Collection ID: LMC 2104
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Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Yellen, Samuel, 1906-1983
Abstract:
The Yellen mss., 1863-1968, consist of the correspondence and writings of Samuel Yellen, 1906-1983, author and professor of English at Indiana University at Bloomington.
Extent:
3 Boxes (2 standard, 1 custom)
Language:
Materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

[Item], Yellen mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

Samuel Yellen, 1906-1983, was an author and professor of English at Indiana University.

Scope and Content:

The letters are concerned with matters of personal friendship, the arrangements for poetry lectures and readings, and the publication of his poems and short stories. Two letters of historic interest are included: John Ruskin to Frederick James Furnivall, Sept. 26, 1863, and Henry James to George Charles Williamson, Nov. 26, 1908.

The correspondents are Mrs. Carolyn Adair, Phoebe Lou Adams, Charles Angoff, John Barth, Paul Howard Bixler, Louise Bogan, Alexander Patterson Cappon, Freeman Champney, Margaret Cousins, Robert Creeley, Samuel Cummings, Peter De Vries, Peggy Dowst, Clayton Eshleman, Jonathan Greene, Mrs. Margaret (Lohlker) Hartley, Hiram Haydn, Langston Hughes, Rolfe Humphries, Claire Hunter, Rudolph Max Kauffmann, Stanley Jules Kauffmann, Harold Joseph Laski, Allen Lesser, Denise Levertov, Helen McAfee, Esther Morgan McCullough, Alice B. McGinty, Bernard Malamud, Margaret Marshall, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Howard Moss, Robert Carver North, Charles Gouverneur Paulding, Charles A. Pearce, Paul Pickrel, Winfield Townley Scott, Paul McCutcheon Sears, Jon Silkin, Edward Simeon Skillin, Elizabeth F. Smith, May Agnes Strong, R. Hawley Truax, John Hoyer Updike, Robert Warshow, Richard Weber, Jessamyn West, Caroline Whiting.

Samuel Yellen's poems which have been set to music included in this collection are: Lullaby for Joanna by Robert L. Sanders in Mar. 16, 1947; Easter Meditation and Spring Song (facsimile copies) by Bernhard Heiden in 1947; How I Found Truth (facsimile copy) by Elizabeth Gould in June 1966.

Acquisition information:
Gift: 1973
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into correspondence and writings, with the latter arranged by work.

Physical location:
Lilly - Stacks

Indexed Terms

Subjects:
Indiana University
Music
Names:
Yellen, Samuel, 1906-1983

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Yellen mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu