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Consists of correspondence of John Ennis from the 1960s through the 2010s, much of which has to do with matters related to poetry, both his own work and the work of others. Correspondents include fellow poets and authors, editors, publishers, and friends. Among them are Seamus Heaney, John F. Deane, Des Hogan, Dennis O'Driscoll, Brendan Kennelly, Macdara Woods, Neil Jordan, Michael Hartnett, Chris Agee, Noel Monahan, Seán Dunne, Paul Durcan, Frank Ormsby, Padraic Fiacc, Seán Lucy, Francis Stuart, Michael Longley, Peter Fallon (The Gallery Press), David Marcus (New Irish Writing, The Irish Press), James and Janice F. Simmons (The Poets House, Ireland), and others. There are both incoming letters, as well as copies of outgoing letters, often in the form of handwritten drafts.
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Irish poet and novelist John F. Deane founded Poetry Ireland (Éigse Éireann), a Dublin-based nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting poetry throughout Ireland, in 1978. John Ennis was a founding member of the group, as well as an executive member for the first eleven years. In 1988 and 1989, Ennis also served as an editor for issues 22, 23, 24, and 25 of the Poetry Ireland Review, a literary journal published by the organization three times per year. Materials present in this file group include correspondence with directors of Poetry Ireland, as well as with poets and reviewers submitting work, agendas for meetings and related planning documents, draft manuscripts for the issues of the Poetry Ireland Review that Ennis edited, copies of newsletters and mass mailings to members and directors, letterhead and rejection slips, advertisements and event announcements, and two of Ennis's membership cards from 1979 and 1980. These files shed light on the organizational dynamics of Poetry Ireland from its inception through the 1990s, as well as on Ennis's editorial work for the Poetry Ireland Review.
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Subject files consist of miscellaneous topical files containing documents, printed materials, correspondence, clippings, and notes, related to various aspects of Ennis's professional career. Materials pertain to organizations with which Ennis was involved, including the Waterford Institute of Technology (Waterford Technical College) and regional and transatlantic arts organizations. There are also biographical materials profiling Ennis and his career, awards he received, press catalogs from his publishers, and clippings and printed materials he collected on various topics.
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These materials relate to Roth's relationship with his authorized biographers and his efforts to manage the information that went into his biography. Roth chose Ross Miller as his biographer in 2004. Miller was a longtime friend of Roth's, as well as a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut, architecture critic, author of several books, and editor of the Library of America's multi-volume edition of Roth's writings. Roth's opinion of Miller rapidly declined, however. He accused him of deliberately avoiding interviewing his family and friends and of slandering him to those he did interview. The arrangement was terminated in 2009. Materials collected here include over 600 pages of Roth's notes refuting the information Miller acquired during his interviews, as well as copies of related correspondence. With Miller gone, Roth took it upon himself to compose Notes for My Biographer, a 300-page point-by-point refutation of his ex-wife Claire Bloom's memoir, Leaving a Doll's House. Some correspondence and notes pertain to this work. In 2012, Roth picked a new biographer: Blake Bailey, the biographer for Richard Yates and John Cheever, whose biography of Roth is under contract with W.W. Norton Company. Materials related to Bailey include his proposal for the biography, notes Roth provided to Bailey, and correspondence. There are also some essays by others and press clippings about Roth and Roth's notes critiquing reading guides about his work.
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Box b-001210, Folder 12
Consists primarily of letters and cards from Roth to Taylor, including regarding comments on Taylor's writings, letters Taylor was to pass onto others, instructions for his memorial service program, a birthday invitation, and personal notes. There is also a photocopy of a photograph inscribed to Taylor of Roth's great-aunt Meema Gitcha, who appears in Operation Shylock, Roth's letter in support of Taylor for a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a thank-you letter to Taylor from Cheryl Hurley of the Library of America.
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Consists of a small selection of original or photocopied correspondence of Philip Roth, both outgoing and incoming. While most files consists of only one or a few letters, the file with Benjamin Taylor is the most substantial.
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Box b-001210, Folder 15
Photographs include: "(1951) Bradley Beach, NJ. Stan Pressman, Jerry Lechter [, Philip Roth];" "Two tall kids. Maxine Groffsky. P.R. Back of Roth Moorestown house. 1956;" "England, Summer 1968. Photo by Ann Mudge, used on inside back leaf of Portnoy's Complaint jacket;" [Roth drinking tea]. Stamped "Property of Time Incorporated;" [Roth making a point]. Stamped "Property of Time Incorporated;" "With Mel Tumin, Conn. 1974. Mel was a perpetual pedagogue and here, once again, he is straightening me out. But gently;" "Prague. Milan Kundera, Barbara Sproul, P.R. 1974;" "In my First Grade classroom at Chancellor Ave. School [Newark, NJ]."