Guide to the Gay Wilson Allen Papers, 1801-1988
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TitleGay Wilson Allen Papers,
1801-1988
Provenance
Allen, Gay Wilson, 1903-
Extent
33 Linear Feet
5,500 Items
Repository
5,500 Items
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library
Language
English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], The Gay Wilson Allen Papers, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Gay Wilson Allen papers (1801-1988) were donated to the Rare
Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library between 1985 and 1992 by Gay
Wilson Allen.
Processing Information
Processed by: Stanley Blair
Completed September 9, 1993
Encoded by Stephen Douglas Miller
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Gay Wilson Allen| 1903, Aug. 23 | Born, Lake Junaluska, N.C. |
| 1926 | A.B., Duke University |
| 1928 | A.M., Duke University |
| 1929-1931 | Teacher at Lake Erie College |
| 1931-1932 | Teacher at Alabama Polytechnic Institute |
| 1934 | Ph.D., University of Wisconsin |
| 1934-1935 | Associate Professor of English, Shurtlieff College |
| 1935-1936 | Professor of English, Bowling Green State University |
| 1946- | Professor/Professor Emeritus of English, New York University |
| 1946 | Walt Whitman Handbook published |
| 1955 | The Solitary Singer: Critical Biography of Walt Whitman published; U.S. State Department lecturer in Japan |
| 1961 | Walt Whitman as Man, Poet, and Legend published |
| 1967 | William James, A Biography published |
| 1967-1969 | Member of Editorial Board, American Literature published |
| 1972 | A Reader's Guide to Walt Whitman published |
| 1981 | Waldo Emerson published |
| 1898, Apr. 30 | Born, Sheridan, Ind. |
| 1919-1921 | Teacher of music, Northwestern University |
| 1921 | A.B., Northwestern University |
| 1922-1927 | Teacher of music, Horace Mann School for Boys, New York City |
| 1928 | Walt Whitman's Workshop published; A.M., Harvard University |
| 1928-1934 | Teacher of English, Northeastern University (1928-1929), Bradford College (1929-1931), Harvard University Graduate School (1929-1934) |
| 1929-1940 | Teacher of Biography and Music, Katharine Gibbs Schools |
| 1930- | Director of Academic Studies, New England Conservatory of Music |
| 1930-1931 | Collaborated with Clara Barrus on Whitman and Burroughs, Comrades (1931) |
| 1939 | Editor, facsimile reprint of 1855 edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass |
| 1940s, mid | Died |
Collection Overview
The Gay Wilson Allen Papers span the years 1801 to 1988, but the bulk
of the collection occurs during the years 1925 to the 1970s. They consist of
correspondence, notebooks, printed material, essays and other writings,
literary manuscripts, scrapbooks, teaching materials, pictures, books,
clippings, offprints, periodicals, and sale catalogs. The focus of the
collection is Allen's career as a university professor and Walt Whitman
scholar. In particular Allen's activities as a professor at New York University
and as a lecturer at Nagono, Japan in 1955, are documented. The history of
Whitman criticism is an important theme. There is a large amount of research
material on Whitman, both of Allen and other literary scholars. These include
Evie Allison Allen, Clara Barrus, Charles N. Elliot, Clifton Joseph Furness,
Emory Holloway, Peter Mitilineos, Hans Reisiger, and Henry Scholey Saunders.
The Correspondence Series contains original correspondence acquired by Allen of
Richard Watson Gilder, Alice James, and William James. This series also
contains the correspondence of Roger Asselineau, Fredson Bowers, Oscar Cargill,
Malcolm Cowley, Charles E. Feinberg, Milton Hindus, Emory Holloway, Sholom
Kahn, and Frederik Schyberg. There are no strictly personal papers in the
collection.
Allen's career, both as a professor and Whitman scholar, is documented
in several series. The Walt Whitman Materials Series and the Scrapbooks Series
relate to his Whitman research. In the former series the Commemorations and
Societies Subseries and the Popular Culture Subseries also document the ever
increasing interest in Whitman's life and works during the twentieth century.
The Correspondence Subseries and the Pictures Subseries contain copies of
letters and pictures relating to Whitman and his age. The Correspondence Series
also contains extensive letters concerning Allen's early teaching career, his
dealings with several presses, and the marketing and reception of his
The Solitary Singer, a Whitman biography.
The papers of six Whitman scholars are in the Walt Whitman Scholars
Series. It suggests the international range both of Whitman scholarship and of
Allen's interests. In addition to the interest in Whitman she shared with her
husband, Evie Allison Allen was also a skilled translator of Germanic
languages. Charles N. Elliot and Emory Holloway, as well as Canadian Henry
Scholey Saunders, were Whitman collector-scholars who interacted with both
Allen and Furness. The late Peter Mitilineos was one of Allen's students and
was particularly interested in the writings of Italian Whitman scholar Pasquale
Jannacone. Professor and Mrs. Allen both had an interest in the writings of
German Whitman scholar Hans Reisiger.
The Clifton Joseph Furness Papers Series documents the history of
Whitman criticism from Whitman's day to the start of Allen's biography of
Whitman,
The Solitary Singer. Allen used some of
Furness's research materials to write the book. The Clara Barrus Papers
Subseries contains her research materials on the relationship between Whitman
and John Burroughs. In fact Barrus was a close friend of Whitman's friends
Burroughs and Thomas Biggs Harned. The subseries includes portions of Barrus's
correspondence, her research materials, and the manuscript of her study of
Whitman and Burroughs, entitled
Whitman and Burroughs, Comrades. The
Correspondence Subseries contains correspondence with a number of Whitman
friends, scholars, and collectors. The Writings Subseries chiefly reflects the
results of the information Furness collected on Whitman during the 1930s and
1940s. Furness began three major Whitman projects: a definitive biography, an
extensive bibliography, and a study of his reception in New England,
tentatively entitled
"The Bull in the China Shop."
None of
these works were published during Furness's lifetime.
Collections in the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library related to the Gay Wilson Allen Papers include the
American Literature Papers and the Trent
Collection. Collections at other institutions related to the Gay Wilson Allen
Papers include papers of Clara Barrus and Emory Holloway at the University of
Virginia, papers of Henry Scholey Saunders at Brown University, and papers of
Charles N. Elliot at the Library of Congress.
Provenance Note on the Clifton Joseph Furness Papers Series
Gay Wilson Allen acquired Clifton Joseph Furness's papers in l948, but
Furness had acquired some of Clara Barrus's papers shortly before her death in
l931. In turn Barrus, in her role as the literary executor of John Burroughs,
had acquired some of Burroughs's papers in the years before his death in l921.
Apparently, Barrus had originally planned to write an extensive study of
Whitman and his followers, based on materials found in her Research Files, but
she apparently later decided to narrow its focus to a study of the relationship
between Whitman and Burroughs. During Burroughs's last years she retyped some
of his correspondence with Whitman and related figures, and in her own hand
transcribed Burroughs's comments on each letter. With the help of Furness,
Barrus published her last book,
Whitman and Burroughs, Comrades in 1931.
About that time, Furness acquired the materials found in the Clara Barrus
Papers Subseries.
Furness was in close contact with other Whitman friends, scholars, and
collectors, and spent years collecting information on Whitman. None of these
projects were published during his lifetime.
In 1948, New York University professor Gay Wilson Allen was able to
persuade the university to purchase for his use Furness's papers, which by now
included papers from Barrus and Burroughs as well. David Goodale and Henry
Scholey Saunders agreed to cooperate with Allen in the publication of Furness's
Whitman bibliography. In about l951 Allen acquired Saunders's revised copy of
the portion of Furness's Whitman bibliography concerned with
"Biography and Criticism,"
Part 6 (of
11). After Furness's death Allen, with the help of some of the Furness Papers,
wrote a Whitman biography, which eventually became
The Solitary Singer.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a
search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will
bring up other related research materials.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation.
- Allen, Evie Allison.
- Elliot, Charles N. (Charles Nathan), b. 1873.
- Holloway, Emory, 1885-1977.
- Mitilineos, Peter.
- Reisiger, Hans.
- Saunders, Henry Scholey, 1864-.
- Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909.
- Bowers, Fredson.
- Cargill, Oscar, 1898-.
- Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-.
- Hindus, Milton.
- College teachers.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Furness, Clifton Joseph.
- The solitary singer--a critical biography of Walt Whitman.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Correspondence Series, 1878-1985 and undated(bulk 1925-late 1970s)
Letters to and from
Allen and other persons. Arranged
alphabetically by name of correspondent. Within this are two filing systems:
Collective files for letters of the alphabet (to
mid-1930s) and individual files
(mid-1930s to
1980s). Some correspondents have materials filed under
both alphabetic letters and their surnames.
Box 1
A,
1925-1938
Allen, Evie Allison,
1955
Allen, Walt,
1959
American Biographical Institute,
undated
Asselineau, Roger,
1950-1961
Authors Guild,
1967-1973?
B.
1928-1977
(2 folders)
Backlund, Ralph
(Columbia Broadcasting System),
1955
Barish, Evelyn,
1961
Bassrey, Edward,
1953
Baum, S. V.,
1956
Bayley, William D.,
1953
Beaman, Robert S.,
1961
Bijleveld, Ruitgevers,
1963
Black, Robert S.
1954-1956?
Blodgett, Harold,
1951,
1960?
Bowers, Fredson,
1952-1956?
Briggs, Grace A.
(Harvard University Press),
1949
Burnshaw, Stanley,
1970
Buxbaum, David C.,
1962
C,
1928-1935
Cadden, John J.,
1965
Cargill, Oscar,
1951-1962,
undated
Chari, V. K.,
1960
Charvat, William,
1949
Cowley, Malcolm,
1946-1987
D,
1928-1935?
Dell, Floyd,
1958
Driscoll, Alfred E.,
1951
E-F,
1928-1935
Edel, Leon,
1961
Elliot, Charles N.,
1947
Engle, Paul,
1954
"Fan Mail, 1955,"
1954-1957,
undated
(2 folders)
Feinberg, Charles E.,
1952-1961
Fjell, Kai,
1966
Fjellanger, Thyra,
1948
Fleischer, Frederick,
1962
Franciscus, Vittorio de,
1959?
Frankenberg, Lloyd,
1959
G.
1928-1931
Garrett, J. C.,
1961
Geffen, Arthur,
undated
Gilder, Richard Watson,
1905
Girgus, Sam B.,
1974
Graaf, D. A. de,
1959
Grant, Rena V.,
1960
Griffiths, Maisie,
1959
Grolier Club,
1955
Grove Press,
1958-1969?
H-J,
1928-1938
Harrer, John A.,
1955
Harrison, Gilbert A.
(New Republic),
1955
Hawkins, Jane,
1961
Hendrick, George,
1958-1962
Hindus, Milton,
1954-1957
Hollis, C. Carroll,
1958
Holloway, Emory,
1955-1961
Hunt, William Morris,
1878,
undated
Huntington (N.Y.) Historical Society,
1950-1954
Institute for Advanced Study,
1956
James, Alice H.,
1919
James, Mary B.,
1961
James, William,
1888-1898
Jensen, Billie S. (Missouri Historical
Society),
1960
Jonah, David A.
(Brown University),
1955
K-L,
1931-1935
Kahn, Sholom,
1953-1974
Kelly, William W.,
1955
Kingsland, W. J.,
1948
Kobayashi, Kazuko,
1955?
Krause, Sydney J.,
1954
Kurosawa, Hiroshi,
undated
Le Clair, Robert C.,
1960
Leyda, Jay,
1956
Library of Congress,
1949-1956
Lion, Oscar,
1965-1966
M,
1929-1934
Mayfield, John S.,
1958
Macmillan:
Anthology,
1943-1973?
Biography,
1947-1956?
McWilliams, David Jackson,
1961
Merchant, Francis,
1951
Merritt, Jesse
(Nassau County Historian),
1958?
Miller, Edwin H.,
1969
Missimer, Frederick W.,
1976
Mituoka, Arata,
1955
Miyoshi, Masao,
undated
Moore, Bill (William L.),
1955-1958?
Mordell, Albert,
1955
Murray, James G.,
1955
N-O,
1933
Nakada, Frank S.,
1956-1957
National Archives,
1953
Neilson, Kenneth P.,
1971
New American Library,
1954-1955
New York Public Library,
1954
Nishizaka, Ichiro,
1957,
undated
Nye, Rowland F.,
1955
NYU Press--Hyde,
1957
P-Q,
1931
Paley, Morton D.,
1981
Paris, Philip,
undated
Pearce, Roy Harvey,
1960
Pearson, Norman Holmes,
1952
P.E.N.,
1955-1956
Permissions--MASTERS,
1943-1949?
Pongs, Hermann,
1953-1954
Powell, B. E.,
1955
R.
1931-1936
Raleigh, Richard,
1985
Reisiger, Hans,
1956
Resnick, Nat,
1955
Richards, Paul C.,
1968
Roberts, Joan,
1955
Rourke, Ralph M.,
1972
Box 2
S.
1929-1935
Sarton, May,
1961
Saunders (Goodale),
1948
Schyberg, Frederik,
1936-1950?
Seven Gables Bookshop,
1969
Shephard, Esther,
1961
Shimizu, Haruo,
1958-1959
Simoes, Antonio Inocencio Amaro,
1960
Smith, Harriet,
1964
Smith, Terry,
1969
The Solitary Singer--Publicity,
1954-1961
(2 folders)
Stewart, Dorothy H.,
1947
Stoddard, Donald R.,
1974
Stovall, Floyd,
1955
Syracuse University Press,
1955
T-V,
1931
Tatsunokuchi, Naotaro,
undated
Taylor, Thurston,
1977
Traubel, Anne M.,
1951
Trausil, Hans,
1955
United States Information Service,
1957-1961
Vonkrasek, Betsy
(Walt Whitman House),
1979
W,
1928-1935
Walt Whitman Newsletter,
1955-1956
Wescott, Ralph W.,
1951
Weston, Beth
(Cobblestone Publishing),
1988
Wh.[itman] Ed.[ition] Appropriation,
1956-1960
Willcocks, S.,
1969
Yoshitake, Yoshinori,
1958
Zara, Louis,
1961
Zarchin, Simone
(Twice A Year),
1949
Miscellaneous,
1952-1966?
Clifton Joseph Furness Papers Series, 1855-1945 and undated
Consists of research materials, correspondence, literary
manuscripts, notebooks of research material on
Whitman, and writings. Subseries:
Clara Barrus Papers, Correspondence,
Notebooks, Printed Material, and Writings. See the Provenance Note on the
Clifton Joseph Furness Papers Series in this
collection inventory.
Clara Barrus Papers Subseries
Correspondence:
Harned, Thomas Biggs,
1904-1921
Miscellaneous,
1875-1929?
Lectures,
1926-1930?
Printed Material,
1892&
undated
Research Files:
Buchanan, Robert,
undated
Bucke, Richard Maurice,
1895-1898?
Burroughs, John
Correspondence:
Burroughs, Ursula,
1858-1910
Eldridge, Charles Wesley,
1873-1902?
Gilchrist, Anne,
1875-1928?
Kennedy, William Sloane,
1881-1912
Whitman, Walt,
1866-1929?
Miscellaneous,
1872-1928?
Writings,
undated
Miscellaneous,
1897
Dowe, Amy Haslam,
1937
Writings:
Whitman and
Burroughs:
Manuscript introduction fragments,
1930-1931
Manuscript pages 318-669,
1930-1931
(4 folders)
Correspondence Subseries
A,
1935-1946
Allen, Gay,
1943-1945
Autobiographic Note,
1936?
Canby:
Walt Whitman notes,
1942-1945?
Catel, Jean, on
Walt Whitman,
1928-1936?
Corwin, Norman,
1939
D-G,
1936-1945?
(2 folders)
Box 3
Holloway file/correspondence,
1930-1944?
I-L,
1928-1943?
(3 folders)
Lloyd, J. William,
1936?
M,
1935-1945?
Nathan, Hans,
1941
Osborne, Chester G.,
1941
P-S,
1936-1945?
Sandburg, Carl,
1928-1929
Saunders,
1930-1943?
(2 folders)
Sixbey,
1940
Traubel, Anne M.:
Letters,
1931-1940
Miscellaneous,
1936-1937
(3 folders)
Weeks--
Whitman Material,
1944?
Wechsler,
1932-1938
Whitman, Jessie L.,
1939
Winwar,
1940-1942?
Notebooks Subseries
"Volume III,"
pages 141-363,
1929-1940
(3 folders)
Notebooks (8 vols.)
Printed Material Subseries
Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers,
1894-1906?
Whitmaniana owned by
Clara Barrus and the Estate of
Richard M. Bucke,
1929?
Miscellaneous,
1929-1943?
Writings Subseries
"The Bull in the China Shop:"
Manuscript,
undated
Notes,
1926,
undated
(4 folders)
Essays and Reviews,
1929-1942
"Quaker Article,"
1939
Walt Whitman Biography:
Notes,
1930-1945?
(5 folders)
Manuscript: Chapters 7-18
(1855-1865),
undated
(10 folders)
Manuscript: Chapters 19-24
(1865-1882),
1939,
undated
(8 folders)
Interlude
(1883-1891),
1939?
Finale
(1889-1892),
undated
Miscellaneous: Notes,
1928-1949,
undated
(4 folders)
Printed Material and Literary Manuscripts Series, 1865-1988 and undated
Contains books and monographs, clippings, essays and offprints,
periodicals, and sale catalogs, which chiefly relate to
Allen's scholarly interests. Although Allen
grouped these materials together, many of them originally belonged to
Barrus,
Furness,
Saunders,
Bertha Johnston,
John H. Johnston, and other Whitman scholars
and enthusiasts.
Books and Monographs:
American Heritage 6.3 (April
1955)
Anonymous, untitled book on
Whitman,
undated
(2 folders)
Catel, Jean,
Rhythm and Language in the First Edinon
of Leaves of Grass (1929), trans. Norman Sydney Levine,
1948
Davenport, W. E.,
The Beggar-Man of Brooklyn Heights and
Other Chants,
undated
Dimock, George,
Caroline Sturgis Tappan and the Grand
Tour,
1982
Rabah,
1960?
Law-Robertson, Harry, Whitman in Germany?,
1930?
Lloyd, Oriole Emerson,
Her Poems and Appreciations,
1908?
Pamphlets,
1952-1972
Twaddell, William Freeman,
Young Verses,
1926-1979?
Box 7
Clippings, 1865-1988, undated
(10 folders)
Essays and Offprints:
A,
1934-1955
Asselineau,
1949-1977?
B.
1925-1972
(2 folders)
C,
1923-1968
(2 folders)
Coyne,
1906
D-E,
1926-1965
(2 folders)
F.
1927-1981?
Feinberg,
1958-1964,
undated
G.
1892-1969
H.
1886-1968
(2 folders)
Harned,
1936
I-J,
1906-1960
(2 folders)
K,
1979,
undated
Kahn,
1955-1966
L,
1927-1975
M,
1919-1971
(2 folders)
Myerson,
1971-1978
N.
1933-1970?
Box 8
O-R,
1867-1981
(3 folders)
S.
1882- 1982
(2 folders)
Stovall,
1952-1971
T.
1891-1967?
W.
1929-1981
White,
1939-1971
X-Z,
1926,
undated
Miscellaneous,
1901-l9S9
Periodicals:
A,
1925-1962
(2 folders)
American Book Collector,
1959-1970?
Authors Guild Bulletin,
1961-1969
(2 folders)
B-K,
1902-1968
(7 folders)
L,
1956
Les Langues Modernes,
1949-1950
(2 folders)
M-N,
1891-1961
(3 folders)
Box 9
P-R,
1919-1965
(4 folders)
S.
1942-1966
Saturday Review,
1943-1965
Time,
1955-1967
W.
1919-1955
Sale Catalogs:
1899-1988
(3 folders)
Scrapbooks, 1950-1960 (bulk 1955-1959).
Contain memorabilia relating to
Allen's career as a
Whitman scholar. See Oversize Materials.
Teaching materials, 1943-1979 and undated
Courses:
Examinations,
1966
Syllabuses,
1961-1967
Departmental service, 1959-1965
Lecture notes, undated
Nagano--Japan:
Correspondence,
1955-1956?
Faulkner, William,
1955
Seminar materials,
1954-1955
(2 folders)
Miscellaneous,
1955?
Students:
Course papers,
1947-1968?
(2 folders)
Theses and dissertations:
Beaver, Joseph,
1949
Bentley, Sue Eleanor,
1943
Bleich, David,
1966
Chupack, Henry,
1951&
undated
Ditsky, John M.,
undated
Friedman, Jack E.,
1955
Gozzi, Raymond D.
undated
Haring, Margery,
1966
Jarmuth, Sylvia L.,
undated
Jaffe, Harold,
undated
Lowenstein, Amy,
1966
Moe, Sigrid,
1949-1951
Moran, Virginia,
1973-1979
Schwartz, Alan,
1966
Withim, Philip,
1965
Walt Whitman Materials Series, 1827-1988 and undated
Contains research materials, copies of letters and pictures, and
copies of
Whitman's poems and prose. Subseries:
Commemorations and Societies, Correspondence, Pictures, Popular Culture,
Writings, and Miscellaneous.
Commemorations and Societies Subseries
Birthday Celebrations,
1939-1980?
Committee to Save the Walt Whitman Building,
1931-1962?
Conferences and Lectures,
1955-1988
Dinners,
1898-1959
Exhibitions,
1897-1982,
undated
(2 folders)
Huntington Historical Society,
1948-1950
Lausanne Conference,
undated
Leaves of Grass
Centennial:
Letters,
1954-1956
Clippings,
1954-1955
Observances,
1954-1955?
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association:
By-Laws and Reports,
1950-1981?
Clippings,
1936-1977?
Correspondence,
1950-1963?
Pictures,
1943-1957?
Printed Materials,
1949-1958
Miscellaneous,
1954-1974
Walt Whitman:
Bridge,
1955-1957
Fellowship,
1895-1928
Foundation:
Bulletins,
1948-1954
Correspondence,
1950-1957?
Miscellaneous,
1928-1968?
Society of America,
1940-1945?
Whitman:
Mausoleum restoration,
1974
Schoolhouse,
1927-1962
Miscellaneous,
1919-1984
Correspondence Subseries
Brown, Lewis Kirk,
1963-1927
Chronological correspondence,
1842-1890
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
1855
Ferguson, David,
1863
Gosse, Edmund,
undated
Kennedy, William Sloane,
1887-1890
O'Connor, Ellen,
1863-1876
O'Connor, William Douglas,
1864-1881
Osgood, James R., and Co.,
1881-1882
Price, Abby H.,
1863-1869
Sawyer, Thomas P.,
1863-1864
Stafford, Harry,
1876-1881
Thayer and Eldridge,
1860
Whitman, letters about,
1866-1942
Whitman family letters,
1859-1906?
Whitman, Louisa,
1860-1873
(8 folders)
Box 11
Pictures Subseries
1860-1955,
undated
(6 folders)
Popular Culture Subseries
Art,
1914-1968?
Drama,
1951-1982
Music,
1901-1981?
Philately,
1940-1956?
Radio and television,
1944-1976
Religion,
1919-1984?
Writings Subseries
"Abridgment and Abstract... Lyman E.
Munson,"
1868
"American Primer,"
undated
Annotations and Readings,
undated
"As One By One Withdraw the Lofty
Actions,"
n. d.
"As I Sit in the Twilight
Late,"
n. d.
Autobiographical note,
undated
Contemporary newspaper articles,
1879-1884 "The Dead
Tenor,"
1884
Diary notes,
1964-1883?
"Drum Taps,"
1966-1961?
"Dix-Huitieme Presidence,"
1926
"Facts in the Matter of
Worthington..."
n. d.
"Father Taylor and Oratory,"
1887
Fragments, n. d.
"Horse Race at Jamaica,"
n.
d.
"Inscription,"
n.
d.
"Introduction to the London
Edition,"
n. d.
"Little Bells Last Night,"
1861
"Old-Age Echoes"
and
"Some Personal and Old Age
Memoranda,"
1891
"An Old Man's Recitatives,"
1890-1891
"Once I Passed Through a Populous
City,"
n. d.
Opinions:
Cremation,
1875
"Misuse of Gifts to
Soldiers,"
n. d.
Personal appearance,
undated
"Osceola,"
undated
"Passage to India,"
n.
d.
"Personalism,"
1868
"The Poetry of the Future,"
n. d,
"A Riddle Song,"
undated
"Rise, Lurid Stars,"
undated
"Slavery,"
1860?
"Some 'Leaves of Grass,"
'
undated
"Song of Myself,"
1854?
"Sunday Restrictions,"
1854
"Taine's History of English
Literature,"
1871-1957
"A Thought on Shakespeare,"
1886
"The Tomb Blossoms,"
undated
"The Unexpected,"
1890
"A Voice from Death,"
1899
"Walt Whitman's Last,"
1891
"Warble for Lilac-Time,"
1870
"With All the Gifts America,"
n. d.
"Wood Odors,"
1960
"A Word About Tennyson,"
1887
"You Lingering Sparse Leaves of
Me,"
n. d.
Miscellaneous Subseries
Anderson, R. B.,
undated
Bibliography, n. d.
Brochures,
1955-1975
Bucke, Richard Maurice,
1983
Carpenter, Edward,
1877-1910
(2 folders)
The Evening Tattler,
1842
Feinberg, Charles E.,
1952-1967?
Homosexuality,
1954-1956
Libraries with Whitman Collections,
1908-1972?
Kennedy, William Sloane,
1882-1960
(2 folders)
Southold, Long Island,
1827-1984
Theft of
Walt Whitman's Commonplace Book,
1955
Traubel, Horace,
1902-1981?
Trivia,
1863-1976?
Verwey, Albert,
undated
Whitman Bibliographies,
1919-1955
Whitman Bibliography Conference,
1948
Whitman in Foreign Countries,
1954-1971?
Wills,
1873-1884?
Miscellaneous,
1928-1955?
Walt Whitman Scholars Series, 1880-1975 and undated
Subseries:
Evie Allison Allen Papers,
Charles N. Elliot Papers,
Emory Holloway Papers,
Peter Mitilineos Papers,
Hans Reisinger Papers, and
Henry Scholey Saunders Papers.
Evie Allison Allen Papers Subseries
Kaj Monk, n. d.
(2 folders)
Spring Comes So Slowly,
undated
(8 folders)
Walt Whitman:
Page Proof,
1950
(2 folders)
Miscellaneous,
1949-1951
(2 folders)
Walt Whitman in Person,
1956?
(2 folders)
Miscellaneous,
undated
Charles N. Elliot Papers Subseries
1917-1920
Emory Holloway Papers Subseries
1918-1961
(2 folders)
Peter Mitilineos Papers Subseries
Correspondence:
Allen, Gay Wilson,
1972-1975?
Jannacone, Pasquale,
1955-1956?
Writings:
"Passage to Attica,"
1973?
"A Phyllum of Chloë,"
undated
"Poetry and the 'Organic
Form',"
n. d.
Translations:
"The Esthetics of Edgar Allen
Poe,"
1973?
(2 folders)
"The Last Invocation,"
n.
d.
Walt Whitman's Poetry...,
Draft,
1972
(2 folders)
Box 13
Translations:
Walt Whitman's Poetry....
Manuscript,
1972-1973?
(3 folders)
Hans Reisiger Papers Subseries
1954-1955,
undated
(2 folders)
Henry Scholey Saunders Papers Subseries
Bibliographies:
"Bibliography and
Criticism,"
1941
"Whitman Music,"
1940?
Correspondence,
1922,
1947
Printed material,
1880-1947?
(3 folders)
Miscellaneous,
1917-1920
Writings Series, 1898-1988.
Contains copies of
Allen's essays and book reviews, and the
various drafts and production stages of several of his books.
Address on Receiving the
Tamiment Institute Book Award,
1955
"Biblical Echoes in Whitman's
Works,"
1934
"Calamus-Leaves,"
1969,
undated
(3 folders)
"Carl Sandburg,"
undated
"Centennial of
Leaves of Grass,"
1955
"Eccentric Professors,"
1962
"Editing
The Writings of Walt Whitman,"
1962
"Humor in Emerson,"
n.
d.
"The Iconography of Walt
Whitman,"
n. d.
Foreword to
Letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson,
1982
Melville and His World:
Illustrations,
1970-1976?
Text,
1970-1971
"Mr. Ohsava, Discoverer of 'Order of
Universe',"
1950-1951
(3 folders)
"A New Look at Emerson and
Science,"
1975
The New Walt Whitman Handbook:
Manuscript Copy I and 2,
1974
(7 folders)
Box 14
The New Walt Whitman Handbook:
Galleys,
1974-1975?
(2 folders)
Page Proofs,
1975
(4 folders)
Blues,
1975
(3 folders)
November Boughs and Other Prose,
1949-1952
Passage to More Than India,
1951-1952?
"Pluralism,"
undated
Radio Scripts,
1955,
undated
A Reader's Guide to Walt Whitman,
1969-1970
(3 folders)
"Regarding the 'Publication' of the First
Leaves of Grass,"
1956
Reviews,
1945-1974
The Solitary Singer:
Proposal,
1951?
First draft,
1950?
(9 folders)
Second draft,
1952?
(6 folders)
Box 15
The Solitary Singer:
Second draft,
1952?
(4 folders)
Manuscript copy 1,
1954?
(5 folders)
Manuscript copy 2,
1954?
(5 folders)
Illustrations,
1955?
(9 folders)
Miscellaneous,
1953-1967?
(2 folders)
Reviews,
1955
Box 16
"Speaking Personally,"
1976
Specimen Days and Other Prose,
1949-1952?
St. John de Crevecoeur:
Correspondence,
1922,
1985-1987
Drafts,
1986?
(2 folders)
Manuscript,
1986?
(2 folders)
Miscellaneous,
undated
Reviews,
1987-1988?
Studies in Leaves of Grass,
undated
The Two Poets of "Leaves of
Grass,"
1968-1969?
Waldo Emerson:
Research files,
undated
(6 folders)
Drafts:
Front Matter,
1975-1979?
Chapters 1-6,
1975-1979
(6 folders)
Box 17
Waldo Emerson: Drafts, Chapters
7-23
(15 folders)
Box 18
Waldo Emerson:
Drafts:
Chapters 24-28,
1975-1979
(5 folders)
Notes,
1975-1979
(9 folders)
Miscellaneous,
1975-1979?
Manuscript,
1980?
(7 folders)
Galleys,
1980?
(3 folders)
Box 19
Waldo Emerson: Illustrations,
1934-1978, undated
(3 folders)
Walt Whitman Abroad:
1945-1954
(3 folders)
Walt Whitman and....
undated
Walt Whitman Bibliography,
1918-1934,
1935
Walt Whitman Foundation Bulletin,
1948-1954
"Walt Whitman in Comparative
Literature,"
1943
Walt Whitman Handbook: Reviews,
1945-1946?
"Walt Whitman and Jules
Michelet,"
1937
"Walt Whitman's 'Long Journey'
Motif,"
1939
Walt Whitman as Man, Poet, and
Legend,
1961-1967
"Walt Whitman the Man,"
1955
"Walt Whitman--Nationalist or
Proletarian?"
1937
"Walt Whitman's Passage to
India,"
1959
"Walt Whitman as Philosopher,"
1930?
Walt Whitman's Poems:
Miscellaneous,
1953-1958?
"Walt Whitman's Posthumous
Fame,"
1947-1955?
"Walt Whitman's Reception in
Scandinavia,"
1946?
Walt Whitman:
"Reviews, Notices, Fan
Letters,"
1959-1961?
"Walt Whitman and Stoicism,"
n.
d.
"Whitman Abroad,"
1949
"Whitman and the Influence of Space on
American Literature,"
1961
"Whitman and
Michelet--Continued,"
1973?
William James
Research files,
1898-1969?
Notecards, n. d.
Box 20
Manuscripts:
Draft,
undated
(2 folders)
Prefatory material,
undated
Chapters 1-21,
undated
(7 folders)
Notes, n. d.
Page proofs,
1967?
(3 folders)
Illustrations,
1962-1963
Excerpts in
Parapsychology,
1967
Review,
1967
"With Faulkner in Japan,"
1962
Writings of Walt Whitman:
Center for Editions of American Authors/Conference on
Whitman Edition,
1959-1968
Announcements,
1955-1983
"The Young Whitman,"
1955
Miscellaneous Series, 1925-1975 and undated
Fragments of writings?,
undated
"Metropolitan Museum of Art,"
undated
Notes:
Gerald Manley Hopkins,
undated
Notecards, n. d.
Miscellaneous,
1925-1975?
OVERSIZE MATERIALS
CORRESPONDENCE SERIES, 1931-1963
CLIFTON JOSEPH FURNESS PAPERS SERIES
Clara Barrus Papers Subseries
Research Files:
John Burroughs
Correspondence:
Charles Wesley Eldridge
Correspondence,
1936-1944
Printed material:
The Conservator,
1905-1919
Correspondence Subseries
Oversize Box
2
Vrionides, Christos,
1926-1941?
PRINTED MATERIAL AND LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS SERIES
Clippings:
The Long-Islander, Whitman Papers,
1959-1976
Essays and offprints:
Titherington,
1895-1896?
Oversize Box
1
SCRAPBOOKS SERIES
WALT WHITMAN MATERIALS SERIES
Commemorations and Societies Subseries,
1949-1988,
undated
Correspondence Subseries
Oversize Box
2
"Chronological Correspondence,"
1867-1889
Popular Culture Subseries
Oversize Box
2
Pictures,
1860-1955?
Miscellaneous:
Congressional Record,
1942, Feb. 12
Writings Subseries
Oversize Box
2
1841-1950?
Oversize Box
2
1801-1970?
(2 folders)
Oversize Box
2
WALT WHITMAN SCHOLARS SERIES
WRITINGS SERIES
Melville and His World:
Illustrations,
1921, n. d.
The Solitary Singer:
Illustrations,
1954-1966?
Reviews,
1955
MISCELLANEOUS SERIES
Awards for
The Solitary Singer,
1955
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
undated
Phonograph record,
Jean Eichelberger Ivey,
1975
Walden Mss.,
1854?
Accessions 95-095 and 95-100
This unprocessed accession of professional correspondence, subject
files, miscellaneous files and loose materials was added to the Gay Wilson
Allen Papers in
1995 and is open for
research.
Box 1
Subject Files and Correspondence Files A-K
Albrecht
Alegria
G. W. Allen
American Literary Association, American Literature
Section
American Scholar
C. Anderson
(2 folders)
American National Biography
V. Andrews
Asselineau
(3 folders)
BAC
BAK
Evelyn Barish
Barzun
BC Research
Joseph Beaver
H. Bergman
(2 folders)
H. Blodgett
Susan Brown
Matthew Bruccoli
C. Budd
F. Burns
H. Burns
Burnshaw
Bill Butts
Edwin H. Cady
Calgary
Camden (Whitman)
D.B. Carpenter
Carybe
Central Memorial Society
Fred Chappell
Chari
Chicago (University English Department)
China
Chistova
Citrus College
V. Clemente
Cobblestone Publishing
Copyright
Cornell
Culton
Lois Dawson
John Ditsky
DLB
Drabrowski
Duke
Leon Edel
Emerson
Erkela
Erkkila
Eury
Eve
Eye Center
Fahey
Mort Frank
Freud
G.G. Fromm
Funk and Wagnalls
Georgia (University of)
Gibson
Susan Gilbert
Gimbel
C. Gohdes
Golden
(2 folders)
R. Gozzi
Greenspan
Grieer
Grohskopf
Grunzweiss
Harriss
Haugen
Hemlock Society
P. H. Hill
W. Hill
C. Hollis
Holy Cow
Bill Holm
R. Hone
S. Horner
Hotchkiss
Iaupe
India
Iowa (University of)
(2 folders)
Eric Jacobson
Japanese Letters
S. J. Kahn
Kaplan
Kazin
Vincent Kenny
Box 2
Subject Files and Correspondence Files K-Z a
Kent State
Bob King
J. Krieg
Library of Congress
Livingston
L.R. Lorant
Loving
Michael Lynch
Marks
Anne and Bill Maxson
Maxwell
E. Miller
Miyoshi
William Moore
Robert Morgan
Mulder
F. Murphy
Museum of City (New York)
Joel Myerson
Nakada
Nambiar
Nandyal (
India)
National Association of Scholars
NCSU
Nolan
Nurk
NYU English Department
Nuzum
Jackie Pace
Marie Clara Paro
Pollak
K. Price
D. Reynolds
Schyberg
H. Sebastian
G. Sill
L. Simon
State University of New York
S. Stepanchev
Strassburg
A. Studdard
Suhre
Summersgill
Tennessee University Press
N. Teraoka
That Strange Year
W. Thomas
Thorson
Tobias
Vance
Robert White
William Whit Whitman
(6 folders)
Lois Whitter
L. Wolfson
Jim Woodress
Phil Young
Youngblood.
Miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Box 3
Subject Files A-L
Alcott
American Art
American Book Company
American Civilization (
NYU)
American Art (
NYU)
American Literary Criticism
(anthology)
American Literature Reserve List
American Poetry Since
1900
American Society
American Studies Newsletter
J. W. Anderson
Sherwood Anderson
Atlantic Monthly
Auden (on
D. H. Lawrence)
Auden (
Christian Tragedy)
W. H. Auden
(2 folders)
Sylvia Beach
Saul Bellow
S.V. Benet
John Berryman
Biography
Book Binders
Book Reviews (
NYTBR)
Borges
Catherine D. Bowen
Warren Bower
Andrew Brandes
Broadcast Music
Broderie
Bryant
John Burroughs
J. Cabell
G. W. Cable
Capek
F. Carpenter
Will Cather
Center for Editions
Chicago University Press
S. Clemens
Cliche
T. Cole
Colophon
Columbia University
Comp. Lit.
Contemporary Literature
Coope
Copyright
Country Wife (summary)
Cowley
H. Crane
Stephen Crane
Crevecoeur
Criticism
E. E. Cummings
Deism
Dixie
Emily Dickinson
Dos Passos
Drama
T. Dreiser
Dualism
Ducation (
W. Lippman)
T. S. Eliot
(2 folders)
Emerson Seminar
Emerson
(2 folders)
English 2810 (
1800-1860)
English 2914 (Literary
Biography)
English 2920 (Poetics)
Etzler
Fuller
G41.2830
Galler (poems)
H. Garland
Graduate School (thesis)
Robert Graves
MSS Greenberg
Grierson
Guggenheim
Harper
Hawthorne
(2 folders)
H. H. Hayne
Hegel
Hemingway
Holmes
Howells
Hudson River School
Aldous Huxley
Imagery
(2 folders)
Impressionism
Irony
Irving
Henry James
(3 folders)
Jarrell
R. Jeffers
Jefferson
Journal of English and Germanic Philology
James Joyce
Kmickerboskers
Davies Langton
Language
Lanier
Late 19th Century American Literature
Sinclair Lewis
Library
Literary Biography
Literary Historians
Jack London
Longfellow
Lowell
(2 folders)
Box 4
Subject Files M-Z
Masters
Matthiesen
Maugham
Melville
(2 folders)
Melville Society
Arthur Miller
Henry Miller
(2 folders)
Moby Dick
Monograph Committee
M. Moore
Mystics
National Literature
1837-1855
Nature
Naturalism
Negro
Neurotic Personality
New York Review
New York Times
Niebuhr
Nietzsche
Norris
Novel in America
O'Neill
Paine
T. Parker
C.S. Peirce
Piranesi
Poe
E. Porkman
Pound
Pychoanalysis and Art
Puritanism
J. C. Ransom
Ratner
Rhyme
E. A. Robinson
Romanticism
Rousseau
Salinger
Sandburg
Santyanna
W. Saroyan
Scholasticism
Semantics
Senegal
Shopira
Southern Literature
Stephen Spender
Stein
Steinbeck
Steve Stepanchev
H. B. Stone
Style
(2 folders)
Edward Taylor
Thoreau
(2 folders)
Times Square
Tragedy
Transcendentalism
Mark Twain (2 folders)
John Updike
Carl Van Doren
Jones Very
Warfil
Welsh Metrics
Werzeland
N. West
West (1840's)
E. Wharton
Whitman Seminar 1974-5
Whitman
(3 folders)
Whittier
William Carlos Williams
Cratis Williams
Roger Williams
Tennessee Williams
Winters
Wordsworth
Zutawski.
Country Files A-G
Africa (South)
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Britain
Bitish Isles
China
(2 folders)
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Box 5
Country Files H-Z
Holland
Israel
(2 folders)
Italy
India
(3 folders)
Japan
Latin America
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Russia
Spain
Sweden
(2 folders)
Yugoslavia
Miscellaneous Files
Activities
Articles for E.B.
Floyd Dell
Richard Ellmann
Encyclopedia Americana
Encyclopedia Britannica
D. Gimbel
Gregg
Guggenheim
R. P. Harriss
Harvard
(2 folders)
Hendricks
Hofstna
Jay Hubbell
William James
(3 folders)
Leonard
Morrison
Noonday
Personal Bibliography
(2 folders)
Pessoa
Reprints
Rideout
Society of American Hist.
Suzuki
Whitcomb
Walt Whitman Birthplace
Who's Who
Zeiger
Miscellaneous
(3 folders)
Box 6
Miscellaneous
(8 folders)
Box 7
Miscellaneous Correspondence
(3 letter boxes)
Box 8
Miscellaneous
Correspondence
(1 letter box)
Index Cards
(1 box)
Literary references regarding Whitman and others.
Box 9
Index Cards (4 boxes)
Accession 96-062
This unprocessed accession contains reprints of articles by Allen;
research notes on William James, Walt Whitman, and Ralph Waldo Emerson; and
drafts of writings on Whitman and others. The William James materials include
transcripts of Alice James' diary, and other family letters and writings. Also
included is a large portrait of Malcolm Cowley. Open for research.
