William Peterfield Trent papers, 1800-1941
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1254
- Bib ID:
- 4079268 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Trent, William P (William Peterfield), 1862-1939
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 2 linear feet (3 boxes)
- Language(s):
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English
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- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed materials. The correspondence is with American and English literary figures and Columbia faculty members. Included are 38 letters from Brander Matthews and 4 from Edmund Gosse. There are 5 letters from Trent to George Whicher, 3 to John Hart, and 180 postcards and letters to John Bell Henneman, as well as a group of miscellaneous letters to and from Trent. Also included are a holograph fair copy of Trent's poem "Germany, 1915" with his covering a.l.s. and several miscellaneous poems; and his contract with J.B. Lippincott Co. for the publication of GEORGE SAND. There are also two documents signed by George W. Maynard. Among the photographs is a photograph album, prepared by Hudson Stuck in 1899, of people and scenes from Dallas, Texas. Among the printed materials are Trent's examinations and outlines for English courses, and THE UNPOPULAR REVIEW with numerous pages of Trent's notes
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. Collection is arranged in 2 series.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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); William Peterfield Trent papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Henneman, John B.; Alan Rabinowitz; Mrs George B. Whicher; others. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--07/21/89. Accession number--M-89-07-21.
80 letters to J.B.Henneman: Source of acquisition--Henneman, John Bell, Jr. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--05/26/92. Accession number--M-92-05-26.
65 letters to J.B. Henneman: Source of acquisition--Henneman, John Bell, Jr. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/17/93. Accession number--M-93-12-17.
Gift of Alan Rabinowitz, 1967.
Gift of George F. Whicher, 1965; and others.
Gift of John B. Henneman, Jr., 1989, 1992& 1993.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Processed John Roe 08/30/89.
80 letters to J.B.Henneman Processed HR 06/11/92.
65 letters to J.B. Henneman Cataloged HR 01/06/94.
Revision Description
June 2020 PDF replaced with full finding aid, YH
Biographical / Historical
Author, editor of the Sewanee Review from 1892 to 1899, and professor of English literature at Columbia University from 1900 to 1929.
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| Bookplates |
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| Contracts |
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| Correspondence |
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| Essays |
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| Examinations (documents) |
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| Fiction (general genre) |
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| Lists (document genres) |
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| Memorandums |
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| Menus |
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| Pamphlets |
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| Poems |
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| Aitken, George Atherton, 1860-1917 |
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| Bancroft, Frederic, 1860-1945 |
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| Besant, Walter, 1836-1901 |
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| Bigelow, John, 1817-1911 |
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| Brandl, Alois, 1855-1940 |
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| Brigham, Clarence S (Clarence Saunders), 1877-1963 |
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| Burgess, John William, 1844-1931 |
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| Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 |
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| Carpenter, George R. (George Rice), 1863-1909 |
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| Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 |
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| Clemens, Cyril, 1902-1999 |
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| Columbia University. Department of English and Comparative Literature |
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| Cust, Lionel, 1859-1929 |
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| Davis, Richard Beale |
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| Dawson, Coningsby, 1883-1959 |
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| Doubleday, Frank Nelson, 1862-1934 |
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| Dunning, William Archibald, 1857-1922 |
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| Erskine, John, 1879-1951 |
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| Eucken, Rudolf, 1846-1926 |
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| Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930 |
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| Gailor, Thomas Frank, 1856-1935 |
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| Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 |
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| Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 |
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| Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 |
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| Gildersleeve, Basil L (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924 |
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| Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron, 1877-1965 |
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| Gordon, Armistead C (Armistead Churchill), 1855-1931 |
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| Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 |
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| Greenlaw, Edwin, 1874-1931 |
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| Guthrie, William Norman, 1868-1944 |
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| Harper, Henry Howard, 1871-1953 |
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| Hart, John |
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| Henneman, John Bell, 1864-1908 |
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| Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 |
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| Hitchcock, Ripley, 1857-1918 |
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| Holt, Henry, 1840-1926 |
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| Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 |
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| J.B. Lippincott & Co. |
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| Jones, Richard Foster, 1886-1965 |
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| Krutch, Joseph Wood, 1893-1970 |
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| Lanson, Gustave, 1857-1934 |
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| Leonard, William Ellery, 1876-1944 |
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| Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 |
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| Lounsbury, Thomas R., 1838-1915 |
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| Loveman, Robert, 1864-1923 |
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| Low, Seth, 1850-1916 |
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| Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 |
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| Maynard, George Willoughby, 1843-1923 |
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| McClellan, George B (George Brinton), 1865-1940 |
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| Meriwether, Colyer, -1920 |
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| Meyer, Kuno, 1858-1919 |
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| Moore, John Bassett, 1860-1947 |
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| More, Paul Elmer, 1864-1937 |
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| Morel, E. D (Edmund Dene), 1873-1924 |
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| Neilson, William Allan, 1869-1946 |
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| Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 |
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| Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957 |
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| Patterson, Frank Allen, 1878-1944 |
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| Payne, William Morton, 1858-1919 |
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| Peck, Harry Thurston, 1856-1914 |
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| Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954 |
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| Price, Thomas R (Thomas Randolph), 1839-1903 |
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| Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930 |
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| Rhodes, James Ford, 1848-1927 |
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| Roberts, W (William), 1862-1940 |
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| Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919 |
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| Rowland, Dunbar, 1864-1937 |
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| Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916 |
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| Sand, George, 1804-1876 |
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| Seccombe, Thomas, 1866-1923 |
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| Seligman, Edwin R. A (Edwin Robert Anderson), 1861-1939 |
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| Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926 |
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| Smith, Munroe, 1854-1926 |
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| Smyth, Albert H., 1863-1907 |
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| Spingarn, Joel Elias, 1875-1939 |
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| Straus, Oscar S (Oscar Solomon), 1850-1926 |
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| Stuck, Hudson, 1863-1920 |
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| Thorndike, Ashley Horace, 1871-1933 |
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| Underwood, Oscar W (Oscar Wilder), 1862-1929 |
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| Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950 |
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| Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 |
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| Ward, Adolphus William, Sir, 1837-1924 |
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| Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921 |
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| Wilson, James Grant, 1832-1914 |
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| Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930 |
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| Young, Stark, 1881-1963 |
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| American literature |
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| Dallas (Tex.) |
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| Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865- |
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| Authors, American |
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| Authors, American |
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| Authors, English |
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| Biographers |
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| College teachers |
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