I found out that Erotica/Porn and Playboy and other such publications are there and held under "Rare Books" because that is the category for things that have been published and things that are likely to be stolen, whether they are actually "rare" are kept in there. I can't wait to get through all this course ca-ca so I can really start wasting my time in places like this. |
i recently read the book of letters Between Henry Miller and his longtime publisher Jim McLaughlin of New Directions. Especially in the first half of the 20th century, mail was it! so some of the most amazing authors and their benefactors of the 20th century donated their letters and such to university libraries. I think it was UCLA that holds archives of hundreds of Henry Miller letters. Was the Yeats letter handwritten? |
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typical melodramatic poet shit. |
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What a mess. However, they did have two children, and Yeats wrote a really beautiful poem for his daugher, Anne. So some good came out of this. |
Special Collections and Archives Exhibition Curators: My friends!!!!!!! This was so cool. I'm a sucker for all of this stuff anyway, but it was especially cool to look at Hughes's typed and written letters to friends (he refers to Richard Wright as Dick!) because a lot of my literary research is on African American writers. Oh, and on the way to campus, I thought of Antigone, when I saw a bumper sticker that said *Antigone Rising* You should put that on your car, tiggy. |
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Still ah doesn't like ennyone t'fuck wif mah literary cultural reference identificashun mechanism, thank yoos very much |
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