Overview
Papers relating to Donald Hall's interviews with T. S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound.
Dates
- 1956-1965
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
1 linear feet (2 boxes)Papers relating to Hall's interviews with T. S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound. Includes correspondence with these four poets as well as correspondence with editors and others; transcripts of the interviews with autograph corrections; typed copies of five letters, 1914-1933, from Pound to Louis Untermeyer; and a typescript with autograph corrections of Cantos CX-CXVI by Pound. Also includes correspondence and papers concerning President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Program for People to People Partnership."
Biographical / Historical
Hall is an American poet, essayist, and teacher.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- T. S. Eliot
- Archibald MacLeish
- Marianne Moore
- Ezra Pound
- President Eisenhower's "Program for people to people partnership"
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
66M-182. Gift of Donald Hall; received: 1967.
- Title
- Hall, Donald, 1928-. Donald Hall papers, 1956-1965: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00920
Repository Details
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