Finding Aid for the Grover Jacoby Records of the Variegation and Recurrence Poetry Journals, 1947-1951
Processed by Brooke Whiting; machine-readable finding aid created by Amy Shung-Gee Wong
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
© 1999
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Finding Aid for the Grover Jacoby Records of the
Variegation and
Recurrence Poetry Journals, 1947-1951
Collection number: 377
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Brooke Whiting, October 1959
- Additions by:
- Manuscripts Division staff, June 1967 and Brooke Whiting, April 1968
- Encoded by:
- Amy Shung-Gee Wong
- Encoding supervision and revision by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, July 2002
© 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Grover Jacoby Records of the
Variegation and
Recurrence Poetry Journals,
Date (inclusive): 1947-1951
Collection number: 377
Creator: Jacoby, Grover
Extent:
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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.
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.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Grover Jacoby, 1951-71.
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.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
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).
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.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Jacoby, Grover--Archives.
Variegation.
Recurrence.
Periodical editors--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.
Manuscripts for publication.
Note
Description derived from in-house card file.
Variegation and Recurrence.
Physical Description: 1 box.
Scope and Content Note
- Collection of material pertaining to the two national quarterly journals of poetry:
Variegation, devoted to free verse; and
Recurrence, devoted to rhymed verse. Los
Angeles, 1947- .
- Editor: Grover Jacoby.
- Material comprises letters to the editor, reviews and comments, extracts from
the two quarterlies appearing in other publications, newspaper clippings, and related
ephemera.
- Also microfilm (positive) of Mr. Jacoby's scrapbook and incoming
correspondence, 1947-1951 (microfilm cabinets, Collection 377).
- Gift: Grover Jacoby, 1951.
Box 1
Letters to Grover I. Jacoby. v.p., 1947- .
Creator/Collector: Jacoby, Grover I., Jr.
Physical Description: 45 items.
Scope and Content Note
Letters from Van Wyek Brooks, Huntington Cairns, John Ciardi, John Gould Fletcher,
Christopher Isherwood, Josephine Miles, Marianne Moore, May Sarton, Muriel Spark,
Thurairajah Tambimuttu, and William Carlos Williams.
Box 1
Muy pocas Charlas avec Madame Lyr in North America (sequel to
Donne Quichotte: Retrato in North America), by James Y. Grover (nom de plume). Los Angeles,
ca. 1968.
Physical Description: 9 leaves. 28cm. Typescript with holograph corrections and additions.
Note
Unpublished.
Gift of the author, March 1968.
