William F. Claire Collection on Mark Van Doren, 1940-1987

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Series I: Correspondence



Box 1 Folder 1 Booth, Philip to William Claire (1 ALS, 1 page), 4 February 1980

Booth is responding to Claire's sending him the Mark Van Doren tribute issue. (Voyages: Vol. V numbers I-IV, 1973). Booth notes that he did not know of the issue when it came out. Booth was born in 1925 in Hanover, New Hampshire. He attended Dartmouth College, where he studied with Robert Frost; he received his B.A. in 1947. He subsequently received an M.A. from Columbia University. Booth was an instructor and professor of English and of creative writing at Dartmouth College, Bowdoin College, Wellesley College, and at Syracuse University. He was one of the founders of the Creative Writing program at Syracuse. Booth's poetry was published in many periodicals including "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic Monthly", "The American Poetry Review", "Poetry", and "Denver Quarterly". He published 10 poetry collections and one book about writing poetry and received numerous awards for his work



Box 3 Folder 1 Budd, Louis J. to William Claire, 9 June 1982



Box 1 Folder 2 Bullock, Marie to William Claire (1 TLS), 1 November 1977

(with clipping)



Box 3 Folder 2 Bullock, Marie to William Claire, 24 May-19 December 1977, 3 letters


Box 3 Folder 3 Burton, Pat to William Claire, 29 July 1975


Box 3 Folder 4 Claire, William to Marie Bullock, 8 December 1977

(With Biographical sketch of William Claire and Mark Van Doren)


Box 3 Folder 5 Claire, William to Jene Lyon, 18 April 1977


Box 3 Folder 6 Coleman, Harry to William Claire, 16 July 1977, 1 postcards


Box 3 Folder 7 Darkey, William to William Claire, 23 November 1976


Box 3 Folder 8 Editor, New England Quarterly to William Claire, 1 February 1973


Box 3 Folder 9 Grabowski, Bernard F. to William Claire, 27 October 1965


Box 3 Folder 10 Heckscher, August to Mark Van Doren, 14 June 1972


Box 3 Folder 11 Hendrick, George to William Claire, 26 August 1981


Box 3 Folder 12 Hovde, Carl F. to William Claire, 18 July 1976


Box 3 Folder 13 Inez, Colette To William Claire, 1973

(Written on the cover of "Yes: A Magazine of Poetry"


Box 3 Folder 14 Jellema, Rod to William Claire, 23 February 1973


Box 3 Folder 15 Jevtro?, Bill to William Claire, 21 September 1974


Box 3 Folder 16 Johnston, Richard J. H. to William Claire, 10 July 1964


Box 3 Folder 17-18 Joseph, Nannie to William Claire , 5 February & 18 June 1973


Box 3 Folder 19 Kahn, Sholom J. to William Claire, 24 May 1973


Box 3 Folder 20 Lester, Laurie to William Claire, 5 July 1984


Box 3 Folder 21-23 Lyon, Jene to William Claire, 5 January 1977-15 January 1978


Box 3 Folder 24 Lyon, Jene to Richard D. Weigle, 26 May 1977


Box 3 Folder 25-26 Malloy, Nancy to William Claire, 23 November 2015 & 27 July 2017


Box 3 Folder 27 May, F. B. to William Claire, 1 postcards


Box 3 Folder 28 Ray to William Claire, 16 December & 1 January 1977, 2 letters


Box 3 Folder 29 Rowe, Harry P. to William Claire, 13 October 1964


Box 3 Folder 30 Samuel, Edith to William Claire, 31 August 1967


Box 3 Folder 31 Smith, William to William Claire


Box 3 Folder 32 Van Doren, Charles to William Claire, 13 September 1976



Box 1 Folder 3 Van Doren, Dorothy to William Claire, 24 September 1974-18 April 1978

(1 ALS; 2TLS; 2 postcard)



Box 3 Folder 33 Van Doren, Dorothy to Helen and William Claire, 6 February 1973-24 July 29180, 7 letters


Box 3 Folder 39-40 Van Doren, Mark to Brombach, 6 August 1972

(With "How Praise A World" music)



Box 1 Folder 4 Van Doren, John to William Claire (1 TLS), 29 June 1978

(With a copy of Poetry Pilot, April, 1978 by The Academy of American Poetry)


Box 1 Folder 5 Van Doren, John to William Claire (1 TLS), 21 November 1978

(Concerning the Mark Van Doren issue of Voyages)



Box 3 Folder 34-36 Van Doren, John to William Claire, 10 September 1976-31 October 1977, 3 letters



Box 1 Folder 6 Van Doren, Mark to William Claire (1 postcard), 4 June 1966


Box 1 Folder 7 Van Doren, Mark to William Claire (1 ALS), 17 August 1967


Box 1 Folder 8 Van Doren, Mark to William Claire (1 postcard), 26 December 1967


Box 1 Folder 9 Van Doren, Mark to William Claire (1 postcard), 1 February 1968


Box 1 Folder 10 Van Doren, Mark to William Claire, 2 May 1968

 (Autograph note on a printed notice on "the consumption of brooms" by the US Tariff Commission)


Box 1 Folder 11 Van Doren, Mark to William Claire (1 TLS), 17 October 1972



Box 3 Folder 37-38 Van Doren, Mark to William Claire, 14 May & 8 August 1970


Box 3 Folder 41 Van Doren, Mark to William Claire, 1 June 1961-16 September 1972

(Photocopies)



Box 1 Folder 12 Van Doren, Mark to Gladys Ewing Combes (wife of Abbott Combes) of Sheffield, MA (1 ALS), 19 August 1940


Box 1 Folder 12 Van Doren, Mark to Gladys Ewing Combes (wife of Abbott Combes) of Sheffield, MA (1 postcard), 12 March 1953



Box 3 Folder 42 Vinson, James to William Claire, 27 June 1977


Box 3 Folder 43-44 Wagner, Charles A. to William Claire, 31 March &13 April 1973


Box 3 Folder 45 Wang, Arthur W. to Willaim Claire, 16 February 1965


Box 3 Folder 46 Wensberg, Erik to William Claire, 16 January 1975


Box 3 Folder 47-49 Zamuda, Bob to William Claire, 4 March-17 July 1976


Box 3 Folder 50 Envelopes (3)