Identification: MSS 099, F872
Creator: Goodman, Mitchell.
Title: Mitchell Goodman letters to Robert Wilson
Inclusive Dates: 1962
Extent: 2 items (3 p.)
Abstract: American novelist Mitchell Goodman wrote these two letters in 1962 to Phoenix Book Shop owner Robert Wilson inquiring about books for his wife, Denise Levertov.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 099, F872, Mitchell Goodman letters to Robert Wilson, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
F872: Shelved in SPEC MSS 099 manuscript boxes
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Purchase (laid in a copy of Goodman's The End of It), 2000.
Processed and encoded by Anita Wellner, June 2010.
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American novelist and political activist Mitchell Goodman was noted for his novels, The End of It, which was an account of World War II, and The Movement toward a New America, which depicted various events of the 1960s.
As an anti-war activist Goodman was arrested in June 1968, along with Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr., and Michael Ferber. The group was later convicted of conspiring to encourage draft resistance against the Vietnam War. The conviction was overturned on appeal.
The American bibliographer, bookseller, and collector Robert A. Wilson was the third proprietor of the Phoenix Book Shop in New York City. Wilson was also the author of A Bibliography of Denise Levertov , published in 1972.
Sources:
"Mitchell Goodman." Contemporary Authors Online (reproduced in Biography Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioR (accessed June 2010).
"Robert A. Wilson Collection" (finding aid). University of Delaware Library, Special Collections. http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/wlsn_rbt.htm (accessed June 2010).
American novelist Mitchell Goodman wrote these two letters in 1962 to Phoenix Book Shop owner Robert Wilson inquiring about books for his wife, Denise Levertov. In addition to requesting two books, Goodman mentioned Maine and leaving New York in the first letter. The second letter is a brief follow-up regarding the previously requested books.
These two letters were removed from Mitchell Goodman's The End of It: a novel (Horizon Press, 1961), which is cataloged with imprints in Special Collections.
Arranged chronologically.
Autograph letter signed, with envelope, 1962 June 26 [Box 61 F872]
1 item (2 p.)
Goodman responded to an inquiry from Wilson to Levertov regarding books she wished to acquire. Goodman also mentioned Maine and leaving New York.
Autograph letter signed , 1962 July 12 [Box 61 F872]
1 item (1 p.)
In a brief second letter, Goodman inquired about the status of two books he requested.
