Clarice Short (1910-1977) grew up in New Mexico and in 1946 began teaching English at the University of Utah as an assistant professor. She remained there until 1974. Short has published two books of poetry,
The Clarice Short papers (1904-1975) consist of diaries, correspondence to her family in New Mexico, and rough drafts of poems.
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Gift of Emma Lou Thayne in 1986.
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Processed by Alison Rogers in 2003.
Forms part of the
Many of the journals in this box are written in a spiral bound notebooks and contain short, informal entries. Oftentimes, the entries are a quotation Short heard or read, a thought, an observation, or an idea for a poem. Folder 4 contains postcards, programs, pamphlets, notes, currency, and letters from the journal in folder 3.
Folder four consists of letters between Clarice and family members, friends, editors, and universities. Folders five and six contain correspondence between Clarice Short and her parents while she lived in Dodge City, Kansas, and her parents lived in Toas, New Mexico. Folder seven contains letters to her friend Norma. There are also numerous poems included in the folder.
These notes are written on scrap paper as well as notepad paper. They contain observations, quotations, to-do lists, and other miscellaneous notations.