Correspondence of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate (1943-2015) sent to professor and historian Eugene DeGruson (1932-1997) between 1962 and 1983. Tate was a student at the Kansas State College of Pittsburg (now Pittsburg State University) in the early 1960s, where “Gene” DeGruson was a professor of literature and languages. DeGruson would later become the Curator of the Kansas Collection and Special Collections. The correspondence from Tate details his readings, publishing, teaching, and personal life.
Finding Aid: Eugene DeGruson Papers, 1841-1997 (MS194)
Submissions from 2019
Letter 1972, December 28, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Submissions from 2016
Letter, 1966 November 14, 1966, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter, 1967 April 13, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1967, April 30, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1967, August 25, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter, 1967 February 9, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter, 1967 March 19, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1967, September 10, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1968, January 30, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1969, April 3, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1969, March 17, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1969, May 10, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1969, May 10, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1970, April 6, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1970, January 20, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1970, September 24, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1972, March 1, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1972, November 12, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1978, June 3, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1978, September 20, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Letter 1983, March 3, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Postcard, 1962 July 19, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Postcard, 1967 February 2, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate
Postcard 1976, August 8, James Tate to Gene DeGruson, James Tate