Finding Aid for the Majl Ewing literary correspondence and manuscripts collection, 1922-1964
Processed by Dan Luckenbill and Lilace Hatayama; machine-readable finding aid created by Dan Luckenbill and 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/
© 1998
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Finding Aid for the Majl Ewing literary correspondence and manuscripts collection, 1922-1964
Collection number: 1505
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Dan Luckenbill and Lilace Hatayama, January 1987 and April 1994
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, June 2002
© 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Majl Ewing literary correspondence and manuscripts collection,
Date (inclusive): 1922-1964
Collection number: 1505
Creator:
Ewing, Majl
Extent:
2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Majl Ewing (1903-1967) was a instructor in English (1930-31), assistant professor (1931-45), associate professor (1945-52)
and professor (1953-67) in the UCLA Department of English. He served as chair of the department from 1948-55. He was also
a member of the Modern Language Association and helped found and served as president of Friends of the UCLA Library. The collection
consists of literary correspondence and manuscripts collected by, and written to, Majl Ewing.
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.
Language:
English.
Administrative 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.
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Majl Ewing literary correspondence and manuscripts collection (Collection 1505). Department of Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Ewing was born May 24, 1903 in Rochester, Kentucky; BA, University of the South, 1923; MA, Harvard, 1924; Ph.D, University
of Virginia, 1929; instructor, University of Minnesota (1924-26); instructor (1926-29) and acting assistant professor (1929-30),
University of Virginia; instructor in English (1930-31), assistant professor (1931-45), associate professor (1945-52), and
professor (1953-67), Department of English, UCLA; chair of department, 1948-55; member, Modern Language Association; helped
found and served as president of Friends of the UCLA Library; member, Board of Trustees of the Southwest Museum and the Los
Angeles County Art Museum; publications include:
A Guide to Better Writing (1940, with Franklin P. Rolfe and LLewellyn M. Buell) and
English Prose of the Romantic Period (1938, with C.F. MacIntyre); died in 1967.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of literary correspondence and manuscripts collected by and written to Majl Ewing. Correspondents include:
Stella Benson, Van Wyck Brooks, Norman Douglas, T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Selwyn Image, C.S. Lewis, Victoria Sackville-West,
Edith Sitwell, Igor Stravinsky, and William Butler Yeats. Manuscripts include proof sheets of Richard Aldington's book about
Ezra Pound & T.S. Eliot, writings about T.S. Eliot by Iris Murdoch, L.P. Hartley and others, and corrected proofs of Osbert
Sitwell's
The Jolly Old Squire, or Way Down in Georgia. Also includes manuscript notes by A.E. Housman and a festchrift for Marianne Moore.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
University of California, Los Angeles--Dept. of English--Faculty--Archives.
Authors, English--20th century--Manuscripts.
Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence.
Ewing, Majl.
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