San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject
Subject Source: Naf
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Kay Boyle letters to Helga Einsele
Collection
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
Thomas Parkinson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0790
Abstract
The Thomas Parkinson papers consist of typescripts and manuscripts of poetry and prose by Parkinson, Parkinson's correspondence, periodicals and clippings related to Parkinson's work, and four original pen-and-ink drawings, probably created by Parkinson's wife, Ariel. The materials were created circa 1957-1972.
Dates:
circa 1957-1972
Carl Rakosi letters to Tom Clark
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0706
Abstract
Two autographed postcards, and a short typed note, written by Carl Rakosi to Tom Clark in 1984 regarding the release of the author's Collected Prose.
Dates:
1984 February 2-April 12
Zephyrus Image records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0880
Abstract
Zephyrus Image, founded by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, was a small Northern California press operating from approximately 1969-1983, notable for its socially- and politically-subversive books and ephemera and its fine works on paper. The Zephyrus Image records document the activities of the California press and its proprietors and the planning and development of roughly 300 printed works of poetry and political and satirical books and ephemera. Zephyrus Image projects were created for...
Dates:
1960-2000; Majority of material found within circa 1969-1983