Box 2
Container
Contains 22 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, 1941-1967
Series — Multiple Containers
1
Scope and Contents
This series contains 892 items, most of them sent by Karl Shapiro to Evalyn Katz Shapiro; the earliest, to Evalyn from Shapiro, is dated March 26, 1941, and the last, from Shapiro to his daughter Elizabeth, October 15, 1967. The majority of the correspondence was written between 1941 and 1945, the period during which Karl Shapiro served in the United States Army. As a clerk for the Army Medical Corps, Shapiro had easy access to a typewriter, and, therefore, much of the correspondence is...
Poetry, 1941-1968
Series — Box: 2
2
Scope and Contents
This series contains fifty-nine poems which have been divided into two groups. The first group, composed of fifty-five poems, was sent by Karl Shapiro from Australia and New Guinea to Evalyn Katz in Baltimore and New York between 1941 and 1945. Many of the earliest poems contain handwritten corrections and changes, probably made by either Shapiro or Evalyn. These are the poems that Evalyn marketed in the United States. The second group is composed of four signed manuscripts, three of which...