American Poets' Corner Archive, 1984-1996

Box 1 Personal correspondence between Daniel Haberman, Poet-in Residence (1984-86) and Electors: Richard Wilbur, Robert Penn Warren, Dan Aaron, Eudora Welty, Edgar Bowers, Dan Hoffman (3rd poet-in-residence beginning in 1989.)

Box 2 Correspondence with relatives of Emily Dickinson

Box 2 Correspondence of Sandi Mendelson, PR (background material for acquiring endorsements) (letters to Walter Cronkite, Juilliard School, Metropolitan Opera, Office of the President, Office of the Governor, Office of the Mayor, etc.)

Box 3 Correspondence (1983-1988) of Daniel Haberman with Dean James Parks Morton of the Cathedral. Details preparation of Dedication Ceremony, guidelines, etc.

Box 3 Correspondence with Lynn Chase & Marie Bullock (Academy of American Poets)

Box 3 Correspondence of Daniel Haberman with Bishop Paul Moore, Bishop of NY

Box 3 Follow up correspondence and thank you's for endorsements from John Kenneth Galbraith (American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters), American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts & Sciences and other organizations

Box 4 Correspondence about Dedication Ceremony with Gregory Peck and Walter Cronkite

Correspondence with Julie Harris and Eugene McCarthy

Box 1 Original ballots submitted by the Electors to choose the poets for the American Poets' Corner. Includes suggestions by Electors for the inscriptions to be placed on the stones. 1984, 1985, 1986,

Box 1 Mailings from the Poet-in-Residence to the Electors

Box 1 Poets' Corner (1986-1991) (details voting etc.)(DH served as an elector until his death)

Box 3 Washington Irving- material for preparation of Induction Ceremony (November 1983) correspondence with Rev. Bill Eddy of, NY, Washington Irving Society, Cathedral plus publicity material

Box 2 Proclamation from the Governor of NY, May 1984

Box 2 Proclamation from the Mayor of NYC, May 1984

Endorsements of the Poets' Corner:

Box 2 DVD of Poets' Corner Dedication Service –May '84- 2 versions (rough cut plus edited version)

Box 2 CD of musical selections played at Dedication service: Barber by Barbara Nissman, Bach by Michael Tree, reading of Emily Dickinson by Edgar Bowers, Schubert song by Marcus Haddock/Nissman, Bach by Rosalyn Tureck and a selection on soprano sax by Paul Winter and Paul Halley

Box 2 Photos of the Poets' Corner and the Service of Dedication

Box 2 Copy of History of the American Poets' Corner- The First Three Years (1983-1986) by Daniel Haberman, published in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook

Box 2 Copy of Christian Science Monitor article, Guardian interview with Daniel Haberman by Linda Blandford

Box 3 The Cathedral Lecture Series (background etc., includes copy of lecture given by poet John Heath-Stubbs)

Box 3 Programs of Vespers Services for the American Poets' Corner

Box 4 Publicity received for the Poets' Corner Dedication

Box 4 The Poets' Corner- Background material for publicity material to be sent out for Poets' Corner Dedication Ceremony (photos, program, elector's biographies, information about engraving of stones. Information about Westminster Abbey, etc.)

Box 4 Photos from the Dedication Service

Box 4 TLS review of the Poets' Corner plus printed response from electors: Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht & Daniel Aaron; response letter written by DH to TLS

Box 4 Daniel Haberman Memorial Service at the Cathedral, 16 June 1996

Box 4 Program for Memorial Service for Daniel Haberman, 16 June 1996

Box 4 New Yorker Cartoon of the Poets' Corner (featuring Dan Hoffman, Poet in Residence and Barbara Nissman, widow of Daniel Haberman), 15 November 1993