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Morris Gilbert Bishop ('14), 1893-1973.

Papers, 1906-1973.

BISH3P, M3ilaIS CILBEXT ('13, M.A. '14, Ph.D. '261, 1893-1773. Papers, 1941- E:

1963; 20 in. Professor of Romance Literature, University Historian. Con- a Y

s i s t i n e almost e n t i r e l y of research material for Profassor Bishop's ft 1 5 . ,

~ i ~ t ~ m of Cornell (19621, these papers include l e t t e r s ( ~ n ?part ~ h o t o - :: copies) from Cornell alumni and s t a f f members giving anecdotes and reminis- 5

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cences, infor:nation from various professors concerning the h i s to= of t k h i r n a, w

d2partnents, and printed and mireographed inzterial such as speeches, reports, 2 n

and clippings; a lso, a t w s c r i p t d r a f t of the book v i th corrections i n c 2:

Professor i3isho9's hand and the carbon t y p s c r i $ copy of tho ?in21 draft . : I a

01 Among the c~rrespondents are .!.rthur I. .:.belson, ?b-.e:m k r r y , FAwh C. H

2 %ring, Cilmore D. Zlarke, l t h u r R. Dean, R o k r t ?!. %den, Custzv J. 9

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Requardt, 'kgh Troy, '1ax.iell :!. Ypson, 2. 3. G.'hitA, and :, 'alter F. : ' i l lcox3 7 m

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In addit ion, a l e t t e r ( 1 9 1 ) t o ?ishop f r m Jos? tntonio 3avil2 concerning

t h e i r mutual interest i n the t rans la t ion of doetry fron Spanish t o Tnglish; $ rn . . r+

a l e t t e r (1950) fron Charles Steuart Thorp (*40), Ch=innan of the Corm11 r+ C

Bequest Cornittee, concerning g i f t s t o the university; and a l e t t e r (1963) 9 f ro3 Zrnest E. Kingsbury ('31) giving an eye-witness account of the dive ?2

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of A r t h u r S. Kil l iksn ('24) fro? the b d r a u l i c laboratmy roof i n t 3 R i p P

hamer Pool, a f e a t mentioned i n 3isho"'s book. (14/19/641, lh/lt?/m.2~3, I Ti m 'a

Series

I

I1

i I11

IV

v

VI

VII

V l l I

Contents Title

Correspondence

Subject Files (alphabetical)

Course Lecture Notebooks and Notes

Manuscript Notes

Letters from Morris Gilbert Bishop

Printed Material

LITERARY MA~JQJCRIPTS

Series I:

1 1 Manuscript draft - chapters 1-3 2 Manuscript draft - chapters 4-6 3 Manuscript draft - chapters 7-8 4 Manuscript draft - chapters 9-11 5 Manuscript draft - chapters 12-14 6 Manuscript draft - chapters 15-18 7 Manuscript draft - chapters 19-21 8 Manuscript draft - chapters 22-25 9 Manuscript draft - chapters 26-29 10 Manuscript draft - chapters 30-33 11 Manuscript draft - chapters 24-26 12 Manuscript draft - chapters 27-29

and Excursus 1-111

13-14 Medical College

2 1 Olin Research Library

2-3 Andrew D. White

4 Ezra Cornell

5 Jacob Gould Schurman

6-8 History to 1870

9 History, 1871-1880

10 History, 1881-1890

11 History, 1891-1900

History, 1901-1910

History, 1911-1920

History, 1921-1930

History, 1931-1940

History, 1941-1950

Manuscript: The Growth of Higher Education i n New York S t a t e from Colonial Days t o t h e Present

Correspondence, biographical sketches , and c l ipp ings

Miscellaneous c l ippings

Miscellaneous correspondence

Pr in ted matter

Carbon of f i n a l d r a f t , chapters 1-111

Carbon of f i n a l d r a f t , chapters X - X V I I

Carbon of f i n a l d r a f t , chapters X V I I I - X X V I I I

Carbon of f i n a l d r a f t , chapters X X I X - X X X V I I I

Carbon of f i n a l d r a f t , chap te r s XXXIX-Excursus I V

New York S t a t e Experimental S t a t i on , Geneva - Arthur J. Heinicke

Fredrick Gudernatsch: "Out of t h e Early Cornell Years - Reminiscences," 1958.

Miscellaneous research mater ia l

Box Folder Dates Title/Descri~tion

series 11: Correspondence

6 1 1944-47 Adams, Jack (John Crawford)

Bergin, Thomas Goddard Berveiller, Michel Birch, Frank M. Bishop, Alison (Jolly) Bishop, Morris G.

Brenan, Gerald Buhrman, (? ) Burgunder, Bernard F. Bynner, Witter Cailliet, Emil Calkins, William Gart and

Elsie (Mrs. Alton) England

Calligas, Paul A. Canu, Jean (? ) Carry, Patricia J. Case, Josephine Young and

Everett Catlin, Sir George Chao, Yuen R. Childers, Erskine Clarke, Gilmore D. Cleland, Thomas Maitland Colman, Charles C.

4 1926-28, 1939-50 Connell, Richard and Louise 1946-67, n.d. Connes, Georges

5 1951-70 Cornell University Press

Daiches, David Daniels, Mary Dard, Michel Dauphin, A (? ) Davies, Robertson Dean, Lawrence, Jr. deBeer, Gavin Dediez (? ) deMiomandre Deering, Keith and Hy Demorest, Jean-Jacques

Box Folder Dates

Departmental letters ~ e s jardins , Paul Desonay, Ferrand

Dorado, Carolina Marcia1 DtOrliac, Jehanne Edel, Leon Eisenman, Robert Emerson, Edith English, Maurice Ford, Richard FOX, Dixon Ryan Franklin, Carl Mason Freeman, Frank Fries, W.H. Fuller, Clyde H.

Gannett, Mrs. Frank (Kyrie) Gilbert, M.E. Gifford, Sanford (Sandy) Goldstein, Morris and Gerda Goodkind, Henry M.

Gorham, Maurice Anthony Coneys

8qGrandma8' Greer, F.C.

Hall, R.F. Hamilton, George L. Hartell, John Hinchliff, Emerson Hinrichs, Dunbar M. Holmes, John Homan, Matilda E. and Paul Horizon and American Heritaqe Hosmer, Robert G. Howes, Raymond Hubert, Merton J. Hull, Charles H. Huxley, Aldous (to)

Jasenas, Elaine Francine Jenson, Oliver (see

gorizon/American Heritaqe)

Box Folder Dates

Jolly, Richard and Arthur Jusserand (?) Kingsbury, John M.

Knopf, Alfred A.

Krakauer, Daniel LeBoeuf, Randall J., Jr. Le Clercq, Jacques Lewis, Dominic Bevan Wyndham Linko, Sarne (? ) Lindsay, John Little, G. Scott Loud, Lingard Lovell, Stanley Platt

McCord, David

McDonald, Colin F. McGinley, Phyliss (Mrs.

Charles Hayden) McLaughlin, Russel 1 (Grace)

"Aunty Marionw (Gilbert) and Ted

Marsh, Corinne Marti-Ibanez, Felix Martin, Kate Comparini Mason, James Frederick

("Jacques") Masson, Thomas Lansing

Miller, Gill and Betty Moffat, Stanley M. Morey, Elizabeth King (Mrs.

Lee B.) Morris, Edward P. Mowrer, Paul Scott Muller, Charles G. Mullins, Helene Munns, John J. de Munoz Marin, Muna Lee Musa, Mark Nevins, Allan and Louis P.

Smith Nicotri, Gaspare

ox Folder Dates

Ogden, Robert M. Olin, Spencer T. Orwen, Gi f f ord

Uncle Parke Paterson, Donald R.M. Patterson, Woodford Pelmont, Andre Peters, Arthur King Peyre, Henri M. Plumb, J.H. Powell, Leonard Pumpelly, Laurence Reigelmann, Harold Reichmann, Felix Reisler, Raymond Requardt, Gustav Rickard, Donald Robinson, E.K. (signed Edward

K. MacPherson)

Robinson, Richard

Reomer, Herb Ruhl, Arther

(A.R.A. : American Relief Association; also letters from Abraham Tulin and Angus Ward)

Sampson ,Martin W.

Scheetz, Francis H.

Schicter, Fred P. Schuster, M. L. Sharon, Alfred Shellhase, Gilbert Shelton, E. Murray Shortliffe, Glen

Smith, Albert W. Smith, Pansy Smith, J. Sherwood Smith, Ramsay Strunk, William Sutherland, Arthur E. Taber, Harry P.

ox Folder Dates

Thompson, Norman R. S. Tree, Wes ~ o k s v i g , Signe

Uni ta r i an Minis ters

Untermeyer, Louis Untermeyer, Jean S t a r r Updike, D. Berkeley

Upson, W i l l i a m Haz le t t

van Loon, Gerard W i l l e m van Loon, Henry

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Waage, Frederick 0. * Warren, M r s . Fiske w

Weeks, G i lbe r t M. and Anne % x (from Morris and Alison) H <

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Wentworth, Harold Whitlock, J. H. (from W. n

Bolingbroke Johnson) Whitney, Caroline G.

s m r

Wilcox, Francis 0 . r

Willcox, M a r y G. (two poems) C Z

Wilson, Edmund Wolff, B i l l and Wynne ;

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(William Almon) Lo H

Wolf f , Lucien 4 * Wolf f , Phi l ippe Woodward, W. E.

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Alison t o Mother Alison, TI m n.d., Morris t o wife Alison 'A

CI lfMiscellaneous Personal and Business S ing le Items, much

2 > n

of which is f o r d iscard" 2~

Z rn Unknown photocopies, possibly

dup l ica tes 5

Box Folder Dates

aeries 111: aubject Piles

11 1 n.d. American ~cademy of Arts and Sciences

The American Mind

The American Turtle

Andre and Mischianza

The Astounding Adventures of General Milfort

Colonel Blood

Padre Boetti

Mrs. Lloyd Burrell Vers de Chateaneuf

Cabeza de Vaca (correspondence)

Cabeza de Vaca (reviews, etc.)

Cabeza de Vaca (reprint and other unfinished business)

Candide

Careme

Casanova

Centennial Address

Century Club

Chateaubriand

Cinque - The Exotic Classical Storybook

Box Folder Dates - 11 20 1950, 1965

2 1 n.d.

22 1937-41

23 n.d.

24 1956-69

Clippings

Cola di Rienzo

Corporal Moses Smith 5 z 5

Cowboys and Skinners C] *I H a

Articles in Cornell (also, 3 discards) rn

Cornell History correspondence

Histow of Cornell - post- publication

Dante

J.J. Demorest

A Dissertation on Dissertations

Dubouchet Journal

E.B. White M

Ever Staunch and True... H 1 <

The Exotics - Remarkable Persons b

F Z1

Faith in Literature u m 'A

Axel Ferson in America H

1 I

Finland (American Relief 0 v Administration to) v

Z Four Mohawk Kings 2

Franklin in France 8 z The Friend of the Old French CI e

Class m VI W

Box Folder Dates - 11 4.0 1971-72

4 1 1951-53

42 1928-34

43 1968

4 4 1945-52

45 1952

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Title/Descriution

Froissart

Fulbright ~ecords

A Gallery of Eccentrics

Marie de Gournay

Greece (including courses)

Hemingway: Aesthetics of Violence

History - Errata Hofstra College

Honors and Appointments

How to Write a Biography

Agnes Hunt: "This is My Life"

In the Footsteps of Mormon

Ithaca

Cornell Library - Downtown Ithaca

Ithaca (Greece) Relief

Jordan, David Starr

Laureates of America

John Law

Leacock

Light Verse: Its Theory and Practice

Limericks

Literature of the Ph. D.

Box Folder Dates - 11 62 1948-49

6 3 1951-56

Literature of Exploration

Literature vs. Literary History

Literature for Mass: Literature for Elite

Louis Philippe

Love on Parole

Lower Depths of Higher Education

Fitz Hugh Ludlow and Union College

Ly Romans de vraye amour

The Mace

President Malott

McGill University

Medieval Storybook

Medieval Student

Michigan and Cornell

Horizon - Middle Ages Middle Ages - Dec. 1967+ Middle Ages - Paperback Modern Language Association

MLA Review of Books

Modern times (That Was NY and Suburbs)

Moliere: Malade Imaginaire

&g Folder Dates

12 19 1958-71

2 0 1967-70

21 1970

Title/DescriDtion

Moliere: 8 Plays

William Morgan T o

William Morgan Documents 5 z copied in 1970 c K!

5 1

Mrs. Bloomer's Pantaloons a z a

la Turk 2 m

Museum Thoughts c Z

National Institute of Arts & Letters (NIAL)

2 P in U +3

Noble Collectors

Office of War Imformation ii X U

(OWI) correspondence c m m

OW1 and Army Records

On Textbooks g z On the Fire

On the Grand Account

Oneida

Originals and Extravagants r U

Orphancy and Authorship P g 3 m

Paramount Poems m

U

Parson Weems T +3

z Pascal 5

I Pascal Correspondence rn E

Did Pascal Die a Jansenist? 2 P x

Pascal - Illustrations c e 9 in

Box Folder

12 4 0 1935 Pascal - Miscellaneous documents

Pascal - Reviews Frank Pearson (letters to J.

B. Sumner)

Le Pere Enfantin

The Perfect University

Cornell Petrarch Collection

Petrarch - Correspondence and Miscellaneous

Petrarch - Correspondence, Post-publication

Letters of Petrarch

Love Rimes of Petrarch

Petrarch - Reviews Petrarch Sexcentenary -

Washington

Phaulkon

Phi Beta Kappa

Physic Against Fortune I

Physics at Cornell

Poltergeist

Private Deborah Sampson

Professor Talks Back

Propaganda (leaf lets)

Publishers and Editors

Box Folder Dates - 13 5 1939-41

6 1969-71

7 1947-48

8 1964-65

9 1953-72

10 1965

11 1970-71

Puerto Rico

Renaissance - Miscellany Rennes

Research and Reward - MLA Reviews

Rice University

Romantic Storybook

Roycroft Revisited

Saint Francis

Saint Francis

Saint Francis (mss.)

Saint Francis (galley?)

Ste-Marie des Hurons

Songs of Innocence

Speeches

Cornell Speeches - Humane Tradition at Cornell

Spilt Milk

sullivan1s Raid

Survey of French Literature (revised)

Temp1 ar

1066

Mme de Tencin

col. Thompson

ox Folder Dates

13 28 1971-72

2 9 1967

Thousand Years Ago

Tompkins County Sesquicentennial

Tour de Monde

Treasury of British Humour

The Treatment of Ideas

Trent University

Unitarian Church

Wells College

What is Important?

White Men Came to the St. Lawrence

Who Weeps for Strangers?

The Widening Stain - miscellany

The World as Absurdity

The Writer and the Group - UCLA

You Want to Study Spanish? Ole!

Clippings and Fan Letters

Bishop - "Very early, in high school and college and in Boston and San Francisco

Bowl of Bishop - negatives Champlain: The Life of

Fortitude (t.s carbon mss . )

Folder Dates Title/Description

Champlain - miscellany Champlain - correspondence Champlain - lecture Champlain - Menteur? Champlain - reviews Champlain - paperback Champlain - National Hero Champlain - correspondence

(post-publication)

Champlain - correspondence (pre-publication)

Champlain - photos Le Malade Imaginaire (t.s.

carbon mss.)

Pascal (t.s. carbon mss.)

Pascal - Vol. I1 Pascal (t.s. and handwritten

draft)

La Rochefoucauld - miscellany La Rochefoucauld (t.s. carbon

mss . ) Ronsard and Redivivus

Ronsard miscellany

Ronsard correspondence

Ronsard reviews

Ronsard bibliography

Box Folder Dates - 15 6

7

Ronsard t.s. mss.

Ronsard chapter I - mss. and t.s. drafts (all chapters)

Ronsard - chapter I1 Ronsard - chapter I11 Ronsard - chapter IV Ronsard - chapter V Ronsard - chapter VI Ronsard - chapter VII Ronsard - chapter VIII Ronsard - chapter IX Ronsard - chapter X Ronsard - chapter XI Ronsard - chapter XI1 Ronsard - chapter XI11 Ronsard - chapter XIV Speeches and Talks

Newsclippings "about MB or in response to MB8s writing"

Clippings of book reviews

Newsclippings - literary French Literature

newsclippings

"A test given by MB to his students to find out how much biblical knowledge they had. "

Box Folder Dates

15 65 1970-71

6 6

Bishop booklist

Mizener/Bishop mss.; photocopy of Loud Her Praises

67 Loose miscellany

Series IV: Course Lecture Notebooks and Notes

16 Course notebooks and notes

Series V: Manuscript Notes

History of Cornell

Medieval World

Cola di Rienzo Pascal

23 Petrarch

Petrarch Cabeza de Vaca

2 5 La Rochefoucald

Ronsard Miscellany

Various publications, mostly articles

Series VI: Letters from Morris Gilbert Bishop

29 Part I (photocopy)

3 0 Part I1 (phot0cOPY)

Complete (t.s. mock-up), includes t.s. of Bishop's letters to Vladimir Nabokov

Series VII: Printed Material

Printed material including American Heritase, The -

Colonade, New York Historv, The Cornell Era, s. 1911- 71: also. 1909 Yonkers Hiah School class book and a scrapbook (1910-14) of arficles and poems by Bishop

Box Envelope - 33 1

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Title

Trilby

Old Chester Tales

Port Tarascon

The Refugees

Daniel Deronda

The Great Stone of Sardis

Personal Recollection of Joan of Arc

Peter Ibbetson

She Stoops to Conquer

The Plays of Shakespere

Humor

Tales

Articles

The Works of Howard Pyle

Short Stories

Accumulata

Collectanea

Collectanea I11

Collectanea IV

Collectanea I1 Special Railroad Number

19

Box EnvelODe

33 21

22

2 3

Folder

34 1

2 1

Title

The Golden Garland of Princely Delights

Paradise of Daintie Devises

Sullegenta

Book review: The Florentine Renaissance by Vincent Cronin

Correspondence and typescripts re. published material

Poems by Bishop

Movinq Day in Shakesuere's Enuland, 1964

Outlook articles - Robinson versus Bishop Saturdav Evenina Post, correspondence and clippings

Charles M. Stotz

"A Walk Around the Blockw

Helen D. Wallach paper on Petrarch, 1968

George and Helen Young's Christmas cards

Miscellany

M.E. Warren 3-81 revised 9-89

Boxes 35-49 of the Morris Bishop Collection consist chiefly of materials called "l i terary manuscripts." These were formerly curated by the Cornell Uniuersity Library Department of Rare Books, and consequently were catalogued according to l ibrary card catalogue conuentions. I t em list cards fo r these boxes are presently i n drawers 206, 207, and 291 of the Division's card catalogue.

I 1 October 1994