ID: 8353  -  Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani  -  Firenze Type: Text    bryher 1936 Format: Medium: Letter Extent: 1 p. Identifier: Source: Title: [Bryher to Muriel Rukeyser] Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Role: Name: Created: 1936-07-03 Date: in/on: Language: English Rights: William L. Rukeyser (Davis, California) Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Berg Collection, N.Y. Public Library Coverage: Place: Time: Description: The letter was sent from Villa Kenwin, Vevey (Switzerland). It is typed and the post scriptum is handwritten. Subjects: Places Subjects: Places Subjects: Places Subjects: Places Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Exchanges Subjects: Definitions of Culture Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Places Keywords: London Keywords: Paris Keywords: Spain Keywords: Vevey Keywords: poetry Keywords: politics Keywords: writers Keywords: youth Keywords: literary criticism Keywords: Modernism Keywords: Bryher (Winifred Ellerman) Keywords: H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Keywords: Richardson, Dorothy Keywords: Rukeyser, Muriel Keywords: Switzerland Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, London) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Paris) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Spain) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Vevey) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, poetry) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, politics) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, writers) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, youth) Query Subject+Keyword: (Exchanges, literary criticism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, Modernism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Bryher (Winifred Ellerman)) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Richardson, Dorothy) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Rukeyser, Muriel) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Switzerland) Comment: When reading this letter, dated July 3, one should recall that, just a few days later, Rukeyser was sent to Spain by Life and Letters Today, to cover the Anti-Fascist Olympic Games (set up in opposition to the Official Games in Berlin). She learned, upon arrival, that the games could not be held, because war had broken out in the province of Catalonia. From Dorothy Richardson’s correspondence, we learn that she never met Rukeyser, as Bryher had wished; in a letter sent to Bryher on August 1936, Richardson states: ”we missed, by the way, Muriel Rukeyser, who, when we came back from Essex, had left town”. And, again, in a letter dated November 1936, Richardson gives J. C. Powys more details: “Horace Gregory introduced one Muriel Rukeyser, fresh from Vassar, poet, airwoman & the most vital woman in young America. We waited trembling, & when this portent wrote, were away staying with friends. Before we returned, she had gone to Spain. So we never saw her” (record [:462;462:] ).