Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: John Conley Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1934-1993
Collection number: 569
Creator:
Conley, John, 1912 Jan. 2-
Extent:
1 oversize box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Abstract: John Conley was a scholar, educator, short story writer, poet, and translator. He was a student of Yvor Winters and remained
a lifelong friend of Winters and his wife, Janet Lewis. As a student at Stanford, he met and became the lifelong friend of
J.V. Cunningham. In addition to carrying on a correspondence, Cunningham sent him many manuscripts (some 84 of them) of his
poems and verse translations that are included among the papers. Additionally, at Stanford and also at Berkeley, Conley became
acquainted with the scholar, poet, and novelist, Howard Baker (a large number of whose manuscripts are among the papers) and
the poet, Lincoln Fitzell (a fair number of whose manuscripts, most of them signed, are also among the papers). Conley published
fiction in a journal edited by Alan Swallow, two of whose letters are present.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], John Conley Papers (Collection 569). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
John A. Conley was born January 2, 1912 and died November 4, 1999. Originally from Montana, he was educated at Berkeley (B.A.
English, 1934) and Stanford (Ph.D. English, 1956). He taught at Stanford, Ohio State University, John Carroll University,
Brandeis University, Queens College (New York City), University of California, Riverside, and University of Illinois at Chicago
(where he was named professor emeritus in 1977). His specialties were Old English, Middle English, and Middle Scots. He was
the author of
The Middle English Pearl: Critical Essays (University of Notre Dame Press, 1970) and he co-authored
The Mirror of Everyman's Salvation: A Prose Translation of the Original Everyman (Rodopi, 1985).
Scope and Content
John Conley was a scholar, educator, short story writer, poet, and translator. He was a student of Yvor Winters at Stanford
and remained a lifelong friend of him and his wife, Janet Lewis. While at Stanford he met and became lifelong friends with
J.V. Cunningham. In addition to carrying on a correspondence, Cunningham sent him many manuscripts (some 84 of them) of his
poems and verse translations that are included among the papers. Additionally, at Stanford and also at Berkeley, Conley became
acquainted with the scholar, poet, and novelist, Howard Baker (a large number of whose manuscripts are among the papers) and
the poet, Lincoln Fitzell (a fair number of whose manuscripts, most of them signed, are also among the papers). Conley published
fiction in a journal edited by Alan Swallow, two of whose letters are present.
Portions of this collection are in German.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- J.V. Cunningham letters to John Conley (1939-1959).
- J.V. Cunningham letters to John Conley (1960-1984).
- J.V. Cunningham poetry manuscripts.
- J.V. Cunningham essays and miscellaneous.
- J.V. Cunningham miscellaneous.
- Letters to John Conley.
- Yvor Winters on
The Gyroscope.
- Lincoln Fitzell poetry.
- Howard Baker poetry.
- Howard Baker prose.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Conley, John, 1912 Jan. 2- --Archives.
Baker, Howard, 1905- .
Cunningham, J.V. (James Vincent), 1911- .
Fitzell, Lincoln, 1903- .
Lewis, Janet, 1899- .
Winters, Yvor, 1900-1968.
Scholars--United States--Archival resources.
Scholars--United States--Correspondence.
Poets--United States--Archival resources.
Poets--United States--Correspondence.
English language--Middle English--Study and teaching--Archival resources.