Charles D. Abbott Papers, 1930-1961 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives

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Charles D. Abbott Papers, 1930-1961

13/2/86

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives

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Collection Overview

Title: Charles D. Abbott Papers, 1930-1961

Collection Number: 13/2/86

Creator: Abbott, Charles D. (Charles David), 1900-1961

Extent: 8.2 linear feet (17 manuscript boxes)

Language of Material: Collection material in English.

Repository: State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives

Abstract: Correspondence regarding the creation and maintenance of the Poetry Collection of Lockwood Library at the University of Buffalo; professional papers; personal records, including social correspondence and clippings; records of the Fenton Lecture series, 1935-1941; and records of the Buffalo Film Society, 1935-1938.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Description and dates], Box/folder number, 13/2/86, Charles D. Abbott Papers, 1930-1961, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo.

See the Special Collections' preferred citations instructions for additional information.

Acquisition Information

The majority of the material in this collection was transferred to the University Archives by other areas of the Libraries in the mid-1960s.

Terms of Access

The Charles D. Abbott Papers, 1930-1961, are open for research.

Copyright is held by the State University of New York at Buffalo, University Archives. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.

Processing Information

Collection processed by Archives staff.

Accruals and Additions

No further accruals are expected to this collection.

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Historical Note

Until 1935, the University Library was housed in various places on campus. The Law and Medical schools had and still have their own libraries. When the University moved to the Main Street campus, the library was housed in Hayes Hall and the Science Library was housed in Foster Hall and both were under the direction of Ruth Bartholomew. When Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Lockwood gave money for the construction of a library building in memory of their fathers, a condition was made that Charles D. Abbott be appointed as Director of Libraries.

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Chronology


	1900	Born, Milfold, Delaware to Charles D. and Annie Evans Abbott
	1922	Received A.B. from Haverford College
	1924	Received M.A. from Columbia University
	1925	Authored Howard Pyle, A Chronicle
	1927	Received B. Litt., from Oxford University and married Ann Pratt, who died a few years later
	1927-1930	Professor of English, University of Buffalo
	1930-1934	Professor of English, University of Colorado
	1934	Returned to the University of Buffalo as Professor of English and was appointed Director of Libraries
	1936	Married Theresa W. Gratwick
	1939	Initiated The Poetry Collection
	1960	Retired as Professor of English and Director of Libraries. Named Director Emeritus by University President Clifford Furnas
	1961	Died, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York

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Scope and Content Note

Professional papers, 1903-1961, of Charles D. Abbott, Professor of English (1927-1930, 1934-1960) and Director of Libraries (1934-1960) at the University of Buffalo (now the State University of New York at Buffalo). Abbott's literary correspondence includes letters from W.H. Auden, Sir Thomas Beecham, John Gould Fletcher, Austin Gray, Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher Morley, Louis Untermeyer, John Hay Whitney, and Louis Wilson. Much of Abbott's correspondence with literary figures was incorporated into The Poetry Collections' Abbott Collection. Also included is Abbott's correspondence with booksellers and publishers concerning the acquisition of library materials, correspondence concerning the dedication of Lockwood Memorial Library in 1934, and correspondence concerning other activities of the University Libraries. The papers also document Abbott's activities with the Buffalo Film Society (1935-1938) and as chairman of the Fenton Foundation Lectures (1935-1941). The Fenton Lecture materials include correspondence with Sir Thomas Beecham, Clifton Fadiman, Oscar Halecki, Alfred Noyes, and William Carlos Williams.

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Arrangement

This collection is arranged in seven series:

I. Buffalo Film Society

II. Correspondence

III. Ephemera

IV. Fenton Foundation Lectures

V. Lockwood Memorial Library

VI. Teaching and Research

VII. University

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Container List


I. Buffalo Film Society, 1935-1938
Arranged chronologically.


Box		Contents

11		Records concerning the Buffalo Film Society, 1935-1938


II. Correspondence, 1934-1961
The majority of the correspondence files are arranged alphabetically by correspondent.


Box		Contents

14		Personal correspondence 1938-1961


1		A, 1935-1947


1		Abbott, John, 1934-1941


1		Academy of American Poets, 1938


1		Adams, J.N. and Co., 1943


1		American Art Association, 1938-1940


1		Atlantic Monthly, 1935-1937


1		Ba-Be, 1935-1942


1		Barrell, Mrs. George, 1940-1942


1		Barry, Iris, 1935-1947


1		Bartholomew, Ruth, 1942


1		Bi-Bo, 1940-1942


1		Bidwell, Percy, 1935-1937


1		Bonner, Willard, 1937-1943


1		Book Campaign, 1941-1942


17		Book of the Month Club, 1942-1943
		Includes correspondence and reviews


5		Booksellers and Publishers, 1934-1939


6		Booksellers and Publishers, 1940-1948


1		Br, 1936-1942


1		British Information Library, 1940-1943


1		Brumbaugh, M.A., 1935-1936


1		Bu-By, 1939-1940


1		Buffalo Museum of Science, 1937, 1940-1941


1		Buffalo Public Library, 1935-1942


1		C, 1935-1943


1		Cantor, Nathaniel, 1937


1		Capen, Samuel, 1935-1944


1		Carpenter, Niles, 1935-1943


1		Cartledge, G.H., 1937-1943


2		Chanler, Mrs. W. and Mrs. J.C. Randall, 1937-1942


2		Chicago, University of, 1940


2		CLUNY, 1937-1942


2		Columbia University, 1937-1943


2		Committee on Conservation of Cultural Resources, 1940-1941


2		Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 1940-1941


2		Cook, William, 1939-1940


2		Cummings, L.O., 1938-1943


2		Da-De, 1937-1942


2		Deters, Emma, 1936-1943


2		Di-Dy, 1935-1936


2		Dictionary of American Biography, 1943


2		E, 1935-1942


2		Epstein, Ralph, 1935-1943


2		F, 1938-1940


2		Farber, Marvin, 1941


2		Fiero, G.W., 1935


2		Frazer, J.F., 1935


2		Froman, Lewis, 1942-1943


2		Ge-Gra, 1936-1940


2		Gehman, Harry, 1935-1937. 1940-1941


2		Gilchrist, Donald, 1935-1938


2		Glass, Grace, 1935-1936


2		Goetz, Philip, 1938-1944


2		Goldberg, Arthur, 1941


2		Gratwick, Roger, 1942


2		Gray, Austin, 1935-1936


2		Gre-Gu, 1935-1941


2		Green and Son, 1934-1935


2		Gregory, Willis, 1934-1935


2		Ha, 1937-1944


2		Hamlin, Mrs. Chauncey, 1941-1944


2		Hanley, T. Edward, 1937, 1940


2		Harvard College Library, 1940-1943


2		Haverford College, 1935


2		He-Hy, 1939-1944


2		Hewitt, Theodore, 1935-1940


2		Herwood and Herwood, 1935-1939


2		Hoag, Gilbert, 1939-1940


3		Hofer, Philip, 1935-1936


3		Horton, John, 1935-1940


3		Howe, W.H.T., 1935-1937


3		I, J, 1938-1942


3		Jones, Edward, 1937, 1942


3		K, 1939-1943


3		Keene, Charles, 1936-1938


3		Kelley, Beatrice, 1938-1944


3		Kessel, William, 1939-1941


3		Kinkeldey, Otto, 1938-1939, 1942


3		Kittredge, Rupert, 1940


3		Koch, Edward, 1937, 1941-1942


3		L, 1935-1942


3		Leary, Daniel, 1935-1940


3		Lemon, A.B., 1936-1938


3		Levinthal, Frieda, 1940


3		Lewis, Wyndham, 1940


3		Library of Congress, 1938-1940


17		Library of Congress - letter regarding the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections, 1960


3		Literary figures, 1935-1955


3		Littlefield, William, 1942


3		Livermore, Shaw, 1936, 1940


17		Lockwood, Thomas, 1927-1949


3		Lockwood, Thomas, 1938, 1940


3		Mc-Mitchell, 1938-1944


3		McGrath, Edward, 1936-1937


3		Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, 1940


3		Mellon, Clarence, 1935


3		Miller, Wharton, 1935-1936, 1942


3		Millet, Fred, 1938-1939


3		Mitchell, James, 1936-1943


3		Mod-Mu, 1935-1941


3		Montague, Harriet, 1936-1937


3		Moore, Edward, 1935, 1937, 1941


3		Morley, Christopher, 1935-1937


3		N, 1939-1943


3		National Council of Teachers of English, 1936-1937


3		Newman, G.N., 1938-1943


3		New York Library Association, 1937-1940


3		Notre Dame, 1941-1943


3		O, 1936-1939


3		Orwen, Gifford, 1939


3		Orwin, Carroll, 1940


3		Ott, Ellis, 1938-1943


4		Pa-Ph, 1938-1940


4		Park, Julian, 1934-1943


4		Parke, Robert, 1937-1942


4		Parrish, M.L., 1941-1943


4		Patrick, J. Max, 1941-1943


17		Phi Beta Kappa, 1944-1951


4		Pi-Pr, 1937


4		Poetry Collection, 1948-1949


4		Post, Howard, 1936-1937


4		Pratt. Julius, 1935-1937, 1939, 1940


4		Publicity, Library, 1951, 1956-1958


4		R, 1935-1944


17		Rhodes Scholarship, 1935-1949


4		Riegel, Robert, 1934-1938, 1941-1942


4		Rochester, University of, 1939-1942


4		Rutgers University, 1938-1939


4		Sa-Si, 1937-1942


4		Santayana Bibliography, 1940


17		Saturday Review of Literature, 1935-1943
		Includes correspondence and reviews


4		Schauroth, Edward, 1936-1937


4		Scofield, Carleton, 1935


4		Seitz, Mrs. Robert, 1937


4		Severance, Mrs. Frank, 1935-1937


4		Sewall, John, 1937-1940


4		Shearer, Augustus, 1934-1940


4		Silverman, Oscar, 1940


4		Sm-Sw, 1938-1943


4		Southern Illinois Normal School, 1942


4		Stanley, Winifred C., 1942-1943


4		Stief, Lewis, 1937, 1943


4		T-V, 1936-1941


4		Telegrams, 1935-1955


4		Telephone bills, 1940-1950


4		Thomas, C.W., 1940


4		Wa-Wh, 1936-1942


5		Warren, Mrs. Fiske, 1940


5		Who's Who in Library Services, 1941-1942


5		Wi-Wy, 1937, 1940


5		Widener, Homer, 1934-1936


5		Wilson, Carroll, 1935-1937


5		Yale University Library, 1938-1942


5		Z, 1939


III. Ephemera, undated


Box		Contents

14		General ephemera


14		Library ephemera


14		Miscellaneous ephemera


14		Publishers notices


14		Magazine "Programs"


14		Fenton Lecture Circulars


14		Communism and Academic Freedom


IV. Fenton Foundation Lectures 1936-1941
Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by name.


Box-folder		Contents

15.4-15.9		General Lecture Material
		Includes circulars and information on potential lecturers


Box		Contents

15		Circulars


Box-folder		Contents

13.1		Contracts, 1936-1937, 1940-1941


Lectures, 1936-1937


Box-folder		Contents

13.2-13.4		General Correspondence


13.5		Miscellaneous Correspondence


13.6		Fadiman, Clifton


13.7		Fay, Bernard


13.8		Forster, W. Arnold


13.9		Gruening, Ernest


13.10		Husserl, Gerhart


13.11		Madariaga, Salvador de


13.12		Sulzback, Walter


13.13		Warren, Austin


Lectures, 1937-1938


Box-folder		Contents

13.14-13.16		General Correspondence


13.17		Brown, Harrison


13.18		Carmichael, Leonard


13.19		Engel, Paul


13.20		Greet, W. Cabell


13.21		Mann, Klaus


13.22		Powell, Thomas Reed


13.23		Salvemin, Gaetane


13.24		Sandburg, Carl


13.25		Sellars, Roy Wood


Lectures, 1938-1939


Box-folder		Contents

13.26		General Correspondence


13.27		Auden, W.H.


13.28		Frost, Robert


13.29		Halecki, Oscar


13.30		Higgins, F.R.


13.31		Rhine, Joseph


13.32		Sellon, Hugh


13.33		Storrs, Sir Ronald


13.34		Untermeyer, Louis


Lectures, 1939-1940


Box-folder		Contents

13.35-13.37		General Correspondence


13.38		Barker, Ernest


13.39		Borgese, Guiseppi


13.40		Heilpenin, Michael


13.41		Hooten, E. A.


13.42		Karvas, Imrich


13.43		Leach, Henry


13.44		McKeon, Richard


13.45		MacNiece, Louis


13.46		Maritain, M.


13.47		Panofsky, Erwin


13.48		Tippetts, Charles


13.49		Wheelwright, John


Lectures, 1940-1941


Box-folder		Contents

13.50-13.52		General Correspondence


13.53		Beecham, Thomas


13.54		Cornish, Louis


13.55		Esthoven, Henri


13.56		Institute of International Education


13.57		Jeffers, Robinson


13.58		Jones, Rufus


13.59		Kohn, Dorothy


13.60		Noyes, Alfred


13.61		Nyabongo, Prince


13.62		Perry, Ralph B.


13.63		Smith, S. Stephenson


13.64		Speyer, Leonora


13.65		Williams, William Carlos


13.66		Wooley, Mary


13.67		Wright, Russell


V. Lockwood Memorial Library, 1935-1949


Box		Contents

7-7a		Dedication of Lockwood Memorial Library 1935


7-7a		Twenty-fifth Anniversary for the Dedication of Lockwood Memorial Library, 1960


7-7a		Library Exhibits, 1935-1949


5		Library forms for all departments, undated


7-7a		Friends of the Library 1935-1939


8		Invoices, 1935-1940


9		Invoices, 1939-1950


5		Library report (Music Room 1937-1940), 1940


5		Library requirements for English courses, undated


5		Rules of the library, undated


5		Photocopy of library rules, 1961


5		Library school, 1934-1944


VI. Teaching and Research, 1935-1960


Box		Contents

17		Bibliography of works by Thomas Fuller (17th Century), 1932


10		Records concerning Abbott's teaching, 1935-1960


5		War researches, 1945


VII. University, 1930-1958
Arranged alphabetically.


Box		Contents

12		American Association of University Professors (A.A.U.P.), 1936-1939, 1941-1943


12		Buffalo American Association of University Professors (A.A.U.P.), 1936, 1941, 1943


12		Announcements, 1931-1941


16		Faculty announcements 1949-1958


12		Calendars (schedules), 1939, 1942-1945


12		Faculty directories, 1935, 1936, 1942, 1943 (xeroxed 1939-1942)


12		Minutes -- College of Arts and Sciences, 1940-1943


12		Minutes -- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1940-1943


12		Schedule Committee Report, 1938


12		School of Education -- form for recommendations, undated


12		State Teachers Certification, 1942


12		Work Student Program, undated

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Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog.

Contributors

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives

Subject Terms

Abbott, Charles D. (Charles David), 1900-1961--Archives

Fenton Lectures Committee

Libraries--New York (State)--Buffalo

Lockwood Memorial Library

State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry/Rare Books Collection--Archives

University of Buffalo--Archives

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Associated Material

Related Resources

13/1/84, Charles D. Abbott Correspondence Files, University Archives

Abbott Collection, The Poetry Collection. Please note the Abbott Collection is a conglomeration of material collected between 1937-1979, the majority of which was collected by Charles Abbott.

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