Series I: General
Scope and Content Note
Bio-Bib
Bio – Miscellany
Correspondence
Cards and Postcards, ca. 1912-1993
Hilen, Andrew R.
1940s [mainly 1947-1949] – alphabetically arranged
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, ca. 1960-1972
Miscellany, 1928, 1949-1988
Knowledge Bowl (Santa Barbara), 1969-1970
Lancaster, New Hampshire
Early memorabilia, dating back to 1921
Lancaster Academy
Lancaster High School
"The Lancastrian" – student literary magazine of the Lancaster Academy, 1928-1929
"Young Woodley" – play, with LW as actor, director, producer, 1932
Photos – unsorted box, mainly snapshots of family and friends, as well as holiday cards from friends and colleagues; a few with LW
Publicity – newspapers about LW
Radio Broadcasts, 1948-1949
Santa Barbara Civic Theater, 1951-1952
Sermons, n.d.
Speeches
"Self Reliance," 1976
Miscellany, n.d.
Unitarian Church, ca. 1940s-1950s
University Days
Notes – undergraduate
Papers – undergraduate and graduate, 1930s
Wesleyan Alum File, ca. 1930s-1992
Wesleyan Cardinal – L.W. contributor and managing editor, 1932-1934
Wesleyan – Memorabilia
Wesleyan – Transcript
Yale Graduate School
General
Old English Course
Miscellany – incl. autographed photographs of actresses and an 1863 letter from the bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire
Series II: Academic Files
General
English Drama
English Literature Exams
English Literature Syllabi
English Teaching
Lectures
Moby Dick
Self-Reliance
Whitman
Speech Course
Colgate University
Harvard University
Immaculate Heart College
Loyola University of Los Angeles
San Jose State College
Santa Barbara City College (SBCC)
Santa Barbara City Schools – Adult Education, ca. 1950s-1960
University of California, Berkeley, Summer 1951
University of California, Davis
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
General
Appointments
Chancellors' Representatives for Undergraduate Scholarships (CRUS), 1963-1964
Cheadle, Vernon I. (Chancellor)
Chron. Files, 1947, 1951-1989
College Bowl, 1963
Commencement Speech: "The Theory of Books"
Distinguished Teaching Award – Lecture: "Image and Illusion," 1978-1979
Emeriti Affairs, ca. 1985-1991
Frosh Camp, 1966-1967
Graduate Affairs, ca. 1968-1971
Honors and Scholarships, ca. 1968-1970
Huttenback, Robert A. (Chancellor), ca. 1981-1989
Regents Scholarship Program, ca. 1973-1986
Research Applications – by LW, 1950s
Residence Halls Association, ca. 1956
Standards
Youth Conferences, ca. 1956-1957
American Literature Exams
American Literature Syllabi
English Courses: Eng. 1A-Eng. 265
English Department
Comprehensive Exams
Comprehensive Reading Lists
Curriculum Committee, ca. 1950-1951
Graduate Courses
Graduate Matters – General
Hand, George Edgar – Memorial, 1968
Poetry Tests
Robinson, Robert Elliott – Memorial, 1969
Graduate Courses
Graduate Matters
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware, mainly 1937-1939
University of Tennessee, mainly 1941-1943
University of Washington
Uppsala
Wesleyan University
Yale University
Series III: Professional and Other Organizations
Modern Language Association of America, 1946, 1967, 1972
Phi Beta Kappa files – LW was founder of the UCSB chapter
Associates
Council [UCSB – Lambda Chapter of California], ca. 1970-1982
Establishment of Chapter at UCSB, 1967
Requirements for Election to Phi Beta Kappa
Romanell – Phil Beta Kappa Lectures
Triennial Council – United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 1970-1988
UCSB Commencement Programs [lacking some years] – with mention of Phi Beta Kappa, 1975-1995
Miscellany
Western College Association, ca. 1950s
Series IV: Research / Author Files
Scope and Content Note
Faulkner, William
Frost, Robert
Glasgow, Ellen
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hemingway, Ernest
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lowell, James Russell
Melville, Herman
Poe, Edgar Allen
Pound, Ezra
Powell, Lawrence Clark
Santayana, George
Selby, Hubert
Shakespeare, William
Twain, Mark
Updike, John
Veblen, Thorstein
Wallant, Edward L.
Welty, Eudora
West, Nathaniel
Wharton, Edith
White, E. B.
Whitman, Walt
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Williams, Tennessee
Wodehouse, P. G.
Wolfe, Thomas
Series V: Thoreau Files
Thoreau – General
Bibliography – Harvard
Cape Cod
Correspondence – incl. letters from other Thoreau scholars
Harvard University
Lectures on Thoreau – by LW
Notes (by LW)
Thoreau Edition – Walter Harding (State University College, Geneseo, NY), ca. 1967-1971
The Thoreau Fellowship
Thoreau Journal Quarterly
Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism Course
Turkey Press (Harry and Sandra Reese) – printed ephemera
Walking Project – Carolee Campbell, Ninja Press
Wolf, Harriet
Writings about Thoreau (by others) – incl. articles, dealers' catalogs, manuscript drafts of scholarly papers, publishers' notices, and other similar material
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau – Princeton University
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau – UCSB
Miscellany – incl. Thoreau-themed greeting cards
Thoreau Society
Booklets
Bulletins
The Concord Saunterer
Correspondence
Series VI: Writings
Scope and Content Note
Dissertation: The Influence of Early North American History and Legend on the Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Yale University, 1944)
Articles by Willson – mainly copies/offprints, a few typescript drafts
"American Letters," Arts and Letters, [ca. 1982]
"American Letters II," Arts and Letters, [ca. 1985]
"American Philosopher," Arts and Letters, [ca. 1986]
"Another View of the Pilgrims," New England Quarterly, June 1961
"The 'Body Electric' Meets the Genteel Tradition," New Mexico Quarterly, Winter 1956-1957
"Education and the American College," Educational Forum, Mar. 1957
"The Gods of New England," Pacific Spectator, Spring 1955
"The Great Reversal," Dalhousie Review, [1959-1960]
"A Jollification of Jameses," Arts and Letters, [Fall 1992]
"Ladies at the Escritoire: American Letters III," Arts and Letters, [ca. 1988]
"Leftover Letters," Arts and Letters, [ca. 1986]
"Man Thinking," typescript
"The Puritan Tradition in American Literature," Arizona Quarterly, Spring 1957
"The Question of Wilder," Arts and Letters, [ca. 1985]
"The Scholar as Teacher," Journal of General Education, Jan. 1955
"Shakespeare and the Genteel Tradition in America," New Mexico Quarterly, Spring 1956
"Thoreau and New England's Weather," Weatherwise, June 1959
"Thoreau: Defender of the Savage," Emerson Society Quarterly, No. 26 (I Quarter 1962)
"Thoreau on Education," History of Education Quarterly, Mar. 1962
"Thoreau: Student of Anthropology," American Anthropologist, Apr. 1959
"Thoreau's Canadian Notebook," Huntington Library Quarterly, May 1959
"Thoreau's Medical Vagaries," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1960
"The Transcendentalist View of the West," Western Humanities Review, Spring 1960
"Yankee Misanthrope," Arts and Letters, Summer 1992
"Yet Another Note on Moby Dick," [1955-1956]
Novel – untitled, unpublished
Reviews – of other authors' works
Journal of Modern Literature – various reviews by LW
Key Reporter – reviews by LW on various works, appearing in the Phi Beta Kappa serial; also review notes and related correspondence
Koestler, Arthur – The Age of Longing, 1951
Modern Language Quarterly
Review Notes
University of Missouri Press
Miscellany – mainly on works about Thoreau, ca. 1965-1967
Series VII: Oversize
Oversize Birthday Posters
Series VIII: Audio / Visual
Audiocassette: L. Willson, Lobero (Theater, Santa Barbara), n.d.
VHS cassette: "Lawrence Wilson: Self Reliance" Bicentennial Lecture (51.04 minutes)