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Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974. John Crowe Ransom Papers 1908-1974.

Title: John Crowe Ransom Papers 1908-1974.

Primarily correspondence and manuscript poetry and prose produced during Ransom's retirement (1959-1974), although important earlier materials are included, such as Ransom's letters to his wife, Robb Reavill Ransom, dated 1920-1938. Also included are class rolls, clippings, family records, financial records, Kenyon College items, lecture notes, memorabilia, photographs, programs, publications, recommendations, and school catalogs.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft. (8 Hollinger boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19905868 View

Booth, Philip, 1925-2007. A visit with Robert Frost at Bread Loaf, 1950 August 21.

Title: A visit with Robert Frost at Bread Loaf, 1950 August 21.

Record of a visit to Bread Loaf School of English and Robert Frost.

ArchivalResource: 13 leaves; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237364824 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1908-1936.

Title: Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1908-1936.

The majority of the papers relate to the personal and profesional life of Wilson. Subjects include the literary work of Wilson, literature, life at the University of Virginia, "The Virginia Quarterly Review," the Bread Loaf School of English, and various trips abroad. In addition to family members his correspondents include Edwin A. Alderman, Emily Clark Balch, Stringfellow Barr, Clifton Waller Barrett, Rexmond Cochrane, Colgate Darden, Walter Pritchard Eaton, Armistead C. Gordon, Julian Green, Atcheson Hench, Charlotte Kohler, H. L. Mencken, John C. Metcalf, Dumas Malone, John L. Newcomb, Allen Tate, and Carl Van Doren. The collection also contains letters written by the ancestors of Wilson's wife Julia Tyler Wilson, and of her father Lyon Gardiner Tyler, president of the College of William and Mary. This early correspondence includes letters written by Thomas W. Gilmer. Frances Bland Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, St. George Tucker, and Julia Gardiner Tyler. The collection also contains some personal and genealogical papers including notebooks, school records, certificates, and diplomas. There are also newsclippings, postcards and photographs including one group shot in which Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten appear.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972537 View

Hilda Conkling poems, Conkling (Hilda) poems, undated

Title: Hilda Conkling poems Conkling (Hilda) poems undated

Hilda Conkling (1910-1986) was a poet who produced all of her work by age fourteen. This collection includes three of her poems printed by the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College in Vermont under the title of “Hill Songs.”

ArchivalResource: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RNR-ms510&view=title View

Sypher, Wylie. Wylie Sypher Papers, 1924-1986, 1953-1975.

Title: Wylie Sypher Papers, 1924-1986, 1953-1975.

Wylie Sypher (WS), author and teacher, was a professor of English at Simmons College, Boston (1928-1981) and a lecturer at the Middlebury College Bread Loaf Graduate School of English (summers 1957-1975). Included in this collection are drafts, final versions, and published copies of many of the scholarly texts, articles, essays, and book reviews which gained WS national and international recognition. The collection documents the scholarship WS applied in gathering teaching materials for courses such as "Shakespeare" and "Criticism" and includes materials which detail his research processes prior to writing (an example is the research on Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Correspondence with editors such as Jason Epstein, Andrew Chiappe, and Joseph Epstein documents how various writings evolved from the idea stage to publication. Other correspondence documents the scholarly influence WS had upon his undergraduate and graduate students and the associations he had with literary figures, historians, and colleagues such as Frederick Artz, Herschel Baker, Klaus Berger, Sir Edmund K. Chambers, Elizabeth Drew, Moses Hadas, Fiske Kimball, Lewis Mumford, and Lionel Trilling. Other correspondents include Lord Crewe, Rev. G.H.B. Coleridge, Eric Bentley, George Brockway, George Core, Stanley Hyman, Randall Jarrell, Erwin Panofsky, Henri Perye, John Crowe Ransom, and Alice B. Toklas.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (17.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26434211 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1908-1936.

Title: Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1908-1936.

The collection contains manuscripts of articles and poetry by Wilson, Nancy Tucker Wilson and Lawrence Lee; professional correspondence; topical files; and gradebooks and examinations from English courses taught by Wilson. Major subjects include the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College; Edgar Allan Poe; the Southern Writers Conference, 1931; the Dictionary of American Biography; and University of Virginia committees on correspondence teaching and college unity.

ArchivalResource: ca. 555 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647826789 View

Butterfield, Charles. A list of the botanical species used by Frost in his poems / compiled by Charles Butterfield.

Title: A list of the botanical species used by Frost in his poems / compiled by Charles Butterfield.

List of species mentioned in Frost's poetry compiled in 1972 by Butterfield as a student at the Bread Loaf School of English.

ArchivalResource: 6 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237243592 View

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Letters. 1934.

Title: Letters. 1934.

States that while she edited Milmine's life of Mary Baker Eddy, she is not its author; notes that she is going abroad soon after leaving Bread Loaf and cannot accept lecturing engagements.

ArchivalResource: 2 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7028009 View