An Inventory of Its Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Paterson Society, circa
1960-1962
Title:
Paterson Society Collection
Dates:
1959-1967, undated
Extent:
3 boxes (1.26 linear feet)
Abstract:
Includes correspondence and business
papers of the Paterson Society, operated by Elsa Dorfman, a former Grove Press
employee who arranged poetry readings for Beat generation poets. Dorfman's
correspondents include the colleges and universities that sponsored readings and
the
numerous poets in Dorfman's circle of acquaintance: William S. Burroughs, Gregory
Corso, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac,
Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, Louis Zukofsky, and others.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-3187
Language:
English
Access:
Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Jamie Hawkins-Kirkham, 2011
Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information
previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at
the
end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts
as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.
