GTM-20250827 Addendum, 1959 - 2023

Series — Box: GTM Shared Box 48, Folder: 8

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Scope and Contents

Assorted postcards (1980s)

“Thinking of Anais Nin” poem with letter from Grace Schulman (The Nation editor)

“For Catherine the Great, Age Fourteen” (Later, unsent poem for publication)

List of references

Article on Mark Van Doren (CCT, Summer 2019)

Guest list for a Katherine Anne Porter party in DC (1982)

“nest of cunnus” poem by Peter Whigham, limited print with artwork by Gary Brown, inscribed to Claire

Copy of Thomas Merton writings on William Claire and Voyages

Claire review of Selected Poems by Thomas Mertin (clipping)

Copy of “Letter for Mark Van Doren” (1959)

Letter from Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester to Claire (2023)

Copy of a photograph of Claire and Lawrence Ferlinghetti at a French Embassy event

Letter from O.B. Hardison, Jr. to Claire (1979)

“The Magical Mosaic of Anna Balakian” NYU talk by Claire (1998, published in 2013)

Dates

Creation: 1959 - 2023

Creator

From the Collection: Claire, William F. (Person)

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