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Princeton University Library Collection of Lawrance Thompson Materials

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
C0479
Repository:
Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division
Extent:
  • 7 boxes
  • 2.6 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Princeton University Library Collection of Lawrance Thompson Materials, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1938-1964 (bulk) and 1894-1970 (inclusive)
Creator:
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Form:
Biographies -- 20th century., Lectures -- 20th century., and Manuscripts -- 20th century.
Abstract:
Consists of selected papers of Lawrance Thompson, including manuscripts for his books on Robert Frost and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, lecture typescripts, and a small amount of correspondence (1936-1942) from the time he was Princeton University Library's Curator of Manuscripts and editor of the Princeton University Library Chronicle.

Consists of selected papers of Lawrance Thompson assembled from various sources, including manuscripts for Thompson's books on Robert Frost and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, corrected typescripts of lectures, and a small amount of correspondence (1936-1942) from the time he was Princeton University Library's Curator of Manuscripts and editor of the Princeton University Library Chronicle.

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Publications by Thompson: Robert Frost, the Early Years (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966), Selected Letters of Robert Frost (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964), Young Longfellow, 1807-1843 (New York: Macmillan, 1938)

Materials were assembled from various sources, including as gifts of the author in 1964 (AM 18232) and 1967 (AM 19239), a gift of Lawton M. Patten in 1975 (AM 22016), a transfer from the General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection (C0140) in 2009 (AM 90-19), and gifts of Mason Lowance in 2017 (AM 2017-98, AM 2017-108).

Folder list written by Lisa Yankowitz '13 in January 2012. Finding aid updated by Kelly Bolding in February 2017.

No appraisal information is available.

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Subject

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Author
Lisa Yankowitz; Kelly Bolding
Finding Aid Date
2012
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Collection Inventory

The Early Years, typescript with author's corrections, 1960-1966. 5 folders.
Physical Description

5 folders

Index for Robert Frost: The Early Years, 1960-1966. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Table of Letters, 1960-1964. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Photocopies of letters by Frost, 1894 August 22 - 1906 February 24. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Selected Letters of Robert Frost, author's typescript, 1960-1964. 3 folders.
Physical Description

3 folders

Selected Letters of Robert Frost, author's transcript, 1960-1964. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lawrance Thompson Correspondence A-F, 1936 October 2 - 1941 November 17. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lawrance Thompson Correspondence G-M, 1938 June 9 - 1959 October 23. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lawrance Thompson Correspondence N-R, 1937 October 26 - 1941 April 30. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lawrance Thompson Correspondence S-Z, 1936 September 28 - 1969 July 26. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lawrance Thompson Correspondence, no surnames, 1938 August 6 - 1941 March 14. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lawrance Thompson to Lawton Patten Correspondence, 1940 July 23 - 1942 March 26. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"American Literary Bibliography," transcript, 1935-1950. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Collectors in Colonial Massachusetts," typescript, 1936 May 12. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

An Inquiry into the importance of "Boston Prize Poems", 1935-1950. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Philobiblon Club, printed essay, 1940 October 24. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Princeton Print Club, 1941. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Princeton University Library Chronicle, 1938-1940. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Yankee Romantic ( Young Longfellow), 1938. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Young Longfellow, typescript, 1938. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Young Longfellow, page proof, 1938. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Longfellow, Miscellaneous, 1935-1938. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Drafts of writings on Robert Frost, 1940 January 10. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Printed Matter, 1933-1940. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous, 1938-1941. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lawrance Thompson Lectures on Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1964-1966. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of corrected typescript drafts of lectures for the English Department at Princeton University.

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of annotated typescripts of lectures by Professor Lawrance Thompson for his "Four American Authors" course.

Arrangement

Original order was maintained.

Physical Description

2 boxes

Walt Whitman Bibliographical and Biographical, 1956 November 16. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Walt Whitman: The Poet as Doctor, 1956 November 29. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Walt Whitman: Final Graduate Seminar, 1956 December 7. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Introductory Lecture on Whitman, 1970 March 6. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Ralph Waldo Emerson (First Lecture), 1950 Spring. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Ralph Waldo Emerson (I), 1950 Spring. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Ralph Waldo Emerson (II), 1950 Spring. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Three Lectures in One: On Emerson, 1956 October 12. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Emerson's Theory and Practice of "Organic Poetry", 1956 October 17. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Emerson's Representative Men (1850) and English Traits (1856), 1956 October 27. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Emerson's Individual Reaction to Slavery, 1956 November 9. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Emerson's Best Poems, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Emerson's Poems in Relation to his Aesthetic and his Ethic, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Emerson's Poems Relating to the Theory and Practice of Poetry, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

L. Thompson's Paraphrase: Outline of Emerson's 1836 Essay on Nature, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Last Lecture: English 306, 1953. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Five Phases and George Meredith, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Chapter 1, First Draft, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Talk on the Word "Romantic", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Faulkner's Mythical Method: An Introduction, 1962 November 29. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Melville's Conman, 1970 February 23. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

1819: The Great Debate on Natural Depravity, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

English 557: Introduction, 1958 September 29. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Faulkner's Mythical Method, 1965 February 5. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Faulkner's Mythical Method, 1962 September 26. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Orientation for English 309, 1959 September 21. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Thing in Terms of Another Thing, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

English 309: Plan of the Course, 1962 September 24. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Light in August (II), 1959 September 30. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Columbia Talk: The Impact of Heresy on Literary Art in American Literature, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Scarlet Letter, 1962 December 11. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Blithedale Romance, 1962 December 17. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Marble Faun, 1963 January 15. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance (I), 1959 November 2. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Scarlet Letter (I), 1954 October 27. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Orientation 556 - 2, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hawthorne's Idiom, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Phases of Growth, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, 1962 February 27. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hawthorne: First Lecture, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, 1959 October 9. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hawthorne's Marble Faun, 1959 October 23. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Blithedale Romance (II), 1959 November 4. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Scarlet Letter (I), 1955 November 2. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Scarlet Letter (II), 1955 November 2. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Scarlet Letter (II), 1954 November 1. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

English 310: Light in August, 1970 February 2. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Sound and the Fury, 1970 February 9. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Introduction to Mark Twain, 1966 December 2. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1970 April 13. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Twain: Huckleberry Finn, 1970. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Twain's A Connecticut Yankee, 1970 April 20. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

English 310: Concluding Lecture, 1970 May 4. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Henry James: The Aspern Papers, 1970 March 16. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Turn of the Screw - 2, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hawthorne Orientation, 1962 December 4. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Print, Suggest