Scope and Contents
In addition to the material relating to the anthology, there are letters from other writers, concerning literary matters, and drafts and proofs to translations by Fitts of several classical texts.
Dates
- 1928 - 1968
- Majority of material found within 1941 - 1943
Creator
Language of Materials
Conditions Governing Access
Restricted Fragile papers in boxes 17-18 may be consulted only with permission of the appropriate curator. Preservation photocopies or photographic prints for reference use have been substituted in the main files.
Existence and Location of Copies
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
10.47 Linear Feet (18 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Dudley Fitts (1903-1968)
Fitts was born April 28, 1903, in Boston and educated at Harvard. He taught at the Choate School from 1927 to 1941 and then served as an instructor of English at Phillips Academy from 1941 onward.
Processing Information
- Aristophanes, 449-
- Carrión, Alejandro
- Editors -- United States -- 20th Century -- Archives
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
- English literature -- 20th Century -- Translations from Spanish
- Euripides (Alcestis)
- Fitts, Dudley, 1903-1968
- Fitzgerald, Robert, 1910-1985
- Florit, Eugenio, 1903-1999
- Guillén, Jorge, 1893-1984
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- Izaguirre, Carlos
- Lara, Jesús, 1898-1980
- Latin American literature -- 20th Century -- Translations into English
- MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
- Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965
- Méndez Dorich, Rafael
- Mizener, Arthur
- New Directions Publishing
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
- Rokha, Pablo de, 1894-1968
- Sophocles, 495-
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
- Translators
- United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
- Title
- Guide to the Dudley Fitts Papers
- Author
- by Michael L. Forstrom
- Date
- April 22, 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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