Joseph Brodsky collection of letters, manuscripts, notes and books from his library, 1972-1995

Joseph Brodsky collection of letters, manuscripts, notes and books from his library, 1972-1995

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1921
Bib ID:
13074127 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
12 linear feet (1 manuscript box (processed); one section of books (unprocessed))
Language(s):
English , Russian .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Description

Summary

This is a collection of letters, manuscripts, notes, cards, etc. removed from books in Josph Brodsky's working library. There are no letters by Brodsky. The books have been cataloged.

The Joseph Brodsky Book Collection contains approximately 1,350 volumes of the working library of Brodsky.

Arrangement

Arranged by folder title.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Joseph Brodsky collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

20017.2018.M088: Source of acquisition--[source of acquisition]. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--2017.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers processed, ptl 02/14/2018.

Revision Description

2018-02-15 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

Joseph Brodsky, original Russian name Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky (born in Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. on May 24, 1940 and died in Brooklyn, New York on January 28, 1996). Celebrated Russian-born American poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 for his lyric and elegiac poems.

Subject Headings

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Name
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Batovrin, Sergeĭ, 1957-
Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996
Conquest, Robert
Joseph Brodsky Collection (Columbia University)
Subject
American poetry -- 20th century
Poets, Russian
Russian poetry -- 20th century

Items from the Joseph Brodsky Book Collection


Box 1 Folder 1

Steven G. Kellman to Joseph Brodsky, 26 October 1995


Box 1 Folder 2

Letter from David Cronin to Joseph Brodsky and program for a memorial service for Lola Szladits, 17 April 1990. Removed from: Love and death by Lola L. Szladits


Box 1 Folder 3

Letter from Stanley Holwitz, The University of California Press, to Joseph Brodsky, 19 June 1995. Removed from: Letters from prison and other essays by Adam Michnik


Box 1 Folder 4

Postcard from Michael Marchto Joseph Brodsky, undated Removed from: Child of Europe : a new anthology of East European poetry Edited by Michael March., undated


Box 1 Folder 5

Letter from Rosamond Richardson to Joseph Brodsky, 11 November n.y. Removed from: The long shadow: inside Stalin's family by Rosamond Richardson


Box 1 Folder 6

Invoice from Odyssey Book Shop, 24 February1992. Removed from: Conjunctions and disjunctions by Octavio Paz


Box 1 Folder 7

Page from the New Yorker magazine, 15 April 1985 with cartoon. Removed from: The unquiet grave : a word cycle by Palinurus (Cyril Connolly)., April 1985


Box 1 Folder 8

Letter to Joseph Brodsky on The New Republic letterhead, dated 6 December, and a notice from Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Removed from: The Akhmatova journals by Lydia Chukovskaya


Box 1 Folder 9

Note to Joseph Brodsky from Jonathan, 24 August 1990. Removed from: Selected poems by Zbigniew Herbert


Box 1 Folder 10

Photograph of Susan Sontag and a clipping. Removed from: The benefactor, a novel .by Sontag


Box 1 Folder 11

Joanna, 22 May 1991 (postcard with photocopy of poem and birthday invitation to Alexandra Pringle's 40th Birthday Party). Removed from: Postwar Polish poetry : an anthology selected and edited by Czesław Miłosz., May 1991


Box 1 Folder 12

Letter from Jane Howle, Baskerville Publishing, to Joseph Brodsky, 2 November 1993. Removed from: The seventh wife : a novel by Andrei Moscovit


Box 1 Folder 13

Robert Conquest Forword to Vaksberg's book on Vyshinsky (T.ms.). Removed from: The prosecutor : Andrei Vyshinsky and the Moscow show trials by Arkady Vaksberg


Box 1 Folder 14

Review of "An Analysis of 'Markings' by Gustag Aulen". Removed from: Markings by Dag Hammarskjold


Box 1 Folder 15

Two poems by Jacob Miller. Removed from: The Yorkville anthology of new writers : a collection of poetry & prose edited by Jacob Miller.


Box 1 Folder 16

Unsigned post-it note. Removed from: The best American poetry, 1988 John Ashbery, editor


Box 1 Folder 17

Two 1972 receipts from the Pensione accademia "Villa Maravegie", Venice. Removed from: The young British poets edited by Jeremy Robson, 1972


Box 1 Folder 18

Note from Grace Gavalieri, undated. Removed from: WPFW 89.3 FM poetry anthology edited by Grace Cavalieri


Box 1 Folder 19

Letter to Joseph Brodsky from Poetry International Rotterdam, 11 June 1994. Removed from: Poetry : a spoken anthology


Box 1 Folder 20

Handwritten note to Joseph Brodsky. Removed from: Carel Willink : tekeningen en aquarellen = drawings and watercolors: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 19 September t/m 1 November 1992.


Box 1 Folder 21

Anna Akhmatova: Two photocopies of English-language translations and two handwritten notes. Removed from: Sochinenii︠a︡ by Anna Akhmatova


Box 1 Folder 22

Letter from Sergeĭ Batovrin to Joseph Brodsky, 29 October 1993 New York City, and two photocopied pages relating to Ėkologii︠a︡ smysla: Ecology of meaning. Removed from: Ėkologii︠a︡ smysla = Ecology of meaning by Sergeĭ Batovrin, October 1993


Box 1 Folder 23

"Of 'Self' and Saintly Expanses" Clipping from the Boston Phoenix, 7 December 1976. Removed from: Zoloto skifov by A.M. Khazanov


Box 1 Folder 24

Three postcards and two photographs. Removed from: Tekhnologii︠a︡ chërnogo rynka, ili, Krestʹi︠a︡nskoe isskustvo golodatʹ by Lev Timofeev


Box 1 Folder 25

Carol Fergus letter, 2 September 1977. Removed from: O dukhovnom v iskusstve by Vasiliĭ Kandinskiĭ


Box 1 Folder 26

Article on Mikhail Baryshnikov from the Daily Telegraph, 24 August 2002. Removed from: Baryshnikov in black and white introduction by Joan Acocella


Box 1 Folder 27

Four pages from New Yorker magazine. Removed from: Joseph Czapski, rétrospective: Musée Jenisch, Vevey, du 30 juin au 15 septembre, 1990


Box 1 Folder 28

Postcard from Tom and Debbie, 1975. Removed from: Tragedii. by Per. s drevnegrech. I. Annenskogo. [Vstupit. statʹi︠a︡ i komment. V. I︠A︡rkho. Ill.: V. Noskov].


Box 1 Folder 29

Letter to Brodsky from Igorʹ Efimov of Hermitage publishers, 15 February1991. Removed from: Posvi︠a︡shchaetsi︠a︡ Akhmatovoĭ : stikhi raznykh poėtov, posvi︠a︡shchennye Akhmatovoĭ sostavlenie P. Dėvidson i I. Tlasti ; vstupitelʹnai︠a︡ statʹi︠a︡, podgotovka teksta i primechanii︠a︡ P. Dėvidson ; predislovie E.B. Reĭna


Box 1 Folder 30

Letter from Terry Karten, Harper Collins to Joseph Brodsky, 13 May 1991. Removed from: Dreyfus : a family affair, 1789-1945 by Michael Burns.


Box 1 Folder 31

Note, undated Removed from: Six American Poets: an anthology edited by Joel Conarroe, undated


Box 1 Folder 32

Clipping from the Boston Globe. Removed from: Stikhotvorenii︠a︡; Poėmy by E.A. Baratynskiĭ ; izdanie podgotovil L.G. Frizman


Box 1 Folder 33

Letter from Cynthia LeClaire to Joseph Brodsky, 30 January 1992. Removed from: Homage to the Light by Cynthia LeClaire


Box 1 Folder 34

Letter from Inna Rostovt︠s︡eva to Joseph Brodsky, 1992. Removed from: Luchshie stikhi goda by po mnienii︠u︡ literaturnykh kritikov Larisy Baranovoĭ


Box 1 Folder 35

Distinguished Alumnae Awards 1986. Removed from: When in the rain a snow : poems by Joan Vayo


Box 1 Folder 36

Typed letter from Svetlana Perttu to Joseph Brodsky, 26 June 1993. Removed from: Dva okeana slez, ne prolitykh po mne--rasskazy by Svetlana Perttu.


Box 1 Folder 37

Letter from the author to Joseph Brodsky and letter from Anto Sepp to Joseph Brodsky, 1 & 9 December 1991. Removed from: Poetry in cadence : a sample by Mac Ashworth, Jr.


Box 1 Folder 38

Postcard with portrait of Adam Mickiewicz. Removed from: Stikhotvorenii︠a︡ Poėmy by Adam Mit︠s︡kevich


Box 1 Folder 39

Letter from Xenia Khlevnikov to Joseph Brodsky, 5 December 1976. Removed from: To see a thing : rhythms, typographs, and prose poems by Keith Gunderson


Box 1 Folder 40

Business card with inscription from Zeszyty literackie. Removed from: Widokówka z tego świata : i inne rymy z lat 1986-1988 by Stanisław Barańczak


Box 1 Folder 41

Letter from Bojana Mojsov 30 November 1990 Removed from: Oro oko grotla by Zlata Kocić., November 1990


Box 1 Folder 42

Two-page typed poem to Joseph Brodsky by Valeriĭ Rodev, 26 March1990 Removed from: Prokhodi︠a︡ vdolʹ kanala : stikhi by Vladimir Frenkelʹ, March1990


Box 1 Folder 43

Letter from Ruth Greenstein, Harcort Brace Jovanovich to Joseph Brodsky, 13 January 1992 Removed from: First light : mother & son poems : a twentieth-century American selection edited by Jason Shinder., January 1992


Box 1 Folder 44

Letter from Michael Edwards to Joseph Brodsky, 21 May 1985 Removed from: The ballad of Mobb Conroy by Michael Edwards, May 1985


Box 1 Folder 45

W.H. Auden "The English Attitude" and "The Anti-Hero" Removed from: The brothers Karamazov translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett


Box 1 Folder 46

Letter from the author to Joseph Brodsky, 23 October, 1991 from Winston-Salem, NC Removed from: Poems of praise and protest : covering 60 years by Doris Sanford Arnold., October, 1991


Box 1 Folder 47

Photocopy of article entitled "Amerikanskai︠a︡ poėzii︠a︡ nashikh dneĭ" by M.L. Rozentalʹ Removed from: Slezy bludnogo syna by Ivan Gundulich


Box 1 Folder 48

Letter from Samuel Ramer to Joseph Brodsky, 21 May 1991 Removed from: Blockade diary by Elena Kochina ; translated & introduced by Samuel C. Ramer, May 1991


Box 1 Folder 49

Letter to Joseph Brodsky from David, 17 October 1976 and envelope to Joseph Brodsky from Mr. Vl. Maramzine in Paris Removed from: Sobranie stikhov, 1913-1939 by Vladislav Khodasevich, October 1976


Box 1 Folder 50

Letter from Slobodan Milić to Joseph Brodsky and printed poem signed by Slobodan Milić Removed from: "Miłość jest wszystkim, co istnieje "


Box 1 Folder 51

Letter from Vadim Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡ to Joseph Brodsky, 5 June 1992 Removed from: Kalendarʹ vspominalʹshchika : stikhi by Vadim Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡, June 1992


Box 1 Folder 52

Letter from Farrar, Straus & Giroux to Joseph Brodsky, 10 July 1995 Removed from: Blockade diary by Lidiya Ginzburg, July 1995


Box 1 Folder 53

Letter from Myra Sklarew to Joseph Brodsky, undated Removed from: Like a field riddled by ants : fictions of Myra Sklarew, undated


Box 1 Folder 54

Letter from Vladimir Levinzon to Joseph Brodsky, 31 May 1991 Removed from: Pri svete dni︠a︡ : stikhi 1960-1990 by Vladimir Levinzon, May 1991


Box 1 Folder 55

Letter from the Tatʹi︠a︡na Shcherbina to Joseph Brodsky, letter from Nancy Condee and Vladimir Padukov, typed poem and author's business card, 1986 Removed from: Nati︠u︡rmort s prevrashchenii︠a︡mi by Tatʹi︠a︡na Shcherbina, 1986


Box 1 Folder 56

Card from University of Cambridge, Department of Slavonic Studies with note to Joseph Brodsky Removed from: Po zagładzie by Wiktor Woroszylski.


Box 1 Folder 57

Letter from Jean Williams to Joseph Brodsky and two related clippings, 16 May 1992 Removed from: Homecoming : images of Vietnam collected by Jean R. Williams, May 1992


Box 1 Folder 58

Photocopy of poem entitled "Shadrach" Removed from: Evidence by Andrew Harvey


Box 1 Folder 59

Zbigniew Machej's business card Removed from: Dwa zbiory wierszy by Zbigniew Machej


Box 1 Folder 60

Letter to Joseph Brodsky from Gabriėlʹ Valk, Effect Publishing, 7 June 1991 Removed from: Graver : stikhotvorenii︠a︡, June 1991


Box 1 Folder 61

Letter from Robert Siegel, 9 November 1973 and five pages of typed poems by Robert Siegel Removed from: The beasts & the elders, November 1973


Box 1 Folder 62

Postcard to Joseph Brodsky from Marie D., 7 September 1988 Removed from: Kholodnyĭ kli︠u︡ch : stikhi by Mikhail Sinelʹnikov., September 1988


Box 1 Folder 63

Mailing label from M.L. Gasparov to Joseph Brodsky Removed from: Russkiĭ stikh : uchebnyĭ material po literaturovedenii︠u︡ by sostavlenie i primechanii︠a︡ M.L. Gasparova.


Box 1 Folder 64

Letter from Sergeĭ Alikhanov to Joseph Brodsky, 4 August 1988 Removed from: Vinogradnik : stikhi by Silovan Narimanidze., August 1988


Box 1 Folder 65

Letter to Joseph Brodsky in envelope from Savoy Hotel, London Removed from: Edinstvo vremeni : stikhi by Aleksandr Revich


Box 1 Folder 66

Card from Edward Mycue to Joseph Brodsky Removed from: The Singing man my father gave me by Edward Mycue


Box 1 Folder 67

Letter from Daniel Weissbort to Joseph Brodsky, December 1991 Removed from: Fathers by Daniel Weissbort, December 1991


Box 1 Folder 68

Letter from Lars Gustafsson to Joseph Brodsky, 15 May 1991 Removed from: Poems. Selections, May 1991


Box 1 Folder 69

Letter from Sharon Wevill to Joseph Brodsky, 11August 1989 Removed from: Spellbound by Sharon Wevill


Box 1 Folder 70

Letter from Gerd Wasén to Joseph Brodsky, 11 December 1987 Removed from: Fyrtiotalistens revolutionära fickdikter by Gerd Wasén, December 1987


Box 1 Folder 71

Letter from Michael Blumenthal to Joseph Brodsky, 5 November 1984 Removed from: Laps : a poem by Michael Blumenthal, November 1984