Jacoby (Grover) Records of the Variegation and Recurrence Poetry Journals, 1947-1951

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Title:: Grover Jacoby Records of the Variegation and Recurrence Poetry Journals,
Dates:: 1947-1951
Creators:: Jacoby, Grover
Abstract:: Grover Jacoby was the editor of two national quarterly journals of poetry: Variegation: a Quarterly of Rhyme and Recurrence: a Quarterly of Rhyme. The collection consists of material pertaining to the poetry journals and includes letters to the editor, reviews and comments, extracts from the two quarterlies appearing in other publications, newspaper clippings, issues of the quarterlies, and related ephemera.
Extent:: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Language:: English.
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Grover Jacoby Records of the Variegation and Recurrence Poetry Journals (Collection 377). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Scope and content:: Collection consists of material pertaining to the poetry journals Variegation and Recurrence, edited by Jacoby. Includes letters to the editor, reviews and comments, extracts from the two quarterlies appearing in other publications, newspaper clippings, issues of the quarterlies, and related ephemera. Also includes microfilm of Grover Jacoby's scrapbook and incoming correspondence, and original manuscripts of his Muy pocas Charlas avec Madame Lyr in North America and Donne Quichotte: Retrato in North America. Correspondents include Muriel Spark, Louis Untermeyer, Van Wyck Brooks, Christopher Isherwood, Marianne Moore, May Sarton, and William Carlos Williams.
Biographical / historical:: Jacoby was the editor of two national quarterly journals of poetry: Variegation: a Quarterly of Rhyme (Los Angeles, 1946-59) and Recurrence: a Quarterly of Rhyme (Los Angeles, 1950-59).
Acquisition information:: Gift of Grover Jacoby, 1951-71.
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.

Subjects:: Periodical editors--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.
Manuscripts for publication.
Names:: Jacoby, Grover--Archives.

Collection Guide Author:: Processed by Brooke Whiting; machine-readable finding aid created by Amy Shung-Gee Wong
Date Prepared:: © 1999
Date Encoded:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from card-file by rekeying, May 1999 . Front matter gathered from MARC record. Supplementary revision supplied by Caroline Cubé.

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Restrictions:: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Terms of access:: Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Grover Jacoby Records of the Variegation and Recurrence Poetry Journals (Collection 377). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US