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Series I: Correspondence, 1937-2003
Series IV: Personal Materials, 1937-2003

Quentin Anderson papers, 1935-2003, bulk 1960-2000

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SeriesII: Writings, 1937-2001

The second series of the collection holds Anderson's writings and notes. It has been divided into four subseries according to the original order of the materials. Many of the writings exist as drafts, as well as in final form. Notes and research undertaken in preparation for some of the writings contained in the first three subseries can be found in the fourth subseries.

Subseries II.1: Manuscripts and Essays, 1945-2001

Subseries 1 is devoted to manuscripts of Anderson's books and longer essays published in a variety of journals. Materials documenting the writing and publication process of all three of his major works,The American Henry James, The Imperial Self,andMaking Americans: An Essay on Individualism and Money, are found here. Also present are texts of Anderson's key essays, both in draft and final form, including materials concerning the writing and publication of "Why R.P. Blackmur Found James'sGolden BowlInhumane," his last published work. The subject matter of these works focus mainly on American literature and its relationship to American and European culture and history, with particular attention to the life and work of 19th century American authors, Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman.

Manuscripts

The American Henry James


Box 14 Folder 7 Abstract and Copyright Renewal, 1985

Box 14 Folder 8 Correspondence, 1952-1963

Box 14 Folder 9 Henry James: Lover?, undated

Box 14 Folder 10 Notes on Henry James, undated

Box 14 Folder 11 Notes on The Awkward Age, undated

Box 14 Folder 12 Reception of The American Henry James, 1957-1963

Box 14 Folder 13 University Microfilms International, 1963-1995

The Imperial Self

Box 14 Folder 14 All-Engrossing Americans, 1970

Box 14 Folder 15 Chapter III Notes--Early Version, 1967

Box 14 Folder 16 Chapter IV Notes, 1969

Box 14 Folder 17 Chapter V Notes, 1968

Box 14 Folder 18 Correspondence, 1971-1973

Emerson Chapter

Box 14 Folder 19 1966

Box 14 Folder 20 Early Drafts, undated

Box 14 Folder 21 The Fool of Ideas, 1965


Box 15 Folder 1 Quotes, undated

Box 15 Folder 2 Failure of Fathers, 1966

Box 15 Folder 3 Foreword, 1965

Hawthorne Chapter

Box 15 Folder 4 1967-1968

Box 15 Folder 5 Scarlett Letter, 1959

Box 15 Folder 6 Scarlett Letter Paradigms, undated

Box 15 Folder 7 Hawthorne's Boston, undated

Box 15 Folder 8 Knopf, 1970-1982

Box 15 Folder 9 Note Cards, undated

Box 15 Folder 10 Notes for Emerson, Hawthorne, James Book, 1968

Box 15 Folder 11 Permissions--Gale Research Company, 1991

Box 15 Folder 12 Preface, undated

Box 15 Folder 13 Public Response, 1971-1975

Box 15 Folder 14 Summary of Notes on 5x8 cards, undated

Box 15 Folder 15 Themes, 1968

Making Americans: An Essay on Individualism and Money

Box 15 Folder 16 Book Jacket, 1992

Box 15 Folder 17 Book Notes, undated

Box 15 Folder 18 Book Notes, 1974-1992

Box 15 Folder 19 Chapter II, 1983


Box 16 Folder 1 Chapter III, 1948-1984

Box 16 Folder 2 Chapter IV, 1986

Box 16 Folder 3 Chapter V, 1992

Box 16 Folder 4 Correspondence--Publisher, 1978-1995

Box 16 Folder 5 Creators and Acquisitors--Pound, Henry James, and Money,, 1979

Box 16 Folder 6 Early Notes, 1974

Box 16 Folder 7 Essays on Money, 1980

Box 16 Folder 8 Faulkner's "Shingles for the Lord,", undated

Box 16 Folder 9 Interview with Quentin Anderson, 1995

Box 16 Folder 10 "Mary's Story of the Graveyard,", undated

Box 16 Folder 11 Melville Chapter, 1999

Box 16 Folder 12 New York Institute for the Humanities Lectures, 1982-1984

Box 16 Folder 13 Note Slips for Possible Annotations, 1992

Box 16 Folder 14 Notes on Clippings, 1990-1991

Box 16 Folder 15 Notes to Appear in Book, undated

Box 16 Folder 16 Old Chapter Divisions, 1983

Box 16 Folder 17 Permissions, 1990-1992

Box 16 Folder 18 Plans for Making Americans, undated

Box 16 Folder 19 Public Reception, 1992-1993

Box 16 Folder 20 Publisher's Party, 1992


Box 17 Folder 1 Publications Copyright Information, 1976-1978

Box 17 Folder 2 Publications Royalties and Contracts, 1958-1999

Essays

Box 17 Folder 3 "All-Engrossing Americans,", 1969

Box 17 Folder 4 "American Literature and the Emergence of Modernism,", 1981-1986

Box 17 Folder 5 Correspondence Regarding Thoreau, 1971

Box 17 Folder 6 "Devouring the Hemingway Corpus,", 1972

Box 17 Folder 7 "Emergence of Henry James,", 1975

Box 17 Folder 8 Essays for a Collection of Short Pieces, 1977

Box 17 Folder 9 "Henry James as Allegorist,", 1945-1946

Box 17 Folder 10 "Henry James's Cultural Office,", 1983

Box 17 Folder 11 "Henry James of American City,", 1952

Box 17 Folder 12 "Henry James Revisited,", 1997

Box 17 Folder 13 "Individualism and Commerce,", 1986


Box 18 Folder 1 James Fenimore Cooper's "The Spy"--Graduate Seminar Paper,, undated

Box 18 Folder 2 "John Dewey's American Democrat,", 1979-1980

Box 18 Folder 3 "Lionel Trilling at Columbia,", 1999-2001

Box 18 Folder 4 "Notes on the Personal Responsibility of the Critic,", 1979-1980

Box 18 Folder 5 "On The Middle of the Journey,", undated

Box 18 Folder 6 "The Politics of American Individualism,", 1992

Box 18 Folder 7 "Practical and Visionary Americans,", 1976

Box 18 Folder 8 "Property and Vision in 19th Century America,", 1978

Box 18 Folder 9 "Reconsideration: Lionel Trilling,"1976-1977

Box 18 Folder 10 "Speaking for Man,"1967-1969

Box 18 Folder 11 "Three Points of Undivided Consciousness,", undated

Box 18 Folder 12 "Whitman's New Man,", 1972

Box 18 Folder 13 "Why Americans Cannot Argue,", 1974

"Why R.P. Blackmur Found James's Golden Bowl Inhumane"

Box 18 Folder 14 Blackmur's Introductions, 1963

Box 18 Folder 15 Character Study, 1999


Box 19 Folder 1 English Literary History Acceptance, 1999

Box 19 Folder 2 Manuscript, 2001

Box 19 Folder 3 Peer Responses, 2001

Box 19 Folder 4 Permissions, 1999

Box 19 Folder 5 Research, undated

Box 19 Folder 6 Submissions, 1998

Box 19 Folder 7 "Willa Cather: Her Masquerade,", 1965

Subseries II.2: Introductions and Reviews, 1949-1996

Because of his expertise in American and British literature, Anderson was invited to write introductions for several new publications of classic literary works by American and British authors. He also periodically contributed book reviews to prominent literary publications, such asThe New York Times Book Review, theTimes Literary Supplement, andThe New Republic. His book reviews point to Anderson's literary subject specialties--Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman in particular. The text of his introductions, book reviews, and some related research are contained in this subseries.

Introductions

Box 19 Folder 8 Bronte, Emily--Wuthering Heights, 1962

Box 19 Folder 9 Conrad, Joseph--Lord Jim, 1962-1963

Box 19 Folder 10 Cooper, James Finemore--The Deerslayer, 1961

Box 19 Folder 11 Eliot, George--Middlemarch, 1956-1981

Box 19 Folder 12 Hawthorne, Nathaniel--Twice Told Tales, 1959-1960

Box 19 Folder 13 James, Henry--Portrait of a Lady, 1962-1963

Box 19 Folder 14 James, Henry--Selected Short Stories, 1949-1977

Box 19 Folder 15 Melville, Herman--Moby Dick, undated

Box 19 Folder 16 Rizzuto, Anthony--Camus' Imperial Vision, undated

Reviews

Box 19 Folder 17 Aaron, Daniel, 1973

Box 19 Folder 18 Broderick, John, 1982

Box 19 Folder 19 Brooks, Cleanth, 1978

Box 19 Folder 20 Brooks, Van Wyck, 1965

Box 19 Folder 21 Cooley, Thomas, 1976-1977

Box 19 Folder 22 Donald, David Herbert, 1987

Box 19 Folder 23 Edel, Leon, 1972

Box 19 Folder 24 Ellis, Joeseph, 1981-1982

Box 19 Folder 25 Fieldler, Leslie, 1960

Box 19 Folder 26 Freeman, F.B., undated


Box 20 Folder 1 Holland, Laurence, 1965

Box 20 Folder 2 Kaplan, Fred, 1993

Box 20 Folder 3 Kaplan, Justin, 1980

Box 20 Folder 4 Kermode, Frank, 1975

Box 20 Folder 5 Kraft, James; Shine, Muriel; Kossman, Rudolph, 1971

Box 20 Folder 6 LeClair, Robert Charles, 1956

Box 20 Folder 7-8 Lewis, R.W.B., 1956, 1975, 1956, 1975, (2 Folders)

Box 20 Folder 9 Matheissen, F.O., 1949

Box 20 Folder 10 Nabokov, Vladimir, 1966

Box 20 Folder 11 Nelson, Gerald; Kaplan, Harold; Tuttleton, James, 1972

Box 20 Folder 12 Novak, Barbara, 1980

Box 20 Folder 13 Orth, Ralph and Alfred Ferguson, 1977

Box 20 Folder 14 Purdy, Strother, 1977-1978

Box 20 Folder 15 Reynolds, David, 1996

Box 20 Folder 16 Shanley, Lyndon; Stern, Philip Van Doren; Anderson, Charles; Bode, Carl,, 1971

Box 20 Folder 17 Smith, Henry Nash, 1979

Box 20 Folder 18 Thompson, Lawrance, 1967

Box 20 Folder 19 Turner, Arlin, 1980

Box 20 Folder 20 Whicher, Stephen, 1953

Box 20 Folder 21 Wilson, Edmund, undated

Box 20 Folder 22 Young, Fredric, 1952

Box 20 Folder 23 Ziff, Larzer, 1973

Box 20 Folder 24 Zweig, Paul, 1984

Subseries II.3: Other Writings, 1937-1990

Subseries 3 holds materials related to Anderson's contributions on American literary figures to encyclopedias, as well as documentation of his role as general editor and contributing author of the encyclopediaHistory of American Literature Series. However, the bulk of this subseries is devoted to Anderson's writings and preparations for lectures and addresses given at various academic conferences and events. Of special interest is the valedictory address that Anderson gave at the 1937 commencement ceremony, and the materials related to the lecture Anderson delivered in 1981 for the University Lecture Series at Columbia, a semi-annual event that honors the academic achievements of an exemplary faculty member.

Encyclopedias

Box 20 Folder 25 Adventures in English Literature , 1964-1966


Box 21 Folder 1 Collier's Encyclopedia , 1958-1966

Box 21 Folder 2 Encyclopedia of American Literature , 1961

History of American Literature Series (General Editor)

Box 21 Folder 3 Correspondence, 1962-1965

Box 21 Folder 4 Prospectu s and Volume Divisions, undated

Box 21 Folder 5 Volume I: Norman Grabo, 1964-1966

Box 21 Folder 6 Volume II: William Hedges, 1962-1971

Box 21 Folder 7 Volume III: Quentin Anderson, 1963-1965

Box 21 Folder 8 Volume IV: Carl Hovde, 1965-1972

Box 21 Folder 9 Volume V: Warner Berthoff, 1964-1966

Box 21 Folder 10 Volume VI: John McCormick, 1964-1969

Box 21 Folder 11 Volume VII: Marcus Klein, 1962-1972

Box 21 Folder 12 The New Wonder World Encyclopedia , 1956

Box 21 Folder 13 Readers Encyclopedia of American Literature , 1988

Lectures and Addresses

Box 21 Folder 14 Applied Psychoanalysis Seminar--"Whitman's New Man,", 1975

Box 21 Folder 15 Birmingham Conference--On Literature and Society, 1969

Box 21 Folder 16 British Association for American Studies--F.O. Matthiessen and the Thirties,, 1967

Box 21 Folder 17 Center for American Cultural Studies--"Money and the Imagination" and "Richard Poirier on the matter of America,", 1988

Box 21 Folder 18 Columbia College--Valedictory Address, "An Undergraduate Appraises Education,", 1937

Box 21 Folder 19 Columbia College General Education--"The Particularity of General Education,", 1979

Box 21 Folder 20 Columbia University Lecture--"American Uses of Literature,", 1981


Box 22 Folder 1 The Continuing Revolutionary Tradition--"Whitman, Cultural Revolutionary,", 1976

Box 22 Folder 2 Correspondence Concerning Lectures and Consultations, 1948-1962

Box 22 Folder 3 Dean's Day Lecture--"On the Dangers of Reading Great Books,", 1959

Box 22 Folder 4 Dean's Day Lecture--"The American Imagination: The Emersonian Variety,", 1964

Box 22 Folder 5 Fallsburgh Central High School--"Creative Writing,", 1961

Box 22 Folder 6 Franklin and Marshall College Humanities Lecture Series--"Imagining the Powers of Money,", 1982

Box 22 Folder 7 Henry James Society--"The Employment of Henry James,", 1980

Box 22 Folder 8 Henry James Symposium--"The Good American,", 1956

Box 22 Folder 9 Humanities A Course Seminar--"The Columbia College Humanities Course Past and Present,", 1987

Box 22 Folder 10 Lifelong Learners--"Attacks on the Concept of Personal Identity,", 1990

Box 22 Folder 11 Manchester and East Anglia Lectures--Henry James and Culture,, 1963-1969

Box 22 Folder 12 McGovern Speech, undated

Box 22 Folder 13 Middlebury College--"John Dewey's Emersonianism,", 1978

Box 22 Folder 14 National Humanities Center--"Imagining the Powers of Money,", 1980

Box 22 Folder 15 New York Psychoanalytic Institute--Response to Dr. Jose Barchilon's "Why Ishmael, Ahab, Why Moby Dick?,", 1983

Box 22 Folder 16 Paley Lectures in American Culture and Civilization--"The Employment of Literature in the United States" and "Henry James's American Audience,", 1982

Box 22 Folder 17 Phi Beta Kappa Address, 1979

Box 22 Folder 18 Teacher's College--"Criticism of Modern Literature,", undated

Box 22 Folder 19 Trilling Seminar--Anderson's Introduction of Paul Ricoeur, Stanley Cavell, Clifford Geertz,, 1980

Box 22 Folder 20 University of Keele--"Coming Out of Culture: American Style,", 1967

Memorials

Box 22 Folder 21 French, Carroll, 1971

Box 22 Folder 22 Van Doren, Mark, 1973

Subseries II.4: Notes, 1957-1997

This subseries is comprised of research notes compiled by Anderson, presumably in preparation for many of the manuscripts, essays, reviews, and lectures contained in the three preceding subseries. A portion of the subseries is made up of index card files which Anderson used to organize his research and thoughts in preparation for his writings and teachings. Some of these notes are on individual authors and the writings of colleagues, while others serve a more general purpose such as preparatory notes for his course lectures. A significant amount of these card files are devoted to research on Henry James, including notes for Anderson's dissertation on James. The original order of these index card files has been preserved; it should be noted that Anderson's method of organizing his index cards with small, fragile tabs and dividers necessitate careful handling of the materials.

Box 22 Folder 23 Adams, Henry, 1944

The Christian Examiner

Box 22 Folder 24 General Description, undated


Box 23 Folder 1 Incidence of German Thought, undated

Box 23 Folder 2 Notes on Contributors, Contents, Studies, undated

Box 23 Folder 3 Dana, Richard, 1962

Box 23 Folder 4 Dewey, John, undated

Box 23 Folder 5 Dickinson, Emily, undated

Eliot, George

Box 23 Folder 6 Comment on Manuscript by Philip Green, 1957

Box 23 Folder 7 Comment on Myers' on Sexual Role in Middlemarch, undated

Box 23 Folder 8 Correspondence, 1967-1968

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Box 23 Folder 9 Audience: Bibliography, undated

Box 23 Folder 10 Lecture Audiences: Research by Dorothy Gregory, 1969

Box 23 Folder 11 Manuscript for Encyclopedia Entry, 1971

Box 23 Folder 12 Notes for "The American Imagination: The Emersonian Strain,", 1964

Box 23 Folder 13 Emerson and Coleridge: Russell Hartman Paper, 1975

Box 23 Folder 14 Emerson and William James, undated

Box 23 Folder 15 Frost, Robert: Lecture Notes, 1967

Box 23 Folder 16 Hollis, C. Carroll: Report on "Language and Style in Leaves of Grass,", undated

Box 23 Folder 17 Howe, Irving: Review of Anderson's The American Henry James, 1957

James, Henry

Box 23 Folder 18 Adam Verver, undated

Box 23 Folder 19 Chronological List of Works, undated

Box 23 Folder 20 Comment on Robert Durr Manuscript, undated

Box 23 Folder 21 Hawthorne Introduction, 1963-1964

Box 23 Folder 22 Notes, undated

Box 23 Folder 23 James, William and Wallace Stevens Paper by Dana Brand, 1975

Box 23 Folder 24 Kipling, Rudyard, 1963-1965

Box 23 Folder 25 Moby Dick: Character of Event, undated

Box 23 Folder 26 Notes and Reflections, 1997

Box 23 Folder 27 Notes on 5x8 Cards, 1990

Box 23 Folder 28 Paul, Sherman: Comments on Shores of America, 1971

Box 23 Folder 29 Pease, Donald: Comments for Darmouth, undated

Box 23 Folder 30 Rocqueville, Alexis de: Notes on Democracy in America, 1974

Box 23 Folder 31 Romanticism and the American and British Subject, 1975

Thoreau, Henry David

Box 23 Folder 32 Extracts on Genealogy, Prophets, Name, undated

Box 23 Folder 33 Notes on A Week on the Concord and Merrimack, 1976

Box 23 Folder 34 Recent Bibliography, 1972

Box 23 Folder 35 Twain, Mark: Stephen Karpowitz on Twain's Psychic Symbols, 1974

Box 23 Folder 36 West, Rebecca: Notes on Black Lamb, undated

Card Files

Authors


Box 24 Daniel Aaron-Ralph Waldo Emerson, undated


Box 25 Erik Erikson-Norris, Frank, undated


Box 26 Novak, Barbara-Zweig, Paul, undated


Box 27 Literature by Subject, undated

Box 27 Christian Examiner, undated


Box 28 Henry James, undated

Box 28 Working Notes, undated


Box 29 Henry James, undated

Box 29 Humanities A, undated

Box 29 Colloquium on Religious Books, undated


Box 30 Dissertation Notes, undated