| Since this memoir would have been impossible without John Berryman's letters to me, I first of all want to thank Kate Donahue Berryman for permission to publish excerpts from them, as well as permission to use previously unpublished poems that John sent me. More thanks go to her for kind hospitality at her pleasant home in Minneapolis. Florence Johnston Miller also extended a helping hand by permitting me to quote from Bhain Campbell's poems and letters. |
| For assistance in finding letters, appropriate pictures, and other pertinent documents, I am grateful to Alan Lathrop, curator of the Manuscripts Division, University of Minnesota Libraries, and to his able assistant Vivian Newbold; to Paul Palmer, curator of the Columbiana Library, Columbia University; Andrea Beauchamp, Hopwood Program Coordinator, University of Michigan; librarians of the New York Public Library; Jane Atherton Roman; Norman Rosten; Eileen Simpson; Barbara Thomas. Except where otherwise credited, illustrations are from the author's collection. |
| Many friends and acquaintances who knew John Berryman or Bhain Campbell or both, spent time reminiscing with me about events recounted in this narrative; I particularly want to thank Elsie Pierce Begle; Mannie Bilsky; Bart Breed; NC Breese; John Malcolm Brinnin; Dorothy Rockwell Clark; Beryl Eeman; Frank Fletcher; Harry Garvin; Robert Giroux; Dorothy Halliday Hefferline; Mary Jane Christenson Heming; Ellen Mayo Hill; Garnette Snedeker Kroeger; Arthur Miller; Florence Johnston Miller; Miriam Ostroff; Harriet Renaud; Warner G. Rice; Jane Atherton Roman; Norman Rosten; Elspeth Davies Rostow; Eileen Simpson; Annette Johnston Slocombe; and Dorothy Van Doren. Incidentally, the scant references in this book to Robert Jefferson Berryman reflect only the fact that, because he was five years junior to his brother John, I hardly knew him. |
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