Letter from Barbara Howes Smith to Hubert Creekmore (19 April 1953)

Authors

Barbara Howes Smith
Hubert Creekmore

Identifier

MUM01790_b01_f15_008

Files

Description

Smith writes from Florence, Italy, to Creekmore in Jackson, Mississippi. She thanks Creekmore for his translation of "No Harm to Lovers" and asks if he has read Maurice Collis's translation of a seventeenth-century Burmese love poem that appears in an issue of Chimera. She states that her husband, William Jay Smith, will be publishing a book of poetry with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Smith states that she recently saw Eudora Welty. Includes envelope.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Creekmore, Hubert, 1907-1966; Authors, American -- 20th century; Jackson (Miss.); Florence (Italy); Smith, Barbara Howes; Howes, Barbara; Collis, Maurice, 1889-1973; Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Farrar, Straus, and Young; Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

Publication Date

4-19-1953

Relational Format

archival material

Original Format

letters (correspondence)

Finding Aid

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids/412/

Original Collection

Hubert Creekmore Collection

Rights

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Comments

19 April 1953

Recommended Citation

Smith, Barbara Howes and Creekmore, Hubert, "Letter from Barbara Howes Smith to Hubert Creekmore (19 April 1953)" (1953). Hubert Creekmore Collection. 135.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/creekmore/135