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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Peter Veres papers
Creator:
Veres, Peter, 1938-
Identifier/Call Number: MS.172
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
1 half document box
Date (inclusive): 1973-1977
Language of Material:
English
Collection open for research.
Copyright for the items in this collection is owned by the creators and their heirs.
Reproduction or distribution of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair
use requires permission from the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the user to
determine whether a use is fair use, and to obtain any necessary permissions. For more
information see UCSC Special Collections and Archives policy on Reproduction and Use.
Peter Veres papers. MS 172. Special Collections and Archives, University Library,
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Gift of Peter Veres, April 1989.
Alternative Forms of Material Available
"Miriam Patchen, an interview with Peter Veres"(LCD10805)
"The Argument of Innocence" at McHenry Stacks (N6537.P27V47) and Special Collections
(PS3531.A764A885)
Peter Veres, author of The Argument of Innocence: A selection from the arts of Kenneth
Patchen" was born in 1938 in London. He was raised in Budapest by Hungarian - Jewish
parents. The family immigrated to United States in early 1949 and settled in New York City
where he attended public school and received a BA from Columbia College. In 1961 he married
Ruth and moved to Cambridge. After receiving a Harvard master's degree the couple moved to
Berkeley in 1963 where they raised their two children. In the Bay Area he's taught art
history at Lone Mountain College, San Francisco and currently is making name as an mosaic
artist.
Scope and Content of Collection
Contains correspondence, manuscript pages and clippings relating to his published work "The
Argument of Innocence". Included also is the transcript to "Miriam Patchen, an interview
with Peter Veres", 1974.
The following collections in Special Collection at UCSC:
MS 160 Kenneth Patchen Papers; MS 161 Miriam Patchen Papers; MS 163 Kathryn Winslow
collection; MS 164 Alan and Beatrice Parker collection; MS 165 James Boyer May
correspondence; MS 167 Chester Kessler papers; MS 168 Fred Wright correspondence; MS 170
William M. Roth correspondence; MS 175 William Plumley collection; MS 177 Johnny Wittwer
Papers
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Poets, American -- 20th
century
Patchen, Miriam, 1914-2000
Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972
Veres, Peter, 1938-