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Description:

The Author Files contain files relating to authors, poets, artists, translators, editors, intellectuals, journalists, literary agents, and other figures from the world of post-WWII belles lettres. Many, but not all, of the authors represented here have submitted work to, been published in, or had business with The Hudson Review. Most author files contain correspondence including incoming letters, notes, cards, and telegrams, and often carbon copies of outgoing letters from the editors, consulting editors, and other representatives of The Hudson Review. These files may also include manuscripts, offprints, artwork, internal forms and memoranda, clippings, permission requests, documents pertaining to copyright assignment, reader's reports, galley and corrected proof pages, and other materials relevant to each file subject's connection with The Hudson Review and/or its editors. Some of the most important writers, thinkers, and critics of the twentieth century are represented in these files, including Saul Bellow, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Kenneth Burke, E. M. Cioran, T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Wyndham Lewis, Thomas Mann, Marshall McLuhan, and Saint-John Perse. Poets are particularly well represented with files available (all containing correspondence) for W. H. Auden, Alan Ginsberg, W. S. Graham, Jorge Guillen, Robert Lowell, Hugh MacDiarmid. Marianne Moore, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Some of the most extensive files in this series are those concerning post-WWII American poets such as A. R. Ammons, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth (including several hundred letters), Dana Gioia, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, and Louis Simpson.

Arranged alphabetically by author name.

Description:

An incomplete collection of authors' manuscripts (generally typescripts with editorial corrections and printers markings), authors' proofs, multiple sets of galleys (some with editorial and/or authorial corrections), advertising and publicity material, forms, memos and other internal documents related to the printing and production of the magazine, records of the payments made to contributors, and other miscellaneous items. Arranged in chronological order, the contents run from Volume XIX No. 1 (Spring 1966) through Volume LVII No. 4 (Winter 2005); contents from Volume XIX No.1 through Volume XX No. 4 are partial. Issue files from 2006 to 2014 were received in a later accession in 2015 and can be found in Subseries 13B: Issue Files.

Arranged chronologically by issue. The Ezra Pound material has been moved to Series 3. For access to these issue files by author name, consult the <a href="http://hudsonreview.com/article-archive/">index</a> maintained by the Hudson Review.

Description:

Between 1950 and 1956, The Hudson Review published a number of works by the modernist poet and critic Ezra Pound (1885-1972): translations of The Analects of Confucius (1950) and Sophocles' Women of Trachis (1954), as well as additions to Pound's long poem The Cantos, Cantos 85 through 89 (1955), and Cantos 96 and 97 (1956). During this period Pound also acted as a kind of unacknowledged advisor to The Hudson Review, often providing editorial advice, suggestions, and recommendations in his correspondence with Frederick Morgan. This series contains extensive correspondence, typescripts of Cantos 85-89 and 96-97 with extensive corrections and notations by Pound, as well as typescripts of Women of Trachis and of an unpublished poem entitled, ""To Sappho: Owed."" Additionally the series includes corrected page proofs of Canto 85, galleys of Cantos 96 and 97 (with notes and corrections from Pound), a group of printing plates for Cantos 86 and 87 (incomplete) and other material related to Ezra Pound, his writings published in The Hudson Review, and his relationship with Frederick Morgan.

Arranged by form/genre.

Description:

Awarded bi-annually between 1976 and 1994 to "a writer of significant achievement whose work has not received the full recognition it deserves or who is at a critical stage in his or her career," the Bennett Award was a literary prize established in honor of poet, travel writer, and founding editor of The Hudson Review Joseph Bennett (1922-1972). Its recipients, listed in chronological order, were: Jorge Guillen (1976), Andrei Sinyavsky (1978), V.S. Naipaul (1980), Seamus Heaney (1982), Anthony Powell (1984), Nadine Gordimer (1986), Yves Bonnefoy (1988), William Trevor (1990), Charles Tomlinson (1992), and Frank Tuohy (1994). The files contain items connected to the award, including publicity materials and press releases, selection committee correspondence, guest lists and programs for the award ceremonies, expense records, and material related to each year's award recipient.

Arranged chronologically.

Description:

These files are arranged alphabetically and concern subjects relevant to The Hudson Review, but which do not fit easily into other series. Included are files related to the incorporation of the magazine in 1946, to industry associations and organizations such as the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and the Association of Literary Magazines of America, and to secondary projects undertaken by The Hudson Review such as The Hudson Review Anthology and The Hudson Review Fellowship. Also included are research files with headings such as "Hannah Arendt" and "Exxon Corporation" that generally contain clippings, notes and other general informational materials; topical files such as "Community Outreach," and "Anniversaries"; files about institution-specific events such as "Choice/ Robert Bly Controversy," and "United States Custom's seizure of Soft Machine"; files covering events in which The Hudson Review participated such as "The West Chester Conference" and "Sewanee Writers Conference"; and files pertaining to works published in The Hudson Review that were subsequently published in different forms or utilized for film or theatrical projects such as "Indians in Overalls," and "Stalingrad Letters." These files contain a variety of material including correspondence, clippings, informational brochures, offprints, photocopies of a range of materials (especially in the files related to the research done on The Hudson Review by Peter Brazeau), inter-office memos, and other documents.

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Description:

These files cover the administrative, financial, and operational aspects of The Hudson Review, and include materials related to production, advertising, circulation, taxes, accounting, banking, office operations, fund raising, subscriptions, promotion and personnel. Present in these files are Treasurer's Reports covering the years 1947-2001. Arranged only to the box level, this series includes the following subseries: General Business Files, Employees and Interns, Permissions, Financial Statements, Subscription Ledgers, Circulation, Advertising, Printers (made up mostly of files related to William Byrd Printing), and Bills and Banking which includes bank statements, checkbook stubs, and petty cash receipts all dating from before 1980.

Arranged by form/genre.

Description:

While there is some unavoidable overlap between some of the material included here and Frederick Morgan's editorship of The Hudson Review, this series contains material principally related to Morgan's work as a poet and translator and to his personal history.

Arranged in the following subseries: Writings, Personal Correspondence, Student Files, Military Service, Awards and Honorary Degrees, Financial and Legal Papers, and Miscellaneous Files.

Description:

Material related to Frederick Morgan's family. Though consisting mostly of correspondence, these papers also include a range of other material associated with individual family members. For example, Morgan's son Seth published a novel, Homeboy, and his files include clippings of reviews for the book. The most extensive files in this series [relate to] Morgan's first wife, Constance, and to Morgan's mother, Marion Morgan. The correspondence between Morgan and his first wife runs to several hundred letters, and the two were particularly active correspondents during the period of Morgan's military service when they often wrote each other multiple letters in a single day. The files for Marion Morgan span a particularly long period, from 1930 to 1988, and contain extensive correspondence between her and her son in which they often discuss family news and events.

Arranged alphabetically by personal name.

Description:

Consists of photographs of Frederick Morgan, family photographs, photographs of authors, friends, poetry readings, and events, as well as others.

Organized into the following file groups: Photographs of Frederick Morgan, Poetry Readings, Celebrations and Other Events, Family Photographs, Bennett Award, Authors and Friends, Art Inserts, and Miscellaneous Photographs.

Description:

This series includes audio and video recordings of Frederick Morgan's poetry readings and interviews, as well as readings and interviews from other authors, music and program recordings, and recordings of Hudson Review associated events such as "The Hudson Review Live" panel held at NYU. Materials include audiotapes, reels, compact discs and videotapes.

Organized by media type.

Description:

Consists of miscellaneous oversize items, a ballot box, and several original printing plates.

Organized alphabetically by name.

Description:

Consists of printed material related to Hudson Review Single Issues, Frederick Morgan Publications, and Paula Deitz Publications.

Organized into the following file groups: Hudson Review Single Issues, Frederick Morgan Publications, Paula Deitz Publications.

Description:

This series contains additional author files and correspondence, editorial materials, administrative and financial files, circulation and publicity materials, and project files of The Hudson Review, documenting the magazine's activities from 2006 through 2014, although some materials predate this period. Author files and issue files largely span these years, while financial files document the magazine's financial activities primarily from 2002 to 2008. Author, issue, financial, administrative, and publicity files are largely chronological continuations of earlier series. However, files related to special projects and publications of the The Hudson Review are also present, regarding the magazine's Writers in the Schools program and its anthologies, Writes of Passage (2008) and Poets Translate Poets (2013). A collection of materials related to founding editor Frederick Morgan (1922-2004) is also present and includes condolence letters, obituaries, and tributes following his death in 2004, printed materials, and signs from his office.

The 2015 accession was arranged into nine subseries, following the original groupings of the materials.

Vn-Vz, 2009

1 folder

Ya-Ym, 2011

1 folder
Scope and Contents

These archives contain the records of The Hudson Review, one of the most notable and influential American literary quarterlies of the post-World War II era. Reflecting the history of this New York City-based magazine, the bulk of material dates from 1947 to 2014. In addition, these archives contain the personal papers of founding editor Frederick Morgan (1922-2004), who was also a published poet and translator. Files include author correspondence, manuscripts, various items reflecting the editing and production of the magazine (proofs, galleys, advertising and publicity materials, internal editorial memos), and items related to the Bennett Award, a literary prize honoring HR founding editor Joseph Bennett (1922-1972) that was awarded bi-annually from 1976 to 1994. A special grouping of material (correspondence, typescripts, proofs, printing plates) related to the modernist poet and critic Ezra Pound and his association with The Hudson Review is also included. Frederick Morgan's personal papers contain correspondence with his friends and family, drafts and manuscripts of his writings, his personal journals and diaries, files related to his time as a student, and photographs. Among the numerous prominent authors, critics, intellectuals, and translators published by The Hudson Review and represented in the files are Saul Bellow, Isaiah Berlin, Yves Bonnefoy, Kenneth Burke, Hayden Carruth, E. M. Cioren, T. S. Eliot, Robert Fitzgerald, Northrop Frye, Wyndham Lewis, Robert Lowell, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Mann, Marianne Moore, Saint-John Perse, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Allen Tate, William Carlos Williams, and Yvor Winters.

The archives for the years 2006 to 2014, which were received as a later addition, include author files and correspondence, issue files, financial and administrative documents, circulation and publicity materials, as well as files regarding two Hudson Review anthologies, Writes of Passage (2008) and Poets Translate Poets (2013); its Writers in the Schools program, which began in the mid 1990s; and correspondence, printed materials, and objects related to the life and work of Frederick Morgan.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into thirteen series.

Collection Creator Biography:

Morgan, Frederick, 1922-2004

The Hudson Review was co-founded in 1947 by Princeton graduates Frederick Morgan '43, Joseph Bennett '43, and William Arrowsmith '45. Its first issue appeared in the spring of 1948 and included an essay by R. P. Blackmur and poetry by Wallace Stevens and E. E. Cummings. After William Arrowsmith left the magazine around 1960, and Joseph Bennett gave up his editorial activities in 1966, Frederick Morgan continued on as editor until his retirement in 1998. Paula Deitz, who joined The Hudson Review as an assistant editor in 1967, shared editing responsibilities with Morgan (they were married in 1969) until 1998 when she assumed editorship of the magazine. An influential quarterly that describes itself as a "magazine of literature and the arts," The Hudson Review has published some the most eminent writers and critics of the twentieth century. In addition to its substantial record publishing in the fields of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, The Hudson Review has published across a wide range of genres and subject areas including philosophy, cultural anthropology, travel writing, art and design criticism, memoir, the cultural essay, and music, film, theater, and dance reviewing. At the time of the writing of this finding aid, The Hudson Review is still in operation and continues to publish on a quarterly basis.

Biography of Frederick Morgan

Poet, critic, translator, and editor, [George] Frederick Morgan (1922-2004) was born in New York City on April 25, 1922. He received his education at St. Bernard's School, New York City, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1943. While studying comparative literature at Princeton, Morgan was co-editor of the Nassau Literary Review (also known as the Nassau Lit, and took creative writing classes with Allen Tate and R. P. Blackmur. Tate, in particular, would remain an influential figure in Morgan's artistic and intellectual life after Princeton. From 1943 to 1945 Morgan served in the Tank Destroyer Corps, U.S. Army, and was stationed mainly at Fort Hood, Texas. In 1947 he co-founded The Hudson Review, and continued to serve as editor of the magazine for fifty years, retiring in the spring of 1998. His first book of poetry, A Book of Change, was published in 1972 (Morgan was fifty years old) and received a National Book Award nomination. His last collection, The One Abiding, was published in 2003. He also edited two anthologies of work originally published in The Hudson Review, and his poetry and translations appeared in numerous magazines and literary periodicals. Morgan was married three times—to Constance Canfield, Rose Fillmore, and Paula Deitz—and had six children, all from his first marriage. In 1985 Morgan was made "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by the French government, and in 2001 he was awarded the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry. Frederick Morgan died on February 20, 2004.

Bibliography of Frederick Morgan


Morgan, Frederick, 1922-2004

The Hudson Review was co-founded in 1947 by Princeton graduates Frederick Morgan '43, Joseph Bennett '43, and William Arrowsmith '45. Its first issue appeared in the spring of 1948 and included an essay by R. P. Blackmur and poetry by Wallace Stevens and E. E. Cummings. After William Arrowsmith left the magazine around 1960, and Joseph Bennett gave up his editorial activities in 1966, Frederick Morgan continued on as editor until his retirement in 1998. Paula Deitz, who joined The Hudson Review as an assistant editor in 1967, shared editing responsibilities with Morgan (they were married in 1969) until 1998 when she assumed editorship of the magazine. An influential quarterly that describes itself as a "magazine of literature and the arts," The Hudson Review has published some the most eminent writers and critics of the twentieth century. In addition to its substantial record publishing in the fields of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, The Hudson Review has published across a wide range of genres and subject areas including philosophy, cultural anthropology, travel writing, art and design criticism, memoir, the cultural essay, and music, film, theater, and dance reviewing. At the time of the writing of this finding aid, The Hudson Review is still in operation and continues to publish on a quarterly basis.

Biography of Frederick Morgan

Poet, critic, translator, and editor, [George] Frederick Morgan (1922-2004) was born in New York City on April 25, 1922. He received his education at St. Bernard's School, New York City, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1943. While studying comparative literature at Princeton, Morgan was co-editor of the Nassau Literary Review (also known as the Nassau Lit, and took creative writing classes with Allen Tate and R. P. Blackmur. Tate, in particular, would remain an influential figure in Morgan's artistic and intellectual life after Princeton. From 1943 to 1945 Morgan served in the Tank Destroyer Corps, U.S. Army, and was stationed mainly at Fort Hood, Texas. In 1947 he co-founded The Hudson Review, and continued to serve as editor of the magazine for fifty years, retiring in the spring of 1998. His first book of poetry, A Book of Change, was published in 1972 (Morgan was fifty years old) and received a National Book Award nomination. His last collection, The One Abiding, was published in 2003. He also edited two anthologies of work originally published in The Hudson Review, and his poetry and translations appeared in numerous magazines and literary periodicals. Morgan was married three times—to Constance Canfield, Rose Fillmore, and Paula Deitz—and had six children, all from his first marriage. In 1985 Morgan was made "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by the French government, and in 2001 he was awarded the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry. Frederick Morgan died on February 20, 2004.

Bibliography of Frederick Morgan

Acquisition:

The Hudson Review Archives and Frederick Morgan Papers were purchased in March 2006 , partly with funds from the Richard M. Ludwig Endowment donated by Michael Spence. The Morgan family papers were the gift of Ms. Paula Deitz, 2006 . The magazine's archives spanning the years 2006 to 2014 were purchased from Paula Deitz in 2015 (AM 2015-76). Hudson Review single issues are accrued periodically.

Appraisal

No materials were separated from the collection during 2015 processing.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Brian McDonald in 2006-2007. Finding aid written by Brian McDonald in 2007. The folder inventory for the 2015 accession was added by Fiona Bell '18 and Kristine Gift (GS) in May 2015, and the finding aid was updated by Kelly Bolding in May 2015.

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