Special Collections Department
Samuel Loveman Correspondence
1911 - 1976
(bulk dates 1932 -1968)
Manuscript Collection Number: 148
Accessioned: Purchase and gift,
1978-1981
Extent: .6 linear ft.
Content: Letters, postcards, photographs,
drawings, pamphlets, reprints, and clippings
Access: The collection is open for research.
Processed: 1984, revised 1993
by Anita A. Wellner
Special Collections, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267
(302) 831-2229
Table of Contents
Biographical Note
American book dealer and publisher, poet, and editor Samuel Loveman (b. 1885?-1976) was proprietor of Bodley Book Shop in New York City, and associated with Dauber & Pine Book Shop and Gotham Book Mart. In partnership with David Mann, as the Bodley Press, he published Hart Crane, by Brom Weber; The Case of Ezra Pound, by Charles Norman; and a reprint from Walt Whitman's The Wound Dresser.
Loveman edited the magazines, Saturnian and Trend, and published translations of Heine, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Rilke.
Loveman died on May 14, 1976.
Sources:
Bowden, Jane A. (ed.) Contemporary Authors. Volumes 65-68. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1977. p. 372.
Note: Biographical information is also derived from correspondence in the collection.
Scope and Content Note
This collection of letters from various literary figures to American bookseller Samuel Loveman spans from 1911 to 1976, the year of Loveman's death. The letters are chiefly acknowledgments of poems and books received from Loveman; but also include business letters in connection with Loveman's career as a book dealer.
Correspondents include historian Jacques Martin Barzun, author James Branch Cabell, composer Vernon Duke, novelist Waldo Frank, chemist and author John Uri Lloyd, columnist Benjamin DeCasseres, poet Robert Loveman, and artist Prentiss Taylor.
Some of the letters include enclosures, such as photographs, clippings, offprints of articles, several pamphlets, typescript excerpts from articles or books, and one pen and ink drawing by Prentiss Taylor.
The Prentiss Taylor folder (F35) also includes several Christmas/New Year's cards designed by Taylor. In addition, three photographs of Taylor, two of which were taken by noted photographer Carl Van Vechten, were also enclosed in Taylor's letters to Loveman.
A photograph of Cosima and Siegfried Wagner was enclosed in a letter from Wellington Sloane to Loveman.
The approximately 150 items in this collection are arranged alphabetically by correspondent, then chronologically.
Contents List
Box -- Folder -- Contents
1 F1 Barker, Eric Wilson
[1941]Aug 25 ALS 2p
F2 Barzun, Jacques, 1907-
American historian of French birth
1964 Aug 21 TLS 1p
1965 Apr 16 ALS 1p
1966 Feb 28 ACS 1p
1968 Jan 29 TLS 1p
Note: Also includes a Bodley Book Shop bill.
F3 Bernardino, Medina
1951 Sep 15 ALS 2p
Oct 8 ALS 3p
Oct 16 ALS 2p
Oct 24 ALS 2p
1952 Jan 18 ALS 2p
Mar 23 ALS 2p
F4 Betts, Craven Langstroth
Writer
1936 Jun 4 ALS 5p
F5 Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958
American author
1927 Nov 5 TLS 1p
Nov 12 TLS 1p
F6 Chase, Lewis Nathaniel, 1873-1937
Author and educator
1932 May 1 ALS 3p
May 6 ANS 1p
Jun 25 TLS 1p
F7 Coolbrith, Ina Donna, 1841-1928
American poet
1912 Feb 21 ALS 1p
F8 Cornell, Joseph, 1903-1972
American artist
1946 Jul 30 ALS 1p
Note: Addressed to David Mann, co-proprietor of
Bodley Books. Also includes AN with
Cornell's address.
1959 Mar 30 TNS 1p
1 F9 Damon, S. Foster (Samuel Foster), 1893-1971
American poet, literary biographer, and Brown
University professor
1930 May 28 TLS 1p
1952 Apr 15 TLS 1p
F10 DeCasseres, Benjamin, 1873-1945
American essayist and columnist for Hearst newspapers
[1925 Nov 16] ACS 1p
[1925 Dec 9] ACS 1p
[1927 Feb 9] ANS 1p
1931 May 19 ALS 1p
Sep 30 ALS 1p
Oct 5 ACS 1p
Dec 16 ACS 1p
Dec 19 ALS 1p
1932 Apr 10 ACS 1p
[1932 May 13]
Note: Consists of two pamphlets announcing
DeCasseres' Magazine.
[1932 Jun 20] ACS 1p
1932 Jun 21 ACS 1p
1933 Nov 12 ANS 1p
Nov 14 ACS 1p
1935 Nov 24 ALS 2p
Note: Includes a pamphlet titled From Olympus to
Independence Hall.
1936 Jan 6 ALS 2p
F11 DeCasseres, Bio (Mrs. Benjamin)
[1931 Dec 20] ACS 1p
[1932 Jan 19] ALS 2p
[1932 Jun 21] TL 1p
Note: With AN at the bottom of the page.
1950 Oct 17 ACS 1p
1951 May 23 ALS 4p
Note: Photograph enclosed.
1952 Jun 25 ALS 2p
Aug 16 ACS 1p
[1954 Dec 11] ACS 1p
[n.d.] ALS 1p
Note: Also includes an ANS to DeCasseres from an
unidentified person.
1 F12 Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969
Composer of musicals, symphonies, ballets, concertos,
and cantatas
[1959 Oct 17 ALS 3p
[1961 Sep 4] ALS 1p
[1961 Sep 20] ACS 1p
[1961 Oct 10] ACS 1p
[1961 Dec 4] ACS 1p
[1963] Jul 5 ACS 1p
1963 Jul 12 ACS 1p
[1964] Apr 28 ACS 1p
[1964] May 18 ALS 1p
[1964] Jul 22 ACS 1p
[n.y.] Mar 20 ALS 1p
[n.y.] Oct 15 ALS 1p
[n.d.] AN 1p
F13 Ehrsam, Theodore George, 1909-
American writer
1945 Nov 15 TLS 1p
1946 Apr 11 ALS 2p
May 4 ACS 1p
Note: Includes Ts article titled "A Few Musical
Notations on the Shelley Circle based on
Professor Robert M. Smith's The Shelley
Legend," 4p.
May 29 ALS 1p
Jul 12 TLS 1p
Aug 16 TL 1p
Sep 11 ALS 1p
Sep 25 ACS 1p
Oct 17 Ts 2p
Note: Also includes a reprint of Ehrsam's article
titled "Mary Shelley in Her Letters," which
is signed and inscribed to Loveman, (6p) and
clippings.
[1949 Aug 21] ACS 1p
1949 Nov 16 ALS 1p
1957 Jun 4 ALS 1p
1964 Dec 13 ACS 1p
[n.d.] ACS 1p
Note: Also includes an envelope dated 10/9/1950.
1 Ferri, Liana
F14 1949 Dec 18 AL 1p
1952 Apr 16 ALS 2p
Jul 16 ALS 2p
[1952] Nov 4 ALS 2p
[1953] Nov 16 ALS 2p
1954 Feb 20 ALS 2p
[1962] Nov 29 ALS 2p
1963 Oct 8 TLS 1p
1964 Feb 20 ALS 1p
[n.y.] Jan 26 ACS 1p
[n.y.] Apr 2 ALS 1p
[n.y.] Dec 9 ALS 2p
F15 [n.y.] Aug 1 ALS 2p
[n.y.] Aug 7 ALS 2p
[n.y.] Aug 26 ALS 2p
[n.y.] Sep 18 ACS 1p
[n.y.] Sep 28 ALS 2p
[n.d.] TLS 1p
[n.d.] TLS 2p
Note: Bears autograph note on verso.
[n.d.] TLS 1p
[n.d.] ALS 1p
[n.d.] ACS 2p
F16 Flesch, Rudolf Franz, 1911-1986
American writer
1966 Aug 2 TNS 1p
Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967
American essayist and novelist
F17 [1932 Feb] TNS 1p
Note: Includes a letter from Phelps Putnam to
Frank dated 2/19/1932.
[1932] Dec 12 TLS 1p
[1932 Dec 20] ACS 1p
[1932 Dec 22] ALS 1p
[1932 Dec 24] ALS 1p
[1933 Jan 8] ALS 1p
[1933 Jan 23] ACS 1p
[1933 Feb 3] ALS 1p
[1933 Feb 8] ALS 1p
[1933 Mar 7] TNS 1p
F18 [1933 Aug 19] ACS 1p
[1933 Oct 22] ACS 1p
[1934 Oct 3] ACS 1p
[1934 Oct 11] ACS 1p
[1934] Dec 4 TLS 1p
[1935] May 10 TLS 1p
1946 May 2 TLS 1p
Jul 9 TLS 1p
Jul 30 TLS 1p
[1946] Aug 16 ALS 1p
2 F19 Freeman, Joseph, 1897-1965
American poet, editor, and critic
1954 Sep 10 TLS 1p
F20 Lieberson, Brigitta
[1951 Jan 2] ALS 2p
F21 Lieberson, Goddard, 1911-
English-born American writer, music critic, composer,
CBS executive
1966 Oct 17 TLS 1p
1976 Jan 27 TLS 1p
F22 Lieberson, Zorina
[1946 May 23] ALS 2p
[n.d.] ALS 1p
F23 Lloyd, John Uri, 1849-1936
Chemist, educator, and author of several books on
chemistry
1933 Feb 8 TLS 2p
Oct 21 TLS 1p
1934 Aug 14 TLS 2p
Note: AN at bottom of letter.
F24 Loveman, Robert
American poet
1911 Dec [22] ALS 2p
1912 Jul [27] ALS 1p
1916 Aug [9] ALS 3p
Sep [18] ALS 1p
Note: Includes two clippings.
2 F25 Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, 1898-1968
American scholar and authority on Edgar Allan Poe
1939 Sep 9 TLS 1p
Sep 12 TLS 1p
Sep 15 TLS 1p
1941 Jun 10 ANS 1p
1943 Dec 12 TLS 1p
F26 Norman, Charles, 1904-1996
Russian-born American writer
1946 Sep 6 TLS 1p
Note: Includes Ts excerpt his The Muses' Darling.
F27 North, Diana
1956 May 29 ALS 1p
F28 Peck, Walter Edwin, 1891-1954
1948 May 5 ALS 2p
F29 Perry, Virginia R.
Perry Picture Company, Malden, Massachusetts
1942 Dec 26 ALS 6p
Putnam, Phelps. See Frank, Waldo.
F30 Ramsey, Warren, 1914-
1953 Mar 25 ANS 1p
F31 Rodman, Selden, 1909-
American writer, poet, art critic
[1948 Dec 7] ACS 1p
F32 Sacks, Claire
1965 Jun 23 ALS 1p
Note: Includes offprint of Sack's research on
Edgar E. Saltus.
F33 Saltus, Mrs. Marie (Giles)
Third wife of American novelist Edgar E. Saltus
[1926 Nov 4] ALS 2p
[1935 Sep 16] TLS 2p
2 F34 Sloane, Wellington
1952 Feb 4 TLS 2p
1963 Aug 18 ANS 1p
Note: Photograph of Cosima and Siegfried Wagner is
enclosed.
1966 Apr 30 TLS 2p
Oct 10 TLS 2p
Note: With TL (carbon) of same letter.
Oct 30 TLS 3p
Note: With TL (carbon) of same letter.
Nov 11 ANS 1p
F35 Sloane, Wellington (cont'd)
1967 Mar 21 TLS 2p
Aug 18 ALS 2p
Aug 22 ANS 1p
Note: Four photographs enclosed.
Sep 6 TCS 1p
Sep 28 TLS 2p
Dec 15 ANS 1p
1972 May 6 ALS 2p
Note: Addressed to Mrs. Wodika, concerning the
whereabouts of Samuel Loveman.
Jul [8] ALS 4p
Note: Enclosed with a letter to Mrs. Wodika.
F36 Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991
American artist, art therapist
Christmas/New Years cards in this folder were designed
by Taylor.
1931 Nov 13 ACS 1p
Note: Card is a photograph of Taylor.
1932 May 20 Card 1p
Note: Photograph of Taylor taken by Carl Van
Vechten.
1932 Jul 2 ACS 1p
Note: Card is a photograph of Taylor taken by Carl
Van Vechten.
1936 [Jan] ACS 1p
Note: Includes original drawing by Taylor, signed
and a signed photograph of Taylor.
1938 ACS 1p
[1942 Jan 9] ACS 1p
[1948 Dec 23] ACS 1p
F37 Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
American critic, novelist, and photographer
1951 Jul 24 ACS 1p
Wagner, Cosima and Siegfried. See F34.
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