Box 56

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The first entries in this diary are summaries for entire months of January, April, and May of 1954. Beginning in June Thompson returns to daily entries. Laid in material includes several letters, a program based on the stories of Dylan Thomas, and the draft of a letter from Thompson to Brinnin.

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Includes laid and pasted in material from Thompson's trip to Europe with Brinnin, such as letters and postcards sent to his wife, photographs of Thompson in England and of his return, clippings, and ephemera related to the trip.

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Includes laid or pasted in material such as clippings, notes, and draft letters.

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Faxed typescript of Richard Wilbur's eulogy for John Malcolm Brinnin.

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Photocopied typescript of a one-page untitled poem by an unidentified writer. The first line of the poem reads: "Rapture, he lets the words reorganize." Bears one autograph note, "rotten spot identified by JMB," next to a circled word in the poem.

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Includes contact sheets, portrait photographs, a metal plate engraving, and snapshots. Many of the photographs were taken by Rollie McKenna.

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Portrait photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright, Max Ernst, and Robert Flaherty taken during the summer of 1947. These photographs appear in Brinnin's chapter on Cartier-Bresson in Sextet.

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Includes photographs of Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell (inscribed), W. H. Auden, Truman Capote, David Gascoyne, Howard Moss, Elizabeth Bowen, Kathleen Raine, T. S. Eliot, and Anne Sexton. Some of these photographs appear in Brinnin's Twentieth Century Poetry, Sextet, and Truman Capote.

Scope and Contents Includes images of Bill Read, Theodoros Stamos, Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., Richard and Charlee Wilbur, Ned Rorem, John H. Thompson, Anna Doherty (inscribed), Peggy Guggenheim, F. O. Matthiessen, Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Maya Deren, Sidney Toler (inscribed), Edith Sitwell, Katherine Anne Porter, Louis Untermeyer, Edwin O. Behrendt, William Carlos Williams, Rollie McKenna, and J. A. Ritchie. There are also photographs of unidentified individuals. See also...

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Many of these photographs were taken in the 1950s by Rollie McKenna.

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Includes photographs taken by Rollie McKenna, several of which appear in Brinnin's Dylan Thomas in America and McKenna's Portrait of Dylan.

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Includes photographs by Rollie McKenna (several appear in Portrait of Dylan) and some snapshots.

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Most of the photographs were taken by Rollie McKenna and some appear in Portrait of Dylan.

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Photographs of the rehearsal and performance of Thomas's Under Milk Wood on May 14, 1953.

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Twenty-nine photographs of artists as taken by Michel Sima and list of photographs. Many appear in his book, Faces of Modern Art. Includes photographs of Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Maurice Utrillo, Zadkine, and others.

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Includes photographs of John Malcolm Brinnin as a boy; his sister, Margaret; his parents, John T. Brinnin and Frances Malcolm; his maternal grandparents; homes where the Brinnins lived; extended family; and family friends. Some photographs are unidentified. Includes one tintype.

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Includes photographs of houses in Great Village, Nova Scotia (where Elizabeth Bishop was born) and Italy.

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Includes images of Dylan Thomas and family, Brinnin, Bill Read, Howard Moss, Elizabeth Bishop, John Thompson, and other unidentified persons

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Includes images of Brinnin, Bill Read, and other unidentified persons. Also twelve slides of Elizabeth Bishop's childhood home and town, Great Village in Nova Scotia.