Finding Aid for the Fernand Baldensperger papers, 1904-1945

Processed by Whitney Braun in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli, 2009; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Manuscripts Division

Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu

URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/

Descriptive Summary

Title: Fernand Baldensperger papers

Date (inclusive): 1904-1945

Collection number: 603

Creator: Baldensperger, Fernand, 1871-1958

Extent: 6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

Abstract: Fernand Baldensperger (1871-1958) was a literary scholar, author (under the pseudonym Fernand Baldenne), and professor who contributed greatly to the field of Comparative Literature. In addition to teaching at the Universities of Nancy (1884-1900), Lyon (1900-1910), and Paris (1910-1935) in France, he taught at Columbia University (1917-1919), the University of Strasbourg (1919-1923), Harvard University (1935-1940), and the University of California-Los Angeles (1940-1945). Baldensperger cofounded the Revue de littérature comparée, and he wrote numerous scholarly texts on Goethe, Balzac, Alfred de Vigny, and various French and comparative literary topics. The collection consists of scholarly and World War II-related print and manuscript materials, as well as correspondence. Scholarly materials include printed texts by Baldensperger and others (often annotated and/or with inscriptions), typed drafts of Baldensperger's texts, extensive manuscript research notes, and a presumably unpublished typed manuscript. War-related materials include government documents from Giessen, Germany and a variety of printed pamphlets. Correspondence relates to both scholarly and personal matters.

Language: Finding aid is written in English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish

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.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging 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.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Unknown.

Processing Note

Processed by Whitney Braun in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli, 2009.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Fernand Baldensperger papers (Collection Number 603). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Biography

Fernand Baldensperger (1871-1958) was an eminent literary scholar, author, and professor of Comparative Literature. He was born in Vosges, France, and for most of his career he taught at the University of Nancy (1884-1900), the University of Lyon (1900-1910), and the University of Paris (1910-1935). During his time at the University of Paris, he also served as a visiting professor at Columbia University (1917-1919), and he taught at the University of Strasbourg (1919-1923). From 1935-1940 Baldensperger was professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where he was chairperson of the department, and from 1940-1945 he taught at the University of California-Los Angeles. Baldensperger contributed greatly to the field of comparative literary studies and cofounded the Revue de littérature comparée in 1921. His works include Goethe en France: étude de littérature comparée (1904), Le mouvement des idées dans l'émigration française, 1789-1815 (1924), L'avant-guerre dans la littérature française, 1900-1914 (1919), Orientations étrangères chez Honoré de Balzac (1927), La littérature française entre les deux guerres, 1919-1939 (1941), and La critique et l'histoire littéraires en France, au dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècles (1945). In addition, Baldensperger wrote and published literary texts under the pseudonym Fernand Baldenne.

Scope and Content

The collection is divided into four parts: official documents from Giessen (Germany), printed materials, correspondence, and research materials. The documents from Giessen are comprised of official marriage applications, marriage loan applications, and health authority documents under the Nazi government. (They range in date from 1936 to 1942, though most items are from 1942.) The documents include names of applicants and requests for information from other cities as well.

Printed materials in the collection include Fernand Baldensperger's annotated copy of Gustave Lanson's Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française moderne, 1500-1900 (published 1911), as well as numerous literary pamphlets and essays (mostly reprints from journals) and political pamphlets and essays (mostly concerning World War II). The majority of the pamphlets were published during the first half of the 1940s, and many pamphlets contain inscriptions from the authors to Baldensperger. In addition, the collection contains two typed manuscripts (with corrections) of Baldensperger's La critique et l'histoire littéraires en France, au dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècles, as well as an additional (and probably unpublished) manuscript. Also included are various print materials from the early 1940s related to scholarly conferences and societies.

The correspondence, primarily from the first half of the 1940s, pertains to both scholarly and personal matters, and it includes letters regarding the Institute of World Affairs (1940, 1941) and the publication of Baldensperger's La critique et l'histoire littéraires en France, au dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècles.

Research materials include typed and manuscript timelines of literary history, corrections and additions to Baldensperger's works, and manuscript notes (occasionally with printed and typed articles) pertaining to his published works, works-in-progress, and a wide variety of literary subjects (various European literatures, Goethe, Balzac, Stendhal, Whitman, philosophy, poetry, etc.).

Organization and Arrangement

Box 1 contains Giessen, Germany official documents.
Boxes 2 and 3 contain printed materials. Box 2 includes Fernand Baldensperger's annotated copy of Gustave Lanson's Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française moderne, 1500-1900, as well as numerous literary pamphlets. Box 3 includes political pamphlets (mostly concerning France and World War II), more literary pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and conference materials. In both boxes 2 and 3, multiple pamphlets by the same author are grouped together, and the smaller pamphlets are in folders. Box 3 also includes Baldensperger's two typed manuscripts (of varying lengths) for La critique et l'histoire littéraires en France, au dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècles.
Box 4 contains a typed manuscript of a presumably unpublished work, Fernand Baldensperger's correspondence (with multiple letters from the same author grouped together), and research materials (mainly typed and manuscript literary history timelines).
Boxes 5 and 6 contain research materials. Many of the materials had been originally grouped together (according to subject) by folding papers together. This grouping, where apparent, has been maintained in the collection, with the groups indicated both by folders and dividers within folders.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Baldensperger, Fernand, 1871-1958--Archives.

Literary historians--Archival resources.

Genres and Forms of Material

Manuscripts for publication.

Container List

Nazi Germany documents undated; 1936 November 4; and 1942 April, June-December

Scope and Content Note

Giessen marriage loan document (Ehestandsdarlehen) and marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung)

Box 1, Folder 1

Geissen marriage loan document (Ehestandsdarlehen) 1936 November 4

Scope and Content Note

In Geissen; includes family information

Box 1, Folder 2

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 August-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Bad Schwalbach, Munchberg/Oberfr., Wetzlar, Gelnhausen

Box 1, Folder 3

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 August-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Vilsbiburg, Landshut, Magdeburg, Wiener-Neustadt/Niederdonau, Bludenz/Voralberg, as well as family questionnaire

Box 1, Folder 4

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 June-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Giessen, Hattenrod, Bonn, Biedenkopf, Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen, Odenhausen, Saarbrucken, Alsfeld, Siegen

Box 1, Folder 5

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 July-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Reichenberg/Sudeten, Glatz/Schles., Freiburg/Brsg., Wurzburg, Hamburg

Box 1, Folder 6

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 August-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Giessen, Koblenz, Wetzlar/Lahn, Siegen, Goldberg/Schles, Darmstadt, Marburg

Box 1, Folder 7

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 August-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Alsfeld, Heidelberg, Giessen

Box 1, Folder 8

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 August-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Bad Schwalbach

Box 1, Folder 9

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 July[?]-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Hameln, Offenbach/Main, Giessen, Graz

Box 1, Folder 10

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 April-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Wetzlar, Marburg, Alsfeld, Brieg, Fulda, Giessen

Box 1, Folder 11

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 July-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Darmstadt, Hamburg, Giessen, Biedenkopf

Box 1, Folder 12

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 July-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Soldin, Berleburg, Duisburg, Alsfeld

Box 1, Folder 13

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 August-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes request for information sent to Frankfurt

Box 1, Folder 14

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 August-November

Scope and Content Note

Includes request for information sent to Weilburg/Lahn

Box 1, Folder 15

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 July-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Siegen, Biedenkopf

Box 1, Folder 16

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 April-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Budingen, Marburg[?], Schluchtern, Giessen; documents from Giessen, Wuppertal probably stating non-authorization of marriage; notes on 1941 August 7 calendar page

Box 1, Folder 17

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 August-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Wiesbaden, Neustadt

Box 1, Folder 18

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 October-November

Box 1, Folder 19

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 July

Scope and Content Note

Includes request for information sent to Nurnberg

Box 1, Folder 20

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 August-December

Scope and Content Note

Includes requests for information sent to Hameln, Giessen

Box 1, Folder 21

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 October

Scope and Content Note

Includes letter

Box 1, Folder 22

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 September-December

Box 1, Folder 23

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 October

Box 1, Folder 24

Geissen marriage and health authority documents (Eheunbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) undated and 1942 October-December

Scope and Content Note

Folder includes notes probably regarding document collection (including "to be turned over to Mr. Harlow"), and separated piece (with date) of a request for information

Printed materials undated; 1911-1945

Scope and Content Note

Materials include Fernand Baldensperger's annotated Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française moderne, 1500-1900, by Gustave Lanson; literary and war-related pamphlets; newspaper articles; conference materials; and manuscript drafts of Baldensperger's La critique et l'histoire littéraires en France, au dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècles, as well as an untitled (and probably unpublished) work

Box 2, Folder 1

Gustave Lanson. Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française moderne, 1500-1900. Vol. III: Dix-huitième siecle. Paris: Librairie Hachette et cie

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 2

James Hutton. "Cupid and the Bee." Reprinted from PMLA 56:4, part 1. New York: Modern Language Association of America 1941 December

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author; page of notes (presumably Baldensperger's) inserted

Box 2, Folder 3

James Hutton. "Michel Guy de Tours: Some Sources and Literary Methods." Reprinted from Modern Language Notes 58:6 1943 June

Scope and Content Note

With note: "A small poet whose character can be grasped from learning his sources!"

Box 2, Folder 4

W.A. Nitze. "The Esplumoir Merlin." An offprint from Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 58:1. Cambridge, Mass.: The Medieval Academy of America 1943 January

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 5

William A. Nitze. "Bedier's Epic Theory and the Arthuriana of Nennius." Reprinted for private circulation from Modern Philology 39:1 1941 August

Box 2, Folder 6

H.R. Brush. "Review: Histoire Littéraire de la France, Vol. XXXVII, Fascs. I and II." An offprint from Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 44:4. Cambridge, Mass.: The Medieval Academy of America 1939 October

Box 2, Folder 7

H.R. Brush. "Sully-Prudhomme." Modern Language Forum 25:2 1940 June

Box 2, Folder 8

Craig La Driere. Review of Studien zur Ars poetica des Horaz. Interpretation des auf Dichtkunst und Gedicht bezuglichen Hauptteiles, by Wolf Steidle. American Journal of Philology 63:2. Edited by Harold Cherniss. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press 1942 April

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 9

E.K. Rand. "Prickings in a Manuscript of Orleans." Extracted from Transactions of the American Philological Association 70 1939

Box 2, Folder 10

E.K. Rand. "Renaissance--Why Not?" Extracted from Renaissance: Revue trimenstrielle publiee par l'Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes 1:1-2. New York 1943

Box 2, Folder 11

Lawrence Marsden Price. Christian Heinrich Schmid and His Translations of English Dramas, 1767-1789. University of California Publications in Modern Philology 26:1. Berkeley: University of California Press 1942

Box 2, Folder 12

Lawrence Marsden Price. The Vogue of Marmontel on the German Stage. University of California Publications in Modern Philology 27:2. Berkeley: University of California Press 1944

Scope and Content Note

With notes

Box 2, Folder 13

Richard M. Brace. "Talleyrand in New England: Reality and Legend." Reprinted from The New England Quarterly 16:3 1943 September

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 14

Leonardo Olschki. "La Lettre du Tasse sur la France et les français." Reprinted from The Romantic Review 1942 December

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 15

Andre Delattre. "L'Amerique jugée par une immigrant suisse: Lettre de Marc Fivaz a Louis Vulliemin." undated

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 16

George R. Havens. "Voltaire, Rousseau, and the 'Lettre sur la Providence.'" Reprinted from PMLA 59:1, part 1. New York: Modern Language Association 1944 March

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 17

Lewis A. Maverick. "Chinese Influences upon Quesnay and Turgot." Claremont Oriental Studies 4 1942 June

Box 2, Folder 18

Lewis A. Maverick. "Pierre Poivre: Eighteenth Century Explorer of Southeast Asia." Reprinted from The Pacific Historical Review 10:2

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 19

Lewis A. Maverick. "Hsu Kuang-Ch'i, A Chinese Authority on Agriculture." Reprinted from Agricultural History 14 1940 October

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 20

Frank J. Crowley. "New Voltaire-Gabriel Cramer Letters." Reprinted from The Romantic Review 1939 February

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 21

Grace Mildred Sproull. The Critical Doctrine of Jean-Francois de la Harpe. Part of Ph.D. dissertation. Chicago: University of Chicago Libraries. Private edition 1939

Scope and Content Note

Letter from author regarding text in "correspondence" series of collection

Box 2, Folder 22

Raphael Levy. "The Authorship of a Latin Treatise on the Astrolabe." An offprint from Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 17:4. Cambridge, Mass.: The Medieval Academy of America 1942 October

Box 2, Folder 23

Elmer Edgar Stoll. "Give the Devil His Due: A Reply to Mr. Lewis." Reprinted from The Review of English Studies 20:78. London: Oxford University Press 1944 April

Box 2, Folder 24

Elmer Edgar Stoll. "Milton Classical and Romantic." Reprinted from Philological Quarterly 23:3

Box 2, Folder 25

Elmer Edgar Stoll. "Moliere and Shakespeare." Reprinted from The Romantic Review 1944 February

Box 2, Folder 26

Karl Vietor. "Goethe's Gedicht auf Schiller's Schadel." PMLA 49:1, part 1. New York: Modern Language Association 1944 March

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 27

Maurice Danloux-Dumesnils. "Esquisse Geologique de l'Amerique du Nord." Revue Trimestrielle Canadienne 111. Montreal: Ecole Polytechnique 1942 September

Box 2, Folder 28

Elizabeth Selden. China in German Poetry from 1773-1833. Berkeley: University of California Press 1942

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 29

"Aldous Huxley: The Writings of Aldous Huxley, 1916-1943." An Exhibition of the Collection of Jacob I. Zeitlin at the Library of the University of California Los Angeles, July 1 to August 15, 1943. Los Angeles: printed by Grant Dahlstrom 1943 June

Scope and Content Note

With brief notes

Box 2, Folder 30

Ernest Bernbaum. "Is Wordsworth's Nature-Poetry Antiquated?" Reprinted from ELH, A Journal of English Literary History 7:4 1940 December

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 31

Book reviews. Reprinted from The Americas 1:4 1945 April

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from Craig La Driere

Box 2, Folder 32

G. Bonno. "Hans Sloane et les relations intellectuelles franco-anglaises au dix-huitième siecle (d'après des documents inédits)." Reprinted from The Romantic Review. Columbia University Press 1943 February

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 33

Gilbert Chinard. "An American Philosopher in the World of Nations." Reprinted from The Virginia Quarterly Review. Charlottesville, Virginia 1943 spring

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author and Baldensperger's notes at end

Box 2, Folder 34

Marcel Francon. "Un Motif de la poesie amoureuse au XVIe siecle." Reprinted from PMLA 56:2. New York: Modern Language Association 1941 June

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 35

Cansoun de Sant Alexis: A Modern Provencal Parody of the Legend of Saint Alexius. Edited by Rudolph Altrocchi. University of California Publications in Modern Philology 18.3. Berkeley: University of California Press 1935

Box 2, Folder 36

Reprint from PMLA 60:2. New York: Modern Language Association 1945 June

Scope and Content Note

With articles by Harry F. Williams, George Leonard Barnett, W.C. Desmond Pacey, Philip Allison Shelley, Clyde K. Hyder; with inscription from Pacey

Box 2, Folder 37

Myron I. Barker. Stendhal's Novels: A Study in Style. Louisville, Ky.: Standard Printing Co. 1936

Box 2, Folder 38

Harcourt Brown. "Voltaire and the Royal Society of London." Reprinted from the University of Toronto Quarterly 13:1 1943 October

Box 2, Folder 39

Waclaw Lednicki. "Blok's 'Polish Poem': A Literary Episode in the History of Russian-Polish Relations." Reprinted from the Quarterly Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America 2:2 1944 January

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 40

Waclaw Lednicki. Poland and the World. Reprinted from the Quarterly Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America 1, 2, 3, and 4 1943

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 41

Waldemar Westergaard. "The Scandinavian Scene." Institute of World Affairs undated

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 42

Waldemar Westergaard. "A Danish Diplomat at the Court of Charles II." Reprinted from The Pacific Historical Review 11:1 1942 March

Box 2, Folder 43

Leo Spitzer. "A New Program for the Teaching of Literary History." American Journal of Philology 63:3. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins Press 1942 July

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 44

Leo Spitzer. "History of Ideas Versus Reading of Poetry." Reprinted from The Southern Review 6:3 1941 winter

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 45

Italica: The Quarterly Bulletin of the American Association of Teachers of Italian 20:3 1943 September

Box 2, Folder 46

Georges Sarton. "L'Avenir de la Science." Renaissance: Revue trimestrielle publiée par l'Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes 1:1-2. New York 1943 January-June

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 47

Lawrence E. Sterner. The Science of Universal Education. Los Angeles: Society for Universal Education ca. 1941 September

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author, notes

Box 2, Folder 48

Charles J. Beyer. "Du Cartesianisme a la philosophie des Lumieres." Reprinted from The Romantic Review 1943 February

Box 2, Folder 49

Charles J. Beyer. Review of Pierre Gassend, Der Franzosische Spathumanismus und das Problem von Wissen und Glauben, by Gerhard Hess. Reprinted from The Romantic Review 1942 December

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 50

Hoyt Trowbridge. "Dryden's Essay on the Dramatic Poesy of the Last Age." Reprinted from Philological Quarterly 22:3 1943 July

Box 2, Folder 51

Lionel Stevenson. "Tennyson, Browning, and a Romantic Fallacy." Reprinted from the University of Toronto Quarterly 13:2

Box 2, Folder 52

Chandler B. Beall articles undated and 1940-1943

Scope and Content Note

"A Tasso Imitation in Spenser," Modern Language Quarterly 3:4 (1942 December); "Un Recueil italianisant du XVIIIe siecle français" and "Kenelm Digby's 'Thuscan Virgil,'" Modern Language Notes (1940 November and 1942 April); "A Spanish Sonnet Imitated from Tasso," Hispania (undated); "Francisco de Medrano's Imitations from Tasso," Hispanic Review 11 (1943); "L'Arioste en France des origines a la fin du XVIIIe siecle," Modern Language Notes (1942 March); "A Tasso Quotation in Shelley," Modern Language Quarterly 2:4 (1941 December); "Housman, Dehmel and Dante" (publication unknown, undated)

Box 2, Folder 53

Edward K. Rand articles: "The Medieval Pattern of Life," Studies in Civilization, University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial; "Review: Iohannis Scotti Annotationes in Marcianum (Lutz)," Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 16:1 undated and 1941 January

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 54

William A. Nitze articles 1942 November-1944 February

Scope and Content Note

"The Home of Robert de Boron" (1942 November), "What Did Robert de Boron Write?" (1943 August) and Review of The Origin of the Grail Legend, by Arthur C. L. Brown (1944 February). Modern Philology 40:2, 41:1, 41:3. Reprinted for private circulation. With inscriptions from author

Box 2, Folder 55

George Sarton articles: "Remarks on the Theory of Temperaments," reprinted from ISIS 34, part 3, no. 95; "Fifth Preface to Volume XXXIV: Aime Bonpland (1773-1858)," reprinted from ISIS 34, part 5, no. 97 1943 winter and summer

Scope and Content Note

With inscriptions from author

Box 2, Folder 56

Lawrence M. Price articles: "The Bassewitz Translation of The London Merchant, 1752," The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 43:3; "The Works of Oliver Goldsmith on the German Stage, 1776-1795," Modern Language Quarterly 5:4 1944 July and December

Box 2, Folder 57

Waclaw Lednicki articles: "Mickiewicz, Dostoevski, and Blok," reprinted from Slavic Studies, Ithica: Cornell University Press; "Russia and her Culture," reprinted from New Europe 1:10 -11 ca. 1943 and 1941

Scope and Content Note

With inscriptions from author

Box 2, Folder 58

Andre Delattre articles: "Les lettres de Voltaire des manuscrits Tronchin," reprinted from Modern Language Notes 58:6; "Une lettre inédite de Condorcet a Jean-Robert Tronchin," reprinted from Modern Language Notes 58:7 1943 June and November

Scope and Content Note

With inscriptions from author

Box 2, Folder 59

Roger B. Oake articles: "Political Elements in Criticism of Voltaire in England, 1732-47," Modern Language Notes; "Polygamy in the Lettres Persanes," reprinted from The Romantic Review 1942 May and 1941 February

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 60

Pamphlet advertising Fielding the Novelist: A Study in Historical Criticism, by Frederic T. Blanchard, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, no. 4492, vol. 87, London: The Royal Society of Arts and G. Bell & Sons undated and 1938 December 23

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from Frederic T. Blanchard on front of journal

Box 2, Folder 61

Robert Withington articles: "Thre Brefes to a Long," Modern Language Notes; "The Marquis de Chastellux on Language and Peace," reprinted from The New England Quarterly 16:2 1943 February and November 2

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 2, Folder 62

Leon Wencelius. "Le Classicisme de Calvin." Probably from Humanisme et Renaissance V. 2 copies ca. 1938

Scope and Content Note

With inscriptions from author; copy 2 uncut

Box 2, Folder 63

Murat H. Roberts. "The Science of Idiom: A Method of Inquiry into the Cognitive Design of Language." Reprinted from PMLA 49:1, part 1. New York: Modern Language Association. 2 copies 1944 March

Box 2, Folder 64

James Hutton, "Ronsard and the Greek Anthology," Studies in Philology 40:2; "Malherbe, Saint-Gelays, Tabourot, Theophile, and the Jardin des Muses," Modern Language Notes

Scope and Content Note

With inscriptions from author

Box 2, Folder 65

Benj. M. Woodbridge, "Rousseau and Faust," Modern Language Notes; Norbert Furst, "The Conclusion of Keller's Gruner Heinrich," Modern Language Notes 1940 December and April

Box 2, Folder 66

Oskar Seidlin, "Goethes Zauberflote," Monatschefte fur Deutschen Unterricht 35:2; H. Carrington Lancaster, "The Omnibus Method of Philological Analysis," JH Alumni Magazine 1943 February and 1942 March

Scope and Content Note

With inscriptions from authors

Box 2, Folder 67

Ernest Bernbaum, Review of The Mind of a Poet, by Raymond Dexter Havens, The Journal of English and German Philology 42:1; Mary Elizabeth Storer, "Bibliographical Observations on Foigny, Lahontan and Tyssot de Patot," Modern Language Notes 1943 January and 1945 March

Box 3, Folder 1

Pour la France libre: Bulletin d'Information 8. Comite National de la France Libre 1941 September 25

Box 3, Folder 2

Roger Picard. Le Conflit des doctrines économiques en France a la veille de la guerre. Brentano's ca. 1944

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 3, Folder 3

Would You Sign this Letter? Introduction by Quentin Reynolds and Rex Stout 1943 March

Box 3, Folder 4

"American Friends Service Committee in France" undated

Scope and Content Note

With notes

Box 3, Folder 5

Immortal Values. Reprint of seven editorial written for The American-German Review, 1942-1943, by Wilbur K. Thomas. Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation 1943

Scope and Content Note

With membership card for the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation

Box 3, Folder 6

Switzerland 1291-1941: Six Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Swiss Confederation. New York: Consulate General of Switzerland 1944 August

Scope and Content Note

With inscription by Lucie Clerc

Box 3, Folder 7

The High Way 11:4. Brattleboro, Vt.: The High Way Press 1941 October-December

Box 3, Folder 8

S. Mendelsohn. The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto. New York: The Yiddish Scientific Institute 1944

Box 3, Folder 9

Henry Seidel Canby. The American Scholar and the War: An Address for the Modern Language Association of America

Scope and Content Note

With introduction by John Erskine and "Books, the Scholar, and the War" by Charles Side Steinberg

Box 3, Folder 10

Deux Patries: Revue trimestrielle de Pi Delta Phi, Société d'honneur française 3:1. University of Oregon 1940 December

Box 3, Folder 11

Paul Perigord. The French Heritage: Address at the Institute of World Affairs. The Mission Inn, Riverside, California undated

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 3, Folder 12

"We suffer in a thousand ways": Letters from Occupied Belgium, New York: Belgian Information Center (1941 April); Henri Bernstein, Charles de Gaulle and Joan of Arc, published by France Forever (1943); Frank Henius, Esquire's Ready-to-Speak French (1945) 1941-1945

Box 3, Folder 13

Abdu'l-Baha, The Image of God, Baha'i Reprint 1; Shoghi Effendi, A Pattern for Future Society, Baha'i Reprint 5. New York and Wilmette, Ill.: Baha'I Publishing Committee 1939 and 1940

Box 3, Folder 14

The French and Collective Security, New York: The French Press and Information Service; Henri Peyre, "La France devant le problème allemand," La Republique Française: Revue mensuelle de l'ideologie republicaine et democratique 2:6 ca. 1945

Scope and Content Note

With inscriptions

Box 3, Folder 15

France Speaks: A Weekly Correspondence on Democratic France 1:17 and 1:18, New York 1941 December 22 and 29

Box 3, Folder 16

Miscellaneous materials undated and 1940

Scope and Content Note

"Fernand Baldensperger a l'Alliance Française de Pasadena," Courrier Français des Etats-Unis (1940 October); Alpha Mu Gamma Scroll 9:1 (1940 December), Los Angeles City College Press; notice regarding the Society for Universal Education's International Banquet to Discuss Enduring World Peace; faux newspaper pages (undated)

Box 3, Folder 17

Newspaper clippings, leaflet cartoon 1939-1943

Scope and Content Note

"Unconditional Surrender Demanded," reprinted from the Wall Street Journal (1943 March 29); Jean-Baptiste Boulanger, "Lendemain royal," from La Survivance--Petit jour (1939 June); "Inside Germany" cartoon by Godal (1943)

Box 3, Folder 18

Programs and invitation: eighteenth and nineteenth sessions of the Institute of World Affairs, Mission Inn, Riverside, California 1940 and 1941

Box 3, Folder 19

Institute of World Affairs conference materials 1940 December

Scope and Content Note

Includes confirmation to program participants; details of Baldensperger's Latin Civilization round table, with notes; memorandum from the director; outlines of sessions with reading lists; opening remarks (probably Baldensperger's); notes

Box 3, Folder 20

"Canada français" materials undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes Alain Grandbois's article "N'attendons pas que ses veines se vident" from Canada-France; typed poem "Le Canada Français Parle," with corrections; notes

Box 3, Folder 21

Hoyt Trowbridge, "Pope, Gay, and The Shepherd's Week" and Fritz L. Cohen, "The Worship of Napoleon in German Poetry," MLQ 5:1 (1944) and 1:4 (1940); John W. Olmsted, "The Scientific Expedition of Jean Richer to Cayenne," ISIS 34, part 2, no. 94 (1942) 1940 December-1944 March

Box 3, Folder 22

Harcourt Brown, Review: Literary Scholarship, Its Aims and Methods, by Foerster et al., Modern Language Quarterly 3:3; H.R. Brush, "Review: Gontier et Pierre Col et l'humanisme en France au temps de Charles VI (A. Coville)," Speculum 10:2 1942 September and 1935 April

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author

Box 3, Folder 23

Paul Friedlander, "The Greek Behind Latin," The Classical Journal 39:5 (1944 February); 2 reviews from Modern Language Quarterly 3:1 (1942 March); Evarts B. Greene, "Charles Downer Hazen," Year Book of The American Philosophical Society (1942) 1942-1944

Scope and Content Note

With inscription from author; reviews from Modern Language Quarterly 3:1: James T. Hillhouse's review of Voltaire in America, 1744-1800, by Mary-Margaret H. Barr; and Donald F. Bond's review of 'The Athenaeum'--A Mirror of Victorian Culture, by Leslie A. Marchand

Box 3, Folder 24

Marcel Francon, "The Title of the Comedie Humaine," The Slavonic and East European Review 21, part 2 (1943); Leconte de Lisle, "Le Manchy," Neuf Poemes, Middlebury, Vt.: Otter Valley Press (ca. 1945); Poiesia: U.C.L.A. Anthology of Student Verse for 1941 1941-ca. 1945

Scope and Content Note

With inscriptions

Box 3, Folder 25

Printed materials for The Glorious Company of Balzacians of America and The Balzac Society of America ca. 1942-1944

Box 3, Folder 26

William Hobart Royce printed materials, including "Balzac was Right, A Sonnet Sequence" with inscription from author

Box 3, Folder 27

Confraternité Universelle Balsacienne printed materials undated

Box 3, Folder 28

Book binding for Baldensperger, La littérature française entre les deux guerres, 1919-1939 ca. 1941

Box 3, Folder 29

Typed manuscript: Fernand Baldensperger and H.S. Craig, Jr. La critique et l'histoire littéraires en France, au dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècles. Approx. 311 pp. (Folder 1 of 2; pp. 1- 142) undated

Scope and Content Note

With corrections

Box 3, Folder 30

Scope and Content Note

With corrections

Box 3, Folder 31

"Joseph Jourbet" section (pp. 2-3) from Fernand Baldensperger and H.S. Craig, Jr., La critique et l'histoire littéraires en France, au dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècles; typed biography of Baldensperger, perhaps for manuscript as well undated

Box 3, Folder 32

Typed manuscript: Fernand Baldensperger and H.S. Craig, Jr. La critique et l'histoire littéraires en France, au dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècles. 193 pp. (Folder 1 of 2; pp. 1- 116) undated

Scope and Content Note

With corrections

Box 3, Folder 33

Typed manuscript: Fernand Baldensperger and H.S. Craig, Jr. La critique et l'histoire littéraires en France, au dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècles. 193 pp. (Folder 2 of 2; pp. 116- 193) undated

Scope and Content Note

With corrections

Box 4, Folder 1

Manuscript. Per note in collection: Double d'un Goethe, unpublished (Folder 1 of 2) 1944, per note in collection

Box 4, Folder 2

Manuscript. Per note in collection: Double d'un Goethe, unpublished (Folder 2 of 2) 1944, per note in collection

Box 4, Folder 3

Typed and manuscript materials, perhaps related to unpublished manuscript ca. 1944

Correspondence 1911 June 22-1945 January 11

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence includes letters pertaining to the Institute of World Affairs and the publication of Baldensperger's La critique et l'histoire littéraires en France, au dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècles, as well as letters concerning scholarly, professional, and personal matters

Box 4, Folder 4

Correspondence with Charles E. Martin, professor of Political Science at the University of Washington and director of the Institute of World Affairs, eighteenth session 1940 November-1941 November

Scope and Content Note

3 letters and 1 draft

Box 4, Folder 5

Correspondence with Robert Tenger, director of "les éditions françaises" at Brentano's booksellers, New York

Scope and Content Note

2 letters regarding publication of Baldensperger's La critique et l'histoire littéraires en France, au dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècles

Box 4, Folder 6

Letters from Jacques Breitenbucher (1941 February 24); Karl Vietor (1944 April 17); Jacques Schiffrin (undated); H.H. Cook (1941 October 11); J. Henri Amiel (1943 February 15) 1941-1944

Scope and Content Note

5 letters

Box 4, Folder 7

Letters from Suzanne d'Orssaud concerning recommendations for fellowships, current events, and publishing questions; includes her fellowship proposal 1940 October-1944 November

Scope and Content Note

6 letters and fellowship proposal

Box 4, Folder 8

Letters from William Hobart Royce (1943 September 11); Elizabeth Creed (1941 January 8); Frederic D. Ch[------]? (1941 November 25); Christine A. Crane (1945 January 11); Isabelle de Wyzewa (1943 August 5); Maurice Kurtz (1941 April 23) 1941-1945

Scope and Content Note

6 letters

Box 4, Folder 9

Letters from Horatio Smith, General Editor, Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature 1942 December 21 and 1943 April 14

Scope and Content Note

2 letters

Box 4, Folder 10

Letters from David C. Cabeen (1941 May 13); Paul M. Cru (1943 February 21); Fred Nolte (1940 December 23); Olin H. Moore (1942 April 18); Joseph W. Beach (1942 June 5); Henri L. B[--------]? (1943 May 17) 1940-1943

Scope and Content Note

6 letters

Box 4, Folder 11

Letters and postcards from Pierre Beres (1941 June 4); Artine Artinian (1943 February 19); Albert Feuillerat (1943 August 2); Cl. Haskins [?] (1943 December 18)

Scope and Content Note

4 letters

Box 4, Folder 12

Letters from Haakon Maurice Chevalier 1943 March 15 and March 28

Scope and Content Note

2 letters

Box 4, Folder 13

Letters from Oskar Seidlin (from Camp Butner, North Carolina) 1942 November 29 and 1943 March 22

Scope and Content Note

2 letters

Box 4, Folder 14

Letters from Thelma Juergensmeyer (1944 February 20); Edouard Mar[----]? (1911 June 22); Grace M. Sproull (1940 September 5)

Scope and Content Note

3 letters

Research materials undated; 1904-ca. 1943

Scope and Content Note

Research materials include typed and manuscript literary timelines, newspaper articles, annotated pages of Baldensperger's works, typed essays (by Baldensperger and others), and typed and manuscript notes concerning a variety of literary topics

Box 4, Folder 15

Scandinavian literature timeline, 1650-1810 (with typed, printed, manuscript materials) undated

Box 4, Folder 16

French literature timeline, 1650-1810 (with typed, printed, manuscript materials) undated

Box 4, Folder 17

Literature timeline for "various countries," 1733-1807 (with printed and manuscript materials); manuscript literary chart undated

Box 4, Folder 18

Loose printed pages of Fernand Baldensperger, Comparative Survey of Romantic and Allied Words, with extensive annotations

Box 4, Folder 19

Manuscript timelines concerning French literature: 1648-1714, 1825-1928 undated

Box 4, Folder 20

English literature timeline, 1650-1810 (with typed, printed, manuscript materials); 3 primarily English literature manuscript timelines undated

Box 4, Folder 21

Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese ("pays latins") literature timeline, 1651-1810 (with typed, printed, manuscript materials)

Box 4, Folder 22

German literature timeline, 1650-1810 (with typed, printed, manuscript materials) undated

Box 5, Folder 1

Comparative literature materials undated and ca. 1931-1935

Scope and Content Note

Includes newspaper article "Protectionnisme intellectuel" by Julien Benda, in Les Nouvelles Littéraires (ca. 1931); newspaper article concerning Eugene O'Neill's Nobel prize speech (1935); manuscript notes (undated)

Box 5, Folder 2

Materials for La littérature française entre les deux guerres, 1919-1939; with related notes ca. 1941

Scope and Content Note

Includes book spine, manuscript notes, newspaper articles, Western Union telegram from Jean Baldensperger, "Memorandum sur la responsibilité de la conduite des affaires nationales: Les Causes de la defaite, d'après le temoignage de M. Andre Marois de l'Académie Française"

Box 5, Folder 3

Materials primarily concerning twentieth-century France and French literary texts and criticism ca. 1943 January

Scope and Content Note

Includes typewritten and manuscript materials, as well as newspaper article concerning refugees from Berlin to Alsace, and article from Combat with note: "redigé par A. Camus"

Box 5, Folder 4

Manuscript notes, probably labeled "Le temps" undated

Box 5, Folder 5

Manuscript notes concerning German, Finnish, and other literary texts undated

Box 5, Folder 6

Manuscript notes labeled "Chapitre 6: L'Histoire littéraire a la recherche d'une tradition" undated

Box 5, Folder 7

Manuscript notes labeled "Jansenisme" undated

Box 5, Folder 8

Materials concerning Jules Cambon ca. 1935

Scope and Content Note

Includes 2 newspaper articles

Box 5, Folder 9

Materials concerning Henri Matisse, Francis Gruber ca. 1941 January

Scope and Content Note

Includes printed text, newspaper article, black and white reproduction of Gruber's "The Witch"

Box 5, Folder 10

Manuscript notes, perhaps labeled according to chapter undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes "I: Defense des beautés sensibles," "III: Sous le signe de la relativité du gout," "I: La re[-----------]? de la personnalité," "III: Progrès ou immo[-------]? de l'ésprit général," "II: Les débuts de l'histoire littéraire," "Comparative"

Box 5, Folder 11

Materials, probably labeled "Augustan Ages" undated

Scope and Content Note

Includes newspaper article "Coleridge as a Critic of Literature," by Thomas S. Lester

Box 5, Folder 12

Materials probably labeled "Fenelon education" undated

Box 5, Folder 13

Materials concerning seventeenth-century literature undated

Scope and Content Note

With print clipping regarding Andre de Lenotre (1613-1700)

Box 5, Folder 14

Racine and seventeenth century materials, including typed article "Katharsis et les Modernes" by Benjamin Mather Woodbridge undated

Box 5, Folder 15

Manuscript notes concerning Swift, Pope, sixteenth- and eighteenth-century (primarily English) literature, antiquity undated

Box 5, Folder 16

Manuscript notes, mostly concerning poetry and aesthetics undated

Box 5, Folder 17

Materials concerning Francois Mauriac ca. 1937 September

Scope and Content Note

Includes typed texts, manuscript notes, and newspaper article "Le Drame de Maurice de Guerin" by François Mauriac in Le Figaro

Box 5, Folder 18

Manuscript notes, primarily concerning philosophy, psychology, political theory undated

Box 6, Folder 1

Stendhal materials (manuscript and typed materials) undated and 1904 October 24

Scope and Content Note

Typed article: "William Woodfall: One Possible Source for the Character, Julien Sorel," by Myron I. Barker, with comments; part of printed Baldensperger article, perhaps titled "D'histoire et de littérature," in Revue Critique; manuscript notes

Box 6, Folder 2

Balzac materials (manuscript, typed, and printed materials) undated and

Scope and Content Note

Manuscript notes; typed note announcing Livraria do Globo's publication of La Comédie Humaine

Box 6, Folder 3

Typed texts (with extensive corrections) concerning Gustave Lanson, Henri Bremond, Francisque Sarcey ca. 1943

Scope and Content Note

Perhaps for the Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature

Box 6, Folder 4

Materials labeled "Notes bibliographiques et autres a ajouter" undated

Box 6, Folder 5

Materials labeled "Renaissance"; letter concerning the Honorary History Fraternity of Southern California on reverse side of notes undated and 1942 January 5 (letter)

Box 6, Folder 6

Manuscript notes concerning nineteenth-century French literature undated

Box 6, Folder 7

Goethe materials. Includes typed material, manuscript notes undated

Box 6, Folder 8

Manuscript notes concerning fairy tales, fantastic literature undated

Box 6, Folder 9

Manuscript notes primarily concerning formal literary elements (style, language, genre) undated

Box 6, Folder 10

Typed materials: "Pour la reforme intellectuelle en France," "Le cas du Poete Louis Mercier," "Swedish (Queen Christina) Correspondence MSS. in Bibliotheque Nationale," "L'art japonais du XVIII," quotes of sixteenth- through nineteenth-century authors undated

Box 6, Folder 11

Miscellaneous manuscript notes undated

Box 6, Folder 12

Manuscript notes labeled "W. Whitman" undated

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