Collection of Henry Miller's Reflections on the Death of Mishima documents
Scope and Content Note
The Collection of Henry Miller's Reflections on the Death of Mishima documents, spanning the dates 1971-1973, contains items related to Miller’s work Reflections on the Death of Mishima (1972). Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), a Japanese author acclaimed for his postwar literature, publicly committed ritual suicide on November 25, 1970. The collection includes a carbon typescript of Part I of Miller’s Reflections on the Death of Mishima as well as four letters to Miller from New Directions editor Robert MacGregor in which he discusses Mishima’s writings and suicide, and principles of Zen Buddhism. Also included is a letter to Miller from Noel Young, editor of Capra Press, two short articles on Mishima’s death, a picture of Henry Miller, and an envelope addressed to Miller from Japan.
Dates
- Creation: 1971-1973
- Creation: Majority of material found in 1971
Creator
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials entirely in English.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, http://library.udel.edu/spec/askspec/
Henry Miller (1891-1980)
American author Henry Miller (1891-1980) was raised by German-American parents in Brooklyn. Before becoming a writer, Miller traveled throughout the western United States working at odd jobs and then returned to New York to work at his father’s tailor shop. After working for Western Telegraph Company for four years, Miller left for France in 1930 and lived there for nine years. During this period, he published Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and Black Spring (1936). In 1940, Miller returned to the United States, traveled extensively, continued to write, and eventually settled in Big Sur, California. Miller’s early works were unavailable in America until the 1960s because they contained explicit sexual passages that were deemed obscene.
Perkins, George and Barbara Perkins and Phillip Leininger. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature. New York: Harper Collins, 1991.
Extent
11 item
Abstract
Typescript manuscript and other items related to Henry Miller's Reflections of the Death of Mishima.
Source
Purchase, August 2005.
Shelving Summary
Box 49, F0757: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.
OCLC Number
Processing
Processed by Karalee Kopreski, October 2005. Encoded by Anita Wellner, December 2007. Further encoded by George Apodaca, October 2015.
Subject
- Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970 (Person)
- MacGregor, Robert M. (Person)
- Young, Noel (Person)
Genre / Form
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Finding aid for Collection of Henry Miller's Reflections on the Death of Mishima documents
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Date
- 2007 December 7
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2021 September 27: Collection title was corrected from "Reflections on the Life of Mishima."
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository