The Washington Post, January 19th, 1988
Patricia Willis was a graduate student looking for a dissertation topic when she approached the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia almost 20 years ago. "Do you have any Marianne Moore material?" she asked the curators. "Yes," she was told. "All of it." And when they said all of it, they meant all of it. Moore was best known to the general public for her trademark tricorner hat, her fascination with baseball and her correspondence with the Ford Motor Co. over the naming of a new car model. (She liked Mongoose Civique or Resilient Bullet or Utopian Turtletop. Ford liked Edsel.) To Will...
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