Overview
| Repository: |
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
P. O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 Email: beinecke.library@yale.edu Phone: (203) 432-2972 Fax: (203) 432-4047 |
| Call Number: | ZA Pearson |
| Creator: | Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975. |
| Title: | Norman Holmes Pearson papers |
| Dates: | ca. 1900-1975 |
| Physical Description: | 130.00 linear ft. |
| Summary: | Correspondence, writings, writings of others, research material and subject files, personal papers, photographs and scrapbooks. |
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Administrative Information
Provenance
For information on the provenance of these materials, please consult the appropriate curator.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
This collection may be housed off-site at Yale’s Library Shelving Facility (LSF). To determine if all or part of this collection is housed off-site please check the library’s online catalog, Orbis; material for which the location is given as “LSF” must be requested 36 hours in advance. Please consult with Beinecke Access Services for more information.
Ownership & Copyright
The Norman Holmes Pearson Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Cite As
Norman Holmes Pearson Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Processing Notes
This list was created in the 1980s by graduate students who conducted a survey of collections under the direction of the curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature.
Description of the Collection
Correspondence, writings, writings of others, research material and subject files, personal papers, photographs and scrapbooks.
(Note: * = See manuscripts card catalog for more information)
Row:
1. -
2. 5 boxes: NHP Personal Papers
3. 3 boxes: NHP Personal Papers
4. 2 maps of Johnson's Point, Branford, Conn. (?)
2 card catalogues: Mark Twain Hartford; Books
5. Notebook: Photostats of N. Hawthorne notebooks
Box: NHP Personal Papers
6. Hawthorne Journal: transcripts? 4 folders
envelope with mss, etc.
Scrap book: Lilly Gillette Warner
Folder: Lilly Gillette Warner papers
Folders (in string): Stanley Williams papers
7. -
8. Box: Microfilms and photostats - mostly Hawthorne
Section 2
Row:
1. The French and Italian Notebooks by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
ed. NHP, Vol. 1-4.
The College Years of Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. NHP
2. Boxes:
Misc. xerographs
Misc. printed
Goodnow Pearson
Chester Pearson - Memorial Award
Misc. papers
National Book Awards
3. Box: Ph.D. Questionnaires, Replies to
Box: IREX trip folders, correspondence, final report
Box: "Decision to be made by L. Silverstein - Pearson
Papers" (folders of clippings, etc.)
Card catalogs of books - "Fletcher, John G." ??
Package (microfilm cannister)
9 bound books of notes, essays, etc.
4. Bound book: Oxford essays
Cards describing contents of Moravian MS Collections
Box: Moravian Church
Box: Duncan (Robert)
5. 2 boxes: NHP - Misc. American manuscripts and letters, A-J
K-Z
Box: Nadejine (folders re Nicholas Najedine)
Box: Masterman (folders re Sir John Masterman,
NHP's intro to Masterman's "The Double Cross System")
6. 2 photo albums: Great Britain, 1932-34
Europe, 1932-34
Box: Yale Library Associates (NHP chairman)
File, 2 drawers: catalogue of books, magazines ??
Section 2, Row 7
Boxes:
Files on Greenland archaeological work, knighthood in Denmark
Greenland
NHP - Arctic Regions (book orders, etc.)
Canada - Bryher, 1957
Smithsonian conference re: Vinland Map
Volant, Brother Jacques
Denmark - 1971 visit
Smithsonian - Greenland show, 1972
Mark Twain Memorial Commission
"Wrong reason" - misc. Chicago Arts Club (1970-72)
8. "Mark Twain Memorial mimeo" - various papers
Mark Twain - Library, Library Committee
Section 3
Row:
1. Card catalogue: "Mark Twain Post - Hartford"
2 boxes: NHP Manuscripts by others: A-Fitts; Fr-Mar
2. 3 boxes: NHP Manuscripts by others: Mo-Sam; Sc-St; T-Z
2 boxes: NHP Mss, Poets of the South: Gen, A-O; P-Z, rejects
3. 2 boxes: NHP address books, appointment books
4 boxes: NHP Mss, Addresses, lectures, etc.: A-C; D-Po; Pr-Un; Up-Z
4. Box: NHP Courses: Notes and Class lists
2 boxes: NHP Notes (for lectures, etc.): A-Car; Cas-Dor
5. 6 boxes: NHP Notes (for lectures, etc.): Dos-Ez; F-Fitt
(UNLAB); Fitz-Hawkes; Hawth-Hel (UNLAB); Hem-Kh; Ki-Mal
6. 6 boxes: NHP Notes (for lectures, etc.): Mam-Meq; Mer-O;
P-Powers; Pu-R; S; T-Wik
7. Box: NHP Notes (for lectures, etc.): Wil-Z
Box: photos (UNLAB)
Grey box: "NHP misc. mss material found in with Pearson's
printed material"
Box: Various misc. mss
Big box: misc. mss
8. Emerson Tuttle: Etchings, Proofs, etc., given to C.B. Tinker
Deane Keller - sketch of C.B. Tinker
Section 4 - Boxes
Row:
1. "OSS Material (pulled from unknown boxes)"
(Folders remaining: 9, 10, 13)
Wooden File, Boxes 1-6
2. Wooden File, Boxes 7-12
3. Drawer 1, Boxes 1-5
4. Drawer 2, Boxes 1-4
Drawer 3, Boxes 1-2
5. Drawer 3, Boxes 3-4
Drawer 4, Boxes 1-2
6. Carton, Boxes 1-4
Letters
7. Letters
8. Letters