Documents
Submission 63078f3699432
Verbatim note by Spencer MacCallum from conversation at Winchester, Virginia
The Undertaker And The Worm
Poem not originally by Heath, but reworked by him and two last stanzas added
The Greyhound In The Hayground
Typed and carbon on small, folded paper, as were many of Heath’s poems to fit in a wallet.
Submission 63078d1296fe8
Exchange of correspondence between Heath at Elkridge, Maryland, and Meredith Blume,206 East Livingston Avenue, Orlando, Florida, concerning the annual Thanksgiving Apple Dinner of the Orlando, Florida, Poetry Society, for which Heath wrote, at her request, a doggerel about apples. As with other poetry, he typed copies to carry with him to read when appropriate. He sometimes left off the final stanza, depending on his audience.
The Hills Of Palestine
Composed by Heath during the 1948 Palestine War, while at The Hearthstone, KKI House; Winter Park, Florida, and submitted to The New York Times April 14, 1948.
Saponisemantics
Slightly revised from a letter to Bennett Cerf, Saturday Review of Literature, regarding the invitation in the September 15th issue, page 28, for readers to submit original charades. In a penned letter of January 14, 1940, to his daughter Lucile, Heath enclosed this saying, “Here’s a travesty on semantics with apologies to Prof. Rudolph Carnap and a tin cup held out to the Colgate Co.” Other versions, slightly different, may be later.