Green silk and linen suit, designed by Peacock, 2004

File — Box: 52

Identifier: 3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This series covers Molly Peacock's personal life, including her childhood, education, marriage, and visual art. The series also contains a small amount of material from Peacock's career before she became a writer, namely her time working at WNBF radio and her time working at SUNY Binghamton.

These files include drawings and paintings, school papers, class notes, grades and certificates, graduate school applications, news clippings, work memos and notes, SUNY Binghamton reports, and WNBF television and ad copy.

For poetry written by Peacock during her childhood and education, see the juvenalia sub-series in Poetry. For personal photographs and correspondence, see the photography and correspondence series respectively.

Dates

Creation: 2004

Conditions Governing Access

The digital material has not yet been fully reviewed for access and may contain additional restricted materials. Because staff will need to review materials for restrictions before providing access, researchers should email speccoll@binghamton.edu about the collection well ahead of any research visit.

The analog portion of the collection is open for research use and has no known restrictions.

Historical Note

Note by Molly Peacock, written in 2022: "Apple green silk + linen suit worn to Michael Groden’s Honorary Doctorate Ceremony at UC Dublin on St Stephen’s Green, June 16, 2004, where we sat with Harold Pinter (who made a pass at me and sang 'the Brown and the Yellow Ale') and with a very broad Lady Antonia Fraser. Roddy Doyle also received an honorary degree. Seamus Heaney came to the ceremony. On impulse I wore this suit which I designed and Ann Stantoloupo executed, on the plane to Dublin, fearing my suitcase would be lost. And the suitcase was lost! But wearing the suit saved me for the ceremony, and Mike, and Harold with whom I chatted about his beautiful screenplay for 'Turtle Diary.'"