W.C. Bronson papers

Series 1. Research and writing, 1885-1926

Writings by Walter Cochrane Bronson, 1885-1926

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 1	A Christmas dream	undated
Box 1, Folder 2	Cicero as a literary man	circa 1895
Box 1, Folder 3	The cow that wanted to write poetry	1893 January
Box 1, Folder 4	Environments of a country pedagogue	undated
Box 1, Folder 5	Fidelity to the fathers	1905
Box 1, Folder 6	The higher patriotism	undated
Box 1, Folder 7	Hobbies of men of letters	undated
Box 1, Folder 8	Influence of science upon modern English poetry	undated
Box 1, Folder 9	The magazine habit	circa 1910
Box 1, Folder 10	Modern monks	1887 June
Box 1, Folder 11	Notes of my talk with President Angell	1910 November 12
Box 1, Folder 12	Odd and pleasant things in some half-forgotten poets	undated
Box 1, Folder 13	Old Testament Apocrypha	circa 1919
Box 1, Folder 14	Past and present	1926 March 19
Box 1, Folder 15	Speeches	undated
Box 1, Folder 16	Commencement speech	undated
Box 1, Folder 17	Commencement speech	1922
Box 1, Folder 18	Critical papers	undated
Box 1, Folder 19	Every Man his own Boswell An Imaginary Tripartite Soliloquy	undated
Box 1, Folder 20	History of the class of '87 Sophomore year	1885
Box 1, Folder 21	The Triumph of Times: An Unheroic Poem	circa 1902
Box 1, Folder 22	Poems	circa 1890

Authors, 1900-1923

Container	Description	Date
Box 2, Folder 1	American authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 2	Ariosto, Ludovico and Torquato Tasso	undated
Box 2, Folder 3	Arnold, Matthew	undated
Box 2, Folder 4	Arnold, Matthew	undated
Box 2, Folder 5	Arnold, Matthew and John Ruskin	undated
Box 2, Folder 6	Austen, Jane	undated
Box 2, Folder 7	Bacon, Francis	undated
Box 2, Folder 8	Browning, Robert	undated
Box 2, Folder 9	Browning, Elizabeth Barrett	undated
Box 2, Folder 10	Brown, Charles Brockden	undated
Box 2, Folder 11	Bryant, William Cullen	undated
Box 2, Folder 12	Burns, Robert	undated
Box 2, Folder 13	Carlyle, Thomas	undated
Box 2, Folder 14	Carlyle, Thomas	undated
Box 2, Folder 15	Carlyle, Thomas	undated
Box 2, Folder 16	Carlyle, Thomas	undated
Box 2, Folder 17	Clough, Arthur Hugh	undated
Box 2, Folder 18	Collins, Wilkie: Moonstone	undated
Box 2, Folder 19	Cooper, James Fenimore	undated
Box 2, Folder 20	Cowper, William	undated
Box 2, Folder 21	Defoe, Daniel	undated
Box 2, Folder 22	De Quincey, Thomas	undated
Box 2, Folder 23	Dickens, Charles	undated
Box 2, Folder 24	Dickens, Charles	undated
Box 2, Folder 25	Edgeworth, Maria	undated
Box 2, Folder 26	Eliot, George	undated
Box 2, Folder 27	Elsmere, Robert	undated
Box 2, Folder 28	Emerson, Ralph Waldo	undated
Box 2, Folder 29	Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Journals	undated
Box 2, Folder 30	Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Journals	undated
Box 2, Folder 31	Emerson, Ralph Waldo and Thoreau, Henry David	undated
Box 2, Folder 32	English authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 33	Franklin, Benjamin	undated
Box 2, Folder 34	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	undated
Box 2, Folder 35	Irving, Washington	circa 1907
Box 2, Folder 36	Keats, John	undated
Box 2, Folder 37	Keats, John and Henry Fielding	undated
Box 2, Folder 38	Lamb, Charles	undated
Box 2, Folder 39	Landor, Walter Savage	undated
Box 2, Folder 40	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	circa 1916
Box 2, Folder 41	Lowell, James Russell	undated
Box 2, Folder 42	Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron	undated
Box 2, Folder 43	Milton, John	undated
Box 2, Folder 44	Milton, John	undated
Box 2, Folder 45	Milton, John: Paradise Lost	undated
Box 2, Folder 46	Milton, John	undated
Box 2, Folder 47	Milton, John	undated
Box 2, Folder 48	Milton, John	undated
Box 2, Folder 49	Milton, John	undated
Box 2, Folder 50	Milton, John	undated
Box 2, Folder 51	Milton, John: Early Poems	undated
Box 2, Folder 52	Milton, John: Prose	undated
Box 2, Folder 53	Milton, John: Sonnets	undated
Box 2, Folder 54	Morris, William	undated
Box 2, Folder 55	Newman, John Henry	undated
Box 2, Folder 56	Newman, John Henry	undated
Box 2, Folder 57	Poe, Edgar Allan	undated
Box 2, Folder 58	Pope, Alexander etc.	undated
Box 2, Folder 59	Richardson, Samuel	undated
Box 2, Folder 60	Rogers, Samuel and Campbell	undated
Box 2, Folder 61	Rossetti, Christina	undated
Box 2, Folder 62	Rossetti, Dante Gabriel	undated
Box 2, Folder 63	Rudyard Kipling And The Short Story	undated
Box 2, Folder 64	John Ruskin	undated
Box 2, Folder 65	Scott, Walter, Sir	undated
Box 2, Folder 66	Shelley, Percy Bysshe	undated
Box 2, Folder 67	Shelley, Percy Bysshe	undated
Box 2, Folder 68	Sidney, Philip, Sir	circa 1909
Box 2, Folder 69	Shakespeare, William: Anthony and Cleopatra	undated
Box 2, Folder 70	Smollett, T. (Tobias)	undated
Box 2, Folder 71	Spenser, Edmund	undated
Box 2, Folder 72	Spenser, Edmund	undated
Box 2, Folder 73	Spenser, Edmund	circa 1908
Box 2, Folder 74	Sterne, Laurence	undated
Box 2, Folder 75	Stowe, Harriet Beecher	undated
Box 2, Folder 76	Swinburne, Algernon Charles	undated
Box 2, Folder 77	Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron	undated
Box 2, Folder 78	Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron	undated
Box 2, Folder 79	Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron	undated
Box 2, Folder 80	Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron	undated
Box 2, Folder 81	Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron	undated
Box 2, Folder 82	Thackeray, William Makepeace	undated
Box 2, Folder 83	Thackeray, William Makepeace	undated
Box 2, Folder 84	Trollope, Anthony and Charles Kingsley	undated
Box 2, Folder 85	Trollope, Anthony: Eustace Diamonds	undated
Box 2, Folder 86	Whitman, Walt	undated
Box 2, Folder 87	Whitman, Walt	1900
Box 2, Folder 88	Whittier, John Greenleaf	undated
Box 2, Folder 89	Wordsworth, William	undated
Box 2, Folder 90	Wordsworth, William: Early Poems	undated
Box 2, Folder 91	Wordsworth, William: Romanticism vs. Classicism	undated
Box 2, Folder 92	Various authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 93	Various authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 94	Various authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 95	Various authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 96	Various authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 97	Various authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 98	Various authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 99	Various authors	circa 1918
Box 2, Folder 100	Various authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 101	Various authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 102	Various authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 103	Various authors	undated
Box 2, Folder 104	Various authors	undated

Subjects, 1912-1922

Container	Description	Date
Box 3, Folder 1	1600-1640 State of England and European literature	undated
Box 3, Folder 2	1600-1660 Minor writers (mostly poets)	undated
Box 3, Folder 3	18th century	undated
Box 3, Folder 4	18th century fiction	undated
Box 3, Folder 5	18th century literary criticism	undated
Box 3, Folder 6	19th century periodicals	undated
Box 3, Folder 7	Adam and eve	undated
Box 3, Folder 8	The age of Pope: minor authors	undated
Box 3, Folder 9	A midsummer night's dream	undated
Box 3, Folder 10	The Aeneid	undated
Box 3, Folder 11	Bibliography	undated
Box 3, Folder 12	The Brontes	undated
Box 3, Folder 13	Chaucer's growth in his early poems	undated
Box 3, Folder 14	Children in literature	undated
Box 3, Folder 15	Contemporary American verse	undated
Box 3, Folder 16	Early colonial	undated
Box 3, Folder 17	The Edinburgh and quarterly reviews	circa 1917
Box 3, Folder 18	Elizabethan age	undated
Box 3, Folder 19	The Elizabethan masque	undated
Box 3, Folder 20	Elizabethan voyages	undated
Box 3, Folder 21	Faerie queen	undated
Box 3, Folder 22	History of pastoral poetry from Virgil to Elizabethan age	undated
Box 3, Folder 23	History of prose style	undated
Box 3, Folder 24	The Indian in American literature	undated
Box 4, Folder 1	Later colonial	undated
Box 4, Folder 2	Laucelot and elaine	undated
Box 4, Folder 3	Left the sea	undated
Box 4, Folder 4	17th and 18th centuries	undated
Box 4, Folder 5	The man on show	undated
Box 4, Folder 6	Milton et. al. on toleration	undated
Box 4, Folder 7	Minor prose, 1600-1660	undated
Box 4, Folder 8	The novel	undated
Box 4, Folder 9	The novel	undated
Box 4, Folder 10	on bits of paper	undated
Box 4, Folder 11	Pathos	undated
Box 4, Folder 12	Poems	undated
Box 4, Folder 13	Poetry and criticism	undated
Box 4, Folder 14	Poetry and philosophy	undated
Box 4, Folder 15	Realism vs. idealism in fiction	undated
Box 4, Folder 16	Restoration drama	undated
Box 4, Folder 17	Revolutionary period	undated
Box 4, Folder 18	Romanticism	undated
Box 4, Folder 19	Satan	undated
Box 4, Folder 20	Satire	undated
Box 4, Folder 21	The short story	undated
Box 4, Folder 22	Sonnets	undated
Box 4, Folder 23	The spenserians	undated
Box 4, Folder 24	Style	undated
Box 4, Folder 25	Teaching english	undated
Box 4, Folder 26	Versification	undated
Box 4, Folder 27	Uncle tom's cabin	undated
Box 4, Folder 28	The victorian age	undated
Box 4, Folder 29	Victorian literature	undated

Notes and fragments
Contains largely unsorted fragmentary notes on literature and one notebook.

Container	Description	Date
Box 5	Notebook, various notes and fragments on literature
Box 6	Various notes and fragments on literature

Series 2. Lecture and teaching materials, 1897-1925

Container	Description	Date
Box 7, Folder 1	Assignments, English 35 and English 36	circa 1919
Box 7, Folder 2	Class notes, English 16	circa 1905
Box 7, Folder 3	Class notes, English 17	undated
Box 7, Folder 4	Class notes, English 23	undated
Box 7, Folder 5	Class notes, English 23	circa 1910
Box 7, Folder 6	Class notes, English 34 to English 36	undated
Box 7, Folder 7	Class notes, English 35	circa 1919
Box 7, Folder 8	Class notes, English 37 and English 38	circa 1913
Box 7, Folder 9	Class schedules	1897-1913
Box 7, Folder 10	Class schedule and notes	undated
Box 7, Folder 11	Class schedule and notes, English 36	undated
Box 7, Folder 12	Class schedule and notes, English 37	circa 1912
Box 7, Folder 13	Class notes, English 39	undated
Box 7, Folder 14	Class notes, English 40	undated
Box 7, Folder 15	Class notes, English 64	undated
Box 7, Folder 16	Class notes, English 65	undated
Box 7, Folder 17	Class schedule and notes, English 65 and English 66	circa 1903
Box 7, Folder 18	Exams, English 29	circa 1920
Box 7, Folder 19	Exams, English 39 and English 40	undated
Box 7, Folder 20	Exam, English 160	1910 September 2
Box 7, Folder 21	Grades, English 160	undated
Box 7, Folder 22	Lecture notes	undated
Box 7, Folder 23	Lecture notes: Cornell course	undated
Box 7, Folder 24	Lecture notes: speeches to Boston and to Washington alumni	undated
Box 7, Folder 25	Lecture notes: W.Va. lectures	undated
Box 7, Folder 26	Lecture notes: W.Va. lectures	undated
Box 8, Folder 1	Outlines	undated
Box 8, Folder 2	Survey course	circa 1906
Box 8, Folder 3	Outline, English 40	circa 1920
Box 8, Folder 4	Student essay: Stephen, Leslie, English 66	1905 May
Box 8, Folder 5	Student essay: Straffin, Elsie M., English 64	undated
Box 8, Folder 6	Student essay: Straffin, Elsie M., English 66	1905 May
Box 8, Folder 7	Student essay: Straffin, Elsie M., English 66	1905 April
Box 8, Folder 8	Student essay	undated
Box 8, Folder 9	Student handout	undated
Box 8, Folder 10	Student outline	undated
Box 8, Folder 11	Tests	circa 1919

Series 3. Personal papers, 1891-1927

Container	Description	Date
Box 9, Folder 1	Clippings Physical Description Note: 1 of 4 folders.	circa 1920
Box 9, Folder 2	Clippings Physical Description Note: 2 of 4 folders.	1927
Box 9, Folder 3	Clippings Physical Description Note: 3 of 4 folders.	circa 1922
Box 9, Folder 4	Clippings Physical Description Note: 4 of 4 folders.	1912-1925
Box 9, Folder 5	The North Carolina Review	1913 January 5
Box 9, Folder 6	The Sun	1917 February 11
Box 9, Folder 7	The New York Times Book Review and Magazine	1921 March 31
Box 9, Folder 8	The Dial	1910 August 16
Box 9, Folder 9	Brunonian article	undated
Box 9, Folder 10	Brunonian article	undated
Box 9, Folder 11	Brunonian article	undated
Box 9, Folder 12	Brown Alumni Monthly	1928 December
Box 9, Folder 13	Printed ephemera Physical Description Note: 1 of 6 folders.	undated
Box 9, Folder 14	Printed ephemera Physical Description Note: 2 of 6 folders.	1895 October
Box 9, Folder 15	Printed ephemera Physical Description Note: 3 of 6 folders.	1891-1892
Box 9, Folder 16	Printed ephemera Physical Description Note: 4 of 6 folders.	1903-1925
Box 9, Folder 17	Printed ephemera Physical Description Note: 5 of 6 folders.	1891-1920
Box 9, Folder 18	Printed ephemera Physical Description Note: 6 of 6 folders.	circa 1922
Box 9, Folder 19	Notes and printed ephemera Physical Description Note: 1 of 2 folders.	undated
Box 9, Folder 20	Notes and printed ephemera Physical Description Note: 2 of 2 folders.	1920-1921
Box 10, Folder 1	Correspondence	1921-1927
Box 10, Folder 2	Correspondence	1904-1926, undated
Box 10, Folder 3	Post cards	undated
Box 10, Folder 4	Empty envelopes	undated

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