ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Title C. David Heymann: Ezra Pound Collection
Collection Number SC 246
OCLC Number In-process
Creator C. David Heymann, 1945-2012
Provenance This collection was donated by C. David Heymann in 1997.
Extent,Scope, and Content Note The C. David Heymann: Ezra Pound Collection consists primarily of Heymann’s research
files amassed in preparation of his book Ezra Pound, The Last Rower: A Political Profile (1976). The collection contains materials created between 1907 to 1976. Extent: 3.75 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Arrangement and Processing Note Processed by Kristen J. Nyitray in December 2005. Finding aid updated and revised
by Kristen J. Nyitray in July 2019.
The collection is organized in three series. Series 1: Correspondence and Research Files Series 2: Manuscript Drafts Series 3: Photographs
Language English
Restrictions on Access The collection is open to researchers without restriction.
Rights and Permissions Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection
does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole
responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials
to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission
where needed prior to publication.
Citation [Item], [Box], C. David Heymann: Ezra Pound Collection, Special Collections and University
Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries.
Historical Note David Heymann (1945-2012) was a literary biographer turned best-selling celebrity
biographer. Born Clemens Claude Oscar Heymann, he authored three New York Times best-sellers:
A Woman Named Jackie (1989), a life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis that reached No. 1; Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor (1995), and Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story (2009). Other works include: Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton (1983); Ezra Pound, the Last Rower: A Political Profile (1976); American Aristocracy: The Lives and Times of James Russell, Amy, and Robert Lowell (1980); RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy (1998); The Georgetown Ladies’ Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation’s Capital (2003); and American Legacy: The Story of John & Caroline Kennedy (2007). Heymann earned a bachelor’s degree in hotel administration from Cornell (1966)
and master of fine arts from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1969). He did
doctoral-level study in English literature at the State University of New York at
Stony Brook. (Source: New York Times, May 10, 2012)
Subjects Pound, Ezra, -- 1885-1972. Pound, Ezra, -- 1885-1972 -- Political and social views. Pound, Ezra. Political and social views.
INVENTORY
Series 1: Correspondence and Research Files
Box 1 Folders 1-2: copies of Pound letters sourced from Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript
Collection, Yale University Folder 3-5: copies of transcripts, Pound’s Italian WWII radio broadcasts, U.S. State
Department (3f)
Box 2 Folders 1-5: copies of files, U.S. State Department and Justice Department Folders 6-7: copies of correspondence, Pound Folder 8: copies of correspondence, Louis Untermeyer Folder 9: copies of correspondence, National Archives and Records Service Folder 10: handwritten transcription of interview with Garcia Livi (March 24, 1963)
held by the Library of Congress Folder 11: copy of Archibald MacLeish’s The Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound, 1950 Folder 12: C. David Heymann’s published interview with Ezra Pound Folder 13: postcard, Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky, May 4, 1933
Box 3 Folder 1: La Destra, November-December 1972 Folder 2: Agenda, Autumn-Winter 1970 Folder 3: copies of literary criticism Folder 4: copy of Arthur Miller comments on Ezra Pound from 30 Years of Treasory (E.
Bentley, Viking, 1971) Folder 5: copy of Steber report on Ezra Pound from the Library of Congress Folder 6: Julien Cornell files from Beinecke Library, Yale University Folder 7: copy, Pound letter to Woodrow Wilson, 1913 March 3 Folder 8: files, Wabash College, Indiana, 1907-1908 Folder 9: copy, Grab and Johnson manuscript of Yale University's broadcast for Pound's
70th birthday Folder 10: Italian Quarterly, Special Ezra Pound Issue, Spring 1973 Folder 11: copies, letters from Pound to Amy Lowell Folder 12: file, Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth's Hospital Folder 13: copies, Harry Meacher, University of Virginia Folder 14: Robert Fitzgerald on Ezra Pound Folder 15: Houghton Library, Harvard University, holdings on Ezra Pound Folder 16: typescript, translation of Pisan Cantos by Kate Johnson Folder 17: file, Allen Ginsberg and Pound Folders 18-21: assorted notes, clippings, articles, reviews, etc Folder 22: file (restricted)
Series 2: Manuscript Drafts
Box 4 Manuscript, Ezra Pound: The Last Rower by C. David Heymann (4f)
Box 5 Manuscript, Ezra Pound: The Last Rower by C. David Heymann (4f)
Series 3: Photographs (copies)
Ezra Pound, July 1959 Ezra Pound, Rapallo, 1960s Ezra Pound, 1920 Ezra Pound, 1945 Ezra Pound, undated (4 items) Ezra Pound and Dorothy Brunnenburg, 1959 Witnesses brought from Italy to testify against Ezra Pound
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