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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Alice Cecilia Cooper papers
Creator:
Cooper, Alice Cecilia
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0739
Physical Description:
1.0 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1920-1958
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.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Alice Cecilia Cooper Papers (Collection 739). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Gertrude E. Cooper.
Processed by Esther Vécsey, February 1961.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
999645253606533
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
English -- Study and teaching.
Women educators -- California -- Archives.
Cooper, Alice Cecilia, 1895-1960--Archives.