Rare Book and Manuscript Library
F. W. (Frederick Wilcox) Dupee papers
Dupee, F. W (Frederick Wilcox), 1904-1979
10565167
MS#1700
English
, French
, Spanish; Castilian
.
/repositories/2/resources/5574
9.43 linear feet
8 record cartons, 3 document boxes and 1 flat box
1778-2003
1933-1979
Personal and professional papers of the notable literary critic. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, notes, journals, photographs, drawings and films, and a collection of signed and annotated books and magazines from Dupee's library.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in four series.
Restrictions on Access
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Summary
The collection includes a variety of personal and professional documents, primarily from the 1930s to the 1970s. These include, among others, correspondences with dozens of writers, critics, scholars, editors and artists, as well as Dupee's wife, mother and children; journals, notes and annotated manuscripts; full transcriptions of in-depth interviews with Dupee; over 100 books from Dupee's library, signed by authors and/or annotated by Dupee; dozens of socialist titles published in the United States between 1932-1959; souvenirs and photographs from trips taken to Mexico in 1933-1935; and some films shot by Dupee.
Summary
The collection includes many testimonials on the New York intellectual life of the 1930s, and numerous items reflecting Columbia and Bard college life in the mid-century. It provides a glance into Dupee's work habits and professional and personal relationships, and into some of his unfinished work.
Summary
Letters and other materials by Dupee might also be found in the collections of his friends and colleagues in the RBML, among them the Edward W. Said Papers, the Lionel Trilling papers, the Diana Trilling papers, the Mark Van Doren papers, the George Stade papers, the Meyer Schapiro collection, the Richard Volney Chase papers, the Quentin Anderson papers, and the Richard Poirier collection.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); F. W. (Frederick Wilcox) Dupee Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions 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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Estate. Date of acquisition--12/3/2013. Accession number--2013-2014-M108.
Biographical Note
Frederick Wilcox Dupee (1904-1979) was a prominent American literary critic and scholar, known for his lucid and witty prose. The Columbia University English professor was among the founders of
Partisan Review and a regular contributor to publications such as The New York Review of Books and The Nation, authored "The King of the Cats" & Other Remarks on Writers and Writing (1965) and the biography Henry James (1965), and edited The Question of Henry James (1945), Henry James: Autobiography (1956), and editions of Charles Dickens, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Proust, E. E. Cummings and Leon Trotsky.
Biographical Note
An Illinois native and Yale graduate, Dupee belonged to the mid-century generation of New York left-wing intellectuals described by Nicholas Lemann as "The American Bloomsbury". For decades, Dupee had been a fixture of the New York literary scene, keeping friendships and correspondences with many of the period's cultural icons. His close friendship with Mary McCarthy was portrayed in an essay she contributed to
The Company They Kept (2006).
Biographical Note
Dupee started publishing literary reviews in the 1920s. During the 1930s he was a socialist organizer and literary editor for the
New Masses. Dupee was hired by Columbia University as Assistant in English in 1940, and became assistant professor at Bard College in 1944. In 1947 he married Barbara ("Andy") Hughes, a recent Bard graduate; the two returned to New York within several years, when Dupee became a Columbia University professor. Dupee was appointed as full professor in 1957, despite never having obtained a graduate degree.
Biographical Note
Dupee was an awarded and popular professor, known for his contemporary choices of readings and sometimes unorthodox style of teaching, as well as his support of students during the Columbia University protests of 1968 – documented in an essay he published in
The New York Review of Books following the events ("my habitual detachment from campus politics had recently broken down as I saw the students growing more and more desperate," wrote Dupee). After retiring from Columbia in 1971, Dupee and his wife moved to Carmel, California. He maintained connections with West Coast academics and occasionally taught at Stanford. Dupee died in California in 1979, following a medication overdose.
Processing Information
Processed by Efrat Nechushtai (Graduate School of Journalism) 2016.
Processing Information
Finding aid written by Efrat Nechushtai (Graduate School of Journalism) July 2016.
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Quentin Anderson Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Richard Volney Chase Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Richard Poirier Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Selected Related Material-- at Columbia
Edward Said Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Meyer Schapiro Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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George Stade Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Selected Related Material-- at Columbia
Diana Trilling Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Lionel Trilling Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Mark Van Doren Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
American literature -- 20th century
American literature -- History and criticism
American poetry -- 20th century
American poetry -- New York (State)
Authors and publishers -- United States
Criticism -- United States
Intellectuals
Literature, Modern -- 20th century
Publishers and publishing -- United States
Socialism
Articles
Audiotapes
Correspondence
Drafts (documents)
Drawings (visual works)
Essays
Film clips
journals (periodicals)
Lectures
Manuscripts for publication
Maps (documents)
Notes (documents)
Photographs
Poems
Posters
Proofs (printed matter)
Reviews (documents)
School yearbooks
Adler, Stella
Anderson, Quentin, 1912-2003
Atlas, James
Brandeis, Irma, 1905-1990
Braudy, Leo
Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-1998
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
Chase, Richard Volney, 1914-1962
Dickstein, Morris
Dupee, F. W (Frederick Wilcox), 1904-1979
Edel, Leon, 1907-1997
Epstein, Jason
Farrell, James T (James Thomas), 1904-1979
Flanagan, Thomas, 1923-2002
Giroux, Robert
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002
Krupnick, Mark, 1939-
Macdonald, Dwight
MacNeice, Louis, 1907-1963
McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989
Pifer, Drury L
Poirier, Richard
Rahv, Philip, 1908-1973
Said, Edward W
Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996
Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966
Stade, George
Straus, Dorothea
Trilling, Diana
Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975
Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972
Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Vita-Finzi, Claudio
Vita-Finzi, Penelope
Wald, Alan M., 1946-
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
Wood, Michael, 1936-
Columbia University
Columbia University -- Faculty
Series I: Personal papers and photos/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623231831-2005, undated1933-1979Scope and ContentsThe series is divided into four subseries. Subseries 1 contains Dupee's journals and personal notes and some of his drawings. Most of the items date 1933-1952, but some are undated. Subseries 2 contains correspondences of Mr. and Mrs. Dupee from 1933 to 1999. Subseries 3 contains vital records, photographs of Dupee or taken by Dupee, photographs and genealogy of Dupee's extended family, and some family correspondence. The items in this subseries date back to 1831. Subseries 4 curates souvenirs from Dupee's trips to Mexico in the 1930s, including photographs, books and newspapers from Mexico, journals, and hand-drawn maps of Mexican cities.
Subseries I.1: Journals, notes and drawings, 1933-1979 undated/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623271933-1979undatedScope and ContentsSubseries 1 includes Dupee's journals from Mexico (1933-1935), a 1942 journal, undated personal notes and drawings, and Dupee's farewell letter to his wife. The series also includes a 1951-1952 journal by Mrs. Dupee.
Mexico journals/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623911933-19351Journal/repositories/2/archival_objects/46239219421Journal of Barbara "Andy" Dupee/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623931951-19521Drawings/repositories/2/archival_objects/462394undated1Notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/462395undated1Suicide note/repositories/2/archival_objects/46239619791Subseries I.2: Correspondence, 1933-1999 undated [Bulk dates: 1933-1980]/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623281933-1999undatedScope and ContentsOne of the most valuable parts of this archive, subseries 2 contains hundreds of letters written to F. W. Dupee and Barbara "Andy" Dupee throughout six decades, many by notable friends such as Mary McCarthy, Lillian Hellman, Edward W. Said, Delmore Schwartz, Sonia Orwell, Thomas Flanagan, Gore Vidal, Lionel Trilling, and others. Several of the letters include manuscripts and related materials from those authors. Dozens of condolences sent to Mrs. Dupee are included, as well as readings from the F. W. Dupee memorial. Many of the letters refer to professional matters, and attest to Dupee's work no less than to his social ties.
F. W. Dupee and Barbara "Andy" Dupee letters, Europe/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623971952-1953(3 folders)1Condolences, 1979 (Dolly Stade, Richard Kuhns, Quentin Anderson, Dorothea Straus, Margaret Shaffer, Vida Deming, Henry S. Coleman, Samuel-Rene Quinones, Keith Cohen, Leo Braudy, Sidney Morgenbesser, Richard Rovere, Peter Glassman, Homer Brown, Thomas R. Goethals, Katherine Koch, Janice Koch, James Guttman, Winifred Hall, Fred Neustadt, Penelope Vita-Finzi, Lowell Harris, Nielson Abeel, Alice D. Wolfson, John Thompson, Carl Houde, Nick Macdonald, Michael Macdonald, Eve Stwertka, Michael Rosenthal)/repositories/2/archival_objects/46239819791"Notable" condolences: Stella Adler, Jason Epstein, Allison Lurie, Gore Vidal, David Schapiro, Diana Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Lillian Hellman, Robert Giroux, Daisy Suckley, Arthur Schlesinger (missing)/repositories/2/archival_objects/46239919791Condolences, California friends/repositories/2/archival_objects/46240019791F. W. Dupee memorial readings, 1979 (Michael Wood, Mary McCarthy, Kenneth Koch, George Stade, Alexander Ehrlich)/repositories/2/archival_objects/46240119791California academics letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624021973-19791Drury Pifer letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624031972-19791Mary McCarthy letters, 1969 1974-1976 1983-1989/repositories/2/archival_objects/46240419691974-19761983-19891Morris Dickstein letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624051972-19771Dorothy Van Doren letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46240619781Leon Edel letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46240719491Barbara and Jason Epstein letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624081962-19771James T. Farrell letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624091977-19781Thomas Flanagan letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624101973-19791Lenore Grey letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/462411undated1Herbert Hart letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624121962-19971Eloise Hay letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46241319731Seamus Heaney letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46241419761Lillian Hellman letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46241519761William Humphrey letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624161971-19791Diane Johnson letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46241719771Kenneth Koch letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46241819741Dwight Macdonald letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624191973-19861Louis MacNeice letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46242019411Sonia Orwell letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624211977-19791Helen Pellegrin letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46242219771William Phillips letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624231962-19741Richard Poirier letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624241969-19771Richard Rovere letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624251969-19711Edward W. Said letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624261972-19781Mark Schorer letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624271975-19811Meyer Schapiro letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46242819761George Stade letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624291971-19781Irma Brandeis letters, 1980 1999/repositories/2/archival_objects/462430198019991Dorothea Straus letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46243119751Diana and Lionel Trilling letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624321975-19791Eleanor Clark letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46243319771Edmund Wilson letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46243419741Victor Wolfson letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624351977-19781Michael Wood letters, 1971-1978 (and possibly earlier)/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624361971-19781Claudio Vita-Finzi letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624371977-19811Bill Miller letters (Iran)/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624381960-19611Suzy Morris letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46243919751Leo and Dorothy Braudy letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46244019781Darryl Pinckney letters (date unknown)/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624411Andrew Chiappe letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46244219531James Atlas letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46244319771Mark Krupnick letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46244419761Aldriches of "Rokeby" letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624451944-19601John D. Margolis letters (Krutch)/repositories/2/archival_objects/46244619751Edward Mendelson letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46244719711Aristide R. Zolberg letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46244819711Christian Enzensberger letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46244919691Letters from Robert Brina, Berkeley student/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624501975-19761Letters regarding Philip Rahv, 1975-1978 (William Phillips, Andrew J. Dvosin, Arabel Porter, Mark Krupnick)/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624511975-19781Miscellaneous letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624521952-19991Subseries I.3: Vital records, photos and personal items, family photos and genealogy, family correspondence, 1831-2005 undated [Bulk dates: 1870s-1979]/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623291831-2005undatedScope and ContentsSubseries 3 includes Dupee's personal vital records, among them certificates of birth and death, passports, marriage license, and invitation to wedding ceremony; photos of Dupee from the 1930s throughout the 1970s; clippings on friends and colleagues; correspondence with mother and family; photographs of friends and family; and some movies. Detailed genealogies of Dupee's paternal (Church-Dupee) and maternal (Woodruff-Wilcox) family trees are filed, alongside family portraits dating back to 1831. The subseries also includes information on Dupee's rented house in Rome and the family residences in New York and Illinois, and copies of Dupee's yearbooks from Rockford High School and Yale College.
F. W. Dupee personal vital records/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624531904-19794F. W. Dupee photographs, youth/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624544F. W. Dupee photographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624551930s4F. W. Dupee photographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624561940s4F. W. Dupee photographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624571950s4F. W. Dupee photographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624581960s4F. W. Dupee photographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624591970s4Clippings on friends and colleagues, 1966-2005 undated/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624601966-2005undated4Correspondence with mother/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624611928-19334Obituary of mother/repositories/2/archival_objects/46246219634Correspondence with family/repositories/2/archival_objects/46246319474Church-Dupee genealogy/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624644Woodruff-Wilcox genealogy/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624654Family photos 1831-1959 undated/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624661831-1959undated(3 folders)4Photographs, 1931-1932 (binder)/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624671931-19324Family home, Woodruff Wilcox house, 1890-1930 undated/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624681890-1930undated4Architectural Digest, January 1983 (article on Wildercliff)/repositories/2/archival_objects/462469January 19834Rented house in Rome/repositories/2/archival_objects/462470undated4Rockford, Illinois High School, The 1920 Annual Book (Mary Dupee on page 30, F. W. Dupee on page 69)/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624714History of the Class of 1927 Yale College/repositories/2/archival_objects/46247219274Scope and Contents(Dupee on pages 179-180)
Family photos/repositories/2/archival_objects/462473(2 folders)12Reel to reel with Dupee movies./repositories/2/archival_objects/4624745Subseries I.4: Mexico/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623301933-1935Scope and ContentsSubseries 4 is dedicated to souvenirs from and testimonials of Dupee's formative journeys to Mexico in the 1930s. This small subseries includes Dupee's letters from Mexico and articles he published about his trips, notes and photographs taken by Dupee in Mexico, drawings and hand-drawn maps of Mexican cities and markets, and several newspapers, leaflets and magazines. Some professional materials are included. Dupee's journals from Mexico are filed in subseries 1.
Letters from Mexico/repositories/2/archival_objects/462475November 1934-December 19352Mexico notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/462476December 1933-March 19342Mexico photographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624771933(3 folders)2Acapulco photographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/46247819342Mexico photographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/46247919352Mexico photographs, date unknown/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624802Drawings from Acapulco/repositories/2/archival_objects/46248119342Hand drawn maps, Mexico/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624822Souvenirs from Mexico; El Proletario 1933 October 7, Algunos Versos 1931 (annotated), Guia de Pátzcuaro 1908 (map drawn inside)/repositories/2/archival_objects/4624831933193119082F. W. Dupee articles on Mexico + Mexican Life, December 1934 January 1935/repositories/2/archival_objects/462484December 1934January 19352Series II: Professional materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623241929-2003, undatedScope and ContentsMaterials pertaining to Dupee's work life are found in series II, among them manuscripts, proofs, notes, published essays and reviews, the original annotated draft of Henry James, drafts of memoirs Dupee was writing, and correspondences regarding a collection of American poetry that Dupee was working on. The series also includes reviews of Dupee's work, clippings on Dupee, obituaries, awards, posters and testimonials, correspondence on university appointments, correspondences with editors and publishers, and notes and syllabi from classes Dupee taught at Stanford. Full transcripts of in-depth interviews with Stephen Longstaff and Alan Wald are filed here as well.
Manuscripts, proofs, notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/462331(2 folders)9Memoirs/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623329Henry James by F. W. Dupee, original draft/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623331951(2 folders)9Henry James pages 137-148/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623349Notes on Frost/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623359Lecture notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623369University correspondence and commissioned reviews/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623371940-19719Letters regarding manuscripts: Louise Bogan, Partisan Review, Lionel Trilling, etc, 1953-1999 (Elizabeth Perlmutter, Richard D'Abate, Alexander Bloom, James Raimes, Robert Giroux, Thomas Flanagan, John Malcolm Brinnin, Fred Kaplan, Nancy Miller)/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623381953-19999Requests for permissions, 1952-1999 (Elizabeth Hardin, George Hendrick, John Bassett)/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623391952-19999Correspondence about poetry book/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623409Interview and correspondence with Stephen Longstaff/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623411972-19809Interview and correspondence with Alan Wald/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623421973-19789Stanford spring semester 1975 ENG265/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623431975(2 folders)9Stanford winter quarter, Henry James seminar, ENG 385E/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623449James Berkeley 1974 notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/46234519749F. W. Dupee articles, essays and reviews/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623461944-19666Old book reviews/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623471929-19406The Nation/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623481944-19456F. W. Dupee clippings/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623491945-20036Henry James: reviews/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623501951-19566The King of the Cats: reviews, 1965 1985/repositories/2/archival_objects/462351196519856F. W. Dupee obituaries/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623526Awards, posters, testimonials/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623531957-19986Henry James College invitation/repositories/2/archival_objects/46235419706F. W. Dupee awards/repositories/2/archival_objects/46235519546F. W. Dupee awards/repositories/2/archival_objects/46235619716F. W. Dupee awards/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623571967(2 folders)12Series III: Collected magazines and journals/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623251924-1989Scope and ContentsSeries III includes journals and magazines collected by Dupee, some containing his own work or referring it: among them numerous volumes of
The Miscellany (1929-1931) and The New York Review of Books (1963-1983, intermittently), Forum, Yale Literary Magazine, The New Yorker, Literature and Revolution, and many others.Forum, 1959 ("Lolita in America" by F. W. Dupee)/repositories/2/archival_objects/46235819593Yale Literary Magazine, December 1926 June 1927/repositories/2/archival_objects/462359December 1926June 19273The New Yorker, 1995 October 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/46236019953Literature and Revolution/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623613The Partisan Review, April 1936 June 1936/repositories/2/archival_objects/462362April 1936June 19363Time, 1940 May 27 (article onPartisan Review )/repositories/2/archival_objects/46236319403Hound & Horn, April -May 1934 (Tribute to Henry James)/repositories/2/archival_objects/462364April -May 19343The Miscellany/repositories/2/archival_objects/462365December 1929-March 19303The Miscellany/repositories/2/archival_objects/462366May 19303The Miscellany/repositories/2/archival_objects/462367July 19303The Miscellany/repositories/2/archival_objects/462368September 19303The Miscellany/repositories/2/archival_objects/462369November 19303The Miscellany/repositories/2/archival_objects/462370March 19313The New York Review of Books, Special issue, February 1963 ("James Baldwin and the "Man"" by F. W. Dupee)/repositories/2/archival_objects/462371February 19633The New York Review of Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/462372February 1966-March 19673The New York Review of Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/462373August 1967-September 19683The New York Review of Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/462374June 1977-July 19773The New York Review of Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/462375September 1977-December 19773The New York Review of Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/462376March 19793The New York Review of Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/462377May 19803The New York Review of Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/462378June 19813The New York Review of Books/repositories/2/archival_objects/462379March 1982-October 19833Cambridge Arts Theatre/repositories/2/archival_objects/46238019543William Carlos William Newsletter, Fall/repositories/2/archival_objects/46238119753The New York Times Magazine, 1985 August 25 ("The Changing World of New York Intellectuals" by James Atlas)/repositories/2/archival_objects/46238219853Proceedings, The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46238319763The Open Court, May 1924 ("Some Aspects of Chinese Poetry" by F. W. Dupee)/repositories/2/archival_objects/462384May 19243"An Eyewitness of Eight Months before the Mast" by James D. Hart, published in New Colophon/repositories/2/archival_objects/46238519503Scope and Contents(signed)
"The First Paragraph of The Ambassadors: An Explication" by Ian Watt/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623863Scope and Contents(annotated)
Jester of Columbia/repositories/2/archival_objects/462387February 19593Scope and Contents(includes a sheet with notes)
Columbia, February-March 1989 ("The Beats at Thirty")/repositories/2/archival_objects/462388February-March 19893Series IV: Collected books/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623261778-19831920s-1979Scope and ContentsSeries IV provides access to over 100 items from Dupee's library. Most of the items are annotated and/or signed, and could be used in tracking Dupee's work processes as well as his literary relationships. This series is divided into two subseries: one of library books, the other highlighting Dupee's collection of socialist literature, most of which were published in New York in the 1930s.
Subseries IV.1: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, annotated and/or signed, 1778-1983 [Bulk dates: 1920s-1979]/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623891778-1983Scope and ContentsSubseries 1 includes books from Dupee's library. Their interest for researchers lies in the fact that most are annotated by Dupee, and many are signed by the authors. The titles range from classical nineteenth century novels to twentieth century poetry and prose, memoirs by colleagues, and literary and cultural criticism. The oldest item, a collection of fifteenth century poetry, dates to 1778, but most of the books were published in the twentieth century.
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita/repositories/2/archival_objects/46248519557Scope and Contents(annotated, includes a clipping of "The Devil and Lolita" by Gary Willis, The New York Review of Books, 1974 February 21)
John Keats Selected Poems and Letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/46248619597Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
D. H. Lawrence The Rainbow/repositories/2/archival_objects/46248719157Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers/repositories/2/archival_objects/46248819277Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
The Cantos of Ezra Pound/repositories/2/archival_objects/46248919487Scope and Contents(annotated, includes various clippings and a leaflet "Guide au Temple Malatestiano" by Giuseppe Pecci, 1958 with a postcard from Temple Malatestiano from "Brian" -- perhaps Brian Sullivan)
The Works of Thoreau, edited by Henry S. Canby/repositories/2/archival_objects/46249019377Scope and Contents(annotated, includes a sheet with notes)
Thomas Hardy Selected Poems, with introduction by G. M. Young/repositories/2/archival_objects/46249119537Scope and Contents(annotated)
Northrop Frye T. S. Eliot/repositories/2/archival_objects/46249219637Scope and Contents(annotated)
Harold Nicolson Tennyson/repositories/2/archival_objects/46249319627Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
J. Hillis Miller Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers/repositories/2/archival_objects/46249419657Scope and Contents(annotated, includes a sheet with notes)
William James The Varieties of the Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature/repositories/2/archival_objects/46249519027Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes and a clipping of "Mussorgsky Minus Rimsky-Korsakov" by Hibbard James, The New Leader, 1957 October 28)
John Donne Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by John Hayward/repositories/2/archival_objects/46249619297Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
William Carlos Williams Paterson/repositories/2/archival_objects/46249719637Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
William O'Neill The Last Romantic: The Life of Max Eastman/repositories/2/archival_objects/46249819787Scope and Contents(annotated)
Norman Podhoretz Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After in American Writing/repositories/2/archival_objects/46249919647Scope and Contents(annotated)
Mark Van Doren Introduction to Poetry/repositories/2/archival_objects/46250019637Scope and Contents(annotated)
The Southern Review volume VII, number 3, Winter/repositories/2/archival_objects/46250119447Poems, Supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and others, in the fifteenth century (Third Edition with appendix on Thomas Chatterton)/repositories/2/archival_objects/46250217787Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
Blaise Pascal, Pensées and The Provincial Letters, 1941/repositories/2/archival_objects/4625037Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
The Journals of André Gide, translated and edited by Justin O'brien, volume I/repositories/2/archival_objects/46250419477Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes and clippings on Gide)
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller/repositories/2/archival_objects/46250519727Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes and a clipping of "Unsentimental Education" by Anatole Broyard, The New York Times, 1973 March 22)
The Letters of Anton Chekhov, edited and translated by Avraham Yarmolinsky, 1973/repositories/2/archival_objects/4625067Scope and Contents(a proofing copy with a letter from the publisher,1972 December 14)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra El Ingenioso Hidalgo: Don Quijote de la Mancha, year not indicated/repositories/2/archival_objects/4625077Scope and Contents(annotated "Iguala 1934" and notes throughout the book; includes a list of translated Spanish verbs)
Isaac Babel, Lyubka the Cossack and Other Stories, translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew/repositories/2/archival_objects/46250819638Scope and Contents(annotated, includes clippings and sheets with notes)
Selected Poems of Ezra Pound/repositories/2/archival_objects/46250919578Scope and Contents(annotated, includes many sheets with notes)
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats/repositories/2/archival_objects/46251019428Scope and Contents(annotated, includes clippings and many sheets with notes)
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets/repositories/2/archival_objects/46251119438Scope and Contents(annotated, includes a clipping of "The Meaning of Eliot's Rose-Garden" by Robert D. Wagner and sheets with notes)
The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot/repositories/2/archival_objects/46251219528Scope and Contents(annotated, includes clippings, "The Waste Land" by Harry Levin, and many sheets with notes)
Northrop Frye, A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance/repositories/2/archival_objects/46251319658Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed/repositories/2/archival_objects/46251419238Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry and Selected Prose/repositories/2/archival_objects/46251519598Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
Molière, The Misanthrope & Tartuffe, translated by Richard Wilbur/repositories/2/archival_objects/46251619658Scope and Contents(includes sheets with notes)
The Poetical Works of William Cowper, edited by William Benham/repositories/2/archival_objects/46251718898Scope and Contents(annotated, includes sheets with notes)
Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities/repositories/2/archival_objects/46251819388Scope and Contents(annotated, includes clippings)
William Faulkner: The Critical Heritage, edited by John Bassett/repositories/2/archival_objects/46251919758Scope and Contents(includes note from publisher and reference to FWD piece)
Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, with an afterword by F. W. Dupee/repositories/2/archival_objects/46252019668Scope and Contents(afterword is missing)
The Song of Roland, translated by Jessie Crosland/repositories/2/archival_objects/46252119268Scope and Contents(annotated, includes clippings)
Jane Harrison, Myths of Greece and Rome/repositories/2/archival_objects/46252219288Scope and Contents(annotated)
James T. Farrell Olive & Mary Anne/repositories/2/archival_objects/46252319778Scope and Contents(signed)
George Santayana, Platonism and the Spiritual Life/repositories/2/archival_objects/46252419278Scope and Contents(with inscription by "Jenks-Yale roomie")
James D. Hart American Images of Spanish California/repositories/2/archival_objects/46252519608Scope and Contents(signed, includes sheets with notes)
Meyer Schapiro, "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-life" in The Avant-Garde/repositories/2/archival_objects/462526196510Scope and Contents(foldered with note: "With the compliments of the writer")
David Shapiro, January /repositories/2/archival_objects/462527196510Scope and Contents(signed)
The Autobiography of Mark Van Doren/repositories/2/archival_objects/462528195810Scope and Contents(signed)
Richard Wollheim, A Family Romance/repositories/2/archival_objects/462529196910Scope and Contents(signed)
Maurice Valency, The Flower and the Castle: An Introduction to Modern Drama/repositories/2/archival_objects/462530196310Scope and Contents(signed)
Mark Van Doren, Introduction to Poetry: Commentaries on Thirty Poems/repositories/2/archival_objects/462531196810Scope and Contents(signed)
Philip Rahv, Image and Idea: Twenty Essays on Literary Themes/repositories/2/archival_objects/462532195710Scope and Contents(signed)
Leonard Michaels Going Places/repositories/2/archival_objects/462533196910Scope and Contents(signed)
James Schuyler The Crystal Lithium/repositories/2/archival_objects/462534197210Scope and Contents(signed)
Edward W. Said Beginnings: Intention and Method/repositories/2/archival_objects/462535197510Scope and Contents(signed and annotated)
Richard H. Rovere The American Establishment and Other Reports, Opinions, and Speculations/repositories/2/archival_objects/462536196210Scope and Contents(signed)
John Ashbery Rivers and Mountains/repositories/2/archival_objects/462537196610Scope and Contents(signed and annotated, includes illustrated invitation to Ashbery reading in New York)
John Thompson The Talking Girl and Other Poems/repositories/2/archival_objects/462538196810Scope and Contents(signed)
Herbert A. Leibowitz Hart Crane: An Introduction to the Poetry/repositories/2/archival_objects/462539196810Scope and Contents(signed)
Lionel Trilling E. M. Forster/repositories/2/archival_objects/462540194310Scope and Contents(signed)
Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination/repositories/2/archival_objects/462541195010Scope and Contents(signed, includes a clipping of signed article by Trilling: "Commitment to the Modern: The Problem of Perspective in Literature", Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 1962 July 7)
Lionel Trilling The Opposing Self/repositories/2/archival_objects/462542195510Scope and Contents(signed)
Lionel Trilling A Gathering of Fugitives/repositories/2/archival_objects/462543195610Scope and Contents(signed)
Mary McCarthy The Company She Keeps/repositories/2/archival_objects/462544194210Scope and Contents(signed)
Richard Poirier The Performing Self/repositories/2/archival_objects/462545197110Scope and Contents(signed)
John Ashbery The Tennis Court Oath/repositories/2/archival_objects/462546196210Scope and Contents(signed)
Leon Edel The Texts of Henry James's Unpublished Plays/repositories/2/archival_objects/462547194910Scope and Contents(signed)
Leon Edel Hugh Walpole and Henry James: The Fantasy of the 'Killer and the Slain'/repositories/2/archival_objects/462548195110Scope and Contents(signed)
"A Tragedy of Error": James's First Story, with note by Leon Edel/repositories/2/archival_objects/462549195610Scope and Contents(signed by Edel)
Ron Padgett Crazy Compositions/repositories/2/archival_objects/462550197410Scope and Contents(signed)
Mark Schorer Lawrence in the War Years/repositories/2/archival_objects/462551196810Scope and Contents(signed)
Paul Zweig Opera for Newspapers/repositories/2/archival_objects/462552195910Scope and Contents(signed)
Robert Cantwell, Laugh and Die Down/repositories/2/archival_objects/462553193110Scope and Contents(signed and annotated)
National Institute of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/462554195210Scope and Contents(signed)
Kenneth Koch Ko, or A Season on Earth/repositories/2/archival_objects/462555195910Scope and Contents(signed)
Kenneth Koch Thank You and Other Poems/repositories/2/archival_objects/462556196210Scope and Contents(signed)
George Stade, Robert Graves/repositories/2/archival_objects/462557196710Scope and Contents(signed)
Ron Padgett Toujours L'amour/repositories/2/archival_objects/462558197610Scope and Contents(signed)
Victor Wolfson Excursion/repositories/2/archival_objects/462559193710Scope and Contents(signed)
Victor Wolfson Pastoral/repositories/2/archival_objects/462560193810Scope and Contents(signed)
Victor Wolfson The Lonely Steeple/repositories/2/archival_objects/462561194510Scope and Contents(signed)
Victor Wolfson The Eagle on the Plain/repositories/2/archival_objects/462562194710Scope and Contents(signed)
George Plimpton Paper Lion/repositories/2/archival_objects/462563196610Scope and Contents(signed)
Dwight Macdonald Memoirs of a Revolutionist/repositories/2/archival_objects/462564195810Scope and Contents(signed)
Leo Tolstoy Twenty-Three Tales/repositories/2/archival_objects/462565192710Scope and Contents(with inscription by "Dwight")
Michael Wood Stendhal/repositories/2/archival_objects/462566197110Scope and Contents(signed)
Richard Chase Walt Whitman Reconsidered/repositories/2/archival_objects/462567195510Scope and Contents(signed and annotated)
Gore Vidal Rocking the Boat/repositories/2/archival_objects/462568196211Scope and Contents(signed and annotated)
Gore Vidal Julian/repositories/2/archival_objects/462569196411Scope and Contents(signed )
Gore Vidal Myra Breckinridge/repositories/2/archival_objects/462570196811Scope and Contents(signed )
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood/repositories/2/archival_objects/462571196511Scope and Contents(signed )
Jason Epstein The Great Conspiracy Trial/repositories/2/archival_objects/462572197011Scope and Contents(signed)
Morris Dickstein Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties/repositories/2/archival_objects/462573197711Scope and Contents(signed)
Morris Dickstein Keats and His Poetry/repositories/2/archival_objects/462574197111Scope and Contents(signed)
Anton Chekhov The Party and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett/repositories/2/archival_objects/462575192111Scope and Contents(with inscription by "Dwight")
William Humphrey A Time and a Place/repositories/2/archival_objects/462576196811Scope and Contents(signed)
William Humphrey Farther Off from Heaven/repositories/2/archival_objects/462577197711Scope and Contents(signed)
Elizabeth Hardwick Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays/repositories/2/archival_objects/462578198311Scope and Contents(signed)
William Hellman Pentimento/repositories/2/archival_objects/462579197311Scope and Contents(signed)
Charles Jackson A Second-Hand Life/repositories/2/archival_objects/462580196711Scope and Contents(signed)
Phaedra and Figaro, translated by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun/repositories/2/archival_objects/462581196111Scope and Contents(signed)
Subseries IV.2: Socialist Literature/repositories/2/archival_objects/4623901932-1959Scope and ContentsSubseries 2 includes dozens of socialist titles collected by Dupee, among them volumes of
The New Internationaland theNew Massesfrom 1937-1939, annotated copies ofSocialismby Frederick Engels and Leon Trotsky'sThe Russian Revolution(edited by Dupee), and various publications on Trotskyism, the Moscow Trials, and socialism and the labor movement in the United States. Alongside some classical titles, this subseries provides a glance into a vivid scene of independent socialist publishers in 1930s New York.The New International/repositories/2/archival_objects/462582October 1939-November 193911The New Masses/repositories/2/archival_objects/462583January -June 193711The Suppressed Statement of Lenin, with two explanatory articles by Leon Trotsky/repositories/2/archival_objects/462584193511Why Did They "Confess"? A Study of the Radek-Piatakov Trial/repositories/2/archival_objects/462585193711Alex Bittelman Trotsky the Traitor/repositories/2/archival_objects/462586193711Fenner Brockway The Truth about Barcelona/repositories/2/archival_objects/462587193711Earl Browder Trotskyism against World Peace/repositories/2/archival_objects/462588193711Scope and Contents(annotated)
Georgi Dimitroff The United Front against War and Fascism/repositories/2/archival_objects/462589193611Scope and Contents(annotated, includes a sheet with notes)
William F. Dunne The Great San Francisco General Strike/repositories/2/archival_objects/462590193411Scope and Contents(annotated)
Frederick Engels Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, translated by Edward Aveling/repositories/2/archival_objects/462591193511Scope and Contents(annotated)
Howard Kester Revolt among the Sharecroppers/repositories/2/archival_objects/462592193611Lambda The Truth about the Barcelona Events, with introduction by Bertram D. Wolfe/repositories/2/archival_objects/462593193711P. Lang Trotskyism and Fascism/repositories/2/archival_objects/462594193711The League for Cultural Freedom and Socialism Statement to American Writers and Artists (date unspecified)/repositories/2/archival_objects/46259511League of Professional Groups for Foster and Ford Culture and the Crisis/repositories/2/archival_objects/462596193211Lecture Notes, "First Anniversary of Spanish People's Front", 1937 February 18/repositories/2/archival_objects/462597193711Dwight Macdonald Fascism and the American Scene/repositories/2/archival_objects/462598193811Dwight Macdonald The Root Is Man/repositories/2/archival_objects/462599195311M. J. Olgin Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise/repositories/2/archival_objects/462600193511Scope and Contents(includes clippings)
M. J. Olgin Why Communism? Plain Talks on Vital Problems/repositories/2/archival_objects/462601193511Dennis N. Pritt, K.C, M. P. At the Moscow Trial/repositories/2/archival_objects/462602193711M. Simons Class Struggles in America/repositories/2/archival_objects/462603190611Scope and Contents(annotated)
Alexander Trachtenberg History of May Day/repositories/2/archival_objects/462604193711Leon Trotsky, The Russian Revolution: The Overthrow of Tzarism & The Triumph of the Soviets, edited by F. W. Dupee/repositories/2/archival_objects/462605195911Scope and Contents(includes sheets with notes)
Leon Trotsky, The Kirov Assassination, translated by J. G. Wright/repositories/2/archival_objects/462606193511Scope and Contents(annotated)
John West War and the Workers, 1936./repositories/2/archival_objects/46260711