*SP read ‘Tulips’ at the Poetry at the Mermaid Festival. On 27 July 1961 Sweeney wrote to Stephen Fassett, ‘And it was for me very moving to hear and see Sylvia – the only woman on the stage that evening and the only American on the stage! She read with great grace and clarity and command and the poem she read is a humdinger . . . And Sylvia has promised to lend the Poetry Room the worksheets of the poems she read’; letter held by Houghton Library. Sweeney displayed ‘Tulips’ in the Woodberry Poetry Room October–December 1961. The worksheets for ‘Tulips’ are held by Houghton Library.