W.C. Bronson papers (MS-1UF-B4)

The W.C. Bronson papers comprises the professional and personal records of Professor Walter Cochrane Bronson from his time as a student at Brown University through his career as a professor of English at Cornell University, West Virginia University, and Brown University, from which he retired from in 1927. The collection consists of writings from the full span of his career; research, lecture and teaching material; and a small component of personal papers.

The first series, Research and writing, is divided between four subseries: Writings of Walter Cochrane Bronson, Authors, Subjects, and Notes and fragments. Writings consist of personal writings from his time as a student at Brown University through 1926. Authors consist of notes on predominantly British and American authors, arranged in alphabetical order. Named authors are followed by thirteen folders of research notes on multiple authors that have not been separated out. The third subseries consists of research and notes on literary subjects, in particular, these materials focus on period and genre. These notes are similar to those on authors and there is some overlap between the two. The fourth subseries consists of largely unsorted notes and fragments covering a host of authors and topics and includes a personal notebook of W.C. Bronson.

Series 2, consists of lecture and teaching materials. This series includes lecture notes of W.C. Bronson from the range English courses he taught t Brown University as well as materials from courses taught at Cornell University and West Virginia University. This series includes class schedules and notes of W.C. Bronson for English 16-English 160. Also included within the series are limited student assignments and student work from courses taught by Professor Bronson.

The third and smallest series contains personal papers of W.C. Bronson. The series includes limited correspondence, articles and clippings, postcards, and other printed ephemera. Correspondents include students and professinoal colleagues. A significant component of the correspondence is addressed to Bronson at the time of his retirement.