Alice Cecilia Cooper papers, 1920-1958

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Summary

Creators:
Cooper, Alice Cecilia
Abstract:
Alice Cecilia Cooper (1878-1960) was the supervisor of English for the Oakland Public Schools in Oakland, California. She also taught in Los Angeles schools, San Francisco City College, University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford. The collection consists of Cooper's correspondence with various American and English authors, poets, educators.
Extent:
1.0 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Alice Cecilia Cooper Papers (Collection 739). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of Cooper's correspondence with various American and English authors, poets, educators. The correspondence reflects Cooper's efforts to compile literary anthologies for classroom use while she was Supervisor of English for Oakland Public Schools, Oakland, California. Included in the collection are letters, manuscripts, and ephemera from Edwin Markham, Alfred Noyes, Richard Burton, Walter De La Mare, James Main Dixon, Hamlin Garland, Arthur Guiterman, Louis Untermeyer, Christopher Morley, Will C. Wood, and F.A. Rice.

This collection contains correspondence of Miss Alice Cooper, Supervisor of English, Oakland Public Schools, with various English and American writers, poets, and educators of the first half of the 20th. century. Most of the letters deal with copyright, giving Miss Cooper permission to include their works in anthologies of modern prose and poetry she was compiling for use as textbooks for Junior High Schools. One of these was published under the joint authorship of Will Christopher Wood, Miss Cooper, and Frederick A. Rice, as America's Message, Boston, New York, etc., Ginn and company, 1925. Of greater note and interest are letters, manuscripts, and ephemera from Edwin Markham, Alfred Noyes, Richard Burton, Walter De La Mare, James Main Dixon, Hamlin Garland, Arthur Guiterman, Louis Untermeyer, and others.

In the collection are also several letters of Will C. Wood and F.A. Rice regarding the Anthology, as well as manuscript poems and ephemera sent to Miss Cooper by her correspondents.

Biographical / historical:

Alice Cecilia Cooper born in Walkerton, Canada in 1878; moved to Los Angeles in 1887; received Ph.D. from Stanford; was supervisor of English for the Oakland Public Schools in Oakland, California; in the course of her career, she taught in Los Angeles schools, at San Francisco City College, University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford; published poetry and was author-editor of textbooks and literary anthologies used in schools and universities; died in Los Angeles on June 13, 1960.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Gertrude E. Cooper.
Processing information:

Processed by Esther Vécsey, February 1961.

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Arrangement:

Collection arranged alphabetically by author.

Physical location:
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Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Alice Cecilia Cooper Papers (Collection 739). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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