Daniel Haberman papers, 1972-1987

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Series I: Correspondence



Box 11 Correspondence with Publishers


Box 11 Poetry Readings: Correspondence


Box 11 Correspondence with book-sellers



Box 7 Letters exchanged between Cornelia Foss (illustrator of Erinna) and Daniel Haberman



Box 8 Correspondence with Poets (Djeraasi Foundation)


Box 8 Correspondence with Edgar Bowers


Box 8 Correspondence with Anthony Hecht


Box 8 Correspondence with Guy Davenport


Personal correspondence with Daniel Haberman:


Box 8 Robert Penn Warren


Box 8 WM Spackman


Box 8 Michael Hamburger


Box 8 Seamus Heaney


Box 8 Carl Rakosi


Box 8 James Schuyler


Box 8 Howard Nemerov


Box 8 Robert Fagles


Box 8 Vera Lachmann


Box 8 XJ Kennedy


Box 8 Laura Riding Jackson


Box 8 Peyton Houston


Box 8 Alfred Starr Hamilton


Box 8 Norman Cousins


Box 8 Stanley Burnshaw


Box 8 Clarence Brown


Box 8 John Heath-Stubbs


Box 8 David Wright


Box 8 Arturo Vivante


Box 8 Charles Sisson


Box 8 Richmond Lattimore


Box 8 JV. Cunningham


Box 8 Mary Renault


Box 8 Robert Fitzgerald


Box 8 Douglas Bush


Box 8 Bror Zachrisson


Box 8 Correspondence with critics and publishers


Box 8 Correspondence with Journals



Box 9 Barbara Nissman correspondence with John Daniel (publisher of The Lug of Days to Come) publicity for book release.


Box 9 Barbara Nissman contract with John Daniel for publication of book


Box 9 Barbara Nissman personal correspondence re: publishing of Daniel's book


Box 9 Barbara Nissman personal correspondence: response to Daniel's book including composers' response to setting his poetry


Box 9 Miscellaneous (includes unanswered letters from Cambridge Press other contacts)


Box 9 Contacts with publishers in London



Box 11 Poetry Readings: Correspondence


Box 11 Correspondence with book-sellers


Box 11 Correspondence with Publishers



Box 10 Norton Collection of Classical Literature

Barbara Nissman correspondence with Bernard Knox, editor to include Erinna translation (copy of poem published in book included) Also published in The Greek Poets - Norton Collection (copy from book included.)


Nissman correspondence with poets re: blurbs for Daniel's book:


Box 10 Guy Davenport


Box 10 Anthony Hecht


Box 10 Richard Wilbur


Box 10 Edgar Bowers


Box 10 Rachel Hadas


Box 10 Bernard Knox


Nissman correspondence with poets re: death of Daniel Haberman:


Box 10 Daniel Aaron


Box 10 William Jay Smith


Box 10 Don Stanford


Box 10 Nick Lyons


Box 10 Catherine Brosman


Box 10 Guy Davenport


Box 10 Richard Wilbur


Box 10 Edgar Bowers


Box 10 John Heath-Stubbs


Box 10 Sandi Mendelson (publicist for Poets' Corner)


Box 10 Daniel Hoffman


Box 10 Byron Gordon


Nissman correspondence with poets composers publishers, etc. in response to Daniel's book "The Lug of Days to Come":


Box 10 Guy Davenport


Box 10 Richard Wilbur


Box 10 Seamus Heaney


Box 10 Charles Sisson


Box 10 XJ Kennedy


Box 10 Linda Blandford (Guardian)


Box 10 Harry Ford


Box 10 Daniel Aaron


Box 10 Carl Rakosi


Box 10 Owen Laster


Box 10 Anthony Hecht


Box 10 Edgar Bowers


Box 10 Rita Dove


Box 10 Edward Hirsch


Box 10 Lyle Bonge


Box 10 Herb Liebowitz (Parnassus)


Box 10 John Heath-Stubbs


Box 10 RWB Lewis


Box 10 JD McClatchey


Box 10 Michael Hamburger


Box 10 Gyorgy Kurtag


Box 10 Ned Rorem


Box 10 Dominic Argento


Box 10 James Billington


Box 10 Diane Middlebrook


Box 10 Molly Peacock


Box 10 Lawrence Joseph


Box 10 William Jay Smith


Box 10 Michael Dirda


Box 10 David Hyde Pierce


Box 10 Catherine Brosman


Box 10 Marylin Arthur


Box 10 Michael Schmidt


Box 10 Grace Shulman


Box 10 Barbara Feldon


Box 10 Don Stanford


Box 10 Nick Lyons



Box 11 Barbara Nissman correspondence with publishers about publishing Daniel's manuscript