Roy Harvey Pearce Papers
Scope and Contents of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Accession Processed in 1995
CORRESPONDENCE
Bly, Robert 1963 - 1971
Corman, Cid 1977 - 1978
Crews, Judson undated
Duncan, Otis Dudley 1982
Economou, George - Includes a typescript copy of "Amepikh: Book Two" by Economou 1983
Ellingham, Lewis - Materials related to Ellingham's "The Spicer Circle in San Francisco, 1956-1965" grant proposal 1983
Eshleman, Clayton 1976
Feinberg, Charles E. 1961
Guillen, Jorge - Includes holograph and typescript versions of the Guillen's poem "Belen" 1971
Hall, Donald - Contains a single letter to RHP and a collection of poems (typescript carbon) entitled "A roof of tiger lilies"
Hoffman, Daniel 1968
Ingalls, Jeremy 1959
Ignatow, David 1969 - 1972
Lowell, Robert 1963
McLuhan, Marshall
1957 - 1962
Typescripts and mimeographs including "Draft for Gutenberg Video," "Media Log," "Media Log II," "New Media and the New Education," and "The Executive Program in Business Administration," annotated by McLuhan
Merwin, William S. 1988 - 1989
Miles, Josephine 1955 - 1980
Moore, Marianne - Includes 5 letters from Moore to Don Cameron Allen and a miscellaneous letter from Moore to the Irish Consulate General 1945 - 1963
Peters, Robert 1966
Roethke, Theodore and Beatrice 1959 - 1965
Rothenberg, Jerome 1975
Stafford, William 1973 - 1974
Stephenson, Holly Stevens - [Correspondence regards Wallace Stevens] 1964
Talamantez, Ines 1974
Tomlinson, Charles 1972
Wright, James 1983
SCHOLARLY PROJECTS
Bicentennial lecture - "The Poetry of the American Revolution" 1976
Mandeville Center opening 1974 - 1975
Jack Spicer research 1968 - 1975
Transcendental Workbook, pages 1-110
Transcendental Notebook
Pages 111-204
Reprints from Emerson, Thoreau, and Swedenborg
William Carlos Williams research. Typescript reminiscence by Mrs. A.G. Ayers 1977
ARCHIVE FOR NEW POETRY
Correspondence
Undated
1973 - 1974. Contains correspondence documenting the creation of the Archive
1975 - 1984
MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
Cameron, Bea. "Between the University and State" - Photocopy of poem/essay
Snyder, Gary. "Poetry and the Primitive" - Typescript copy
Winters, Yvor - Miscellaneous notes on
Accession Processed in 2003
CORRESPONDENCE
Allen, Don Cameron 1971 - 1972
Atkinson, Chancellor Richard 1980 - 1989
Beebe, Mary
Birney, Alice Lotvin 1990
Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught 1984 - 1994
Budd, Louis 1989
Cameron, Douglas 1977 - 1992
Cancel, Robert 1982
Chowder, Dick 1963
Chung, Ok-Hee 1990
Clark, William Bedford 1980 - 1991
Daly, Robert 1978 - 1985
Dunseath, Thomas 1976 - 1978
Filreis, Alan 1989 - 1991
Fussel, Ed 1979 - 1986
Groves, Ted 1982
Haims, Lynn 1982
Hartnett, Stephen 1990
Heffernan, Michael 1980 - 1987
Hunt, Tim 1986
Ignatow, David
1978 - 1994
I Have a Name - Typescript of final version 1993
"Leaving the Door Open for Friends" - Typescript of preliminary version
Leaving the Door Open: Poems - Typescript
Jackson, Thomas 1979 - 1983
Ketcheff, David 1980
Krupat, Arnold
1985 - 1994
Includes two exegeses and one review by Krupat: "Criticism and the Canon: Pearce and the Indians: Cross-relations," "Anthropology in the Ironic Mode: The Work of Franz Boas," and the review of The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation by Dennis Tedlock 1984
Includes three exegeses by Krupat: "On the Translation of Native American Song and Story: A Theorized History," "Figures and the Law: A Rhetorical Reading of the Indian Removal Act of 1830," and "Native American Autobiography and the Synechdochic Self"
Lockwood, William
1978 - 1979
1981 - 1987
MacLeod, Glen 1980 - 1993
McElroy, Chancellor William 1974 - 1980
Mariscal, George 1988
Owen, Charles A. 1973 - 1974
Padget, Martin 1993 - 1995
Padilla, Ernest 1987
Randell, Fred
Renker, Elizabeth 1991 - 1992
Ritvo, Marriet 1978
Shattuck, Roger 1968
Steinberg, Lawrence 1986
Taubman, Charles 1979 - 1982
Tuzin, Donald
Vasconcellos, John 1972 - 1973
Ward, Cynthia 1989
Wasserman, Earl R. 1972
Whelchel, Marianne 1980 - 1981
White, Peter 1977 - 1986
Williams, Shirley 1977 - 1982
Woodson, Thomas 1992 - 1993
Unidentified correspondents 1949 - 1994
WRITINGS
Letters to the Editor 1969 - 1978
Limericks
TEACHING MATERIALS
Lit. Course #24 - The American Literary Imagination
Lecture notes, syllabi, mid-term exams, final exams, photocopies of Emily Dickinson's poem "I am Nobody! Who are you?" and a photocopy of L. Q. C. McCaslin's genealogy as compiled by Michael Millgate 1978 - 1984
Lecture notes accompanied by photocopied excerpts from various undocumented sources 1976 - 1977
Lit. Course #152 - The Origins of American Literature
Syllabi, a course description, lecture notes, a photocopied chapter entitled "Wash" from The Unvanquished, by William Faulkner and a photocopy of "Delta Autumn" by Faulkner 1976 - 1986
Mid-term exams, final exams, lecture notes, and an article entitled " The Leatherstocking Tales Re-Examined" by Roy Harvey Pearce 1979 - 1987
Lit. Course #152, Part II - The Origins of American Literature
Lecture notes, a bibliography, a primary source list, and two papers entitled: "Report on the New England Mind" by Perry Miller and "The Decline of Puritanism in New England" by George Branam 1947 - 1978
Lecture notes, a photocopy of "The Uniqueness of the American Enlightenment" by D. H. Meyer, and a photocopy of a chapter entitled "The Western Spirit: 1780 - 1880"
Lecture notes, a reprint copy of " The Leatherstocking Tales Re-Examined" by Roy Harvey Pearce, and a photocopy of the chapter "Paul Jones and the American Navy" from Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers by James Fenimore Cooper
Photocopied excerpts 1987
Lit. Course #245 - 19th-Century American Studies. Photocopy of Life of Franklin Pierce by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1990
Lit. Course #245A
Includes "Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass: or, The Crises of American Modernity, Utopian Longing, and The Paradox of History" by Stephen Hartnett, "The Emergence of the Novel as a Genre" by Richard Velor, and "Novel and Romance: A Survey" not ascribed 1960 - 1990
Syllabi, completed book order forms, library reserve lists, bibliographies, annotated bibliographies, lecture notes, and an article entitled "Literature, History, and Humanism: An Americanist's Dream" by Roy Harvey Pearce 1970 - 1984
Lit. Course #252 - Stevens and Eliot. Syllabi, bibliography, reading list, and two exegeses 1988
Lit. Course #271 - Library reserve list 1972 - 1979
SUBJECT FILES
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Conference: "History and Historicity" 1974 - 1976
American Literature Association 1989 - 1990
American Literature Section / MLA 1968 - 1988
Annals of Poetics 1973 - 1977
Blackhorse Farms 1981 - 1984
Burckhardt, Sigurd
Reviews for The Drama of Language: Essays on Goethe and Kleist, ed. by Pearce 1972 - 1973
Reviews for Shakespearean Meaning, ed. by Pearce 1968 - 1970
Reprint correspondence 1967 - 1979
California Anthology of 20th Century Poetry 1990
ELH (English Literary History) 1973 - 1975
Graduate Council 1984 - 1989
NEH Application: The Mark Twain Project 1986 - 1994
NEH grant proposal - "Domestic Enclosure/Encyclopedic Discourse: Nineteenth-Century Encyclopedias of Women Writers," by Nicole Hoffman 1991
Phi Beta Kappa 1975 - 1991
Reprint permission requests 1967 - 1989
Revelle Medal nominations 1984 - 1986
U.C. Press 1989
Visa Defense Committee to Aid Chilean Scholars 1974
Wallace Stevens Society 1976
MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
Commemorative invitation for the Dean of Graduate Studies Celebration 1973
Commemorative award - "The Order of the Bitten Bullet" 1975
Miscellaneous postcards and photographs
Photograph of Roy Harvey Pearce
Accession Processed in 2007
CORRESPONDENCE
Anderson, Charles 1947 - 1976
Babb, Howard 1956 - 1964
Benamou, Michel 1962 - 1965
Blanco, Carlos 1958 - 1963
Cady, Edwin 1957 - 1980
Castro, Americo 1958 - 1972
Charvat, William 1946 - 1960
College English Magazine 1952 - 1960
Cope, Jack 1957 - 1961
Doggett, Frank 1958 - 1961
Edelstein, Ludwig 1945 - 1964
Elliott, George 1956 - 1965
Elliott, Robert
1951 - 1970
1972 - 1989. Includes memorial program, photographs, posthumous praise
Fan letters 1945 - 1986
Gilman, Stephen 1956 - 1989
Guillen, Claudio 1976 - 1978
Heimberger, Frederick 1958 - 1960
Hoffman, Daniel 1968 - 1984
Ignatow, David 1994
Jones, Howard 1946 - 1980
Kermode, Frank 1960 - 1968
Krieger, Murray 1956 - 1966
Lettau, Reinhard 1970
Lounsbery, Kenneth 1967
Lynch, William 1958 - 1960
Miller, J.H. 1968
National Education Association 1959
Ong, Walter 1962 - 1963
Operation Soundbox 1968
Pearce, Marie V. 1950 - 1972
Pradal, Gabriel 1958
Ransom, John 1951 - 1960
Riddel, Joseph 1962 - 1968
Sheinkar, R. 1965 - 1972
Smith, Henry 1948 - 1963
Solomon, Eric 1967 - 1969
Solotaroff, Theodore 1960 - 1963
Stein, Maurice 1960 - 1962
Stewart, John 1946 - 1964
Trachtenberg, Alan 1967
Turner, Frederick 1967 - 1990
Turner, K. 1959 - 1990
Vandesand 1955
Vasconcellos, John 1978
Vogelbaum, Jay 1957 - 1966
Warren, P.R. 1967
Weatherhead, Andrew 1966
Weglin, Christof 1962 - 1992
Wesling, Don 1968 - 1978
Wolff, Kurt 1961 - 1975
Wright, Andrew 1959
Ziff, Larzer 1957 - 1966
Unidentified correspondents
BOOKS
Savages of America: A Study of the Indian and the Idea of Civilization (1953)
Correspondence 1950 - 1961
Reviews
Letters of compliment from scholars and professors 1953 - 1954
Growth of American Literature: A Critical and Historical Survey (1956)
Correspondence between the authors (Frederick Hoffman, Edwin Cady, and R.H. Pearce) and American Book Co. 1951 - 1953
Galley proof of bibliography - Vol. 2
Correspondence between American Book Co. and authors Cady, Hoffman, and Pearce 1954 - 1961
Editor's corrections on Sections 1, 5, 6, and 7
Proof corrections and production notes
Promotional material - Includes two brochures
Promotional material for American Tradition in Literature - Includes handwritten notes comparing the books
Reviews 1956 - 1959
Colonial American Writing (1958)
Correspondence with Holt, Rinehart and Winston Press regarding the publication of the 2nd edition 1967 - 1971
Proof corrections
Continuity of American Poetry (1961)
Letter of rejection from Oxford University Press 1959
Correspondence with Princeton University Press 1958 - 1962
Requests sent to copyright holders for permission to quote 1959 - 1961
Production notes
Page proofs
Foreword - Chapter 2
Chapters 3 - 8 and afterword
Promotional material - Includes letter from Princeton University Press, print-out advertising the book, promotional booklets, schedule of advertisements, list of complimentary copies
Reviews
Letter from the Poetry Society of America informing Pearce about the Poetry Chap-Book Award
Letters of compliment sent to Pearce from various scholars
Page proof of introduction and postscript to the Wesleyan edition
Hawthorne Centenary Essays (1964)
Correspondence 1966
Reviews
Savages of America: A Study of the Indian and the Idea of Civilization (1965)
Correspondence 1964 - 1967
Reviews
The Act of Mind: Essays on the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (1965)
Correspondence with Johns Hopkins Press 1963 - 1965
Reviews
Savagism and Civilization (1967)
Page proofs and notes
Proof corrections
Cover mock-up
Correspondence with UC Press
Recommendations from Brian Swann, Arnold Krupat, and David Brumble sent to UC Press concerning the book's reprint
Introduction by Arnold Krupat, page proofs
Postscript, page proof
Reviews
Letter from Alan Sunfield 1989
Historicism Once More: Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar (1969)
Correspondence 1965 - 1969
Page proofs
Reviews
Printed copy of The Beloit Poetry Journal - Walt Whitman: A Centennial Celebration 1954
Letters of compliment from scholars
Gesta Humanorum: Studies in the Historicist Mode (1987)
Correspondence with University of Missouri Press 1985 - 1987
Photocopy of "Toward Decreation: Stevens and the 'Theory of Poetry,'" published in Wallace Stevens: A Celebration - Includes list of quotations
Page proofs
Foreword - Chapter 7
Chapters 8, 9, and Index
Photographs
Promotional material 1986 - 1987
Reviews 1987 - 1990
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
"Sterne and Sensibility in American Diaries"
Correspondence with Athenaeum and The New England Quarterly 1943
Page proofs 1942 - 1944
Reprint as published in Modern Language Notes 1944
"Primitivistic Ideas in the Faerie Queene"
Correspondence 1944
Page proofs
Reprint of the article as published in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology April 1945
"The Eighteenth-Century Scottish Primitivists: Some Reconsiderations" - Photocopy of article September 1945
"Leatherstocking Tales Re-Examined"
Correspondence with the editor of South Atlantic Quarterly 1946
Page proof
Reprint of the article as published in South Atlantic Quarterly October 1947
"Significances of the Captivity Narrative"
Correspondence 1946
Page proof
Reprint of the article as published in American Literature March 1947
"Hawthorne and the Twilight of Romance"
Correspondence with the editor of The Yale Review 1947 - 1948
Galley proof with handwritten corrections
Proof corrections
Copies of the publication The Yale Review March 1948
"Note on Method in the History of Ideas"
Comments by Arthur D. Lovejoy 1946
Page proof
"Pure Criticism and the History of Ideas"
Correspondence with The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1948
Page proofs
Photocopy and reprint of the article as published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism December 1948
Unidentified review
"Civilization and Savagism: The World of the Leatherstocking Tales"
Correspondence with English Institute Essays 1949 - 1950
Page proofs and production notes
Photocopy of the article as published in English Institute Essays 1949
"Edward Taylor: The Poet as Puritan"
Correspondence with The New England Quarterly 1949
Page proofs
Reprint of the article as published in The New England Quarterly March 1950
Commentary on "The Poetry of 1900-1950" by John C. Ransom
Correspondence with Karl W. Dykema. Includes program to the 18th Meeting of the Ohio College Association and Allied Studies 1951
Page proof of Ransom's "The Poetry of 1900-1950," and critical notes
Page proofs
"Wallace Stevens: The Life of the Imagination"
Correspondence 1949 - 1951
Page proof
Reprint of the article September 1951
Letters of compliment from scholars
"Ruines of Mankind: The Indian and the Puritan Mind"
Correspondence 1949 - 1951
Galley proof
Page proof
Reprint of the article as published in Journal of the History of Ideas April 1952
Correspondence with scholars 1951 - 1952
"Melville's Indian-Hater: A Note on a Meaning of the Confidence-Man"
Correspondence with MLA 1952
Page proof
Photocopy and reprint of article December 1952
"Poet as a Person"
Correspondence with The Yale Review 1951 - 1961
Comments by the editor of The Yale Review
Page proof with the title of "On 'Ourselves in Poetry'"
Printed copy of The Yale Review March 1952
Correspondence from Robert Estrich
"Introduction to 'Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts'"
Correspondence with the Augustan Reprint Society 1953
Page proof
"Introduction to the 'Scarlet Letter'" - Correspondence with J.M. Dent and Sons Publishers regarding the reprinting of the article 1971
"Hawthorne and the Sense of the Past; or, the Immortality of Major Molineux"
Correspondence with Professor Nolan Smith 1963
Photocopies and transcripts of letters from Nathaniel Hawthorne 1932-1964
Production notes
Excerpt of "Hawthorne as Editor," Arlin Turner, ed. 1941
Galley proof with corrections
Page proof
Correspondence with editors and scholars 1955
"Introduction to the House of Seven Gables"
Correspondence with J.M. Dent and Sons Publishers 1954
Production notes
Galley proof
Page proof
Promotional material, Everyman's Library catalogs
"Structure of Spanish History"
Page proof
Reprint of the article
Copy of La Realidad Historica de Espana, Americo Castro, ed
"On the History of Ideas III"
Correspondence with The History of Ideas Newsletter 1955
Page proofs
Printed version of The History of Ideas Newsletter June 1955
Introduction to "Twice Told Tales"
Correspondence with J.M. Dent and Sons Publishers 1953
Page proof
"Problem of Research in the Relations of Literary Study of Intellectual History"
Correspondence with Ohio State University Press 1955
Page proofs
Introduction to "The Scarlet Letter"
Correspondence with J.M. Dent and Sons Publishers 1955 - 1956
Page proofs
Reprint of the article 1956
"On the Continuity of American Poetry"
Correspondence 1956
Page proofs
Reprint of the article as published in The Hudson Review Winter 1957
Letters of compliment from fellow scholars
Correspondence with The New Yorker
"American Studies as a Discipline"
Correspondence 1955 - 1956
Page proofs
Copy of College English, in which the article was published January 1957
"Metaphysics of Indian-Hating"
Page proof and production notes
Photocopy of the article as published in Ethnohistory 1957
Letters of compliment from fellow scholars
"Historicism Once More"
Correspondence 1958
Quotations from "History and Eschatology" by Rudolf Bultmann 1957
Correction notes
Page proof
Reprint of the article as published in The Kenyon Review Fall 1958
Correspondence with fellow scholars and professors 1957 - 1959
Photocopy of the article as published in Historicism Once More: Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar 1969
"Robin Molineux on the Analyst's Couch: A Note on Psychoanalitic Criticism"
Correspondence with Partisan Review and Criticism
Page proof
"Toward an American Epic"
Correspondence with The Hudson Review 1958 - 1959
Page proofs
Correspondence with Charles R. Anderson
"Toward the End of the Beginning"
Correspondence with National Education Association 1959
Photocopy of the article as published in "Curriculum Programs: Official Report on the Lawrence Conference"
Report on the Lawrence Conference - Page proof
Report on the TEPS Kansas Conference
"Ezra Pound's Appraisal of Walt Whitman: Addendum"
Correspondence with Frederic Peachy 1957
Proof correction and production notes
Reprint of the article as published in Modern Language Notes January 1959
"Behavior and Misbehavior in the Humanities"
Correspondence 1958 - 1959
Correspondence with the Teachers College regarding the All-College Lecture Series 1958
Draft with corrections that was presented as a lecture at the Columbia Teachers College All-College Lecture Series, "Contemporary Challenges to American Education" August 5, 1958
Reprint of the article as published in Teachers College Record May 1959
"Poetry, Language, and the Condition of Modern Man" - Correspondence with The Centennial Review 1959
"Professors and Practitioners"
Correspondence 1959
Page proofs
Reprint of Educational Leadership October 1959
Correspondence from fellow professors
"Poetry, Language, and the Condition of Modern Man"
Page proof
Reprint of the article as published in The Centennial Review Winter 1960
"Stevens Posthumous"
Correspondence with Criterion Books 1959 - 1960
Page proof
"Whitman Justified: The Poet in 1860"
Correspondence with The Minnesota Review 1961
Page proof
Copy of The Minnesota Review Spring 1961
Introduction to "Leaves of Grass"
Correspondence with Cornell University Press 1960 - 1961
Page proof
"Frost's Momentary Stay"
Correspondence with the editor of The Kenyon Review 1960
Proof corrections, handwritten draft
Reprint of the article as published in The Kenyon Review Spring 1961
"The Arts, Humanism, and the Process of Education"
Correspondence with the editor of Teachers College Record 1961 - 1962
Proof correction
Reprint of the article as published in Teachers College Record November 1962
"Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne"
Introduction to "The Blithedale Romance" - Photocopy of proof corrections
Introduction to "Fanshawe" - Correspondence, production notes and proof corrections
Introduction to "The American"
Correspondence with Houghton Mifflin Co. 1960 - 1961
Page proof
"Mass Culture/Popular Culture: Notes for a Humanist's Primer"
Correspondence with College English 1961
Page proof and proof correction
Reprint of the article as published in College English March 1962
"The End. Yours Truly, Huck Finn: Postscript"
Correspondence with MLA 1963
Page proof
Reprint of the article as published in Modern Language Quarterly September 1963
"Literature, History, and Humanism: An Americanist's Dilemma"
Page proof
Reprint of the article as published in College English February 1963
"Wallace Stevens: The Last Lesson of the Master"
Page proofs
Photocopy and reprint of the article as published in Journal of English Literary History March 1964
"Theodore Roethke: The Power of Sympathy"
Correspondence with University of Washington Press 1964 - 1965
Page proof
Photocopy of the article as published in Theodore Roethke: Essays on the Poetry 1965
"Criticism as a Discipline: From Understanding to Interpretation"
Correspondence with National Council of Teachers of English 1966
Proof corrections
Photocopy of the article as published in New Directions in Elementary English
"Whitman and Our Hope for Poetry"
Production notes
Page proofs
Reprint of the article as published in The Poetic Tradition: Essays on Greek, Latin, and English Poetry 1968
"American Criticism and American Culture"
Correspondence with the editor of Strumenti Critici 1968
Page proof and proof corrections
Copy of Strumenti Critici, in which the article was published. Italian version
"Gesta Humanorum: Notes on the Humanist As Witness"
Galley proof
Proof correction and page proof
Reprint and photocopies of the article as published in Daedalus Spring 1970
Letters from fellow professors
"The Burden of Romanticism: Toward the New Poetry"
Correspondence with the editor of The Iowa Review 1971
Galley proof
Copy of The Iowa Review Spring 1971
"Huck Finn in His History"
Correspondence with Charles E. Merrill Books 1968 - 1969
Page proofs
Reprint of the article as published in Etudes Anglaises 1971
"Introduction to a Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales"
Production notes
Photocopy of page proof
"From History of Ideas to Etnohistory"
Correspondence with American Historian Association 1972 - 1974
Writings of others - "The Army Officer and the Indian: Psychological Ambivalence and Cultural Relativism," by Thomas C. Leonard
Page proof
Reprint as published in The Journal of Ethnic Studies Spring 1974
Writings of others - "White Over Red: Perspectives on White-Indian Relations," by Robert Keller 1973
"Humanistic Studies and the Large Public University"
Page proof and production notes
Cut-offs of the article as published in Public Higher Education in California, Gabriel Almond and Neil Smelser, eds. 1974
"Day-Dream and Fact: The Import of the Blithedale Romance"
Correspondence with Professor David K. Kirby 1971 - 1973
Page proof and proof correction
Photocopies of the article from Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction
"Poetry, Revolution, and the Age of Paine"
Correspondence with San Jose Studies 1976
Production material 1976
Page proofs 1976
Photocopies as published in San Jose Studies 1976
"The Centenary Hawthorne: Progress and Plans" - Page proof 1976
"Anecdote of the Jar: An Iconological Note"
Correspondence 1976 - 1993
Photographs of jars, Dominican Glass Co. 1977
Reproductions (1977) of letters from Wallace Stevens to Elsie Viola Stevens, April and May, 1918
Writings of others, including Wallace Stevens and Allison Ensor 1973, 1977
Page proof for publication in The Wallace Stevens Journal Summer 1977
"Sense of Past / A Sense of Present: Note on a Theme in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction"
Correspondence with Ethos 1975 - 1978
Page proofs 1977
Reprints of the articles as published in Ethos Winter 1977
"Cry and Occasion: Chocorua to its Neighbor" - Correspondence with The Southern Review 1977 - 1979
"Poet as Historian"- Page proof 1978
"Cry and Occasion: Chocorua to its Neighbor"
Correspondence 1977 - 1979
Writings of others - "The Poet as a Reader: Wallace Stevens and His Books" by J.M. Edelstein 1974
Writings of others - "Chocorua as a Symbol in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens" by Anita Lopker 1977
Page proof and proof corrections 1979
Photocopy of the article from The Southern Review October 1979
"The Emperor of Ice Cream: A Note on the Occasion"
Correspondence, photocopies of letters from Wallace Stevens to Elsie Stevens sent from Florida 1916 - 1922
Correspondence, photocopies of letters and transcripts of correspondence between Wallace Stevens and Ferdinand Reyher 1916 - 1922
Correspondence 1977 - 1979
Promotional material about the City of Tampa, FL. Includes brochures and photocopy of The Sunland Tribune 1979
Production notes 1979
Proof corrections 1979
Correspondence with the editors of Wallace Stevens Journal 1979
"Theory as Ideology; or, the Perils of Pluralism"
Page proofs 1979
Photocopies of the article as published in Pacific Coast Philology 1979
Correspondence with Fernando Alegria, editor of Pacific Coast Philology 1979
"Toward Decreation: Stevens and the 'Theory of Poetry'"
Correspondence with Princeton University Press 1975 - 1981
Page proofs 1980
Reprint of the article as published in Wallace Stevens: A Celebration 1980
"Whitman Justified: The Poet in 1855"
Correspondence with Critical Inquiry 1980 - 1981
Production notes
Page proofs 1981
Reprint of the article as published in Critical Inquiry Autumn 1981
Letters of compliment from scholars 1981
"Poetry and Progress, Criticism and Culmination: A Cautionary Tale"
Correspondence with Northeastern University Press 1981 - 1982
Page proofs 1983
Reprint of the article as published in The Motive for Metaphor: Essays on Modern Poetry 1983
"Nathanial Hawthorne Society Newsletter" - The Tenth Anniversary Issue
Correspondence with College of Liberal Arts - Clemson University 1984
Untitled short essay - Page proof 1984
Printed copy containing Pearce's untitled short essay Fall 1984
"Yours Truly, Huck Finn"
Correspondence with University of Missouri - Columbia 1982 - 1984
Page proofs 1984
"Cry and Occasion: On Reading Stevens"
Page proofs 1989
Production notes - Includes transcripts of Stevens' letters to Harriet Monroe 1919
Writings of others - Photocopy of "Stevens' Rock and Criticism as Cure," by J. Hillis Miller as published in Georgia Review Spring 1976
Photocopy of Stevens' medical report from Saint Bridget's Rectory undated
Letter from Donald Wesling 1983
Production process
Positives and negatives, images of workers in the tobacco factory 1989
Positives and negatives, images of the "Dominion" jar. Includes letter from Glen MacLeod 1989
Slides and print-out 1989
"Romance and the Study of Theory"
"House of Seven Gables" - Photocopies of page proofs
"Humanism, Humanities, Humanist: A Fundamentalist Note"
"Popular Culture V. Krass Culture: Discovery, Definition, Appraisal" - Page proofs
REVIEWS
German Thought and Literature in New England, 1620-1820, by Harold Jantz - Page proof 1942
Henry Adams, or the Creation of Confusion, by Yvor Winters - Page proof 1943
Spencer's Acrasia and the Circle of the Renaissance, by N. Y. Hughes - Page proof 1943
Man and Society: The Scottish Inquiry of the Eighteenth Century, by Gladys Bryson - Page proof 1945
Major American Writers, ed. by Howard Mumford Jones - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1945
First Follow Nature: Primitivism in English Poetry, 1725-1750, by Margaret M. Fitzgerald - Page proof 1947
Articles on American Literature Appearing in Current Periodicals, 1920-1945, ed. by Lewis Leary - Page proof and review 1947
The Circus and the Attic: A Note on the World and Work of R. P. Warren - Page proof 1947
Theory of American Literature, by Howard Mumford Jones - Correspondence and page proofs 1948 - 1950
Negro Voices in American Fiction, by Hugh M. Gloster - Page proof and review 1948
James Fenimore Cooper and Ossian, by George Fridin - Page proof and review 1949
Hawthorne's Last Phase, by Edward Hutchins Davidson - Page proofs 1949
Voice of the Old Frontier, by R.W.G. Vail - Page proof 1951
Queen Anne's American Kings, by Richmond P. Bond - Page proofs 1952
Early American Poets, by Louis Untermeyer - Page proof 1952
Articles on American Literature, ed. Lewis Leary - Page proof, review, letter from Johns Hopkins University, and list of omissions and corrections 1954
Hawthorne's Faust: A Study of the Devil Archetype, by William Bysshe Stein - Page proof 1953
American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century, by R.B.W. Lewis - Page proof 1955
Cycle of American Literature: An Essay in Historical Criticism, by Robert E. Spiller - Page proof and letters from the Virginia Quarterly Review 1955
Ishmael, by James Baird - Page proof and review 1956
Major Romantic Poets, ed. by C. Thoepe, Carlos Baker and B. Weaver; Symbolism from Poe to Mallarme: The Growth of a Myth, by John Bayley; The Romantic Survival: A Study in Poetic Evolution, Essential Books - Page proofs 1957
Eras and Modes in English Poetry, by Josephine Miles; The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises, by Yvor Winters - Page proofs 1957
Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound: Cantos 1 - LXXXIV, ed. by John H. Edwards and Williams W. Vasse - Page proof 1957
Style and Civilization, by A.L. Kroeber - Page proofs, review, and correspondence with American Quarterly 1957 - 1958
The American Henry James, by Quentin Anderson - Page proof and printed copy of the review 1957
Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels; Realist at War: The Mature Years (1885-1920) of William Dean Howells, by Edwin Cady - Page proof
"Death of Little Boys" by Allen Tate - Page proofs, reprint of the review, and letter from Allen Tate
Evolution of Walt Whitman: The Creation of a Personality, by Rogue Asselineau - Page proof 1960
Selected Letters of Robert Frost, ed. by Lawrance Thompson - Page proof and production notes
Form and Fable in American Fiction, by Daniel Hoffman - Page proof and review 1961
Barbarian Within and Other Fugitive Essays and Studies, by Walter J. Ong - Page proof and review 1963
Man's Accidents and God's Purposes, by James K. Folsom - Page proof and review 1964
Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Floyd Stovall - Page proof 1965
Leaves of Grass: Comprehensive Reader's Edition, ed. by Harold W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley - Page proof and correspondence with Bradley 1965
Marianne Moore: An Introduction to the Poetry, by George W. Nitchie - Page proof 1970
Wallace Stevens: Poetry as Life, by Samuel French Morse - Page proof and review 1970
Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure, by Ronald Sukenick; Approach to Paterson, by Walter Peterson; Wallace Stevens: The Making of Harmonium, by Robert Huttel; The Edge of the Image: Marianne Moore, William Carols Williams, and Some Other Poets, by Kingsley Weatherhead; Poetry of Hart Crane: A Critical Study, by R.W.B. Lewis - Page proof 1970
Companion to William Carlos Williams' Paterson, by Benjamin Sankey - Page proof and review 1971
Ezra Pound: An Introduction to the Poetry, by Sister Bernetta Quinn - Page proof and review 1972
Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860, by Richard Slotkin - Page proof and review 1973
Short History of American Poetry, by Donald B. Stauffer - Page proof, review, and correspondence with American Literature 1974
Inverted Bell: Modernism and the Counterpoetics of William Carlos Williams, by Joseph N. Riddel - Page proof, review, and letter from Boundary 2 1974, 1976
F. O. Mathieson: The Critical Achievement, by Giles Gunn - Page proof, review, and correspondence with the Journal of Religion 1976 - 1977
Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren, by Victor Strandberg - Page proof and review 1977
Republic of Letters: A History of Postwar American Literary Opinion, by Grant Webster - Page proof, review, and correspondence with American Literature 1979
Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach, by A. Owen Aldridge - Page proof and review 1982
Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play, ed. by Holly Stevens - Page proof 1984
Hawthorne and the Politics of Judgment - Unidentified review
Commentary on The New World as Utopia - Unidentified publication
EDITORIAL PROJECTS
"Mark Twain on King Leopold's Soliloquy" - Correspondence, page proof, and essay reprint 1952 - 1953
Centenary Editions of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne - Copies of reviews 1962
Whitman, A Collection of Critical Essays
Correspondence 1960 - 1962
Page proof, biographical appendix, table of contents, chronology and introduction 1962
"Style: From Mysticism to Art," by Roger Asselineau - Page proof 1961 - 1962
"Who would Fardels Bear [?]" - Page proof, reprinted and photocopy of the essay, and letter from The Centennial Review 1963 - 1964
Experience in Novel: Selected Papers from the English Institute - Reviews 1969
An Idea of History: Selected Essays of Americo Castro
Correspondence between Roy Harvey Pearce and Americo Castro 1962
Correspondence with Stephen Gilman 1962
Letters of support to Pearce's proposal regarding the publication of the selected essays 1963
Correspondence between Ohio State University Press and R.H. Pearce and Stephen Gilman 1972 - 1974
Introduction by Pearce. Galley proof, page proof, and photocopy of the introduction 1977
Letter from Carmen Castro 1977
Review of the book as published in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies July 1979
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches
Correspondence with Literary Classics of the United States 1980 - 1982
Editorial matter and page proof 1982
Writings of others - "Hawthorne's 'Uncollected Tales': The Problem of Attribution" by Michal Helzman, John Holland, and Cora Agatucci 1982
Reviews of the book 1982
Promotional material 1982
Progress and its Discontents
Correspondence 1979 - 1981
Page proof, preface and Introduction 1982
Page proof of Joel Colton's "The Idea of Progress in History and Historiography" 1982
Page proof of Steven Marcus' "Conceptions of the Self in an Age of Progress" 1982
Page proof of Robert C. Elliott's "The Costs of Utopia" 1982
PUBLISHING AGREEMENTS
Act of Mind - Agreement Johns Hopkins University Press and royalty statements 1965 - 1981
The American - Agreement with Houghton Mifflin Company, royalty statements, correspondence 1962 - 2002
Colonial American Writing - Agreement with Rinehart, royalty statements, and letters 1950 - 1990
Continuity of American Poetry
Princeton University Press, royalty statements, and letters 1962 - 1985
Wesleyan University Press, royalty statements, catalogue, and letters 1987 - 1989
Gesta Humanorum: Studies in Historicist Mode - Agreement with University of Missouri Press, royalty statements, and letter 1987 - 2001
Growth of American Literature: A Critical and Historical Survey - Agreement with American Book Company, royalty statements, and letter 1956 - 1968
Hawthorne Centenary Essays - Agreement with Ohio State University Press and correspondence 1963 - 1989
Historicism Once More: Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar - Agreement with Princeton University Press, royalty statements, and letter 1969 - 1995
Leaves of Grass - Correspondence with Cornell University Press 1974
Savages of America: A Study of the Indian and the Idea of Civilization - Agreement with Johns Hopkins Press, royalty statements, and letters 1953 - 2003
Savagism and Civilization
Agreement with Syracuse University Press 1953
Agreement with University of California Press, royalty statements, and letters 1988 - 2006
TALKS AND READINGS
Modern Language Association - Program, lecture draft, newspaper clippings, and letter from Howard Mumford Jones 1946
Bridging the Gap - Broadcast #1091 - University Explorer. Typescript of the broadcast, and correspondence with UC Berkeley Radio Service 1947 - 1948
8th English Institute Session - 09/06-09/10 - New York, 1949 - Program
Modern Language Association - Production notes, lecture draft and correspondence 1951 - 1952
28th Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society - Program and lecture draft 1952
American Indian Ethnohistoric Conference - Letter of invitation and program 1956
Mississippi Valley Historical Association - Correspondence, "A New View of Intellectual History" by John Greene, commentary on Greene's paper, Pearce's reading draft 1956
Modern Language Association - Lecture draft and production notes 1957
American Studies as a Discipline. First meeting of American Studies Association, Ohio-Indiana, March Program 1955
General Topics 6 - Criticism and History
Speech draft, correspondence with Guy Cordwell 1956 - 1958
"History, Criticism, and Teaching" by Norman Maclean, "Criticism Outside History" by Robert Niess - Page proofs 1957
13th Annual National Conference on Teacher Education and Professional Standards
Conference newsletters, printed invitation, and lecture draft 1958
Correspondence with National Education Association 1958
Modern Language Association - Speech draft and correspondence with MLA 1958
Symposium: Implications of Nuclear Weapons Testing - Speech draft, letters from scholars 1958
Modern Language Association - Program and correspondence with MLA 1959
St. Louis Suburban Teachers Association, 10th Annual Conference - Program, newsletters, speech draft, correspondence with SLSTA, and ACLS newsletter 1959
Lecture at University of Notre Dame - Correspondence 1959
Senior Seminar, Antioch College - Mimeograph of the program, fragment of lecture draft, and correspondence 1961
Turnbell Lectures, Johns Hopkins University - Lecturer's typescript 1961
Conference on the Languages of the Humanistic Studies - Photocopy and typescript of the speech 1968
Modern Language Association - Fragment of speech 1970
1975 Annual Meeting, AAA - Newsletter 9 1974
Christopher Longest Lectures - Program, photocopy of the speech, and correspondence 1975
UCSD Commencement - Photocopy of the speech 1975
PCB/AHA - Lecture draft, photocopies of papers given by Lewis Saum, Anne McLeod, and Mary McDougall Gordon 1976
Walt Whitman in 1978 - A Symposium - Program and correspondence with Rider College 1978
Friends of the UCSD Library Lecture - "Editing Hawthorne or How to Tell Write from Wrong." Production material, newspaper clipping, and program 1979
Colloquium: "Approaches to Literature"
Correspondence with University of Southern California, and program 1980 - 1981
Writings of others - Includes abstract of talk by Ralph W. Rader and essays by Stanley Fish, Jay Schleusener and Ralph W. Rader as published in Critical Inquiry 1975 - 1981
Phi Beta Kappa - Photocopy of the speech and correspondence 1980 - 1982
Centennial Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn: The Boy, His Book, and American Culture - Program 1985
Literacy and Liberation: The American Scholar in 1986 - Draft and final version of the speech
Mass Culture and Mass Education, UCLA - Lecture draft, production notes, and correspondence with 1960
Popular Culture v. Mass Culture: Discovery, Definition, Appraisal - Mimeograph copy of the lecture 1959
CLCC - Speech draft 1960
Conference on College Composition and Communication - Program and correspondence 1960
Mass Culture, lecture at Kent State University - Correspondence 1960
19th Session of The English Institute - Program and correspondence 1959 - 1960
Conference on New Criticism - Program, production notes, and correspondence 1960 - 1961
19th Annual Conference of the National Committee of Art Education - Program, lecture draft and correspondence 1961
Conference in Modern Literature
Program, speech draft, and correspondence 1960 - 1961
Photocopies of the papers given by Frederick J. Hoffman and Walter J. Ong 1961
History of Ideas Club - Speech drafts and correspondence 1960 - 1961
TEACHING MATERIALS
Class Materials
English 130A - Includes syllabi, lecture notes, and exams 1946
English 615 - Includes syllabi, reading lists, exams, and reserve list 1946 - 1952
English 130C - Includes syllabi, course descriptions, library reserve lists, bibliographies, lecture notes, and exams 1947 - 1949
English 30 - Introduction to Modern American Poetry. Lecture notes 1948
English 609 - Syllabi, reading lists, library reserve lists, final exam, lecture notes, and a paper entitled, "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic" 1950 - 1957
English 615 -Includes syllabi, reading lists, exams, library reserve submission guide, lecture notes followed by bibliographies, and course elaboration notes 1951 - 1960
English 610 - Includes syllabi, chronology, exam, lecture notes, and letter from E.P. Dutton and Co. 1951 - 1952
English 241B - Syllabus 1954 - 1955
English 710 - Includes bibliography, supplementary bibliographies, and lecture notes 1955
English 728 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Course description and reading list 1956
English 510 - Includes syllabi, bibliography, reading lists, lecture notes, and exams 1956 - 1963
English 511 - Syllabus, schedule, exams, reading list, and lecture notes 1957 - 1962
English 727 - Syllabi, reading lists, library reserve lists, lecture notes, and exams 1957 - 1958
Anthropology 633 - Dynamics of American Culture. Reading list and letter to Harvard University 1958
English 690 - Reading list, copy of revisions for problem sessions, exam, report on final exam, and registration form 1960 - 1963
American Studies 92 - The Artist in American Society. Syllabi, reading lists and suggested readings 1962
English 246 - Victorian Texts, 1854-1871. Syllabus and reading list 1970
English 601- American Intellectual and Literary Origins. Syllabus
English 310 - Reading list, library reserve list, and lecture notes
World Literature (OSU) - Reading list
Lecture Notes - Topics
1962: Notes of a visiting provincial - Lecture drafts
20th Century Southern Writing
American Criticism and American Culture - Includes lecture draft, photocopy of "American Poetry and the American Conscience," notes, and newspaper clippings
American Poetry: 1885-1915
Crisis in American Education
Exquisites in the 20s - Lecture and production notes
Freudism
Gilded Age
Historical Imagination in America
History: 1825-1850
Imagism
Naturalism/Realism
New England Renaissance - General
New Humanism
New Poetry - Lecture draft
Poetry and Progress - Lecture typescript and bulletin of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences October 1977
Southern Writers - Notes
Toward a Theory of History of Joleous - Notes and promotional material for "The Myth of Rags to Riches"
Lecture Notes - Authors
Adams, Hewey
Andersen
Brooks, Van W
Cather, W
Crane, Hart - Includes lecture notes, "The Bridge" by William L. Tazewell, and "Hart Crane, The Bridge and MacLeish, Conquistador," unidentified author
Crane, Stephen
Cummings, E. E
Dos Passos, John
Dreiser, Theodore
Eliot, T. S. - Includes photocopy of "Notes on Reading Some Poems of Eliot" by Pearce
Emerson
Faulkner, William - Includes copy of "McCoslin-Edmonds," McCoslins geneology chart, Chickasau "Men" geneology chart, "Notes on the Episode in The Sound and the Fury Part 1," geneology of the Compson family
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Harte, Bret
Frost, Robert
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Includes "Notes on The Scarlet Letter" by R. H. Pearce, "An Ambiguity of Sin or Sorrow" by Richard H. Fogle
Hemingway, Ernest
Howells, William D
James, Hewey
Lewis, Sinclair
Mather, Colin
Melville, Herman - Includes printed copy of The Melville Society Newsletter, copy of "A Note on Moby-Dick," and copy of "The Hawthorne-Melville Relationships" by E. Knoff
Mencken, H. L. - Typescript of "The Booboisie: Mencken and Lewis"
Noreis, Frank
Moore, Marianne
O'Neill, Eugene - Typescript of "Eugene O'Neill and the American Theatre"
Poe, Edgar A
Pound, Ezra - Includes untitled typescript
Robinsen, E. A
Sandburg, Carl
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John - Includes printed copy of "Steinbeck and The Biological View of Man" by Frederick Bracher
Stevens, Wallace
Twain, Mark - Includes memorandum 1968
Wharton, Edith
Whitman, Walt
Wolfe, Thomas
MISCELLANEOUS
Humanism Studies - Notes and fragment of "Science and Humanities in Education"
Dissertation subjects
James as naturalist - Notes
Literature as idea - Notes
List of essays on the analysis and understanding of literature
Miscellaneous - Includes notes, poems, fragments, newspaper clippings, photocopy of Letter XLVII
MLA Projects - Notes
Naturalism - Notes
Poems - Photocopies and typescripts
Poems and fragments, promotional material for the Kenyon Review
Popular Culture - Includes project about course on the history of mass communication in The Annenberg School of Communications and memorandum
Romance in 19th Century America - Notes
Transformation of Academy - Draft
What the Thunder Said: Three Translations in the American - Notes
Whitman - Notes
Ph.D. exam questions
MANUSCRIPT READING REPORTS
ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES