- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Simpson, Eileen B.
- Title:
- Eileen B. Simpson Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qn59q403j
- Dates:
- 1941-1991 (mostly 1979-1991)
- Size:
- 3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-3
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of papers primarily related to Eileen Simpson's book, Poets in their Youth: A Memoir, about her married years with poet John Berryman.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of papers primarily related to Simpson's book . Included is correspondence (approx. 300 letters) with her publishers, Random House (U.S.) and Faber and Faber (England), before and after publication, and many letters in response to the book from Simpson's friends, former associates of the poets, and people mentioned in the book, such as James Atlas, Saul Bellow, Jack Barbera, Carl Brandt, Robert Giroux, Allan Gurganus, Lili Kahler, Nancy Milford, Joyce Carol Oates, and Daniel Stern, as well as from the general public. Some letters also discuss another of Simpson's autobiographical books, Reversals: A Personal Account of Victory Over Dislexia (1979). Also present are photographs of John Berryman, Delmore Schwartz, Mark Van Doren, and others, used in the book, clippings from newspapers, magazines, and journals of reviews of the book, and four sets of proof, one with author's corrections.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Simpson, Eileen B.
Eileen Simpson was married to the poet John Berryman (1914-1972) from 1942 until their divorce in 1953, and published a book, Poets in their Youth: A Memoir (1982), recalling those years with Berryman and his circle of friends in the literary world.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of the author.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder list prepared by Lisa Yankowitz '13 in 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
This 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:
Eileen B. Simpson Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qn59q403j
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-3
Find More
- Existence and Location of Copies
Published under same title (Random House, 1982)
- Subject Terms:
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Photographs.
Poets, American -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century
Galley Proofs (Printing) -- 20th century.
photographs -- 20th century - Names:
- Berryman, John, 1914-1972
Berryman, John, 1914-1972
