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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00267::Merrill Moore Collection)//EN" "ViU00267.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Merrill Moore Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 8044

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Courtney Boissonnault Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #8044 Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
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Merrill Moore Collection 1938-1948 8044 2 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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Merrill Moore Collection, Accession 8044, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

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Deposit [17 Dec 1963]14 Sept 1965

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Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Item Listing Letters Merrill Mooreto John Wheelwright ca. 1938 TLS, 2 p.

[Encloses his critique of Wheelwright's poetry in general and his newest book, Mirrors of Venus(1938); relates Wheelwright's poetry to the poetry of Thomas Stearns Elistand Amy Lowell. ]

 Merrill Mooreto Ralph Thompson 1948 Dec 20 TLS, 4 p.

[Gives an autobiographical sketch including his military service during World War II, his family, his professional schedule as a psychiatrist, his publications and the number of sonnets he has written, plans for future publications with the assistance of Dudley Fitts, reviews of his sonnets by Henry Untermeyer, and advice he has received from John Crowe Ransomabout publishing his sonnets; mentions that his present manuscript was turned down by Robert Girouxof Harcourt and Brace, and also by Charles A. Pearceof Duell, Sloan and Pearce. ]