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Machine readable finding aid created 2006. Description is in English Berg Coll MSS CummingsGuide to the E. E. Cummings collection of papers, 1916-1962 bulk (1939-1959). The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. The New York Public LibraryNew York, New York The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. New York Public Library. Room 320. Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018-2788 (212) 930-0802 brgref@nypl.org http://nypl.org/research/chss/spe/brg/berg.html Processed by: Staff Date Completed: 2006 Encoded By: Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider Processed and encoded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

Descriptive Summary E. E. Cummings collection of papers, 1916-1962 bulk (1939-1959). Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Berg Coll MSS Cummings430 items The New York Public Library. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

New York, New York

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, financial documents, portraits, pictorial works and a sketchbook. Subjects Personal Names Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965. Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974.Doherty, William Brown, 1891-Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965. Light, James F. Morehouse, Marion, 1906-1969, former owner. Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913- Sarton, May, 1912- Steloff, Frances, b. 1887. Watson, Hildegarde Lasell, d. 1976. Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894- Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978. Subjects Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 -- Portraits. Document Types Correspondence. Sketchbooks. Administration Information Source

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Custodial History

The bulk of the materials are from the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings.

Access

Collection is restricted to qualified scholars and researchers through the Office of Special Collections, Room 316

Restrictions on Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Biography

Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet, novelist, playwright and essayist.

Scope and Content Note

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, financial documents, portraits, pictorial works and a sketchbook. The manuscripts and typescripts include the author's poems, essays, and notes toward works, as well as essays, notes, and articles by various individuals, including John Dos Passos, Randall Jarrell, and Louis Zukofsky, about the author and his works. The correspondence, dating from 1916 to 1962, includes letters from the author to James Light, Muriel Rukeyser, May Sarton, Frances Steloff, and Hildegarde and James Watson, Jr., and others. The collection also includes a letter from Richard P. Blackmur to Frances Steloff relating to the author, as well as a 1947 letter from Cyril Connolly and another from William Brown Doherty, dated 1961, both addressed to Cummings.

Series Descriptions/Container List Manuscripts and Typescripts Manuscripts and Typescripts written by Cummings "Boys I mean are not refined", The. Holograph poem n.d. ms. 1 p.

Poem 44 in his: No thanks. New York: Golden Eagle press, 1935. Holograph edition

Manuscript box Casualty list: "Dead on the field of honor." Typescript (carbon) of poem n.d. typescripts 1 p.

Removed from: Eight Harvard poets. New York, L. J. Gomme, 1917. Copy 2. From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Manuscript box (Gotham) In: Gotham Book Mart, New York. We Moderns. Folder 18 Ezra Pound. Typescript of contribution to We moderns n.d. typescripts 1 p.

Published in Gotham Book Mart catalog no. 42, New York, 1940

Him. Typescript notes n.d. typescripts 1 p.

Removed from his: Him. New York, 1927. Copy 1

Manuscript box [i]. 10 limited edition statements for i: six nonlectures (1) and Eimi (9) n.d. ms. 10 items

Accompanied by: Grove Press, 2 TN to Edward Estlin Cummings. May 1 and Oct. 4, 1958. 1 p. each. Note of May 1, 1958 and accompanying envelope annotated by Cummings. I: Six Nonlectures was published by Harvard University Press, 1953; Eimi, New York, Grove Press, 1958. From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Manuscript box Maerchen; uebersetzt von Hanne Gabriele Reck. Typescript (carbon) n.d. typescripts 20 p.

Accompanied by: Reck, Hanne Gabriele. TLS to [Marion Morehouse] Cummings, Oct. 31, 1966. 1 p.; with ANS at bottom by Michael Reck, relating to Ezra Pound; From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Manuscripts and Typescripts related to Cummings Manuscript box (Cummings) Barrows, Herbert C. and W. R. Steinhoff. Cumming's Anyone lived in a pretty how town. Typescript of article n.d. typescripts 4 p.

Accompanied by: The Explicator. TL, signed John P. Kirby, to Brandt & Brandt, Aug. 29, 1950. 1 p.; Brandt & Brandt. TN, signed Sally M. King, to E. E. Cummings, Sept. 1 , 1950. 1 p.; From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Manuscript box (Gotham) In: Gotham Book Mart, New York. We Moderns. Folder 19 Dos Passos, John. [e. e. cummings] Typescript of contribution to We Moderns with the author's ms. corrections n.d. typescripts (emeneded) 1 p.

Signed. Enclosed in his ANS to Frances Steloff [n.d.] 1 p.; Published in Gotham Book Mart catalog no. 42, New York, 1940

Manuscript box Jarrell, Randall. [E. E. Cummings] Holograph notes n.d. ms. 1 item Manuscript box Jarrell, Randall. A poet's own way. Holograph notes and draft, incomplete, of review. Review of E. E. Cummings' Poems: 1923-1954 n.d. ms. 17 p. Manuscript box Jarrell, Randall. A poet's own way. Typescript, incomplete, with the author's ms. corrections n.d. typescripts (emeneded) 2 p.

With clipping of review extracted from The New York Times Book Review, Oct. 31, 1954, p. 6

Manuscript box (Cummings) Unidentified manuscripts. For Cummings review. Holograph extract "from a letter in 1950" in an unidentified hand 1950 ms. 1 item

Removed from: Cummings, E. E. [khi-ra]. New York, 1950. From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Manuscript box (Gotham) In: Gotham book mart, New York. We moderns. Folder 75 Zukofsky, Louis. [Ezra Pound and e. e. cummings] Holograph. Submitted for publication in We moderns, Gotham book mart catalog no. 42, New York, 1940; not included n.d. ms. 1 item

Included in his ALS to Frances Steloff, Sept. 25, 1939, 1 l.

Correspondence Outgoing Correspondence Manuscript box Kazin, Alfred. TLS to 1951 Nov. 2 corr. out 1 p. Manuscript box Light, James. 2 ANS, 1 TNS, 5 postcards to. Letter of Jan. 8, 1951 mentions Joe Gould 1949 Nov. 19 - 1962 Feb. 7 corr. out 8 items Laid into his: The enormous room. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. Author's copy with his autograph [Morehouse?], [Marion]. ANS to [1957?] corr. out 1 p.

Signed with initials

Manuscript box [Nathan], Rhoda Bucholtz. TNS to [1947 March] corr. out 1 p.

With envelope postmarked March 13, 1947; also with Professor Nathan's account of the occasion for her visit to Cummings. Typescript, Sept. 22, 1994. 1 p.

Manuscript box Roberts, Michael. TNS to. Relates to The Faber book of modern verse, 1936 1935 Aug. 8 corr. out 1 p.

With envelope

Manuscript box Rukeyser, Muriel. Postcard to 1959 Feb. 3 corr. out 1 item Manuscript box (Sarton) Sarton, May. Telegram to 1943 Sept. 24 corr. out 1 item

With: The poets speak. New York: New York Public Library, 1943

Manuscript box (Gotham). In: Gotham book mart, New York. We moderns. Folder 18 Steloff, Frances. 2 TLS to 1939 Oct. 9; 1939 Oct. 12 corr. out 2 items Manuscript box (Gotham) Steloff, Frances. Postcard to 1952 Oct. 28 corr. out 1 item Manuscript box Watson Jr., Hildegarde and James. 162 ALS, 4 AL, 11 ANS, 141 TLS, 5 TL, 3 TNS, 2 telegrams, 31 postcards to 1916 June 25 - 1962 Aug. 14 corr. out 359 items in 52 folders

Came with J. S. Watson's papers

Incoming Correspondence Manuscript box Connolly, Cyril ALS to Cummings [1947 Oct.] corr. In 1 leaf

Removed from: Cummings, Edward Estlin. 1x1. London [1947]. Copy 2; From the estate of marion Morehouse Cummings

Manuscript box (Cummings) Doherty, William Brown. ALS to Cummings 1961 Oct. 23 corr. In 2 leaves

Encloses his: Big Bertha is twenty-two, reprinted from the Phi Chi quarterly for March, 1961. From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Related Correspondence Manuscript box (Gotham) In: Gotham book mart, New York. We moderns. Folder 79 Blackmur, Richard P. TLS to Frances Steloff. Declines to write appreciation of Hart Crane or e. e. cummings for publication in We moderns, Gotham book mart catalog no. 42, New York, 1940 1939 Oct. 2 corr. About 1 p. Financial Documents Manuscript box (Cummings) Amalgamated travel service, Paris. Receipt made out to Edward Estlin Cummings for Paris-Moscow trip 1931 June 6 financial docs. 1 p.

Removed from his: Eimi. New York, Covici, Friede, 1933. No. 1 of 1381 copies; From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Portraits and Pictorial Works Pictorial Works Oversize (+++) Birthday greetings (4) and Welcome sign (1) for Marion Morehouse. Original oil (3), crayon (1), and watercolor (1) drawings. Dated 1947, 1955, and 1961 1947 - 1961 pictorial works 10 items

Signed. From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Oversize (+++) [Chocaura mountain] Original watercolor. 30 x 45 cm. n.d. pictorial works 1 item

Signed. From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Manuscript box [Christmas tree] Original crayon sketch for Christmas card. 30 x 23 cm. n.d. pictorial works 1 item

Accompanied by 2 proofs and 2 copies of the card. From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Oversize (+++) [Country scene] Original oil painting. 25 x 35 cm. 1959 May 5 pictorial works 1 item

From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Oversize (+++) [Silver lake] Original oil painting. 25 x 35 cm. n.d. pictorial works 1 item

Marion Morehouse Cummings' initials on verso. From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Oversize (+++) [Silver lake] Original pencil drawing. 28 x 21 cm. n.d. pictorial works 1 item

From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

(Cummings) Cummings, Edward. Sketch book of original drawings n.d. sketchbooks 1 v.

From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Manuscript box (Cummings) Tschumi, Otto. Original pencil sketch of set design for E. E. Cummings' Him. Drawing of a riverboat name St. Louis. 21 x 28 cm. 1952 May 18 pictorial works 1 item

Inscribed by the artist for "M & I [sic] Cummings ... 20.3.52." From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Oversize (+++) Valentines (9). Original crayon and oil drawings. For his wife Marion Morehouse Cummings. Dated 1956, 1957, and 1962 1956 - 1962 pictorial works 9 items

From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Portraits Oversize (+++) Original oil self-portrait. 34 x 26 cm. n.d. portraits 1 item

With Steward Mitchell's signed note on verso: "This is the first of many self-portraits of Cummings. It was painted in his room in the rue S. Andre des Arts, Paris."; From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings

Oversize (+++)(Cummings)-O Watson, Hildegarde Lasell. E. E. Cummings. Original pencil portrait. 56 x 39 cm. 1957 Nov. 1 portraits 1 item

Signed with initials

Oversize (+++) Original oil portrait on cardboard of Marion Morehouse. 45 x 22 cm. n.d. portraits 1 item

Signed. From the estate of Marion Morehouse Cummings