Overview
Correspondence and poems of American poet Richard Selig.
Dates
- Creation: 1954-1957
Extent
.1 linear feet (1 volume)Includes 16 letters from Selig to Jackson Mathews, 6 poems by Selig, 3 letters from Mary O'Hara Selig after her husband's death, and an exchange of letters between Mathews and Eugene Walter.
Biographical / Historical
Selig was an American poet. Educated at the University of Washington, he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Returning to the U.S. in 1956, he worked in the public relations department of Western Electric. He died of Hodgkin's disease in 1957. A volume of his poems was published posthumously in 1962 by the Dolmen Press, Dublin.
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
64M-188. Gift of Jackson Mathews; received: 1964.
- Title
- Selig, Richard, 1929-1957. Richard Selig correspondence, 1954-1957: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00838
Repository Details
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