[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Lowell Letter to Eugene McCarthy with a snipe at the Kennedys

[Charles Agvent]

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LOWELL, Robert [McCARTHY, Eugene].  TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) with
Holograph  additions  to  Senator Eugene  McCarthy.  Maidstone,  Kent:
n.d.   Fine  letter  from  Lowell SIGNED with his  familiar  "Cal"  to
Senator Eugene McCarthy with a snipe at the Kennedys.  In large  part:
"I  meant to write you the next day to say how happy I was about  your
sudden  phone  call.  It was during the storm of having fired a  young
man  who worked for us and suddenly turned violent (tho not to us)  in
an  insane  way--the  too  perfect  servant  roaming  glistening-eyed,
malign  and  paranoid over the downs of Kent.  All that's over.  For a
moment  you  seemed the nearest person in the world....  How  are your
politics?   I  said to Harriet [his daughter] that one  couldn't  much
trust Teddy [Kennedy], and she said, 'The whole family's bad'....  How
is  your teaching?  Mine is pleasurable and  uninspiring-  uninspired.
Students  aren't born with an interest in Wyatt, Raleigh and Donne.  I
have  lots of poems and redone poems.  I wonder if I  couldn't  occupy
the  rest  of my life reducing all my product to one small book?   Not
quite,  but  I having [sic] cutting up Notebook."  With typed envelope
to  McCarthy at his 301 First St. address, the old Capitol Hill  Hotel
across from the Senate Office Building.  Lowell once said of McCarthy,
"The  last  thing  he  wanted to do was to be  charismatic.   He was a
mixture  of proud contempt and modest distaste....  Usually the cheers
were greater when he came in than when he finished speaking."   Lowell
moved to Milgate Park in 1972.  McCarthy had offices at 301 until  the
fall of  1973.  The letter is dated only December 13 making it  likely
from 1972.  Normal creases from mailing.  Near Fine           $1500.00
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