List of friends in San Francisco 1944-1949 handwritten by Rukeyser

Muriel Rukeyser

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Abstract

Undated, labeled "San Francisco 1944-1949." Handwritten by Muriel Rukeyser, it contains a list of people whom Muriel was close to and their occupations while she lived in S.F.: Herbert Evans, US anatomist, biologist; Marie de L. Welch, writer, poet, “close friend”; Matthew Barnes, painter, plasterer for Diego Rivera; Alfred Marshak, geneticist, U-C, radical; Glyn Collins, “painter, husband”; Donan Jeffers, “one of the twin sons of Robinson Jeffers–unique, wild, splendid, ‘out of time with the century’”; Kenneth Rexroth, “poet, scholar”; Freda Koblick, “sculptor, artist in plastics; Josephine Miles, poet; David Jenkins and Louise, California Labor School; Thomas Addis, renal scientist, radical; Emmy Lou Packard, artist, muralist; Dorothy Erskine, social activist, city planning; Lena [?] Goldsmith and Nancy Naumburg, “friends from earliest life in New York”; Dr. Eric Berne, psychiatrist Carmel–wrote Games People Play; Robert Duncan, poet. The list is stapled to a postcard from Muriel Rukeyer to Louise Kertesz in which she mentions additional people who “were important to me in California.”

EMU Archives Collection Identifier

018.LK, Louise Kertesz papers

Comments

Circa 1944-1949

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