Cornell University English Department records
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Records include office, committee, and personnel files; memos; student records; examinations, including an 1891 entrance examination; English scholarship and fellowship materials including lists of winners; selected records of the Freshman Humanities Program; correspondence; pamphlets; minutes of faculty meetings (1946-1957); and records of the department chairman, 1948-1968.
English Department lectures presented Monday, January 29, 2007 at Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University: Sandra M. Gilbert, "Finding Atlantis: Thirty Years of Exploring Women's Literary Traditions" and M.H. Abrams, "On Reading Poetry Aloud."
Dates
- 1891-1987.
Creator
- Cornell University. English Department (Organization)
- Gilbert, Sandra M. (Person)
- Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard), 1912-2015. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
1 cubic feet. (1 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Records documenting the administration of the Cornell University English Department.
Physical Description
Correspondence, manuscripts, publications
- Cornell University -- : Entrance requirements -- : English.
- Cornell University. English Department
- Cornell University. Freshman Humanities Program
- Feminism and literature.
- Oral interpretation of poetry.
- Women and literature.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- September 2015
- 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