Columbia University English Department correspondence, 1896-1961
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#0257
- Bib ID:
- 4078635 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Columbia University. Department of English and Comparative Literature
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 1.67 linear feet (4 document boxes)
- Language(s):
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English
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- Access:
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Description
Summary
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.
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. This collection is arranged into two series.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
Rbml Advance Appointment
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
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.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Columbia University English Department correspondence; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of the English Department, 1962; transferred from Columbiana, 1983.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--English Dept. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1962. Accession number--M-62.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Cataloged 05/05/89.
Revision Description
2009-06-26 File created.
2014-06-20 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
2024-08-07 Updated inventory for Series II (JR)
Subject Headings
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| Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969 |
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| Carpenter, George R. (George Rice), 1863-1909 |
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| Chute, Marchette, 1909-1994 |
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| Coffin, Robert P. Tristram (Robert Peter Tristram), 1892-1955 |
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| Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 |
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| Cunliffe, John William, 1865-1946 |
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| De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955 |
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| Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 |
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| Erskine, John, 1879-1951 |
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| Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 |
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| Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943 |
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| Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980 |
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| Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918 |
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| Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1882-1955 |
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| Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 |
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| MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982 |
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| Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 |
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| Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 |
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| Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 |
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| Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 |
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| Nicholson, Marjorie Hope |
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| Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 |
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| Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 |
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| Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980 |
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| Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 |
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| Thorndike, Ashley Horace, 1871-1933 |
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| Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 |
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| Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972 |
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| Wright, Ernest Hunter, 1882-1968 |
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| Authors |
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| Critics |
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| English language -- Study and teaching |
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| Literature -- Study and teaching |
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| Scholars |
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