American Women's Poetry Miscellaneous Correspondence and Ephemera Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection is an assortment of correspondence and ephemera associated with American Women poets or other authors or artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It contains materials pertaining to Margaret Atwood, Amy Clampitt, April Eiler, Nikki Giovanni, Sylvia Plath, May Sarton and others. Items include letters, postcards, greeting cards, newspaper articles, announcements, small printed and signed poems, commemorative stamps, bookmarks and sales receipts.
Dates
- Creation: 1865-2002
- Creation: Majority of material found within Bulk 1904-1994
Creator
- Clampitt, Amy (Correspondent, Person)
- Sarton, May, 1912-1995 (Author, Person)
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 (Correspondent, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
WMU Special Collections. Non-circulating. Contact department for access.
Extent
1 boxes : approx. 0.5 linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
An assortment of individually purchased or donated correspondence and ephemera associated with American women poets or other authors.
Source of Acquisition
Various sources.
Method of Acquisition
Purchase and donation
Subject
- Sarton, May, 1912-1995 (Person)
- Piercy, Marge (Person)
- Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 (Person)
- Francis, Lesley Lee, 1931- (Person)
- Minty, Judith, 1937- (Person)
- Jong, Erica (Person)
- Title
- American Women's Poetry Miscellaneous Correspondence and Ephemera Collection Finding Aid
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Laura Cook
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Western Michigan University Special Collections Repository
Western Michigan University Libraries, Special Collections
Zhang Legacy Collections Center
1650 Oakland Drive
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5307 US
(269) 387-8490
lib_rbr@wmich.edu