreign language dictionaries for the U.S. Army and two from Patty Bacon (wife) on personal matters. All the correspondence is from 1941, the year Leonard Bacon won the Pulitzer prize. Also included is a clipping (obit of Martha Bacon, ie. "Patty") from 1967.

Bacon, Leonard, 1887-1954

Paul Goodman collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC217
  • Collection
  • 1972

The collection consists of a corrected manuscript draft and a corrected typescript first draft of the prose essay from "Little Prayers and Finite Experience". Also included is a dealer's cover sheet.

Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972

Jack Kerouac collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC240
  • Collection
  • ca. 1959

The collection consists 4 typescript poems, signed, from "Mexico City Blues" (113th, 145th, 182nd, and 221st chorus ); 4 pp on 4 leaves.

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969

Anaïs Nin collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC271
  • Collection
  • 1957

The collection consists of a 2 page/1 leaf holograph note to Oscar Baradinsky (Alicat Books, Yonkers), envelope dated April 20, 1957.

Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977

Aram Saroyan collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC296
  • Collection
  • 1970

The collection consists mainly of a photocopied typescript of Aram Saroyan's "Cloth: an electric novel". Also included are a handwritten letter to Tom Clark re "Cloth" and mentioning Ted Berrigan, Paul Carroll, Steve Katz, and Philip Whalen; a corrected typescript signed by Tom Clark which seems to be intended as a preface to "Cloth"; clippings from "Poetry (Chicago)" of Aram Saroyan selection of material from Louis Zukovsky; and a clipping from Rolling Stone? of a picture of Randy Newman.

Saroyan, Aram

Ernest Thompson Seton collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC299
  • Collection
  • 1931

The collection consists of a typed, signed letter to J. R. Lowther, responding to Lowther's letter re natural history conditions in British Columbia.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946