Series IV. Speeches/Lectures

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1972

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2002

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{"value"=>"<p>The speeches/lectures, which are arranged chronologically, were delivered by Grumbach at various venues including colleges, universities, libraries, churches, conferences, forums and workshops. The files contain manuscript and typescript drafts; correspondence with sponsoring agencies; invitations, programs, brochures, clippings and other ephemera. Included are lectures on contemporary American fiction, Mark Twain, and Willa Cather delivered in Europe under the sponsorship of the United States Information Agency.</p>"}

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1972

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2002

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1972

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1. Reception, Hudson Valley Community College
2. On Writers and Teachers. Skidmore College
3. A Critic's Perspective, Smithsonian Institution
4. Notes for sermon on Dorothy Day
5. The First William Gibson Lecture. Albany Public Library
6. A Meditation on Creativity. Commencement speech, American University
7. Speech re Avant-Garde Tendencies & Recent Developments in Literature. Smithsonian Institution [text not present]
8. Fictional Forecast for the 80's. International Communication Agency speech
9. The View of Nebraska in Cather's Work. Twentieth Century Women Writers' Conference, Hofstra Univertsity [text not present]
10. The Gift of Tongues. All Saint's Delta lectures Series, College of Saint Rose
11. Panel discussion of Children of Pride. Smithsonian Institution
12. Speech on Willa Cather. Friends of the Handley Library, Winchester, Va. [text not present]
13. Literary Views of Washington: The 19th Century. Smithsonian Institution
14. O Albany! O Kennedy! Albany Institute of History and Art
15. U. S. Information Agency Lectures. Programs, itineraries
16. U.S. Information Agency Lectures. The Cutting Edge of Contemporary American Fiction
17. U.S. Information Agency Lectures. The 20th Century Looks at Twain
18. U.S. information Agency Lectures. Vietnam [literature]
19. U.S. Information Agency Lectures. Willa Cather's Elegy of the American Frontier
20. Women's Writings. Workshop on Women's Consciousness in Writing. Empire State Plaza, Albany
21. The Literary Imagination. Central Society for Clinical Research, Chicago
22. Challenges in Writing a Biography. Arizona State University
23. The Novelist Looks at the Critical Act. Iowa Student as Critic Conference
24. The Loose Canon. Northeast Regional Conference on English in the Two- Year College [text not present]
25. Notes for speech at Brickwell Avenue Literary Society, Miami, Fla.
26. Notes for speech before Board of Visitors, University of Pittsburgh Press
27. What Makes a Fiction Writer. George Stevens Academy, Blue Hill, Maine
28. Opening a Vein: Writing a Memoir. Notes for speech at Woman's National Democratic Club, Wash., D.C.
29. The Act of Writing. Notes for speech at St. James Episcopal Church, Wash., D.C.
30. Notes for speech on nature of autobiography. Friends of Hopkins Center, Hanover, N. H.
31. Loose Canons of Taste. Conference on The Art of the Contemporary Book, Ohio State University
32. Notes for Christmas homily, St. Brendon, The Navigator, Stonington, Maine
33. Readings from Extra Innings. The Poetry Center, Tisch Center for the Arts, New York City
34. The No-Man's Land of Fiction / Non-Fiction. Notes for speech at Celeste Bartos Forum, New York Public Library
35. Last Words. Memorial service for Juda Bartlett
36. Homily: Stan Lowrey. St. Francis By the Sea Episcopal Church
37. Faith and the Literary Imagination. Price Lecturer in Lent, Trinity Church, Boston
38. Homily, Bangor Theological Seminary
39. Notes for panel diuscussion, Maine As Muse. Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Brunswick, Maine
40. Faith and the Literary Imagination. St. Francis By the Sea, Blue Hill, Maine
41. NEBA Award. Speech re Life in a Day
42. I Am Willing to See My Life: Life after 80. Notes for speech at Cambridge Forum, Cambridge, Mass.
43. The Future of Pornography
44. Lectures on writing fiction - 1st semester