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1939: Oct. 25. John Crowe Ransom
to Weldon Kees
(1 item (1 p.) TLS)
Scope: Discusses several poems by Kees being considered for publication in The Kenyon Review.
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1944: Oct. 26. John Crowe Ransom
to Robert Duncan
(1 item (1 p.): TLS )
Scope: Declining to publish The African elegy, a poem by Duncan, which had previously been accepted
by The Kenyon Review, after Ransom became aware of its references to homosexuality.
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[1944: Nov.] Robert Duncan to
John Crowe Ransom
(1 item (3 pp.): TL)
Scope: Ts. and ms. draft of a letter from Robert Duncan to John Crowe Ransom, defending the
publication of The African elegy on the basis of the poet's right to use his experience as the
matter of his poetry and appealing to the right of free speech.
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1944: Dec. 6. John Crowe Ransom
to Robert Duncan
(1 item (2 pp.): TLS )
Scope: Ts. letter signed, from John Crowe Ransom to Robert Duncan, further explaining his rejection
of The African elegy, and disagreeing that it ought to be printed on the basis of the right of
free speech.
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1945: Mar. 1. John Crowe Ransom
to Robert Duncan
(1 item (1 p.): TLS)
Scope: Ts. letter signed, from , refusing to consider publication of the Ransom-Duncan
correspondence on the subject of homosexuality and poetry.
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1957: Aug. 14. John Crowe Ransom
to Robert Duncan
(1 item (1 p.): TLS)
Scope: Ts. letter signed, from John Crowe Ransom to Robert Duncan, rejecting "this verse of yours"
for publication in The Kenyon Review.
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1957: Aug. 23.
(1 item (1 p.): TLS)
Scope: Ts. letter signed, from John Crowe Ransom to Robert Duncan, further explaining his rejection
of Duncan's (and much other contemporary) poetry.
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1957: Sept. 23.
(1 item (1 p.): ALS)
Scope: Autograph letter signed, from John Crowe Ransom to Robert Duncan, thanking him for his
recent note and rejecting another of Duncan's poems, "Mother Noah."
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1967: Nov. 9. Robert Duncan to
Henry Wenning
(1 item (2 pp.): ALS)
Scope: Autograph letter signed, from Robert Duncan to Henry Wenning, explaining the group of
Ransom-Duncan correspondence.
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Add 1978: Aug. 2:
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1944: Aug. Duncan, Robert
Edward. The homosexual in society [essay].
Scope: Photocopy of article printed in Politics.
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Add 1981: Sept 29,
(1 item.)
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Robert Duncan to George Leite
(1 item (1p.) TLS)
Scope: Regarding correspondence with John Crow Ransom
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