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Description:

Consists of the novels, short stories, poetry, articles, notes, photographs, post cards, clippings, recipes, maps, architectural plans and more related to John Peale Bishop.

This series is arranged into twenty-two subseries: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Drama, Articles, Book Reviews, Anthologies and Projects, Notes, Genealogical Material, Juvenilia, Ornithological Writings and Drawings, Photographs, Post Cards, Recipes, Miscellaneous, Clippings, Maps, Obituaries, Reviews of Bishop, Others' Work, Bibliographical Data, and Architectural Plans for the Bishop House.

Description:

Consists of correspondence with individuals such as Sherwood Anderson, e. e. Cummings, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Marianne Moore, Katherine Anne Porter, and Edmund Wilson, as well as others.

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Description:

Consists primarily of bills, income tax data, and book contracts.

Arranged by genre of material.

Description:

Consists of periodicals by or about Bishop.

Arranged alphabetically by publication.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, documents, drawings, printed materials, and memorabilia of Bishop (Princeton Class of 1917). The collection includes manuscripts of 4 novels, including Act of Darkness and Many Thousands Gone; 26 short stories; about 950 poems; 6 plays; and various anthologies, articles, and book reviews. In addition, there are checklists--spanning many years--of birds Bishop noted seeing, as well as 15 folders of his colored pencil drawings of birds, mostly ducks. There are also architectural drawings for Bishop's house in South Chatham, Mass. Correspondents in the collection include E.E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, and Edmund Wilson. Also included is a manuscript of The Hours, and a carbon copy typescript of Selected Poems (120 pp.).

Collection Creator Biography:

Bishop, John Peale, 1892-1944

John Peale Bishop was a noted author, poet, and editor. Born in 1892 in Charles Town, West Virginia, Bishop entered Princeton University in 1913, where he edited the Nassau Literary Magazine. Upon graduation in 1917, he published his first volume of poetry, but his literary career was put on hold when he was commissioned in the United States Infantry during World War I. He returned to the United States in 1920 and joined the staff of Vanity Fair, where he later became managing editor. He began publishing his own poetry but met very little success, so he moved to a small town in France with his new wife. However, the European literary scene was similarly unreceptive to Bishop's work, and he returned to the United States a few years later. Among his most known works are Many Thousands Gone, Now with His Love, Minute Particulars, Act of Darkness, and The Hours, an elegy for his dear friend, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Acquisition:

Class of 1917 Collection: Gift of: Landon T. Raymond, Princeton Class of 1917, in 1973 .

Postcard to Cecil D. Eby, Sr.: Gift of: Cecil D. Eby, Jr., on March 12, 1998 .

Posthumous correspondence related to Bishop's Collected Poems on August 16, 2010 .

Appraisal

No appraisal information is available.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Barbara McElroy '81 in 1980. Finding aid written by Barbara McElroy '81 in 1980.

Biography written by Jessica Marati, '08.

In 2022, restrictions on an Ernest Hemingway letter where researchers were required to use surrogates were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.

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The collection is open for research.

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.

Credit this material:

John Peale Bishop Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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