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John Ciardi Collection, Metuchen-Edison Historical Society, Metuchen, N.J Finding Guide & Inventory John Ciardi Collection Metuchen-EdisonPage Historical 1 Society Our Mission The mission of the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society (MEHS) is to stimulate and promote an interest in and an appreciation of the history of the geographic area in and around the Borough of Metuchen and the Township of Edison in the County of Middlesex, New Jersey. To fulfill this mission, the society fosters the creation, collection, preservation, and maintenance of physical material related to the history of Metuchen and Edison, makes the material available to the public in various formats, and increases public awareness of this history. Board of Directors Steve Reuter, President Dominic Walker, Vice President Walter R. Stochel, Jr, Treasurer Marilyn Langholff, Recording Secretary Tyreen Reuter, Corresponding Secretary & Newsletter Editor Phyllis Boeddinghaus Russell Gehrum Kathy Glaser Lauren Kane Andy Kupersmit Catherine Langholff Byron Sondergard Frederick Wolke Marie Vajo Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: John Ciardi Collection, Metuchen-Edison Historical Society, Metuchen, N.J. ISBN-10: 1940714001 ISBN-13: 978-1-940714-00-4 September,Space 2013 reserved for optional ISBN and bar code. All Rights Reserved. Cover Image: W.C. Dripps Map of Metuchen, Middlesex County, New Jersey, 1876. Page 2 John Ciardi Collection Finding Guide & Inventory Grant Funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders through a grant provided by New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State. June, 2014. All Rights Reserved Page 3 Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................. 1 Finding Guide............................................................................... 2 Collection Summary ....................................................................2 Selected Search Terms.................................................................2 Names......................................................................................2 Subjects .................................................................................44 Occupations ..............................................................................60 Administrative Information ........................................................60 Biographical Note ......................................................................60 Scope and Content Note ............................................................66 Inventory ................................................................................... 67 Box 1.........................................................................................67 Box 2.........................................................................................67 Box 3.........................................................................................67 Box 4.........................................................................................70 Box 5.........................................................................................95 Box 6.......................................................................................101 Box 7.......................................................................................114 Photographs ............................................................................. 147 Page 4 Introduction In May 2013, the Society was extremely fortunate to receive several boxes of materials from a former Metuchen resident and daughter of the late poet and translator John Ciardi. Most of Mr. Ciardi's papers had already been donated to the Library of Congress, and the society was extremely honored to have these priceless items gifted to us. A "reconnaissance-level" inspection of the materials revealed files of letters, notes, and sketches, as well as honors and degrees, film canisters, and much more. The Society quickly determined that these materials needed to be inventoried and stabilized in archival containers, and felt that a digital finding guide to the collection should be created in order to be properly shared with our members, the public, local schools, on our website, and with any of the institutions at which Mr. Ciardi studied or taught (Bates, Tufts, University of Kansas City, University of Michigan, Harvard, Middlebury, Rutgers). Therefore the Society applied to and happily received a grant from the Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission to help fund this work. Archivist and Architectural Historian Jennifer Warren was hired to conduct the grant work, and did so as diligently and thoroughly. Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: John Ciardi Collection, Metuchen-Edison Historical Society, Metuchen, N.J. Page 1 Finding Guide Collection Summary Title: John Ciardi Collection Span Dates: 1927-2001 Bulk Dates: 1950-1986 Creator: Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 Extent: 1089 items; 7 boxes plus framed drawing; approximately 10.17 linear feet Language: Collection material primarily in English, and Italian and French Repository: Metuchen-Edison Historical Society, Metuchen, NJ Abstract: Poet, author, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Advertisements, address books, agendas, bibliographies, biographical material, book reviews, booklets, brochures, budgets, cards, certificates, correspondence, diplomas, diary entries, documents, dress, filmstrips, invitations, journals, ledgers, lists, magazines, manuscripts, map, miscellaneous papers, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, outlines, personal planners, photographs, postcards, posters, press releases, programs, receipts, reports, research material, resumes, royalty statements, schedules, school records, sheet music, sketches, tickets, transcripts, worksheets, yearbook excerpts, galley proofs, page proofs, and published and draft versions of aphorisms, articles, books, columns, essays, etymological dictionaries, limericks, poems, poetry reviews, television films, word games, and speeches and lectures. Selected Search Terms Names: Ciardi, John Anthony [author, literary critic, editor, lecturer, & journalist; pseudonym: John Anthony] (1927-1986) - Correspondence Abbe, George [Russell Sage College; founded a poetry book club and published a book by Frances Frost that Ciardi panned in The Nation; wrote and complained that the review had been “rather sweepingly harsh”] (1955-1958) - Correspondence Abbott, C.D. [director of libraries at the University of Buffalo] (1940) - Correspondence Abbott, Donald G. [director of publications for Tufts University] (1965) - Correspondence Abrams, Norman J. [attorney that works for Abrams, Kestenbaum, Hendricks & Reina] (1970) - Correspondence Ackerman, Forrest J. “Forry” [Science Fiction Agency] (1953) - Correspondence Ackerson, Edward H. (1964) - Correspondence Adamic, Louis [editor of Common Ground Magazine] (1940) - Correspondence Adams, J. Donald [New York Times Book Review] (1957) - Correspondence Page 2 Adams, Leonie (1959) - Correspondence Adams, Phillip D. [editor of Calliope (Western Michigan University) Literary Magazine] (1958) - Correspondence Adams, Phoebe [The Atlantic Monthly] (1954) - Correspondence Adler, Joy Holtzman [guest at Ciardi lecture at Skidmore College in 1960] (1989) - Correspondence Aeton, Richard [Boston College] (1977) - Correspondence Aiken, Conrad (1955-1960) - Correspondence Aldisert, Ruggero J. [Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Pittsburgh, PA] (1968) - Correspondence Aldrich, Jonathan [English Department at Middlebury College] (1972) - Correspondence Alfred, William (1964) - Correspondence Alighieri, Dante [Italian poet; translated by John Ciardi] (1954-1977) Allen, Diane [National Council of Teachers of English Public Relations Associate; wrote biography of John Ciardi for Language Arts] (1982) Allen, Ethan [Revolutionary War patriot] Alverson, Charles E. [San Francisco, CA] (1965) - Correspondence Amis, Kingsley [novelist] (1961) Ammons, A.R. (1966) Anderson, Alma [wife of Clarence W. Anderson] (1972-1976) - Correspondence Anderson, George K. [Chairman of the English Department at Brown University] (1951) - Correspondence Anderson, Lee [Research associate for the Department of English at Yale University] (1959) - Correspondence Anderson, M. Margaret [Managing editor of Common Ground Magazine] (1940-1950) - Correspondence Anderson, Paul (1954) - Correspondence Appleton, Burton L. [recollections of John Ciardi from instructor Hotchkiss] (1989) - Correspondence Arentzen, Eleanor Dudley (1979) - Correspondence Armstrong, James I. [President of Middlebury College] (1964-1972) - Correspondence Arvin, Newton [Smith College] (1956) - Correspondence Asbell, Bernard [Wilton, CT] (1961) - Correspondence Asch, Moses [Folkway Records] (1954-1956) - Correspondence Aschkenes, Anna M. [Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission; editor of Bladderhead Bobble-Bud & Spade, Selected Poems of John Ciardi] (1988) Ashkenazy, Irvin [Pasadena, CA] (1972) - Correspondence Page 3 Asimov, Isaac [Science fiction author; professor of Biochemistry at Boston University; collaborated with John Ciardi on two books of limericks] (1971-1981) - Correspondence Backman, Allen [Better Business Bureau] (1954) - Correspondence Backus, Richard H. (1964) - Correspondence Bacon, Allan [organist at the College of the Pacific, Stockton, CA] (1937-1961) - Correspondence Bader, Arno [professor at the University of Michigan; arranged Hopwood
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