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Title: Alice Cecilia Cooper Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1920-1958
Collection number: 739
Creator: Cooper, Alice Cecilia, 1895-
Extent:
2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Alice Cecilia Cooper (1878-1960) was the supervisor of English for the Oakland Public Schools in Oakland, California. She
also taught in Los Angeles schools, San Francisco City College, University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford. The collection
consists of Cooper's correspondence with various American and English authors, poets, educators.
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.
Language:
English.
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.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Gertrude E. Cooper.
[Identification of item], Alice Cecilia Cooper Papers (Collection 739). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Alice Cecilia Cooper born in Walkerton, Canada in 1878; moved to Los Angeles in 1887; received Ph.D. from Stanford; was supervisor
of English for the Oakland Public Schools in Oakland, California; in the course of her career, she taught in Los Angeles schools,
at San Francisco City College, University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford; published poetry and was author-editor
of textbooks and literary anthologies used in schools and universities; died in Los Angeles on June 13, 1960.
Collection consists of Cooper's correspondence with various American and English authors, poets, educators. The correspondence
reflects Cooper's efforts to compile literary anthologies for classroom use while she was Supervisor of English for Oakland
Public Schools, Oakland, California. Included in the collection are letters, manuscripts, and ephemera from Edwin Markham,
Alfred Noyes, Richard Burton, Walter De La Mare, James Main Dixon, Hamlin Garland, Arthur Guiterman, Louis Untermeyer, Christopher
Morley, Will C. Wood, and F.A. Rice.
This collection contains correspondence of Miss Alice Cooper, Supervisor of English, Oakland Public Schools, with various
English and American writers, poets, and educators of the first half of the 20th. century. Most of the letters deal with copyright,
giving Miss Cooper permission to include their works in anthologies of modern prose and poetry she was compiling for use as
textbooks for Junior High Schools. One of these was published under the joint authorship of Will Christopher Wood, Miss Cooper,
and Frederick A. Rice, as
America's Message, Boston, New York, etc., Ginn and company, 1925. Of greater note and interest are letters, manuscripts, and ephemera from
Edwin Markham, Alfred Noyes, Richard Burton, Walter De La Mare, James Main Dixon, Hamlin Garland, Arthur Guiterman, Louis
Untermeyer, and others.
In the collection are also several letters of Will C. Wood and F.A. Rice regarding the Anthology, as well as manuscript poems
and ephemera sent to Miss Cooper by her correspondents.
Collection arranged alphabetically by author.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Cooper, Alice Cecilia, 1895- --Archives.
Women educators--California--Archival resources.
English--Study and teaching.
Authors--20th century--Correspondence.