Outgoing Correspondence 1950-1955 1981-1989
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Miriam Patchen 1981-1984
Carbon, "I have been trying to answer your note..." [2 pp] Mar 24, 1984
Carbon, "Here are the pages I've done for the first mention of Kenneth's work..." Mar 14, 1983
Carbon, "I wrote you after watching the TV special..." Feb 25, 1983
Carbon, "This is the most beautiful thing that has happened..." Oct 6, 1981
Kenneth and Miriam Patchen 1950-1955
General: 1950-1955
Carbon, "All business this letter - as I speed out on my way..." + a note from Henry [Rago] Nov 4, 1955
Carbon, "Really it is too bad about Henry and Lepska..." [3 pp] Apr 6, 1952
Carbon, "You two people are on my mind so often..." Sep 4, 1950
Carbon, "We're just returned from a vacation sent camping..." Aug 16, 1950
Carbon, "Henry says it's no-go at Freida Lawrence's..." Jun 22, 1950
Carbon, "Your very thrilling 'Wedding in the Forest' is here..." Jun 8, 1950
2nd BENEFIT FOR PATCHEN, Chicago: 1951
Carbon, "Your news was wonderful to hear..." Apr 25, 1951
Carbon, "Your cards have filled in the page..." Apr 18 [1951]
Carbon, "How is Kenneth? How are you?..." Apr 17, 1951
Carbon, "Jonathan arrived with 20 books..." Mar 15, 1951
Carbon, "I've been in one of those medieval torture chambers..." Feb 16, [1951]
Carbon, "Forgive me for being so slow..." Jan 16, [1951]
Carbon for multiple recipients, "You may have seen the letter which went out from New York..." Apr 18, 1951
FAIR FOR PATCHEN, Chicago: 1950
Carbon, "Here is a five which came in this morning from a theological student Phillip Oxman..." May 30, 1950
Carbon, "With pleasure and the sincere wish from all of us..." [annotated 3 pp] May 25, 1950
Carbon, "I hope you didn't think me too frivolous..." + signed mailer dated [2 pp] May 12, 1950
Carbon, "Thank you for your letter. I have a good picture of you both..." Apr 24, 1950
Carbon, "The two packages of books arrived today..." Apr 5, 1950
Carbon, "Perhaps Henry Miller has told you about "M"..." Mar 20, 1950
Jack [Conroy], carbon, "Thank you for passing on the letter from Dorothy Sparks..." May 29, 1950
Incoming Correspondence 1950-1970 1981-1988
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Kenneth Patchen 1955 1950
TLS, "What a thing! Such a fine gracious thing all around..."[+ env.] Nov 8, 1955
FAIR FOR PATCHEN, Chicago: 1950
ALS, "Very happy that you like "Wedding in the Forest..."[+ env.] Jun 19, 1950
ALS, "Your Wonderful warm and thoughtfully dilated letter..." [2 pp + env.] May 27-29, 1950
ALS, "Struck under by a wave of illness..." May 15, 1950
ALS, "I will see if I can get Padell to send you the Moonlight..." [+ env.] Apr 15, 1950
ALS, "My warm thanks to you. Perhaps later I can do more..." [+ env.] Mar 28, 1950
Miriam Patchen 1950-1988:
1981-1988, n.d.
ALS, "I won't ask about you for until I can get answers..." n.d.
Season Greetings cards, [12 cards + 1 env]
ALS, "It's long since hearing from you. Summer is nearly gone..." [+ env.] Sep 20, 1988
APCS, "Of course I can send you some words..." [+ env.] Jun 19, 1987
APCS, "May 1987 become a 'Best-Sellers' most magnificent..." [1987]
APCS, "Everything on the way to your 49er country..." Aug 11, 1986
ALS, "Bets-selling author- what a beautiful gift of an amazing spirit..." [+ env.] [1986]
ALS, "Somehow your letter is so good -such a warm feeling..." [+ env.] Mar 28,1984
APCS, "Padell's name is Max. Have been hoping I'd get a ride..." Mar 18, 1983
ALS, "How so great to hear from you! And to think you'd still write..." [+ env.] Mar 2, 1983
Printed invitation to "For Kenneth: An Evening of Poetry with Miriam Patchen, Robert Duncan & Friends on the 10th year of his passing...Intersection Poetry & Prose Series" Jan 6, 1982
ALS, "May I gasp 'my gawd'! ? For year I wrote to your last address..." [2 pp + env.] Oct 1, 1981
1965-70:
ALS, "What good news you have to impart!..." [3 pp + env.] Jan 21, 1970
APCS, "Dearest Katie - Felix's package arrived this morning..." Jan 7, 1966
ALS, "What a good thine-sort of -to hear thus from you..." [1 pg + env.; decorated page, yellow center, size 9 3/4 x 14 1/2 - folded] 1965
TLS, "You dear one. You are the one who is needed by us and others..." [1 legal size, decorated, center yellow] [1960's]
1951-1958:
TLS, "It has been so long, since your letters and good card..." Sep 27, 1958
TLS, "This must be the briefest note, so much to be done..." Jun 16, 1958
TLS, "It has been a long time since I received your so very good letter..." [+ env.] Mar 1958
ALS, "My God- I suddenly realized that though I talk to you..." [+ env.] Jan 12, 1958
TLS, "How terribly dear your letter, how overwhelming..." [1958]
TLS, "My goodness, what a pleasant event getting a letter..." [+ env] [1958]
ALS, "I haven't the faintest idea, whether I already said this..." [1958]
ALS, "You rat! Well, we'll have to buy you something: a house?..." [+ env] Oct 27, 1957
ALS, "How very good to hear from you, how very very good!..." [4 pp + env.] Jan 13, 1957
TLS, "The extra copies of When We Where Here Together have not yet arrived..." [1957?]
ALS, "I've only a minute - more later - to tell you that Kenneth had his operation..." [+ env.] Jun 6, 1956
ALS, 'Everything is calm and confused: Kenneth's opening takes place on Monday..." [+ env.] May 23, 1956
ALS, "It has been so long- though it seems only a couple weeks..." [+ env.] Apr 11, 1956
ALS, "What a darling! Stop fussing around the silly thing..." [2 pp + env.] Feb 20, 1956
ALS, "Oh my goodness! What a pile of irritations man..." [3 pp + env.] Jan 8, 1956
ALS, "Move over - we're doctoring together..." [3 pp + env.] Sep 18, 1955
ALS, "Darling - don't feel that way. I wrote as I did..." [6 pp + env.] Sep 22, 1955
ALS, "This is no way to treat you, I know..." [3 pp + env.] Sep 19, 1955
TLS, "There is so much to tell and always so little time..." Jan 5 [1955]
TLS, "Well, at last there is some news of your machinations" [1955]
ALS, "What is the situation with the damned health check- up?..." [Dec 1954]
APCS, "Only to say that the lovely, lovely pitcher arrived..." Nov 5, 1954
ALS, "You dear - to write, reassuring us! What a lovely time..." [+ env.] Jan 19, 1954
ALS, "Holly showed me your notes to her..." [ + env.] Dec 31, 1953
ALS, "It was with horror that I realized while reading your..." [2 pp + env.] Jan 5, 1953
ALS, "The books came immediately you sent them - oh..." [2 pp] May 3, 1952
APCS, "So many thanks for cards, pictures, letters..." Jan 16, 1952
ALS, "So many letters to you started, let lie around..." [3 pp] [1952-53]
ALS, "For weeks I've had a partially written note ready..." [3 pp] [1952-53]
ALS, "It was so very good to see you that I resent..." [1952-53]
TLS, "What a hectic time being famous gives one!..." [2 pp] [1952-53]
ALS, "What a lovely time we had with the tree of you at 'M'..." [+ env.] Nov 27, 1951
ALS, "I've been looking frantically for your letter..." Nov 10, 1951
ALS, "In haste - Don't pay full price to Padell for..." May 1, 1951
APCS, "Kenneth underwent 4 1/2 hours spinal today..." Mar 30, 1951
ALS, "These were sent here. So, the delay..." [1951]
2nd CHICAGO BENEFIT FOR PATCHEN: 1951
ALS, "The checks and letter arrived (Friday) morning..." [3 pp] [Apr 1951]
NEW YORK BENEFIT FOR PATCHEN: 1951
ALS, "Just finished working on the final figures on the Reading...$867.59" [Mar 1951]
ALS, "In a rush. I don't have a spare minute..." [2 pp] [post-Mar 1951]
ALS "What fun to hear your voice and talk to you!..." [3 pp] [post-Mar 1951]
ALS, "Big Pan Out" came Saturday and Kenneth is having..." [2 pp] [1951]
ALS, "How excited to hear about Big-Pan-Out!..." [pre-Mar 1951]
ALS, "It's hardly possible to tell you what pleasure..." [Dec 1950]
FAIR FOR PATCHEN, CHICAGO: 1950
ALS (legal size), "You undoubtedly are wondering what the news in concerning the [ ] treatment..." [+ env.] Jul 24, 1950
ALS, "Your lovely card, enclosures, note arrived..." [+ env.] [post-May 1950]
ALS, "Before we hear from you, before any results..." [2 pp + env.] May 25, 1950
ALS, "Your kind letters, enclosures and warm..." [May 1950]
ALS, "Things have been so very different..." [pre-May 1950]
Winifred H. Bonnell, treasurer of Kenneth Patchen Fund: ALS, "I lost your address and have only just found it..." May 1, 1951
Manuscripts undated
Scope and Content Note
Page 1, "Regarding the nature and accomplishments of Heaven by Kenneth Patchen" [Green front- and red back cover, title "MS Patchen" painted with yellow acrylic, Holograph text written in black ink and in various directions on to pieces of paper which are pasted on to a manuscript page]
Page 2, "I am not amused by your praise..." [Purple front- and orange back cover, title "Patchen" painted with blue acrylic, Holograph text written in black ink and in various size letters.]
Page 3, "delled precisely against the fizz of communication..." [Orange front- and blue back cover, title "Kenneth Patchen" painted with blue acrylic, Holograph text written in black ink and in various size letters. An arrow in bottom half of the page.]
Page 3, "Live in the grandeur..." [Brown front- and blue black cover, title "Patchen" in blue acrylic, Holograph text in black ink, center of the page has a pasted-on diagram of a cathedral]
Page 4 1/4, " The trial of the Chill Giant Mother, Truth, Joy, Faith, God" [Yellow front- and red back cover, title "Manuscript * Kenneth Patchen" in redish acrylic, Holograph text in black ink, drawing of a giant, cut-out text "...dish it out!" glued to the right corner. Paper used is a carbon for poems "In Horror the God-Thrown Lie", "The Carriage", "At the Cave", poems in the back side.]
Page 5, "Shawls of the leper...maps of the secret countries...Oh, rays of the celestial figure..." [Black front and aqua back cover, title "Manuscript Kenneth Patchen" in red acrylic, Holograph text in black ink and in various size letters, boldest text spells "for this is bleeding"]
Page 13, "Staircase and mallet crumbling encroachment of reason..." [Grey-blue front and greenish back cover, title "MS Kenneth Patchen" in red acrylic, Holograph text in black ink]
Printed Material 1950-1951
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2nd BENEFIT FOR PATCHEN, Chicago: 1951
Cancelled checks, $ 187.75, signed by KP + a note Apr 17, 1951
Mailers, "An evening of Poetry...to raise funds for the benefit of critically ill Kenneth Patchen...Saturday, April 14th at 8:00 pm" [3 light blue cards with red type, 4x6]
Press lease typescripts [annotated]
Clippings announcing a benefit (9)
NEW YORK BENEFIT FOR PATCHEN: 1951
Typed statement from Winfred H. Bonnell, "A report and an appreciation from the Kenneth Patchen Fund", affirms a total of $5,508.88 - less expenses - from 750 people.
A letter of appeal, "The Kenneth Patchen Fund" (2); Contains signatures from W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish and Thornton Wilder.
Announcement, "Benefit Poetry Reading for Kenneth Patchen", (3)
Clippings (3), includes a Look magazine article "Poets gather to help a poet" Jun 19, 1951
FAIR FOR PATCHEN, Chicago: 1950
Cancelled check for $275, signed by Kenneth Patchen. Event proceed enclosed with Kathryn's letter. [see folder 19] May 25, 1950
Clipping; event announcements (4)
OTHER n.d.:
Brochure for Patchen's "Poemscapes, songs & proverbs" (Jargon 11), Jonathan Williams
Flyer announcing a re-opening of M Studio.
Photographs 1951 n.d.
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Black & White (4"x5") 1951
Kenneth Patchen at Old Lyme, CT with Kathryn Winslow & Bill Mecham Jun 1951
Kenneth Patchen 2nd fund raiser at studio "M" Apr 14, 1951
Kenneth Patchen, Kathryn Winslow, Miriam Patchen, and Bill Mecham, Illinois Central, Chicago; Posting in front of a 1930's Rolls Roy, an overpass in the background Nov 1951
Kenneth and Miriam Patchen, and Kathryn Winslow in front of a bookstore Studio 'M', Chicago Nov 1951
Black & White (5"x7") ca. 1947-1950
Kenneth Patchen portrait; Photo used for Padell Publishers in See You In the Morning 1947
Miriam Patchen portrait; holding a black cat [Mr. Sitwell ?], photo mounted on a cardboard ca. 1950
Miriam Patchen portrait; wearing a striped shirt and a shawl on her shoulders, photo mounted on a cardboard ca. 1950
Negatives 1951
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