Word: witters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were statements in [her husband's] philosophy which implied a fundamental opposition to the theories behind our project." But undaunted Director Abbott galloped over England and the U.S., roping poets left and right-". . . lunch at Taplow with Walter de la Mare . . . the Isle of Wight with Alfred Noyes. . . . Witter Bynner adobe-housed at Santa Fe . . . Louis Untermeyer [cornered] in a cool fastness of the Adirondacks. . . ." Director Abbott sometimes corralled as many as five poets a day ("undeniably taxing"), and found his largest rewards in New York City, where, he says, poets range "in numbers almost beyond belief...
Among other gifts were a representative collection of modern California typography, from Albert J. Bender; and several volumes and manuscripts, from Witter Bynner...