Guide to the Robert H. Elias Papers,
1933-1983

Collection Number: 14-12-1848

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
P. McCray
Date completed:
October 1996
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, April 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Robert H. Elias papers, 1933-1983.
Collection Number:
14-12-1848
Creator:
Robert H. Elias
Quantity:
.8 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, memoranda, conference agendas, notes, news releases, and reports.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, memoranda, conference agendas, notes, news releases, and reports of Robert Henry Elias, with particular reference to the American Studies Society, the American Historical Association, and the American Civilization Graduate Club.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of English, Cornell University.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes correspondence, memoranda, conference agendas, notes, news releases, and reports of Robert Henry Elias, with particular reference to the American Studies Society, the American Historical Association, and the American Civilization Graduate Club. Correspondents and subjects include Harold Loeb, Marion Cummings, Bedelia Croly Falls, e. e. cummings, Saul Bellow, James Gould Cozzens, John Dos Passos, Katherine Anne Porter, Edmund Wilson, Jerome Kern, Huey Long, Henry Miller, Lewis Mumford, Frank O'Connor, John Crowe Ransom, James Thurber, Richard Wilbur, Theodore Dreiser, and H. L. Mencken.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Elias, Robert H.
Bellow, Saul
Cozzens, James Gould, 1903-
Cummings, E. E.(Edward Estlin), 1894-1962.
Cummings, Marion
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Falls, Bedelia Croly.
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945
Loeb, Harold, 1891-
Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935.
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Miller, Henry, 1891-
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-
O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974
Thurber, James, 1894-1961
Wilbur, Richard, 1921-
Wilson, Edmund, 1890-1972
American Civilization Graduate Club.
American Historical Association.
American Studies Society.
Cornell University--Faculty.

Subjects:
College teachers.

Places:
United States--Study and teaching.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:
Box 4 is restricted.
Cite As:
Robert H. Elias papers, #14-12-1848. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1967
Marion Cummings Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 1
1968
Marion Cummings
Box 1 Folder 2
1981-1983
Bedelia Croly Falls
Box 1 Folder 3
1961-1962
Harold Loeb
Box 1 Folder 4
1950-1956
American Historical Association
Box 1 Folder 5
1951
American Civilization Graduate Club
Box 1 Folder 6
1955
Saul Bellow
Box 2 Folder 1
1955
James Gould Cozzens
Box 2 Folder 2
1961
e.e. cummings
Box 2 Folder 3
1959
To George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.
Box 2 Folder 4
1958
To John Dos Passos
Box 2 Folder 5
1961
Mrs. Matthew Josephson
Box 2 Folder 6
1968
To Bernhard Kendler
Box 2 Folder 7
1952
To Katherine Anne Porter
Box 2 Folder 8
1961
To Edmund Wilson
Box 2 Folder 9
1960-1961
Correspondence received
Box 2 Folder 10
1947-1952
Epoch Magazine
Box 2 Folder 11
1933
Herbert E. Gaston
Box 2 Folder 12
1959-1960
William Gibson
Box 2 Folder 13
1961
Robert Silliman Hillyer
Box 2 Folder 14
1933
Jerome Kern
Box 2 Folder 15
1968
Bernhard Kendler
Box 2 Folder 16
1933-1935
Huey Long
Box 2 Folder 17-19
n.d.
Henry Miller
Box 2 Folder 20
1958
Lewis Mumford
Box 2 Folder 21
1955
The Nation
Box 2 Folder 22
c. 1954
Frank O'Connor
Box 2 Folder 23
1954
Harriet O'Connor
Box 2 Folder 24
1952
Katherine Anne Porter
Box 2 Folder 25-27
1953
John Crow Ransom
Box 2 Folder 28
1952
Susannah Tarkington
Box 2 Folder 29
1964-1965
Helen Thurber
Box 2 Folder 30-31
1944-1958
James Thurber
Box 2 Folder 32-36
1954
Richard Wilbur
Box 2 Folder 37
1937-1987
Theodore Dreiser (including Richard Lingeman and Robert Fleissner correspondence)
Box 2 Folder 38
1948
H. L. Mencken
Box 2 Folder 39
1968
John Dos Passos: One Man's Initiation: 1917; Layout, printing proofs, publishing correspondence
Box 3 Folder 1-6
1918-1968
John Dos Passos and others: correspondence
Box 3 Folder 7-17
RESTRICTED
Box 4 Folder 1