Hugh Chisholm Papers

The papers of Hugh Joseph Chisholm (1913-1972) in this collection span the years 1945-1982. Born in 1913 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Chisholm was educated at Yale University, where he was the class poet of 1936, and King's College of Cambridge University. His early poems were published in Harper's Bazaar,Spur,and other magazines, and included in New Poems, 1942: An Anthology of British and American Verse. His books of poetry include some privately printed volumes in the 1930s, and Several Have Lived (1942), The Prodigal Never Returns(1947), Atlantic City Cantata (1951), and a translation from the French of Saint-John Perse's Winds (1953). He co-edited Hellas, a travel book on Greece in 1944, and worked briefly as an assistant editor for the Bollingen Foundation in New York City during the late 1940s and early 1950s. He died in an automobile accident in Biarriz, France in 1972.

The papers in this collection reflect Chisholm's ongoing professional relationship and friendship with Allen Grover,the second in command to Henry Luce at Time, Inc. In addition to letters and other correspondence, the collection includes original (unsigned) typescripts of "Dear All: Being a Collection of Open Letters on Closed Matters", "On The Prodigal Never Returns", and various original poetry and prose.