Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Columbia University. Department of English and Comparative Literature
- Extent:
- 1.5 linear feet and 4 boxes
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Columbia University English Department letters collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Background
- Scope and Content:
A collection of letters from authors, critics, and scholars, primarily relating to lectureships and courses given under the auspices of the English Department. Some of the correspondence, notably the ten letters from Amy Lowell, deal with essays written for the revised edition of C.D. Warner's LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE. The letters are written to Ashley H. Thorndike, John W. Cunliffe, George R. Carpenter, Ernest H. Wright, and Marjorie Nicolson. The correspondents include John Mason Brown, Marchette Chute, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Padraic Colum, Bernard DeVoto, T.S. Eliot, John Erskine, Robert Frost, Otto Jespersen, Howard Mumford Jones, Joyce Kilmer, Ludwig Lewishon, Amy Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Thomas Mann, Brander Matthews, H.L. Mencken, Christopher Morley, Ezra Pound, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles P. Snow, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and Edmund Wilson. Two boxes of miscellaneous uncataloged correspondence cover the years, 1896-1917, and a folder for the 1935 Mark Twain Centennial sponsored by the English Department. The correspondence is chiefly with Ernest Hunter Wright.
- Acquisition information:
- Source of acquisition--English Dept. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1962. Accession number--M-62.
- Custodial history:
Gift of the English Department, 1962; transferred from Columbiana, 1983.
- Processing information:
Cataloged 05/05/89.
- Arrangement:
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. This collection is arranged into two series.
- Accruals:
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Critics
Scholars
Literature -- Study and teaching
English language -- Study and teaching
Authors - Names:
- Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925
Thorndike, Ashley Horace, 1871-1933
Cunliffe, John William, 1865-1946
Carpenter, George R. (George Rice), 1863-1909
Nicholson, Marjorie Hope
Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969
Chute, Marchette, 1909-1994
Coffin, Robert P. Tristram (Robert Peter Tristram), 1892-1955
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972
De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Erskine, John, 1879-1951
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943
Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980
Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1882-1955
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980
Tate, Allen, 1899-1979
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
Wright, Ernest Hunter, 1882-1968
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
- PREFERRED CITATION:
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Columbia University English Department letters collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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6th Floor East Butler Library535 West 114th St.New York, NY 10027, United States
- CONTACT:
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(212) 854-5590rbml@library.columbia.edu