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    <title>Gustav Davidson papers, 1909-1992 (bulk 1931-1971)</title>
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    <namePart>Davidson, Gustav</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1895-1971</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, writings, research material, biographical material, newspaper clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the Poetry Society of America and Davidson's service as secretary to the society.  Includes drafts and published copies of writings including plays, reviews, newspaper columns, and academic writings primarily about angels as well as writings under Davidson's pseudonym W. Gordon Drake.  Also includes material from Davidson's travels to the South Sea islands.  Correspondents include Charles Angoff, Joseph Auslander, Clarence Raymond Decker, Alfred Dorn, Max Eastman, Harry Meyer Orlinsky, Theodore Roethke, Ernest R. Trattner, and Louis Untermeyer.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Poet, author, and publisher.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Angoff, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1979</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Auslander, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1965</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Decker, Clarence Raymond</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-1969</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Dorn, Alfred</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1929-</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eastman, Max</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1969</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Orlinsky, Harry Meyer</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1908-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roethke, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1908-1963</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Trattner, Ernest R. (Ernest Robert)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1898-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Untermeyer, Louis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1977</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Poetry Society of America.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American poetry</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Angels</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Poetry</topic>
    <topic>Societies, etc</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Oceania</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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    <occupation>Authors</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Poets</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Publishers</occupation>
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