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CA OTUTF MS COLL 00424
Title
Eric Ormsby Papers
Date(s)
- 1980-ongoing (Creation)
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13 boxes (2.25 metres)
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(1941-)
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Gift of Eric Ormsby, 2004.
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Includes proofs, photographs (New York City, 1967), holograph notebooks, printed appearances in numerous journals such as The New Criterion; Books in Canada; videotaped appearance at Bentley College, September 2, 2002; David Solway manuscripts; Correspondence with other writers, editors and publishers: John Black; Richard Outram; David Solway; Karen Mulhallen/Descant; Shlomo Dov Goitein; PhD thesis, Princeton; drafts and proofs of Al-Ghazali; gallies, correspondence and cover art for Daybreak at the Straits and Other Poems.
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Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca
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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto