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MSS 0033
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Title: Linda Oppen Mourelatos Correspondence
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0033
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California, 92093-0175
Languages:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 linear foot
(3 archives boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1956-1982
Abstract: The papers of Linda Oppen Mourelatos, daughter of the Objectivist poet George Oppen and his wife Mary. Of particular importance
is the correspondence between Oppen and her parents; 3 folders of typescript poetry by George Oppen; and 8 folders of material
by Mary Oppen, including 6 folders of a typescript for her autobiography MEANING A LIFE. The papers are arranged in three
series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS and 3) MISCELLANY.
Creator:
Mourelatos, Linda Oppen, 1940-
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence of Linda Oppen Mourelatos, daughter of the Objectivist poet George Oppen and his wife Mary. Of particular importance
is the correspondence between Oppen and her parents; 3 folders of typescript poetry by George Oppen; and 8 folders of material
by Mary Oppen, including 6 folders of a typescript for her autobiography MEANING A LIFE.
The papers are arranged in three series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS and 3) MISCELLANY.
1) CORRESPONDENCE is the largest series in the collection. It is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Most of the letters
in this series are those of George Oppen to Linda Oppen.
2) WRITINGS contains no written material by Linda Oppen. Of special note in this series, besides the manuscripts of George
Oppen, are typescripts of Mary Oppen's autobiography MEANING A LIFE.
Linda Oppen Mourelatos, daughter of Objectivist poet George Oppen and his wife Mary, was born 7 May 1940 in Brooklyn, New
York. For the next six years the Oppen family lived on Long Island and in Detroit, eventually settling in Redondo Beach, California,
where they lived for four years. From Autumn 1950 to Spring 1958 Linda attended the American School in Mexico City. She then
entered Sarah Lawrence College, N.Y., in Autumn 1958, and graduated with a BA. in Spring 1962.
On June 12, 1962 Linda married Alex Mourelatos, then a graduate student in philosophy at Yale. In Autumn 1962 she entered
the Yale Medical School. She discontinued her studies in 1964 while on a leave of absence with Alex, who was then a Post-doctoral
Fellow at The University of Wisconsin at Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities.
From 1965 to the present Linda and Alex Mourelatos have travelled extensively, in conjunction with Alex's teaching career,
including lengthy stays in West Germany; Washington, D.C.; Princeton, N.J.; Canberra, Australia; and Cambridge, Britain. Their
permanent residence during this period has been Austin, Texas, where Alex teaches in the Philosophy Department of The University
of Texas, and where Linda Oppen has been active in equestrian training and showing.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Linda Oppen Mourelatos Correspondence, MSS 0033. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquired, 1985.
George Oppen Papers (MSS 0016) and the June Oppen Degnan Papers (MSS 0017), Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Degnan, June Oppen -- Correspondence
Mourelatos, Alexander P.D., 1936- -- Correspondence
Mourelatos, Linda Oppen, 1940- -- Archives
Oppen, George -- Correspondence
Oppen, Mary, 1908-1990 -- Correspondence
American poetry--20th century