James L. Clifford papers, 1774-1978

James L. Clifford papers, 1774-1978

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#0235
Bib ID:
5012645 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Clifford, James L (James Lowry), 1901-1978
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
43 linear feet (85 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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Description

Scope and Content

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, notes, photographs, and printed materials of James Lowry Clifford, 1901-1979, professor of English, Columbia University. Historical and literary letters and manuscripts collected by Clifford include letters from Samuel Johnson, diaries of Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale Piozzi and those of her second husband, Gabriel Piozzi; a review of Clifford's book on Mrs. Piozzi and approximately nine drafts of one of Virginia Woolfs last typescripts.

The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, research materials, and photographs for Cliffords several works on the writing of biography, and for his two biographies of Samuel Johnson, YOUng Samuel Johnson (McGraw-Hill, 19552 and Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years (McGraw-Hill, 1979).

There are also printed materials from various Samuel Johnson sqcieties, and some related photographs .

Arrangement

Arranged into 6 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 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.

This collection has no restrictions.

Reader must use microfilm where available.

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); James L. Clifford papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

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Alternate Form Available

Also available on microfilm

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Gift of James L. Clifford. Date of acquisition--1973.

Source of acquisition--Gift of Mrs. James L. Clifford. Date of acquisition--1979, 1980.

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Biographical / Historical

James Lowry Clifford, 1901-1979, was a professor of English at Columbia University. He wrote two biographies of Samuel Johnson as well as works on the writing of biography.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Diaries
Letters (correspondence)
Manuscripts (documents)
Photographs
Name
Clifford, James L (James Lowry), 1901-1978
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707-1762
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Subject
Biography as a literary form

Series I: Cataloged Correspondence and Manuscripts

Historical and Literary Materials Collected by Clifford


Subseries I.1: Historical and Literary Materials Collected by Clifford


Box A1

Alexandre, Mme.


Box A1

Baretti, Joseph


Box A1

Bossa, John


Box A1

Bromfield, P.R.


Box A1

Calvert, Peter


Box A1

Campbell, Thomas


Box A1

Chapone, Hester Mulso


Box A1

Cotton, Thomas


Box A1

Coxeter, Thomas, the younger


Box A1

Durand, John


Box A1

Ferns and Leighlin, The Bishop of


Box A1

Graves, Richard


Box A1

Hayter, G.


Box A1

Herne,-


Box A1

Johnson, •Samuel


Box A1

Knollys, Amicia Mary Mainwaring (Mrs. William E.)


Box A1

Montagu, Elizabeth


Box A1

Orrery, John Boyle, 5th Earl


Box A1

Orrery, Margaret [Hamilton, Lady]


Box A1

Piozzi, Gabriele


Box A1

Piozzi, Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale


Box A1

Swift, Jonathan


Box A1

Welch, Anne


Box A1

White, James


Box A1

Woolf, Leonard Sidney


Box A1

Woolf, Virginia Stephen


Box A2

Piozzi, Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale Diaries


Box A2

Miscellaneous printed materials


Subseries I.2: Cataloged Correspondence to Clifford

(includes photocopies of Piozzi diaries at National Library of Wales)


Box B

Barzun, Jacques


Box B

Campbell, Oscar J.


Box B

Cecil, (Lord) David


Box B

Chapman, Hester Wolferstan Pellat


Box B

Chute, Marchette


Box B

Clifford, James L.


Box B

Edel, Leon


Box B

Flexner, James Thomas


Box B

Holroyd, Michael de Courcy Fraser


Box B

Ketton-Cremer, Robert Wyndham


Box B

Krutch, Joseph Wood


Box B

Malone, Dumas


Box B

Maurois, Andre


Box B

Namier, (Sir) Lewis Bernstein


Box B

Nicolson, (Sir) Harold George


Box B

Phelps, William Lyon


Box B

Piozzi, Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale, 1741-1821 (photocopies of diaries), 1741-1821


Box B

Plumb, Jack


Box B

Toynbee, Philip


Box B

Van Doren, Mark


Box B

Warner, Oliver


Box B

Wedgwood, Cicely Veronica


Box B

Woolf, Leonard


Box B

Woolf, Virginia (shelved in vault)


Box B

Miscellaneous material

Series II: Arranged Correspondence, 1929-1989


Box 1

A-General


Box 1

A-First Names


Box 1

Alkon, Paul K.


Box 1

Alleman, Gellert s.


Box 1

Altick, Richard D.


Box 1

B-General, undated, 1938-1972 1973-1979, 1938-1972, 1973-1979, (2 folders)


Box 2

B-First Names


Box 2

Bate, W.J.


Box 2

Beard, Geoffrey


Box 2

Belanger, Terry


Box 2

Bromhead, Harold


Box 2

Butt, John


Box 2

Bronson, Bud


Box 2

C-General, undated, 1948-1972 1973-1978, 1948-1972, 1973-1978, (2 folders)


Box 3

C-First Names


Box 3

Cash, Arthur


Box 3

Chapman, R. W.


Box 3

Clifford, James L.


Box 3

Clifford, Nary


Box 3

Cole, Impi


Box 3

Colie, R. L. (Posie)


Box 3

Collett, John


Box 3

Congleton, J. E.


Box 3

Copeland, Tom


Box 3

D-General


Box 3

D-First Name


Box 4

Davin, Dan


Box 4

Davis, Herbert


Box 4

DeBeer, Edward


Box 4

E-Generai


Box 4

E-First Name


Box 4

Edgcumbe, John


Box 4

Ehrenpreis, Irvin


Box 4

Evans, Brynbella


Box 4

F-General


Box 5

F-First Names


Box 5

Fleeman, David


Box 5

G-General l948-l970, 1971-1978, (2 folders)


Box 5

G-First Names


Box 5

Gay, Peter


Box 5

Green, Donald J., 1969-1978


Box 6

Greene, Donald J., undated, 1951-1960 1961-1968, 1951-1960, 1961-1968, (2 folders)


Box 6

H-Genera1, 1953-197l, 1972-1978, (2 folders)


Box 6

H-First Names


Box 6

Haley, W. J .


Box 6

Halsband, Robert


Box 7

Hanson, Richard and Frances


Box 7

Harbage, Al


Box 7

Hart, Jeff


Box 7

Hazen, Allen T., undated, 1939-1961 1962-1977, 1939-1961, 1962-1977, (2 folders)


Box 7

Hecht, Jean


Box 7

Hemlow, Joyce


Box 7

Hilles, Frederick W.


Box 7

Hooker, Edward


Box 7

Hyde, Donald and Mary


Box 7

I-General


Box 7

I-First Names


Box 7

Ian, Jack


Box 7

Isham, Ralph


Box 8

J-General


Box 8

J-First Names


Box 8

Johnson, Maurice


Box 8

K-General


Box 8

K-First Names


Box 8

Ketton-Cremer, W.


Box 8

Knapp, Lewis


Box 8

Korshin, Pual


Box 9

L-General, 1959-l973,1974-1978, (2 folders)


Box 9

L-First Names


Box 9

Landa, Louis A.


Box 9

Leary, Lewis


Box 9

Lewis, Lefty


Box 9

Liebert, Herman W. (Fritz)


Box 9

Lonsdale, Roger


Box 9

M-General, 1939-1972


Box 10

M-General, 1973-1979


Box 10

M-First Names


Box 10

Hack, May nard


Box 10

Magnus, Philip A.


Box 10

McAdam, Ned


Box 10

McCue, Lillian


Box 10

McGinnis, Richard R.


Box 10

McGuffie, Helen L.


Box 10

McIntosh, Carey


Box 10

Meier, Tom


Box 10

Middendorf, John


Box 10

Moers, Ellen


Box 10

Monk, Sam


Box 11

N-General


Box 11

N-First Names


Box 11

Newton, Edward A.


Box 11

P-General


Box 11

P-First Names


Box 11

Pottle, Dr. Frederick A.


Box 12

Powell, L. F., undated, 1939-1961 1962-1969/1972-1974, 1939-1961, (2 folders)


Box 12

Q-General


Box 12

Quinlan, Maury


Box 12

R-General


Box 13

R-First Names


Box 13

Reade, A. L.


Box 13

Rippey, Arthur G.


Box 13

Roberts, S. C.


Box 13

Rousseau, George


Box 13

Ruhe, Ed


Box 13

S-General, 1949-1972 1973-1978, 1949-1972, 1973-1978, (2 folders)


Box 14

S-First Names


Box 14

Shepard, David A.


Box 14

Sherbo, Arthur


Box 14

Shipley, Burke


Box 14

Smith, D. Nichol


Box 14

Sutherland, James


Box 14

T-General


Box 14

T-First Names


Box 14

Tillotson, Geoffrey


Box 14

Todd, William


Box 14

Tracey, Clarence


Box 14

U-General


Box 14

V-General


Box 14

V-First Names


Box 15

W-General, undated, 1939-1970 1971-1978, 1939-1970, 1971-1978


Box 15

W-First Names


Box 15

Hahba, Hagdi


Box 15

Waingrow, Marshall


Box 15

Williams, Sir Harold


Box 15

Wimsatt, W. K.


Box 15

Wohlgelernter, Maurice


Box 15

Woodring, Carl


Box 15

Woolley, David


Box 15

Y-General


Box 15

Y-First Names


Box 15

Z


Box 16

Family Correspondence


Box 16

Friends Correspondence (Wabash, Ariz., Evansville)


Box 16

Miscellaneous (Flyers, Pamphlets, Notices, Etc.)


Box 16

Unidentifiable Correspondence, (2 folders)


Box 17

Nicolson, Marjorie (Closed to all use until 2025), (2 folders)


Box 17

Osburn, James, 1964


Box 18

Osburn, James, 1965-1976


Box 18

Sherburn, George, 1938-1962


Box 18

Miscellaneous Correspondence

Series III: Biography Files

The following materials relate to the subject of Biography. Many files include correspondence.


Subseries III.1: Books and Articles


Biography as an Art


Box 19

Related correspondence


Box 19

"A biographer looks at Dr. Johnson." (1959) Proof.


Box 19

Correspondence concerning permissions.


Box 19

Omitted text. Typescript, pasteups of printed material


Box 19

Source material and Notes


Box 19

Typescript: Table of contents; Introduction, draft, and fair copy (carbon); Appendix (carbon); Index (carbon); Jacket copy (carbon)


Box 19

"Biography: craft or art?" (1959) Draft. Typescript with ms. corrections.


Box 19

Typescript: fair copy (carbon).


Box 19

From Puzzles to Portraits. (1970) Draft. Typescript with ms. corrections.


Box 19

Draft, Preface.


Box 19

Draft, chapter 1-4 Typescript and manuscript


Box 19

Draft, chapter 1-4 Photocopy.


Box 20

Typescript with Manuscript Corrections, (2 folders)


Box 20

Source Material and Notes, (5 folders)


Box 20

Source material, notes, and drafts of unpublished article


Box 20

Source material and notes for a lecture ("How Much Should a Biographer Tell?" 18 March1967), chapter 9.


Box 20

"How Much Should a Biographer Tell?", 1968, (2 folders)


Box 20

Source material--Biography


From Puzzles to Portraits


Box 20

Arrangements for publication, etc


Box 20

Correspondence


Box 20

Unidentified article: "Biography--Craft or Art?" (Not the 1959 article). 3 drafts. Typescript with ms . corrections., 1959


Box 20

Unidentified article: "Problems of a Biographer"


Dr . Campbell's Diary of a Visit to England in 1775 (1847), 1775


Box 20

Correspondence with Cambridge University Press


Box 20A

Source Materials, Notes, and Correspondence, 1937-1952


Subseries III.2: Correspondence


Box 20A

Oxford University Press, London ., 1959-1962


Box 20A

Oxford University Press, New York., 1959-1962


Subseries III.3: Courses Taught


Columbia University--English 141 (Biography), Summer 1943 Autumn, 1943, 1943, 1943


Box 20A

Course Outline


Box 20A

Quizzes and exams


Box 20A

Book list s


Box 20A

Duplicates


Columbia University. English 285C (Biography)


Box 20A

Syllabus


Box 20A

Source material and Lecture Notes, (29 folders)


Box 20A

Columbia University English 842-843 (Problems in Literary Biography)--Course Description


Subseries III.4: Printed Materials


Box 21

Announcements of lectures by Clifford


Clippings


Box 21

Biography, 1930-1978, (5 folders)


Box 21

Source material for Biography as an Art.


Box 21

Source Material for English 285C


Box 22

Source Material for English 285C


Box 22

Source Material for From Puzzles to Portraits, (2 folders)


Offprints


Box 22

Articles by Clifford


Box 22

Duplicates


Box 22

Source Materials for English 285C


Box 22

Source material for From Puzzles to Portraits


Box 22

Dr. Campbell's Diary Book Reviews


Box 23

Printed materials and photographs related to Samuel Johnson


Box 23

The Johnsonians


Box 23

The Lichfield Johnson Society, 1910-1973, (4 folders)


Box 24

The Johnson Society of London


Box 24

The Johnson Club


Box 24

Miscellaneous Johnson pamphlets


Box 24

"The Johnsonian" keepsakes, (2 folders)

Series IV: Biographies of Samuel Johnson by James Clifford


Subseries IV.1: Young Samuel Johnson


Correspondence and Reviews


Box 25

Young Samuel Johnson--misc. publishers


Box 25

McGraw-Hill edition


Box 25

Reviews of Young Samuel Johnson


Box 25

YSJ--Mistakes and corrections


Box 25

Illustrations for Young Samuel Johnson


Box 25

Letters about YSJ (after publication)


Box 25

Letters about YSJ, (2 folders)


Box 25

YSJ--extra reviews


Box 25

Photographs, Illustrations for Young Sam Johnson Oversized


Manuscripts and research materials


Box 26

Chapter I Here is a Brave Boy, (2 folders)


Box 26

Chapter II "Lichfield


Box 26

Lichfield--Descriptive


Box 26

Chapter 'III, Grammar School


Box 26

Chapter IV "Bookseller' s Boy!'


Box 26

Chapter V "Stourbridge"


Box 26

Chapter VI "Walmesley"


Box 27

Chapter VIII "Dejection" (1729-1735)


Box 27

Chapter IX "Tetty and Edial'"


Box 27

Chapter X "London"


Box 27

Chapter XI I" Slow Rises Worth"


Box 28

Chapter XII "A Country Interlude"


Box 28

Chapter XIII "London Cronies"


Box 28

Chapter XIV "Gentleman's Magazine"


Box 28

Chapter XV "Bookseller's Hack"


Box 28

Chapter XVI "A Harmless Drudge"


Box 28

Chapter 1YI "Drudge" (dictionary)


Box 28

Chapter XVII "Vanity"


Box 28

Michael Johnson--early career


Box 28

Michael Johnson--bookselling and business


Box 28

Nathaniel Johnson--SJ's brother


Box 28

Parson Ford


Box 28

Undated anecdotes, Undated


Box 28

Related printed material


Subseries IV.2: Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years


Box 29

Manuscripts and research materials


Box 29

Johnson--his books and manuscripts


Box 29

Early plan of book (later altered)


Box 29

Chapter I "The New Playwright"


Box 29

Chapter I--Irene Production


Box 29

Chapter II "Life in.Gough Square"


Box 29

Gough Square House


Box 29

London Life article


Box 29

Chapter II


Box 29

City Life


Box 29

Street lighting, etc.


Box 29

Muggings


Box 29

Privies, etc


Box 30

Chapter III "Ivy Lane Club and Old Friends"


Box 30

Early friends--club


Box 30

Chapter IV "Lexicographer at Work"


Box 30

1748-1749--Lauder


Box 30

1750--Douglas


Box 30

Accounts of the Lauder Affair


Box 30

Lauder--other writings


Box 30

Lauder--1751-1754


Box 30

1747--Lauder


Box 30

Lauder


Box 30

Lauder controversy


Box 31

Chapter V "The Rambler"


Box 31

"The Rambler", (3 folders)


Box 31

Chapter VI "Cast of Tetty"


Box 31

Illness--Tetty's death


Box 31

Funeral and problems


Box 31

Chapter VII "Widower-Adventurer"


Box 31

The Adventurer


Box 31

Johnson and foreign visitors


Box 32

Chapter IX "Dictionary"


Box 32

Dictionary.


Box 32

Dictionary--additional articles and offprints


Box 32

Dictionary--bibliography


Box 32

Dictionary--details


Box 32

Dictionary--offprints and articles


Box 32

Chapter X "Still the Hack"


Box 33

Chapter XI "The Literary Magazine", (3 folders)


Box 33

Miscellaneous pieces, 1755-1760


Box 33

Chapter XU "The Idler", (2 folders)


Box 33

Dodsley and the Cleone Affair


Box 33

Shakespeare and new friends


Box 33

Shakespeare editor


Box 33

Shakespeare-proposals and new friends


Box 34

Chapter XIII "Rasselas", (3 folders)


Box 34

Rasselas Miscellaneous and offprints


Box 34

Talk on Rasselas


Box 34

Changes of residence, 1758-1760


Box 34

Chapter XIV "Struggles to Keep Alive"


Box 34

Society of Artists


Box 34

Chapter XV "Friend and Talker"


Box 35

Chapter XVI "Pension"


Box 35

Anonymous letter--Pension, (2 folders)


Box 35

Attacks after Pension, North. Britain


Box 35

Satirical Prints


Box 35

Chapter XVII "Trip to Devon"


Box 35

Reynolds manuscript--1762 trip to Devon, (2 folders)


Box 35

Chapter XVIII--meeting with Boswell


Box 35

Life in London, Fall, 1762


Research Material--Subject Files


Box 36

Miscellaneous anecdotes, cannot date


Box 36

Later anecdotes


Box 36

Barber, Francis


Box 36

Baretti, Joseph, (2 folders)


Box 36

Bathurst, Dr.


Box 36

Beattie, James


Box 36

Beauclerk


Box 36

Bennett, James, of Hoddesdon


Box 36

Birch, Thomas


Box 36

Boothby, Hill


Box 36

Boskovic


Box 36

Burke, Edmund


Box 36

Burney


Box 36

Burnham Manuscript


Box 37

Carter, Elizabeth


Box 37

Casanova


Box 37

Cave, Edward


Box 37

Celebration of 200th Anniversary of the Dictionary


Box 37

Chesterfield, Lord


Box 37

Cock-Lane ghost


Box 37

Collins, William


Box 37

Cottrell, Frances and Charlotte


Box 37

Cradock, Joseph


Box 37

Cowpe's


Box 37

D'Arblay, Mme. and H.L.P., 1815-1818


Box 37

Davies, Tom


Box 37

Desmoulins, Mrs. [Elizabeth]


Box 37

Derrick, Samuel


Box 37

Dodsley, Robert


Box 37

Douglas, John


Box 37

Edwards, Thomas


Box 37

Ellis, John


Box 37

Elphinstone, James


Box 37

Fielding letters


Box 37

Foote.


Box 37

Friends, 1749-1763


Box 37

Garrick, David


Box 37

Goldsmith, Oliver


Box 37

Grainger, James


Box 37

Guildhall Records Correspondence


Box 37

Hamilton, William Gerard


Box 37

Hanway Matter, (2 folders)


Box 37

Harris, James papers


Box 37

Hawkesworth, J.


Box 37

Hawkins, Sir John


Box 37

Hill, John


Box 37

Hogarth Portrait


Box 37

Hollis diary


Box 37

Hoole, John


Box 37

Hume, David


Box 37

Illustrations


Box 38

James, Dr. Robert


Box 38

Jenyns, Soame


Box 38

L.F.P.•vol. Johnson, ~wwell


Box 38

Langton


Box 38

Lauder


Box 38

Lawrence, Dr. Thomas


Box 38

Lennox Papers


Box 38

LeNoir, Elizabeth


Box 38

Levet, Dr. Robert


Box 38

Lyttelton


Box 38

Malone, Edmund


Box 38

Maxwell, John


Box 38

Miscellaneous Correspondence


Box 38

Miscellaneous Research


Box 38

Murphy, Axthur


Box 38

Newbery


Box 38

Nichols, John


Box 38

Orrery, Earl of


Box 38

Paul, Lewis


Box 38

Payne, John


Box 38

Percy, Thomas


Box 38

Political and economic writings


Box 38

Porter, Lucy


Box 38

Psalmanazar


Box 38

Reynolds, Frances


Box 38

Reynolds manuscript


Box 38

Reynolds Family letters


Box 38

Richardson, Samuel


Box 38

Ryland, John


Box 39

Shakespeare


Box 39

Shaw's Life of S.J.


Box 39

Shenstone


Box 39

Shiels, Robert


Box 39

Simpson, Joseph


Box 39

Smart, Kit


Box 39

Smollett


Box 39

Bteevens, George


Box 39

Strahan, William


Box 39

T. L. S., Johnson controversy


Box 39

Talbot Manuscript


Box 39

Taylor, Dr. John


Box 39

Thornton, Bonnel


Box 39

Twining, Thomas


Box 39

Tyers, Tom


Box 39

Wartons


Box 39

Williams, Anna


Box 39

Williams, Zachariah


Research Materials: Chronological Files


Box 40

Samuel Johnson Chronology, 1709-1784


Box 40

January -June, 1749


Box 40

July -December, 1749


Box 40

January -June, 1750


Box 40

July -December, 1750


Box 40

January -June, 1751


Box 40

July -December, 1751


Box 40

January -December, 1752


Box 40

July -TIecember, 1752


Box 40

January -June, 1753


Box 40

July -December, 1753


Box 40

January -June, 1754


Box 40

July -December, 1754


Box 40

January -June, 1755


Box 40

July -December, 1755


Box 40

John Maxwell letter;, August -September, 1755


Box 40

1756-1759 New Friends and help for them, 1756-1759


Box 40

January -June, 1756


Box 40

July -December, 1756


Box 40

January -July, 1757


Box 40

July -December, 1757


Box 41

January -June, 1758


Box 41

July -December, 1758


Box 41

January -June, 1759


Box 41

July -December, 1759


Box 41

January -June, 1760


Box 41

July -December, 1760


Box 41

January -June, 1761


Box 41

July -December 1761


Box 41

January -June, 1762


Box 41

July -December, 1762


Box 41

January -June, 1763


Box 41

July -December, 1763


Box 41

Later years, 1760-1763


Box 41

Chronological binder, 1749-1763

Series V: Additional Files


Box 42

Boswell Research Files

(Includes phototographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, printed articles, etc. One folder deals specifically with the controversy, over Boswell's accuracy and another with Boswell' s trip to the Hebrides.)


Box 42

Publication of Boswell's journals, (7 folders)


Box 42

Ralph Isham's account of the discovery and purchase of the Boswell papers, (2 folders)


Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)


Box 43

Correspondence


Box 43

Balderston, Katharine C.


Box 43

Bromhead, Harold W.


Box 43

Chapman, R.


Box 43

Nicol-Smith, David


Box 43

Oxford University Press


Box 43

Prown, James D.-


Box 43

Correspondence relating to the book


Box 43

Correspondence after publication


Manuscripts


Box 43

Bromhead, Harold W. "The Sale of the Contents of Streatham Park"


Box 43

Clifford, James L. "Piozzi, Hester Lynch"


Box 43

Clifford, James L. "Robert Merry-A Pre-Embryonic Hero"


Research Files: Subjects


Box 43

Adam collection


Box 43

Bachygraig discoveries, 1935


Box 43

Baretti's annotations


Box 43

Brighton re: Samuel Johnson


Box 43

Cancelled leaves, 1188 edition, 1188


Box 43

Colman: Piozzi papers


Box 43

Fleming-Lysons


Box 43

Johnson chronology and miscellaneous matters of canon


Box 43

Miscellaneous


Box 43

Miscellaneous 18th century articles about diaries


Box 43

Miscellaneous information


Box 43

Miscellaneous quotes about Hester Lynch Piozzi


Box 43

19th century Salusbury history


Box 43

Piozzi's "Anecdotes" ~


Box 43

Piozzi's annotations


Box 43

Piozzi's "Art as a Writer"


Box 43

Piozzi's rewritten letters


Box 44

Piozziana


Box 44

Piozziana: catalogues and sales clippings


Box 44

Reynolds


Box 44

Streatham


Box 44

Thrale letters-dating


Box 44

Thrale ancestry


Box 44

Thrale-Johnson connections


Box 44

Thrale and Piozzi illnesses: Dr. Sadler's opinions


Box 44

Youthful friends


Box 44

Vulliamy: Mrs. Thrale


Transcribed letters: Alphabetical


Box 44

Burney, Frank


Box 44

Johnson to Thrale


Box 44

Merry, Robert


Box 44

Thrale, Henry


Transcribed correspondence: Chronological


Box 44

1741-1775, (15 folders)


Box 45

1776-1821, (16 folders)


Box 45

Undated correspondence, Undated


Box 45

Reviews of Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)


Box 45

Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)


Box 46

Subject Files


Box 46

Correspondence from Japanese scholars


Box 46

Description of Lichfield Johnson Birthday Celebration, 1958


Box 46

Dictionary Johnson 4th edition


Box 46

Dictionary Johnson McGraw Hill negotiations


Box 46

Dictionary Johnson-publication completed


Box 46

Dictionary Johnson reviews


Box 46

Hoosier Humorists Book


Box 46

Johnson edition-early negotiations


Box 46

"The Johnsonian"-first meeting, 1946


Box 46

Johnsonian News Letter-typical responses


Box 46

Johnsonian studies


Box 46

Man versus Society reviews


Box 46

Miscellaneous projects


Box 46

Peregrine Pickle reviews


Box 46

Pope and his Contemporaries Reviews


Box 46

Powell correspondence


Box 46

Proposals for projects never begun


Box 46

Reynolds portrait of Johnson, (4 folders)


Box 46

Sherburn volume and events


Biographical Files


Correspondence


Box 47

Letters to his mother, 1922


Box 47

Letters to his parents (Boston, MIT)


Box 47

Letters to his mother, 1926


Box 47

Letters to his mother, 1928


Box 47

Letters to his mother, 1929


Box 47

Letters to his mother circa, 1930


Box 47

Letters to his mother, 1930


Box 47

Letters to his mother, 1931


Box 47

Letters to his mother, 1932


Box 47

Letters to his mother, 1933


Box 47

Letters to his mother, 1936


Box 47

Letters to his mother, 1937


Box 47

Letters received upon his retirement


Box 47

Letters to Philip Williams


Subjects


Box 48

Barnard College


Box 48

Biographies of Clifford


Box 48

Clippings


Box 48

Clubs, relics and related material


Box 48

Columbia University


Box 48

Columbia University-Entertaining students


Box 48

Diary entries-Sir Harold Nicolson and James Clifford


Box 48

Early Literaru Efforts


Box 48

Early scientific publications


Box 48

England and Wales, snapshots, 1930s


Box 48

Evans School, 1929-1931


Box 48

Evansville-Young Mine Car Co., 1927


Box 48

Evansville College-University of Evansville


Box 48

Evansville Youth


Box 49

Evansville youth (continued)


Box 49

Expenses, salaries 1937-59


Box 49

Friendships-clippings and photographs


Box 49

Friendships-Powell and Osborne


Box 49

Graduate studies at Columbia University 1932-


Box 49

H. L.Piozzi publication


Box 49

Hyde's Address on J. L. Clifford


Box 49

Lehigh University


Box 49

Lehigh University-. fniends, Carleton Gauld


Box 49

MIT, 1926


Box 49

Meetings, conferences


Box 49

Meetings, organizations


Box 49

Memorial services for Clifford


Box 50

Miscellaneous clippings, personal honors


Box 50

Nichol Smith seminar, Canberra, Australia, 1973


Box 50

Photographs from all periods, USA


Box 50

Profiles in N.Y. Times and other papers


Box 50

Research Library at University of Evansville


Box 50

Reviews, letters


Box 50

Wabash College 1919-1923 and Indiana recognition, 1919-1923


Box 50

Wain's Samuel Johnson


Box 50

Wall Street Journal article, 1975


Box 51

Travel diaries


Box 51

England-3 volumes


Box 51

European travel diary, 1923


Box 51

Mexico and trip around the world


Box 51

Photographs of Columbia University English Department

(gift upon Clifford's retirement)


Box 51

Clifford's 1953 Passport, 1953


Box 52

Appointment calendars, 1960 and 1970-1978, 1960, 1970-1978, (8 volumes)


Box 52

Address Books


Box 52

Evans School Year Books, 1930-1931


Box 53

Talks and Addresses


Box 54

Course Materials


Box 54

Barnard College: English 67-68


Box 54

Barnard College: English 73-74


Box 54

Barnard College: English G4301-G4302


Box 54

Columbia University: English 213-214


Box 54

Columbia University: English 285-286


Box 54

Columbia University: English G6342-G6343


Box 54

Columbia University: English, 6361-6362


Box 55

Printed Material--Books by James L. Clifford


Box 56

Printed Material--Books by James L. Clifford


Scrapbooks


Box 84

"Speaking of Books" and other articles written by James L Clifford


Box 84

Reviews of Dictionary Johnson and From Puzzles to Portraits


Box 85

Reviews of Biography as an Art


Box 85

Reviews of Young Sam Johnson (2 scrapbooks)

Series VI: 1989 Addition, 1989


Subseries VI.1: Name File


Box 57

Addison, Joseph-Blake, William


Box 58

Bolingbroke-Collins, William


Box 59

Cowper, William-Dennis, John


Box 60

Dryden: Absalom and Achitophal"-Odes, Miscellaneous Verses


Box 61

Dryden: Prologues-Fielding: Andrews, Joseph


Box 62

Fielding: Jones, Tom-Gibbon, Edward


Box 63

Goldsmith-Hogarth, William


Box 64

Hume, David-Perry, Bishop


Box 65

Pope-Pope: Letters


Box 66

Pope: "Pastorals"-Richardson: C1arissa


Box 67

Richardson: Anti-Pamela Literature-Smollett: Bib1iography


Box 68

Smollett: Biography-Travels, etc.


Box 69

Spence, Joseph-Sterne: Tristam Shandy


Box 70

Swift, Jonathan, (6 folders)


Box 71

Swift, Jonathan, (4 folders)


Box 72

Swift, Jonathan, (5 folders)


Box 73

Swift, Jonathan, (4 folders)


Box 74

Thomson, James-Young, Edward


Subseries VI.2: Subject File


Box 75

Classicism and Romanticism-Deism, general


Box 76

Drama-Eighteenth Century Life


Box 77

Eighteenth Century Miscellaneous-Namier, etc., History


Box 78

Satire: Burlesque, Hudibras-Mock-Heroic


Box 79

Satire: Opening Definition I-Useful Arts Lecture


Miscellaneous Files


Box 80

Exams and Seminar Notes


Box 81

Books from the Library of James Clifford


Box 82

Books from the Library of James Clifford


Box 83

Books from the Library of James Clifford