Papers of Charles Townsend Copeland, 1862-1960 [and undated].

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Papers of Charles Townsend Copeland, 1862-1960 [and undated].

Contains correspondence; class lectures and speeches; scrapbooks, 1884-1919; student papers, 1897-1927, for English classes including T.S. Eliot paper entitled The Defects of Kipling; photographs of Copeland family; and some biographical information about the Copeland Club and Copeland's 1928 trip to England and Scotland. Correspondents include Donald Moffat, Charles W. Eliot, B.S. Hurlbut, and various students. Also letters, 1957, received by Paul Hollister and Donald Adams, with anecdotes and reminiscences about Copeland; and typescripts of writings, such as Henry Austin Clapp's description of Copeland's readings and Malcolm Cowley's poem Copey's Room. Related publications and reference material also available in repository.

7.3 cubic feet (21 document boxes, 5 pamphlet binders, 1 flat box, 1 accordion folder, 1 folder)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8182091

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University. Department of English (1876-)

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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989

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Clapp, Henry Austin, 1841-1904

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Copeland, Charles Townsend, 1860-1952

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Copeland (1860-1952) graduated from Harvard in 1882 and taught rhetoric and oratory at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Townsend Copeland, 1862-1960 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973011 Educator, editor, and author. From the description of Charles Townsend Copeland papers, 1898-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449796 Copeland (A.B. 1882) became an assistant professor of English at Harvard University in 1...

Hurlbut, Byron Satterlee, 1865-1929.

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Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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