Guide to the O. C. Williams Records MSS.2010.06.03
Scope and Content of Collection
University Archives Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Series I: Humanities Department Records 1932-1992
Series Scope and Content Summary
Subseries 1. Correspondence 1932-1992
Administrative 1946-1985
English Department 1946-1950, 1985
Jim and Ruth Smith 1988
Personal 1932-1992
Poetry 1968-1991
Publishing 1946-1975
Retirement 1974
Statements of Support 1949-1973
Subseries 2. Departmental and University Materials 1933-1992
Academic Writing Undated
American Council of Learned Societies Newsletter Fall 1973
Art Exhibit Flyers and Brochures: Non-SJSU 1933
The Banality of Relevance by John D'Arms 1974
Bicentennial Lecture by John H. Bunzel 1976
Bob Gordon's Retirement 1984-1986
Conflict Correspondence 1970
English Coursework 1952
Event Flyers 1988
Faculty Wives Club Yearbooks 1974-1990
Gavilan College Commencement Speech 1981
Governor Nelson's SJSC Founder's Day Address May 3, 1960
Honor's Convocation: Announcements and Programs 1978
Honor's Convocation: Correspondence 1978
Honor's Convocation: Press 1978
Honor's Convocation: Speeches 1978
Humanities Coursework Undated
Humanities Department: 5 Year Program Planning Undated
The Levering Act 1949-1952
Library: Personal Accession Sheets Undated
My Last Lecture by Marion K. Richards Undated
Newsletters: Non-SJSU 1946, 1983-1987
Paperwork and Press on Cinema 1988-1989
Press 1947-1985
Richard G. Tansey's Retirement 1979
Robert D. Clark on University of Oregon Bombing 1970
SJSU English Department Newsletter Spring 1990
SJSU President John H. Bunzel's Retirement 1978
San José Studies: SJSU Academic Journal 1974-1991
San José Studies: Poems Accepted 1979-1992
San José Studies: Trustees Meeting 1992
Speeches Undated
The Tower: Inaugural Issue Spring 1965
Certificate of Appreciation (framed) 1955
Subseries 3. Emeritus Faculty Association 1970-1992
Constitution and By-Laws 1981
Newsletters: CSU 1987-1992
Newsletters: SJSU 1986-1992
SJSU Meetings 1986-1987
SJSU Members 1970, 1986
Series II. Kappa Alpha and Gamma Delta Fraternal Organization Records 1928-1958
Series Scope and Content Summary
Advisory Council 1949-1951
Alpha Pi (Stanford University) 1948-1951
Alpha Pi (Stanford) Report Forms 1948-1951
Alpha XI Chapter 1949-1951
Alumni Bulletins 1949
Beta Psi (Los Angeles) Alumni Association 1947-1949
Beta Psi (Los Angeles) Building Association 1947-1951
Beta Psi (Los Angeles) Chapter 1948-1951
Beta Psi (Los Angeles) Report Forms 1948-1951
Beta Sigma (Los Angeles) Chapter 1949-1951
Check Stubs and Receipts 1957-1958
Committee to Analyze the Kappa Alpha Journal 1950-1951
Convention and Officers Training School 1949
Convention and Officers Training School 1951
Correspondence 1948-1949
Dixie Ball 1947-1951
Fundraising 1946-1951
Gamma Delta (San José) 1948-1951
Gamma Delta (San José) House Accounting Ledger 1954-1955
Gamma Delta (San José) House Non-Profit Corporation Meeting Minutes Log Book 1949-1954
Gamma Delta (San José) Report Forms 1948-1951
Gamma Epsilon (University of Arizona) 1949-1951
Gamma Epsilon (University of Arizona) Report Forms 1949-1951
Gamma Iota (San Diego State) 1950-1951
Gamma Iota (San Diego State) Report Forms 1950-1951
Journal 1946-1952
Knight Commander's Letter 1948-1952
Lambda Kappa Tau: Member Directory 1928
Neal Province Correspondence 1948-1950
Neal Province Correspondence 1951
Officers Training School 1950
Pledge Solicitors: Jack Davis 1947
Province Council Meetings 1948-1949
Province Council Meetings 1950-1951
Publicity Stills and Press 1949
Racial and Religious Discrimination by Kappa Alpha and Fraternal Organizations 1948-1949
Receipt Books 1954-1956
Robert E. Lee Banquet 1948-1949
Scholarship Fund 1948-1951
Travel and Expense Reports 1950
Series III. Research Files 1887-1991
Series Scope and Content Summary
Subseries 1. Publications Collected by Williams 1887-1979
"Am I Normal, Doctor?" - A Philosophical Response by Peter Koestenbaum August 30, 1968
Areopagitica by John Milton 1888
Die Bezauberte Rose by Ernst Schulze 1887
Bulletin of the New York Public Library December 1971
Bulletin of Research in the Humanities (NYPL) Spring 1978
College English, Vol. 31, Vol. 17 May 1956, May 1970
Comparative Literature: University of Oregon Journal Spring 1965
Cultural Tension: The Origins of American Santa Barbara Winter 1978
A Defense of Poesie by Sir Philip Sidney 1889
Dryden's "Cousin Swift" by John Robert Moore December 1953
Educational Theatre Journal March 1959
The English Journal, Vol. XLVI, No. 3 March 1957
Gideon's Attack on Steele and Defoe in the Battle of the Authors by John Robert Moore June 1951
Hill's Vest-Pocket Dano-Norwegian-English Dictionary Circa 1898
Jemmie Boswell and the London Daily Press, 1785-1795, by Lucile Werkmeister 1963
Junior Libraries Journal, Vol. 3, No. 7 March 1957
Little Blue Books and Catalog Circa 1922-24, 1933-34
The London Dispensary for the Sick-Poor by Albert Rosenberg 1959
Milton Among the Augustans: The Infernal Council by John Robert Moore January 1951
Never Swear to Anything: A Comedy in Three Acts by Alfred de Musset 1962
The New Orleans Poetry Journal April 1955
Printing as an Index of Taste in Eighteenth Century England by Bertrand H. Bronson 1958
Rasselas and the Early Travelers to Abyssinia by John Robert Moore 1954
Peabody Journal of Education May 1957
Poe's Reading of Anne of Geierstein by John Robert Moore 1951
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse June 1945
The Sabertooth: Occidental College Poetry Journal 1937
San José Studies: Poems by Roberta Holloway December 1979
Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review, Vol. XVII, No. 4 March 1951
Self-Reliance and Art by Ralph Waldo Emerson Undated
Shakespeare and the Over-Soul by Ralph Waldo Emerson Undated
Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century England by J.H. Plumb and Vinton A. Dearing March 7, 1970
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900: Rice University Journal, Vol. IX, No. 3 Summer 1969
Swift as Historian by John Robert Moore October 1952
Thomas Fuller's Oxford Interlude by James O. Wood May 1954
Time is a Holiday: Fiesta in Mexico by William Crawford Jr. 1951
Was Jonathan Swift a Moderate? by John Robert Moore 1954
What Gives With All These Long-Haired Kids? by Hal Hodges March 1968
Subseries 2. Publications Featuring Williams 1930-1977
Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature (Univ. of Illinois) Winter 1954
American Weave: A Quarterly Magazine of Poetry and Light Verse Spring 1946-1951
Anomaly: The San José Quarterly Review Winter 1968
The Augustan Reprint Society: Daniel Defoe 1951
Black and White: The West in Review August 1939
Blue Guitar 1953
Contemporary Verse: A Canadian Quarterly October 1946
Crocodile Review May-June 1961
Experiment: A Quarterly of New Poetry 1945-1951
Gargoyle (Reed College) Spring 1947
Interim: The Literary Magazine of the Pacific Northwest 1947-1950
Matrix 1951-1952
The Optick Glass by O.C. Williams 1952
The Pacific Spectator Autumn 1949
The Pacific Spectator Spring 1951
The Pacific Spectator Winter 1951
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse December 1945 - August 1946
The Poetry Chap-Book Summer 1947-Winter 1951
Polytechnic Evensongs Undated
Quarterly Review of Literature 1951
Recognitions: Poems 1975-1977 by O.C. Williams 1977
San José Studies February 1975, November 1977
Talisman 1952-1959
This Little Room and Other Poems 1945-1975 by O.C. Williams 1975
The Tower: SJSC Faculty Magazine Fall 1964-Spring 1965
The Tower: SJSC Faculty Magazine Fall 1965-Spring 1967
The Tower: SJSC Faculty Magazine Spring 1968
UCLA Literary Review, Vol. 1, No. 3 May 1930
A Western Sampler: 9 Contemporary Poets 1963
Index Card Files, Defoe's Tour (microfilm) undated
Subseries 3. Publications Related to Defoe 1936-1972
A Brief History of the Poor Palatine Refugees by Daniel Defoe (1709) 1964
The Canon of Defoe's Writings by John Robert Moore 1956
Daniel Defoe by James Joyce (Univ. of Buffalo Studies) 1964
Daniel Defoe: Star Reporter by John Robert Moore October 1954
Defoe and the Art of Fiction by Alan Swallow Spring 1950
Defoe's Education at Newington Green Academy by Lew Girdler 1953
Defoe's Hand in a Journal of the Earl of Marr's Proceedings (1716) by John Robert Moore 1954
Defoe's 'Lost' Letter to a Dissenter by John Robert Moore May 1951
Defoe's Pacificator Reconsidered by Albert Rosenberg Oct. 1958
Defoe's Sources for Robert Drury's Journal by John Robert Moore 1943
Defoe, Steele, and the Demolition of Dunkirk by John Robert Moore May 1950
Defoe in Stoke Newtington by Arthur Secord 1948
Defoe's Workshop by John Robert Moore 1948
An Essay on the Regulation of the Press by Daniel Defoe Undated
Irony in Defoe and Swift by Maximillian E. Novak and Herbert J. Davis 1966
Modern Philology Journal, Vol. XXXIX, Vol. XLVIII, No. 1 August 1941, August 1950
Philological Quarterly: University of Iowa Journal July 1936
Prairie Schooner (Univ. of Nebraska) Summer-Spring 1949
Prairie Schooner (Univ. of Nebraska) Spring-Fall 1951
Prairie Schooner (Univ. of Nebraska) Summer 1952-Fall 1953
Times Literary Supplement: The Enigma of Defoe April 28, 1972
The Writings of Daniel Defoe: More Reformation Undated
The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 22, No. 4 April 1948
Subseries 4. Class Notes 1923-1991
Age of Johnson (1750-1798) 1931
Age of Johnson: Boswell and Johnson Articles 1942-1946
Age of Johnson: A Day with Dr. Johnson at the Turk's Head 1923
Age of Johnson: Horace Walpole Circa 1951
Age of Johnson: Lord Chesterfield Article Nov. 18, 1951
Age of Johnson: William Blake Article Oct. 6, 1946
Age of Swift and Pope: Addison and Steele 1958-1972
Age of Swift and Pope: Alexander Pope 1959-1976
Age of Swift and Pope: Comedy of Manners 1949-1974
Age of Swift and Pope: Criticism Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Defoe 1956-1981
Age of Swift and Pope: Dryden Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Duke of Buckingham, George Villiers Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Earl of Rochester 1963
Age of Swift and Pope: Grub Street Hacks Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Henry Fielding Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Heroic Drama 1972
Age of Swift and Pope: Historical Backgrounds Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: John Dryden 1956-1973
Age of Swift and Pope: John Gay Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Matthew Prior Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Minor Writers Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Moral Essay I - Pope's Epistle to Lord Cobham 1960-1965
Age of Swift and Pope: Moral Essay II - Pope's 'On the Characters of Women' 1960-1965
Age of Swift and Pope: Moral Essay III - Pope's Epistle to Bathurst 1960-1963
Age of Swift and Pope: Moral Essay IV - Pope's Epistle to Richard Boyle 1960-1965
Age of Swift and Pope: Moral Essay V - Pope's Epistle to Mr. Addison Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Pastoral Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Periodicals Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Poetry - 18th Century Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Political Backgrounds Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's 'The Dunciad' Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue I 1960-1966
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue II 1960-1963
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 1960-1965
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's Essay on Criticism 1952
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's Essay on Man 1959
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's First Epistle of the First Book of Horace 1960-1965
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace 'To Augustus' 1963-1965
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's First Satire of the Second Book of Horace 1963-1965
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's Imitation of Donne's Satyre II 1960-1966
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's Imitation of the Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace 1960-1963
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace 1960-1963
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace 1963
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's Versification of Donne's Satire IV 1960-1965
Age of Swift and Pope: Pope's Works 1959
Age of Swift and Pope: Pre-Romanticism 1954
Age of Swift and Pope: Questions on Readings 1952-1956
Age of Swift and Pope: Religious Backgrounds Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: The Royal Society Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Samuel Butler 1958
Age of Swift and Pope: Satire Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Sir Richard Steele Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Social Backgrounds Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Swift Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Swift Articles 1946-1991
Age of Swift and Pope: Swift's Battle of the Books Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Swift's Gulliver's Travels Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Swift's Minor Works 1958
Age of Swift and Pope: Swift's 'A Tale of a Tub' Undated
Age of Swift and Pope: Timeline Undated
Defoe Class for San José Unified School District Adult Education 1959
English 56B 1958
English 146 Coursework 1955-1970
English 147 Coursework Undated
English 147: The Age of Johnson 1953
English 146: Age of Swift and Pope Circa 1950
English 146: Age of Swift and Pope 1951-1969
English 199 Coursework 1950-1952
Old College Papers 1936-1937
Old College Papers Undated
Poetic Composition: English 162 1950-1954
Williams' Personal Coursework (1 of 4) Undated
Williams' Personal Coursework (2 of 4) Undated
Williams' Personal Coursework (3 of 4) Undated
Williams' Personal Coursework (4 of 4) Undated
Subseries 5. Poetry Manuscripts and Papers Authored by Williams 1950
Notes for a Study of Defoe's 'The Complete English Tradesman' (1 of 2) Undated
Notes for a Study of Defoe's 'The Complete English Tradesman' (2 of 2) Undated
Poems (1 of 2) Undated
Poems (2 of 2) undated
A Study of Defoe's 'The Complete English Tradesman' - A PhD Dissertation (1 of 4) January 1950
A Study of Defoe's 'The Complete English Tradesman' - A PhD Dissertation (2 of 4) January 1950
A Study of Defoe's 'The Complete English Tradesman' - A PhD Dissertation (3 of 4) January 1950
A Study of Defoe's 'The Complete English Tradesman' - A PhD Dissertation (4 of 4) January 1950
Subseries 6. Defoe Research Notes 1938-1951
Advertisements in 'Review' Undated
Allusions and Relations with Other Authors Undated
Attitude Toward Age Undated
Attitude Toward Other Classes Undated
The Complete Citizen Undated
Contemporary Authors Undated
Defoe As Novelist Undated
Ethics Undated
A General History of Trade I Undated
A General History of Trade II Undated
General Notes 1938-1942
Introduction Undated
Middle Class Writers Before Defoe Undated
Narrative Methods Undated
Notes in German Undated
Parallels in Ideas Undated
Parallels in Phrase Undated
Political Ideas Undated
Style Undated
Tour 1950
Trade Undated
True-Born Englishman Undated
Views on Slavery Undated
Vindication of the Press (1718) 1950-1951
Subseries 7. Defoe's 'The Complete English Tradesman' Research Notes 1949
Advertisements (1725-1728) Undated
Bibliography 1941, 1949
Corrections/Edits Undated
Defoe's Character Undated
Defoe's Economic Ideas Undated
Defoe's Life Undated
Defoe's Social Criticisms (1704-1729) Undated
Editorial Policy Undated
1839 Edition: Edinburgh (1st Vol.) Undated
Excerpt Undated
Notes Undated
1726 Edition: Dublin Undated
1726 Edition: First Ed. Undated
1727 Edition: 2 Volumes Undated
1727 Edition Supplement Undated
1732 Edition: 2 Volumes Undated
1738 Edition: 2 Volumes Undated
1745 Edition, 2 Volumes (5th Ed.) Undated
Study Undated
Supplement Undated
Trent's Notes 1949
Subseries 8. English Authors Research Notes 1932-1972
A 1937-1948
B 1937-1972
C 1939-1945
Chaucer 1941-1948
D 1934-1945
E 1937
F 1937-1949
G 1937-1951
H 1936-1963
I-J 1937-1959
K 1937-1947
Keats 1932-1946
L 1937-1951
Mc and Mac Suffixes Undated
M 1937-1947
Milton 1937-1939
N 1946-1947
O 1963
P 1933-1945
Q Undated
R 1939-1963
S 1941-1952
Shakespeare 1939-1948
Shakespeare Criticism and Editors Undated
Shakespeare's Hamlet Undated
Shelley 1937-1947
Spenser 1937
T 1938-1963
Tottel's Miscellany Undated
U-V 1945-1951
W 1937-1963
X-Z 1933-1951
Non-English Authors: James Joyce 1934-1960
Non-English Authors: Franz Kafka 1947-1949
Subseries 9. Eighteenth Century and English Literature Research Notes 1929-1947
Charles Gildon (1665-1724) Undated
Eighteenth Century Criminal Biographies Undated
Eighteenth Century Ideas Undated
Eighteenth Century Ideas: Bourgeoisie Undated
Eighteenth Century Ideas: Capitalism Undated
Eighteenth Century Ideas: Deism Undated
Eighteenth Century Ideas: Drama and Society Undated
Eighteenth Century Ideas: Letter Writers Undated
Eighteenth Century Ideas: Periodicals Undated
Eighteenth Century Ideas: Primitivism and Progress Undated
Eighteenth Century Ideas: Puritanism Undated
Eighteenth Century Ideas: Science and Social Welfare Undated
Periods of English Literature Undated
Periods of English Literature: Age of Elizabeth Undated
Periods of English Literature: Age of Milton 1937
Periods of English Literature: Anglo-Saxon Period Undated
Periods of English Literature: Criticism 1940
Periods of English Literature: Criticism Articles 1937-1947
Periods of English Literature: Elizabethan Drama Undated
Periods of English Literature: Middle Ages Undated
Periods of English Literature: Renaissance and Reformation Undated
Periods of English Literature: Romantic Movement 1934
Periods of English Literature: Tudor Period Undated
Periods of English Literature: Victorian Undated
Periods of English Literature: Victorian Poetry 1929-1932
Poetry: History and Types - Articles 1936-1946
Poetry: Theory - Articles 1942-1946
Poetry: Types of Theory Undated
Samuel Richardson Undated
Susanna Centlivre Undated
Thesis Plans and General Material on the Period Undated
Subseries 10. Published Literary Analysis 1950-1965
The Explicator 1950
The Explicator 1951
The Explicator 1952
The Explicator 1953
The Explicator 1954
The Explicator 1955
The Explicator 1956
The Explicator 1957
The Explicator 1958
The Explicator 1959
The Explicator 1960
The Explicator 1961
The Explicator 1962
The Explicator 1963
The Explicator 1964
The Explicator 1965
The Explicator Index October 1949-June 1955
The Explicator Index October 1955-June 1964
Subseries 11. Correspondence 1944-1991
Alan Swallow, Publisher 1948-1954
American Weave Literary Journal 1946-1949
Blue Guitar Magazine 1953-1955
Book Club Subscriptions 1952-1954
Dr. Pepper 1985
Experiment Poetry Quarterly 1945-1951
Humanities Department Personal 1951-1980
Interim Poetry Journal 1946-1953
Matrix Magazine 1952
Pacific Spectator Journal 1949-1954
Poetry Magazine 1945-1948
Personal 1981-1985
Prairie Schooner Literary Magazine 1949-1953
Publication Inquiry 1950
Quarterly Review of Literature 1944-1952
Recognitions 1976-1980
Rejections 1945-1954
San José Studies 1977
SJSC T.S. Eliot Memorial 1965
Talisman Press 1952-1990
This Little Room 1975-1991
University of Buffalo Library 1954
Subseries 12. Personal Papers 1926-1977
Air Raid Warden's Kit 1950-1951
Family Trust 1973-1976
Maps: Williams' Navy Service During WWII 1940-1946
Military Service 1926-1946
Poems 1958-1967
Press: Classical Studies 1975
Recognitions Poetry Manuscripts 1975-1977
U.C. Berkeley Doctorate Exam Program 1950