Newton Arvin papers, 1865-2003 (bulk 1913-1963) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The papers of Arvin includes letters from Van Wyck Brooks, William Burford, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Malcolm Cowley, Merle Curti, Robert G. Davis, Howard Doughty, Leonard Ehrlich, Helen Eustis, Tom Hovey, Irving Howe, Frederick Jones III, Murray Krieger, Louis Kronenberger, Seymour Lawrence, Richard Lewis, David Lilienthal, Robert L. Lowe, Tom Mabry, Carson McCullers, William Maxwell, Fulmer Mood, Lewis Mumford, John Crowe Ranson, Delmore Schwartz, Oskar Seidlin, Hal Swayze, Lionel Trilling, Mark Van Doren, Glenway Wescott, Edmund Wilson and Morton D. Zabel among others. There is correspondence from Smith College faculty members Daniel Aaron, Mary Ellen Chase, Elizabeth Drew, Alfred Young Fisher, Wendell Johnson, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Eleanor M. Metcalf, Francis Murphy, Ned Spofford and others. Also included are Arvin's letters to Truman Capote, Leonard Ehrlich, Alfred Kazin and Fulmer Mood. Also included are Arvin's diaries, family photographs, the diary of Arvin's grandfather John Baker Hawkins for 1865, and Arvin's extensive research notes and teaching papers. These include his notes for his biographies, as well as the manuscript for his biography on Longfellow