Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Ellen Moers papers
Moers, Ellen, 1928-
4079121
MS#0888
English
/repositories/2/resources/2890
58 boxes
59 boxes and 2 oversize bundles.
1945-1979
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged remainder listed and arranged.
Restrictions on Access
One box of cataloged correspondence is on-site. The remainder of this collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
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Summary
Literary papers and some related correspondence of Moers, including typescript drafts, notes, photocopies of Theodore Dreiser letters and manuscripts, and correspondence related to writing, editing, and publishing TWO DREISERS. Revisions of this manuscript contain extensive editorial notes, instructions, and annotations by Moers' editor Malcolm Cowley. The photocopies of printed materials consist chiefly of articles written by Dreiser for newspapers and magazines, especially EV'RY MONTH. For Moers' book LITERARY WOMEN, there are typescript drafts, notes, the setting copy, and proofs. Also, letters, notes, drafts, and printed material for her article in the NEW YORK PUBLIC REVIEW OF BOOKS; correspondence, manuscripts, notes, drafts, photographs, clippings, and other printed material for her books, book reviews, articles, and lectures; and books inscribed to Moers and books on women authors and feminism with her notes.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ellen Moers papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Reproduction Note
Type of reproduction--Photocopies in part
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--School of Library Service. Method of acquisition--Transfer; Date of acquisition--1974. Accession number--M-74.
Biographical / Historical
Author and educator.
Processing Information
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Other Finding Aids
Collection inventory is available as a PDF file. Collection can be requested through CLIO.
Publications About Described Materials
Moers, Ellen. Two Dreisers. New York : Viking Press, 1969.
Publications About Described Materials
Moers, Ellen. Literary women. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
Literature publishing
English literature
Publishers and publishing
Women authors
Feminism
Photographic prints
Women authors, American
Educators
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989
Series I: Two Dreisers Cataloged Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765932Cyril Clemens/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659331Malcolm Cowley/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659341Ernst L. Freud/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659351Arnold Gingrich/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659361Richard Hofstadter/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659371Alfred Kazin/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659381Series II: Cataloged Correspondence - 1981 Addition/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765939Quentin Bell/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659401John Berryman/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659411Malcolm Cowley/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659421Elizabeth Hardwick/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659431John Hollander/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659441Irving Howe/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659451Elizabeth Janevay/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659461Erica Jong/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659471Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659481Alfred Kazin/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659491Frank Kermode/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659501Edward I. Koch/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659511David Levine/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659521Jonathan Miller/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659531Victor de Pange/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659541John Harold Plumb/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659551Norman Podhoretz/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659561Bayard Eustin/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659571Lionel Trilling/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659581Angus Wilson/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659591Series III: Cataloged Correspsondnce & Diary - 1983 Addition/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765960Frederick W. Dupee/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659611Erica Jong/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659621Alfred Kazin/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659631Norman Podhoretz/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659641Justin O'Brien/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659651Lionel Trilling/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659661Angus Wilson/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659671Ellen Moers (Diary)/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659681Series IV: Two Dreisers/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765969Scope and Contents(Please note Boxes 6, 7, and 8 contain notes, photocopies, clippings and reports on printed and manuscript materials arranged by topic)
Typescript draft, part 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659702Typescript draft, part 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659713Typescript carbon ("non-final" draft with extensive notes and annotations by Malcolm Cowley)/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659723Checking notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659734Typescript draft revisions (with editorial comments and notes by Malcolm Cowley)/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659744Notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659754Proofs/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659764Typescript; final draft with revision by Moers/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659775ATypescript; final draft with revision by Moers/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659785BNotes: Dreiser before Sister Carrie and Sister Carrie notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659796Notes: Science (Dreiser's science reading and relations with scientists)/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659807Notes: American Tragedy and post-Sister Carrie life and works ("major topic: Dreiser's Protestant (material) background")/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659818Series V: Literary Women/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766127Literary Women - 1:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766042Typescript drafts and notes for Chapters 1- 9/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660439Literary Women - 2:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766044Typescript drafts and notes for Chapters 10 - 11/repositories/2/archival_objects/176604510Proofs/repositories/2/archival_objects/176604610Literary Women - 3:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766047Setting copy/repositories/2/archival_objects/176604811Series VI: New York Public Library Financial Crisis/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660491972-197313Series VII: Research Photocopies/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765982Scope and Contents(Note: Permissions for use of maniscript materials must be given by the libraries which own the materials)
Library of Congress:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765983Magazine contributions/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659841899-1905231Scope and ContentsBy Dreissr under his own and pen-names and by Arthur Henry, with whom Dreiser collaborated on all magazine work at this time.
Rough list : Camera Club; Horseless Age; Notable Colony; NY—Boston by Trolley; Ward on Sculpture; Silent Worker; Loneliness of City; National Food Reform; Elmer Gates. Note: check my own & other (Pizer) biblographiess.) Dreiser's involvement with the above articles substantiated by his correspondence with editors, U.Pa., if by no othor source.
University of Pennyslavinia:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765985Dreiser / Elmer Gates correspondence — complete/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765986232New York Public Library:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765987Tolstoy/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765988233Scope and Contents( What to Do? in Isabel Hapgood translation--the one read by Dreiser)
Various:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765989Early Dreiser bibliographies/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765990234Scope and Contents(From various sources--now presumably supplanted by Donald Pizer checklist in
PROOF 1 (1971) ed. J. Katz. From Donald Pizer: Cl. Barrett Coll.—TD holdings. Draft of Checklist)Miller checklist/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659911947234Moers checklist of Columbia manuscript holdings of people touching on Dreiser's career/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765992234Vrest Orton: Notes to add to a Dreiser bibliopraphy/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765993234New York Public Library:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765994Sister Carrie—Manuscript/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765995235Scope and Contents( A selection of key passages, including some in Arthur Henry's hand)
University of Pennyslavinia:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765996Ev'ry Month/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765997236Scope and Contents(Magazine ed. by TD, 1895-1897 (no complete run available anywhere: LC copy long missing (ignore other Union List info.--all inaccurate); copies not of complete issues but of material important re Dreiser: his editorials, pen-name articles & captions, etc.)
Moer's Pages:/repositories/2/archival_objects/17659981-6 & 7-8/repositories/2/archival_objects/1765999September 1896236Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 2-7 & 22-23)
9-14/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766000October 1896236Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 2-7)
15-23/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766001November 1896236Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 2-7, 16-17, 22)
24-27/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766002December 1896236Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages-page 4 of magazine missing--5-7, 10)
28-34/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766003January 1897236Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 2-7 & 31)
35-42/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766004February 1897236Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 2-7 & 22-23)
43--48/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766005March 1897236Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 2-6 & 25)
49-50/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766006April 1897236Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 20-21)
51-52/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766007May 1897236Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 20-21)
53-54/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766008June 1897236Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 20-21)
55/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766009July 1897236Scope and Contents(Magazine Page 20)
"New" Ev'ry Month/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766010Scope and Contents(Issues found by Moers: labeled EV MO AD. STARR Issues in the collection of the late Dr. Saul Starr, who permitted copies to be made; present location of issues unknown)
1--16/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766011June 1896237Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages cover, 3-6, 12-13, 16-17, 21-22, 26-30)
(Magazine Page cover, title, 2-6, 10-21, 25-27, 31-32)
17-40/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766012August 1897237Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages cover, titl e p. , 2-6, 10-21, 25-27, 31-32)
41-51/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766013September 1897237Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages cover, title , 5, 9, 14, 22-24)
52-63/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766014October 1897237Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 4-5, 9--12, 21 -23, 39-3?)
64-71/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766015March 1898237Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 4-5, 11-13, 24--26)
72-76/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766016August 1899237Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages cover, 1-4)
"New" Ev'ry Month/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766017Scope and Contents(Issues found by Moers: labeled EV MO BROWN--issues found in stacks by librarian at Brown University, from which copies come. Some pages duplicate or supplement above material in more readable form)
77-98; 99-108/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766018August 1896238Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages cover and ads, 1-22, 27-36, including Dreiser's 1st rnaga fiction: "Forgotten EM 16-7)
109--115/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766019February 1897238Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 28-29; 35--39)
116--122/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766020July 1897238Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 4; 13; 17--19; 30-31)
123-126/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766021February 1898238Scope and Contents(Magazine Pages 2--5)
"New" Ev'ry Month/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766022Scope and Contents(Issues found by U.Pa. as a result of N. Westlake search in late 1960s)
Complete issues (?) not paginated by Moers:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766023April 1896/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766024239July 1896/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766025239Newspaper Days Mss./repositories/2/archival_objects/17660262310Articles by various hands on Dreiser/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766027Scope and Contents(Offprints and tearsheets sent to "Moers)
Anzilotti on Dreiser's sources (including Henry James)/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660282311Scope and Contents(On unpublished Italian Section of Traveler at 40)
Wagner on Dreiser's style/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660292311Phillips on Dreiser's imagery/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660302311Gerber on Genesis of Genius/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660312311Moers on Finesse of Dreiser/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660322311Pizer on drafts of Nigger Jeff story/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660332311Bender on Dreiser Science & Psuedo-science/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660342311Moers on Spec Coll Dreiser Holdings (NY 1890s — Howells - - magazine ms. )/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660352311Moers on Dreiser centennial (with: JW Johnson, Sloan, S. Crane)/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660362311Saul Bellow (interview) on Dreiser/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660372311Dreiser's Centennial Memorabilia:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766038Terre Haute centennial/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660392312U. Pa. Rosenbach. lectures (Pizor & Elias) and program, stories re othor events In Philadelphia/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660402312Boston review (Frohock)/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660412312Series VIII: 1980 addition /repositories/2/archival_objects/1766050Scope and ContentsCorrespondence, manuscripts, notes, drafts, photographs, clippings, and other printed materials for her books, book reviews, articles, and lectures. Among her subjects are: Anne Bradstreet, Jane rlyle, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, 1876 lecture, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gothic novels, Literary women, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Theodore oosevelt, George Sand, Elizabeth Stevenson, Mary Shelley, Harriet Beecher Stove, and Mark Twain.
Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, drafts, photographs, clippings, and other materials /repositories/2/archival_objects/176612912 Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, drafts, photographs, clippings, and other materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/176613014 Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, drafts, photographs, clippings, and other materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/176613115 Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, drafts, photographs, clippings, and other materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/176613216 Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, drafts, photographs, clippings, and other materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/176613317Books on women authors and feminism/repositories/2/archival_objects/176605118Books on women authors and feminism/repositories/2/archival_objects/176605219Books on women authors and feminism/repositories/2/archival_objects/176605320Books on women authors and feminism/repositories/2/archival_objects/176605421Books inscribed to Ellen Moers./repositories/2/archival_objects/176605522Series IX: 1981 Addition/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766056Correspondence:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766057A - Z/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660581960 - 19701A- D/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660591971 - 19731F - N/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660601971 - 19732N - Z/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660611971 - 19733A - Z/repositories/2/archival_objects/176606219744A - Z/repositories/2/archival_objects/176606319755A- D/repositories/2/archival_objects/176606419765E - Z/repositories/2/archival_objects/176606519766A - Z/repositories/2/archival_objects/176606619777A - Z/repositories/2/archival_objects/176606719788Course notes & other notes: A - C/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660689Course notes & other notes: D - T/repositories/2/archival_objects/176606910Course notes: American literature & freshman seminar/repositories/2/archival_objects/176607011Course notes: American literature & freshman seminar/repositories/2/archival_objects/176613412 Course notes: Victorian novel/repositories/2/archival_objects/176613512 Course notes: Victorian novel/repositories/2/archival_objects/176613613Courses/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661371969-19721975-197714Literary Women (notes for her book: "American Women"/repositories/2/archival_objects/176613815Literary Women: "American Women"/repositories/2/archival_objects/176613916Literary Women. Anchor setting copy (proofs)/repositories/2/archival_objects/176614016Literary Women: "General literature women"/repositories/2/archival_objects/176614117Literary Women : "Late/20th century literary women"/repositories/2/archival_objects/176614217Literary women: "The novel early women English/French"/repositories/2/archival_objects/176608018Literary women: "The novel early women English/French"/repositories/2/archival_objects/176608119Literary women: "Sand Fr."/repositories/2/archival_objects/176608219Literary women: "Sand/Fr."/repositories/2/archival_objects/176608320Literary women: "Victorian literature women"/repositories/2/archival_objects/176608421Literary women: "Victorian literature women"/repositories/2/archival_objects/176608522Two Dreisers: manuscript/repositories/2/archival_objects/176608623Vassar College notes: French/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660871945-194823World tour/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766088197824Printed: Books & periodicals vitli her notes & contributions, or which were inscribed to her/repositories/2/archival_objects/176608925Printed: Books & periodicals vitli her notes & contributions, or which were inscribed to her/repositories/2/archival_objects/176609026Series X: 1983 Addition/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766091Correspondence: A - Z/repositories/2/archival_objects/176609219791Subject and Title File:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766093Anglo-American study of mid-19th cent, fiction - new book/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660942"The Angry Young Women" ("Literary Women")/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660952Bradstreet, Anne/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660962Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.E.L./repositories/2/archival_objects/17660972Cather, Willa & Colette/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660982Cruikshank, George/repositories/2/archival_objects/17660992The Dandy: Brummell to Beerbohm/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661003Dickens, Charles/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661013Dickinson, Emily/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661023Dreiser, Theodore/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661034"Female Gothic: Monsters, Goblins, Freaks"/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661045"Feminism and Literature"/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661055"The 'Feminization' of American Culture in the Centennial Period"/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661065Fitzgerald, F. Scott/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661075Guggenheim and other awards/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661085Johnson, James Weldon/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661095Lewes, George Henry/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661105"Literary Economics in the 1890s: Golden Boys for Sale"/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661116Literary Women/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661126"Literary Women of the 70s"/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661136McClure, Samuel Sidney/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661146Moers, Ellen - vitae/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661156"Money, the Job, and Little Women"/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661166Notable American Women/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661177Roosevelt, Theodore/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661187Sand, George/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661197Staël, Mme de/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661207Stowe, Harriet Beecher/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661217"Women's Lit: Profession and Tradition"/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661227Wollestonecraft, Mary/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661237Reviews by Ellen Moers:/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766124A-Z/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661258A-Z/repositories/2/archival_objects/17661269Reviews?/repositories/2/archival_objects/176612810