Guide to the Allan Seager papers, 1906-1968
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Guide to the Allan Seager Papers, 1906-1968
Collection number: BANC MSS 70/176 z
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Correspondence; typescripts of his short stories and novels; research materials and manuscript of his biography of Theodore Roethke, The Glass House; diaries, 1924-1931, and diary notes, 1931-1960.
With these: a few papers of Seager's grandfather, John Brathwaite Allan, including 3 v. of Civil War diaries, 1861-1864.
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The Bancroft Library also holds papers of Jane Sherman, containing Allan Seager correspondence
Identifier/Call Number: (BANC MSS 85/177 z)
- Photographs of Seager have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Diaries and diary notes
Scope and Content Note
See also separate volumes 1-4.
Diary, 1924-June 1925.
Scope and Content Note
Diary, June 1925-Mar. 1926
Diary, Mar. 1926-Aug. 1927
Diary, Aug. 1927-1928.
See also later diaries in Box 5.
Diary notes, 1931-196
Equinox:
Printer's copy
Screen treatment
Review of French edition
Amos Berry:
Notes
Printer's copy
Death of Anger:
Notes
Revised typescript and variants (incomplete)
Typescript (2 copies, one of them incomplete)
The Inheritance:
Notes
Simon & Schuster's reader's comments
Printer's copy
A Frieze of Girls:
Collection of short stories, autobiographical in nature, including
“Under the Big Magnolia Tree”
Powder River in the Old Days
"Dear Old Shrine, One Hearrs Round Thee Twine"
The Nicest Girl in Cook County
Actress with Red Garters
Miss Anglin's Bad Martini
The Old Man, a Nineteenth-Century Steel Engraving
The Drinking Contest
Joys of Sport at Oxford
The Cure
The Last Return
Manuscripts, printed versions, printer's copy, galleys, plate proofs
Old Man of the Mountain:
Collection of short stories, including
The Street
This Town & Salamanca
Pommery 1921
Sacrament
Kobold
Pro Arte
Berkshire Comedy
Fugue for Harmonicas
Quitandhina
The Conqueror
Game Chickens
No Son, No Gun, No Street-car
Manuscripts, printed versions, printer's copy.
Stendhal's Mémoires d'un touriste:
Scope and Content Note
Short stories, arranged alphabetically by title. Manuscript and/or printed copy.
Untitled stories
Fragments
Notes for stories
Articles
Scope and Content Note
Book reviews by Seager
The Glass House
Letters of Theodore Roethke from various sources, 1931-1960. Photocopies. 4 folders
Letters to or about Roethke, 1930-1959
Scope and Content Note
Roethke's notebooks, Xerox copies. 2 folders
Roethke's poems; miscellaneous writings; miscellaneous records, 1923-1926; list of books belonging to Roethke; clippings and reviews concerning Roethke.
Notes on Roethke - bibliography, reviews, chronology, interviews, letters, notebooks, etc.
Comments by Beatrice Roethke on The Glass House
Malkoff, Karl: The Poetry of Theodore Roethke: A Critical Study
Unrevised draft of The Glass House (Xerox copy)
Manuscripts
Scope and Content Note
Reviews of The Glass House
Miscellaneous papers
Papers of John Braithwaite Allan, Seager's grandfather, including
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1917-1942, and papers, 1901-1923, of Arch and Emma Seager, parents of Allan Seager, including partial autobiography of Arch Seager.
Allan Seager's school papers while at the University of Michigan and at Oxford.
Publisher's agreements, 1940-1965
Biographical information and publicity
Account books:
v. 1: Swimming lessons
v. 2: Farm accounts, 1938-1940
Accounts for fellowships, 1965-1966; applications for fellowships
Address books, 2 v.
Notes for proposed courses on the novel
Miscellaneous personalia, 1917-1967
Poems [some by Seager?]
Miscellaneous photographs.
Additional Note
Scrapbook of clippings relating to swimming meets, in many of which Seager participated.
A Miscellany
Adams, Franklin Pierce, 1881-
Letter, Sept. 13, 1943, re Equinox.
Allen, sir Carleton Kemp, 1887-
Letter, May 26, 1963
Appleman, Philip, 1926-
Letter, July 19, 1966
Atlantic Monthly
Letter, Dec. 29, 1965, by Peter Davison concerning the Roethke biography and containing copy of an article by Davison on Roethke.
Ader, Richard M.
3 letters, 1967. Xerox copies of letters to McGraw-Hill. Ader represented Beatrice Roethke in the matter of Seager's biography of her husband.
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-
4 letters, 1940
Auden, Wystan Hugh, 1907-
2 letters, n. d. and 1965?
B Miscellany
Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-
Letter, Feb. 3, 1944
Burger, Knox
Letter, n. d.
Burnett, Whit, 1899-
Letter, June 4, 1937
Bagster - Collins, Mary (Kunkel) (Mrs. Jeremy Felix Bagster-Collins)
3 letters, 1967 and n. d. Re Theodore Roethke
Bennington College
see Jones, Lewis Webster
Bloom, Robert, 1930-
3 letters, 1964-1966
Bogan, Louise, 1897-
3 letters, 1965-1966, re Theodore Roethke.
Booher, Edward E.
see McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Bredvold, Louis Ignatius, 1888-
2 letters, 1945, written while chairman, English Dept., University of Michigan.
Brockway, Wallace, 1905-
see Simon and Schuster
Burke, Kenneth Duva, 1897-
4 letters, 1950-1966. Some re Theodore Roethke.
Burlingame, William Roger, 1889-
5 letters, 1950-1966. Include his memo on Seager's Lightening Before Dark, and the first chapter of his own book on Franklin.
C Miscellany
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-
Letter, June 5, 1952
Char, René, 1907-
Letter, Dec. 26, 1965, in French, re Roethke. Seager's translation included.
Cousins, Margaret, 1905-
Letter, May 23, 1950, written while editor, Good Housekeeping, re Seager's "The Lion on the Bicycle".
Crowninshield, Frank, 1872-1947
Inscribed photograph, Sept. 1935.
Collier's
2 letters, 1937-1943, by Kenneth Littauer and Denver Lindley.
Coombs, Patricia
Letter, n. d., in ctn. 4
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-
9 letters, 1957-1964
D Miscellany
De Vries, Catherine (Mrs. Peter H. De Vries)
Letter, Dec. 27, 1965, re Theodore Roethke.
Davenport, John, d. 1966
8 letters, 1939-1965, commenting on Roethke and on Seager's biography of Roethke.
Davison, Peter Hubert, 1928-
see Atlantic Monthly
De Vries, Peter Hugh
2 letters, 1965, re Theodore Roethke.
Dickey, James, 1923-
7 letters, 1963-1967. Some re Theodore Roethke. Galley and copy of his article on Roethke included.
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
3 letters, 1965-1967. 1967 letter is Xerox copy. Re Theodore Roethke's published works.
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965
Letter, Aug. 5. 1953, in ctn. 4.
Emmon, Lloyd C.
Letter, Apr. 14, 1936, in ctn. 4
Engle, Paul Hamilton, 1908-
3 letters, 1953-[ca. 1965]. 1953 letter includes copy of Engle's review of Amos Berry.
Esquire
2 letters, 1960 and n. d., by Gene Lichtenstein and A. T. McIntyre.
See also Gingrich. Arnold, Hills, L. Rust, and Solomon, David.
Fair, James R.
5 letters, 1939-1947
Farrar, John Chipman, 1896-
see P.E.N.
First Person
4 letters, 1962, by Morton D. Elevitch. Two are copies of letters to Robert Erwin, managing editor of Northwestern University Press, (q. v.), re copyright for Seager's translation of Stendhal's Memoires of a Tourist.
G Miscellany
Graves, Harold F.
Letter, June 1, 1965, re Theodore Roethke.
Gehman, Richard
2 letters, 1964-1967
Gingrich, Arnold, 1903-
6 letters, 1960-1966. Some written for Esquire.
Gosling. Veronica
2 letters, 1965, re Theodore Roethke.
Goodman, Jack A.
see Simon and Schuster
H Miscellany
Haber, William, 1899-
Letter, July 27, 1966. Copy.
Hall, Donald, 1928-
Letter, Dec. 13, 1963
Hamburg, Sam
Letter, Apr. 19, 1960. Enclosure: letter from Sanford E. Feldman re Seager's article on Hamburg.
Hanna, Allan
Letter, Mar. 11, 1961, enclosing copy of letter from Warner G. Rice. copy of an article by Hanna on Seager, and a poem, entitled "The Emperor's Secretary to the Field".
Hellman, Lillian, 1907-
Letter, Jan. 21, 1966, re Theodore Roethke.
Hoffer, William
Letter, June 21, 1965, re Theodore Roethke.
Hoffman, Daniel
Letter, Sept. 28, 1965, re Theodore Roethke. See also ctn. 4.
Hoffman, Lyne Starling Sullivant
Letter, June 9, 1965
Houghton Mifflin Company
Letter, Sept. 11, 1945, re reprinting of "This Town and Salamanca"
Hovde, Frederick Lawson, 1908-
Letter, Dec. 10, 1946
Hatfield, Walter Wilbur, 1882-
Letter, May 27, 1957, in ctn. 4.
Heilman, Robert Becktold, 1906-
3 letters, 1959, in ctn. 4.
Hendrick, Leo
2 letters, n. d. One re Robert Penn Warren.
Hills, L. Rust
4 letters, 1959-1964, written for Esquire and Saturday Evening Post.
Holiday
2 letters, 1964, re article on swimming by Seager.
J Miscellany
Jackson, Blyden, 1910-
Letter, Apr. 10, 1953, re reviewing Seager's Amos Berry for the Nashville Tennessean.
Jackson, Joseph Henry, 1894-1955
Letter, Jan. 17, 1953. Proof for Jackson's "Allan Seager; an Appreciation". included.
Jones, Barbara (Slatter) (Mrs. Lewis Webster Jones)
Letter, Oct. 4, 1948.
Jackson, James Turner
12 letters, 1941-1966. Some re Theodore Roethke.
Javet, Pierre
2 letters, 1946-1948, for René Juillard, re publication of French edition of Equinox.
Jerome, Judson
Letter, June 3, 1957, in ctn. 4
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
3 letters, 1965-1966, by Gordon Norton Ray and James F. Mathias.
Johnston, William W.
10 letters, 1935-1938, in ctn. 4
Jones, Lewis Webster, 1899-
2 letters, 1944-1945, written while president, Bennington College.
See also ctn. 4.
K Miscellany
Kees, Weldon, 1914-1955?
Letter, Aug. 21, 1943
Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon, 1905-
Postcard, Oct 25, 1965
Kaufman, Schima
2 letters, 1943-1956
Kenner, Hugh, 1923-
14 letters, 1962-1966
Kinsella, Thomas, 1928-
4 letters, 1965-1966. 1966 letter re Theodore Roethke.
Klingman, Theophil
Letter, Jan. 17, 1936, in ctn. 4
Kuhn, Edward
2 letters, 1965. Jan. 27 letter written for McGraw-Hill; Sept. 22, for New American Library.
L Miscellany
Lewis, Clive Staples, 1898-1963
Letter, July 2, 1943
London Mercury
Letter, Nov. 9, 1933
Luckey, Robert
Letter, May 7, 1965, re Theodore Roethke.
Lid, Richard Wald, 1928-
2 letters, 1963-1965. 1963 letter includes copy of letter by Mark Schorer.
Lindley, Denver, 1904-
see Collier's
Lundberg, George
Letter, Aug. 21, 1947, in ctn. 4
M Miscellany
Marquand, John Phillips, 1893-
Letter, Nov. 24, 1952. Copy of letter to Richard Simon.
Matthiessen, Francis Otto, 1902-1950
Letter, Jan. 11, 1950
Meisel, James Hans, 1900-
Letter, June 22, 1953
Michener, Earl Cory, 1876-
Letter, June 21, 1940, re his position on American involvement in World War 11.
Mortensen, Violeta (Roethke)
Letter, ca. 1965, re Theodore Roethke.
Munch, Dora
Letter, May 18, 1937, re translation of Seager's "Fugue for Harmonica" into German.
McGraw-Hill Book Company
19 letters, 1963-1967, by Robert Gutwillig, Roger Donald, William Goyen and Edward E. Booher. Many re publication of
The Glass House.
See also Kuhn, Edward.
McGregor, Donald, 1908-
28 letters, 1939-1952
Macmillan Company
2 letters, 1945-1953, re Seager's They Worked for a Better World.
McWilliams, Carey, 1905-
3 letters, 1964. Sept. 22 letter writ ten for the Nation.
Michigan. University
4 letters, 1965. July 22, 1966 letter re Theodore Roethke.
Milburn, George, 1906-1966
17 letters, 1939-1953
Milburn, Mary M. (Sullivan) (Mrs. George Milburn)
3 letters, 1966
Miller, Arthur, 1915-
7 letters, 1958-1961. One letter incomplete.
Mills, Ralph J.
3 letters, 1966, re work on Theodore Roethke letters.
Moore, Marianne, 1887-
Letter, July 21, 1958, in ctn. 4
Myrer, Anton
3 letters, 1953-1962
N Miscellany
Nipson, Herbert, 1916-
Letter, Mar. 13, 1966, re Theodore Roethke.
Nation
see McWilliams, Carey
New Yorker
3 letters, 1954-1963, by Robert Henderson
New American Library
see Kuhn, Edward
Nichols, Edward
2 letters, 1966, re Theodore Roethke.
Northwestern University. Press
3 letters, 1962, by Robert Erwin. Copies of letters to Morton D. Elevitch, editor of First Person re copyright for Seager's translation of Stendhal's Memoires of a Tourist.
Noyes, Robert Gale, 1898-
Letter, Nov. 21, 1935, in ctn. 4.
Odegaard, Charles Edwin, 1911-
see Washington. University.
Orrmont, Arthur
6 letters, 1943-1960
P Miscellany
P. E. N.
Letter, May 16, 1964, by John Farrar
Pasinetti, Pier Maria
5 letters, 1944-1952
Pickerell, Albert G.
2 letters, 1940-1945. 1940 letter re George Milburn.
R Miscellany
Rauh, Joseph L., 1911-
Letter, Jan. 10, 1959, re Arthur Miller.
Reinhard, John Revell
Letter, Aug. 30, 1964
Renz, Janet (Mrs. Arnold H. Renz)
Letter, Feb. 2, 1966, re Theodore Roethke.
Rice, Elmer, 1892-
Letter, Apr. 4, 1955
Ridings, Eugene Ware, 1899-
Letter, July 23, 1948
Rosenfeld, Eva M.
Letter, June 23, 1965, re Theodore Roethke.
Randlett, Mary
2 letters, 1967, re her photographs of Theodore Roethke for use in The Glass House.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-
see John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Rice, Warner G., 1899-
see Hanna, Allan
Rockefeller Foundation
2 letters, 1965, by Gerald Freund
Roethke, Beatrice Heath (O'Connell) (Mrs. Theodore Roethke)
33 letters, 1964-1967, mainly re Seager's biography of Roethke.
See also ctn. 4.
Roethke, Harriet (Mrs. William A. C. Roethke)
2 letters, 1965. Roethke's sister-in-law
Roethke, June
2 letters, 1965-1967. Roethke's sister.
See also ctn. 4.
Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963
14 letters, 1941-1963. See also letters and other material relating to Roethke in ctn. 4. Letter of Nov. 28, 1946 is incomplete copy. Letter Feb. 4, 1954, written for him by his secretary.
S Miscellany
San Francisco Review
Letter, Dec. 22, 1962
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-
Letter, [Mar. 29, 1944], an appraisal of Equinox.
Saturday Evening Post
Letter, Nov. 16, 1964, by David McDowell. See also Hills, L. Rust.
Scannell, Maidie Alexander (Mrs. Austin J. Scannell)
Letter, Nov. 11, 1965, re her mother, Louise Bogan.
Sewell, Herbert Mathieu, 1902-
Letter, Nov. 11, 1966, re Theodore Roethke.
Simpson, Percy, 1865-
Letter, Mar. 7, 1932
Sparks, Dorothy Elizabeth
Letter, May 11, 1944
Spender, Stephen, 1909-
Letter, [Sept. 1933]
Stevens, Roger L., 1910-
Letter, Oct. 11, 1966
Sweeney, John L.
Letter, Nov. 16, 1965
Swinton, Stanley Mitchell, 1919-
Letter, Sept. 23, 1966, re George Milburn.
Sylvester, Harry, 1908-
Letter, Sept. 23, 1948
Salinger, Herman, 1905-
2 letters, 1953
Schorer, Mark, 1908-
see Lid, Richard Wald
Segal, David I., 1928-1970
8 letters, 1953-1964. Some written while editor, McGraw-Hill Book Co. Letter, Feb. 20, 1964, includes copy of letter from Jessamyn West.
Shaw, Harry Lee, 1905-
2 letters, 1947
Shelley, Philip Allison, 1907-
2 letters, 1965-1966, re Theodore Roethke.
Simon, Richard Leo, 1899-
see Simon and Schuster
Simon and Schuster, Inc.
23 letters, 1943-1958, by Wallace Brockway, James Holsaert, Richard Leo Simon and Jack Goodman.
Solomon, David
3 letters, 1958-1959. Some written for Esquire.
Stevens, Christine (Gesell) (Mrs. Roger L. Stevens)
3 letters, n. d. and 1943
Stokes, Katharine Martin, 1906-
3 letters, 1965-1966, re Theodore Roethke.
Strauss, Louis A.
Letter, Feb. 25, 1936, in ctn. 4
Swados, Harvey, 1920-
10 letters, 1943-1946. Poem, "America Carcinoma" and article, "Why Resign from the Human Race?" at end of folder.
Tupper, James Waddell, 1870-
2 letters, 1935, in ctn. 4.
V-W Miscellany
Vivian, Weston Edward, 1924-
Telegram, Nov. 18, 1966, announcing grant for study on Roethke.
Vonnegut, Kurt
Letter, n. d.
Warre, Michael
Letter, Oct. 4, 1965
Warriner, John E.
Letter, Dec. 5, 1965, re Theodore Roethke.
Weybright, Victor, 1903-
Letter, July 15, 1948, re New American Library of World Literature.
White, Eric Walter, 1905-
Letter, Aug. 30, 1965, re Theodore Roethke.
Wurzburg, Francis Lewis
Letter, Aug. 2, 1943
Wagner, Robert Wilhelm, 1905-
3 letters, 1940-1964
Walsh, Chad, 1914-
2 letters, 1965. April letter is a copy of a letter to Mrs. Roethke re a proposed critical study of Roethke's poetry.
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-
4 letters, 1944-1966
Washington. University, Seattle
7 letters, 1964-1965. 1964 letter written by Charles E. Odegaard re Roethke papers.
Watkins, Ann, d. 1967
11 letters, 1936-1959. Seager's literary agent. See also Watkins, Armitage, and Watkins (A) Inc.
Watkins, Armitage
32 letters, 1959-1967, written while Seager's literary agent. Many re negotiations for the Roethke biography.
Watkins (A) Inc.
22 letters, 1944-1967, re contracts, royalties, etc.
Webster, Harvey Curtis, 1906-
2 letters, 1957-1963
West, Jessamyn, 1907-
see Segal, David I.
Wilkinson, Maxwell P.
6 letters, 1936-1967
Woodburne, Lloyd Stuart, 1906-
Letter, Apr. 6, 1959, in ctn. 4.