Guide to the J.V. (James Vincent) Cunningham Typescripts of poetry, 1931-1943

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Guide to the J.V. (James Vincent) Cunningham Typescripts of poetry, 1931-1943

Collection number: Misc 424

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford University Libraries

Stanford, California

Contact Information

  • Department of Special Collections
  • Green Library
  • Stanford University Libraries
  • Stanford, CA 94305-6004
  • Phone: (650) 725-1022
  • Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
  • URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/
Processed by:
Special Collections staff
Date Completed:
1996
Encoded by:
Steven Mandeville-Gamble
© 1999 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: J.V. (James Vincent) Cunningham Typescripts of poetry,
Date (inclusive): 1931-1943
Collection number: Special Collections Misc 424
Creator: Cunningham, J.V. (James Vincent), 1911-
Extent: 2 folders
Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Provenance

Gift of Clayton I. Stafford, 1975.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] J.V. (James Vincent) Cunningham Typescripts of poetry, Misc 424, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Content

Includes 18 poems, most signed and dated, a reprint by from MODERN PHILOLOGY, "Logic and Lyric," 1953, and Charles Gullans' A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF J.V. CUNNINGHAM, 1973.

Access Terms

Conley, John.
Gullans, Charles B.
Winters, Yvor, 1900-1968.
American literature--20th century.


Folder 1

"Aeterne Rerum Conditor," nd,

Scope and Content Note

with autograph note on bottom
Folder 1

"Clayton, forgive me...," nd

Folder 1

"Few men write poetry to their wives," nd

Folder 1

"Few men write poetry to their wives," variation in form

Folder 1

"High in the acacia sang...," nd

Folder 1

"Timor Dei," nd

Folder 1

"Valedictory, for Joanna Winters," nd

Folder 1

"Dogmatic Sestina," December 1931

Folder 1

"Bookplate," 1933

Folder 1

"Dedication for the Yearbook, for Don Stanford & Barbara F. Gibbs," 1933

Folder 1

"Hic Iacet Cicada, Elegy on a cricket," 1933

Folder 1

"Lector Aere Perenniorr, for Yvor Winters" 1933

Folder 1

"The Beacon," 1934

Folder 1

"The Chase," 1934

Folder 1

"Epigrammata," 1933 with 1934 addition

Folder 1

"For Amaryllis," 1934

Folder 1

"Meditations on a Memoir," 1943

Folder 2

"The Operation of Alchemical and Devotional Metaphor in the Work of Francis Bacon," for Bacon Seminar, 1939, John Conley. 2 p., with autograph poem, "Summer Idyll," nd. by JVC

Folder 2

Logic and Lyric, by J.V. Cunningham, reprint from MODERN PHILOLOGY, 1953

Folder 2

Gullans, Charles. A Bibliography of the Published Works of J.V. Cunningham, UCLA Library, 1973