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Louise Kertesz in conversation
No full textBlack and white photograph of Louise Kertesz (pictured far left), her husband Chris Kertesz beside her, and four other individuals, among them Marge Piercy, in conversation with poet Richard Eberhart, at a poetry event, date and location still to be determined
Muriel Rukeyser at Sarah Lawrence College
No full text“A day in Honor of Muriel Rukeyser, December 9, 1978, Sarah Lawrence College. Muriel Rukeyser is present in the photograph, sitting with her nephew Louis Rukeyser and the writer Grace Paley to her left and the writer Alice Walker to her right. Alice Walker was a former student of Muriel Rukeyser at Sarah Lawrence College
Muriel Rukeyser at Sarah Lawrence College
No full text“A day in Honor of Muriel Rukeyser, December 9, 1978, Sarah Lawrence College. Muriel Rukeyser is present in the photograph, sitting with the writer Alice Walker to her right. Alice Walker was a former student of Muriel Rukeyser at Sarah Lawrence College
Fragment of Essay
No full textFragment of essay on back page of Letter from August 25th, 1976, that Louise may possibly have written during Graduate School
Letter from literary agent Richard Balkin to Kertesz, August 3 1977
No full textDated August 3rd, 1977. A typed letter from the literary agent Richard Balkin. Balkin declines becoming the literary agent of Louise Kertesz, to help her publish her manuscript on Rukeyser. He does reassure her that the book will find a publisher, and suggests possible publishers and literary agents. Some handwritten notes, including the name of another agent, are added. Parts of the letter are underlined red, most likely by Kertesz
Letter from Curtis Harnack to Kertesz, January 24 1979
No full textDated January 24th, 1979. A typewritten letter from Curtis Harnack, Executive Director of Yaddo, to Louise Kertesz. The letter contains two photographs of Muriel Rukeyser. The cost of the photographs was eleven dollars
Letter from Albert Einstein to Rukeyser
No full textA photocopy of a typewritten two-page letter, dated September 12th, 1942. The letter is from Albert Einstein to Muriel Rukeyser. The background information on this letter is that Muriel Rukeyser had asked Albert Einstein to write a foreword to her biography of the theoretical scientist Willard Gibbs. Rukeyser asked Einstein to “lend his name to her effort to make Gibbs known to a time that needed the story of his achievement. Without reading Rukeyser’s book, Einstein refused, saying that “In my view, there is but one way to bring a great scientist to the attention of the larger public: it is to discuss and explain, in language which will be generally understood, the problems and solutions which have characterized his life-work. This can only be done by someone who has a fundamental grasp of the material.” Einstein acknowledges that the personal side must be taken account of, but it can’t be the whole focus of the book, or the work becomes “banal hero-worship, based on emotion and not on insight” and that Einstein has learned “by my own experience how hateful and ridiculous it is, when a serious man, absorbed in important endeavors, is ignorantly lionized.” In the end, Einstein refuses Rukeyser’s request, writing that “I cannot give my public endorsement to such an undertaking. It would seem to me less than honourable. That sounds harsh: I even fear that you will take my inability for unjustifiable unkindness. But so I am, and cannot be otherwise.” Kertesz found this letter during her research in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. She bracketted the first part of the letter, and attached a sticky note to the back of the paper that says, “Einstein.
Handwritten question sheet
No full textTwo pages of original, handwritten questions, in blue and black pen. All the questions refer to Rukeyser\u27s Orgy
Question sheet with notes by Kertesz, June 10 1977
No full textA typewritten, original copy of a stapled sheet called Questions June 10, 1977. There are fourteen questions, and the first question is, “Who is “Mr. Crystal. These are questions about Breaking Open and The Speed of Darkness. Louise placed handwritten notes by each of the questions. On page two, Kertesz poses questions about Hariot. She also writes: I see you finding your own spiritual ancestors as you find Hariot\u27s: Bruno believing in an infinity of worlds and continual creation defying entropy..., Nicholas Cusa needing \u27to enter the darkness\u27 to find the Face. Hariot and his spiritual kin are to you as are all the \u27risen images\u27 of the Lives--Ryder, Chapman, Gibbs, Akiba--emblems of the brave, full life