Richard Volney Chase papers, 1930-1984

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#0214
Bib ID:
4079661 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Chase, Richard Volney, 1914-1962
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
37 linear feet (13 boxes 250 volumes)
Language(s):
English .
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.

The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 3B-12, and volumes from the Richard Volney Chase library. 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.

This collection has no restrictions.

Description

Summary

Letters, manuscripts, notes, proofs, course materials, and printed matter. The letters are chiefly from his colleagues at Columbia University, other literary critics, a few publishers and, single letters from several American authors. There is a series of lengthy letters from Chase to his wife, Frances Marie Walker Chase, dated 1938 and 1949-1961; letters from his colleagues and friends to Mrs Chase, 1962-1967, mostly letters of condolence on Chase's death, and a few related to his publications. The manuscripts and proofs of his writings include typescripts on Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. Also included are notes on American and Englisgh literature, course materials for his Columbia courses, articles and reviews by him, articles, reprints and reviews by others, most of which are inscribed to Chase, and three dozen volumes of his own works, including foreign translations. In addition, there are 250 volumes from Chase's library, many with his annotations and marginalia. 1984 ADDITION: Letters from friends dealing with the contemporary literary world between 1948-1955. The main body of material is from Robert Willard Flint, a sometime poet and critic, who was a graduate student at Columbia in 1946 and later worked at the Harvard Library. 1986 ADDITION: Letters to Richard Chase from colleagues in the literary world, 1948-1971, with 2 letters to his wife after his death. 114 of these letters are from Robert Flint, 25 from Lionel Trilling, and 3 letters from Robert Penn Warren

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.

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.

The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 3B-12, and volumes from the Richard Volney Chase library. 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.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

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

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Richard Volney Chase paper; 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.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Mrs Frances W. Chase, 1982, 1984& 1986.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Chase, Frances W. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1982. Accession number--M-1982.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Processed JL-W 11/--/86.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

2012-11-12 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

Professor of English at Columbia University. (Columbia Ph.D. 1946).

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Photographs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Proofs (printed matter) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Anderson, Charles CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Arvin, Newton, 1900-1963 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bellow, Saul CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bentley, Eric, 1916- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Blackmur, R. P (Richard P.), 1904-1965 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Columbia University CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Davis, Robert Gorham CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dupee, F. W (Frederick Wilcox), 1904-1979 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fiedler, Leslie A. CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hardwick, Elizabeth CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Howe, Irving CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Johnson, Thomas Herbert CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kronenberger, Louis, 1904-1980 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Macdonald, Dwight CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mailer, Norman CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Marshall, Margaret CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mason, Ronald, 1912- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Podhoretz, Norman CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Rahv, Philip, 1908-1973 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Riesman, David, 1909-2002 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Viereck, Peter, 1916-2006 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Place
American literature CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
College teachers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Critics CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
English literature CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID