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I.1 Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979, American author. Correspondence, 1963-1970. [series]:
(78 pp. 42 items.)
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1963:
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January 8.
(TLS 1 p.)
Note: Marianne Moore to Anne Stevenson Many letters in the collection are addressed
to Anne Elvin, married name of Anne Stevenson.
Scope: Suggesting that Stevenson contact Elizabeth Bishop concerning the Twayne
Book. Comments on the Bishop she knows: "She seems happy. Is very fond
of animals -..."; and on herself: "I am a rebel, Mrs. Elvin,
refusing to do any work for anyone; rough and ready in speech -".
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January 19.
(ALS 1 p.)
Scope: Helen E. Sandison to Stevenson discussing her memories of Bishop at Vassar
where she was her faculty advisor.
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January 21.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Julia G. Bacon to Stevenson informing her of facts concerning Bishop's
record at Vassar.
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January 22.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Elizabeth Bishop to Stevenson acknowledging her request for information
and agreeing to help if she can.
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March 18.
(TLS 2pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson giving biographical information about her places of
residence; discussing her fondness for music and painting; and discussing
herself and Marianne Moore: "...I am rather weary of always being compared
to, or coupled with, Marianne..."
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March 20.
(TLS 2 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson outlining where and when poems were written; commenting
on how poems come to her: "I use dream material whenever I am lucky
enough to have any..."; mentioning her friendships with artists: Lowell,
Edmund Wilson, Alexander Calder, Randall Jarrell.
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March 28.
(TL [carbon] 2 pp.)
Scope: Stevenson to Bishop asking questions about Bishop's work and answering
questions about herself.
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August 24.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson commenting on her unpleasant stay in Washington, D.C.,
as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, 1949-50.
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August 26.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Carl D. Brandt [literary agent] to Stevenson. A note accompanying copies
of Bishop's new poems.
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October 2.
(TLS 3 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson giving biographical information. Bishop mentions that
"the Brazil book" is much edited; comments on certain of her
poems and stories; outlines her early publishing history mentioning her association
with Mary McCarthy; mentions the influence on her of Pablo Neruda and John
Dewey - his personality, not his writing.
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October 28.
(TL[carbon] 4 pp.)
Scope: Stevenson to Bishop. Primarily an outline for and discussion of her book, Elizabeth Bishop.
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December 30.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson mentioning personal matters, particularly her friendship
with Lota De Macedo Soares.
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1964:
Scope:
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January 8.
(TLS 7 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson including biographical data relating to the insanity
of her mother, the house she and Lota have built, her dissatisfaction with
the Brazil book. She discusses her views on translation; mentions poets she
admires: Pasternak, Rimbaud, Esenin, Hopkins, Whitman, Dickenson; discusses
Neruda and his work at length. She discusses some of her attitudes: "In
fact I think snobbery governs a great deal of my taste." Discusses
her friends, her views on criticism, her love of art. Discusses her admiration
for Hemingway and Lawrence: "I admire both Hemingway & Lawrence
- along with others - for living in the real world and knowing how to do things."
Mentions her damiration for Chekov as an artist and a person. Mentions Darwin,
Herbert and Baudelaire. Discusses her lack of formal religion. Discusses the
poetics of William Carlos Williams, Pound, Wallace Stevens, and E.E.Cummings.
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January 29.
(TL[carbon] 2 pp.)
Scope: Stevenson to Bishop commenting on Bishop's work and on the book in progress.
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February 16.
(TLS 2 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson discussing Issac Babel and commenting critically on
Babel, Lowell, Jarrell, Frost, Moore, Shapiro, Winters, and Berryman. "...the
problem is how to be justly but impresonally bitter,
isn't it -".
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March 6.
(TL[carbon] 2 pp.)
Scope: Stevenson to Bishop asking questions of fact about Bishop's background
and commenting on the book and what it will contain.
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[nd, March(?)].
(TL 7 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson. Primarily biographical data, mentioning when and where
she met people; discussing her "social Terror"; her personal
views on many mostly non-literary topics.
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March 22.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Barbara Swain to Stevenson relating what she remembers about Bishop at
Vassar.
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March 23.
(TLS 2 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson in which Bishop discusses her reading of Darwin; her
feelings about children and pets; and the conditions (physical and political)
in Brazil.
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April 8.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson describing the Revolution of April 1, 1964.
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May 5.
(TLS 4 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson. The letter is a discussion of her mother's insanity,
private matters, and the Revolution.
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June 30.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson suggesting an itinerary for a visit to London.
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July 8.
(Tpostcard 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson. A "thank you" note following Bishop's
visit to Cambridge.
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July 10.
(ALS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson describing her visit in Sussex with one of Aiken's
daughters.
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October 27.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson in which she discusses several poets including Stevens,
Berryman, Lowell, Roethke, Anne Sexton, Seidel, Cummings, and Moore.
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November 14.
(TLS 2 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson comparing herself to Andrew Wyeth.
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December 5.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson in which she comments on Ruskin and Hopkins and Wyeth
and Randall Jarrell on her work.
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1965:
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February 7.
(TLS 2 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson concerning personal matters, problems with Houghton-Mifflin
over copyrights, her feelings on Chinese, and writing journalism.
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February 14.
(Telegram 1 p.)
Scope: George Abbott to Stevenson. An apology for his failure to write. Apparently
unrelated to the Bishop book.
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February 18.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson in which she mentions a re-reading of T.S.Eliot's "What
is Minor Poetry"; Wittgenstein and I.A. Richards; comments on a study
away from home: "It's the only way to concentrate - particularly for
our distractable and too-obliging sex -".
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April 10.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson congratulating her on the book, Elizabeth Bishop.
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May 20.
(TLS 2 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson correcting factual errors in the book. Mentions her
reading of Wittgenstein. Includes a chronology of the events in her life.
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[1965]: August 15.
(TLS 4 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson correcting biographical inaccuracies in the book. Mentions
Hans Christian Anderson: "...one of my favorite writers;" discusses
W.H.Auden and Sylvia Plath.
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[nd, Fall 1965?].
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson. A note telling of her address.
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[1965]:
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Sept. 18.
(Tpost card S 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson discussing the book, Elizabeth Bishop.
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November 14.
(TLS 2 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson commenting on Stevenson's poems.
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1966:
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April 11.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson discussing Bishop's teaching experience in Seattle;
her most recent book (Questions of Travel); W.H.Auden; and
her travel plans.
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November 11.
(ALS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson mentioning Joseph Summers, a friend, who is to spend
a year teaching at Oxford.
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December 18.
(TLS 1 p.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson discussing personal matters, primarily the hospitalization
of her friend Lota De Macedo Soares.
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1969: April 3.
(TLS 2 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson discussing the changes in her life since the death
of Lota De Macedo Soares.
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1970: February 15.
(TLS 2 pp.)
Scope: Bishop to Stevenson discussing her house in Brazil and other personal matters;
mentions a current difficulty in getting down to work.
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Clipping
(1 item)
Scope: from the New York Times, September 30, 1964, about
Bishop.
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