Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Espey, John Jenkins, 1913-
- Abstract:
- John Jenkins Espey (1913- ) taught at Occidental College (1938-48) and at UCLA (1948-73). The collection consists of correspondence, a copy of a reprint, and two programs. Includes correspondence between Espey and Ezra Pound. The collection also includes a copy of a reprint by Espey, the epigraph to T.S. Eliot's Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein With a Cigar.
- Extent:
- 1 box (0.5 linear ft.) 1 oversize box
- Language:
- English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of correspondence, a copy of a reprint, and two programs. Includes correspondence between Espey and Ezra Pound, letters of Pound to others, copies of letters written to Pound, correspondence about Pound from Donald Gallup, autograph letters signed from Pound's wife, Dorothy Shakespear Pound, two autograph letters signed from Pound's daughter, and two typed letters signed by Marianne Moore. Includes a copy of a reprint by Espey, the epigraph to T.S. Eliot's Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein With a Cigar. Also includes a printed program for the first performance of Pound's, Le testament de Villon in the Salle Pleyel in 1926, and a program from a University of California Berkeley production of the same work in 1971.
- Biographical / historical:
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Espey was born on January 15, 1913 in Shanghai, China; AB, Occidental College, 1935; BA (1937), B.Litt (1938), MA (1941), Oxford Univ.; served from instructor to associate professor, Occidental College, 1938-48; taught as assistant professor to professor (1948-73), then became emeritus professor of English, UCLA; published works include Tales Out of School (1947), Ezra Pound's Mauberly: a Study in Composition (1955), The Empty Box Haiku (1980), and Minor Heresies, Major Departures: a China Mission Boyhood (1994).
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988