September 1950 Registration Issue of the Harvard Advocate. It contains, among other things, two poems and one story by "Francis" Frank O'Hara. The cover illustration is by Edward Gorey.
As part of my internship for the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, I compiled a report of sorts on Edward Gorey's milieu during his studies at Harvard. The impetus for collecting this information was a bequest to the museum of a group of envelopes hand-drawn by Gorey and sent to his childhood friend Sylvia Sights, who was in Chicago while he was in Cambridge. A story by Julia Vodrey Hendrickson featuring the envelopes and an interview with AIC's Curator of Prints and Drawings Mark Pascale can be found here. A Flickr set of a few of the envelopes can be found here. After the jump is the piece I wrote about Gorey's time at Harvard.
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