William Strunk papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 14-12-585

Scope and content

Includes Strunk's Cornell University Ph.D. thesis, "The Anglo-Saxon Remains of Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles," 1896, including a 13 pg. mss. in Anglo-Saxon with a note on top "from Rev. Prof Keat. 2 Salisbury (Villas?). Cambridge Nov. 3, 1895"; his notebooks on Kipling and drama; one volume "English Essays" containing numerous handwritten annotations by Strunk; a 1918 privately printed copy of "The Elements of Style" and a broadside "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a pictorial story of the research which preceded Mr. Irving Thalberg's production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" which includes a photo of Strunk.

Scope and content

1 broadside.

Dates

1891-1933.

Creator

Strunk, William, 1869-1946. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Professor of English Literature, Cornell University.

Extent

.3 cubic feet.

1 microfilm reels.

1 mapcase folders.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Location of Originals Note

Holder of originals: Microfilm includes Strunk's thesis, notebooks, and letters from Strunk in other collections, including four to Lane Cooper, eighteen to James Morgan Hart, two to Frank Thilly, one to O.D. von Engeln; and reminiscences of Strunk by Charlotte Holmes Crawford in folder entitled "Cornelliana 1906 memorabilia.".