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Kay Boyle letters to Helga Einsele

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Identifier: MSS 0655
Abstract Award-winning American author, educator, and political activist Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was a prominent member of the American expatriate modernist circle of the 1920s and 1930s. Boyle's later years are characterized by her extensive political activism. The Kay Boyle letters to Helga Einsele document Boyle's decades-long friendship with criminologist and prison reformer Helga Einsele (1910-2005). The collection comprises letters from Boyle and their enclosures, drafts of Einsele's replies,...
Dates: 1951-1992

Kay Boyle letters to Pat Pomerleau

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0727
Abstract

Eleven letters from Kay Boyle to Pat Pomerleau (two of the letters were dictated to an assistant by Boyle), the other nine are written by Boyle, dated 1971 through 1989.

Dates: 1971-1989

Kay Boyle papers

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Identifier: MSS 0131
Abstract

Born on February 19, 1902, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Kay Boyle has been known for her work and achievements as a poet, short story writer, novelist, journalist, teacher, and political activist. One of the most prominent American expatriates during the 1920s and 1930s, much of Kay Boyle’s work reflects the influences of that literary circle.

Dates: 1930-1991; Majority of material found within 1960-1986

William Carlos Williams and Kay Boyle letters to Charlotte Wilson

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0908
Abstract

Eight autograph letters, one written and signed by William Carlos Williams to Charlotte Wilson commenting positively on a poem she wrote, five letters from Williams's wife, Florence, to Wilson, and two letters from Kay Boyle to Wilson, dated from December 3, 1957 to November 1, 1961.

Dates: 1957-1961