Finding Aid to the Henry Nash Smith Papers, 1927-1986
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Finding Aid to the Henry Nash Smith Papers, 1927-1986
Collection number: BANC MSS 87/136 c
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
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Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Henry Nash Smith Papers
Date (inclusive): 1927-1986
Collection Number: BANC MSS 87/136 c
Collector:
Smith, Henry Nash
Extent:
Number of containers: 8 boxes, 4 cartons
Linear feet: 8.3
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Collection primarily consists of correspondence & research materials pertaining to Smith's published works, lectures and other
professional activities and interests. The correspondence files are particularly extensive.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research with the following exceptions: Box 4, folder 15 is closed until the year 2025.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction
of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions,
privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond
that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Henry Nash Smith papers, BANC MSS 87/136 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
American literature--19th century--History and criticism
West (U.S.)--In literature
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The principal body of the Henry Nash Smith papers was received as a gift to the library from Smith's wife, Elinor Smith, in
April 1987. Four additional card files of note cards were received as a gift from Duke University in June 1988.
Biography
Henry Nash Smith was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1906. He took his bachelor's degree in English at age 19 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he taught from 1927 to 1941, taking time out for his M.A. in English (1929) and his Ph.D. in the History
of American Civilization (1940), both at Harvard. He subsequently taught in the English departments of the University of Texas (until 1947) and the University of Minnesota (until 1953), when he was invited by Robert Gordon Sproul to join the English Department at Berkeley—coinciding with his apppointment as the literary editor for the Mark Twain Estate,
succeeding Dixon Wecter.
In 1950, following a year as a Fellow of the Huntington Library and Rockefeller Foundation, Smith published
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, a comprehensive revision of his Harvard dissertation.
Virgin Land was immediately recognized as a seminal book in the study of American culture, and it established Smith's standing in the
very first rank of the academy. Ten years later, in 1960, Smith likewise transformed the study of Mark Twain when he published the
Mark Twain—Howells Letters, in collaboration with William M. Gibson and Frederick Anderson. This edition was the first truly scholarly edition of Mark Twain letters ever published, and it established a new standard
of excellence for Mark Twain scholarship as a whole. Two years later, Smith published
Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer, considered to be the single most important critical examination of Mark Twain.
In 1964, Smith resigned as editor of the Mark Twain Papers at The Bancroft Library, though he continued to play an absolutely crucial role in the subsequent development of the Mark Twain editions and indeed
of scholarly work on American writers in general. During the late 1950's and early 1960's, Smith served both on the Board
of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies and on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association, both of which were intimately connected with the creation of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and its program for comprehensive editions of American writers. He played a prominent role in the resistance to the
Loyalty Oath in 1967 and during the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley.
Smith retired from teaching in 1974, but remained highly active writing critical pieces and at the time of his death had at
least two prepared for publication. Henry Nash Smith died in an automobile accident near Elko, Nevada, on May 30, 1986.
(Excerpted, in part, from a memorial to Henry Nash Smith by Robert H. Hirst,
CU News, Vol. 41:22, 5 June 1986)
Chronology
| 1906 |
Born in Dallas, Texas |
| 1936 |
Married Elinor Lucas |
| 1986 |
Died May 30 in an automobile accident near Elko, Nevada |
Education:
| 1925 |
B.A., Southern Methodist University in English |
| 1929 |
M.A., Harvard in English |
| 1940 |
Ph.D., Harvard in History of American Civilization |
Academic Honors:
| 1946-47 |
Fellow, Huntington Library and Rockefeller Foundation |
| 1950 |
Bancroft Prize in American History (Columbia University) for
Virgin Land
|
| 1951 |
John H. Dunning Prize (American Historical Association) |
| 1959-69 |
Member Board of Editors, John Harvard Library |
| 1960-61 |
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences |
| 1960 |
Special Award for Distinction in the Humanities (American Council of Learned Societies) |
| 1962-67 |
Board of Directors, American Council of Learned Societies |
| 1959-69 |
Executive Council, Modern Language Association |
| 1965 |
Fulbright lectureship, Italy |
| |
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| |
Litt.D., S.M.U. |
| 1969 |
President of MLA |
| 1970 |
LL.D., Colorado State University |
| 1974 |
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |
| |
Guggenheim Fellow |
| 1976 |
Jay B. Hubbell Award, American Literature Section, MLA |
| 1981 |
Member, American Philosophical Society |
| 1984 |
Litt.D., University of Nebraska |
Professional Experience:
| 1927-41 |
Instructor to Associate Professor, S.M.U. |
| 1941-47 |
Professor of English and of American History, University of Texas |
| 1947-53 |
Professor of English, University of Minnesota |
| 1953-64 |
Literary Editor of Mark Twain Estate, UC Berkeley |
| 1953-84 |
Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley (Emeritus, 1974) |
| 1974 |
Hurst Professor, Washington University |
| 1984 |
Retired from University of California |
Publications: Author
| 1950 |
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
|
| 1962 |
Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer
|
| 1964 |
Mark Twain's Fable of Progress
|
| 1978 |
Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers
|
Publications: Editor
| 1950 |
James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie
|
| 1957 |
Mark Twain of the "Enterprise"
|
| 1958 |
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
|
| 1959 |
Mark Twain, Roughing It
|
| 1960 |
Mark Twain-Howells Letters (with William M. Gibson)
|
| 1967 |
Popular Culture and Industrialism, 1865-90
|
Articles in:
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American Heritage
-
American Quarterly
-
Harvard Library Bulletin
-
Huntington Library Quarterly
-
Massachussetts Review
-
Mississippi Valley Historical Review
-
New England Quarterly
-
PMLA
-
Southwest Review
-
University of Texas Studies in English
-
Western American Literature
-
Yale Review
Scope and Content
The Henry Nash Smith Papers came to The Bancroft Library after his death in 1986. For the most part, the present arrangement
reflects the original order of the materials as received.
The Papers primarily contain correspondence, personal papers, and research materials pertaining to Smith's published works,
as well as his lectures, conference papers, and book reviews. The correspondence files provide a rich resource on the development
of Smith's thought and his contributions to the evolving field of American Studies. They contain letters from many prominent
writers, including J. Frank Dobie, Jessica Mitford, Alfred Kazin, Wallace Stegner and Robert Penn Warren; from publishing agents; and from such noted American scholars as Leo Marx, Perry Miller, Henry May, Richard Hofstadter, John William Ward, C. Vann Woodward, and John Chapman.
Smith's personal papers consist of biographical information, including memorials. There also are watercolor drawings and pen
and ink sketches done by Smith, as well as
New Yorker editorial cartoons depicting the impact of technology on American society in the 1950s.
In the research and publications series, there are files on several of Smith's major publications. However, these files contain
relatively little in the way of early or heavily revised drafts of Smith's works. The series also includes college papers,
copies of lectures delivered by Smith, conference materials, reviews by Smith and about his works, and papers by others on
topics of interest to Smith. His notes include reference cards and notebooks, one of which contains notes for Smith's doctoral
thesis, the basis for
Virgin Land. There also are files of correspondence directly relating to materials in this series.
Series 1. Correspondence
Physical Description:
Boxes 1-8.
Content/Description
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Several files of correspondence with John Chapman, received after the collection was processed, have been added at the end of the correspondence series (Box 8). Files include
incoming and outgoing letters. See also Series 3: Research and Publications.
box 1, folder 1
Unidentified Correspondence
1952-1979
undated
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 1, folder 2
A misc.
1958-1986
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 1, folder 3
Aaron, Daniel
1945-69
Physical Description:
29 letters
box 1, folder 4
Aaron, Daniel
1970-86
Physical Description:
24 letters
box 1, folder 5
Allen, James
undated (pre-1977)
Physical Description:
19 letters
box 1, folder 6
Allen, James
1977-86
Physical Description:
11 letters
box 1, folder 7
Anderson, Quentin
1972-79
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 1, folder 8
B misc.
1946-86
Physical Description:
36 letters
box 1, folder 9
Babbitt, Irving
1927
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 10
Bedicheck, Roy
1944-59
Physical Description:
15 letters
box 1, folder 11
Berkovitch, Sacvan
1981-85
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 1, folder 12
Berman, Ronald
1984
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 13
Blair, Walter
1942-59
+ undated
Physical Description:
22 letters
box 1, folder 14
Blair, Walter
1960-72
Physical Description:
26 letters
box 1, folder 15
Blair, Walter
1975-79
Physical Description:
24 letters
box 1, folder 16
Blair, Walter
1980-86
Physical Description:
13 letters
box 1, folder 17
Bracher, Fred
1946-65
Physical Description:
27 letters
box 1, folder 18
Bracher, Fred
1967-76
Physical Description:
30 letters
box 1, folder 19
Bracher, Fred
1977-81
Physical Description:
37 letters
box 1, folder 20
Bracher, Fred
1982-86
Physical Description:
27 letters
box 1, folder 21
Bracher, Fred
1946-80
+ undated
box 1, folder 22
Branch, Edgar M.
1968-77
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 23
Bywaters, Jerry
1944-86
Physical Description:
24 letters
box 2, folder 1
C misc.
1965-86
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 2, folder 2
Cardwell, Guy
1982-85
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 2, folder 3
Chapman, John
See listing for Box 8
box 2, folder 4
Corona, Mario
1985
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 5
Covici, Pascal, Jr.
1981
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 6
Crews, Frederick
1985
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 7
Cummings, Sherwood
1963-84
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 8
D misc.
1961-84
+ undated
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 9
Devoto, Bernard
1945-72
Physical Description:
12 letters
box 2, folder 10
Dobie, J. Frank
1929-48
Physical Description:
11 letters
box 2, folder 11
Dobie, J. Frank
1950-64
Physical Description:
23 letters
box 2, folder 12
Doughty, Howard
1950-63
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 2, folder 13
Douglas, Ann
1978-79
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 2, folder 14
Drinnon, Richard
1973-79
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 15
E misc.
1972-84
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 2, folder 16
Emerson, Everett Harvey
1985-86
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 17
F misc.
1944-86
+ undated
Physical Description:
10 letters
box 2, folder 18
Faulk, John Henry
1978-79
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 2, folder 19
Feinstein, Herbert C.V.
1972-85
Physical Description:
9 letters
box 2, folder 20
Fluck, Winfred
1985-86
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 2, folder 21
Franklin, H. Bruce
1967-69
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 2, folder 22
Fruge, August
1985
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 2, folder 23
G misc.
1948-85
Physical Description:
12 letters
box 2, folder 24
Ganz, Armin
1980-83
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 25
Gillman, Susan K.
1984-85
Physical Description:
10 letters
box 2, folder 26
Ginger, Ann F.
1977-84
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 2, folder 27
Girgus, Sam
1979-85
Physical Description:
9 letters
box 2, folder 28
Greenwatt, Sister Mary Amelia
1962-66
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 2, folder 29
Griswold, A. Whitney
1947
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 30
H-I misc.
1942-86
Physical Description:
20 letters
box 2, folder 31
Hankin, Cherry
1984
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 2, folder 32
Harris, Mark
1978-85
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 33
Hirst, Robert
1975-85
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 34
Hitch, Charles
1984
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 2, folder 35
Hofstadter, Richard
1950-54
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 3, folder 1
J misc.
1964-75
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 3, folder 2
Jones, Howard M.
1941-59
+ undated
Physical Description:
26 letters
box 3, folder 3
Jones, Howard M.
1960-80
Physical Description:
24 letters
box 3, folder 4
K misc.
1967-85
Physical Description:
19 letters
box 3, folder 5
Kahn, Shalom J.
1965-85
Physical Description:
12 letters
box 3, folder 6
Kazin, Alfred
1955-58
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 3, folder 7
Knopf, A. A.
1949?-1959
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 3, folder 8
L misc.
1958-78
Physical Description:
9 letters
box 3, folder 9
Lang, Hans-Joachim
1971-85
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 3, folder 10
Levin, David
1971-78
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 3, folder 11
Levin, Harry
1983
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 3, folder 12
Lyndenberg, John
1986
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 3, folder 13
M misc.
1947-85
Physical Description:
23 letters
box 3, folder 14
Martinez-Lopez, Ramon
1946-64
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 3, folder 15
Marx, Leo
1947-53
Physical Description:
19 letters
box 3, folder 16
Marx, Leo
1954-55
Physical Description:
34 letters
box 3, folder 17
Marx, Leo
1956-57
Physical Description:
28 letters
box 3, folder 18
Marx, Leo
1958
Physical Description:
13 letters
box 3, folder 19
Marx, Leo
1959-60
Physical Description:
23 letters
box 3, folder 20
Marx, Leo
1961-62
Physical Description:
28 letters
box 3, folder 21
Marx, Leo
1963
+ undated
Physical Description:
22 letters
box 3, folder 22
Marx, Leo
1964
Physical Description:
30 letters
box 3, folder 23
Marx, Leo
1965-66
Physical Description:
23 letters
box 4, folder 1
Marx, Leo
1967
Physical Description:
26 letters
box 4, folder 2
Marx, Leo
1968-70
Physical Description:
27 letters
box 4, folder 3
Marx, Leo
1971
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 4, folder 4
Marx, Leo
1972
Physical Description:
13 letters
box 4, folder 5
Marx, Leo
1973-74
Physical Description:
22 letters
box 4, folder 6
Marx, Leo
1975
Physical Description:
24 letters
box 4, folder 7
Marx, Leo
1976
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 4, folder 8
Marx, Leo
1977
Physical Description:
15 letters
box 4, folder 9
Marx, Leo
1978
Physical Description:
24 letters
box 4, folder 10
Marx, Leo
1979
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 4, folder 11
Marx, Leo
1980
Physical Description:
11 letters
box 4, folder 12
Marx, Leo
1981-82
Physical Description:
17 letters
box 4, folder 13
Marx, Leo
1983
Physical Description:
17 letters
box 4, folder 14
Marx, Leo
1984-86
Physical Description:
23 letters
box 4, folder 15
Marx, Leo
1962
Access Information
RESTRICTED FILE: CLOSED UNTIL 2025
box 4, folder 17
May, Henry
1941-48
+ undated
Physical Description:
18 letters
box 4, folder 18
May, Henry
1950-59
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 4, folder 19
May, Henry
1960-62
+ undated
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 5, folder 1
May, Henry
1966-75
Physical Description:
29 letters
box 5, folder 2
May, Henry
1976-81
Physical Description:
17 letters
box 5, folder 3
McGinnis, John
1927-78
Physical Description:
15 letters
box 5, folder 4
Meikeljohn, Alexander
1956-64
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 5, folder 5
Merk, Frederick
1938-60
Physical Description:
9 letters
box 5, folder 6
Miller, Perry
1947-75
Physical Description:
17 letters
box 5, folder 7
Miller, Stuart
1965-77
Physical Description:
14 letters
box 5, folder 8
Miller, Stuart
1978-85
Physical Description:
13 letters
box 5, folder 9
Mitford, Jessica
1971-84
Physical Description:
12 letters
box 5, folder 10
Monk, Sam
1953-59
+ undated
Physical Description:
26 letters
box 5, folder 11
Monk, Sam
1960-69
Physical Description:
45 letters
box 5, folder 12
Monk, Sam
1970-81
+ undated
Physical Description:
40 letters
box 5, folder 13
N misc.
1978-85
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 5, folder 14
O misc.
1953-85
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 5, folder 15
P-Q misc.
1949-78
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 5, folder 16
Poirier, Richard
1971-79
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 5, folder 17
Porter, Carolyn
1975-79
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 5, folder 18
R misc.10 letters
1967-85
+ undated
box 5, folder 19
Rackliffe, Jack
1941-55
+ undated
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 5, folder 20
Randel, Bill
1979-81
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 5, folder 21
Renoir, Alain
1963-86
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 5, folder 22
Reynolds, David
1984
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 5, folder 23
Ruland, Richards
1979-80
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 6, folder 1
S misc.
1951-86
Physical Description:
19 letters
box 6, folder 2
Schmitz, Neil
1978-83
Physical Description:
10 letters
box 6, folder 3
Stegner, Wallace
1956-71
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 6, folder 4
Stephenson, R.C.
1945-78
Physical Description:
24 letters
box 6, folder 5
Stoehr, Taylor
1971-79
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 6, folder 6
T-U misc.
1976-85
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 6, folder 7
Tanner, Paul Anthony
1960-61
Physical Description:
14 letters
box 6, folder 8
Tanner, Paul Anthony
1962-65
Physical Description:
22 letters
box 6, folder 9
Tanner, Paul Anthony
1966-68
Physical Description:
30 letters
box 6, folder 10
Tanner, Paul Anthony
1969-70
Physical Description:
20 letters
box 6, folder 11
Tanner, Paul Anthony
1971-72
Physical Description:
18 letters
box 6, folder 12
Tanner, Paul Anthony
1974-86
Physical Description:
21 letters
box 6, folder 13
Tate, Allen
1955-59
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 6, folder 14
Tinkle, J. L.
1929-38
Physical Description:
10 letters
box 6, folder 15
Tinkle, J. L.
1943-68
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 6, folder 16
Tinkle, J. L.
1970-80
Physical Description:
34 letters
box 6, folder 17
Tollefson, Stephen Kent
1973-74
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 7, folder 1
V misc.
1977 + undated
Physical Description:
12 letters
box 7, folder 2
Voloshin, Beverly
1980-83
Physical Description:
9 letters
box 7, folder 3
W-Z misc.
1953-85
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 7, folder 4
Ward, John William
1952-54
Physical Description:
30 letters
box 7, folder 5
Ward, John William
1955-56
Physical Description:
26 letters
box 7, folder 6
Ward, John William
1957-58
Physical Description:
29 letters
box 7, folder 7
Ward, John William
1959-60
Physical Description:
13 letters
box 7, folder 8
Ward, John William
1961-63
Physical Description:
22 letters
box 7, folder 9
Ward, John William
1964-65
Physical Description:
18 letters
box 7, folder 10
Ward, John William
1966-67
Physical Description:
18 letters
box 7, folder 11
Ward, John William
1968-70
Physical Description:
13 letters
box 7, folder 12
Ward, John William
1971-74
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 7, folder 13
Ward, John William
1975-79
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 7, folder 14
Ward, John William
1980-84
Physical Description:
19 letters
box 7, folder 15
Warren, Robert Penn
1951-57
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 7, folder 16
Watt, Ian
1948-64
Physical Description:
27 letters
box 7, folder 17
Watt, Ian
1970-80
Physical Description:
30 letters
box 7, folder 18
Wecter, Dixon
1945-48
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 7, folder 19
Woodward, C. Vann
1954-84
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 7, folder 20
Original Newspaper Clippings from Correspondence. Photocopies filed with original letters.
1953-86 + undated
box 8, folder 1
Chapman, John
1928-29
Physical Description:
10 letters
box 8, folder 2
Chapman, John
1930-31
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 8, folder 3
Chapman, John
1932
Physical Description:
22 letters
box 8, folder 4
Chapman, John
1933
Physical Description:
11 letters
box 8, folder 5
Chapman, John
1934 Jan-May
Physical Description:
13 letters
box 8, folder 6
Chapman, John
1934 June-Dec
Physical Description:
13 letters
box 8, folder 7
Chapman, John
1935 Jan-Aug
Physical Description:
10 letters
box 8, folder 8
Chapman, John
1935 Sept-Dec
Physical Description:
12 letters
box 8, folder 9
Chapman, John
1936
Physical Description:
14 letters
box 8, folder 10
Chapman, John
1937
Physical Description:
11 letters
box 8, folder 11
Chapman, John
1938-39
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 8, folder 12
Chapman, John
1940
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 8, folder 13
Chapman, John
1941-43
Physical Description:
18 letters
box 8, folder 14
Chapman, John
1944-49
Physical Description:
14 letters
box 8, folder 15
Chapman, John
1954-70
Physical Description:
19 letters
box 8, folder 16
Chapman, John
1971-76
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 8, folder 17
Chapman, John
1977-82
Physical Description:
19 letters
box 8, folder 18
Chapman, John
1983-86
Physical Description:
13 letters
box 8, folder 19
Chapman, John
1996
Physical Description:
1 letter
Series 2. Personal Papers.
Physical Description:
Carton 1, folders 1-13.
Content/Description
Contains curriculum vitae, Smith's artwork,
New Yorker cartoons, awards, honors, degrees, club memberships and activities, and other materials.
carton 1, folder 1
Curriculum Vitae/Bibliographies
Physical Description:
16 items
carton 1, folder 2
Honors, Awards, and Degrees
Physical Description:
22 items
carton 1, folder 3
Memorial Service for Smith
Physical Description:
7 items
carton 1, folder 4
Watercolor sketches before 1936
Physical Description:
26 items
carton 1, folder 5
Pen and Ink sketches before 1936
Physical Description:
13 items
carton 1, folder 6
Job offers to Smith
Physical Description:
22 letters
carton 1, folder 7
Political concerns: Free Speech Movement
Physical Description:
2 items
carton 1, folder 8
Political concerns: Other
Physical Description:
4 items
carton 1, folder 9
New Yorker cartoons: 1953-1962
Physical Description:
48 items
carton 1, folder 10
Berkeley Fellows
Physical Description:
5 items
carton 1, folder 11
Little Thinkers
Physical Description:
3 items
carton 1, folder 12
Kosmos Club
Physical Description:
3 items
carton 1, folder 13
Arts Club
Physical Description:
13 items
Series 3. Research and Publications.
Physical Description:
Carton 1, folders 14-50; Cartons 2-4.
Content/Description
Contains material related to Smith's major publications, unpublished works, articles, conference papers, lectures and speeches,
reviews, papers by others, notes, correspondence from publishers and congratulatory letters.
carton 1, folder 14
Democracy and the Novel Correspondence
Arrangement
- Anderson, Quentin
- Blair, Walter
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Bracher, Fred
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Douglas, Ann
- Harris, Mark
- Hubbell, Jay B., Sr.
- Levin, Dave
- Lynn, Kenneth
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Poirier, Richard
- Randel, Bill
- Stoehr, Taylor
Content/Description
See also: Series 1. Correspondence
carton 1, folder 15
Preface,
Adventures of Huck Finn
Physical Description:
Drafts and galleys, 4 items
carton 1, folder 16
Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer
Physical Description:
5 items
carton 1, folder 17
Virgin Land Correspondence, 1946-77
Arrangement
- Aaron, Dan
- Baker, Joseph E.
- Devoto, Bernard
- Doughty, Howard, Jr.
- Drinnon, Richard
- Gohdes, Clarence
- Griswold, A. Whitney
- Hofstadter, Richard
- Jones, Howard M.
- Knopf, A. A.
- MacLean, Kenneth
- Osgood, E. A.
- Wecter, Dixon
Content/Description
See also: Series 1. Correspondence
carton 1, folder 18
Virgin Land
Physical Description:
11 items
Additional Note
Comments and reviews, 1953-1972 + n.d.
carton 1, folder 19
Virgin Land
Physical Description:
3 items
Additional Note
Outline
carton 1, folder 20
The Man of the New World: Some Early Spanish Attitudes Towards the Natives of Mexico January 3, 1938
carton 1, folder 21
The Far West in Two American Literature Magazines, 1870-1879 May 7, 1938
carton 1, folder 22
"Report on James Fenimore Cooper's
Wynadotte, or the
Hutted Knoll" February 6, 1939
carton 1, folder 23
Untitled fictional pieces by Smith
Physical Description:
2 items
carton 1, folder 24
Reprints of Smith's journal articles
1939-60
Physical Description:
13 items
carton 1, folder 25
Reprints of Smith's journal articles
1963-84
Physical Description:
14 items
carton 1, folder 25a
The Jolly Corner
Physical Description:
18 l.
Additional Note
Typescript 1976.
carton 1, folder 26
The Deadpan on Huck Finn
Physical Description:
3 items
Additional Note
February, 1973
carton 1, folder 27
Madness of Ahab
Physical Description:
25 letters
Additional Note
Correspondence, 1975-84
carton 1, folder 28
"Myth and Ideology in
Virgin Land"
Physical Description:
33 items
Additional Note
Notes/Correspondence 1971-82 + n.d.
carton 1, folder 29
"Myth and Ideology in
Virgin Land"
Physical Description:
12 items
Additional Note
Correspondence/Typescript 1984
carton 1, folder 30
Virgin Land
Physical Description:
6 items
Additional Note
Stanford AHA Conference, 1967
carton 1, folder 31
Mark Twain: the Funniest Man in the World
Additional Note
Alabama Conference, 1981
carton 1, folder 32
The Comparability of the American Civil War and the Wars of Unification in 19th Century Central Europe
Physical Description:
2 items
Additional Note
Tokyo Seminar in American Studies, 1981
carton 1, folder 33
Garden-Desert Continuum
Physical Description:
1 item
Additional Note
Fourth Wyoming American Studies Conference, 1983
carton 1, folder 34
The Theme of Freedom in Contemporary American Popular Fiction
Physical Description:
4 items
Additional Note
1957
carton 1, folder 35
Fybate Notes for class lectures
Physical Description:
3 items
Additional Note
1958, 1961
carton 1, folder 36
Emily Dickinson and American Culture
Physical Description:
1 item
Additional Note
1961
carton 1, folder 37
The American Scholar and the Crisis of our Culture
Physical Description:
4 items
Additional Note
1968
carton 1, folder 38
MLA Presidential Address 1969
Physical Description:
1 item
carton 1, folder 39
Some American Versions of Pastoral
Physical Description:
2 items
Additional Note
1975
carton 1, folder 40
Mark Twain and the Myth of America
Physical Description:
1 item
Additional Note
1976, 1978
carton 1, folder 41
Commencement Speech, UC Berkeley
Physical Description:
1 item
Additional Note
1977
carton 1, folder 42
Commencement Speech, UC Berkeley
Physical Description:
4 items
Additional Note
1982
carton 1, folder 43
"The Publication of Huckleberry Finn"
Physical Description:
7 items
Additional Note
Final Draft/Correspondence, 1983-84
carton 1, folder 44
The Publication of Huckleberry Finn
Physical Description:
1 item
Additional Note
Rough Draft, Nov. 1983
carton 1, folder 45
How True are Dreams
Physical Description:
15 letters
Additional Note
Correspondence, 1984-85
carton 1, folder 46
How True are Dreams
Physical Description:
8 items
Additional Note
Notes and Typescripts, Oct. 1985
carton 1, folder 47
Ritual Clown
Physical Description:
34 letters
Additional Note
Correspondence 1985-86
carton 1, folder 48
Ritual Clown
Physical Description:
18 items
Additional Note
Notes, articles, and typescript
carton 1, folder 49
Publicity for public lectures
Physical Description:
8 items
carton 1, folder 50
Miscellaneous Research Materials
Physical Description:
16 items
Reviews Of Smith's Publications
carton 2, folder 1
Democracy and the Novel
Physical Description:
42 reviews
Additional Note
1978-79
carton 2, folder 2
Democracy and the Novel
Physical Description:
16 reviews
Additional Note
1980-81
carton 2, folder 3
Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer
Physical Description:
31 reviews
Additional Note
Photocopies
carton 2, folder 4
Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer
Physical Description:
18 reviews
Additional Note
Originals
carton 2, folder 5
Virgin Land
Physical Description:
25 reviews
Additional Note
Photocopies, typescript
carton 2, folder 6
Virgin Land
Physical Description:
18 reviews
Additional Note
Originals
carton 2, folder 7
Other Works by Smith
Physical Description:
25 reviews
Additional Note
Photocopies
carton 2, folder 8
Other Works by Smith
Physical Description:
10 reviews
Additional Note
Originals
carton 2, folder 9
Undated reviews
Physical Description:
13 reviews
Additional Note
Photocopies
carton 2, folder 10
Undated reviews
Physical Description:
12 reviews
Additional Note
Originals
carton 2, folder 11
Reviews by Smith, 1950-85
Physical Description:
41 reviews
Additional Note
Photocopies
carton 2, folder 12
Reviews by Smith, 1950-85
Physical Description:
23 reviews
Additional Note
Originals
carton 2, folder 13
Reviews by Smith, 1968-86
Physical Description:
11 reviews
Additional Note
Typescripts and Correspondence
Papers by Others and Related Materials
carton 2, folder 14
Ashbery, John
Physical Description:
14 items
Additional Note
Articles, poems, correspondence
carton 2, folder 15
Carroll, David
The Alterity of Discourse: Form, History, and the Question of the Political in M. M. Bakhtin
Physical Description:
2 items
carton 2, folder 16
Culler, Jonathan
Literary Criticism and the UniversityLevin, Harry
From Bohemia to Academia
Physical Description:
4 items
carton 2, folder 17
Dennings, Michael
Dime Novels
Physical Description:
5 items
carton 2, folder 18
Green, Samuel S.
Personal Relations and Sensational Fiction
Physical Description:
1 item
carton 2, folder 19
MacGregor, Alan Leander
James Fenimore Cooper and the Historical Function of Historical Fiction
Physical Description:
1 item
carton 2, folder 20
Marx, Leo
American Pastoralism as Ideology
Physical Description:
4 items
carton 2, folder 21
Porter, Carolyn
Melville's Realism
Physical Description:
4 items
carton 2, folder 22
Seltzer, Mark
Dissociative Reactions to the City:
The Bostonians
Physical Description:
1 item
carton 2, folder 23
Southwest Review Series on Regionalism
Physical Description:
8 articles
carton 2, folder 24
Thomas, Keith
Laughter in Tudor and Stuart England"
Physical Description:
4 items
carton 2, folder 25
Marx, Leo
Should
Huckleberry Finn Be Required Reading in School
; Also includes transcription of a NY
Worldarticle …
Physical Description:
2 items
Full title
Marx, Leo
Should
Huckleberry Finn Be Required Reading in School
; Also includes transcription of a NY
Worldarticle from May 31, 1891 called,
Mark Twain on Humor … T. B. Aldrich the Wittiest Man
carton 2, folder 26
Misc. Subjects of Interest to Smith
Physical Description:
27 items
carton 3, folder 1
Stowe, H[arriet] B[eecher]
carton 3, folder 5
C[harles] B[rockton] Brown
carton 3, folder 9
Democracy and the Novel
Additional Note
Preliminary Notes
Index card boxes of
Virgin Landnotecards
carton 4, box 13
Index card boxes of
Virgin Landnotecards
