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John Taggart Archive

Call Number

MSS.025

Date

1970-1974, inclusive

Creator

Taggart, John, 1942-

Extent

.25 Linear Feet in 1 half manuscript box.

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Abstract

The John Taggart Archive is a collection of correspondence John Taggart received as editor of Maps during 1970 to 1974. Collection highlights include correspondence from Carol Bergé, Paul Blackburn, Hayden Carruth, Robert Creeley, Guy Davenport, Gary Snyder, and Louis Zukofsky.

Arrangement

The John Taggart Archive is arranged in alphabetical order by correspondences and manuscripts.

  1. Series I: Correspondence

Scope and Contents

The John Taggart Archive is a part of the Avant Garde Collection at Fales Library, New York University. The Fales Library is the primary special collections division of the NYU libraries, housing over 170,000 volumes of English and American literature from 1700 to the present. Strengths of the collection include the development of the English and American novel, with an emphasis on the Gothic and the Victorian novel. The Avant Garde Collection comprises printed materials, archives, and other materials related to the avant-garde writing from the 1960s and early 1970s. The collection was build during that period by curators, including Mel Edestein and Ted Grieder.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open to researchers. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); The John Taggart Archive; MSS 025; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The John Taggart Archive was acquired via purchases from Taggart between 1971-1975.

Separated Material

There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

Collection processed by

Amber Creger, March 1999

About this Guide

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Language: Description is in English

Edition of this Guide

This version was derived from taggart.html

Repository

Fales Library and Special Collections

Series I: Correspondence

Scope and Contents note

Series 1 contains one box of correspondence to John Taggert, editor of Maps. Noted correspondents include Carol Bergé, Paul Blackburn, Hayden Carruth, Robert Creeley, Guy Davenport, Gary Snyder, and Louis Zukofsky.

Allen, Donald
Bergé, Carol
Blackburn, Paul, 1971

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brakhage, Stan
Bronk, William, 1973

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Butterick, George, 1971-1974

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Carruth, Hayden
Creeley, Robert, 1970; 1973

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Davenport, Guy, 1972-1974

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Edson, Russell, 1973

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eigner, Larry

Elliott, George P., 1970-1971

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Goodman, Mitchell
Greene, Jonathan, 1971

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Grossinger, Richard
Harris, George
Heller, Michael, Undated

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Justice, Donald
Kenner, Hugh
Krofsky, Frank, 1971

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Meltzer, David
Newlove, John
Oppen, George, 1970

Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pearson, Norman Holms
Phelps, Donald
Rothenberg, Jerome, 1973

Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Silliman, Ronald
Snyder, Gary
Spann, Marcella
Vas Dias, Robert, 1970-1971

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unidentified, 1971

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Weil, James, 1969-1974

Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Weiss, Ted and Renée
Whalen, Philip
Zukofsky, Louis, 1969-1970

Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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