Papers 1963-1964
(4 items)
This collection has been boxed with other collections in ten
boxes stored at locations B-7-6 and B-7-7. Within the boxes, the
collections are arranged sequentially by collection number, and then
by folder.
Scope: Allen Tate to Henry Wenning 1963: December 24. 1 item (1 p.).
Encloses payment for copy of Chills and
Fever [collection of poems] by John Crowe Ransom (Knopf,
1924) and explains origin of tipped-in title page of White Buildings [collection of poems] by Hart
Crane (Boni & Liveright, 1926) for which he had provided a
Foreword. The first issue had misspelled Tate’s name on the title
page: Allan. A corrected title page was tipped-in all subsequent
copies. Comments upon scarcity of few first issue copies and relates
that he has given his own copy to Peggy Baird, first wife of Malcolm
Cowley, for her Hart Crane Collection, purchased by the University
of Texas. 1964: January 8. 1 item (2 pp.): TL [carbon]. Reports that
his copy of Chills and Fever was no
longer available. Thanks him for information concerning first issue
of White Buildings and comments further
upon extreme scarcity of book without corrected title page. Comments
upon state of George Marion O’Donnell’s correspondence which is in
hands of an heir. Allen Tate to Henry Wenning 1964: June 6. 1 item
(1 p.). Requests copy of Chills and Fever. Relates that
his own copy of Mr. Pope [collection of poems] (Minton, Balch &
Company, 1928) has a tipped in sheet for Ode. Henry Wenning to Allen
Tate 1964: June 9. 1 item (1 p.) TL [carbon]. Thanks him for
purchasing copy of Chills and Fever and
thanks him for the information sent on Mr. Pope.
