James L. Clifford papers, 1774-1978

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Series III: Biography Files

The following materials relate to the subject of Biography. Many files include correspondence.


Subseries III.1: Books and Articles


Biography as an Art



Box 19 Related correspondence


Box 19 "A biographer looks at Dr. Johnson." (1959) Proof.


Box 19 Correspondence concerning permissions.


Box 19 Omitted text. Typescript, pasteups of printed material


Box 19 Source material and Notes


Box 19 Typescript: Table of contents; Introduction, draft, and fair copy (carbon); Appendix (carbon); Index (carbon); Jacket copy (carbon)


Box 19 "Biography: craft or art?" (1959) Draft. Typescript with ms. corrections.


Box 19 Typescript: fair copy (carbon).


Box 19 From Puzzles to Portraits. (1970) Draft. Typescript with ms. corrections.


Box 19 Draft, Preface.


Box 19 Draft, chapter 1-4 Typescript and manuscript


Box 19 Draft, chapter 1-4 Photocopy.



Box 20 Typescript with Manuscript Corrections, (2 folders)


Box 20 Source Material and Notes, (5 folders)


Box 20 Source material, notes, and drafts of unpublished article


Box 20 Source material and notes for a lecture ("How Much Should a Biographer Tell?" 18 March1967), chapter 9.


Box 20 "How Much Should a Biographer Tell?", 1968, (2 folders)


Box 20 Source material--Biography


From Puzzles to Portraits


Box 20 Arrangements for publication, etc


Box 20 Correspondence


Box 20 Unidentified article: "Biography--Craft or Art?" (Not the 1959 article). 3 drafts. Typescript with ms . corrections., 1959


Box 20 Unidentified article: "Problems of a Biographer"


Dr . Campbell's Diary of a Visit to England in 1775 (1847), 1775


Box 20 Correspondence with Cambridge University Press



Box 20A Source Materials, Notes, and Correspondence, 1937-1952


Subseries III.2: Correspondence


Box 20A Oxford University Press, London ., 1959-1962


Box 20A Oxford University Press, New York., 1959-1962


Subseries III.3: Courses Taught


Columbia University--English 141 (Biography), Summer 1943 Autumn, 1943, 1943, 1943


Box 20A Course Outline


Box 20A Quizzes and exams


Box 20A Book list s


Box 20A Duplicates


Columbia University. English 285C (Biography)


Box 20A Syllabus


Box 20A Source material and Lecture Notes, (29 folders)


Box 20A Columbia University English 842-843 (Problems in Literary Biography)--Course Description


Subseries III.4: Printed Materials



Box 21 Announcements of lectures by Clifford


Clippings


Box 21 Biography, 1930-1978, (5 folders)


Box 21 Source material for Biography as an Art.


Box 21 Source Material for English 285C



Box 22 Source Material for English 285C


Box 22 Source Material for From Puzzles to Portraits, (2 folders)


Offprints


Box 22 Articles by Clifford


Box 22 Duplicates


Box 22 Source Materials for English 285C


Box 22 Source material for From Puzzles to Portraits


Box 22 Dr. Campbell's Diary Book Reviews



Box 23 Printed materials and photographs related to Samuel Johnson


Box 23 The Johnsonians


Box 23 The Lichfield Johnson Society, 1910-1973, (4 folders)



Box 24 The Johnson Society of London


Box 24 The Johnson Club


Box 24 Miscellaneous Johnson pamphlets


Box 24 "The Johnsonian" keepsakes, (2 folders)