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Literature -- Study and teaching.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Baxter Hathaway papers

 Collection — Box 11: [Barcode: 31924093404121]
Identifier: 14-12-2198
Abstract

Collection includes manuscripts and typescripts of three novels THE SHEEPFOLD, THE OUTPOSTS OF COLD, and BRIEF CANDLE, short stories, poetry, reviews, critiques, and essays; polemics; literary studies; notes; student work; broadsides; correspondence and other records concerning "Epoch" and "Cornell Review"; correspondence (approximately one quarter of the collection) to and from Hathaway, particularly with David Ray, B.H. Friedman, and editors and publishers;

Dates: [ca. 1932]-1980.

Harold Wentworth papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-12-842
Scope and content

Correspondence with colleagues and others concerning language, literature, various teaching positions, and activities of the College English Association, the Modern Language Association, the American Dialect Society, and other professional organizations. Other items concern Wentworth's American Dialect Dictionary, his student days, his instructorship at Cornell, manuscripts of poetry, diaries, and personal expense accounts.

Dates: 1921-1960.

James Morgan Hart papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 8 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065265021]
Identifier: 14-18-65
Abstract Includes letters from scholars relating to the study of languages and literature, particularly Old English, Celtic, and German, and to scholarly language journals and associations; from educators relating to university patterns and policies at Cornell; from editors concerning Hart's publications; from Mrs. Bayard Taylor regarding her husband's papers; autographed letters from Louisa May Alcott, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Hamilton Fish, Henry James, Henry W. Longfellow, Lord Russell, and others...
Dates: 1856-1916.