Found 3 collections related to Scholars -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence

Burton Ralph Pollin, American professor and literary scholar. · To Clinton N. Rutan of New Jersey : 6 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 10 Apr 1953 : (S'ANA 0947d1) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from 300 Riverside Drive, New York 25, New York (printed stationery) : begins, "I hope you will forgive my discourtesy in not replying to your very gracious letter and painstaking enclosures ..."; with the stamped, postmarked envelope. -- 1 typescript post card signed : 12 Jun 1953 : (S'ANA 0947d2) : from 300 Riv. Dr. N.Y. 25 N.Y. : begins, "I hope my letter of thanks for your Godwin enclosures reached you ..." -- 1 typescript letter signed : 11 Jul 1953 : (S'ANA 0947d3) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (single sheet) : from 300 Riv. Dr. N.Y. 25 N.Y. (on Columbia University stationery) : begins, "Thank you so much for your previous enclosures and for these which, in some respects, are even more interesting ..."; with the stamped, postmarked envelope. -- 1 autograph letter signed : [20 Dec 1954] : (S'ANA 0947d4) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 300 Riverside Drive N.Y.C. 25 : written on the back of a Christmas Card signed, "Alice and Burton Pollin"; begins, "Working on Godwin, as I have been doing off and on, all year ..."; with the stamped, postmarked envelope. -- 1 Christmas card signed : [22 Dec 1956] : (S'ANA 0947d5) : from 800 West End Avenue : signed, "Alice and Burton Pollin," with no further message; with the stamped, postmarked envelope. -- 1 typescript letter signed : 27 Dec 1975 : (S'ANA 0947d6) : 1 page (single sheet) : from 800 West End Avenue, New York, New York 10025 : laid into a Christmas card signed "Burton Pollin"; letter begins, "You are extremely kind to remember me this many long years. I still look forward to our meeting some day, preferably in New York City, where my work on the Harvard edition of Poe is keeping me bound close to the libraries ...". less

Frederick L. Jones, American professor and scholar of British Romanticism. His 1964 edition of the collected letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley remains the authoritative text of Shelley's correspondence. · To Clinton N. Rutan of New Jersey : 13 letters; all with the envelopes, on University of Pennsylvania English Department stationery; all addressed from 4537 Pine Street, Philadelphia 43, Pa. : -- 1 typescript letter signed : 15 Aug 1951 : (S'ANA 0947.a01) : begins, "I am always glad to hear from Shelley addicts and collectors ..."; mentioning his "error" with regard to the illustration of E. E. Williams "from a sketch by himself." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Dec 1951 : (S'ANA 0947.a02) : not having received a reply from Rutan, wondering if his letter had been delivered; begins, "Last summer I was much pleased to have your letter of August 8 from Maine." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Feb 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a03) : begins, "Your failure to answer my letters of August 15 and December 3 is so unaccountable that I am beginning to wonder if by your letter of last August 8 you were 'pulling my leg' ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Mar 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a04) : begins, "I was delighted to have your letter of March 1st and with it a dispersal of the mystery which has surrounded our correspondence ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Apr 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a05) : begins, "Has our correspondence again suffered from Post Office inefficiency?" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Apr 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a06) : begins, "I am delighted that you are coming down on Saturday, May 3." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Jun 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a07) : mentioning Rutan's transcription of E. E. Williams's diary; begins, "Since in your letter of May 19 you said you were sending the photostats in a day or so, I was waiting to announce to you their arrival. They have not come yet ..." -- 12 Jun 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a08) : begins, "Thank you so much for the photostats of the one Shelley the fine Mary Shelley and the one Godwin letters." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Jul 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a09) : begins, "I have been tardy in acknowledging receipt of the [Arlington?] Park sale catalogue ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Sep 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a10) : begins, "Your letter of August 5 found me in the midst of graduate final examinations ..." -- 1 inscription signed : [31 Jan 1953] : (S'ANA 0947.a11) : on an offprint from Modern Language Quarterly of Jones's 1952 essay, "Macaulay's Theory of Petry in Milton." -- -- 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Sep 1954 : (S'ANA 0947.a12) : begins, "Thanks for your card last August from Cape Porpoise." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 May 1958 : (S'ANA 0947.a13) : begins, "You are truly an astonishing correspondent. After passing over half a dozen of my letters of two or three years ago, you write me a nice letter which gives no hint of your long silence." Also held is an empty envelope from Jones to Rutan, stamped with the date of 16 Sep 1952. less

Ralph Martin Wardle, American professor and literary scholar. · To Clinton N. Rutan of New Jersey : 2 letters : -- 1 typescript letter signed : 1 Mar 1976 : (S'ANA 0947i-1) : 1 page (single sheet) + envelope : from 1227 South 52nd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68106 : begins, "Professor Burton R. Pollin tells me that you have generously consented to allow me to print your manuscript Mary Wollstonecraft letter . . . ." -- 1 typescript letter signed : 18 Mar 1976 : (S'ANA 0947i-2) : 1 page (single sheet) + envelope : from 1227 South 52nd St., Omaha, Nebr. 68106 : begins, "Thank-you for your note and for the Xerox copy of the Mary Wollstonecraft letter.". less