Guide to the Peter Veres Papers
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University of California, Santa Cruz
2005
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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
Access
Collection open for research.
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Preferred Citation
Peter Veres papers. MS 172. Special Collections and Archives, University Library,
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Acquisition Information
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)
Biography
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.
Related Material
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-
box-folder 1:1
Biographical
1977
Physical Description: 1
folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
Contains two page biographical sketch.
box-folder 1:2-4
Correspondence
1973-1977
Physical Description: 3
folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
Contains outgoing and incoming correspondence relating to the publishing of
The Argument of Innocence. Included is a set of personal
letters from Miriam Patchen to Peter Veres.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
box-folder 1:2
City magazine (Gerard Van der Leun); carbon copy,
Mar 28, 1973
box-folder 1:2
Harry N. Abrams Inc.; carbon copy (2 pp),
Apr 27, 1973
box-folder 1:2
Miriam Patchen; 4 carbon copies,
1973
box-folder 1:2
Fred Richard (Foreign Language Dept. Holt, Rinehart & Winston); carbon
copy,
Dec 14, 1976
box-folder 1:2
The Scrimshaw Press (Fred Mitchell); carbon copy,
May 3, 1976 & April 4, 1975
box-folder 1:3
Center for the Moving Image (Joseph Fulmer); TLS,
May 24, 1977
box-folder 1:3
City magazine (Gerard Van der Leun); TLS,
1973
box-folder 1:3
Marty Cohen; TSL,
Jun 10, 1974
box-folder 1:3
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; TLS,
May 23, 1973
box-folder 1:3
J. P. Tacher Inc. (Brian Williams); ALS,
Jan 10, 1977
box-folder 1:3
Pantheon Books (Tom Engelhardt); 3 ALS + clippings,
1977,
undated
box-folder 1:4
Miriam Patchen,
1973-1977
box-folder 1:4
6 ALS, 7 cards & telegram,
1973-1977
box-folder 1:4
6 Blank Patchen Post Cards; Painting Poem in Mixed Medium, [4 x 6],
printed by Museum Reproductions, Alhambra, CA, 1958; 1 Blank Patchen Xmas Card
"Season's greetings"
box-folder 1:3
The Scrimshaw Press; 5 carbon copies, 2 TLS & invitation,
1973-1976
box-folder 1:5-10
Manuscripts
1973-1976
Physical Description: 6
folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
Contains corrected typescripts and attached material to
The
Argument of Innocence
, and article "Kenneth Patchen's Picture-Poems" and the
transcript to Miriam Patchen's interview with Peter Veres.
box-folder 1:5-8
The Argument of Innocence, published
1976
box-folder 1:5
First Draft title pg & (p. 1-33), and Revision, (p. 1-33)
box-folder 1:7
"Patchen on Blake", typescript & attached material (8 pp)
box-folder 1:7
Preface by Miriam Patchen, holograph, (3 pp)
box-folder 1:7
Bio & bibliography by Miriam, holograph (3 pp), and ALS from Miriam
Patchen, May 30 [ ]
box-folder 1:7
Veres invitation list to "Patchen Party-Reading" (5 pp)
box-folder 1:8
Clippings; Book reviews, advertisements, misc. publicity (32
pp),
1977
box-folder 1:9
"Kenneth Patchen's Picture-Poems"; Typescript & drafts (16 pp), published
article in
City Magazine(p. 44), Feb. 1,
1973.
box-folder 1:10
"Miriam Patchen, Interview with Peter Veres", corrected transcript (p.
1-45),
Oct. 24, 1974
Related Materials
Two 5-inch reel-to-reel tapes of Miriam Patchen's interview with Peter Veres were
digitized by the UCSC Library and cataloged separately under call number LCD10805.
