Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Ambrosini, Pietro.
2. Hall, Victor.
3. Littlefield, Lester.
4. Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
5. Rudge, Olga, 1895-1996.
6. Tursi, Angiolo.

Description

1. 6; size varies +

Summary

1. Collection includes the following letters: A.l.s., "Monday 28th," [1963], 1 p.; a.l.s., Dec. 18, 1963, 1 p.; t.l.s., Nov. 15. 1964, 1 p., with envelope; t.l.s., Feb. 26, 1964, 1 p., with envelope; t.l.s., Apr. 12, 1965, 1 p., with envelope; t.l.s., postmark Feb. 24, 1966, 1 p., with envelope; a.l.s., Nov. 17, 1966, 1 p.; a.l.s., Dec. 29, 1966, 1 p.; t.l.s., June 23, 1967, 1 p.; t.l.s., Oct. 13, 1967, 1 p.; t.l.s., Oct. 39 [i.e., 29], 1i67 [i.e., 1967], 1 p.; t.l.s., Nov. 5, 1967, 1 p.; t.l.s., Nov. 9, 1967, 1 p.; a.l.s., Nov. 29, 1967, 2 p. (1 leaf); a.l.s., Dec. 29, 1967, 2 p. (1 leaf), with envelope; t.l.s., postmark Feb. 10, 1968, 1 p., with envelope; t.l.s., Feb. 14, 1968, 1 p., with envelope; t.l.s., Mar. 13, 1968, 1 p., with envelope; t.l.s., Mar. 25, 1968, 1 p.; a.l.s., Apr. 11, 1968, 1 p.; a.l.s., Apr. 17, 1968, 2 p. (1 leaf); a.l.s., May 9, 1968, 1 p.; t.l.s., postmark Feb. 4, 1969, 1 p., with envelope; t.l.s., Feb. 22, 1969, 1 p., with envelope; t.l.s., Mar. 17, [1969], 1 p.; a.l.s., Apr. 26, 1969, 1 p.; a.l.s./t.l.s., Apr. 26, [1969], 2 p. (1 leaf), with envelope; t.l.s., Sept. 8, 1969, 1 p., with envelope; t.l.s., Sept. 23, 1969, 1 p., with envelope; a.l.s., [Christmas season, 1969], 1 p.; a.l.s., [1969?], 1 p. Also with the following related correspondence: t.l.s. from Pietro Ambrosini to Moore, Venice, Apr. 18, 1969, 1 p., regarding Ezra Pound, Olga Rudge, Valerie Eliot, and Lester Littlefield; a.l.s. from Angiolo Tursi to Lester Littlefield, Venice, Aug. 29, 1969, 2 p. (1 leaf), in French, regarding miniature portrait of Pietro Lando, Doge of Venice, 1538-1545; t.l.s. from Victor Hall to Lester Littlefield, London, Oct. 20, 1964, 2 p. (1 leaf); a.l.s. from Olga Rudge to Lester Littlefield, June 13, 1969, 6 p. (3 leaves), about Ezra Pound (her partner) and Marianne Moore, and including reports of Valerie Eliot going to the Berg Collection to see the typescript of "The Waste Land" and of bringing Djuna Barnes to visit Rudge on Barnes's birthday; also mentions Marion [Morehouse] Cummings (wife of poet E.E. Cummings) and poets Robert Lowell and George Oppen. Also includes one envelope from Bernice Ames to Marianne Moore, postmarked May 2, 1967.

Subject

1. Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023 > Anecdotes
2. Rudge, Olga, 1895-1996 > Anecdotes
3. Barnes, Djuna > Anecdotes
4. Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 > Anecdotes
5. Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977 > Anecdotes
6. Eliot, T. S (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 > Waste land
7. Morehouse, Marion, 1906-1969 > Anecdotes
8. Steloff, Frances, 1887- > Anecdotes
9. Oppen, George > Anecdotes
10. Brown, Andreas > Anecdotes
11. Berg Collection
12. Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 > Anecdotes
13. Eliot, Valerie > Anecdotes
14. Giroux, Robert > Anecdotes
15. Lando, Pietro, -1545

Call number

1. Berg Coll m.b. Moore, M A.l.s. to Littlefield 1963

Note

1. Some letters with envelopes.
2. Lester Littlefield was a Dartmouth graduate from Ogunquit, Maine, who resided in Paris in the late 1950s. An admirer of and correspondent with Pound, he visited the poet in St. Elizabeths Hospital (a psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C.) in 1956, where Pound had been incarcerated in 1945 for his propagandizing for Italy's fascist regime during the Second World War. Pound was released in 1958 and moved to Italy.
3. Olga Rudge was an American-born concert violinist and the lover and companion of Ezra Pound, for whom she also acted as secretary and nurse the last eleven years of his life (1958-1969), and with whom she had a daughter, Mary.

With (note)

1. With correspondence (2 a.l.s. and 2 t.l.s.) by others to and about Littlefield, Moore, and their circle.

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Author

1. Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.

Title

1. Collection of 13 autograph letters signed and 18 typed letters signed : Brooklyn and Manhattan, N.Y., to Lester Littlefield, Jr., 1963-1969.

With:

1. With correspondence (2 a.l.s. and 2 t.l.s.) by others to and about Littlefield, Moore, and their circle.

Access

1. Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Berg Collection

Place of publication

1. United States New York.

Added author

1. Ambrosini, Pietro.
2. Hall, Victor.
3. Littlefield, Lester. Addressee
4. Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972. Addressee
5. Rudge, Olga, 1895-1996.
6. Tursi, Angiolo.

Research call number

1. Berg Coll m.b. Moore, M A.l.s. to Littlefield 1963