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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933
- Title:
- Sara Teasdale Correspondence
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bn999679f
- Dates:
- 1907-1972 (mostly 1912-1928)
- Size:
- 4 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-4
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists primarily of letters received by American poet Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Ernest Filsinger) from over 100 poets, authors, editors, and friends, many of whom enclose examples of their work and discuss their own and Teasdale's poetry.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists primarily of letters received by Teasdale (Mrs. Ernest Filsinger, 1914-1929) from over 100 poets, authors, editors, and friends, many of whom enclose examples of their work and discuss their own and Teasdale's poetry. There is a large group of letters from Harriet Monroe, founder and editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Other correspondents include Sarah N. Cleghorn, Hugh M. Ferris, Hamlin Garland, Robinson Jeffers, Orrick Johns, Muna Lee, John Myers O'Hara, William Marion Reedy, Jessie B. Rittenhouse, Edwin A. Robinson, and Eunice Tietjens.
Also present are 22 letters (1924-1932) by Teasdale to Vachel and Elizabeth Lindsay, two original poems, genealogy notes, a royalty statement from Macmillan Company for the years 1916-1932, letters by Margaret Conklin and Eric Fenby to Teasdale biographer Margaret Carpenter, and printed musical scores of poems by Teasdale set to music by George R. Dyer, Wintter Watts, and others.
- Arrangement
In this order: poems by Teasdale, letters by Teasdale to Vachel and Elizabeth Lindsay, letters received by Teasdale (A-Z), genealogy notes, Macmillan Co. royalty statement, letters by Margaret Conklin and Eric Fenby to Margaret Carpenter, and musical scores.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933
Sara Teasdale, of St. Louis, Missouri, was an American poet. In 1918, Teasdale received the Columbia University Poetry Society prize (the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and the Poetry Society of America's prize for Love Songs. Teasdale was courted by the poet, Vachel Lindsay, prior to her marriage to Ernst Filsinger in 1914.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum in 1990.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory prepared by Fadzilah Yahaya GS in 2011.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Sara Teasdale Correspondence; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bn999679f
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-4
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- Subject Terms:
- American poetry -- 20th century.
Love poetry, American -- 20th century.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Women poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century
Musical scores -- United States -- 20th century. - Names:
- Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936
