S. Foster Damon Festival papers (Ms.Damon)

The collection consists of approximately 50 items of correspondence relating to the 75th birthday in 1968 of S. Foster Damon and to the S. Foster Damon Festival held at Brown University during the same year. Included are original letters and carbon copies, typewritten manuscripts and telegrams, tributes in honor of Damon's 75th birthday, correspondence and selected papers of members of the Brown English Department relating to the Festival. The collection includes letters from luminaries such as John Dos Passos, Allen Ginsberg, Marianne Moore, Lincoln Kirstein, and Virgil Thomson.