TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents
Arrangement
Restrictions
Index Terms
Separated Material
Administrative Information
Description of Series
Series I: Typescripts & Notes
Series II: Correspondence
Series III: Reviews of Books by A. D. McKillop: newspaper
and periodicals
Series IV: Reviews by Alan Dugald McKillop
Series V: Offprints written by Alan Dugald
McKillop
Series VI: Offprints of Various Other Authors, most
autographed.
Series VII: Manuscript Notes for
Lecture/Publication.
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Guide to the Alan Dugald McKillop papers,
1921-1972
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Creator: |
McKillop, Alan Dugald,
1892-1974 |
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Title: |
Alan Dugald McKillop papers
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Dates: |
1921-1972 |
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Abstract: |
Professional papers,
manuscript notes and personal correspondence of Alan Dugald McKillop, Professor
of English, Rice University. Included in the collection are: James Thomson
letters (photocopies); Samuel Richardson letters (photocopies); Aaron Hill
letters; typescripts of articles; reviews of McKillop's books; reviews by
McKillop; offprints by McKillop, offprints of other authors (most
autographed). |
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Identification: |
MS 269 |
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Quantity: |
5 cubic feet |
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Materials are in English. |
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Repository: |
Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library,
Rice University, Houston, TX |
Alan Dugald McKillop taught English at Rice University beginning in
1920, and retired in 1968 as Trustee Distinguished Professor of English. His
interests included 18th century poetry and prose, and British novelist Samuel
Richardson and poet James Thomson in particular.
Born May 24, 1892 in Lynn, Massachusetts to Scottish parents, McKillop
attended Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1913 with a B.A. in
philosophy. He returned to Harvard and earned his Ph.D. in English in 1920, and
arriving at Rice Institute, September, 1920, to begin what would be forty-nine
years of service to the Rice community. McKillop was a member of the Texas
Philosopical Society, the Texas Institute of Letters, the Houston Philosophical
Society, and Phi Beta Kappa.
A long-time friend of the Fondren Library, McKillop was the founding
editor of the Fondren Library's publication
The Flyleaf, and was responsible for
developing many of the library's key collections, including the Axson
Collection of 18th century British plays.
McKillop died in Houston on August 5, 1974.
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Professional papers, manuscript notes and personal correspondence of
Alan Dugald McKillop, Professor of English, Rice University. Included in the
collection are: James Thomson letters (photocopies); Samuel Richardson letters
(photocopies); Aaron Hill letters; typescripts of articles; reviews of
McKillop's books; reviews by McKillop; offprints by McKillop, offprints of
other authors (most autographed).
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Arrangement |
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This collection has been arranged in the following seven series:
- Series I: Typescripts and Notes
- Series II: Correspondence
- Subseries A: James Thomson letters
- Subseries B: Samuel Richardson letters
- Subseries C: General Correspondence
- Series III: Reviews of books by McKillop
- Series IV: Reviews by McKillop
- Series V: Offprints by McKillop
- Series VI: Offprints by Various Other Authors
- Series VII: Manuscript notes for Lecture / Publication
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Access Restrictions
No access restrictions; this material is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from the Alan Dugald McKillop Papers must
be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.
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Subjects (Persons) |
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McKillop, Alan Dugald,
1892-1974 |
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Richardson, Samuel
1689-1761. |
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Thomson, James,
1700-1748. |
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Subjects |
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English literature--Early
modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism |
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English literature--18th
century--History and criticism. |
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Formats |
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Correspondence. |
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Typescripts. |
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Newsclippings. |
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Richardson Family letters separated and processed as MS 279. |
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Alan Dugald McKillop Papers, 1921-1972, MS #269, Woodson Research
Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
Gift of the Alan Dugald McKillop estate, 1976.
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Series I: Typescripts & Notes |
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Vade Mecum
typescripts |
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"The Diction of Thomson's
Seasons" typescripts |
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"Thomson's Liberty" typescript |
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"Lucretius and Thomson"
typescript |
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Thesis:
"The `Spasmodic School' in Victorian
Poetry" |
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Introduction and bibliography |
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Bailey |
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Smith |
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Dobell |
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Aytoun |
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The Spasmodic School as a Whole |
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Proofs for
The Early Masters of English
Fiction |
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Illustrations for
The Early Masters of English
Fiction |
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Talks; typescripts and manuscripts |
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Burns typescripts and manuscripts |
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Sterne manuscripts and notes |
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Sterne: proofs for
Tristram Shandy |
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Manuscript notes on the novel |
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"An Ode to Mr. Handel" photocopy-
dated 1745. |
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"A Seasonable Examination"
photocopy-
unidentified
photocopies dated 1735. |
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Typescript review of
Richard Brinsley Sheridan by
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Typescript of
"The Publication of James Thomson's
Poems, 1726-1730" |
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Typescript of
"Are Novels Social
Documents?" |
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Typescript of
"The Gothic Setting in English Fiction,
1764-1790" |
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Typescript of
"The Early Masters of English
Fiction" speech |
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Typescript of
"Eighteenth Century Sentimentalism in
Theory and Practice" |
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Typescript of
"Literary Forgers-New and Old"
speech |
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Typescript of
"Sizing Up a Library" |
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Typescript of
"Two More Thomson
Letters" |
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Tristam Shandy seminar
notes |
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Series II: Correspondence |
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Subseries A: James Thomson letters |
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arranged in folders 1-5 chronologically using listing provided by
Professor McKillop; photocopies of originals and printed transcripts |
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James Thomson letters to Aaron Hill; photocopies of
printed transcripts related letters of Mallet, Mendes, Young,
Shenstone |
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James Thomson miscellaneous including |
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Proposal sheet for
Seasons |
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Catalogue of Thomson's goods for sale - 3 photocopies
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Annotated pages of
"Winter" from
Seasons work sheets for James
Thomson's
Castle of
Indolence |
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James Thomson portraits for illustrations and notes
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Subseries B: Samuel Richardson Letters |
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Samuel Richardson letters; photocopies of originals and
printed transcripts |
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Samuel Richardson letter to his nephew; photocopy of
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Subseries C: General Correspondence |
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James Hervey letter to Dr. Stonehouse; photocopy of
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Aaron Hill letters; photocopies of contemporary printed
transcrpitions |
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Henry H(a)me letter; photocopy of original |
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Alan Dugald McKillop bibliography |
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Correspondence with Lois G. Morrison with accompanying
photocopies of |
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an A. Moore imprint
dated 1727 |
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an early printing of excerpts from
The Fal of Bob,
1700's |
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title page of
Works of Pope dated 1753 |
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montage on Eustace Budgell, pages
dated in 1700's |
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Personal correspondence including letters regarding
publication |
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Personal correspondence of Rice University
interest |
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letter of appointment from Edgar. Odell
Lovett |
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personal letter from EOL |
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letter notifying ADMcK of fellowship |
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personal correspondence with Wilfred
Dowden |
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Correspondence with George Sherburn |
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Correspondence regarding James Thomson |
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Correspondence regarding Samuel Richardson |
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Series III: Reviews of Books by A. D. McKillop: newspaper
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Samuel Richardson. Printer and
Novelist. |
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C. G. Stillman,
January, 1937. |
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E. A. Moreno,
February, 1937. |
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L. Kronenberger,
Decmber, 1936. |
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Times Literary Supplement,
April, 1937. |
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The Background of Thomson's
"Seasons" |
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J. E. Wells,
September, 1944. |
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H. N. Fairchild,
December, 1943. |
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James Thompson, (1700-1748): Letters and
Documents |
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J. V. Baker,
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Printed in The Times Literary Supplement of
an except from
The Background of Thomson's
"Seasons" entitled
"The People's Poet: Thomson of "The
Seasons", Reign of Two Centuries". December 19, 1942 |
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Printed in The New Republic
an article entitled
"The Power of Byron". dated April 16, 1924 |
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Series IV: Reviews by Alan Dugald McKillop |
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Humanism and America. Essays on the
Outlook of Modern Civilisation. Ed. N. Foerster.
1930. |
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The English Women Novelists and Their
Connection with the Feminist Movement (1688-1797). J. M. Horner AND
Lady Julia Mandeville by Frances
Brooke Ed. E. P. Poole.
1931. |
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Samuel Richardson, 1689-1761, Imprimeur
de Londres: Auteur de Pamela, Clarisse, et Grandison. P. Dottin.
1932. |
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The Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden:
Studies in Some Aspects of Seventeenth-Century Thought. L. I. Brevold.
1935. |
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Literatur - und Kunstkritik in ihren
Wechselbeziehungen: ein Beitrag zur englischen Asthetik des 18.
Jahrhunderts. Von K. L. F. Thielke. AND
Sir William Davenant's "Gondibert", its
Preface, and Hobbes's Answer: A Study in English Neo-Classicism. C. M.
Dowlin.
1937. |
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The Making of "The Cloister and the
Hearth". A. M. Turner.
1939. |
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Sheridan of Drury Lane. A.
Glasgow.
1940. |
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Tracts and Pamphlets by Richard
Steele. Ed. R. Blanchard.
1940. |
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The Later Career of Tobias
Smollett. L. L. Martz.
1943. |
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Religious Trends in English Poetry II:
1740-1780, Religious Sentimentalism in the Age of Johnson. H. N.
Fairchild.
1943. |
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The Fortunes of Falstaff. J. D.
Wilson.
1944. |
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Born Under Saturn: A Biography of William
Hazlitt. C. M. Maclean.
1944. |
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Against Oblivion, the Life of Joseph
Severn. S. Birkenhead.
1944. |
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Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's
"Opticks" and the Eighteenth Century Poets. M. H. Nicolson.
1947. |
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The Language of Natural Description in
Eighteenth-Century Poetry. J. Arthos.
1950. |
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Hogarth's Literary Relationships.
R. E. Moore.
1950. |
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Eighteenth Century England. Life
Filmstrips.
1951. |
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The Age of Reason: The Eighteenth
Century. H. Nicolson.
1961. |
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A Life of Matthew G. Louis. L. F.
Peck.
1962. |
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Hogarth and His Place in European
Art. F. Antal.
1962. |
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The Sister Arts: The Tradition of
Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray. J. H.
Hagstrum.
1959. |
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"James Thomson's Library." E. S.
Taylor. AND
"Le Roman sentimental en Europe de
Richardson á Rousseau (1740-1761)."Revue de litérature comparée, XX
129-51. P. Van Tieghem.
(1940),1943. |
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William Mason: A Study in
Eighteenth-Century Culture. John W. Draper.
1924. (addendum) |
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Poems of William Edmondstoune
Aytoun. Oxford Edition.
1922. |
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The Dependence of Part I of Cynewulf's
Christ upon the Antiphonary. Edward Burgert.
1921. |
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Series V: Offprints written by Alan Dugald
McKillop |
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"Illustrative Notes on Genesis
B." 1921. |
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"Some Early Traces of Rabelais in
English Literature." 1921. |
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"The Romanticism of William
Collins." 1923. |
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"A Victorian Faust." 1925. |
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"Richardson, Young, and the
Conjectures." 1925. |
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"The First English Translation of
Werther." 1928. |
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"Notes on Smollett" 1928. |
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"A Lost Poem by Collins." 1928. |
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"Smollett's First Comedy." 1930. |
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"The Personal Relations between Fielding
and Richardson." 1931. |
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"Mrs. Radcliffe on the Supernatural in
Poetry." 1932. |
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"Richardson's Early Years as a
Printer." 1933. |
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"A Critic of 1741 on Early
Poetry." 1933. |
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"English Circulating Libraries
1725-50." 1934. |
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"`The Hero; or the Adventures of a
Night.'" 1938. |
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"An Iconographic Poem on
Tom Jones." 1938. |
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"The Authorship of `A Poem to the Memory
of Mr. Congreve.'" 1939. |
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"Samuel Richardson's Advice to an
Apprentice." 1943. |
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"The Benedicte Paraphrased." 1943. |
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"Thomson's Visit to Shenstone." 1944. |
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"James Thomson Recollects Hagley
Park." 1947. |
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"The Mock Marriage Device in
Pamela." 1947. |
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"A Letter from Samuel Richardson to
Alexis Claude Clairaut." 1948. |
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"James Thomson 1748-1948." 1948. |
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"Some Newtonian Verses in
Poor Richard." 1948. |
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"Nature and Science in the Works of
James Hervey." 1949. |
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"Wedding Bells for Pamela." 1949. |
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"Thomson and the Jail Committee." 1950. |
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"The Early History of Thomson's
Liberty." 1950. |
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"Peter the Great in Thomson's
`Winter.'" 1952. |
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"Charlotte Smith's Letters." 1952. |
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"The Reinterpretation of Laurence
Sterne." 1954. |
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"Richardson's Early Writings--Another
Pamphlet." 1954. |
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"Two 18th Century `First Works' Samuel
Richardson's First Book Jmaes Thomson's Juvenile Poems." 1955. |
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"Some Heroic Couplets by James
Thomson." 1958. |
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"Thomson and the Licensers of the
Stage." 1958. |
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"Ethics and Political History in
Thomson's Liberty." for George Sherburn;
part of a collection of essays.
n.d. |
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News clippings regarding Guggenheim in Fellowship awarded to
A. D. McKillop |
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"The Reinterpretation of Laurence
Sterne." in the Second International Conference of University Professors
of English, Paris,
p. 38 1953. |
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"Shaftesbury in Joseph Warton's
Enthusiast." 1955. |
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"A View of Sterne's Art." 1955. |
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"On the Acquisition of Minor English
Fiction 1740-1800." 1956. |
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"James Ralph in Berkshire." 1961. |
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Words on the death of Asa Crawford Chandler, 1891-1958 in
the Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Texas.
1958. |
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Reviews continued: |
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Science and the Creative Spirit: Essays
on Humanistic Aspects of Science. K. W. Deutsch, F. E. L. Priestley, et
al.
1959. |
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Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The
Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite. M. H. Nicolson.
1960. |
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English Literature in the Early
Eighteenth Century, 1700-1740. Bonamy Dobrée.
1960. |
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The Rhetoric of Fiction. W. C.
Booth.
1963. |
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Series VI: Offprints of Various Other Authors, most
autographed. |
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Ault, Norman.
"Pope and the Miscellanies with a New
Poem by his Hand." 1934. |
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Baker, Thomas.
The Fine Lady's Airs.
Reprint. 1709. |
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Battestin, Martin C.
"Fielding's Definition of Wisdom: Some
Functions of Ambiguity and Emblem in Tom
Jones." 1968. |
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Bessinger, J. B.
"Beowulf
and the Harp at Sutton Hoo." 1958. |
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"Maldon
and the Olafsdrapa: An Historical
Caveat." 1962. |
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Bond, Richmond P.
"Early Lending Libraries." 1958. |
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Boyce, Benjamin.
"The Effect of the Restoration on Prose
Fiction." 1961. |
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Bredvold, Louis I.
"The Tendency Toward Platonism in
Neo-Classical Esthetics." 1934. |
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Case, Arthur E.
"Pope, Addison, and the `Atticus'
Lines." 1935. |
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Cohen, Ralph.
"Literary Criticism and Artistic
Interpretation Eighteenth-Century English Illustrations of
The Seasons." from
Reason and the Imagination Studies in the
History of Ideas 1600-1800. Ed. J. A. Mazzeo.
1962. |
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Cope, Jackson I.
"Definition as Structure in Gissing's
`Ryecroft Papers.'" n.d. |
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Eaves, T. C. Duncan and Ben D. Kimpel.
"Richardson's Revisions of
Pamela." 1967. |
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"The Composition of
Clarissa and its Revision Before
Publication." 1968. |
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"Sir William
Harrington." n.d. |
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Gerard, Albert.
"On the Logic of Romanticism." 1957. |
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"Meaning and Structure in
Troilus and Cressida." 1959. |
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"Keats and the Romantic
Sehnsucht." n.d. |
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Goldberg, Homer.
"Comic Prose Epic or Comic Romance: The
Arguement of the Preface to Joseph
Andrews." 1964. |
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Havens, Raymond D.
"The Structure of Smart's
Song to David." 1938. |
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Jensen, Gerard E.
"Proposals for a Definitive Edition of
Fielding's Tom Jones." 1937. |
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Maclean, Kenneth.
"England in the Eighteenth
Century." 1942. |
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Newcomb, Robert.
"Franklin and Richardson." 1958. |
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Paulson, Ronald.
"Satire in the Early Novels of
Smollett." n.d. |
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Preston, Thomas R.
"Historiography as Art in
Eighteenth-Century England." 1969. |
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"The Biblical Context of Johnson's
Rasselas." 1969. |
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"The Dialectic of Art and
Philosophy." n.d. |
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Quaintance, Richard E.
"Charles Churchill as a Man of Feeling:
A Forgotten Poem by Mackenzie." 1961. |
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Sherbo, Arthur.
"Solomon Mendes, A Friend of the
Poets." 1957. |
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Sherburn, George.
"Fielding's Amelia: An Interpretation." 1936. |
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"Fielding's Social Outlook." 1956. |
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Slattery, William C.
"Samuel Richardson and the Netherlands
Early Reception of his Work." n.d. |
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Thomas, J. D.
"The Intentional Strategy in Oscar
Wilde's Dialogues." 1969. |
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Tuveson, Ernest.
"The Importance of Shaftesbury." 1953. |
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"Locke and the Dissolution of the
`Ego'." 1955. |
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[]. Review of
Pope's Dunciad: A Study of its
Meaning. by A. L. Williams.
1957. |
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"Locke and Sterne." from
Reason and the Imagination Studies in the
History of Ideas 1600-1800. Ed. J. A. Mazzeo.
1962. |
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Vieth, David M.
"Rochester's `Sceptor' Lampoon on
Charles II." 1958. |
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[]. Review of
The Poems of John Dryden. by
James Kinsley.
1959. |
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Watt, I. P.
"The Naming of Characters in Defoe,
Richardson, and Fielding." 1949. |
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Williams, Kathleen.
"Restoration Themes in the Major Satires
of Swift." 1965. |
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Woodhouse, A. S. P.
"Romanticism and the History of
Ideas." n.d. |
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Woodring, Carl R.
"Coleridge and the Khan." 1959. |
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Woods, Charles B.
"Fielding and the Authorship of
Shamela." 1946. |
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s. a. manuscript notes for additional offprints used for
various research projects. |
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Photocopy of James Thomson's
"A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir
Isaac Newton" dated 1727. |
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Photocopies of April 16, 1776 and June 4, 1776 London
Journal. |
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Photocopy of
"The Pleasures of Melancholy A
Poem" dated 1747. |
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Series VII: Manuscript Notes for
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Criticism |
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Restoration |
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