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Richard Ellmann papers

Series 3: Personal papers

Collection 1988-012

Richard Ellmann
Box 40 AAUP  
  Alice in Wonderland.  Lecture notes in 4 exam booklets.  
  “American Versions of Little Musgrave.” Essay.  
  Arnold: lecture notes.  
  Auden: lecture notes.  
     
  Awards  
  Henry H.  Strong Prize, 1939.

Eldridge-Abernathy Fellowship, 1939, 1940, 1941.

Carey-Thomas Award, 1959.

Friends of Literature, 1969.

Society of Midland Authors Thormund Monsen Award, 1960.

 
  Acceptance speech for Knight of Mark Twain award, 1967; press cuttings relating to awards received.  
  Baldwin, James.  Statement on Baldwin’s Another Country.  
  Beckett, Samuel.  Fragments of lecture notes.  
  Blake and Yeats.  Fragments of lecture notes, course handouts.  
  Bread Loaf.  Conference bulletin, handout, address list.  
  Build and Fight With the Seabees.  Promotional pamphlet for the U.S. Navy.  
  Cervantes.  Lecture notes in Mary Ellmann’s hand.  
  Chicago, University of.  Application for admission.  
  Columbia, University of.  Application for admission.  
  Compton-Burnett, Ivy.  Lecture notes, press cuttings.  
Box 42 Conrad.  Lecture notes.  
  Contemporary English-Irish Novel.  Lecture notes.  
  Cornell University.  Application for admission.  
  Course handouts.  Handouts for various courses taught by Ellmann.  
  Crane, Hart.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  cummings, e.e.  Lecture notes.  
  Curriculum vitae.  Fragments.  
  Decadents and Aesthetes.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  Dissertation  
  Dostoevski.  Lecture notes.  
Box 43 Eliot, T.S.  Lecture notes.  
  English.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  (Public Speaking). 1943.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  Exams for various courses taught by Ellmann.  
  Faulkner.  Lecture notes.  
  “Faulkner, Adult Education On.” 1963.  Essay.  
  Ferris [Grade] School.  Yearbook for 1929, 1930.  
  Fifth Century Greece.  Notes.  
   Flaubert.  Lecture notes.  
  Forster, E.M.  Lecture notes.  
  French Romantic Poets.  Lecture notes.  
  Frost, Robert.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
Box 44 Gags.  
  Grades, attendence records.  
  Greek God Family Tree.  
  Greek Philosophy.  Class notes in a ring binder.  
  Harvard.  Various papers relating to attendence at Harvard.  
  Hemingway.  Course lecture.  
  Highland Park [High] School.  Miscellaneous class notes.  
  Highland Park [High] School.  Composition and test booklets.  
Box 45 Highland Park [High] School.  Composition and test booklets.  
  Highland Park [High] School.   Grades.  
  Highland Park [High] School.  Yearbook for 1934.  
  Highland Park [High] School.  1935.  
  Highland Park [High] School.  Memorabilia.  
  Highland Park [High] School.  Diploma, commencement program.  
Box 46 Humanities.  Lecture notes  
  Humanities.  Course syllabi, exams.  
  Huysmans, Joris-Karl.  Lecture notes on Huysman’s A Rebours.  
  Indiana University School of Letters.  Summer catalogue, 1960.  
  India lecture tour.  1974.  Itineraries, receipts, miscellaneous notes.  
  International Association of University Professors of English.  1951 Chairman’s report.  
  Irish Political History.  1798-1922.  Notes.  
  James, Henry.  Lecture notes.  
  Jewish Studies.  Hebrew primer, Notes.  
  Jobs.  
  Journalism.  Notes, press cuttings.  
  Lawrence, D.H.  Lecture notes.  
  Lecture announcements.  
  Letters from students.  
  Lucius F.  Robinson Prose Examination.  1938.  
Box 47 Macmillan books.  Spring list, 1954.  
  Military papers.  
  Modern Language Association.  1962 conference program.  
  Modern Language Club.  Program.  
  Modern Literature.  Course handouts, notes.  
  Modern Novel. Lecture notes.  
  Modern Poetry.  Lecture notes.  
  Modern Poetry. List and excised lists of books about poetry.  
  Modern Tradition.  Lecture notes.  
Box 48 Modernism. Lecture notes, handouts.  
  Moore, George.  Lecture notes.  
  “Morality of ‘The Statue and the Bust’.” Essay.  
  Nabokov.  Lecture notes.  
  National Vocation Guidance Service.  Report on Richard Ellmann, 1934.  
  Nietzsche.  Lecture notes.  
  Nineteenth Century Poets.  Notes, spiral notebook.  
  Nonsense in Carroll and Wilde.  Essay, miscellaneous notes.  
   Novel As A Literary Form.  Lecture notes.  
  Novel As A Literary Form.  Course notes, syllabi, exams.  
  Obscurity and Precision In Poetry.  Essay.  
  Old English.  Notes, exams, student papers.  
Box 49 Old English/French Poetry.  Manuscript notebook.  
  Ph.D.  Qualifying Exams.  Exams and study notes.  
  Phi Beta Kappa banquet.  Pictoral Art I, II.  2 scrapbooks, 1939.  (Located in Oversize)  
Box 50 “Plan For An Illustrated Set On France in the Latter Half of the 19th c.” Essay.  
  “Plato’s Utopia.” Essay.  
  Poetica-Obcena.  Transcriptions.  
  Poetry.  1937.  Notebook of Ellmann’s poems; miscellaneous notes tipped in; photos of unidentified woman relocated to Photographs.  
  Poetry.  Drafts on loose sheets.  
  Poetry.  Removed from 3-ring binders.  
  Poetry.  Yale era.  
  Poetry.  Scrapbooks of poems clipped from various sources.  
  Political notes  
  “Pope’s Versification.” Essay.  
  “Problem of Economic Slack.” Essay  
Box 51 Research fellowships and grants.  Applications and related papers.  
  Requests to speak.  
  Requests to write.  
  Recommendations and appraisals.  
  Sachs, Marjorie.  Obituary.  
  Schopenhauer, Arthur.  Class notes.  
  Society for the Promotion of Black Studies.  Report, related brochures.  
  Stendhal.  Lecture notes.  
  Stevens, Wallace.  Lecture notes.  
  Surrealists.  Notes on Kafka and Dali.  
  Syllabi.  Course syllabi for various courses.  
  Teaching.  Letters and notes re teaching.  
Box 52 Tolstoy.  Lecture notes.  
  Transcendentalism.  Lecture notes.  
  U.S.  Cultural Program in Rome.  Clippings relating to 1960 conference.  
  Viking Press.  Spring list, 1959.  
  “Whitman’s Treatment of the Theme of Death.” TMs essay.  
  Woolf, Virginia.  Lecture notes.  
  World History.  Notes.  
  Writing workshop.  Course handout.  
  Yale.  Memorabilia, course bulletins.  
  Yank.  Vol 4, #3, July 6, 1945.  
  Yeats.  Indexed class notes.  
Box 53 Yeats.  Indexed class notes.  
  Miscellaneous and unidentified class/lecture notes.  
Box 54 Miscellaneous and unidentified class/lecture notes.  
  Manuscript and spiral notebooks relating to classwork.  
Box 55 Alphabetical card index to [correspondence used for research].  
Box 56 Alphabetical card index to [correspondence used for research].  
Box 57 Alphabetical card index to [correspondence used for research].  
     
  Financial papers  
Box 58 Income tax.  1950.  
  1952.  
  1958.  
  1959.  
  1960.  
  Penalty protest.  1960.  
  1961.  
  1962.  
  1963.  
  Tax audit dispute.  1963.  
Box 59 Tax audit dispute.  1963.  
  1965.  
  Royalties.  
  Movning expenses (Evanston to New Haven).  
     
  General finanaces  
Box 60 1948-1949.  
  1961.  
  1962.  
  1962-1963.  
Box 61 1963-1964.  
  1964.  
  1965.  
Box 62 1965.  
Box 63 1965.  
  1966.  
Box 64 1967.  
  1969.  
Box 65 1969.  
  1982-1983  
     
  Housing & housing expenditures  
Box 66 1954-1965.  
  Housing US and abroad  
  Sale of Ellmann home.  
  Mary Ellmann’s financial papers.  1947.  
  Miscellaneous receipts.  
     
Mary Ellmann
Box 67 Absurdity.  Notes.  
  Anonymous.  My Secret Life.  Book review.  
  “An Tostal In Dublin.” Article.  
  Authority.  Notes.  
  Baldridge, Letica.  Of Diamonds and Diplomats.  Book review.  
  Beauvoir, Simone de.  Les Belles Images; Force of Circumstances.  Book review.  
  Les Belles Images.  G.  P.  Putnam, uncorrected proof with notes and annotations.  (See on line catalogue for complete record).  
  Beckett, Samuel.  Press cuttings.  
  Bernard, Jessie.  Academic Women.  Book review.  
  Blake, William.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  Bloom, Harold.  The Covering Cherub.  Reproduction of the original.  
  Bowen, Elizabeth.  Eva Trout or Changing Scenes.  Book review  
  Bloomsday.  Talk by C.E.F.  Trench.  
  Byron.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  Byron, Shelley, Keats.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  Calisher, Hortense.  The New Yorkers.  Book review.
Capote, Truman.  The Dogs Bark.  In reference to a Times Literary Supplement  book review.
 
  Cather, Willa.  The Empty Center. Book review.  
Box 68 Chaucer.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  “Chicago! Behind the ‘I Will’ Spirit.” Research notes, related material.  
  Galley proof, list of corrections.  
  Collette.  Earthly Paradise. Book review.  
  Consumption.  Notes.  
  Dante.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  Dujardin, Edouard.  Article in French.  
  English Composition.  Mimeographed manual.  
Box 69 English Composition.  Mimeographed manual.  
  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  English Composition 10-A.  Lecture notes.  
Box 70  English Composition 1.  Lecture notes.  
  English.  Lecture notes.  
  English Drama/Shakespeare.  Portions of “Quaderno di Calligrafia.  
  Fellowships and Grants.  
  Freud.  Notes.  
  “From Door to Door.” Draft of a novel; p1-124.  
  p125-265.  
  p266-352.  
  p353-440.  
Box 71 “Genevieve and the Bacilli.” Draft short story.  
  Goethe.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  Grahame, Kenneth.  Notes.  
  Grumbach, Doris.  The Company She Kept.  Book review.  
  Holroyd, Michael.  Lytton Strachey.  Book review.  
  Homer and Sophocles.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  Hyman, Stanley Edgar, ed.  The Magic of Shirley Jackson.  Book review.  
  Implied Reader.  Portion of a book.  
  “Internecine Tour.” Article.  
  Johnson, Pamela Hansford.  On Iniquity.  Book review.  
  Keats.  Lecture notes.  
  “Keep the Child Covered Up.” Short story.  
  Kizer, Carolyn.  Knock Upon Silence.  Ntoes.  
  Kraditor, Aileen S., ed.  Up From the Pedestal.   
  Lear.  Lecture notes.  
  “Leslie Fiedler: No! In Fiction.” Article in several versions, fragments, notes.  
Box 72 Lessing, Doris.  African Stories.  Book review.  
  Lifton, Robert Jay.  Death in Life.  Survivors of Hiroshima.  Book review..  
  Literature Survey.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
Box 73 Literature Survey.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  "London Diary." Article for The New Statesman  
  Machiavelli.  Notes.  
  Malamud.  Notes.  
  Malraux, Clara.  Memoirs.  Book review.  
  McCarthy, Mary.  Notes.  
  Millett, Kate.  Sexual Politics.  Book review.  
  Modern Poetry.  Lecture notes, course handouts.  
  Moller, Clifford B.  Architectural Environment and Our Mental Health.  Book review.  
  Moody, Anne.  Coming of Age in Mississippi.  Book review.  
  Murdock, Iris.  Bruno’s Dream.  Book review.  
  “The Negro Problem.” Article.  
  Newburyport High School.  Yearbook, 1938.  
  Nicolson, Harold.  The War Years.  Book review, proof pages.  
  Nin, Anaiis.  The Diary of Anaiis Nin.  Book review, proof pages.  
  “A Note On Trollope’s Castle Richmond.” Article.  
Box 74 Operative Physiology In Women.  Notes.  
  Pater, Walter.  Excerpt from book.  
  Phallic Criticism.  Draft.  
  Phallic Criticism.  [another version].  
  Plath, Sylvia.  The Bell Jar.  Book review..  
  Poetry.  Notes.  
  Presser, Jacob.  The Destruction of the Dutch Jews.  Book review.  
  Rabelais.  Notes.  
  Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge.  Notes.  
  “Shoreline Express: One Act.” Play.  
  Singer, Isaiah B.  Notes.  
  “The Sisters.” Novel; p1-88.  
Box 75 p89-171.  
  p172-268.  
  [another version], p1-122.  
  p123-268.  
  Solzhenitsyn.  Notes  
  Sontag, Susan.  Article [several versions]; Notes.  
Box 76 Sontag, Susan.  Article [several versions]; Notes.  
  [South Africa.] Notes.  
  Sparrow, John.  Controversial Essays.   
  Stereotypes.  Notes.  
  Strachey, Lytton.  Notes.  
  Talmud.  Notes.
Tennyson.  Articles submitted to PMLA.
 
Box 77 Talmud.  Notes.
Tennyson.  Articles submitted to PMLA.
 
     
  Thinking About Women  
Box 78 Preface.  
  Notes.  
Box 79 Notes.  
  Draft, p1-98.  
  Draft, p99-218.  
Box 80 Index.  
  Editorial remarks and page notes.  
  Galley proof.  
  Book jacket.  
  Reviews.  
  “Tim Haley’s Sickness and Death.” Short story.  
  Tolkien. Notes.  
   “Uncle Dexter, Heaven and Earth.” Short story.  
  Underlife.  Notes.  
  Vitae.  
  Warner, Sylvia Townsend.  Swans on an Autumn River.  Book review.  
  Watson, James D.  The Double Helix.  Book review.  
  “We So Seldom Make A Couple.” Short story.  
  West, Rebecca.  Article.  
  “What Ever Became of Aunt Willa?”  Short story.  
  Wind in the Willows. Introduction.  
  Women.  Notes and articles about women.  
Box 81 Woolf, Virginia.  Collected Essays.  Book review..  
  Wordsworth.  Notes.  
  Wordsworth and Pottle.  Notes.  
  Zweig, Paul.  The Heresey of Self-Love.  Galley proof of book review.  
  [Unidentified.] Drafts of possible essays, articles, reviews, novels.  
Box 82 [Unidentified.] Drafts of possible essays, articles, reviews, novels.  
Box 83 [Unidentified.] Drafts of possible essays, articles, reviews, novels.  
Box 84 College English Composition Handbooks; college bulletins.  
  Awards, commencement programs.  
  Publisher’s catalogues; furniture and art catalogues and notices.  
  Clippings about Mary Ellmann.  
  Clippings on various subjects.  
  Hospital bracelet.  
  Fountain pen and pencil  
     
  Correspondence  
Box 85 1945.  
  1948.  
  1949.  
  1950.  
  1951.  
  1952.  
  1953.  
  1964.  
  1965.  
  1966.  
  1967.  
Box 86 1967.  
  1968.  
  1969.  
Box 87 1970.  
  Undated.  
     
Family memorabilia
Box 88 Lucy Elizabeth Ellmann: school papers, grades, drawings and paintings.  
Box 89-90 Maud Esther Ellmann  
Box 91-93 Stephen Jonathan Ellmann  
   Lucy, Maud, and Stephen Ellmann  
  National Music Camp; program for 14th Annual Festival of Music, Evanston Public Schools, l967.  
  Music lesson workbooks and sheet music.  
  Report cards.  
  Drawings and paintings.  
Box 94 Hamden Hall.  Memorabilia.  
  Cruise line passenger lists; Venice itinerary; art catalogues; theatre programs.  
  Mary Ellmann’s school memorabilia.  
  Unused European postcards.  
  Erwin Ellmann memorabilia.  
  James I.  Ellmann memorabilia.  
  Political buttons; “Kangol” beret; keys; passport; pipe and other personal articles: Spiral notebooks, pocket calendars; army field manual; army Jewish prayer book; certificate of registration, Ireland; ration book, Ireland; various membership cards.

Practice test arithmatic lesson cards.

Travel diary; notepads.

Press cuttings relating to the war.

Brochures, invitations, publisher’s notices.

5 scrapbooks.  (Located in Oversize)

 
     
Photographs
Box 95 Lucy Ellmann  
  Maud Ellmann  
  Stephen Ellmann  
Box 96 Ellmann family  
Box 97 Richard Ellmann  
57:2 Mary Ellmann  
57:3 Ellmann home in Evanston, Illinois.  
57:4 Other people, identified and unidentified.

Portrait of a cat.

Unidentified wedding photo.

Portrait of Professor Klaeber.  (Located in Oversize.)

 
 

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