Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach letters to François Di Dio with other papers
Overview
Letters from French poet, artist, and translator Claude Pélieu and American artist and translator Mary Beach to French publisher, François Di Dio.
Dates
- Creation: 1967-2005
Creator
- Dio, François di (addressee., Person)
Condition Description
The collection is in good condition.
Extent
.125 linear feet (1 box)Letters, collaged envelopes, and postcards from Claude Pélieu, some also signed by Mary Beach, to publisher François Di Dio; with a collage by Pélieu titled "1997 - Cutup Revisited"; two booklets by Pélieu published in 1994 by Cahiers de Nuit Les Intouchables, one produced with Marie-Laure Féray; and comments about Pélieu by Pamela Beach-Plymell, Charles Plymell, and Jeffery Beach in 2005. Also includes a letter to Eric Losfeld and a letter to Pélieu signed Carlos.
Biographical / Historical
Claude Pélieu (1934-2002) was a white French poet, translator and artist. He lived in France until 1963, when he moved to the United States, remaining there for the rest of his life. Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach met in 1962.
Mary Beach (1919-2006) was a white American artist and translator. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1925, after her mother’s divorce, she lived for six months out of the year in France with her mother and two sisters. She met Claude Pélieu in 1962. While living with Claude she continued to work and exhibit all over the world. She also worked at City Lights in San Francisco where she discovered and published the poet Bob Kaufman and, under her own imprint of Beach Books, Texts, and Documents, published William Burroughs. She also collaborated extensively with Allen Ginsberg. (Source: The Artist Magazine, Mary Beach, https://the-artist-magazine.com/mary-beach-self-portrait/, accessed 2022 April 15)
Arrangement
Correspondence is arranged chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2022M-22. Purchased from Librairie Benoit Forgeot with the Amy Lowell Trust, 2022 February 14.
Genre / Form
Creator
- Dio, François di (addressee., Person)
- Plymell, Pamela (Person)
- Plymell, Charles (Person)
- Beach, Jeffery (Person)
- Title
- Pélieu, Claude. Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach letters to François Di Dio with other papers, 1967-2005 (MS Fr 752): Guide
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Date
- 2022 April 13
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hou03458
Repository Details
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