Guide to the Elizabeth Lee Buckingham Papers
SC0167
Finding aid prepared by Processed by Marianne Bahmann; machine-readable finding aid created by Patricia White
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, California, 94305
Repository email: speccollref@stanford.edu
1997
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Title: Elizabeth Lee Buckingham papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0167
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
6.5 Linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1900-1970
creator:
Buckingham, Elizabeth Lee, 1885-
creator:
Buckingham, Elizabeth Lee
SEPARATED MATERIAL
Frances T. and Frank Russell material (put in SC 166)
Miscellaneous Christmas cards with no messages on them (discarded)
Recipes (discarded)
Multiple copies of examinations and other mimeographed material (discarded)
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The General Files section contains material on various subjects of interest to Miss Buckingham, a small amount of Stanford-related
correspondence, and ten folders of personal correspondence. Any professional correspondence is filed under the appropriate
subject heading (Radio, Speech, etc.). The Student Notes are Miss Buckingham's own from her student days, ranging from high
school to post-graduate work at Columbia University. The Courses section includes her students' papers and examinations, class
notebooks, and some of her own course notes. The folder in the Photographs section includes miscellaneous photographs and
negatives, most of them unidentified. One photo of interest is a snapshot of Miss Buckingham with Frances Theresa Russell
and Mary Yost, n.d.
The materials in this collection arrived in complete disarray. Letters, course papers, photographs, manuscripts and notebooks
were dumped together with recipes, Christmas cards, and scraps of paper with notes and jottings. After the sorting process
was well underway it became apparent that some of the papers were the property of Frances Theresa Russell, Stanford Professor
of English, and her husband Frank Russell, a noted Harvard anthropologist who died in 1903. Mrs. Russell and Miss Buckingham
were housemates for many years until Mrs. Russell's death in 1936, and apparently Mrs. Russell's papers had never been sorted
or claimed. Every attempt has been made to identify and separate the material. The Russell papers have been put in SC 166.
However, a researcher should be aware of the difficulty and bring any questionable items to the attention of the Archivist.
There is no evidence that Miss Buckingham carried on professional correspondence with anyone over a long period of time. However,
her personal correspondence includes descriptive letters from a number of her students who were struggling to become professionally
established. There are also several hand-tinted Christmas cards, some with notes, from Mrs. Bruce Bliven, 1936-40. It is helpful
to know when examining the correspondence that Miss Buckingham's nickname was Peter. Mrs. Russell was often referred to as
"Terri". Mary Yost, Dean of Women and Lecturer in English, signed her letters "Wendy". Letters signed by "Edith" are from
Edith Mirrielees, Professor of English.
Arrangement note
These papers are arranged into four major groups: General Files, 1904-70; Student Notes, 1900-18; Courses, 1911-44, and Photographs,
n.d. While the papers range from 1900-1970, the bulk of the collection falls within the period 1930-43.
BIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Lee Buckingham was born on November 9, 1885. Her personal history is sketchy due to a lack of concrete information,
but she listed Palo Alto as her home town in the 1904-05 Stanford Register. She received her A.B. in 1910 and her A.M. in
1914 from Stanford, both in English. During 1908-09 she was an Assistant in English at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, and
during 1910-11 an Assistant in English at Stanford, after which she was on the Stanford faculty continuously until her retirement
as Associate Professor of Speech and Drama, Emeritus, in 1944. During many of her years at Stanford she shared a house at
534 Lasuen with several Stanford faculty women, among them Frances Theresa Russell, Mary Yost, and Edith Mirrielees.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], Elizabeth Lee Buckingham Papers, SC 167, Stanford University Archives, Stanford, Calif.
Provenance:
Gift of Elizabeth Buckingham, 1977; transferred from Manuscript Division to University Archives.
Publication Rights:
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
Access Restrictions:
None.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bliven, Bruce,, 1916-2002.
Buckingham, Elizabeth Lee, 1885-
Mirrielees, Edith.
Russell, Frances Theresa,, 1873-1936.
Russell, Frank,, 1868-1903.
Stanford University. Dept. of English. -- General subdivision--Faculty.;
Stanford University. Dept. of Speech and Drama. -- General subdivision--Faculty.;
Yost, Mary.
Box 1, Folder 1
Book and play lists; bibliographies,
1920's and 1930's.
Box 1, Folder 2
Book and play lists; bibliographies,
1920's and 1930's.
Box 1, Folder 3
Book and play lists; bibliographies,
1920's to 1940.
Box 1, Folder 4
Book and play lists - bibliography of Stanford holdings of one-act plays, author index, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 5
Book and play lists - bibliography of Stanford holdings of one-act plays, title index and key list, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 6
Book and play lists - plays for school production, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 7
California Council for Speech Education, (Includes some correspondence)
1939.
Box 1, Folder 8
Conferences - Curriculum and Instruction, Stanford, Curriculum,
June 25-30, 1934; 1936.
Box 1, Folder 9
Conferences - Speech and Drama,
1937.
Box 1, Folder 10
Correspondence, personal,
1906-34.
Box 1, Folder 11
Correspondence, personal,
(See also f.19)
1935-36.
Box 1, Folder 12
Correspondence, personal,
1937-38.
Box 1, Folder 13
Correspondence, personal,
1939-40.
Box 1, Folder 14
Correspondence, personal,
1941-42.
Box 1, Folder 15
Correspondence, personal,
1943-61.
Box 1, Folder 16
Correspondence, personal, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 17
Correspondence, personal - Frank Russell's library, disposition of -
1936, 1941.
Box 1, Folder 18
Correspondence, personal - business matters, (Includes Buckingham's real estate interests)
1930-70 and n.d.
Box 1, Folder 19
Correspondences personal - sympathy letters re. death of Mrs. Russell,
1936.
Box 1, Folder 20
Costumes and Makeup - handbook by Helen Green,
1941.
Physical Description:
(Inscribed copy)
Box 1, Folder 21
Drama - miscellaneous clippings,
1925-42.
Box 1, Folder 22
Drama - miscellaneous material, (Includes some correspondence)
1918-40.
Box 1, Folder 26
English - miscellaneous material, (Includes some correspondence)
1911-43 and n.d.
Box 1, Folder 27
Exams - Interpretation, preliminary M.A.,
July 1941.
Box 1, Folder 28
Exams, miscellaneous
1907-11 and n.d.
Box 2, Folder 1
"The Fundamental Course in Speech for California High Schools" - recommendations of the Kersey Committee,
1933.
Box 2, Folder 2
Memorial Auditorium, (Includes some correspondence)
1934-39.
Box 2, Folder 3
Miscellaneous material,
1908-47 and n.d.
Box 2, Folder 4
Miscellaneous material,
1930-47 and n.d.
Box 2, Folder 5
Motion Picture Science,
1934 and n.d.
Box 2, Folder 6
Peace and pacifism, miscellaneous material re.
1919-37.
Box 2, Folder 7
Poetry - manuscripts, n.d. (Some by Buckingham, others unidentified)
Box 2, Folder 8
Poetry - miscellaneous material re.
1918 and n.d.
Box 2, Folder 9
Programs and concerts Buckingham attended, musical,
1914-37.
Box 2, Folder 10
Programs and concerts Buckingham attended, musical,
1914-37.
Box 2, Folder 11
Programs and concerts Buckingham attended, musical,
1914-37.
Box 2, Folder 12
Published articles by Buckingham -
1904, 1928.
Box 2, Folder 13
Questionnaires on theater,
1934.
Box 2, Folder 14
Radio - correspondence,
1938-42.
Box 2, Folder 15
Radio - miscellaneous material, including scripts,
(See also Writers' War Board, f. 30)
1940-43 and n.d.
Box 2, Folder 16
Radio - miscellaneous material, including scripts,
1941-44.
Box 2, Folder 17
Sheridan, Helen Courtney - poems, paper P.S. 200, letter,
1930's and n.d.
Box 2, Folder 18
Speech (Public Speaking) - correspondence,
1933-43.
Box 2, Folder 19
Speech (Public Speaking) - miscellaneous material,
1932-41.
Box 2, Folder 20
Stanford University - division matters, including some correspondence,
1932-42 and n.d.
Box 2, Folder 21
Stanford University - miscellaneous material, including some correspondence,
1925-45.
Box 2, Folder 22
Stanford University - miscellaneous material re. students of Buckingham,
1934-41.
Box 2, Folder 23
"Stanford Writers in the
Saturday Evening Post" - TLS, Archie Rice to R.L. Wilbur
Apr. 4, 1942.
Box 2, Folder 24
Western Assn. of Teachers of Speech - notes, draft of Buckingham speech.
(1933?)
Box 2, Folder 25
Word notes and miscellaneous jottings, n.d.
Box 2, Folder 26
Word notes and miscellaneous jottings, n.d.
Box 2, Folder 27
Word notes and miscellaneous jottings, (in envelope titled "Gallery of Players")
1940's and n.d.
Box 2, Folder 28
World War Two - general material, including personal items, (Includes TLS from Pearl S. Buck re. East-West Assn.,
1941-44 and n.d. March 24, 1943)
Box 2, Folder 29
WPA (Works Progress Administration) - Federal Theater Project,
1938 and n.d.
Box 2, Folder 30
Writers' War Board (including scripts, some correspondence),
1938-43.
Box 2, Folder 31
Writers' War Board - scripts,
1944-45.
STUDENT NOTES
1900-18 AND N.D.
Box 3, Folder 18
Advanced Acting 161,
1938
Box 3, Folder 19
Aesthetics course not listed in Catalog)
(1941?
Box 3, Folder 20
Children's Plays 189,
1931.
Box 3, Folder 21
Dramatic Criticism 162 & 194,
1930's.
Box 3, Folder 22
Dramas for Production 207,
1934.
Box 4, Folder 1
High School & College Dramatics 195,
1938-39.
Box 4, Folder 2
High School & College Dramatics 118, 119b, Ed.217,
1930's.
Box 4, Folder 3
High School & College Dramatics - n.d., no course #.
Box 4, Folder 4
History of English Drama 170, 251, 252.
1918-30 and n.d.
Box 4, Folder 5
History of English Literature - miscellaneous courses, n.d.
Box 4, Folder 6
History of Interpretative Reading 180,
1941.
Box 4, Folder 7
History of the Theater 109,
1917-18.
Box 4, Folder 8
History of the Theater 109,
1917-18.
Box 4, Folder 9
History of the Theater 109, 190,
1930-31.
Box 4, Folder 10
History of the Theater 109, 190,
1931 and n.d,
Box 4, Folder 11
History of the Theater 109, 190,
1931 and n.d.
Box 4, Folder 12
History of the Theater 109, 190,
1935 and n.d.
Box 4, Folder 13
History of the Theater 109, 190,
1935 and n.d.
Box 4, Folder 14
History of the Theater 109, 190,
1930's.
Box 4, Folder 15
History of the Theater 109, 190, n.d.
Box 4, Folder 16
History of the Theater 109, 190, n.d.
Box 4, Folder 17
History of the Theater 109, 190, n.d.
Box 4, Folder 18
History of the Theater 109, 190, n.d.
Box 4, Folder 19
History of the Theater 109, 190, n.d.
Box 4, Folder 21
Interpretation of Modern Drama 144, n.d.
Box 4, Folder 22
Interpretation of Poetry 40,
1941
Box 4, Folder 23
Miscellaneous unidentified course material
1938 and n.d.
Box 4, Folder 24
The One Act Play 158, 159,
1918-36.
Box 4, Folder 25
Play Production 208, 209, 18a,
1923-36 and n.d.
Box 4, Folder 26
Play Production 208, [Includes Theater Workshop, no course #,
1930. 1928]
Box 4, Folder 27
Public Speaking 191 [no course name given],
1937.
Box 4, Folder 28
Radio Speaking 18,
1939-43.
Box 5, Folder 1
Radio Speaking 18,
1939-43.
Box 5, Folder 2
Reading & Staging Plays 209, 18a,
1923-39.
Box 5, Folder 3
Reading & Staging Plays 209, 18a,
1923-39.
Box 5, Folder 4
Shakespeare, Vocal [Oral] Interpretation of, 157,
1940 and n.d.
Box 5, Folder 5
Teachers' Reading Course 200c,
1928 and n.d.
Box 5, Folder 6
Vocal Expression 10,
[Also notes for Rhetoric, no course # or date]
1932-40 and n.d.
Box 5, Folder 7
Miscellaneous photographs and negatives, most of them unidentified. Includes snapshot of E. Buckingham, F.T. Russell, and
M. Yost, n.d.
