Finding Aid for the Bradford Allen Booth Papers, 1936-1968
LSC.0507
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Title: Bradford Allen Booth papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0507
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
7.5 linear feet
15 boxes.
Date: 1936-1968
Abstract: Bradford Allen Booth (1909- ) was a professor and chairman of the Department of English at UCLA. He was the editor of
Nineteenth-Century Fiction and wrote many books. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials.
Language of Materials: Materials are in English.
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.
Creator:
Booth, Bradford Allen, 1909-
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Bradford Allen Booth Papers (Collection 507). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Booth was born on April 9, 1909 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; BS, Allegheny College, 1930; MA (1932) and Ph.D (1935), Harvard
University; instructor, University of Tennessee, 1935-36; instructor (1936-40), assistant professor (1940-48), associate professor
(1948-54), professor in 1954, and chairman of the Department of English in 1965, UCLA; founded and became editor of
Nineteenth-Century Fiction in 1945; published works include
A Cabinet of Gems (1938),
Trollope's Autobiography (1947),
Letters of Anthony Trollope (1951),
Trollope's North America (1951), and
Anthony Trollope: Aspects of His Life and Art (1958).
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials.
Organization and Arrangement
This collection has been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Correspondence
- Series 2: Manuscripts
- Series 3: Printed Material
- Series 4: Other Material
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Booth, Bradford Allen, 1909- -- Archives
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of English--Faculty. -- Archives
Box 1, Folder 1
Muriel R. Trollope,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 3 pieces.
Box 1, Folder 1
Graham Greene,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 5 pieces.
Box 1, Folder 1
Allen Tate,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 piece.
Box 1, Folder 1
Robert H. Taylor,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 piece.
Box 1, Folder 1
Michael Sadleir,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 piece.
Box 1, Folder 1
Aldous Huxley,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 piece.
Box 1, Folder 1
Francis Hackett,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 2 pieces.
Box 1, Folder 2
Hyder Rollins,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 19 pieces.
Box 1, Folder 3-4
Percy Marks,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 53 pieces.
Box 1, Folder 6
Bibliography of George Moore,
1852-1933.
General Physical Description note: 11pp., typescript (carbon).
Box 1, Folder 7
Bibliography of George Robert Gissing,
1857-1903.
General Physical Description note: 9pp. typescript (carbon).
Box 1, Folder 8
Essay on Robert Louis Stevenson,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 6pp. typescript (carbon).
Box 1, Folder 8
Bibliography of Robert Louis Stevenson,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 30pp., typescript (carbon).
Box 1, Folder 5
Mark Howe: Dean of Boston Letters. Review of
The Gentle Americans: Biography of a Breed, by Helen Howe,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 2pp., typescript (carbon).
Box 1, Folder 5
Ford Madox Ford: Mentor to Conrad. Review of
The Life and Work of Madox Ford, by Frank MacShane,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 2pp., typescript (carbon).
Box 1, Folder 5
Review of
C.P. Snow, by Jerome Thale,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 2pp., typescript (carbon).
Box 1, Folder 5
Review of
John Buchan, by Janet Adam Smith,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 2pp., typescript (carbon).
Box 1, Folder 10-11
Various pamphlets and reprints, containing works by Bradford Booth,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 32 pieces.
Box 1, Folder 9
Notebook containing course material and assignments for a University Extension course on American fiction,
n.d.
General Physical Description note: Mimeographed.
Box 2
Index to a selected group of gift annuals, many of which are in Special Collections,
ca. 1830-1850.
General Physical Description note: ca. 450 leaves.
Box 3
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A Cabinet of Gems; Short Stories from English Annuals. Berkeley: University of California Press. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Bradford Allen Booth,
1938.
