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Cornell University. English Department

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Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Helen Faith Keane papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093378143]
Identifier: 37-5-3467
Scope and content

Student notebooks for History of English Literature, History of English Drama, and Classical English, 1925. Also copy of a photograph of the 1925 Women's Crew.

Dates: 1925.

Lane Cooper papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-12-680
Abstract

Personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, notes, reviews, printed material, and other items.

Dates: 1881-1959.

M. H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professorship miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 41 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924093395162]
Identifier: 14-12-3597
Scope and content

Poster and program from the January 2007 symposium inaugurating the M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professorship. Also sheet of poems used for Professor Abrams' talk; copy of letter from Harold Bloom; and copy of book inscriptions by Thomas Pynchon, with cover letter.

Dates: 2007.

M. H. Abrams papers

 Collection — Cd 437
Identifier: 14-12-4080
Abstract

This collection contains the faculty papers and the correspondence of Professor Mike Abrams. Most documents concern his career at Cornell University.

Dates: 1912-2015.

Martin W. Sampson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-12-116
Abstract

Poetry, plays, short stories, lectures, and journals written by Professor Martin W. Sampson. Also includes correspondence and ephemera.

Dates: 1870-1969.; Majority of material found within 1887-1930.

Pauline Carpenter Barnes papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113249100]
Identifier: 37-5-3846
Scope and content

Two student notebooks for Professor J.Q. Adams' English class, English Drama to 1642.

Dates: 1932.

Robert Martin Adams papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-12-3182
Abstract

Manuscripts include: "Winter Arches, a private book," an autobiographical account of his life until World War II; "Machiavelli without the Prince," in two manuscript versions; "Montaigne Incisions," an essay; and "Sun Goes Down Tide Goes Out," writings at the end of his life. Also, teaching materials, including ditto sheets given to students and a short play about the English Department.

Dates: [ca. 1950-1966]

Scott Elledge papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-12-3592
Abstract

Includes course material, correspondence and material from his book on E.B. White.

Dates: 1945-1986.

Scott McMillin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-12-3909
Scope and content

Play scripts, course material, publications, newspaper clippings and correspondence concerning McMillin's areas of interest including Elizabethan, modern drama and, American musical theater. Research on Shakespeare including notes on the minimal number of actors needed to perform plays. Book drafts, biographic material, index cards for research compiled by assistants.

Dates: 1970-2004.

Shirley Dickstein lecture notes

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-4111
Scope and content

Lecture notes from courses primarily in English, but also in Music, Psychology, and Sociology. Professional 8x10 photographs and snapshots of the Cornell campus.

Dates: 1943-1944.

Additional filters:

Subject
English literature -- Study and teaching. 8
Photographs 4
College teachers 3
Women college students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 3
American poetry. 2