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Galen Williams collection of letters, 1961-2010.

Title: Galen Williams collection of letters, 1961-2010.
Publication: [Various], 1961-2010.
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Permit needed	Berg Coll MSS Williams, G	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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4 linear feet (8 manuscript boxes).

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The Galen Williams Collection of Letters was purchased by the Berg Collection from Galen Williams, in April 2014.
Collection comprises correspondence received by Galen Williams in her capacity as Director of the 92nd Street YMHA Poetry Center from 1961 to 1970, and as the founder, in 1970, of the organization Poets & Writers.
Contains ca. 250 letters and postcards by 167 distinguished writers and poets (as well as several non-literary notables), including Ai, Margaret Atwood, W. H. Auden, Marvin Bell, Saul Bellow, Paul Blackburn, Anthony Burgess, James Dickey, E. L. Doctorow, Margaret Drabble, T. S. Eliot (to William Kolodney, the former educational director of the 92nd Y), Allen Ginsberg, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Hardwick, Alan Harrington, Seamus Heaney, Charlton Heston, John Irving, Randall Jarrell, Erica Jong, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin, Archibald Macleish, Norman Mailer, Peter Matthiessen, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, Toni Morrison, Arthur Miller, Marianne Moore, Victor S. Navasky, Tillie Olsen, Charles Olson, Cynthia Ozick, Adrienne Rich, Perdita Schaffner, Anne Sexton, William Jay Smith, Susan Sontag, Jean Stafford, William Stafford, William Styron, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Diane Wakoski, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, Tom Wolfe, Jay Wright, and Richard Yates.

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Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Williams, G

OCLC

882510069

Title

Galen Williams collection of letters, 1961-2010.

Imprint

[Various], 1961-2010.

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Ai, 1947-2010.

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.

Bell, Marvin, 1937-

Bellow, Saul.

Blackburn, Paul, 1937-

Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.

Dickey, James.

Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015.

Drabble, Margaret, 1939-

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1997.

Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000.

Hardwick, Elizabeth.

Harrington, Alan, 1919-1997.

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.

Heston, Charlton.

Irving, John, 1942-

Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.

Jong, Erica.

Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014.

Kizer, Carolyn.

Kumin, Maxine, 1925-2014.

MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982.

Mailer, Norman.

Matthiessen, Peter.

Merrill, James, 1926-1995.

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019.

Morrison, Toni.

Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005.

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.

Navasky, Victor S.

Olsen, Tillie.

Olson, Charles, 1910-1970.

Ozick, Cynthia.

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012.

Schaffner, Perdita.

Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974.

Smith, William Jay, 1918-

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979.

Stafford, William, 1914-1993.

Styron, William, 1925-2006.

Updike, John.

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Wakoski, Diane.

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.

Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017.

Wolfe, Tom.

Wright, Jay, 1934-

Yates, Richard, 1926-1992.

Kolodney, William. Addressee

Williams, Galen. Addressee

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Williams, G

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