Inventory of the Herman Salinger Papers, 1909-1982
[top]Descriptive Summary
Repository
University Archives, Duke
University
Creator
Salinger, Herman, 1905-
Title
Herman Salinger Papers, 1909-1982
Language of Material
Material in English
Extent
13.2 Linear Feet
8,000 Items
Abstract
8,000 Items
Herman Salinger was a professor of German and Comparative Literature at Duke from 1955-1974.
Collection includes correspondence, course and curriculum materials, poetry and manuscripts, speeches, photographs, and other materials. Also includes documents dealing with Duke activities and people, course and teaching materials, writings, and records of the Arthur Schnitzler Research Association.
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Administrative Information
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Collection is open for research.
In off-site storage; 24 hours advance notice is required for use.
Copyright Notice
Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Herman Salinger Papers, University Archives, Duke University.
Provenance
The Herman Salinger Papers were received by the University Archives as a
transfer in 1963-1983.
Processing Information
Processed by Jessica Wood, November 2006
Encoded by Kimberly Sims, October 2007
Accessions A88-54, A85-511, A88-5, A83-67, A85-24, A88-13, A63-141, A69-56, A70-75, A73-5, and A74-26 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Herman Salinger grew up in St. Louis, MO. He received his B.A. from Princeton University, his M.A. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He also undertook graduate studies at the University of Berlin and the University of Cologne. During World War II, he fought in Germany as a captain in the U.S. Air Force. After teaching at Princeton, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Kansas and Grinnell College, Salinger came to Duke in 1955 as a professor of German and Comparative Literature, serving as chair in both departments. He remained on the Duke faculty until his retirement in 1974. His 1963 book of poetry, A Sign is the Sword won the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award. He died in 1983.
[top]Collection Overview
Collection includes correspondence, course and curriculum materials, poetry and manuscripts, speeches, photographs, and other materials. The correspondence includes personal letters, correspondence with former students and professional correspondence. Also includes documents dealing with Duke activities and people, course and teaching materials, writings, and records of the Arthur Schnitzler Research Association.
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Subject Headings
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- Salinger, Herman, 1905-
- Duke University--Faculty.
- Duke University. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature.
- Germany--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina--Durham.
- World War, 1939-1945--Correspondence.
- Arthur Schnitzler Research Association.
- Salinger family.
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Detailed Description of Collection
Container List
Personal Correspondence, 1957-1972
General Correspondence (Originally in Letter Box), 1940-1968
Haskell Bloch Correspondence, 1954-1974
Job Applicants, 1955-1972
General Correspondence, A-Z
Wiegand, Hermann Correspondence, 1945-1954
World War II Letters
Correspondence - Signatures Incomplete or Illegible, 1946-1981
Box 2
Writings, Correspondence, 1962-1971
Poems
Loose Verses
Samaiu
Verse, undated
"A Tear is an Intellectual Thing"
David Salinger Correspondence, 1947-1972
"Near Requiem for a Near Corpse"
and
"Time Recaptured"
We Seek the Wheel
Morgenstem Review
Princeton Undergraduate Thesis, 1927
Yale Dissertation, 1950
Stanford Master's Thesis, 1928
Salinger Academic Writings (Bound Volumes), undated
Kleist's Penthesila: Amazon or Bluestocking?
La Fontaine
Speeches
"Concerning Kafka's 'A Country Doctor'"
"Poetry as a Means"
Francis Jammes
On Translating Lyric Poetry
Art of the Novel (Address to Princeton Students, 1939); Artist and Society (T. Mann)
Prodigal Son
K. Krolow Poems, Correspondence, etc., 1967-1979
Klopstock
Johnson Reprint Co.
Ludwig Uhland
Correspondence, 1968
MLA Seminar, 1968
UNC Visiting Professorship, 1978-1980
Box 3
Vita and Bibliography
Bound Letters, v. I-VII, 1923-1932
World War II Correspondence, 1945
Wiegand Correspondence, 1961-1975
Correspondence with Writers, Artist A. Bloch and Others, 1947
Old Family Letters, etc., 1909-1932
Kraus Correspondence, 1966
Stevens Correspondence, 1954
Kaufmann Correspondence, 1961
Shapiro and MacLeish Correspondence, 1937-1953
General Correspondence, 1957-1980
General Correspondence, 1953-1958
Correspondence re: Kronow, 1967
Box 4
Freshman Year (Verse), 1923-1925
Verse, 1925-1926
Summer Vacation, 1926
Verse, 1927-1961
Verse, This House of Verses, 1960-1968
Verse and Translations, 1969-1975
Verse and Translations, 1975-1982
Verse, 1977-1982
Stifter,
"Brigitta,"
Translated by H. Salinger
Peter Henisch (Translated by H. Salinger?)
Verse, Sacred Play Things
Box 5
South Atlantic Quarterly
Edens, President A. Hollis
Phi Beta Kappa
German 201 and 209 and 133 - Goethe, Lyrics, etc.
German 103: 19th Century
Grinnell - German A2
Bibliographies
Grinnell
Department Records
Library Bibliography (Desirata)
Reserve Book Lists
German 201
Student Papers Retained [May be restricted, check with staff]
Publications, 1958
Krolow Volume - Introduction
Reviews
Schnitzler Association (IASRA), 1961-1969
IASRA Associate Members
IASRA Former Members
Letters of Invitation
Institutional Members
Complete Membership List
Student Members
IASRA Correspondence, 1966-1967
Active Members
Declined
IASRA Financial Information
IASRA Journal
IASRA Membership, 1966-1967
Comp Lit Program
20th Century German Verse
Stewart Gordon - Modern Austrian Literature
General Robert E. Lee Information
SAMLA - 1961-1962
Yale University Correspondence
Box 6
Inventory
Items Separated, circa 1985
Lecture Note Cards
Addresses:
"I Write Just for Myself…"
Addresses:
"Introduction for Ellis Arnall,"
circa 1952
Addresses:
"The Three R's of Poetry"
Addresses:
"Some general remarks about Undergraduate Writing Problems: Prose and Verse"
Addresses:
"How to read a poem"
(Panel Discussion)
Addresses:
"Is Jesus Christ God?"
Addresses:
"Realism in Germany: 1830-1885"
Addresses:
"5th Century B.C.: End of Classical Greek Period"
Addresses:
"Romancement and Advancement: Moon As a Lollipop"
Talk and Poem on Christmas,
"circa 1950s"
Miscellaneous Poems
Notes, Quotations, Miscellaneous
Public Lectures, Poems, etc.
Talks, Reviews, etc.
"Why Austrian Literature?"
Addresses - SAMLA - 1977-1978
Heine - The Child in the Mann
Poem, 1972
Poems on Latin American Project, 1975
"Experience in Africa"
(diary)
Poems to be Copied
"Magic Root"
- Poem
Poems, 1967
Poems, Copy II, 1965-1967
Poems, 1965-1972
Poems, 1967-1970
Unpublished Manuscript, 1977
Lyrica Germanica
Poem Drafts/Sketches, undated
Books Abroad, Summer 1948
Fantasy, No. 26, 1942
Above Ground Review, Spring 1971
German Lyric Final Exam, Germ 133
The Nineteenth Century (Comp Lit 119, University of Washington)
Comp Lit C58: Romanticism (and Comp Lit Miscellaneous)
Comp Lit 203: Realism
Herman Hesse
Hesse: Demian
Manon Lescaut
Comp Lit 205 Introduction
Marcel Proust
R.M. Rilke
Kafka Parables - Salinger Essay
Kafka Course Materials
Rilke Papers
Weigand; Zauberberg
Krutch: Proust
Camus, Lorca and Hagerkirst
Mann - Goethe
Course Materials, I-J
Mallarme and Mysticism
Wedekind, Frank
Comp Lit 204: Realism and Symbolism - Materials
Emery George - 1972 - Krolow and Lit Review
Humboldt - Stilftung
Franco-German Relations - Comp Lit 7 - MLA
Emery George - Literary Review - Translations
Karl Krolow
Miscellaneous Clippings, Printed Matter, Photos, etc.
Correspondence with Writers and Princeton Administrators, 1935-1942
Artists Editions Mailing Envelope from Italy, 1954
Box 7
Items Separated, 1971-1980
Patriotic Plays, Grinnell College
Austrian Lit Program - Memos, Papers, 1973
Comparative Literature Committee Minutes, 1971-1972
Comparative Literature Program, 1970-1972
Correspondence w/European Writers, Relatives, Immigrant Writers (Krolow), Translators, Students, 1955-1966
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1944-1980
Lectures, Including Announcements, 1972
Heine Lectures Notes
Heine Paper for MLA
Heine - Valkyren Paper and Correspondence w/Johns Hopkins
Fichte Schelling Lecture Notes
Correspondence Re: Publications, 1982-1983
Assorted Poems
Personal - Poems
Verse (Beginnings, Final Jottings, Miscellaneous), 1963-1980
"Generation Gap"
Speech
Auerbach: Philologie der Weltliteratur, 1967
Betts Correspondence
Bienkowsky Correspondence
Albert Bloch Correspondence
Haskell Bloch Correspondence
Felix Braun Paper, 1962
Broch Correspondence, circa 1950
Browning Correspondence
Hoyle Carpenter,
"The Swan"
and Correspondence
Paul Celan Correspondence
Dishman - de Jong Correspondence
Albert Einstein - Letter, Eulogy by H. Salinger
Epstein Correspondence
Fitzbauer - Correspondence and Translations
Forster
Grillparzer Correspondence
Grillparzer Radio Talk
Hagelstange Correspondence
Henisch, Peter - Correspondence and Translations
Humboldt Correspondence
Lawson Correspondence
Paul Link Correspondence
D.L. Salinger - Correspondence and Poems
Schönriese
Richard Seymour Correspondence
Spackman Correspondence
Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford Correspondence
Vollmer Correspondence (Including Re: Salinger's Duke Appointment), 1955
Wakefield Correspondence
Weigand Correspondence, 1964-1982
Donald Yates Correspondence
Box 8
Holiday Cards, 1963-1980
German State Theater Program, 1936
Speech to Angier B. Duke Candidates, 1969
German Embassy Press Kit, 1959
