Middleton, Christopher (see also other record) to Hamburger, Michael
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Middleton, Christopher (see also other record) to Hamburger, Michael
Classmark: BC MS 20c Hamburger/141
Related People: Michael Hamburger(Recipient)
Creator(s): Middleton, Christopher
Date(s): 1 Dec. 1955 - 7 Jan 1994; 1 n.d.
Size and medium: 331 letters
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/85749
Collection group(s): Letters Database
Description
Many dated from postmarks, Some assigned to a decade by Hamburger. Includes 55 postcards.
List of dates of letters or postmarks at which enclosures can be found:
(i) 15 Aug. 1957: transl., entitled "Nearness of the Beloved", of a poem by Goethe. MS. 1f.
(ii) 14 Dec. 1957: brief poem by Middleton "Song for Sarah", incorporated in text of letter.
(iii) 13 Sept. 1959: carbon copy of letter to Wallace Brockway of the Bollinger series, N.Y., from Middleton (n.d.).
(iv) 21 March 1960: letter to Hamburger from Edward L. Burlingame of Macgibbon and Kee, dated 17 March 1960.
(v) Undated item, presumed 1960's: poem in Middleton's hand on small card entitled "Oskar Loerke, from 'The Stone Path'".
(vi) 24 Nov. 1961: TS poem: "In Some Seer's Cloud Car". 1f.
(vii) 16 April 1962: copy of letter from Middleton to Richard Seaver, Grove Press, N.Y., dated 21 April 1962.
(viii) 3 March 1963: 2ff TS poems by Middleton ("In the Light" and "And Valley Folk". Of the latter, a note in Middleton's hand says "title of original: 'Not'").
(ix) 6 Dec. 1966: TS poem by Middleton, "Uomo Nella Luna" 1f.
(x) 4 Jan. 1967: 2ff TS poem ("In the Rain" and poem beginning "Now Begins...").
(xi) 22 Oct. 1967: 2 poems incorporated in text of letter illustrating plans for a new collection of poems ("The Joke" and "Concert 1866").
(xii) 18 Dec. 1968: TS poem by Middleton: "Snake Rock" Inscribed to Michael Hamburger and signed.
(xiii) 20 Sept. 1969: TS poem by Middleton: "Le nu provencal" 2ff.
(xiv) 14 Dec. 1971: TS poem: "The Translator". 1f.
(xv) 6 March 1972: TS poem by Middleton ("Holy Cow"), inscribed "For Michael from Christopher". 3ff; Daniil Kharms, "A Fable"; "Micro-story" taken from the book "Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd". 1f.
(xvi) 16 March 1974: prose piece - description by Middleton of one of his own dreams. TS. 1f.
(xvii) 2 March 1981: poem by Middleton beginning "It is the Small...", inscribed to Michael and Anne Hamburger and signed. TS. 2ff.
(xviii) 4 Jan. 1991: poem by Middleton: "The Balcony Tree". TS. 2ff.
(xix) 27 March 1991: description by A.W. Wallace of the Malaysian kingbird. Quoted from J. Christian Bay, "Journeys and Voyages to Nature". Chicago, 1951. Pr. 1f. Photocopy.
(xx) 23 Oct. 1991: TS poem by Middleton: "More and More". 1f. Photocopy. Inscribed to Michael and Anne Hamburger and signed. Also (in envelope of undated items): 2 limericks (vulgar!); poem by Middleton, "Chanel Always Now". Inscribed to Michael Hamburger and signed, with message. Poem is [sic] "a piece of fum with'Vogue'(from which the text is derived)". TS. (carbon). 3ff.
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