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Mixed Materials
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Archival Material
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Author
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 Arvin, Newton, 1900-1963.
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Title
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Newton Arvin correspondence, 1920-1963.
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Physical Descrip.
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4 linear ft. (16 boxes)
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Usage Note
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Access is unrestricted, unless otherwise noted.
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Abstract
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The correspondence to Arvin includes letters from Van Wyck Brooks, William Burford, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Malcolm Cowley, Merle Curti, Robert G. Davis, Howard Doughty, Leonard Ehrlich, Helen Eustis, Tom Hovey, Irving Howe, Frederick Jones III, Murray Krieger, Louis Kronenberger, Seymour Lawrence, Richard Lewis, David Lilienthal, Robert L. Lowe, Tom Mabry, Carson McCullers, William Maxwell, Fulmer Mood, Lewis Mumford, John Crowe Ranson, Delmore Schwartz, Oskar Seidlin, Hal Swayze, Lionel Trilling, Mark Van Doren, Glenway Wescott, Edmund Wilson and Morton D. Zabel among others. There is correspondence from Smith College faculty members Daniel Aaron, Mary Ellen Chase, Elizabeth Drew, Alfred Young Fisher, Wendell Johnson, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Eleanor M. Metcalf, Francis Murphy, Ned Spofford and others. Also included are Arvin’s letters to Truman Capote, Leonard Ehrlich, Alfred Kazin and Fulmer Mood. The collection also has Arvin’s typescript (carbon) with corrections of his biography on Longfellow.
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Biog./Hist. Note
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Newton Arvin was born on August 9, 1900 in Valparaiso, Indiana. He was eduated at Harvard University (A.B., 1921) and joined the Smith College faculty in 1922. He taught at Smith until his forced retirement in 1960. He died on March 21, 1963 of pancreatic cancer. Arvin specialized in 19th century American literature and wrote biographies of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Melville and Whitman. He was often in residence at Yaddo where he formed friendships with Truman Capote, Carson McCullers and others.
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Cum.Ind./Find. Aid
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Finding aid is available in the Smith College Library Mortimer Rare Book Room.
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Subject(s)
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Arvin, Newton, 1900-1963,
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882,
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Subject(s)
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Smith College -- Faculty.
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Subject(s)
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English teachers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources.
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Biographers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources.
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Other Author(s)
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Arvin, Newton, 1900-1963 Longfellow. Manuscript.
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Aaron, Daniel, 1912-
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Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.
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Burford, William.
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Capote, Truman, 1924-
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Chase, Mary Ellen, 1887-1973.
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Cheever, John.
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Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-
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Curti, Merle Eugene, 1897-
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Davis, Robert Gorham.
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Doughty, Howard, 1904-
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Drew, Elizabeth A., 1887-1965.
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Ehrlich, Leonard, 1905-
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Eustis, Helen.
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Fisher, Alfred Young, 1902-
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Hovey, Tom.
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Johnson, Wendell Stacy, 1927-
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Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.
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Krieger, Murray, 1923-
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Kroneneberger, Louis, 1904-
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Mabry, Thomas, 1903-
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McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.
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Maxwell, William, 1908-2000.
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Mendenhall, Thomas C. (Thomas Corwin), 1841-1924.
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Metcalf, Eleanor Melville, 1882-1964.
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Mood, Fulmer B., 1898-
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Mumford, Lewis, 1895-
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Murphy, Francis, 1932-
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Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974.
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Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966.
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Lilienthal, David Eli, 1899-1981
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Owned By
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SC Special Collections
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