COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Collection includes manuscripts and typescripts of three novels THE SHEEPFOLD, THE OUTPOSTS OF COLD, and BRIEF CANDLE, short stories, poetry, reviews, critiques, and essays; polemics; literary studies; notes; student work; broadsides; correspondence and other records concerning "Epoch" and "Cornell Review"; correspondence (approximately one quarter of the collection) to and from Hathaway, particularly with David Ray, B.H. Friedman, and editors and publishers;
material concerning the 1938 Michigan Hopwood Award, including submissions by Hathaway and "A.J. Joachim"; curriculum studies; drafts of textbooks; and publications and newsletters concerning national and international writing programs and humanities programs.
The collection is well described by Hathaway's "I am interested in grammar, rhetoric, and poetics, intellectual and cultural history. I have spent much time on the development of poets and novelists, on modern literary aesthetics, on the editing of a literary magazine, on my own variety of transformational grammar, and on the literary criticism of the Renaissance and Neo-classical period.
"I am also interested in work/study collaborations at Ithaca House, in publishing techniques and practices and the small press revolution."
Dates
- [ca. 1932]-1980.
Creator
- Hathaway, Baxter, 1909-1984. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of English, Cornell University.
Baxter Levering Hathaway (1909-1984) was editor of the CORNELL REVIEW.
Extent
15.4 cubic feet. (15.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Collection includes manuscripts and typescripts of three novels THE SHEEPFOLD, THE OUTPOSTS OF COLD, and BRIEF CANDLE, short stories, poetry, reviews, critiques, and essays; polemics; literary studies; notes; student work; broadsides; correspondence and other records concerning "Epoch" and "Cornell Review"; correspondence (approximately one quarter of the collection) to and from Hathaway, particularly with David Ray, B.H. Friedman, and editors and publishers;
Physical Description
Correspondence, Manuscripts
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:
- July 2000
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, 2003
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, May 2011
- Aesthetics.
- American literature -- Periodicals.
- Authors.
- Cornell University -- : Faculty.
- Cornell University -- : Periodicals.
- Cornell review.
- Criticism.
- Critics.
- Drafts (documents).
- Educators.
- Epoch.
- Essays.
- Friedman, B. H. (Bernhard Harper), 1926-
- Generative grammar.
- Hathaway, Baxter, 1909- (Title of work: Outposts of cold..)
- Hathaway, Baxter, 1909- (Title of work: Sheepfold..)
- Humanities.
- Ithaca House (Firm)
- Literary prizes.
- Literature -- Competitions.
- Literature -- History and criticism.
- Literature -- Study and teaching.
- Literature, Modern.
- Little presses.
- Manuscripts (for publication).
- Memoirs.
- Neo-classicism (Literary)
- Philology.
- Poems -- United States -- 20th century.
- Poetry.
- Polemics.
- Publishers.
- Ray, David, 1932-
- Renaissance.
- Rhetoric.
- Written communication.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- May 2011
- 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