Added to Vassar Library Since 1981

1982

• Baumann, Anny, M. D. -- 139 letters and postcards from EB, 1947-79 -- (restricted access)
• Bell, Pearl K. -- 93 letters and postcards from EB, 1949-196
• Merrill, James -- 90 letters and postcards from EB, 1951-79

1983

• Booth, Philip -- 5 letters and postcards to Booth from EB, 1973, 1978-79

1984

• Estees, Sybil -- 8 letters from EB, 1976-77
• Laughlin, James -- photocopies of 33 letters and postcards from EB, 1937-49-- originals still in the possession of Laughlin

1986

• Nemer, Linda -- 67 letters and postcards to and from EB and Nemer in Portuguese, 1970-76, typescripts of essays and poems, 1 diary and 2 notebooks, 1 address book, photographs
• Bowers, [Aunt] Grace Bulmer -- 261 letters, postcards, and clippings, and photographs from EB, 1950-77

1989

• Bowie, Dorothy (University of Washington) -- 129 letters, postcards, and telegrams, from EB to Bowie, 1966-79 (restricted access)
• Frankenberg, Lloyd and Loren MacIver -- 247 letters and postcards from EB,1942-79
• Muser, Frani Blough (VC 1933) -- 190 letters, postcards, and telegrams from EB, 1928-30, 1932-41, 1962-65, 1967-69 -- represents earliest letters by EB in collection
• Summers, Joseph and U. T. (VC 1941) -- 85 letters, postcards, and annotated cookbook (The Wine Cook Book) from EB, 1947-79

1991

• Chittick, Victor L.O. & Edna -- 9 letters and postcards from EB, 1958-79
• Hanson, Pauline (Yaddo) -- 48 letters from EB, 1950-77
• Muchnic, Helen (VC 1925) -- 24 letters and postcards from EB, 1948, 1968-74, 1977-79

1992

• Olney, Austin (Houghton Mifflin), mainly re: Poems, North & South - A Cold Spring -- 13 letters from Bishop to Olney, among others, 1954-57
• Thomas, Harriet Tompkins (VC 1935) -- 5 letters and postcards from EB, 1935-36

1993

• Bishop, [Aunt] Florence [Jane] Bishop -- 103 letters and postcards from Bishop, 1955-66
• Brasil, Emanuel -- 19 letters and postcards to Brasil from EB, 1971, 1974-78
• Sargent, [cousin] Kay Orr -- 43 letters and postcards from EB, 1952-70

1995

• Ciardi, John -- 7 letters from EB, 1955-69
• Pereira, Estella Maria Ruy Barbosa Baptista -- 18 letters and postcards from EB, 1956, 1967-69

1997 - 1999

Acquired from Emanuel Brasil, co-editor with Bishop of An Anthology of Twentieth-century Brazilian Poetry, published in 1972 by Wesleyan University Press:

The collection includes:

• 34 letters and postcards from Elizabeth Bishop to Emanuel Brasil between 1967 and 1972;
• one manuscript will, dated 22 July 1972;
• one letter from Roxanne Cumming (Mrs. Johnson Cumming) to Emanuel Brasil, dated 24 July 1971;
• one letter from Carlos Drummond de Andrade to Emanuel Brasil, dated 31 March 1974;
• one letter from Paulo Rocha Freire, Esq. to Elizabeth Bishop with a statement of her income and expenses in 1970 and 1971, dated 12 June 1972;
• and three of Bishop's miscellaneous lists, a hotel bill, and a prescription.

In these letters Bishop talks about the anthology that she and Brasil worked on, her personal life, especially right after the death of Lota de Maceda Soares, some miscellaneous items and a manuscript will that she drew up in 1972 when she believed she was dying.

Acquired from Lilli Correia de Araujo of Ouro Prêto, owner of the hotel, Chico Rey:

The collection (totaling 130 items) spans the years 1964 into 1972 and includes

• 81 letters,
• 16 postcards and a telegram from Elizabeth Bishop to Lilli,
• as well as notes (that Bishop used to slip under Lilli's door)
• and lists of directions for caring for the house and cats,
• several photographs and recipes,
• and two letters from Lota to Lilli.

This is an important collection of material in that it shows a side of Bishop not seen before in her correspondence and also shows the changes in Bishop's feelings toward one person (Lilli) over a period of years.