Typed letter signed : [Sewanee, Tenn.], to José Rodríguez Feo, 1945 Feb. 14.

Record ID: 
381720
Accession number: 
MA 5659.22
Author: 
Tate, Allen, 1899-1979.
Credit: 
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 cm
Notes: 

On letterhead of The Sewanee Review; place of writing is from this letterhead.
With manuscript notes on the verso that are probably in the hand of Rodríguez Feo.
Part of a collection of letters to José Rodríguez Feo, a Cuban who edited the magazine Orígenes in the 1940s and 50s. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 5659 for more information.

Summary: 

Sending him "the manuscript of an essay which will appear in The Virginia Quarterly Review in April" in case he wants to translate it for Orígenes; noting that he asked his publisher to send Rodríguez Feo a copy of his recent book, The Winter Sea; mentioning that he would like "to publish a short anthology of Cuban poetry with the Spanish and English texts parallel"; asking him to "get together a half dozen of the best Cuban lyrics and accompany them with brief biographical sketches."

Provenance: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.