Contents
Collection Overview
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
Section 1: CORRESPONDENCE
Section 2: DR. LAVENDAR, PLAY
Section 3: MANUSCRIPTS OF PLAYS AND
BOOKS
Section 4: MANUSCRIPTS OF POETRY
Section 5: BOYNTON WRITING UNDER PSEUDONYM
JOHN WALCOTT
Section 6: SCRAPBOOK ON GUENEVER
Section 7: BOOKS OF CLIPPINGS AND REVIEWS BY
BOYNTON
Section 8: NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Section 9: MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
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Henry Walcott Boynton Papers
1897-1939
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Daria D'Arienzo, Margaret
R. Dakin.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.
© 2002
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Creator:
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Boynton, Henry Walcott, 1869-1947 |
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Title:
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Boynton Papers |
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Dates:
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1897-1939 |
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Abstract:
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Correspondence, notes, reviews and clippings documenting the literary career of Henry Walcott Boynton. The collection includes handwritten drafts of plays, prose and poems, and drafts of stories written under the pseudonym John Walcott. Correspondence is chiefly with magazine and book publishers, including the Atlantic Monthly, The Bookman and The Nation. |
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Extent:
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13 archives boxes(6.5 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
Henry Walcott Boynton was born in 1869 in Guilford,
Connecticut. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1891, and
his Master of Arts in 1893, both from Amherst College. From
1892 to 1901 Boynton was head of the department of English at
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. After 1901 he
devoted himself to writing. He was chief reviewer for the
Atlantic Monthly from 1901 to 1904. He was on the regular
staff of the Nation and the New York Evening Post beginning
in 1912. He wrote criticism for the Bookman beginning in
1915. Boynton died in 1947.
Boynton was the author or editor of at least twenty-four
books, often using his pseudonym, John Walcott. His works
include: Life of Washington Irving (1901); The Golfer's
Rubaiyat (1901); Bret Harte (1903); A Reader's History of
American Literature (1903, with T.W. Higginson); Journalism
and Literature (1904); Guenever, a Romantic Play (1905); The
World's Leading Poets (1911); James Fenimore Cooper (1931);
and Annals of American Bookselling (1932). Boynton's edited
texts with introduction and notes include: Selections from
Carlyle (1895); Tennyson's The Princess (1896); Milton's
Paradise Lost (1897); Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield
(1899); Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1901); Mrs. Ewing's
Jackanapes (1902); Miss Martineau's The Prince and the
Peasant (1902); Pope's Complete Poetical Works (Cambridge
edition) (1902); Tennyson's Idylls of the King (1903); and
Selected Poems for Secondary Schools (1911).
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Correspondence, notes, reviews and clippings documenting the literary career of Henry Walcott Boynton. The collection includes handwritten drafts of plays ("Dr. Lavendar," "Guenever," "Pompilia," "Flood Tide," etc.), prose and poems, and drafts of stories written under the pseudonym John Walcott. Correspondence is chiefly with magazine and book publishers, including the Atlantic Monthly, The Bookman and The Nation.
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This collection is organized into nine series:
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically.
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Section 1: CORRESPONDENCE
Sub-section A: Outgoing Correspondence
Sub-section B: Incoming Correspondence
The correspondence is mainly from publishers and
magazines concerning Boynton's work. Those letters are
filed by publisher. Correspondence is arranged
alphabetically.
Sub-section A: Outgoing
Correspondence
Box
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Folder
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Letters to others from others
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Letters from Boynton, A-Z
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Sub-section B: Incoming
Correspondence
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Folder
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Illegible signatures
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Am - D. Appleton Century Co.
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Badger, Richard G., Publisher - Boni and
Liveright, Inc.
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James Fenimore Cooper Junior High School
Memorial Committee - The Critic - Cz
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D - The Delineator - The Dial - George H.
Doran Co. - Duffield and Co. - Dz
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F - Fox, Duffield and Co. - Fz
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Box
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Folder
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G - Ginn and Co. - The Grafton Press -
Gz
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H - Harper and Bros, Publishers - Henry
Holt and Co. - Houghton, Mifflin and Co. -
Hz
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I - The Independent and Weekly Review -
Iz
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K - Kauser, Alice, dramatist's agent -
Kz
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L - Library of the World's Best Literature
- Literary Review - Little, Brown and Co. - Horace
Liveright, Publisher - Longmans, Green and Co. -
Lz
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M - McClure Co. - MacMillan Co. - A.N.
Marquis and Co. - Mz
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Box
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Folder
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N - The Nation
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National - New International Encyclopedia
- New York (the journal) - New York Evening Post -
New York Times - New York Tribune - Nz
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P - Paget Literary Agency - The Providence
Journal and Evening Bulletin - Putnam's
Monthly
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R - The Reader Magazine - The Review -
Rz
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Box
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Folder
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S - The Saturday Evening Post - The
Saturday Review of Literature - Charles Scribner's
Sons - The Shortstory Publishing Co. - Sibley and
Ducker Herbert S. Stone and Co. - The Stratford
Co.
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U - The Unpopular Review
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W - The Weekly Review - John Wiley and
Sons, Inc. The World's Work - Wz
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Contracts with publishers
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Section 2: DR. LAVENDAR, PLAY
Sub-section A: Correspondence
Sub-section B: Notes
Sub-section A: Correspondence
Box
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Folder
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Letters from Boynton
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Sub-section B: Notes
Section 3: MANUSCRIPTS OF PLAYS AND
BOOKS
Contains handwritten drafts, typed drafts, and
photocopies of play and books.
Box
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Dr. Lavendar - four acts (complete),
typewritten script
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Dr. Lavendar - three acts (short version),
typewritten script
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Guenever - A Romance, typewritten
manuscript
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Pompilia - A Dramatic Study of the Ring and
the Book - in five acts, handwritten
manuscript
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Pompilia - A Dramatic Study of the Ring and
the Book - in five acts, photocopy
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Flood Tide, A Play in Three Acts,
typewritten script
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Flood Tide, A Play in Three Acts,
photocopy
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Flood Tide, miscellaneous pages
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Folder
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One of Our Personages, Samuel Finley Breese
Morse, typewritten manuscript
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One of Our Personages, Samuel Finley Breese
Morse, photocopy of book
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Section 4: MANUSCRIPTS OF POETRY
Contains handwritten drafts, typed drafts, and
photocopies of poetry.
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Folder
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Photocopies of poems, with critical letter
from Professor John F. Genung
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Manuscript of class poem
1891 Jun 22
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Book of poetry, handwritten
1898-99
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Book of poetry, handwritten
1898
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Poetry, typewritten manuscripts
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Section 5: BOYNTON WRITING UNDER PSEUDONYM
JOHN WALCOTT
Contains stories and miscellaneous material by
Boynton, writing under the pseudonym John Walcott.
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Short stories for lectures
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Short stories, some printed
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Miscellaneous pages of short
stories
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Section 6: SCRAPBOOK ON GUENEVER
Includes correspondence with Julia Marlowe.
Box
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Scrapbook-contains
correspondence
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Section 7: BOOKS OF CLIPPINGS AND REVIEWS BY
BOYNTON
Includes material from 1897-1937.
Box
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[Unnumbered book]
1906-1937
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Section 8: NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Box
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Miscellaneous clippings
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Section 9: MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
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Folder
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Writings on war
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Lecture on "Browning and Landor"
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"Literature by Piecemeal" in The English
Journal,
1934
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"Along New England's Book Trails" in Yankee
Magazine, January 1939, pp. 24 and 27
1939
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Miscellaneous papers and clippings including
some reviews of Annals of American Bookselling, by
Boynton
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