A Guide to the Merrill Moore Collection #8044

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Merrill Moore Collection, Accession 8044, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Deposit [17 Dec 1963] 14 Sept 1965

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Letters

Merrill Moore to John Wheelwright
ca. 1938
TLS, 2 p.

[Encloses his critique of Wheelwright's poetry in general and his newest book, Mirrors of Venus (1938); relates Wheelwright's poetry to the poetry of Thomas Stearns Elist and Amy Lowell . ]
Merrill Moore to Ralph Thompson
1948 Dec 20
TLS, 4 p.

[Gives an autobiographical sketch including his military service during World War II, his family, his professional schedule as a psychiatrist, his publications and the number of sonnets he has written, plans for future publications with the assistance of Dudley Fitts , reviews of his sonnets by Henry Untermeyer , and advice he has received from John Crowe Ransom about publishing his sonnets; mentions that his present manuscript was turned down by Robert Giroux of Harcourt and Brace , and also by Charles A. Pearce of Duell, Sloan and Pearce . ]

A Guide to the Merrill Moore Collection