Arvind Krishna Mehrotra papers, 1960-2014.
Collection Number: 8511
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra papers, 1960-2014.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8511
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, published material and some manuscripts.
Creator:
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, 1947-
Clearing House (Publishing firm)
Bombay Poets Archive
Quanitities:
6.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Mehrotra is a 20th century modernist poet of India, an editor, translator and literary
critic. Along with Adil Jussawalla, Mehrotra formed the Clearing House, which published
the works of leading figures such as Arun Kolatkar, Gieve Patel, and Dilip Chitre,
among others. The "Bombay Poets" were not strictly confined to Bombay/Mumbai, but
included figures such as AK Ramanujan, who lived in the United States.
Includes correspondence, published material and some manuscripts.
Books - cataloged individually in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
- de Souza, Eunice. Learn from the Almond Leaf, 2016. Signed.
- Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna. Bharatmata: a prayer, 1967. Offprint from Poetry India.
- Kolatkar, Arun. The Boatride, circa 1960s. Signed self-made book, with experimental paper treatment.
- Kolatkar, Arun. The Policeman, 1969. 1st edition.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Papers, #8511. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Related material located in collection #8519, Adil Jussawalla papers.
Places:
India -- In literature.
Subjects:
Indic literature (English) -- History and criticism.
Form and Genre Terms:
Literary criticism.
Poetry -- India -- 20th century.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Manuscripts, Drafts, Personal Materials and Reviews
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Loose Sheets, Ezra 1 and 2
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Damn you/Ezra contributions
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Scope and Contents
Including Agha Shahid Ali, letters from Adil (new writing in India), Tornado #5 (expenses),
letters from US Poets
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Review clippings, Clearing House
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1977-1983 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Early writings
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late 1960s |
Box 3 | Folder 5-6 |
Drafts and manuscripts
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late 1970s |
Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Reviews of Damn you/ Ezra
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Scope and Contents
In Century (1966), Poetry India (1967), Manhattan Review(1966-1967)
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Box 1 | Folder 2-4 |
Contributions to other US, UK, and Indian magazines
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Scope and Contents
Includes NPW/Kruti and Tornado #4, Bombay Duck
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
TLS with poems
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1978, 1965 |
Box 1 | Folder 5-9 |
Poems, manuscripts and drafts
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2000-2013 |
Box 2 | Folder 12-15 |
Songs of Kabir MSS and drafts
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2000 |
Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Shakti Chattopadhyay
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
History of Indian Literature in English file
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
History of Indian Literature in English initial stages
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1997 |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
History of Indian Literature in English correspondence
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1996-1997 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Looking for A.K. Ramanujan clippings, notes and drafts
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Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Iowa materials, bound
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1971-1973 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
DH Law review essay materials
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Box 2 | Folder 25 |
The Transfiguring Places drafts of poems
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Box 2 | Folder 26 |
MSS drafts of poems that first appear under New Poems in Collected Poems
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1998 |
Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Copies of The Nation, MPT (17), Romanian Bulletin, all with AK Mehrotra poems or translations;
Penguin News with announcement of Adil Jussawalla's "New Writing in India".
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Box 4 | Folder 3 |
The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature publishing information, photocopy with
corrections of "The Emperor Has No Clothes".
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2000 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
MSS of the Absent Traveller with AK Ramanujan's corrections/suggestions in pencil,
with letters from Selby and Ramanujan
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1988 |
Box 4 | Folder 4-5 |
MSS of the Absent Traveller, notes and drafts, with letter from Selby
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1988 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
The Absent Traveller notes and drafts
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1988 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Mehrotra's Curriculum Vitae, book selection photocopies, materials for a grant/fellowship
that never came through
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Box 4 | Folder 8-10 |
The Transfiguring Places proofs, drafts, letters to Ravi Dayal
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Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Clippings and notes related to History of Indian Literature in English
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Scope and Contents
Includes Prathibha Nandakumar letter and photocopies of AK Ramanujan letters/poems
to her.
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Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Articles and reviews received from Adil Jussawalla, including letters from Jussawalla
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Box 4 | Folder 18 |
AK Mehrortra early chapbooks: "Woodcuts on Paper" and "Pomes, Poemes, Poemas"
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1967, 1971 |
Box 4 | Folder 21 |
List of early publications, early letters to publishers, translations of poems in
German
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1965-1976 |
Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Three early Mehrortra essays, one unpublished;, international writing program Iowa
presentations and materials; Center for New Performing Arts Iowa publications
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1971-1973 |
Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Manuscripts
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1973-1977, 1995-1996 |
Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Distance in Statute Miles typescript
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1981 |
Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Kabir beginnings, including signed copy of Robert Bly's chapbook "The Fish in the
Water is Not Thirsty (1971), and poster for the Indian edition of "Songs of Kabir"
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Box 4 | Folder 26 |
"All to Remember", unpublished typescript of Amit Rai (1948-1966) collected poems,
prose, and letters edited by Mehrortra.
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1971 |
Scope and Contents
Rai was one of the three editors of Damn You.
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Box 4 | Folder 27 |
The Absent Traveller drafts
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Box 5 | Folder 1-2 |
Making books, including final MSS of Distance to Statute Miles
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1971-1982 |
Box 5 | Folder 3-5 |
History of Indian Literature in English
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Box 5 | Folder 6-8 |
After Maluk MS, Paper Aeroplane, Poems from the goof surrealist MS, Partial recall
essay, Nirala MS, letters from Helsa, Gulam Sheikh, the Yaddo file, GRE scores
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Box 6 | Folder 10-13 |
Miscellaneous press books and manuscripts
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Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Address book, notebook
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Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Genesis copies and notebook
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1964-1965 |
Scope and Contents
Two copies of Genesis, Mehrotra's first "book," produced when he was 17 (one bound,
one unbound); small notebook with Siva on cover—poems, pieces, doodles.
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Box 7 | Folder 6 |
News clippings
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1970-1972 |
Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Certificates
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1962-1963 |
Series II. Publications
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
"Imprint" Magazine, with reviews
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February, May 1987 |
Box 1 | Folder 12-13 |
"Debonair" Magazine
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1981-1990 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Joseph Bruchac publications
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Scope and Contents
Flow, Indian Mountain and Other Poems, The Road to Black Mountain
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Box 1 | Folder 15-16 |
Miscellaneous small publications
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Scope and Contents
Including Row With Your Hair, Troll Songs, Zuk, Cold Mountain Press, Nights of Naomi,
Let the Wild Rumpus Start, Wondering Where You Are, Westbeth Poetry
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
"The Dolphin with the Revolver in its Teeth", "Shaded Room" (1), "Quark" (1967), "Maelstro"
(1967), "Earthword" (1971), "Bear"
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
"The Beauties of Travel", "The Poor Devil Eire", "Llamas Allmanac", "Margins" (1975)
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Journal of South Asian Literature (1974), Mahfil
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
"Toothpaste", "The Very First Love Letter"
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
"Red Crow"
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1972, 1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
University of Tampa
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1966 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
"The Nation", with Grace Shulman's poems and correspondence
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1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
"Keeper's Voice"
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1966 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
"Ole!" with letter from Doug Blazeg
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1967 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Klacto, Suction
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1967 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
"Kolkata du Haazar"
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1986 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
"Indian Horizons"
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1985 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
"Contra '66" full set
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Gulam Sheikh catalogue, and letter
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1999 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Vrishchik
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1969 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
"Saint Botolph's Review" #2
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Weissbort's 'Home'
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
"Black Graphics International"
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Box 2 | Folder 22-23 |
British and US little magazines, including "Intrepid" special issue on India
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Box 4 | Folder 15 |
TriQuarterly 37: Going to Heaven, with a letter from Elliott Anderson
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1976 |
Box 4 | Folder 16 |
"Town Poems" by Ashok Chopra, an Ezra-Fakir publications, and single copy of Ezra
#2
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Box 4 | Folder 17 |
"Damn You" issues 1-6 and "An Odd Thing" by Anil Saari, a Damn You press publications
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Box 4 | Folder 19 |
"Three" by Bogomil Gjuzel, translated by Mehrotra, Ezra-Fakir press
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1973 |
Box 4 | Folder 20 |
"Ezra" 1, 3-5; Fakir; "Bharatmata"; "Concrete poetry" loose sheets; twelve poems from
the "Good Surrealist"; Clearing House cards and flyers
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Box 5 | Folder 9 |
"Salt Lick" materials
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Box 6 | Folder 10-15 |
Miscellaneous programs and small press books
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Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Poetmeat, Nos. 12 and 13
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1966-1967 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and poems from Tina Morris.
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Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Salted Feathers 8/9: Hungry!, Vol. IV, Nos. 1, 2
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1967-03 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from Howard McCord to Mehrotra inside the front cover
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Series III. Other Authors and Miscellaneous
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Agha Shahid Ali, Keki Daruwalla, Dilip Chitre clippings and letters
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Saklatvala and Kabraji xerox copies
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Dom Moraes, Arun Kolatkar, and notes on Jejuri
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Adil Jussawalla, Manohar Shetty
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Eunice de Souza, Vikram Seth
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Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Jayanta Mahapatra poems, clippings, and letters
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Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Nissim Ezekiel xeroxes, reviews, Edinburgh interlude, note on Ezekiel
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Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Arun Kolatkar unpublished MSS of his novel 'Royan'
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Undated |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
"Nile" poems by Tomaz Salamun, autographed typescript
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1972 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Arun's 'Sarpa Satra', Adil's poems
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Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Copy of Adil Jussawalla "Land's End" with his corrections and letter; photocopies
of Jussawalla's "Trying to Say Goodbye" and "The Right Kind of Dog"; copies of Dilip
Chitre chapbooks; Mehrotra's notes on translation and unpublished interview with Vijay
Kumar
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Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Michael Lally items
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Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Arun Kolatkar writing
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1964, 1974 |
Scope and Contents
In English, an unsewn manuscript signature of notes, poems, and sketches (1960s?);
in Marathi, two manuscript signatures of poetry, hand-written and water-stained; Signed
typescript of Jejuri in English, 1974.
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Series IV. Correspondence
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Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Family Letters
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Scope and Contents
Including letters from Ved Mehra and Palash Krishna Mehrotra; letter from Arun Kolatkar's
nephew
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Box 4 | Folder 28 |
Correspondence to Leonard S. Marcus
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1983 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Miscellaneous letters
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1990s |
Scope and Contents
Including letters from Adil, Manohar, Jeet, Ranjit, Allan, Pankaj (postcard about
first impressions of the US)
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Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence
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1989-1999 |
Box 5 | Folder 10-11 |
Letters from writers: Adil Jussawalla, Shetty, Jayanta, Daniel Weissbort, Timothy
Hyman, and others
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Box 5 | Folder 12-14 |
Letters from friends and academics, including Bruce King, Martha Selby, and others
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1980s-1990s |
Box 6 | Folder 1-6 |
Letters from Adil, Shetty, Allan Sealy, Weissbort and others
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Box 6 | Folder 7-9 |
Miscellaneous correspondence
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Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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Undated |
Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1966-1967 |
Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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1971-1972 |
Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Oxford University Press Correspondence
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1990 |
Scope and Contents
Three photocopied letters from Rukum Advani of OUP soliciting permission on any terms
to publish Arun Kolatkar's work.
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