William Cabell Greet Papers, 1928-1971.

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

Arrangement

Material is arranged into two series:

• Series I: Correspondence, 1928-1971
• Series II: General Files, 1956-1970

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Description

Scope and Content

Professor Greet has presented Columbia with a collection of letters which he has received from numerous authors, including John Mason Brown, John Cheever, John Dos Passos, Marianne Moore, and 27 from H.L. Mencken. Of special interest is a notebook of letters concerning Greet's dictionary, WORLD WORDS, puiblished in 1944 by CBS as an aid in the understanding and pronunciation of new and foreign words. The notebook contains letters from Henry A. Wallace, George Marshall, Cordell Hull, J. Edgar Hoover, and more than 50 other public officials.

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Using the Collection

RBML

Access Restrictions

This collection is located on-site.

Restrictions on Use

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William Cabell Greet Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries. Rare Book and Manuscript Library; machine readable finding aid created by Columbia University Libraries Digital Library Program Division

Processing Information

Processed 02/--/85 JLW

Machine readable finding aid generated from MARC-AMC source via XSLT conversion June 26, 2009 Finding aid written in English.

2013-01-08 xml document instance created by Adrien Hilton

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Subject Headings

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

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Genre/Form

Heading	CUL Archives: Portal	CUL Collections: CLIO	Nat'l / Int'l Archives: ArchiveGRID
Notebooks.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID

Subjects

Heading	CUL Archives: Portal	CUL Collections: CLIO	Nat'l / Int'l Archives: ArchiveGRID
American literature--20th century.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Authors, American--20th century.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Authors.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Cheever, John.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
College teachers.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Editors.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Encyclopedias and dictionaries.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
English language--Dictionaries.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
English language--Pronunciation--United States.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Lexicographers.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Marshall, George, 1891-1975.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Pronunciation.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965.	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID

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History / Biographical Note

History

Author, editor, lexicographer, professor of English at Columbia University since 1929 (Columbia University M.A. 1924, Ph.D. 1926).

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