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Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1878-09-06 - 1961-04-05

Biography

Henry Seidel Canby (1878-1961), American literary critic, editor, and educator

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Danford Barney papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 466
Abstract: The Danford Barney papers contains correspondence, drafts of writings, photographs, and other material relating to poet and photographer Danford Barney. Correspondence in the collection contains letters from many Yale-affiliated faculty, authors, and collaborators, including Stephen Vincent Benét, William Rose Benét, Henry Seidel Canby, John Farrar, Brian Hooker, Benjamin R. C. Low, William Lyon Phelps, and Thornton Wilder, as well as authors who commented on Barney's work, such as John...
Dates: 1877-1953

Beer family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 73
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, and other papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Beer family. Extensive files of correspondence and papers for family members from the 1850s through the 1980s detail the lives and activities of such family members as William Collins Beer, a lobbyist for J.P. Morgan and Company, International Harvester Company, and the government of Italy, and a close friend of Mark Hanna; Thomas...
Dates: 1740-1981, bulk 1827-1981

Bingham family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 81
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, manuscripts, notebooks, sermons, writings, two books with manuscript notes, legal and financial records, photographs, printed material and miscellanea documenting the personal lives and professional careers of four generations of the Bingham family. The papers include material documenting Hiram Bingham (1789-1869) and his missionary work in Hawaii; Hiram Bingham (1831-1908) and his missionary work in the Gilbert Islands, his literary...
Dates: 1811-1974

Millicent Todd Bingham papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 496D
Abstract:

One-fifth of the papers are devoted to correspondence, books, articles, speeches and research notes relating to her publication of Emily Dickinson's poems in Bolts of Melody (1945) and three subsequent books about Emily Dickinson. Bingham's education as well as her professional life as a teacher of French and as a geographer, particularly of Peru, are thoroughly documented with correspondence, research notes, publications and other papers (1885-1929).

Dates: 1865-1968

Hermann Broch archive

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 1
Abstract:

The Hermann Broch Archive contains correspondence; manuscripts of books, plays, poems, articles and essays, book reviews, and short stories; writings of others; personal papers; photographs; and videocassettes.

Dates: 1872-1990s, bulk 1930-1951

James Branch Cabell collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 566
Abstract: The collection contains letters, manuscripts, and printed material related to the life and work of James Branch Cabell. The letters in Series I were written by Cabell to his publishers, literary collaborator, and colleagues; in most cases the folders include carbon copies of responses sent back to Cabell. Writings in Series II are typescripts and proofs of several works, and include correspondence related to their publication, as well as designs by John O'Hara Cosgrave for the cover and end...
Dates: 1912-1971, bulk 1927-1954

Henry Seidel Canby papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 64
Abstract: The Henry Seidel Canby Papers document many aspects of Canby's personal life and professional activities as a writer, editor, and educator. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, lecture notes and other course materials. Canby corresponded with educators, literary critics,publishers, writers and other public figures. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, Mary Hunter Austin, Stephen Vincent Benét, Robert Seymour Bridges, Willa Cather, Jerome Davis, Walter De La Mare,...
Dates: 1825-1960

Norman Cousins Collection of Henry Seidel Canby

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1205
Scope and Contents: Correspondence, drafts and printed versions of writings (box 7), manuscript notes, printed ephemera, clippings, photographs (box 2), and contractual agreements by or relating to the professional activities of Henry Seidel Canby. The collection features approximately 983 pieces of correspondence dating from 1940 through 1949 (boxes 1-6). Incoming letters and typescript carbon copies of Canby's outgoing letters concern professional matters chiefly, addressing publications by Canby during this...
Dates: 1935-1949

Ellsworth Huntington papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes and notebooks, clippings, printed matter, which relate to Ellsworth Huntington's professional career and his activities for a number of professional organizations with which he was associated. The papers also include notebooks covering his numerous field trips and ancient artifacts collected by Huntington in Chinese Turkestan. Correspondents of note include Arnold Toynbee, Ernst Antevs, Henry Adams, James Breasted, Frederick Jackson...
Dates: 1779-1952, bulk 1890-1947

Letter : New York, to Agnes DeLima, 1941 Apr 8

 Part of Collection — Box 7: [Barcode: 39002137170164], Folder: GROUP 120, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

TLS, on The Saturday Review of Literature letterhead, explaining why he is unable to grant DeLima's request that he give her a quotation for the cover of her book Love and Death.

Dates: 1941 Apr 8

Letter : New York, to the Editors of the The Yale Lit, Jan 13

 Part of Collection — Box 7: [Barcode: 39002137170164], Folder: GROUP 120, F-4
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS regarding a Chi Delta Theta triangle.

Dates: Jan 13

Letters, 1924-45

 Part of Collection — Box 7: [Barcode: 39002137170164], Folder: GROUP 120, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Seven TLS, including two TLS to Thomas B. Brumbough, 1942 Apr 15, and 1945 Jul 18, regarding the possibility of a new edition of "James," and Canby's "Whitman"; one TLS to Dunster House Book Shop dated 1924 May 23 regarding the founding of The Saturday Review of Literature; one TLS to Harold Cater dated 1931 Dec 30, regarding his advice for beginning writers; one TLS to Mr. E. B. Smith dated 1941 Apr 8, containing an anecdote about a Mr. Stebbins; and two TLS to Charles R. Walker dated 1926...
Dates: 1924-45

Letters : to James M. Osborn, 1938

 Part of Collection — Box 7: [Barcode: 39002137170164], Folder: GROUP 120, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Two ALS dated 1938 Sep 14 and Oct 2, regarding "Pond Hill," a property in Connecticut.

With a TL carbon from Osborn to Canby dated 1938 Sep 28, responding to Canby's letter of Sep 14.

Dates: 1938

Note : New York, to Mrs. George Pierce Baker, Nov 29

 Part of Collection — Box 43: [Barcode: 39002137225182], Folder: GROUP 1240, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC

Wallace Notestein papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 544
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, notes, speeches, and other papers of Wallace Notestein, historian, teacher, author, and Sterling Professor of English History at Yale from 1928-1947. The bulk of the papers consist of letters received by Notestein from other historians, scholars, writers, students, and publishers and relate largely to academic and professional matters, to politics, and to his personal life.

Dates: 1899-1969

Rice family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 415
Abstract: The papers include correspondence, photographs, and writings which document the daily lives of the immediate family of John Rice and the activities of various members of the Blake and Seely families. Extensive correspondence concerns the construction and furnishing of the family home in Tarrytown, New York; of residences, travel, and schooling in California and Europe; and student life and teaching at the Sedgwick School, Yale University, Williams College, Acadia University, and Smith...
Dates: 1810-1916

Anson Phelps Stokes family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 299
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, subject files, memorabilia, photographs, financial records, and other papers detailing the professional career and personal life of Anson Phelps Stokes and family members, including Olivia, Caroline and Helen Stokes. Papers relating to Anson Phelps Stokes document his work with prominent educators, reformers, religious leaders, businessmen, and politicians. Stokes's work on behalf of black education, social issues, and the Phelps-Stokes Fund...
Dates: 1761-1960, bulk 1892-1958

T. C. Wilson Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 36
Abstract:

The T. C. Wilson Papers consist of correspondence, writings, and personal papers relating to the life and career of American poet-critic Theodore Carl Wilson.

Dates: (1928-1947)

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