White, William, 1910-1995. Papers of William White [manuscript], 1875-1987.
Title:
Papers of William White [manuscript], 1875-1987.
Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, proofs, research material, newsclippings, photographs, records, tapes and scrapbooks. The collection contains typescripts and proofs for "By-line: Ernest Hemingway" and "Dateline: Toronto," his dissertation on A. E. Housman and articles re Ralph Waldo Emerson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sir William Osler, W. D. Snodgrass, Nathanael West, and Walt Whitman. In addition there are articles by other critics and bibliographers and manuscripts submitted to the "Walt Whitman Quarterly Review" Of special interest is a group of A. E. Housman papers including three manuscripts, a parody by Arthur Christopher Benson, a dedication to Moses I. Jackson, and three letters: Grant Richards to Housman, Jackson to Richards, and Geoffrey Wethered to Laurence Housman. White's professional correspondence contains discussions with other scholars about Ernest Bramah, G. K. Chesterton, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ernest Hemingway, A. E. Housman, D. H. Lawrence, Sir William Osler, W. D. Snodgrass, Henry D. Thoreau, and Nathanael West. There are also topical files on censorship, particularly of John O'Hara's "Ten North Frederick"; the "New Cambridge bibliography of English literature"; the International Imitation Hemingway Competition; employment at Oita College of Commerce, Oita, Japan; and evaluation of Ph D dissertations submitted to the University of Madras, Madras, India. The collection also contains research material including copies of correspondence and manuscripts, bibliographies, notes and printed items, and recordings of lectures and readings, for many of the above authors particularly Bramah, Hemingway, Housman, and Whitman. Personal papers include biographical material, photographs, scrapbooks and twenty-six diaries, 1928-1980.
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