Sally Purcell

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 CPA/2/3/124
  • Former Reference
      GB 133 Sequence 2, Box 34 [86]
  • Dates of Creation
      25 Apr 1979-22 Feb 1980
  • Physical Description
      15 pieces

Scope and Content

Correspondence with English poet and translator Sally Purcell. Most of this relates to her Dante volume [Literature in the vernacular: Dante, translated with an introduction by Purcell (Carcanet, 1981)], including references to: the contract and advance; problems arising from the inclusion of in-copyright material; Schmidt's suggestion that she cut some of the translations by other writers like Pound which attract copyright fees; and Schmidt's further suggestion that the Italian and Provencal texts are cut due to problems of length and typesetting. Other topics include: her hope of editing a selection of [George] Gascoigne for the Fyfield series, a project which Schmidt informs her has already been given to Robert Wells; and her plans for an anthology of foreign visitors to Tudor England, with suggestions of which texts she might include.

Sent from: Oxford.

Holograph.