Roy Harvey Pearce Papers MSS 143

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Descriptive Summary

Title: Roy Harvey Pearce Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 143
Contributing Institution: Mandeville Special Collections Library
La Jolla, California 92093-0175
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 12.6 Linear feet 33 archives boxes, 2 oversize folders
Date (inclusive): 1945 - 1995
Abstract: Papers of scholar, critic, and founder of the UCSD literature department and the Archive for New Poetry. Included is correspondence regarding a wide variety of topics, for example, Jack Spicer research and the creation of the poetry archive. Correspondents include Robert Bly, David Ignatow, and Marshall McLuhan. Also included are a number of Pearce's scholarly projects (including the "Transcendental Workbook") and notes for several lectures.
Creator: Roy Harvey Pearce Papers

Restrictions

In accordance with federal and state laws, confidential correspondence in boxes 3 & 7, as well as the Manuscript Reading Reports in box 32, are restricted until the year 2070.

Acquisition Information

Not Available

Preferred Citation

Roy Harvey Pearce Papers, MSS 0143. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.

Biography

Roy Harvey Pearce has had a long and distinguished career in the field of literature. The founding father of both the UCSD literature department and the UCSD Archive for New Poetry, Pearce has also taught at the Ohio State University, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and the Claremont Graduate School. He is the author of THE SAVAGES OF AMERICA/SAVAGISM AND CIVILIZATION (1953/1983), THE CONTINUITY OF AMERICAN POETRY (1961), HAWTHORNE CENTENARY ESSAYS (1964), HISTORICISM ONCE MORE (1969), and GESTA HUMANORUM: STUDIES IN THE HISTORICIST MODE, as well as being the editor of COLONIAL AMERICAN WRITING (1950) and a general editior of THE CENTENARY EDITION OF THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1962-).

Scope and Contents of Collection

Accession Processed in 1995
The Roy Harvey Pearce correspondence and subject files contain abundant correspondence with writers and scholars, typescripts, holograph notes, and manuscripts related to scholarly projects and lectures. Included are correspondence with notable figures such as Robert Bly, Clayton Eshleman, and the Canadian communications theorist, Marshall McLuhan. Subject files contain a wide variety of material: notes on the opening of Mandeville Center, correspondence and research regarding Jack Spicer, and a meticulously compiled "Transcendental Workbook."
The collection is organized into four series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) SCHOLARLY PROJECTS, 3) ARCHIVE FOR NEW POETRY, and 4) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.
SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE
This series spans the years 1945 to 1989. Some of the Pearce's correspondents include Cid Corman, Jorge Guillen, David Ignatow, W.S. Merwin, Marianne Moore, and Theodore Roethke.
SERIES 2: SCHOLARLY PROJECTS
This series contains Pearce's bicentennial lecture on "The Poetry of the American Revolution," his notes for the opening of Mandeville Center, research and correspondence regarding Jack Spicer, and an assemblage of Kenneth Cameron's "Transcendental Workbook." Included in this workbook are information regarding and reprints from Emerson, Thoreau, and Swedenborg. In loose connection with the workbook, there is a typescript reminiscence by Mrs. A. G. Ayers of her experience with Dr. William Carlos Williams.
SERIES 3: ARCHIVE FOR NEW POETRY
This series contains correspondence from the years 1973 to 1984 regarding the establishment and continuation of the Archive for New Poetry at UCSD. Much of the correspondence is administrative in nature, yet the supportive and enthusiastic voices of many scholars and poets shine through and the diligent collaboration of Michael Davidson with Pearce is particularly clear.
SERIES 4: MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
This series houses three very discreet items: a photocopy of the poem/essay "Between the University and State" by Bea Cameron; a typescript copy of Gary Snyder's "Poetry and the Primitive;" and miscellaneous notes on Yvor Winters.
Accession Processed in 2003
The accession processed in 2003 contains correspondence with scholars, colleagues, writers, and students; lecture notes and teaching materials for literature courses taught at UCSD; administrative memoranda; and subject files. The materials are arranged in five series: 5) CORRESPONDENCE, 6) WRITINGS, 7) TEACHING MATERIALS, 8) SUBJECT FILES, and 9) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.
SERIES 5: CORRESPONDENCE
The CORRESPONDENCE series (1963-1995) is arranged alphabetically by correspondent and includes correspondence with David Ignatow, Alan Filreis, Glen MacLeod, and California Assemblyman John Vasconcellos. Typescript versions of writings by David Ignatow and Arnold Krupat are included with their correspondence files.
SERIES 6: WRITINGS
The WRITINGS series contains only two folders: Letters to the Editor and administrative limericks.
SERIES 7: TEACHING MATERIAL
The TEACHING MATERIALS series is arranged numerically by course (1947-1990) and includes lecture notes, syllabi, course descriptions, library reserve lists, handouts, midterm examinations, final examinations and student papers for courses that Pearce taught.
SERIES 8: SUBJECT FILES
The SUBJECT FILES series is arranged alphabetically by subject or institution and documents administrative correspondence and activities, scholarly endeavors, grant proposals from other scholars, and job offers.
SERIES 9: MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
The MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS series includes commemorative mementos and a photograph of Pearce.
Accession Processed in 2007
The accession processed in 2007 contains correspondence with scholars, colleagues, writers, and students; published books, articles and reviews; editorial projects; manuscript reading reports for different presses; talks and conferences; writings of others; and miscellaneous materials. The accession is arranged in eleven series: 10) CORRESPONDENCE, 11) BOOKS, 12) ARTICLES AND ESSAYS, 13) REVIEWS, 14) EDITORIAL PROJECTS, 15) PUBLISHING AGREEMENTS, 16) TALKS AND LECTURES, 17) TEACHING MATERIALS, 18) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS, 19) MANUSCRIPT READING REPORTS, and 20) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.
SERIES 10: CORRESPONDENCE
The CORRESPONDENCE series (1947-1990) is arranged alphabetically by correspondent and includes correspondence with David Ignatow, Americo Castro, Stephen Gilman, and California Assemblyman John Vasconcellos. Typescript versions of writings by Daniel Hoffman, Stephen Gilman and Donald Wesling are included with their correspondence files. Also included are photographs and a memorial program for Robert Elliott service.
SERIES 11: BOOKS
The BOOKS series includes original drafts, typescripts, manuscripts, mimeograph copies, handwritten notes, and corrections; organized according to the year of publication.
SERIES 12: ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
The ARTICLES AND ESSAYS series includes manuscript drafts, typescripts and reprints of articles written for a variety of literary publication.
SERIES 13: REVIEWS
This series contains book reviews by Pearce published in different periodicals.
SERIES 14: EDITORIAL PROJECTS
The EDITORIAL PROJECTS series is arranged chronologically and includes manuscripts, typescripts and correspondence with scholars and writers whose works appeared in books and literary periodicals, which Pearce edited or co-edited.
SERIES 15: PUBLISHING AGREEMENTS
The PUBLISHING AGREEMENTS series includes contracts signed with different presses regarding books written, edited, and co-edited by Pearce. The series is arranged chronologically.
SERIES 16: TALKS AND LECTURES
The TALKS AND READINGS series is arranged chronologically and includes programs, invitations, correspondence, and drafts of presentations given at meetings and conferences. Also includes a typescript of a radio program broadcast by UC Berkeley Radio Service in 1948.
SERIES 17: TEACHING MATERIALS
The TEACHING MATERIALS series is arranged in three subseries: A) Class Materials, B) Lecture Notes - Topics, C) Lecture Notes - Authors. The subseries Class Materials (1946-1970) is arranged chronologically and includes lecture notes, syllabi, course descriptions, library reserve lists, and midterm and final examinations for courses that Pearce taught. The Lecture Notes - Topics subseries is arranged alphabetically and includes handwritten notes and typescripts of lectures given by Pearce on different subjects. The Lecture Notes - Authors subseries is arranged alphabetically and includes handwritten notes and typescripts of lectures given on different authors.
SERIES 18: MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
The MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS series includes dissertation subjects, Ph.D. exam questions, poems and poem fragments, and handwritten notes on different subjects and authors.
SERIES 19: MANUSCRIPT READING REPORTS
The MANUSCRIPT READING REPORTS series includes reports commissioned by different presses. These reports are restricted until 2070.
SERIES 20: ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES
The ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES series contains the originals of brittle or high acid content documents that have been photocopied.

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

OFF-SITE STORAGE

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Archive for New Poetry (University of California, San Diego)
Bly, Robert, -- correspondent
Corman, Cid, -- correspondent
Crews, Judson, -- correspondent
Economou, George, -- correspondent
Eshleman, Clayton, -- correspondent
Guillén, Jorge, 1893- -- correspondent
Hoffman, Daniel, 1923- -- correspondent
Ignatow, David, 1914-1997 -- correspondent
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977, -- correspondent
McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980, -- correspondent
Merwin, W. S. -- (William Stanley), 1927- -- correspondent
Miles, Josephine, 1911-1985 -- correspondent
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972, -- correspondent
Pearce, Roy Harvey -- Archives
Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963, -- correspondent
Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931- -- correspondent
Stafford, William, 1914-1993 -- correspondent
Talamantez, Ines, -- correspondent
Tomlinson, Charles, 1927- -- correspondent
Wright, James Arlington, 1927-1980 -- correspondent
American literature
Transcendentalism (New England)

 

Accession Processed in 1995

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Box 1, Folder 1

Bly, Robert 1963 - 1971

Box 1, Folder 2

Corman, Cid 1977 - 1978

Box 1, Folder 3

Crews, Judson undated

Box 1, Folder 4

Duncan, Otis Dudley 1982

Box 1, Folder 5

Economou, George 1983

General note

Contains letters to RHP and includes a typescript copy of "Amepikh: Book Two" by Economou.
Box 1, Folder 6

Ellingham, Lewis 1983

General note

Materials related to Ellingham's NEH grant proposal entitled "The Spicer Circle in San Francisco, 1956-1965."
Box 1, Folder 7

Eshleman, Clayton 1976

Box 1, Folder 8

Feinberg, Charles E. 1961

General note

Includes a title page and sample page broadside from Horace Traubel's 1902 facsimile edition of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."
Box 1, Folder 9

Guillen, Jorge 1971

General note

Includes holograph and typescript versions of the Guillen's poem "Belen."
Box 1, Folder 10

Hall, Donald

General note

Contains a single letter to RHP and a collection of poems (typescript carbon) entitled "A roof of tiger lillies."
Box 1, Folder 11

Hoffman, Daniel 1968

Box 1, Folder 12

Ingalls, Jeremy 1959

Box 1, Folder 13

Ignatow, David 1969 - 1972

Box 1, Folder 14

Lowell, Robert 1963

 

McLuhan, Marshall

Box 1, Folder 15

1957 - 1962

Box 1, Folder 16

Typescripts and mimeographs including "The Anatomy of Criticism" by Northrup Frye; "Draft for Gutenberg Video" by McLuhan, 1960; "Media Log" by McLuhan, 1959; "Media Log II" by McLuhan, 1959; "New Media and the New Education" by McLuhan, 1960; and "The Executive Program in Business Administration," annotated by McLuhan

Box 1, Folder 17

Merwin, William S. 1988 - 1989

Box 1, Folder 18

Miles, Josephine 1955 - 1980

Box 1, Folder 19

Moore, Marianne 1945 - 1963

General note

Includes 5 letters from Moore to Don Cameron Allen (1958-1959) and a miscellaneous letter from Moore to the Irish Consulate General dated August 25, 1945.
Box 1, Folder 20

Peters, Robert 1966

General note

Includes typescript poem entitled "An invitation to you, mother, from I, Lessimus of Salt Lake City."
Box 1, Folder 21

Roethke, Theodore and Beatrice 1959 - 1965

Box 1, Folder 22

Rothenberg, Jerome 1975

Box 1, Folder 23

Stafford, William 1973 - 1974

Box 1, Folder 24

Stephenson, Holly Stevens 1964

General note

This correspondence regards Wallace Stevens.
Box 1, Folder 25

Talamantez, Ines 1974

Box 1, Folder 26

Tomlinson, Charles 1972

Box 1, Folder 27

Wright, James 1983

 

SCHOLARLY PROJECTS

Box 1, Folder 28

Bicentennial lecture - "The Poetry of the American Revolution" 1976

Box 1, Folder 29

Mandeville Center opening 1974 - 1975

Box 2, Folder 1

Jack Spicer research 1968 - 1975

General note

Correspondence regarding Jack Spicer.
 

Transcendental Workbook

Box 2, Folder 2

Pages 1-40

Box 2, Folder 3

Pages 41-75

Box 2, Folder 4

Pages 76-110

 

Transcendental Notebook

Box 2, Folder 5

Pages 111-171

Box 2, Folder 6

Pages 173-204

Box 2, Folder 7

Reprints from Emerson, Thoreau, and Swedenborg

Box 2, Folder 8

William Carlos Williams research. Typescript reminiscence by Mrs. A.G. Ayers 1977

 

ARCHIVE FOR NEW POETRY

 

Correspondence

Box 2, Folder 9

Undated

Box 2, Folder 10

1973 - 1974. Contains correspondence documenting the creation of the Archive

Box 2, Folder 11

1975 - 1976

Box 2, Folder 12

1977 - 1984

 

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS

Box 2, Folder 13

Cameron, Bea. "Between the University and State" - Photocopy of poem/essay

Box 2, Folder 14

Snyder, Gary. "Poetry and the Primitive" - Typescript copy

Box 2, Folder 15

Winters, Yvor - Miscellaneous notes on

 

Accession Processed in 2003

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Box 3, Folder 1

Allen, Don Cameron 1971 - 1972

Box 3, Folder 2

Atkinson, Chancellor Richard 1980 - 1989

Box 3, Folder 3

Beebe, Mary

Box 3, Folder 4

Berman, Ronald 1984

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 3, Folder 5

Birney, Alice Lotvin 1990

 

Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught

Box 3, Folder 6

1984 - 1986

Box 3, Folder 7

1987 - 1988

Box 3, Folder 8

1988 - 1989

Box 3, Folder 9

1990 - 1994

Box 3, Folder 10

Budd, Louis 1989

Box 3, Folder 11

Cameron, Douglas 1977 - 1992

Box 3, Folder 12

Cancel, Robert 1982

Box 3, Folder 13

Chowder, Dick 1963

Box 3, Folder 14

Chung, Ok-Hee 1990

Box 3, Folder 15

Clark, William Bedford 1980 - 1991

Box 3, Folder 16

Cohen, Alain J.J. 1982

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 3, Folder 17

Daly, Robert 1978 - 1985

Box 3, Folder 18

Dunseath, Thomas 1976 - 1978

Box 3, Folder 19

Filreis, Alan 1989 - 1991

Box 3, Folder 20

Fussel, Ed 1979 - 1986

Box 3, Folder 21

Groves, Ted 1982

Box 3, Folder 22

Haims, Lynn 1982

Box 3, Folder 23

Hartnett, Stephen 1990

Box 3, Folder 24

Heffernan, Michael 1980 - 1987

Box 3, Folder 25

Hunt, Tim 1986

 

Ignatow, David

Box 3, Folder 26

1978 - 1994

Box 4, Folder 1

I HAVE A NAME - Typescript of final version 1993

Box 4, Folder 2

"Leaving the Door Open for Friends" - Typescript of preliminary version

Box 4, Folder 3

LEAVING THE DOOR OPEN: POEMS - Typescript

Box 4, Folder 4

Jackson, Thomas 1979 - 1983

Box 4, Folder 5

Ketcheff, David 1980

 

Krupat, Arnold

Box 4, Folder 6

1985

Box 4, Folder 7

1987 - 1988

Box 4, Folder 8

1989 - 1990

Box 4, Folder 9

1990 - 1993

Box 4, Folder 10

1994

Box 4, Folder 11

Includes two exegeses and one review by Krupat: "Criticism and the Canon: Pearce and the Indians: Cross-relations", "Anthropology in the Ironic Mode: The Work of Franz Boas," and the review of THE SPOKEN WORD AND THE WORK OF INTERPRETATION by Dennis Tedlock 1984

Box 4, Folder 12

Includes three exegeses by Krupat: "On the Translation of Native American Song and Story: A Theorized History," "Figures and the Law: A Rhetorical Reading of the Indian Removal Act of 1830," and "Native American Autobiography and the Synechdochic Self"

 

Lockwood, William

Box 4, Folder 13

1978 - 1979

Box 5, Folder 1

1981

Box 5, Folder 2

1981 - 1987

Box 5, Folder 3

MacLeod, Glen 1980 - 1993

Box 5, Folder 4

McElroy, Chancellor William 1974 - 1980

Box 5, Folder 5

Mariscal, George 1988

Box 5, Folder 6

Owen, Charles A. 1973 - 1974

 

Padget, Martin

Box 5, Folder 7

1993 - 1994

Box 5, Folder 8

1995 1995

Box 5, Folder 9

Padilla, Ernest 1987

Box 5, Folder 10

Randell, Fred

Box 5, Folder 11

Renker, Elizabeth 1991 - 1992

Box 5, Folder 12

Ritvo, Marriet 1978

Box 5, Folder 13

Shattuck, Roger 1968

Box 5, Folder 14

Steinberg, Lawrence 1986

Box 5, Folder 15

Taubman, Charles 1979 - 1982

Box 5, Folder 16

Tuzin, Donald

Box 5, Folder 17

Vasconcellos, John 1972 - 1973

Box 5, Folder 18

Ward, Cynthia 1989

Box 5, Folder 19

Wasserman, Earl R. 1972

Box 5, Folder 20

Whelchel, Marianne 1980 - 1981

Box 5, Folder 21

White, Peter 1977 - 1986

Box 5, Folder 22

Williams, Shirley 1977 - 1982

Box 5, Folder 23

Woodson, Thomas 1992 - 1993

Box 5, Folder 24

Unidentified correspondents 1949 - 1994

 

WRITINGS

Box 6, Folder 1

Letters to the Editor 1969 - 1978

Box 6, Folder 2

Limericks

 

TEACHING MATERIALS

 

Lit. Course #24 - The American Literary Imagination

Box 6, Folder 3

Lecture notes, syllabi, mid-term exams, final exams, photocopies of Emily Dickinson's poem "I am Nobody! Who are you?" and a photocopy of L. Q. C. McCaslin's geneology as compiled by Michael Millgate 1978 - 1984

Box 6, Folder 4

Lecture notes accompanied by photocopied excerpts from various undocumented sources 1976 - 1977

 

Lit. Course #152 - The Origins of American Literature

Box 6, Folder 5

Syllabi, a course description, lecture notes, a photocopied chapter entitled "Wash" from THE UNVANQUISHED by William Faulkner and a photocopy of "Delta Autumn" by William Faulkner 1976 - 1986

Box 6, Folder 6

Mid-term exams, final exams, lecture notes, and an article entitled "THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES Re-Examined" by Roy Harvey Pearce 1979 - 1987

 

Lit. Course #152, Part II - The Origins of American Literature

Box 6, Folder 7

Lecture notes, a bibliography, a primary source list, and two papers entitled: "Report on the New England Mind" by Perry Miller and "The Decline of Puritanism in New England" by George Branam 1947 - 1978

Box 6, Folder 8

Lecture notes, a photocopy of "The Uniqueness of the American Enlightenment" by D. H. Meyer, and a photocopy of a chapter entitled "The Western Spirit: 1780 - 1880"

Box 6, Folder 9

Lecture notes, a reprint copy of "THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES Re-Examined" by Roy Harvey Pearce, and a photocopy of the chapter "Paul Jones and the American Navy" from LIVES OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICIERS by James Fenimore Cooper

Box 6, Folder 10

Photocopied excerpts 1987

Box 6, Folder 11

Lit. Course #245 - 19th-Century American Studies 1990

General note

Photocopy of LIFE OF FRANKLIN PIERCE by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
 

Lit. Course #245A

Box 6, Folder 12

Includes "Whitman's 1855 LEAVES OF GRASS: or, The Crises of American Modernity, Utopian Longing, and The Paradox of Histoy" by Stephen Hartnett, "The Emergence of the Novel as a Genre" by Richard Velor, and "Novel and Romance: A Survey" not ascribed 1960 - 1990

Box 8, Folder 6

Syllabi, completed book order forms, library reserve lists, bibliographies, annotated bibliographies, lecture notes, and an article entitled "Literature, History, and Humanism: An Americanist's Dream" by Roy Harvey Pearce 1970 - 1984

Box 7, Folder 1

Lit. Course #252 - Stevens and Eliot 1988

General note

Syllabi, bibliography, reading list, and two exegeses: "Voicing 'the Desert of Silence': Stevens and Alice Corbin Henderson" by Alan Filreis and "Gesta Humanorum: Studies in the Historicist Mode" by Roy Harvey Pearce.
Box 7, Folder 2

Lit. Course #271 - Library reserve list 1972 - 1979

 

SUBJECT FILES

Box 7, Folder 3

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Conference: "History and Historicity" 1974 - 1976

Box 7, Folder 4

American Literature Association 1989 - 1990

Box 7, Folder 5

American Literature Section / MLA 1968 - 1988

 

Annals of Poetics

Box 7, Folder 6

1973 - 1975

Box 7, Folder 7

1975 - 1977

Box 7, Folder 8

Appointment of Assistant Professor of German Literature 1970 - 1977

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 7, Folder 9

Blackhorse Farms 1981 - 1984

 

Burckhardt, Sigurd

Box 7, Folder 10

Reviews from Burckhardt's book entitled THE DRAMA OF LANGUAGE: ESSAYS ON GOETHE AND KLEIST edited by Roy Harvey Pearce 1972 - 1973

Box 7, Folder 11

Reviews from Burckhardt's book entitled SHAKESPEAREAN MEANING edited by Roy Harvey Pearce 1968 - 1970

Box 7, Folder 12

Reprint correpsondence 1967 - 1979

Box 7, Folder 13

CALIFORNIA ANTHOLOGY OF 20TH CENTURY POETRY 1990

Box 7, Folder 14

ELH (English Literary History) 1973 - 1975

Box 7, Folder 15

Elliot / Saville Controversy 1978

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 7, Folder 16

Graduate Council 1984 - 1989

 

NEH Application: The Mark Twain Project

Box 7, Folder 17

1986 - 1988

Box 7, Folder 18

1992 - 1994

Box 7, Folder 19

NEH grant proposal - "Domestic Enclosure/Encyclopedic Discourse: Nineteenth-Century Encyclopedias of Women Writers" by Nicole Hoffman 1991

Box 7, Folder 20

Phi Beta Kappa 1975 - 1991

Box 8, Folder 1

Reprint permission requests 1967 - 1989

Box 8, Folder 2

Revelle Medal nominations 1984 - 1986

Box 8, Folder 3

U.C. Press 1989

Box 8, Folder 4

Visa Defense Committee to Aid Chilean Scholars 1974

Box 8, Folder 5

Wallace Stevens Society 1976

 

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS

Box 8, Folder 6, Oversize FB27103

Commemorative invitation for the Dean of Graduate Studies Celebration 1973

Box 8, Folder 7

Commemorative award - "The Order of the Bitten Bullet" 1975

Box 8, Folder 8

Miscellaneous postcards and photographs

Box 8, Folder 9

Photograph of Roy Harvey Pearce

 

Accession Processed in 2007

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Box 9, Folder 1

Anderson, Charles 1947 - 1976

Box 9, Folder 2

Babb, Howard 1956 - 1964

Box 9, Folder 3

Benamou, Michel 1962 - 1965

Box 9, Folder 4

Blanco, Carlos 1958 - 1963

Box 9, Folder 5

Cady, Edwin 1957 - 1980

Box 9, Folder 6

Castro, Americo 1958 - 1972

Box 9, Folder 7

Charvat, William 1946 - 1960

Box 9, Folder 8

COLLEGE ENGLISH MAGAZINE 1952 - 1960

Box 9, Folder 9

Cope, Jack 1957 - 1961

Box 9, Folder 10

Doggett, Frank 1958 - 1961

Box 9, Folder 11

Edelstein, Ludwig 1945 - 1964

Box 9, Folder 12

Elliott, George 1956 - 1965

 

Elliott, Robert

Box 9, Folder 13

1951 - 1954

Box 9, Folder 14

1957 - 1962

Box 9, Folder 15

1963 - 1970

Box 9, Folder 16

Includes memorial program, photographs, posthumous praise 1972 - 1989

Box 10, Folder 1

Fan letters 1945 - 1986

General note

Includes letters, poems, and invitations.
 

Gilman, Stephen

Box 10, Folder 2

Includes typescript of "A Rejoinder to Lee Spitzer" 1956 - 1961

Box 10, Folder 3

1962 - 1989

Box 10, Folder 4

Guillen, Claudio 1976 - 1978

Box 10, Folder 5

Heimberger, Frederick 1958 - 1960

Box 10, Folder 6

Hoffman, Daniel 1968 - 1984

General note

Includes letters and typescript copies of "Eleven Recent Poems" and "Brotherly Love."
Box 10, Folder 7

Ignatow, David 1994

General note

Letter poem attorney and copy of will.
Box 10, Folder 8

Jones, Howard 1946 - 1980

General note

Includes BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, 1980.
Box 10, Folder 9

Kermode, Frank 1960 - 1968

Box 10, Folder 10

Krieger, Murray 1956 - 1966

Box 10, Folder 11

Lettau, Reinhard 1970

General note

Includes photocopy of Preliminary Injunction Order, newspaper clipping in German and translation to English, and letters.
Box 10, Folder 12

Lounsbery, Kenneth 1967

General note

Memorandum.
Box 10, Folder 13

Lynch, William 1958 - 1960

Box 10, Folder 14

Miller, J.H. 1968

Box 10, Folder 15

National Education Association 1959

General note

Concerning Pearce's letter to Inez Robb.
Box 10, Folder 16

Ong, Walter 1962 - 1963

Box 10, Folder 17

Operation Soundbox 1968

General note

Includes newspaper clippings.
Box 10, Folder 18

Pearce, Marie V. 1950 - 1972

Box 11, Folder 1

Pradal, Gabriel 1958

Box 11, Folder 2

Ransom, John 1951 - 1960

Box 11, Folder 3

Riddel, Joseph 1962 - 1968

General note

Includes statement of project.
Box 11, Folder 4

Sheinkar, R. 1965 - 1972

Box 11, Folder 5

Smith, Henry 1948 - 1963

Box 11, Folder 6

Solomon, Eric 1967 - 1969

Box 11, Folder 7

Solotaroff, Theodore 1960 - 1963

Box 11, Folder 8

Stein, Maurice 1960 - 1962

Box 11, Folder 9

Stewart, John 1946 - 1964

Box 11, Folder 10

Trachtenberg, Alan 1967

Box 11, Folder 11

Turner, Frederick 1967 - 1990

General note

Includes resume.
Box 11, Folder 12

Turner, K. 1959 - 1990

Box 11, Folder 13

Vandesand 1955

Box 11, Folder 14

Vasconcellos, John 1978

Box 11, Folder 15

Vogelbaum, Jay 1957 - 1966

Box 11, Folder 16

Warren, P.R. 1967

Box 11, Folder 17

Weatherhead, Andrew 1966

Box 11, Folder 18

Weglin, Christof 1962 - 1992

Box 11, Folder 19

Wesling, Don 1968 - 1978

General note

Includes letters, poems, photocopy of "The Anguish of the New Universities," photocopy of "Walt Whitman at Revelle College," and photocopy of "The History of West Seneca, New York.".
Box 11, Folder 20

Wolff, Kurt 1961 - 1975

Box 11, Folder 21

Wright, Andrew 1959

Box 11, Folder 22

Ziff, Larzer 1957 - 1966

Box 11, Folder 23

Unidentified correspondents

 

BOOKS

 

SAVAGES OF AMERICA: A STUDY OF THE INDIAN AND THE IDEA OF CIVILIZATION (1953)

Box 11, Folder 24

Correspondence with Michigan State College Press 1950 - 1951

Box 11, Folder 25

Correspondence with Syracuse University Press 1951

Box 11, Folder 26

Correspondence with various publishers concerning permissions to quote 1951

Box 11, Folder 27

Correspondence with Johns Hopkins Press 1951 - 1961

Box 12, Folder 1

Print-outs, photocopies, newspaper clippings with reviews of the book

Box 12, Folder 2

Reviews of the book published in international periodicals

Box 12, Folder 3

Letters of compliment from scholars and professors 1953 - 1954

 

GROWTH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: A CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL SURVEY (1956)

Box 12, Folder 4

Correspondence between the authors (Frederick Hoffman, Edwin Cady, and R.H. Pearce) and American Book Co. 1951 - 1953

Box 12, Folder 5, Oversize FB-473-09

Galley proof of bibliography - Vol. 2

 

Correspondence between American Book Co. and authors Edwin Cady, Frederick Hoffman, and R.H. Pearce

Box 12, Folder 6

January - April, 1954

Box 12, Folder 7

May - December, 1954

Box 12, Folder 8

1955

Box 12, Folder 9

1956 - 1961

Box 12, Folder 10

Editor's corrections on Sections 1, 5, 6, and 7

Box 12, Folder 11

Proof corrections and production notes, Section 1

Box 12, Folder 12

Proof corrections and production notes, Section 5

Box 12, Folder 13

Proof corrections, Section 6

Box 12, Folder 14

Proof corrections, Section 7

Box 12, Folder 15

Promotional material. Includes two brochures

Box 13, Folder 1

Promotional material for AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE (1957). Includes handwritten notes comparing the books

Box 13, Folder 2

Reviews about the book 1956 - 1959

 

COLONIAL AMERICAN WRITING (1958)

Box 13, Folder 3

Correspondence with Holt, Rinehart and Winston Press regarding the publication of the 2nd edition 1967 - 1971

Box 13, Folder 4

Proof corrections

 

CONTINUITY OF AMERICAN POETRY (1961)

Box 13, Folder 5

Letter of rejection from Oxford University Press 1959

 

Correspondence with Princeton University Press

Box 13, Folder 6

1958 - 1960

Box 13, Folder 7

January - April, 1961

Box 13, Folder 8

May - December, 1961

Box 13, Folder 9

1962

 

Requests sent to copyright holders for permission to quote

Box 13, Folder 10

1959

Box 13, Folder 11

1960 - 1961

Box 13, Folder 12

Production notes

 

Page proofs

Box 13, Folder 13

Foreword and Chapter 1

Box 13, Folder 14

Chapter 2

Box 14, Folder 1

Chapter 3

Box 14, Folder 2

Chapter 4

Box 14, Folder 3

Chapters 5 and 6

Box 14, Folder 4

Chapters 7, 8, and afterword

Box 14, Folder 5

Promotional material. Includes letter from Princeton University Press, print-out advertising the book, promotional booklets, schedule of advertisements, list of complimentary copies

Box 14, Folder 6

Reviews published in newspapers

Box 14, Folder 7

Reviews published in various literary periodicals

Box 14, Folder 8

Reviews published in international literary periodicals

Box 14, Folder 9

Letter from the Poetry Society of America informing Pearce about the Poetry Chap-Book Award

Box 14, Folder 10

Letters of compliment sent to Pearce from various scholars

Box 14, Folder 11

Page proof of introduction and postscript to the Wesleyan edition

 

HAWTHORNE CENTENARY ESSAYS (1964)

Box 14, Folder 12

Correspondence with authors and publishers regarding the reprinting of the book 1966

Box 14, Folder 13

Correspondence with Gale Research Co. regarding permission to print THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES by Marcus Cunliffe

Box 14, Folder 14

Printed and photocopied reviews of the book as published in literary magazines

 

SAVAGES OF AMERICA: A STUDY OF THE INDIAN AND THE IDEA OF CIVILIZATION (1965)

Box 15, Folder 1

Correspondence with Southern Illinois University Press 1964

Box 15, Folder 2

Correspondence with MLA regarding permission to reprint 1964

Box 15, Folder 3

Correspondence with University of Kentucky Press 1964

Box 15, Folder 4

Correspondence with Johns Hopkins Press 1964-1967

Box 15, Folder 5

Print-outs, photocopies, newspaper clippings with reviews of the book

 

THE ACT OF MIND: ESSAYS ON THE POETRY OF WALLACE STEVENS (1965)

Box 15, Folder 6

Correspondence with Johns Hopkins Press 1963 - 1965

Box 15, Folder 7

Reprints and photocopies of reviews published in literary periodicals

 

SAVAGISM AND CIVILIZATION (1967)

 

Page proofs

Box 15, Folder 8

Foreword, Chapters 1 and 2. Includes production notes

Box 15, Folder 9

Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6

Box 15, Folder 10

Chapters 7, 8, and notes

Box 15, Folder 11

Proof corrections

Box 15, Folder 12

Cover mock-up

Box 15, Folder 13

Correspondence with UC Press

Box 15, Folder 14

Recommendations from Brian Swann, Arnold Krupat, and David Brumble sent to UC Press concerning the book's reprint

Box 15, Folder 15

Introduction by Arnold Krupat, page proofs

Box 15, Folder 16

Postscript, page proof

Box 15, Folder 17

Photocopies and print-outs of reviews of the book published in national periodicals

Box 15, Folder 18

Photocopies and newspaper clippings of reviews of the book published in German periodicals. Includes translation to English

Box 15, Folder 19

Letter from Alan Sunfield 1989

 

HISTORICISM ONCE MORE: PROBLEMS AND OCCASIONS FOR THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR (1969)

Box 16, Folder 1

Correspondence with Princeton University Press 1965 - 1969

Box 16, Folder 2

Correspondence with various publishers regarding permissions to quote and reprint 1968

 

Page proofs

Box 16, Folder 3

Chapters 1, 2, and 3

Box 16, Folder 4

Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7

Box 16, Folder 5

Chapters 8, 9, and 10

Box 16, Folder 6

Chapters 11, 12, and Index

Box 16, Folder 7

Photocopies of reviews published in various national publications

Box 16, Folder 8

Photocopies of reviews published in international publications

Box 16, Folder 9

Printed version and translation to English of review published in German publication 1973

Box 16, Folder 10

Printed copy of THE BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL - WALT WHITMAN: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 1954

Box 16, Folder 11

Letters of compliment from scholars

 

GESTA HUMANORUM: STUDIES IN THE HISTORICIST MODE (1987)

Box 16, Folder 12

Correspondence with University of Missouri Press 1985 - 1987

Box 16, Folder 13

Photocopy of "Toward Decreation: Stevens and the 'Theory of Poetry'", published in WALLACE STEVENS: A CELEBRATION (1980). Includes list of quotations

 

Page proofs

Box 16, Folder 14

Foreword, Chapters 1, 2, and 3

Box 16, Folder 15

Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7. Missing page 78

Box 17, Folder 1

Chapters 8, 9, and Index

Box 17, Folder 2

Photographs

Box 17, Folder 3

Promotional material. Includes photocopies of advertisements as published in various literary publications, and printed versions of University of Missouri Press Catalog 1986 - 1987

Box 17, Folder 4

Copy of English Lange notes, Vol. 27, No. 2, December 1989, containing review of Pearce's book 1989

Box 17, Folder 5

Photocopies of reviews as published in various literary publications, 1987-1990

 

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

 

"Sterne and Sensibility in American Diaries"

Box 17, Folder 6

Correspondence with ATHENAEUM and THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY 1943

Box 17, Folder 7

Page proofs 1942 - 1944

Box 17, Folder 8

Reprint as published in MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES 1944

 

"Primitivistic Ideas in the Faerie Queene"

Box 17, Folder 9

Correspondence with PMLA 1944

Box 17, Folder 10

Correspondence with THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY 1944

Box 17, Folder 11

Page proofs

Box 17, Folder 12

Reprint of the article as published in THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY, Vol. XLIV, No. 2, April, 1945

Box 17, Folder 13

"The Eighteenth-Century Scottish Primitivists: Some Reconsiderations" - Photocopy of the article as published in ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY (ELH), Vol. 12, No. 3, September, 1945

 

"Leatherstocking Tales Re-Examined"

Box 17, Folder 14

Correspondence with the editor of SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 1946

Box 17, Folder 15

Page proof

Box 17, Folder 16

Reprint of the article as published in THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY, Vol. 46, No. 4, October, 1947

 

"Significances of the Captivity Narrative"

Box 17, Folder 17

Correspondence with AMERICAN LITERATURE 1946

Box 17, Folder 18

Correspondence with The New-York Historical Society and Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1946

Box 17, Folder 19

Page proof

Box 17, Folder 20

Reprint of the article as published in AMERICAN LITERATURE, Vol. 19, No. 1, March, 1947

 

"Hawthorne and the Twilight of Romance"

Box 17, Folder 21

Correspondence with the editor of THE YALE REVIEW 1947 - 1948

Box 17, Folder 22, Oversize FB-473-10

Galley proof with handwritten corrections

Box 17, Folder 23

Proof corrections

Box 17, Folder 24

Printed copy of the publication THE YALE REVIEW, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, March, 1948

Box 17, Folder 25

Photocopy of the article as published in THE YALE REVIEW, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, March, 1948

 

"Note on Method in the History of Ideas"

Box 17, Folder 26

Comments by Arthur D. Lovejoy 1946

Box 17, Folder 27

Page proof

 

"Pure Criticism and the History of Ideas"

Box 17, Folder 28

Correspondence with THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM 1948

Box 18, Folder 1

Page proofs

Box 18, Folder 2

Photocopy and reprint of the article as published in THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, Vol. VII, No. 2, December, 1948

Box 18, Folder 3

Unidentified review

 

"Civilization and Savagism: The World of the Leatherstocking Tales"

Box 18, Folder 4

Correspondence with ENGLISH INSTITUTE ESSAYS, 1949-1950

Box 18, Folder 5

Page proofs and production notes

Box 18, Folder 6

Photocopy of the article as published in ENGLISH INSTITUTE ESSAYS, 1949

 

"Edward Taylor: The Poet as Puritan"

Box 18, Folder 7

Correspondence with THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY 1949

Box 18, Folder 8

Page proofs

Box 18, Folder 9

Reprint of the article as published in THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, March, 1950

 

Commentary on "The Poetry of 1900-1950" by John C. Ransom

Box 18, Folder 10

Correspondence with Karl W. Dykema. Includes program to the 18th Meeting of the Ohio College Association and Allied Studies, 1951

Box 18, Folder 11

Page proof of Ransom's "The Poetry of 1900-1950", and critical notes

Box 18, Folder 12

Page proofs

 

"Wallace Stevens: The Life of the Imagination"

Box 18, Folder 13

Correspondence with the HUDSON REVIEW, VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, YALE REVIEW, and the KENYON REVIEW rejecting the article, 1950

Box 18, Folder 14

Correspondence with MLA 1950

Box 18, Folder 15

Correspondence 1949

Box 18, Folder 16

Correspondence with Alfred A. Knopf Inc. 1951

Box 18, Folder 17

Page proof

Box 18, Folder 18

Reprint of the article as published in PMLA, Vol. LXVI, No. 5, September, 1951

Box 18, Folder 19

Letters of compliment from scholars

 

"Ruines of Mankind: The Indian and the Puritan Mind"

Box 18, Folder 20

Correspondence with the AMERICAN QUARTERLY and WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY rejecting the article, 1949

Box 18, Folder 21

Correspondence with JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF IDEAS, 1950-1951

Box 18, Folder 22

Galley proof

Box 18, Folder 23

Page proof

Box 18, Folder 24

Reprint of the article as published in JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF IDEAS, Vol. XIII, No. 2, April, 1952

Box 18, Folder 25

Correspondence with scholars 1951 - 1952

 

"Melville's Indian-Hater: A Note on a Meaning of the Confidence-Man"

Box 18, Folder 26

Correspondence with MLA 1952

Box 18, Folder 27

Page proof

Box 18, Folder 28

Photocopy and reprint of article as published in PMLA, Vol. LXVII, No. 7, December, 1952

 

"Poet as a Person"

Box 18, Folder 29

Correspondence with THE YALE REVIEW 1951 - 1961

Box 18, Folder 30

Comments by the editor of THE YALE REVIEW

Box 18, Folder 31

Page proof with the title of "On 'Ourselves in Poetry'"

Box 18, Folder 32

Printed copy of THE YALE REVIEW, Vol. XLI, No. 3, March 1952

Box 18, Folder 33

Correspondence from Robert Estrich

 

"Introduction to 'Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts'"

Box 18, Folder 34

Correspondence with the Augustan Reprint Society, 1953

Box 18, Folder 35

Page proof

Box 18, Folder 36

"Introduction to the 'Scarlet Letter'" - Correspondence with J.M. Dent and Sons Publishers regarding the reprinting of the article, 1971

 

"Hawthorne and the Sense of the Past; or, the Immortality of Major Molineux"

Box 18, Folder 37

Correspondence with Professor Nolan Smith 1963

Box 18, Folder 38

Photocopies and transcripts of letters from Nathaniel Hawthorne 1932-1964

Box 18, Folder 39

Production notes

Box 18, Folder 40

Excerpt of "Hawthorne as Editor". Arlin Turner (ed.) 1941

Box 18, Folder 41

Galley proof with corrections

Box 19, Folder 1

Page proof

Box 19, Folder 2

Correspondence with editors and scholars 1955

 

"Introduction to the House of Seven Gables"

Box 19, Folder 3

Correspondence with J.M. Dent and Sons Publishers 1954

Box 19, Folder 4

Production notes

Box 19, Folder 5

Galley proof

Box 19, Folder 6

Page proof

Box 19, Folder 7

Promotional material, EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY catalogs

 

"Structure of Spanish History"

Box 19, Folder 8

Page proof

Box 19, Folder 9

Reprint of the article

Box 19, Folder 10

Copy of LA REALIDAD HISTORICA DE ESPANA, ed. Americo Castro

 

"On the History of Ideas III"

Box 19, Folder 11

Correspondence with THE HISTORY OF IDEAS NEWSLETTER 1955

Box 19, Folder 12

Page proofs

Box 19, Folder 13

Printed version of THE HISTORY OF IDEAS NEWSLETTER, Vol. I, No. 3, June, 1955

 

Introduction to "Twice Told Tales"

Box 19, Folder 14

Correspondence with J.M. Dent and Sons Publishers 1953

Box 19, Folder 15

Page proof

 

"Problem of Research in the Relations of Literary Study of Intellectual History"

Box 19, Folder 16

Correspondence with THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1955

Box 19, Folder 17

Page proofs

 

Introduction to "The Scarlet Letter"

Box 19, Folder 18

Correspondence with J.M. Dent and Sons Publishers 1955 - 1956

Box 19, Folder 19

Page proofs

Box 19, Folder 20

Reprint of the article as published in EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY, No. 122, 1956

 

"On the Continuity of American Poetry"

Box 19, Folder 21

Correspondence with THE KENYON REVIEW 1956

Box 19, Folder 22

Correspondence with THE HUDSON REVIEW

Box 19, Folder 23

Page proofs

Box 19, Folder 24

Reprint of the article as published in THE HUDSON REVIEW, Vol. 10, No. 4, Winter, 1957

Box 19, Folder 25

Letters of compliment from fellow scholars

Box 19, Folder 26

Correspondence with THE NEW YORKER

 

"American Studies as a Discipline"

Box 19, Folder 27

Correspondence with the editor of AMERICAN QUARTERLY 1955

Box 19, Folder 28

Correspondence with the editor of the periodic, COLLEGE ENGLISH, in which the article was published, 1955-1956

Box 19, Folder 29

Page proofs

Box 19, Folder 30

Copy of the periodical, COLLEGE ENGLISH, Vol. 18, No. 4, January, 1957, in which the article was published

 

"Metaphysics of Indian-Hating"

Box 19, Folder 31

Page proof and production notes

Box 19, Folder 32

Photocopy of the article as published in ETNOHISTORY, Vol. IV, 1957

Box 19, Folder 33

Letters of compliment from fellow scholars

 

"Historicism Once More"

Box 19, Folder 34

Correspondence with PMLA and COMPARATIVE LITERATURE rejecting the article

Box 19, Folder 35

Correspondence with THE KENYON REVIEW 1958

Box 19, Folder 36

Quotations from "History and Eschatology" by Rudolf Bultmann 1957

Box 19, Folder 37

Correction notes

Box 19, Folder 38

Page proof

Box 19, Folder 39

Reprint of the article as published in THE KENYON REVIEW, Vol. XX, No. 4, Fall, 1958

Box 19, Folder 40

Correspondence with fellow scholars and professors 1957 - 1959

Box 19, Folder 41

Photocopy of the article as published in "Historicism Once More: Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar" 1969

 

"Robin Molineux on the Analyst's Couch: A Note on Psychoanalitic Criticism"

Box 19, Folder 42

Correspondence with Partisan Review and Criticism

Box 20, Folder 1

Page proof

 

"Toward an American Epic"

Box 20, Folder 2

Correspondence with THE HUDSON REVIEW 1958 - 1959

Box 20, Folder 3

Page proofs

Box 20, Folder 4

Correspondence with Charles R. Anderson

 

"Toward the End of the Beginning"

Box 20, Folder 5

Correspondence with National Education Association 1959

Box 20, Folder 6

Photocopy of the article as published in "Curriculum Programs: Official Report on the Lawrence Conference"

Box 20, Folder 7

Report on the Lawrence Conference - Page proof

Box 20, Folder 8

Report on the TEPS Kansas Conference

 

"Ezra Pound's Appraisal of Walt Whitman: Addendum"

Box 20, Folder 9

Correspondence with Frederic Peachy 1957

Box 20, Folder 10

Proof correction and production notes

Box 20, Folder 11

Reprint of the article as published in MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES, Vol. LXXIV, January, 1959

 

"Behavior and Misbehavior in the Humanities"

Box 20, Folder 12

Correspondence with the editor of TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD 1958 - 1959

Box 20, Folder 13

Correspondence with the TEACHERS COLLEGE regarding the All-College Lecture Series, 1958

Box 20, Folder 14

Draft with corrections that was presented as a lecture on August 5, 1958 at the Columbia Teachers College All-College Lecture Series, "Contemporary Challenges to American Education"

Box 20, Folder 15

Reprint of the article as published in TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD, Vol. 60, No. 8, May, 1959

Box 20, Folder 16

"Poetry, Language, and the Condition of Modern Man" - Correspondence with THE CENTENNIAL REVIEW 1959

 

"Professors and Practitioners"

Box 20, Folder 17

Correspondence with the Department of Audio-Visual Instruction 1959

Box 20, Folder 18

Correspondence with EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP 1959

Box 20, Folder 19

Page proofs

Box 20, Folder 20

Reprint of EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, Vol. XVII, No. 1, October 1959

Box 20, Folder 21

Correspondence from fellow professors

 

"Poetry, Language, and the Condition of Modern Man"

Box 20, Folder 22

Page proof

Box 20, Folder 23

Reprint of the article as published in THE CENTENNIAL REVIEW, Vol. IV, No. 1, Winter, 1960

 

"Stevens Posthumous"

Box 20, Folder 24

Correspondence with Criterion Books 1959 - 1960

Box 20, Folder 25

Page proof

 

"Whitman Justified: The Poet in 1860"

Box 20, Folder 26

Correspondence with THE MINNESOTA REVIEW 1961

Box 20, Folder 27

Page proof

Box 20, Folder 28

Copy of THE MINNESOTA REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 3, Spring 1961

 

Introduction to "Leaves of Grass"

Box 21, Folder 1

Correspondence with Cornell University Press 1960 - 1961

Box 21, Folder 2

Page proof

 

"Frost's Momentary Stay"

Box 21, Folder 3

Correspondence with the editor of THE KENYON REVIEW 1960

Box 21, Folder 4

Proof corrections, handwritten draft

Box 21, Folder 5

Reprint of the article as published in THE KENYON REVIEW, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, Spring 1961

 

"The Arts, Humanism, and the Process of Education"

Box 21, Folder 6

Correspondence with the editor of TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD 1961 - 1962

Box 21, Folder 7

Proof correction

Box 21, Folder 8

Reprint of the article as published in TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD, Vol. 64, No. 2, November, 1962

 

"Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne"

Box 21, Folder 9

Introduction to "The Blithedale Romance" - Photocopy of proof corrections

Box 21, Folder 10

Introduction to "Fanshawe" - Correspondence and production notes

Box 21, Folder 11

Introduction to "Fanshawe" - Proof corrections

 

Introduction to "The American"

Box 21, Folder 12

Correspondence with Houghton Mifflin Co. 1960 - 1961

Box 21, Folder 13

Page proof

 

"Mass Culture/Popular Culture: Notes for a Humanist's Primer"

Box 21, Folder 14

Correspondence with COLLEGE ENGLISH 1961

Box 21, Folder 15

Page proof and proof correction

Box 21, Folder 16

Reprint of the article as published in COLLEGE ENGLISH, March, 1962

 

"The End. Yours Truly, Huck Finn: Postcript"

Box 21, Folder 17

Correspondence with MLA 1963

Box 21, Folder 18

Page proof

Box 21, Folder 19

Reprint of the article as published in MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY, Vol. 24, No. 3, September, 1963

 

"Literature, History, and Humanism: An Americanist's Dilemma"

Box 21, Folder 20

Page proof

Box 21, Folder 21

Reprint of the article as published in COLLEGE ENGLISH, February, 1963

 

"Wallace Stevens: The Last Lesson of the Master"

Box 21, Folder 22

Page proofs

Box 21, Folder 23

Photocopy and reprint of the article as published in JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY, Vol. 31, No. 1, March, 1964

 

"Theodore Roethke: The Power of Sympathy"

Box 21, Folder 24

Correspondence with University of Washington Press 1964 - 1965

Box 21, Folder 25

Page proof

Box 21, Folder 26

Photocopy of the article as published in "Theodore Roethke: Essays on the Poetry", 1965

 

"Criticism as a Discipline: From Understanding to Interpretation"

Box 21, Folder 27

Correspondence with National Council of Teachers of English, 1966

Box 21, Folder 28

Proof corrections

Box 21, Folder 29

Photocopy of the article as published in NEW DIRECTIONS IN ELEMENTARY ENGLISH (NCTE)

 

"Whitman and Our Hope for Poetry"

Box 21, Folder 30

Production notes

Box 21, Folder 31

Page proofs

Box 22, Folder 1

Reprint of the article as published in "The Poetic Tradition: Essays on Greek, Latin, and English Poetry", 1968

 

"American Criticism and American Culture"

Box 22, Folder 2

Correspondence with the editor of STRUMENTI CRITICI 1968

Box 22, Folder 3

Page proof and proof corrections

Box 22, Folder 4

Copy of the periodical STRUMENTI CRITICI, in which the article was published. Italian version

 

"Gesta Humanorum: Notes on the Humanist As Witness"

Box 22, Folder 5

Galley proof

Box 22, Folder 6

Proof correction and page proof

Box 22, Folder 7

Reprint and photocopies of the article as published in DAEDALUS, Vol. 99, No. 2, Spring, 1970

Box 22, Folder 8

Letters from fellow professors

 

"The Burden of Romanticism: Toward the New Poetry"

Box 22, Folder 9

Correspondence with the editor of THE IOWA REVIEW 1971

Box 22, Folder 10

Galley proof

Box 22, Folder 11

Copy of THE IOWA REVIEW, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1971

 

"Huck Finn in His History"

Box 22, Folder 12

Correspondence with Charles E. Merrill Books 1968 - 1969

Box 22, Folder 13

Page proofs

Box 22, Folder 14

Reprint of the article as published in ETUDES ANGLAISES, Vol. XXIV, No. 3, 1971

 

"Introduction to a Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales"

Box 22, Folder 15

Production notes

Box 22, Folder 16

Photocopy of page proof

 

"From History of Ideas to Etnohistory"

Box 22, Folder 17

Correspondence with American Historian Association 1972 - 1974

Box 22, Folder 18

Writings of others - "The Army Officer and the Indian: Psychological Ambivalence and Cultural Relativism" by Thomas C. Leonard

Box 22, Folder 19

Page proof

Box 22, Folder 20

Reprint of the article as published in THE JOURNAL OF ETHNIC STUDIES, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring, 1974

Box 22, Folder 21

Writings of others - "White Over Red: Perspectives on White-Indian Relations" by Robert Keller, 1973

 

"Humanistic Studies and the Large Public University"

Box 22, Folder 22

Page proof and production notes

Box 22, Folder 23

Cut-offs of the article as published in PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA by Gabriel Almond and Neil Smelser (eds.), 1974

 

"Day-Dream and Fact: The Import of the Blithedale Romance"

Box 22, Folder 24

Correspondence with Professor David K. Kirby 1971 - 1973

Box 22, Folder 25

Page proof and proof correction

Box 22, Folder 26

Photocopies of the article as published in INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY: VARIATIONS ON A THEME IN AMERICAN FICTION. Duke University Press

 

"Poetry, Revolution, and the Age of Paine"

Box 22, Folder 27

Correspondence with San Jose Studies 1976

Box 23, Folder 1

Production material 1976

General note

Includes copies of A POETICAL EPISTLE, THE AMERICAN TIMES: A SATIRE, SONGS AND BALLADS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE COLUMBIAD BOOK VIII, THE GOAL OF AN UNPOLITICAL AGE, fragment of LEON TROTSKY: LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION, unidentified fragements and production notes.
Box 23, Folder 2

Page proofs 1976

Box 23, Folder 3

Photocopies of the article as published in SAN JOSE STUDIES Vol. II 1976. Includes critical notes 1976

Box 23, Folder 4

"The Centenary Hawthorne: Progress and Plans" - Page proof 1976

 

"Anecdote of the Jar: An Iconological Note"

Box 23, Folder 5

Correspondence with the curator of Wallace Stevens Collection and Jenijoy La Belle 1976

Box 23, Folder 6

Correspondence with Association of American Railroads, 1977, regarding Wallace Stevens' travel in Tennessee in 1918

Box 23, Folder 7

Correspondence with ANTIQUE MAGAZINE, glass companies, the Corning Museum of Glass, and fellow professors 1976 - 1993

Box 23, Folder 8

Photographs of jars, Dominican Glass Co. 1977

Box 23, Folder 9

Reproductions (1977) of letters from Wallace Stevens to Elsie Viola Stevens, April and May, 1918

Box 23, Folder 10

Writings of others - "Tennesse" in Wallace Stevens, 1977, "Anecdote of the Jar" by Allison Ensor, 1973

Box 23, Folder 11

Page proof for publication in THE WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL Vol. 1, NO. 2, Summer, 1977

 

"Sense of Past / A Sense of Present: Note on a Theme in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction"

Box 23, Folder 12

Correspondence with ETHOS 1975 - 1978

Box 23, Folder 13

Page proofs 1977

Box 23, Folder 14

Reprints of the articles as published in ETHOS, Vol. 5, NO. 4 - Winter, 1977

Box 23, Folder 15

"Cry and Occasion: Chocorua to its Neighbor" - Correspondence with THE SOUTHERN REVEIW 1977 - 1979

Box 23, Folder 16

"Poet as Historian"- Page proof 1978

 

"Cry and Occasion: Chocorua to its Neighbor"

Box 23, Folder 17

Correspondence with difficult agencies regarding Mt. Chocorua 1977 - 1979

Box 23, Folder 18

Correspondence with Dartmouth College Library, 1978 - 1980. Includes photocopies of images representing Mt. Chocorua (N.H.) and "A Bibliography of the White Mountains" by Allen Bent, 1911

Box 23, Folder 19

Writings of others - "The Poet as a Reader: Wallace Stevens and His Books" by J.M. Edelstein 1974

Box 23, Folder 20

Writings of others - "Chocorua as a Symbol in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens" by Anita Lopker 1977

Box 23, Folder 21

Page proof and proof corrections 1979

Box 23, Folder 22

Photocopy of the article as published in THE SOUTHERN REVIEW, Vol. 15, October 1979

 

"The Emperor of Ice Cream: A Note on the Occasion"

Box 23, Folder 23

Correspondence, photocopies of letters from Wallace Stevens to Elsie Stevens sent from Florida 1916 - 1922

Box 23, Folder 24

Correspondence, photocopies of letters and transcripts of correspondence between Wallace Stevens and Ferdinand Reyher 1916 - 1922

Box 23, Folder 25

Correspondence, letter from Faith Reyher J. 1979

Box 23, Folder 26

Correspondence, letter from Holly Stevens 1979

Box 23, Folder 27

Correspondence with Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Yber Square Association, and Historical Society of Tampa 1979

Box 23, Folder 28

Correspondence with scholars and agencies 1977 - 1979

Box 23, Folder 29

Promotional material about the City of Tampa, FL. Includes brochures and photocopy of THE SUNLAND TRIBUNE 1979

Box 24, Folder 1

Production notes 1979

Box 24, Folder 2

Proof corrections 1979

Box 24, Folder 3

Correspondence with the editors of WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL 1979

 

"Theory as Ideology; or, the Perils of Pluralism"

Box 24, Folder 4

Page proofs 1979

Box 24, Folder 5

Photocopies of the article as published in PACIFIC COAST PHILOLOGY 1979

Box 24, Folder 6

Correspondence with the editor of PACIFIC COAST PHILOLOGY, Fernando Alegria 1979

 

"Toward Decreation: Stevens and the 'Theory of Poetry'"

Box 24, Folder 7

Correspondence with Princeton University Press 1975 - 1981

Box 24, Folder 8

Page proofs 1980

Box 24, Folder 9

Page proofs

Box 24, Folder 10

Reprint of the article as published in WALLACE STEVENS: A CELEBRATION 1980

 

"Whitman Justified: The Poet in 1855"

Box 24, Folder 11

Correspondence with CRITICAL INQUIRY 1980 - 1981

Box 24, Folder 12

Production notes

Box 24, Folder 13

Page proofs 1981

Box 24, Folder 14

Reprint of the article as published in CRITICAL INQUIRY, Vol. 8, No. 1, Autumn, 1981 1981

Box 24, Folder 15

Letters of compliment from scholars 1981

 

"Poetry and Progress, Criticism and Culmination: A Cautionary Tale"

Box 24, Folder 16

Correspondence with Northeastern University Press 1981 - 1982

Box 24, Folder 17

Agreement between R.H. Pearce and Northeastern University Press 1982

Box 24, Folder 18

Page proofs 1983

Box 24, Folder 19

Reprint of the article as published in THE MOTIVE FOR METAPHOR: ESSAYS ON MODERN POETRY 1983

 

"Nathanial Hawthorne Society Newsletter" - The Tenth Anniversary Issue

Box 24, Folder 20

Correspondence with College of Liberal Arts - Clemson University 1984

Box 24, Folder 21

Untitled short essay - Page proof 1984

Box 24, Folder 22

Printed copy containing Pearce's untitled short essay, Vol. X, No. 2, Fall, 1984

 

"Yours Truly, Huck Finn"

Box 24, Folder 23

Correspondence with University of Missouri - Columbia 1982 - 1984

Box 24, Folder 24

Page proofs 1984

 

"Cry and Occasion: On Reading Stevens"

Box 25, Folder 1

Page proofs 1989

Box 25, Folder 2

Production notes. Includes transcripts of Stevens' letters to Harriet Monroe 1919

Box 25, Folder 3

Writings of others - Photocopy of STEVENS' ROCK AND CRITICISM AS CURE by J. Hillis Miller as published in GEORGIA REVIEW, Vol. 30, No. 1, SPR 1976

Box 25, Folder 4

Photocopy of Stevens' medical report from Saint Bridget's Rectory undated

Box 25, Folder 5

Letter from Donald Wesling 1983

Box 25, Folder 6

Production process - Positives and negatives, images of workers in the tobacco factory 1989

Box 25, Folder 7

Production process - Positives and negatives, images of the "Dominion" jar. Includes letter from Glen MacLeod 1989

Box 25, Folder 8

Production process - Slides and print-out 1989

Box 25, Folder 9

"Romance and the Study of Theory"

Box 25, Folder 10

"House of Seven Gables" - Photocopies of page proofs

Box 25, Folder 11

"Humanism, Humanities, Humanist: A Fundamentalist Note"

Box 25, Folder 12

"Popular Culture V. Krass Culture: Discovery, Definition, Appraisal" - Page proofs

 

REVIEWS

Box 25, Folder 13

GERMAN THOUGHT AND LITERATURE IN NEW ENGLAND, 1620-1820 by Harold Jantz - Page proof 1942

Box 25, Folder 14

HENRY ADAMS, OR THE CREATION OF CONFUSION by Yvor Winters - Page proof 1943

Box 25, Folder 15

SPENCER'S ACRASIA AND THE CIRCE OF THE RENAISSANCE by N. Y. Hughes - Page proof 1943

Box 25, Folder 16

MAN AND SOCIETY: THE SCOTTISH INQUIRY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY by Gladys Bryson - Page proof 1945

General note

Includes correspondence with POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY.
Box 25, Folder 17

MAJOR AMERICAN WRITERS, Ed. by Howard Mumford Jones - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1945

Box 25, Folder 18

FIRST FOLLOW NATURE: PRIMITIVISM IN ENGLISH POETRY, 1725-1750 by Margaret M. Fitzgerald - Page proof 1947

Box 25, Folder 19

ARTICLES ON AMERICAN LITERATURE APPEARING IN CURRENT PERIODICALS, 1920-1945, Ed. by Lewis Leary 1947

General note

Page proof and printed copy of the review.
Box 25, Folder 20

THE CIRCUS AND THE ATTIC: A NOTE ON THE WORLD AND WORK OF R.P. WARREN - Page proof 1947

Box 25, Folder 21

THEORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE by Howard Mumford Jones 1949 - 1950

General note

Correspondence with the JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM.
Box 25, Folder 22

THEORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE by Howard Mumford Jones - Page proofs 1948

Box 25, Folder 23

NEGRO VOICES IN AMERICAN FICTION by Hugh M. Gloster - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1948

Box 25, Folder 24

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER AND OSSIAN by George Fridin (1949) - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1949

Box 25, Folder 25

HAWTHORNE'S LAST PHASE by Edward Hutchins Davidson - Page proofs 1949

Box 25, Folder 26

VOICE OF THE OLD FRONTIER by R.W.G. Vail - Page proof and letter from the NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY 1951

Box 25, Folder 27

QUEEN ANNE'S AMERICAN KINGS by Richmond P. Bond - Page proofs 1952

Box 25, Folder 28

EARLY AMERICAN POETS by Louis Untermeyer - Page proof and letter from AMERICAN LITERATURE. 1952

Box 26, Folder 1

ARTICLES ON AMERICAN LITERATURE 1954

General note

Page proof, printed copy of the review, letter from Johns Hopkins University, and list of omissions and corrections, Ed. Lewis Leary.
Box 26, Folder 2

HAWTHORNE'S FAUST: A STUDY OF THE DEVIL ARCHETYPE by William Bysshe Stein - Page proof 1953

Box 26, Folder 3

AMERICAN ADAM: INNOCENCE, TRAGEDY, AND TRADITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by R.B.W. Lewis - Page proof 1955

Box 26, Folder 4

CYCLE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: AN ESSAY IN HISTORICAL CRITICISM by Robert E. Spiller 1955

General note

Page proof and letters from the VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW.
Box 26, Folder 5

ISHMAEL by James Baird - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1956

Box 26, Folder 6

MAJOR ROMANTIC POETS, Ed. by C. Thoepe, Carlos Baker and B. Weaver 1957

General note

SYMBOLISM FROM POE TO MALLARME: THE GROWTH OF A MYTH, by John Bayley; THE ROMANTIC SURVIVAL: A STUDY IN POETIC EVOLUTION, Essential Books - Page proof.
Box 26, Folder 7

ERAS AND MODES IN ENGLISH POETRY by Josephine Miles 1957

General note

THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM: PROBLEMS AND EXERCISES by Yvor Winters - Page proof and letter from the HUDSON REVIEW.
Box 26, Folder 8

ANNOTATED INDEX TO THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND: CANTOS I - LXXXIV, Ed. by John H. Edwards and Williams W. Vasse 1957

General note

Page proof.
Box 26, Folder 9

STYLE AND CIVILIZATION by A.L. Kroeber 1957 - 1958

General note

Page proofs, printed copy of the review, and correspondence with AMERICAN QUARTERLY.
Box 26, Folder 10

AMERICAN HENRY JAMES by Quentin Anderson - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1957

Box 26, Folder 11

HENRY ADAMS: THE MIDDLE YEARS by Ernest Samuels

General note

REALIST AT WAR: THE MATURE YEARS (1885-1920) OF WILLIAMS DEAN HOWELLS by Edwin Cady, 1957 - Page proof.
Box 26, Folder 12

"Death of Little Boys" by Allen Tate - Page proofs, reprint of the review, and letter from Allen Tate

Box 26, Folder 13

EVOLUTION OF WALT WHITMAN: THE CREATION OF A PERSONALITY by Rogue Asselineau - Page proof 1960

Box 26, Folder 14

SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, Ed. by Lawrance Thompson - Page proof and production notes

Box 26, Folder 15

FORM AND FABLE IN AMERICAN FICTION by Daniel Hoffman - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1961

Box 26, Folder 16

BARBARIAN WITHIN AND OTHER FUGITIVE ESSAYS AND STUDIES, by Walter J. Ong 1963

General note

Page proof and printed copy of the review.
Box 26, Folder 17

MAN'S ACCIDENTS AND GOD'S PURPOSES by James K. Folsom - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1964

Box 26, Folder 18

POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, Ed. by Floyd Stovall - Page proof 1965

Box 26, Folder 19

LEAVES OF GRASS: COMPREHENSIVE READER'S EDITION, Ed. by Harold W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley 1965

General note

Page proof and correspondence with Sculley Bradley.
Box 26, Folder 20

MARIANNE MOORE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE POETRY, by George W. Nitchie - Page proof 1970

Box 26, Folder 21

WALLACE STEVENS: POETRY AS LIFE by Samuel French Morse - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1970

Box 26, Folder 22

WALLACE STEVENS: MUSING THE OBSCURE by Ronald Sukenick; APPROACH TO PATERSON by Walter Peterson 1970

General note

WALLACE STEVENS: THE MAKING OF HARMONIUM by Robert Huttel; THE EDGE OF THE IMAGE: MARIANNE MOORE, WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, AND SOME OTHER POETS by Kingsley Weatherhead; POETRY OF HARTCRANE: A CRITICAL STUDY by R.W.B. Lewis - Page proof.
Box 26, Folder 23

COMPANION TO WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS' PATERSON by Benjamin Sankey - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1971

Box 26, Folder 24

EZRA POUND: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE POETRY by Sister Bernetta Quinn - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1972

Box 26, Folder 25

REGENERATION THROUGH VIOLENCE: THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, 1600-1860 by Richard Slotkin 1973

General note

Page proof and printed copy of the review.
Box 26, Folder 26

SHORT HISTORY OF AMERICAN POETRY by Donald B. Stauffer 1974

General note

Page proof, printed copy of the review, and correspondence with AMERICAN LITERATURE.
Box 26, Folder 27

INVERTED BELL: MODERNISM AND THE COUNTERPOETICS OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS by Joseph N. Riddel 1974

General note

Page proof, printed copy of the review, and letter from BOUNDRY 2, 1976.
Box 26, Folder 28

F.O. MATHIESON: THE CRITICAL ACHIEVEMENT by Giles Gunn 1976

General note

Page proof, printed copy of the review, and correspondence with the JOURNAL OF RELIGION, 1976-1977.
Box 26, Folder 29

POETIC VISION OF ROBERT PENN WARREN by Victor Strandberg - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1977

Box 26, Folder 30

REPUBLIC OF LETTERS: A HISTORY OF POSTWAR AMERICAN LITERARY OPINION by Grant Webster 1979

General note

Page proof, printed copy of the review, and correspondence with AMERICAN LITERATURE.
Box 26, Folder 31

EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE: A COMPARATIST APPROACH, by A. Owen Aldridge - Page proof and printed copy of revie 1982

Box 26, Folder 32

PALM AT THE END OF THE MIND: SELECTED POEMS AND A PLAY, Ed. by Holly Stevens- Page proof 1984

Box 26, Folder 33

HAWTHORNE AND THE POLITICS OF JUDGMENT- Unidentified review

Box 26, Folder 34

Commentary on THE NEW WORLD AS UTOPIA - Unidentified publication

 

EDITORIAL PROJECTS

Box 26, Folder 35

"Mark Twain on King Leopold's Soliloquy" 1952 - 1953

General note

Correspondence with AMERICAN LITERATURE and CHAMBERLAIN, CLARK, BUCHNER AND WILLI, page proof, and reprint of the essay.
Box 26, Folder 36

CENTENARY EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1962

General note

Copies of reviews published in different literary publications.
 

WHITMAN, A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS, 1962

Box 26, Folder 37

Correspondence with Harvard University Press 1961

Box 26, Folder 38

Correspondence with Prentice-Hall 1960 - 1962

Box 26, Folder 39

Correspondence with publishers and scholars regarding permission to quote 1962

Box 26, Folder 40

Page proof, biographical appendix, table of contents, chronology and introduction 1962

Box 26, Folder 41

"Style: From Mysticism to Art." By Roger Asselineau - Page proof 1961 - 1962

Box 27, Folder 1

"Who would Fardels Bear [?]: HAMLET, III, 76 1963 - 1964

General note

Page proof, reprinted and photocopy of the essay, and letter from THE CENTENNIAL REVIEW, 1963.
Box 27, Folder 2

EXPERIENCE IN NOVEL: SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE ENGLISH INSTITUTE 1969

General note

Newspaper clippings and magazine cuts of reviews of the book.
 

AN IDEA OF HISTORY: SELECTED ESSAYS OF AMERICO CASTRO

Box 27, Folder 3

Correspondence between Roy Harvey Pearce and Americo Castro 1962

Box 27, Folder 4

Correspondence with Stephen Gilman, 1962

Box 27, Folder 5

Letters of support to Pearce's proposal regarding the publication of the selected essays. Includes letters from Alias L. Rivers, Richard Armitage, Joseph Silverman, Francisco Garcia Lorca, J. Homer Herriott, Carlos Blanco-Aquinaga, among others 1963

Box 27, Folder 6

Correspondence between Ohio State University Press and R.H. Pearce and Stephen Gilman 1972 - 1974

Box 27, Folder 7

Introduction by Pearce. Galley proof, page proof, and photocopy of the introduction 1977

Box 27, Folder 8

Letter from Carmen Castro 1977

Box 27, Folder 9

Review of the book as published in BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES, Vol. LVI, No. 3, July, 1979

 

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: TALES AND SKETCHES

Box 27, Folder 10

Correspondence with LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE UNITED STATES 1980 - 1982

Box 27, Folder 11

Editorial matter 1982

Box 27, Folder 12

Page proof 1982

Box 27, Folder 13

Writings of others - "Hawthorne's 'Uncollected Tales': The Problem of Attribution" by Michal Helzman, John Holland, and Cora Agatucci 1982

Box 27, Folder 14

Copies of newspaper clippings and magazine reviews of the book 1982

Box 27, Folder 15

Photocopy of review by Jack Miles 1982

Box 27, Folder 16

Promotional material of THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA and catalog 1982

Box 27, Folder 17

Promotional material of LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE UNITED STATES and catalog 1982

 

PROGRESS AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Box 27, Folder 18

Correspondence between the editors Gabriel Almond, Marvin Chodorow, and R.H. Pearce and Stanford University Press 1980

Box 27, Folder 19

Correspondence between the editors Gabriel Almond, Marvin Chodorow, and R.H. Pearce and University of California Press 1980 - 1981

Box 27, Folder 20

Correspondence with Joel Colton 1979 - 1980

Box 27, Folder 21

Page proof, preface and Introduction 1982

Box 27, Folder 22

Page proof of Joel Colton's "The Idea of Progress in History and Historiography" 1982

Box 27, Folder 23

Page proof of Steven Marcus' "Conceptions of the Self in an Age of Progress" 1982

Box 27, Folder 24

Page proof of Robert C. Elliott's "The Costs of Utopia" 1982

 

PUBLISHING AGREEMENTS

Box 28, Folder 1

ACT OF MIND (1964) - Agreement Johns Hopkins University Press and royalty statements 1965 - 1981

Box 28, Folder 2

AMERICAN (HENRY JAMES)- Agreement with Houghton Mifflin Company, royalty statements 1962-2002, letter 1990 1962 - 2002

Box 28, Folder 3

COLONIAL AMERICAN WRITING (1950) - Agreement with Rinehart, royalty statements, and letters, 1950-1990

 

CONTINUITY OF AMERICAN POETRY (1961)

Box 28, Folder 4

Agreement with Princeton University Press, royalty statements, 1962-1985, and letters, 1966-1985

Box 28, Folder 5

Agreement with Wesleyan University Press, royalty statements, Catalogue 1987, and letters 1987 - 1989

Box 28, Folder 6

GESTA HUMANORUM: STUDIES IN HISTORICIST MODE 1987 - 2001

General note

Agreement with University of Missouri Press, royalty statements 1987-2001, letter 2001.
Box 28, Folder 7

GROWTH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: A CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL SURVEY 1956 - 1968

General note

Agreement with American Book Company, royalty statements, 1956-1967, letter 1968.
Box 28, Folder 8

HAWTHORNE CENTENARY ESSAYS (1964) 1963 - 1989

General note

Agreement with Ohio State University Press and correspondence.
Box 28, Folder 9

HISTORICISM ONCE MORE: PROBLEMS AND OCCASIONS FOR THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 1969 - 1995

General note

Agreement with Princeton University Press, royalty statements, 1969-1995, letter 1988.
Box 28, Folder 10

LEAVES OF GRASS - Correspondence with Cornell University Press 1974

Box 28, Folder 11

SAVAGES OF AMERICA: A STUDY OF THE INDIAN AND THE IDEA OF CIVILIZATION 1953 - 2003

General note

Agreement with Johns Hopkins Press, royalty statements, 1955-2003, letters 1964-1987.
 

SAVAGISM AND CIVILIZATION

Box 28, Folder 12

Agreement with Syracuse University Press 1953

Box 28, Folder 13

Agreement with University of California Press, royalty statements 1988-2006, letters 1992-1996

 

TALKS AND READINGS

Box 28, Folder 14

Modern Language Association 1946

General note

Program, lecture draft, newspaper clippings, and letter from Howard Mumford Jones.
Box 28, Folder 15

BRIDGING THE GAP - Broadcast #1091 - University Explorer, March 28 1947 - 1948

General note

Typescript of the broadcast, and correspondence with UC Berkeley Radio Service.
Box 28, Folder 16

8th English Institute Session - 09/06-09/10- New York, 1949 - Program

Box 28, Folder 17

Modern Language Association 1951 - 1952

General note

Production notes, lecture draft and correspondence with AMERICAN QUARTERLY, 1952.
Box 28, Folder 18

28th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society -1952 - Program and lecture's draft

Box 28, Folder 19

American Indian Ethnohistoric Conference - Letter of invitation and program 1956

Box 28, Folder 20

Mississippi Valley Historical Association 1956

General note

Correspondence with MVHA, "A New View of Intellectual History" by John Greene, commentary on Greene's paper, Pearce's reading draft.
Box 28, Folder 21

Modern Language Association 1957

General note

Lecture's draft and production notes.
Box 28, Folder 22

American Studies as a Discipline 1955

General note

First meeting of American Studies Association, Ohio-Indiana, March Program.
 

General Topics 6 - Criticism and History

Box 28, Folder 23

Speech draft, correspondence with Guy Cordwell 1956 - 1958

Box 28, Folder 24

"History, Criticism, and Teaching" by Norman Maclean, "Criticism Outside History" by Robert Niess - Page proofs 1957

 

13th Annual National Conference on Teacher Education and Professional Standards

Box 28, Folder 25

Conference newsletters, printed invitation, and lecture draft 1958

Box 28, Folder 26

Correspondence with National Education Association 1958

Box 28, Folder 27

Modern Language Association 1958

General note

Speech draft and correspondence with MLA.
Box 28, Folder 28

Symposium: Implications of Nuclear Weapons Testing 1958

General note

Speech draft, letters from scholars.
Box 28, Folder 29

Modern Language Association 1959

General note

Program and correspondence with MLA.
Box 28, Folder 30

St. Louis Suburban Teachers Association - 10th Annual Conference 1959

General note

Program, newsletters, speech draft, correspondence with SLSTA, and ACLS newsletter.
Box 28, Folder 31

Lecture at University of Notre Dame - Correspondence 1959

Box 29, Folder 1

Senior Seminar - Antioch College 1961

General note

Mimeograph of the program, fragment of lecture draft, and correspondence with Antioch College.
Box 29, Folder 2

Turnbell Lectures - Johns Hopkins University 1961

General note

Lecturer's typescript.
Box 29, Folder 3

Conference on the Languages of the Humanistic Studies 1968

General note

Photocopy and typescript of the speech.
Box 29, Folder 4

Modern Language Association 1970

General note

Fragment of speech.
Box 29, Folder 5

1975 Annual Meeting, AAA - Newsletter 9 1974

Box 29, Folder 6

Christopher Longest Lectures 1975

General note

Program, photocopy of the speech, and correspondence with Longest Lecture Series Committee.
Box 29, Folder 7

UCSD - Commencement 1975

General note

Photocopy of the speech.
Box 29, Folder 8

PCB/AHA 1976

General note

Lecture draft, photocopies of papers given by Lewis Saum, Anne McLeod, and Mary McDougall Gordon.
Box 29, Folder 9

Walt Whitman in 1978 - A Symposium - Program and correspondence with Rider College 1978

Box 29, Folder 10

Friends of the UCSD Library Lecture - "Editing Hawthorne or How to Tell Write from Wrong 1979

General note

Production material, newspaper clipping, MLA Statement of Editorial Principles, and program.
 

Colloquium: "Approaches to Literature"

Box 29, Folder 11

Correspondence with University of Southern California, 1980-1981, and program 1981

Box 29, Folder 12

Writings of others - Includes abstract of talk by Ralph W. Rader and essays by Stanley Fish, Jay Schleusener and Ralph W. Rader as published in CRITICAL INQUIRY, Vol. 1, No. 4, June, 1975 1981

Box 29, Folder 13

Phi Beta Kappa 1982

General note

Photocopy of the speech and correspondence with PBK, 1980-1982.
Box 29, Folder 14

Centennial Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn: The Boy, His Book, and American Culture 1985

General note

Program.
Box 29, Folder 15

Literacy and Liberation: The American Scholar in 1986

General note

Draft and final version of the speech.
Box 29, Folder 16

Mass Culture and Mass Education - UCLA 1960

General note

Lecture draft, production notes, and correspondence with UCLA, 1960.
Box 29, Folder 17

Popular Culture v. Mass Culture: Discovery, Definition, Appraisal 1959

General note

Mimeograph copy of the lecture.
Box 29, Folder 18

CLCC 1960

General note

Speech draft.
Box 29, Folder 19

Conference on College Composition and Communication 1960

General note

Program and correspondence with CCCC.
Box 29, Folder 20

Mass Culture - Lecture at Kent State University 1960

General note

Correspondence with Kent State University.
Box 29, Folder 21

19th Session of The English Institute 1960

General note

Program and correspondence with The English Institute, 1959-1960.
Box 29, Folder 22

Conference on New Criticism 1961

General note

Program, production notes, and correspondence with CNC, 1960-1961.
Box 29, Folder 23

19th Annual Conference of the National Committee of Art Education 1961

General note

Program, lecture draft and correspondence with NCAE.
 

Conference in Modern Literature

Box 29, Folder 24

Program, speech draft, and correspondence with CML 1960 - 1961

Box 29, Folder 25

Photocopies of the papers given by Frederick J. Hoffman and Walter J. Ong 1961

Box 29, Folder 26

History of Ideas Club 1961

General note

Speech drafts and correspondence with HIC, 1960-1961.
 

TEACHING MATERIALS

 

Class Materials

Box 30, Folder 1

English 130A 1946

General note

Includes syllabi, lecture notes, midterm exam, and final exam.
Box 30, Folder 2

English 615 1946 - 1952

General note

Includes syllabus and reading list for Spring 1946, syllabus, reading list, midterm and final exams for Spring 1947 (Professor Hoffman), syllabus, reading list and reserve list for Spring 1952 (Professor Simpson), syllabus and reading list for Summer 1953 (Professor Whitmer).
Box 30, Folder 3

English 130C 1947 - 1949

General note

Includes syllabi, course descriptions, library reserve lists, bibliographies, lecture notes, midterm exams, and final exams.
Box 30, Folder 4

English 30 - Introduction to Modern American Poetry 1948

General note

Lecture notes.
Box 30, Folder 5

English 609 1950 - 1957

General note

Syllabi, reading lists, library reserve lists, final exam, lecture notes, and a paper entitled, "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic".
Box 30, Folder 6

English 615 1951 - 1960

General note

Includes syllabi, reading lists, midterm exams, final exams, library reserve submission guide, lecture notes followed by bibliographies, and course elaboration notes.
Box 30, Folder 7

English 610 1952

General note

Includes syllabi, chronology, final exam, lecture notes, syllabus of Mr. Simpson's 1948-1949 class, and letter from E.P. Dutton and Co., 1951.
Box 30, Folder 8

English 241B 1954 - 1955

General note

Syllabus - Professor Hoffman.
Box 30, Folder 9

English 710 1955

General note

Includes bibliography, supplementary bibliographies, and lecture notes.
Box 30, Folder 10

English 728 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Fiction 1956

General note

Course description and reading list (Professor Simpson).
Box 30, Folder 11

English 510 1956 - 1963

General note

Includes syllabi, bibliography, reading lists, lecture notes, midterm exams, and final exams.
Box 30, Folder 12

English 511 1957 - 1962

General note

Syllabus, schedule, midterm exam, final exam, reading list, and lecture notes.
Box 30, Folder 13

English 727 1957 - 1958

General note

Syllabi, reading lists, library reserve lists, lecture notes, and midterm exams.
Box 30, Folder 14

Anthropology 633- Dynamics of American Culture 1958

General note

Reading list and letter to Harvard University (Professor Bennet).
Box 30, Folder 15

English 690 1960 - 1963

General note

Reading list, copy of revisions for problem sessions, final exam, report on final exam, and registration form.
Box 30, Folder 16

American Studies 92- The Artist in American Society 1962

General note

Includes syllabi, reading lists and suggested readings (Professor Jay Martin).
Box 30, Folder 17

English 246- Victorian Texts, 1854-1871 1970

General note

Syllabus and reading list (Professor Michael Green).
Box 30, Folder 18

English 601- American Intellectual and Literary Origins

General note

Syllabus.
Box 30, Folder 19

English 310

General note

Reading list, library reserve list, and lecture notes.
Box 30, Folder 20

World Literature (OSU)

General note

Reading list.
 

Lecture Notes - Topics

Box 30, Folder 21

1962: Notes of a visiting provincial - Lecture drafts

Box 30, Folder 22

20th Century Southern Writing

Box 30, Folder 23

American Criticism and American Culture - Includes lecture draft, photocopy of "American Poetry and the American Conscience," notes, and newspaper clippings

Box 30, Folder 24

American Poetry: 1885-1915

Box 30, Folder 25

Crisis in American Education

Box 30, Folder 26

Exquisites in the 20s - Lecture and production notes

Box 30, Folder 27

Freudism

Box 30, Folder 28

Gilded Age

Box 32, Folder 29

Historical Imagination in America

Box 30, Folder 30

History: 1825-1850

Box 30, Folder 31

Imagism

Box 30, Folder 32

Naturalism/Realism

Box 31, Folder 1

New England Renaissance - General

Box 31, Folder 2

New Humanism

Box 31, Folder 3

New Poetry - Lecture draft

Box 31, Folder 4

Poetry and Progress - Lecture typescript and bulletin of THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, October, 1977

Box 31, Folder 5

Southern Writers - Notes

Box 31, Folder 6

Toward a Theory of History of Joleous - Notes and promotional material for "The Myth of Rags to Riches"

 

Lecture Notes - Authors

Box 31, Folder 7

Adams, Hewey

Box 31, Folder 8

Andersen

Box 31, Folder 9

Brooks, Van W

Box 31, Folder 10

Cather, W

Box 31, Folder 11

Crane, Hart - Includes lecture notes, "The Bridge" by William L. Tazewell, and "Hart Crane, The Bridge and MacLeish, Conquistador," unidentified author

Box 31, Folder 12

Crane, Stephen

Box 31, Folder 13

Cummings, E.E

Box 31, Folder 14

Dos Passos, John

Box 31, Folder 15

Dreiser, Theodore

Box 31, Folder 16

Eliot, T.S. - Includes photocopy of "Notes on Reading Some Poems of Eliot" by Pearce

Box 31, Folder 17

Emerson

Box 31, Folder 18

Faulkner, William - Includes copy of "McCoslin-Edmonds," McCoslins geneology chart, Chickasau "Men" geneology chart, "Notes on the Episode in THE SOUND AND THE FURY Part 1," geneology of the Compson family

Box 31, Folder 19

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Box 31, Folder 20

Harte, Bret

Box 31, Folder 21

Frost, Robert

Box 31, Folder 22

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Includes "Notes on THE SCARLET LETTER" by R.H. Pearce, "An Ambiguity of Sin or Sorrow" by Richard H. Fogle

Box 31, Folder 23

Hemingway, Ernest

Box 31, Folder 24

Howells, William D

Box 31, Folder 25

James, Hewey

Box 31, Folder 26

Lewis, Sinclair

Box 31, Folder 27

Mather, Colin

Box 31, Folder 28

Melville, Herman - Includes printed copy of THE MELVILLE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER, copy of "A Note on Moby-Dick," and copy of "The Hawthorne-Melville Relationships" by E. Knoff

Box 31, Folder 29

Mencken, H. L. - Typescript of "The Booboisie: Mencken and Lewis"

Box 31, Folder 30

Noreis, Frank

Box 31, Folder 31

Moore, Marianne

Box 31, Folder 32

O'Neill, Eugene - Typescript of "Eugene O'Neill and the American Theatre"

Box 31, Folder 33

Poe, Edgar A

Box 31, Folder 34

Pound, Ezra - Includes untitled typescript

Box 31, Folder 35

Robinsen, E.A

Box 31, Folder 36

Sandburg, Carl

Box 31, Folder 37

Stein, Gertrude

Box 31, Folder 38

Steinbeck, John - Includes printed copy of "Steinbeck and The Biological View of Man" by Frederick Bracher

Box 31, Folder 39

Stevens, Wallace

Box 31, Folder 40

Twain, Mark - Includes memorandum 1968

Box 31, Folder 41

Wharton, Edith

Box 31, Folder 42

Whitman, Walt

Box 31, Folder 43

Wolfe, Thomas

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Box 31, Folder 44

Humanism Studies - Notes and fragment of "Science and Humanities in Education"

Box 31, Folder 45

Dissertation subjects

Box 31, Folder 46

James as naturalist - Notes

Box 31, Folder 47

Literature as idea - Notes

Box 31, Folder 48

List of essays on the analysis and understanding of literature

Box 31, Folder 49

Miscellaneous - Includes notes, poems, fragments, newspaper clippings, photocopy of Letter XLVII

Box 31, Folder 50

MLA Projects - Notes

Box 31, Folder 51

Naturalism - Notes

Box 31, Folder 52

Poems - Photocopies and typescripts

Box 31, Folder 53

Poems - Unidentified authors

Box 31, Folder 54

Poems and fragments, promotional material for the KENYON REVIEW

Box 31, Folder 55

Popular Culture - Includes project about course on the history of mass communication in The Annenberg School of Communications and memorandum

Box 31, Folder 56

Romance in 19th Century America - Notes

Box 31, Folder 57

Transformation of Academy - Draft

Box 31, Folder 58

What the Thunder Said: Three Translations in the American - Notes

Box 31, Folder 59

Whitman - Notes

Box 31, Folder 60

Ph.D. exam questions

 

MANUSCRIPT READING REPORTS

Box 32, Folder 1

Cambridge University Press 1975 - 1980

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 32, Folder 2

Harvard University Press 1966 - 1978

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 32, Folder 3

Johns Hopkins Press

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 32, Folder 4

Ohio State University Press 1963 - 1981

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 32, Folder 5

Princeton University Press 1966 - 1989

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 32, Folder 6

University of California Press 1966 - 1989

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 32, Folder 7

University of Tennessee Press 1971 - 1981

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 32, Folder 8

University of Washington Press 1965 - 1974

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 32, Folder 9

Various presses 1967 - 1976

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
Box 32, Folder 10

Various presses 1977 - 1992

Conditions Governing Access note

Restrictions Apply
 

ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES

Box 33, Folder 1

From boxes 11-15

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Box 33, Folder 2

From boxes 16-22

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Box 33, Folder 3

From boxes 23-27

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Box 33, Folder 4

From boxes 28-33

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