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Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988. Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1941-1963.

Title: Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1941-1963.

ArchivalResource: 101 items (171 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/186383017 View

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Ralph Waldo Emerson edition papers, 1946-1968.

Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson edition papers, 1946-1968.

Collection contains a variety of materials spanning the years from 1946 to 1968, concerning the inventory, editorial work, and eventual publication of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Includes: inventories of manuscripts of Emerson and the Emerson family; manuscript notes; typescripts and manuscript drafts of text; contracts; copies of essays by others on Emerson; a manual for the editing of the Emerson journals and notebooks; and correspondence concerning the manuscripts and the editing project to and from Stephen Emerson Whicher and Robert Ernest Spiller, and others. Other names associated with this project, with papers included in this collection, are: the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association, Roger Eliot Stoddard, Merton M. Sealts, William Henry Gilman, and Harrison Hayford.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (3.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612861040 View

Child, Clarence Griffin, 1864-1948. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1917.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1917.

Letter to Robert E. Spiller on stationery of the English Language and Literature Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191734162 View

University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of American Civilization. Letters, 1949-1953, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1949-1953, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Sculley Bradley, Chairman, and Robert E. Spiller, Dept. of American Civilization.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (4 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155877313 View

American Literature, Records, 1927-2000s

Title: American Literature Records, 1927-2000s

ArchivalResource: Number of Linear Feet: 43; Approximate number of items: 32,075

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/amlit/ View

Alden, John Eliot, 1914-1991. Ezra Pound research collection, 1916-1948.

Title: Ezra Pound research collection, 1916-1948.

Miscellaneous group of letters and materials concerning Ezra Pound. Includes letters from Pound to John Eliot Alden, James T. Farrell, Ford Madox Ford, Arnold Gingrich, Roy F. Nichols, Henry B. Parkes, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, Robert Spiller, C. Seymour Thompson, University of Pennsylvania Press, and Edwin Bucher Williams. Balance of collection comprises four essays by Pound; material and drafts for Charles Norman's "The Case of Ezra Pound," including letters from Conrad Aiken, Julien Cornell, E.E. Cummings, Eugene Delafield, T.S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Macmillan Company, F.O. Matthiessen, Random House, Karl Jay Shapiro, Louis Untermeyer, and William Carlos Williams and 2 transcripts of Pound's 1942 radio broadcasts; photographs; and a copy of the FBI file on Ezra Pound.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155905094 View

Literary Fellowship of Philadelphia. Correspondence, 1947-1979.

Title: Correspondence, 1947-1979.

The correspondence is to and from W. Otto Sypherd and Robert E. Spiller and their successors as organizers.

ArchivalResource: 950 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/151371652 View

Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988. Correspondence, 1949-1969, from Lewis Mumford.

Title: Correspondence, 1949-1969, from Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 7 items (11 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155881751 View

MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. Miscellaneous manuscripts, undated.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, undated.

Consists of three items: one letter to Dr. Robert Spiller, declining an invitation from the Philomathean Society to visit the University; and two 8x10 in. b&w glossy portrait photographs of MacLeish.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155886143 View

Anderson, Carl Lennart. Papers, 1977-1982.

Title: Papers, 1977-1982.

Papers include 2 folders of Arlin Turner Festschrift files containing correspondence and miscellany and the Robert E. Spiller file containing letters about Spiller written by former graduate students. Includes correspondence with Professors Louis J. Budd and Arlin Turner. Includes a copy of the introduction to the Turner Festschrift; Dr. Turner's vita; bibliography of his works; list of contributors to the Festschrift; and index of persons appearing in the Festschrift.

ArchivalResource: 78 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31421821 View

Butterworth, Charles C., 1894-1957. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1856-1928.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1856-1928.

Consists of typescripts and manuscripts of three articles, notes and interviews by Charles C. Butterworth on the Philadelphia poet John Dorgan. These are accompanied by an undated newspaper clipping. There is also an 1856 letter from Dorgan to George Stuart of Philadelphia enclosing a photograph of Dorgan.

ArchivalResource: 22 items (82 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155887750 View

Duke University Press. American Literature records, 1927-2002.

Title: American Literature records, 1927-2002.

Consists of correspondence, editorial commentary, and other material, which relates to editorial policy, Duke Press, reviewers, the Norman Foerster Award, publicity, and the American Literature Group/Section of the Modern Language Association. In addition to documenting the journal's history in great depth, this collection sheds light on the initial organization of the field of American literary studies and illustrates changing approaches to literary criticism. Papers generated by many scholars are contained in the collection. All of the Editorial Chairs' papers as individuals are also housed in the Hubbell Center: Jay B. Hubbell, Clarence Gohdes, Arlin Turner, Edwin Cady, Louis Budd, and Cathy Davidson. The function of the Editorial Board members is to read and write commentary on submitted articles. Four members whose individual papers are housed in the Hubbell Center are: Ralph Rusk, Henry Pochmann, Gay Wilson Allen, and Sacvan Bercovitch. Some of the scholars who have served on the Editorial Board, generating editorial commentary contained in the American Literature collection are: Norman Foerster, Robert Spiller, Harry Hayden Clark, Willard Thorp, Henry Nash Smith, William Charvat, Roy Harvey Pearce, Annette Kolodny, Nina Baym, Martha Banta, Marcus Klein, and Werner Sollors. The collection also includes a significant amount of correspondence from Louise Pound. Accession (2009-0177) (7.5 lin. ft.; 5625 items; dated 1993-2000s) includes correspondence and editorial comments, organized alphabetically by last name. Only A-L are represented in this accession. This accession is restricted: permission is required by editors.

ArchivalResource: 28,875 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19105625 View

Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988,. Correspondence from Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1947.

Title: Correspondence from Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1947.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155862428 View

Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1928-1958.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1928-1958.

Consists of three letters: one dated 1928 to Henry Goodman, discussing the composition of the stories in Frank's book City Block (Darien, Conn., W. Frank, 1922); and two letters, dated 1952 and 1958, to Robert E. Spiller.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (5 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190814487 View

Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988. Impressions of Duke University: July 1927.

Title: Impressions of Duke University: July 1927.

Spiller taught English during summer school at Duke University in 1927. In this piece, he comments about the school's architecture and academic plans and development.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232113333 View

Jay B. Hubbell Papers, 1816-1998 and undated, bulk 1920-1979

Title: Jay B. Hubbell Papers, 1816-1998 and undated, bulk 1920-1979

Professor of American literature, Duke University, Durham, N.C. The Jay B. Hubbell Papers span the years from 1816 to 1998, with the bulk of the material documenting Hubbell's career from his early student years in the 1920s until his death in 1979. The collection consists mainly of his professional papers, including correspondence with colleagues and literary figures, articles written by others at his request for the Jay B. Hubbell Center, printed materials inscribed to him and written by him, and unpublished manuscripts. The material chronicles the four decades of Hubbell's career as professor and critic, which he dedicated to the growth and development of American literature as a field of critical inquiry. Among the many significant correspondents or subjects of others' writings are Conrad Aiken, Gay Wilson Allen, Robert Frost, Clarence Gohdes, members of the Hubbell family, Ralph Leslie Rusk, Carl Sandburg, Allen Tate, Arlin Turner, and John Hall Wheelock. Other significant topics covered by the material include the founding of the Jay B. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography at Duke University, the study and teaching of literature from the American South, the activities of the faculty at Duke University, and the development of the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association (MLA).

ArchivalResource: 10.2 Linear Feet; 6375 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/hubbelljay/ View

Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988. Letters, 1965-1982, n.d., to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1965-1982, n.d., to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 26 items (31 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155876273 View

Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966. Papers, 1681-1966 (bulk 1900-1960)

Title: Lewis Gannett papers, 1681-1966 (inclusive) 1900-1960 (bulk).

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, journals, notebooks, legal and business papers, memorabilia, photos, and other papers, together with Gannett family papers. Includes correspondence of Gannett's grandfather and father, Unitarian clergymen Ezra Stiles Gannett of Boston and William Channing Gannett; 91 letters, 1796-1817, from Gannett's great-grandfather Caleb Gannett to John Mico Gannett, and journals of his grandmother Anna Tilden Gannett.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00670/catalog View

Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978. Miscellaneous manuscripts, [1964]-1965.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, [1964]-1965.

Includes 1 letter of 17 April 1965 to Marshall E. Bean enclosing Wheelock's poem "Evening Star;" 1 autograph copy of Wheelock's poem "Telos," dated 4 May 1965 and accompanied by some autobiographical information; and a draft of a lecture entitled: "Van Wyck Brooks: A man in quest of the truth," which Wheelock delivered 29 April 1964 on the occasion of the opening of the Brooks Exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania Library. In the audience were Dr. Robert E. Spiller, Mrs. Brooks and others.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (11 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191063064 View

Adams family. Papers, [ca. 1830-1981].

Title: Papers, [ca. 1830-1981].

Personal and professional papers (primarily correspondence, research notes, and speeches) of Randolph Greenfield Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams. Also includes some personal papers of Helen Spiller Adams and Richard Newbold Adams; correspondence and other family papers from the eighteenth century onward; genealogical background; letters from Franklin Delano Roosevelt; friendship albums; and printed items, including clippings.

ArchivalResource: ca. 10 1/2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122491550 View

Bennett, Robert Charles. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1961.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1961.

Consists of a bound, typewritten paper entitled: Theodore Dreiser, an occasional craftsman: the revision of short stories appearing in Free and Other Stories. This was Bennett's graduate paper for Dr. Robert E. Spiller's 791 Seminar, December 1961.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (57 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155886559 View

McHarg, Ian L. Ian L. McHarg papers, 1942-2001.

Title: Ian L. McHarg papers, 1942-2001.

The Ian L. McHarg collection contains materials related to his position as the founder and chairman of the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Pennsylvania, materials associated with his lectures, publications, and professional projects, and other professional and personal papers. The collection contains extensive holdings related to the evolution of the principals of ecological planning, together with related teaching records, publications and films. Holdings related to his professional projects are limited by comparison, and the collection contains only a small amount of personal material.

ArchivalResource: Architectural drawings 110 sheets.Boxed files 61 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232578742 View

Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1923-1928.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1923-1928.

Consists of letters to Dr. Spiller from the following correspondents: Newton D. Baker, Worthington C. Ford, A. Edward Newton, Victor H. Paltsits and George Parker Winship.

ArchivalResource: 13 items (14 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191048234 View

Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1961, n.d.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1961, n.d.

Consists of two letter to Robert Spiller and one from Spiller to Hillyer, all from April 1961. Also includes an undated ms. poem "Against poets," inscribed to the poet Kimball Flaccus.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (4 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155885945 View

Patterson, Antoinette De Poursey. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1917.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1917.

Letter dated 17 June 1917 to Robert E. Spiller.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190877065 View

Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1961.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1961.

Consists of a carbon copy of a letter from Robert Spiller to Kay Boyle, with a reply from Boyle to Spiller.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155887197 View

Rubin, Louis Decimus, 1923-. Louis Decimus Rubin papers, 1945-

Title: Louis Decimus Rubin papers, 1945-

Series 1.1.1. Selected author correspondence (names beginning with O-T): This series contains correspondence with writers and critics of major import, as selected by Rubin. Note that writers and critics of special importance in Rubin's papers are listed in the general abstract for this collection.

ArchivalResource: About 31400 items (38.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31069837 View

Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1948.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1948.

Letter to Robert E. Spiller discussing the Philadelphia censorship trial over Farrell's novel Studs Lonigan; encloses an offprint article by Farrell entitled "On the Washington Un-American hearings" reprinted from the American Socialist.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155885657 View