COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, notes, reviews, printed material, and other items.
Includes correspondence with his father, Jacob Cooper of Rutgers University, and his mother; letters from students, academic colleagues, and others discussing problems encountered in teaching and study, literary matters, Cooper's and others' published works, the activities of the Concordance Society, and related topics. Correspondents include Albert S. Cook, Drury Cooper, Will Cooper, Mary L. Cooper, Charles G. Osgood, Harry Caplan, Marjorie Barstow Greenbie, Caroline Whipple Phillips, and many others. Also, manuscripts and notes for Cooper's publications; draft reviews; students' papers; correspondence and notes regarding Cooper's LOUIS AGASSIZ AS A TEACHER (1917); autobiographical notes; a notebook of quotations and comments; Cooper family genealogy and photographs; and printed material. Also, letters to Ralph A. Liddle, and material pertaining to the Lane Cooper Scholarship Fund.
Dates
- 1881-1959.
Creator
- Cooper, Lane, 1875-1959. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of English language and literature, Cornell University.
Extent
9.1 cubic feet. (9.1 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, notes, reviews, printed material, and other items.
SERIES LIST
Physical Description
Correspondence, Manuscripts, Printed Materials
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- April 1966
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, June 2009
- Date modified:
- Kristen Reichenbach, January 2018
- Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873.
- Caplan, Harry, 1896-1980.
- College teachers.
- Concordance Society
- Cook, Albert S.
- Cooper family.
- Cooper, Drury.
- Cooper, Jacob, 1830-1904.
- Cooper, Mary L.
- Cooper, Will.
- Cornell University. English Department
- Cornell University. Lane Cooper Scholarship Fund
- English language -- Study and teaching.
- English literature -- Study and teaching.
- Genealogies.
- Greenbie, Marjorie Latta Barstow, 1891-
- Liddle, Ralph A.
- Osgood, Charles Grosvenor, 1871-1964.
- Phillips, Caroline Whipple.
- Photographs.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- June 2009
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu