Finding Aid for the Alice Cecilia Cooper Papers LSC.0739
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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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[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.
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Biography
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.
Scope and Content
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.
Expanded Scope and Content
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.
Organization and Arrangement
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.
box 1
Alexander, Hubbard Foster, 1879- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Anderson, Melville Best, 1851-1933.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Arkwright, John Stanhope, 1872- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Armatrong, Hamilton Fish, 1893- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Auslander, Joseph, 1897- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Barry, Jack.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter
box 1
Bashford, Herbert, 1871-1928.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Bassett, Lee Emerson, 1872- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Bates, Katherine Lee, 1859-1929.
General Physical Description note: 4 letters.
box 1
Beach, Rex (Ellingwood) 1877- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Bellew,
Sir George (Rothe) 1899- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Benet, William Rose, 1886- .
General Physical Description note: 4 letters.
box 1
Bennett, Henry Holcomb, 1863-1924.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Binyon, Laurence, 1869- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Braley, Berton, 1882- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Branch, Anna Hempstead, 1875-1937.
General Physical Description note: 4 letters.
box 1
Bridges, Robert Seymour, 1844-1930.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter from Miss Cooper to RSB, and 1 poem of RSB.
box 1
Briggs, Thomas Henry, 1887- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Brown, Alice, 1857- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Brown, Annie Farwell, d. 1927.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Brown, Gilmor
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Buchan, John, 1875-1940.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Burnet, Dana, 1888- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Burnham, Roger Noble, 1876- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Burr, Amelia Josephine, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Burton, Richard, 1861-1940.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Butchart, Reuben, 1863- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1962- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Campbell, Mrs.
General Physical Description note: 4 letters.
box 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Chapman, Arthur, 1873-1935.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, 1874-1936.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Cheney, John Vance, 1848-1922.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Churchill, Clementine S. (Mrs. Winston Churchill).
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Clarke, Frances Elizabeth.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Clover, Samuel Travers, 1859-1934.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Coates,
Mrs. Florence (Earle) 1850-1927.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Colum, Padraic, 1881- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Conkling,
Mrs. Grace Walcott (Hazard) 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Cone, Helen Gray, 1859-1934.
General Physical Description note: 9 letters, and 5 manuscript items (FOLDER).
box 1
Cook, James Henry, 1859-1942.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Coolbright, Ina Donna, 1842-1928.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Crafton, Allen, 1890- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Craig, Alice Evelyn.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter and 1 enclosure.
box 1
Cubberley,
Mrs. Helen (Van Uxem).
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Daly, John J.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Daly, Thomas Augustine, 1871-1948.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Darrough, Rose.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Davies, Mary Carolyn.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Davis, Helen Bayley.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Day, Holman Francis, 1865-1935.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
De La Mare, Walter John, 1873- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Dixon, James Main, 1856-1933.
General Physical Description note: 8 letters.
box 1
Doyle,
Sir Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter and 1 poem.
box 1
Driscoll, Louise, 1875- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Dumont, Henry.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Faulks,
Mrs. Theodosia, 1874-1944.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940.
General Physical Description note: 3 letters.
box 1
Gessler, Clifford, 1893- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Gifford,
Mrs. Fannie Stearns (Davis) 1884- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Gilchrist, Marie Emilie.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Ginn and Company: Publishers.
General Physical Description note: 3 letters.
box 1
Goodhue, Edward Solon, 1861- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Gore-Booth, Eva, 1872-1926.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Gould, Gerald, 1885- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Guiterman, Arthur, 1871- .
General Physical Description note: 5 letters.
box 1
Gray, Agnes Kendrick.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters, and 2 poems (FOLDER).
box 1
Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Hall, Howard Judson, 1869- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Hazard, Caroline, 1856- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Higginson,
Mrs. Ella (Rhoades) 1862-1940.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Hinkson,
Mrs. Katherine (Tynan) 1861-1931.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter to Mrs. Hinkson from Miss Cooper, with Mrs. Hinkson's reply on it.
box 1
Housman, Alfred Edward, 1859-1936.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Hughes, Robert Edward, 1866- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Hughes, Rupert, 1872- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Hulme, Edward Maslin, 1871- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Husband, Joseph, 1885-1938.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Irwin, Wallace, 1895- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Johnston, Oliver Martin, 1866- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Kurtz, Benjamin Putnam, 1877- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Leacock, Stephen Butler, 1869- .
Scope and Contents note
1 letter to Mr. Leacock from Miss Cooper, with Mr. Leacock's reply on it.
box 1
Leamy, Edmund Stanislaus, 1889- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Leo,
Brother, 1881- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Letts, Winifred M., 1882- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Loveman, Robert, 1864-1923.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
McCarthy, Denis Aloysius, 1871-1931.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter to Mr. McCarthy from Miss Cooper with Mr. McCarthy's reply on it
box 1
McGaffey, Ernest.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944.
General Physical Description note: 3 letters.
box 1
Madden,
Captain John, 1878- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Mann, Dorothea Laurence.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940.
General Physical Description note: 6 letters, and 15 ephemera (2 FOLDERS).
Scope and Contents note
(Including copies of his poems).
box 1
Marquis, Don, 1878-1937.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Mifflin, Houston.
General Physical Description note: 6 letters.
box 1
Miller, Joseph Carson, 1883- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Milne, Alan Alexander, 1882- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Minot, John Clair, 1872-1941.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Mitchell, Ernest Pryce, 1862- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Mitchell, Ruth Comfort, 1882- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Monro, Harold, 1879-1932.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Morley, Christopher Darlington, 1890- .
General Physical Description note: 3 letters.
box 1
Morton, David, 1886- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 1
Mosher, Raymond Mylar, 1894- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Murray, Augustus Taber, 1866-1940.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 1
Murray, John,
publisher, London.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Nesbit, Wilbur Dick. 1871-1927.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter, and 1 letter from Miss Cooper to Mr. Nesbit, with Mr. Nesbit's reply written at the bottom of it.
box 2
Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Noyes, Alfred, 1880- .
General Physical Description note: 3 letters and 6 manuscript items (poems) (FOLDER).
box 2
Odell, Minnie, d. 1940 [
pseudonym, Minna Irving].
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
O'Hagan, Thomas, 1855-1939.
General Physical Description note: 8 letters.
box 2
Oxenham, John,
pseudonym, d. 1941 [
r.n., William A. Dunkerly].
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
Palmer, George Herbert, 1842-1933.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter to Mr. Palmer from Miss Cooper, with Mr. Palmer's reply on the bottom of it.
box 2
Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Peck, Samuel Minturn, 1854-1938.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter from Miss Cooper to Mr. Peck, with Mr. Peck's reply on the bottom of it.
box 2
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Poole, Luella C.
General Physical Description note: 16 letters and 1 poem (FOLDER).
box 2
Pound, Louise, 1872- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Powell, Arthur.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Pratt, Harry Noyes, 1879-1944.
General Physical Description note: 5 letters.
box 2
Rawnsley,
Mrs. Eleanor Foster (Simpson)
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Reed, Edward Bliss, 1872-1940.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Rice, Wallace de Groot Cecil, 1859-1939.
General Physical Description note: 3 letters.
box 2
Richards,
Mrs. Laura Elizabeth (Howe) 1850-1943.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle, 1869- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Robinson,
Mrs. Corinne (Roosevelt) 1861-1933.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
Rowan, Andrew Summers, 1857-1943.
General Physical Description note: 3 letters.
box 2
Santayana, George, 1863-1952.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Scherer, James Augustin Brown, 1870-1944.
General Physical Description note: 3 letters.
box 2
Scollard, Clinton, 1860-1932.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Shepard, Odell, 1884- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Sibley, Robert, 1881- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
Smith, Francis Scott Key, 1872- .
General Physical Description note: 3 letters.
box 2
Stetson,
Mrs. Grace Ellery (Channing) 1862- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Stoddard,
Mrs. Anne (Glen) 1880- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
Stork, Charles Wharton, 1881- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Taylor, Mrs. Katherine, 1888- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1854-1925.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Tietjens,
Mrs. Eunice (Hammond) 1884-1944.
Scope and Contents note
1 letter, and 1 letter from Miss Cooper to Mrs. Tietjens with Mrs. Tietjen's reply on the bottom of it.
box 2
Towne, Charles Hanson, 1877-1949.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
Tupper, Kerr Boyce, 1854- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Turner, Nancy Byrd, 1880- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885- .
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
Van Doren, Carl Clinton, 1885- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933.
General Physical Description note: 2 letters.
box 2
Wagner, Harr, 1857-1936.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Warner, Frances Lester, 1888- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Webb, Margaret E.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Weeks, Edward, 1898- .
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Weitbrec, Blanche.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
White, William Allen, 1868-1944.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Wilkinson, Marguerite Ogden (Bigelow) 1883-1928.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Williams, David Rhys.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Woods, Charles Coke.
General Physical Description note: 1 letter.
box 2
Correspondence of Will C. Wood, 1880- .
General Physical Description note: 6 pieces.
Scope and Contents note
F.A. Rice with various persons
re publication of
America's Message.
box 2
Ephemera.
General Physical Description note: 46 pieces.
Scope and Contents note
Cards, clippings, etc. sent to Miss Cooper by her correspondents.
