LTS: Papers of Carl F. Strauch (part 3)

Papers of Carl F. Strauch (con't)

Boxes 40-45 Unpublished Emerson Manuscript (Series III cont.)

The following 5 boxes contain material relating to publication of CFS's collected articles into a book.

Box 40: Manuscripts

Folder 40.01 Letter to Libraries, 1977
Folder 40.02 Replies to letters, 1977-78
Folder 40.03 Special replies to letters, 1977-78
Folder 40.04 Emerson Poems and manuscripts: correspondence 1942-1955
Folder 40.05 Emerson Rare Books and manuscripts: notes
Folder 40.06 Valuable Notes for Research: notes
Folder 40.07 Mss - Bienecke Library: notes, photocopies
Folder 40.08 Mss - Boston Athenaeum: notes
Folder 40.09 Mss - Boston Public, Goodspeed, Rochester, Mass. Historical Society Hall of Fame, Cambridge Public, NAUSHON: notes
Folder 40.10 Mss - Boston, Rochester, Juvenilia: notes
Folder 40.11 Mss - Brown: notes
Folder 40.12 Mss - Harris Collection, Brown: notes
Folder 40.13 Mss - Columbia: notes and photocopies
Folder 40.14 Mss - Chartist's complaint, Doheny: correspondenceand photocopies
Folder 40.15 Mss - Harvard: notes
Folder 40.16 Mss - Huntington: corres. and photocopies
Folder 40.17 Mss - Lilly, Indiana: corres. and photocopies
Folder 40.18 Mss - Nun's Aspiration, Lehigh: photocopy
Folder 40.19 Mss - New York Public: editions, notes
Folder 40.20 Mss - Berg, Poems on Lowell: notes
Folder 40.21 Mss - Berg, Correspondence: photocopies
Folder 40.22 Mss - Drexel Inst, Days & ALS: notes and photocopy
Folder 40.23 Mss - Tilton, W. Soul & Hymn etc: correspondence and photocopies
Folder 40.24 Mss - Agreements, Tichnor & Fields: notes
Folder 40.25 Mss - University of Texas: photocopies and correspondence
Folder 40.26 Mss - U. of Virginia: photocopies and correspondence
Folder 40.27 Mss - Harvard A&M: notes and photocopies
Folder 40.28 Mss - Tappan: notes
Folder 40.29 Mss - Beyer, Ms. of the Problem, May Day: notes

Box 41: Emerson Research and articles

Folder 41.01 References to Poetry and Poets in Emerson's Journals: notes
Folder 41.02 Notes for Emerson book-Cady (Word Publishing Co.)
*Folder 41.03 Emerson Book-Cady: corres. and contract 1966
Folder 41.04 Letters re "Sympathy" article after publication: correspondence, 1967-68
*Folder 41.05 Phi Beta Kappa Talk: holograph
*Folder 41.06 Prospectus for "The Longevity of the Mind: Studies in Emerson's Poetics" by CFS,1976: 4 copies
*Folder 41.07 University Press rejections of "Longevity" 1976
*Folder 41.08 University of Wisconsin Press, 1976-77 correspondence re acceptance of mss. (ultimate rejection)
Folder 41.09 "Longevity of the Mind" the book, notes and correspondence re permissions and with Kenneth Cameron 1975-77
Folder 41.10 Evan Prosser. "Edward Taylor's Poetry": notes and photocopy
Folder 41.11 Misc. Notes from English Classes: notes
Folder 41.12 Emerson Symposium, 1974: correspondence and notes
Folder 41.13 Vincent Tomas. "The Modernity of Jonathan Edwards" photocopy
Folder 41.14 Edward Taylor: 3 reviews
*Folder 41.15 Review of Ursula Brumm by CFS: holograph, typescript and notes

Box 42: Emerson Research by CFS

*Folder 42.01 The Two Cultures: holograph
*Folder 42.02 The Problem of Time: typescript (cut and paste)
*Folder 42.03 Outlines for The Article: notes
*Folder 42.04 A Chronology and Commentary on bMS Am 1221, Item 225: holograph
*Folder 42.05 Poems MF, CS and other: 3 letters, 1967
*Folder 42.06 Selections for Anthology (outline): holograph
*Folder 42.07 Emerson on Poetry; Channing: notes
*Folder 42.08 CFS. "Ishmael: Time and Personality in Moby Dick": holograph and copy
*Folder 42.09 Doctrine of Sympathy; Nature: notes
Folder 42.10 David A. Watson. "The Psychology of Sympathy" student paper and notes

Box 43: Emerson Book

*Folder 43.01 Notes for Chapters: typescript (cut and paste)
*Folder 43.02 Chapter 1; The Mind's Voice: Emerson's Poetic Style: typescript and photocopy
*Folder 43.03 Chapter 2; The Longevity of the Mind, 3 typescripts
*Folder 43.05 Chapter 2; Longevity of the Mind: typescript
*Folder 43.06 Chapter 3; The Year of Emerson's Poetic Maturity, 1834: typescript, (cut and paste)
*Folder 43.07 Chapter 3; Maturity: typescript (cut and paste)
*Folder 43.08 Chapter 4; Emerson's Use of the Organic Method typescript (cut and paste)
*Folder 43.09 Chapter 5; Three New Poems for the Canon typescript (cut and paste)
*Folder 43.10 Chapter 6; The Importance of Emerson's Skeptical Mood: typescript (cut and paste)
*Folder 43.11 Chapter 6; Skeptical Mood: typescript
*Folder 43.12 Chapter 7; Emerson's Adaptation of Myth in "The Initial Love": copy of typescript
*Folder 43.13 Chapter 7; The Initial Love: typescript
*Folder 43.14 Chapter 8; The Background and Meaning of the "Ode Inscribed to W.W. Channing": typescript, (cut and paste)
*Folder 43.15 Chapter 8; Background and Meaning: photocopy

Box 44: Emerson Book

*Folder 44.01 Chapter 9; Emerson & the Doctrine of Sympathy, typescript (cut and paste)
*Folder 44.02 Chapter 9; Sympathy 2 more copies
*Folder 44.03 Chapter 10; Hatred's Swift Repulsions; Emerson, Margaret Fuller and Others: typescript (cut and paste)
*Folder 44.04 Chapter 11; The Sources of Emerson's "Song of Nature": typescript (cut and paste)
*Folder 44.05 Chapter 12; Emerson's Sacred Science: typescript
*Folder 44.06 Chapter 12; Sacred Science: 2 more copies
*Folder 44.07 Chapter 13; The Date of Emerson's Terminus: typescript (cut and paste)
*Folder 44.08 Chapter 13; Terminus: photocopy
*Folder 44.09 Notes - Set I
*Folder 44.10 Notes - Set II

Box 45: Emerson Book (final copies)

Folder 45.01 Chapter 1; The Mind's Voice: Emerson's Poetic Style
Folder 45.02 Chapter 2; The Longevity of the Mind
Folder 45.03 Chapter 3; The Year of Emerson's Poetic Maturity, 1834
Folder 45.04 Chapter 4; Emerson's Use of the Organic Method
Folder 45.05 Chapter 5; Three New Poems for the Canon
Folder 45.06 Chapter 6; The Importance of Emerson's Skeptical Mood
Folder 45.07 Chapter 7; Emerson's Adaption of Myth in "The Initial Love"
Folder 45.08 Chapter 8; The Background and Meaning of the "Ode Inscribed to W.W. Channing"
Folder 45.09 Chapter 9; Emerson and the Doctrine of Sympathy
Folder 45.10 Chapter 10; Hatred's Swift Repulsions: Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Others
Folder 45.11 Chapter 11; The Sources of Emerson's "Song of Nature"
Folder 45.12 Chapter 12; Emerson's Sacred Science

Box 46: Personal

Folder 46.01 Scholarly Vita
Folder 46.02 Personal Correspondence, 1977-1983
Folder 46.03 My Retirement: notes, card, fan letters 1973-75
Folder 46.04 Christmas Cards, 1973
Folder 46.05 Lecture, Sept. 30, 1959: clippings
Folder 46.06 Who's Who: correspondence, 1974
Folder 46.07 Anthology: news releases, clippings 1965
Folder 46.08 Phi Beta Kappa: clippings, correspondence, handbook, 1959
Folder 46.09 25th Anniversary on Faculty: correspondence, clippings, program, note from wife 1964
Folder 46.10 Honorary Degree, Muhlenberg College, 1973: correspondence, clippings
Folder 46.11 Friends of Harvard College Library: correspondence and reports 1970s
Folder 46.12 Memorial Endowment (to CFS): correspondence, 1968
Folder 46.13 Article in LU News, June 1972, and responses
Folder 46.14 Distinguished Professorship, correspondence, 1970
Folder 46.15 Depression: clippings and holograph essay
Folder 46.16 Helen Woodson Family: clippings, corres, and art work (CFS daughter & grandchildren) 1970s
Folder 46.17 CFS Confirmation booklet, 1925
Folder 46.18 Memento Mori: clippings and cards
Folder 46.19 Praugnitz: sketches
Folder 46.20 For Joan Pitcher: poem, 1967
Folder 46.21 Kennedy Memento: corres. and brochure
Folder 46.22 Trip to Washington, 1974 (fiasco): corres
Folder 46.23 Professional Correspondence (few pieces) 1955-67

Boxes 47-50: File cards (4 boxes)

Contain bibliographies of authors and topics. (Files have been left as received with Strauch's headings intact. No "Folder Numbers" have been assigned.)

Box 47: Authors and topics

Names include Hawthorne, Romanticism, Carlyle, Arnold, Mark Twain, Camus, E.M.Forster, Buddhism, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, Robert Frost, E.H.Robinson, E.A. Poe.

Boxes 48 and 49: Emerson

Headings include: Foreign works, Reviews, Poems, Transcendentalism, Sanborn on Emerson, Articles (by date), Learned articles, Dissertations and unfiled cards.

Box 50: Other Authors

Names include Whitman and Melville (box not full)

The following 5 boxes of material became separated from the rest of the folders before cataloging, and so have been added at the end.

Box 51: Emerson

Folder 51.01 Albee, Alcott, Barthol, Annie Fields, Sanborn, etc. on Emerson: notes
Folder 51.02 Arnold on Emerson: notes
Folder 51.03 Bremer, Clark, Conway on Emerson: offprint, mss. notes
Folder 51.04 Boston Copmmonwaealth: notes
Folder 51.05 Farley-Reminiscences: Emerson's Early Verse: notes
Folder 51.06 Emerson's Letters: Ward, Sterling, Grimm, etc.: notes
Folder 51.07 Stedman, Everett, Sill on Emerson: notes
Folder 51.08 Cary, Kreymborg, Lewisohn on Emerson: notes
Folder 51.09 Emerson in "Notes and Queries": notes
Folder 51.10 Emerson in France and Germany: notes
Folder 51.11 Defense of Emerson's Rimes and Other "Defects": notes and offprint
Folder 51.12 Period Criticism: 1867-188?; Burroughs, Whipple, etc.: notes
Folder 51.13 Outlines of Works: notes, 1930s
Folder 51.14 Outline of "The Poet": notes
Folder 51.15 Important Journal Entries: notes
Folder 51.16 Note on Emerson and Hawthorne: notes
Folder 51.17 Emerson Abroad: notes
Folder 51.18 Emerson: Aesthetics: notes and offprint by Nathalia Wright
Folder 51.19 Analysis of "Self Reliance": notes
Folder 51.20 Emerson: English Traits: notes
Folder 51.21 Analysis of "Experience": notes
Folder 51.22 Emerson: The Biblical: notes
Folder 51.23 Emerson's Essays: Method: notes
Folder 51.24 Emerson and Preaching: notes
Folder 51.25 Emerson's Prose--to DSA: notes
*Folder 51.26 Emerson's Spiritual Crisis "What is our mythology?": typescript by CFS
Folder 51.27 Emerson's Theory of Poetry; "Psychology" (Chapter 2 of Introduction): notes

Box 52: Emerson

Folder 52.01 Emerson: Letters, Studies, Biorgraphies: notes and clippings 1930s
Folder 52.02 Emerson: Reviews of "Poems" (Part 2 of Introduction): notes
Folder 52.03 Reviews: Commonwealth "May Day" (Part 3 of Introduction)
Folder 52.04 Emerson: Minor Reviews and Articles: notes
Folder 52.05 Emerson: 20th Century: notes
Folder 52.06 Art of Essays: Time and Space--Osman: notes
Folder 52.07 Emerson: Books and Essays: notes
Folder 52.08 Outline Material for Introduction: notes
Folder 52.09 First Chapter Notes on Mss: notes
Folder 52.10 Poems in Journals: notes
Folder 52.11 Chronology of Poems: notes
Folder 52.12 Notes and Suggestions for the Study of Emerson's Poems: notes
Folder 52.13 "May Day" 1867: notes
Folder 52.14 Verse in Journal and "Poems": notes
Folder 52.15 Emerson in Concord: Biography for Poems: notes
Folder 52.16 Selected Poems, 1876: notes
Folder 52.17 Later Editions: Levin, 1886, etc.: notes
Folder 52.18 Dockray and Emerson: notes
Folder 52.19 Emerson: Outlines for "Nature": notes
Folder 52.20 Emerson: Class Notes and Reports (by CFS) at Yale 1937-38
Folder 52.21 Reminders, Books to Get, etc.: notes

Box 53: Emerson

Folder 53.01 Copies of Charts: 1865: photocopies
Folder 53.02 Poems: First Published (1): notes
Folder 53.03 Poems: First Published (2): notes
Folder 53.04 Poems: First Appearances: notes
Folder 53.05 From Preacher to Poet: notes
*Folder 53.06 A Life in Verse: 7 pg. mss. by CFS
Folder 53.07 Rusk References to Poems: notes
Folder 53.08 Emerson's Verse: Griswold, Longfellow, Poe, Cooke, etc.: notes
Folder 53.09 Margaret Fuller 1846: notes
Folder 53.10 More on Emerson's Verse: notes and clipping
Folder 53.11 Editions at Harvard, etc.: notes
Folder 53.12 Errata and Revisions: notes and photocopies
Folder 53.13 "Poems" Boston: 1847: photocopy
Folder 53.14 "Poems" London: 1847: photocopy
Folder 53.15 "Poems" Boston: 1847 (4th edition): photocopy from Library of Congress
Folder 53.16 Boston, London 1847 Substantives: notes

Box 54: Emerson

Folder 54.01 "Poems" (4th edition) 1850: notes
Folder 54.02 "Poems" 1847 and Emerson's corrections: notes
Folder 54.03 "Poems" 1847: Letters about Rusk, Mignon and others: notes
Folder 54.04 "A Bibliography of RW Emerson" by George W. Cooke: photocopy and notes
Folder 54.05 Emerson Bibliography: notes
Folder 54.06 Bibliographies of Emerson: class lists
Folder 54.07 Emerson: Books and Essays: notes
Folder 54.08 "Bibliograpy of American Literature" by Jacob Blanck: (Emerson section) photocopy
Folder 54.09 Emerson's poems; National Union Catalog: photocopy
Folder 54.10 Editions (of Emerson) at Libraries and mss: notes
Folder 54.11 Revisions, pp. 1-26: notes
Folder 54.12 Revisions, pp. 27-40: notes
Folder 54.13 E's corrections in 1865 Edition; variants pp. 41-61: notes
Folder 54.14 Variants-Charts--Based on 1-61: notes
Folder 54.15 Variants--62-103: notes
Folder 54.16 Variants- (1847-1850 London): notes
Folder 54.17 20 Portraits of Emerson:
Folder 54.18 Cabot, EWE: Editorial decisions: 1 pg. letter
Folder 54.19 Persion Poetry: Letters 1876: notes
*Folder 54.20 "The Daemonic and Experimental in Emerson": typescript by CFS and letter of constructive criticism, 1951
*Folder 54.21 Emerson; Reviews, Tributes: Biography, Genealogy chart by CFS (1937): notes

Box 55: Emerson

Folder 55.01 "May Day and Other Pieces" by RWE. London: 1867: photocopy
Folder 55.02 "May Day and Other Pieces" by RWE. Boston: 1867: photocopy
Folder 55.03 May Day Editions--Corrections: notes
Folder 55.04 "Poems" by RWE: Boston: 1868: photocopy
Folder 55.05 "Selected Poems" by RWE. Boston: 1876: photocopy
Folder 55.06 "Poems" by RWE. Boston: 1879: photocopy
Folder 55.07 "Poems" by RWE. Boston & New York: 1893 (prefatory note only): photocopy
Folder 55.08 Lists of Copy Texts--CFS work sheets (not completed)
Folder 55.09 Poems A-C; CFS work sheets (not completed)
Folder 55.10 Poems D-G; CFS work sheets (not completed)
Folder 55.11 Poems H-J; CFS work sheets (not completed)
Folder 55.12 Poems K-M; CFS work sheets (not completed)
Folder 55.13 Poems N-P; CFS work sheets (not completed)
Folder 55.14 Poems Q-S; CFS work sheets (not completed)
Folder 55.15 Poems T-Z; CFS work sheets (not completed)
Folder 55.16 May Day (1867) CFS work sheets (not completed)
Folder 55.17 Poems (1847) CFS work sheets (not completed)
Folder 55.18 Poems after 1867 etc. CFS work sheets (not completed)
Folder 55.19 Lindstrand Comparator manual; photocopy

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