Call Number:

C0679

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 9 boxes
• 3.6 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Wilbur Samuel Howell Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1965-1980 (bulk) and 1953-1981 (inclusive)

Creator:

Howell, Wilbur Samuel, 1904-

Form:

Bibliographies -- 20th century., Drafts (preliminary versions) -- 20th century, Educators -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century., and Lectures -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of works, articles, lectures, reviews, notes, and correspondence of Wilbur Samuel Howell, professor of rhetoric and oratory (1952-1972) at Princeton.

Wilbur Samuel Howell was a long-time professor of rhetoric in the English Department of Princeton University and a prolific scholar. He won many awards for his writings. Howell is considered to be one of the leading twentieth-century historians of rhetoric. He died in 1992.

The collection consists of works, articles, lectures, reviews, notes, and correspondence of Howell, professor of rhetoric and oratory (1952-1972) at Princeton. Included are his original manuscripts, relevant correspondence, and reviews for Eighteenth-Century British Logic and Rhetoric (1971), and Poetics, Rhetoric, and Logic Studies in the Basic Disciplines of Criticism (1975), and various lectures, speeches, and reviews of other works on rhetoric.

Also present are English Dept. course bibliographies on rhetoric; letters (1971-1977) of recommendation for students; correspondence and reports reflecting Howell's position as chairman (1948-1972) of the board of trustees of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society at Princeton; and correspondence with Irving Dilliard, Willliam Edinger, James J. Murphy, Julian P. Boyd, Norman Thomas, and others. In addition, there is correspondence with Barbara Warnick as well as a copy of her manuscript for Fenelon's Letter to the French Academy (1984).