Contents
Collection Overview
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
Series 1: Correspondence
Series 2: Miscellaneous
Series 3: Lectures
Series 4: Class Materials
Series 5: Manuscripts
Series 6: Undergraduate papers (and other
miscellaneous papers)
Series 7: Miscellaneous short
papers
Series 8: Pamphlets (unbound)
Series 9: Notebooks and Diaries
Series 10: Political Career
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George Bosworth Churchill Papers,
1883-1925
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by .
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.
© 2002
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Creator:
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Churchill, George Bosworth, 1866-1925 |
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Title:
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Churchill Papers |
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Dates:
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1883-1925 |
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Abstract:
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Correspondence, Lectures, Class Materials, Manuscripts,
pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photographs authored by
or featuring Churchill. The bulk of the collection is made up
of professional documents: lectures, undergraduate papers,
class materials and manuscripts written by Churchill. A
number of speeches and articles relating to his substantial
political career are also included. The collection contains
some correspondence between Churchill and his wife and
between Churchill and acquaintances, mostly between 1891 and
1894. |
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Extent:
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10 archives boxes(5 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
George Bosworth Churchill was born on October 24, 1866, in
Worcester, Mass., the son of Ezra and Myra J. Bosworth
Churchill. He prepared for college at Worcester High School
and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst in 1889. After
college he spent three years teaching at Worcester High
School. He then went to the William Penn Charter School for
two years as master of oral and written expression. During
1893 and 1894, he attended graduate school at University of
Pennsylvania, before studying for three years in Germany.
There he received his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Berlin. Returning to America, he was the
assistant editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine until 1898, when he
was appointed associate professor of English and public
speaking at Amherst College. In 1903, he became associate
professor of English literature. In 1905, he was promoted to
professor of English literature, a position he held until the
time of his death. He died on July 1, 1925, of heart failure,
in Amherst, Mass.
Besides his professional duties, he was a noted author. He
wrote the Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin University Plays
of England in the Time of Elizabeth in collaboration with
Prof. Wolfgang Keller in 1898, and Richard III Up to
Shakespeare in 1900. He edited two of William Wycherley's
plays, "The Country Wife," and "The Plain Dealer," in 1923,
and Shakespeare's "Richard III" in 1912.
He had a political career as well. In 1917, he was elected
State Senator of his district, and was re-elected in 1918 and
1919. He was a delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional
Convention those same years. For eight years, he chaired the
Amherst Republican Town Committee. For more than twenty
years, he moderated Amherst town meetings.
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Correspondence, Lectures, Class Materials, Manuscripts,
pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photographs authored by
or featuring Churchill. The bulk of the collection is made up
of professional documents: lectures, undergraduate papers,
class materials and manuscripts written by Churchill. A
number of speeches and articles relating to his substantial
political career are also included. The collection contains
some correspondence between Churchill and his wife and
between Churchill and acquaintances, mostly between 1891 and
1894.
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This collection is organized into ten series:
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Series 1: Correspondence
Box
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Folder
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Letters to Churchill, A-L
1891-1894
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Letters to Churchill, M-Z
1891-1894
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Letters to Mrs. Churchill
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Letters from Mrs. Churchill (2)
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Series 2: Miscellaneous
Box
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Folder
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Miscellaneous programs,
pamphlets
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Newspaper clippings about
Churchill
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Photographs (mostly of
Churchill)
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Series 3: Lectures
Box
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Folder
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"Public Speaking Work in Secondary Schools,"
Connecticut State Teachers Association
1902
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Speech before New England Jewelers Assoc.
1916
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"Americanism and the Public School,"
Massachusetts State Normal School
1920
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"The Greek Drama. Tragedy." Springfield
Teachers Club
1904
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Box
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Folder
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Lecture on "Richard III"
1901
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"The Plays of Maurice Maeterlinck," Thursday
Club of Holyoke
1902
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"Ways and Means of Securing Correct
Pronunciation, Enunciation, and Effectiveness in
Utternace," Massachusetts Superintendent's Association
1902
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"Are American Colleges Radical or Merely
Progressive?"
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"Public Speaking in the High School,"
Amherst Institute
1901
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"Athletics in Amherst," Speech after
dinner
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South Hadley Thanksgiving Day Community
Service
1918
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"Shakespeare as a Critic of Politics"
1919
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What is Americanism," "The Revolution and
Today
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"What Do We Mean When We Call Macbeth a
Tragedy?" Williston Seminary
1914
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"The Tragedies of Shakespeare," Springfield
Teachers Club
1903
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The Teaching of Twentieth Century
Literature
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"A Nation of Shopkeepers," Boston Jewelers'
Club
1916
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"The Land of the Ouaniche"
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"Education and Patriotism"
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"The Plays of Henrik Ibsen," Springfield
Teachers Club
1904
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"Stephen Phillips," Springfield Teachers
Club
1904
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Beowulf," Lecture in series, "Familiar Talks
in Friendly Parlors
1900
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"Address on Japanese Question," Northampton
YMCA
1925
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"Imagination and Religion," Winter Park
1924
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Box
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"Scholarship and the Common Mind," 1st and
2nd drafts
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"Alfred the Great," Amherst Institute at
Holyoke High School
1901
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"On the Meaning of Honor"
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"Edgar Allan Poe," Massachusetts
Agricultural College
1909
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"After the War: Problems in Education from
the Viewpoint of the Commonwealth"
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Armistice Day, 1919
1919
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"Is the College Making Good?"
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Miscellaneous notes and fragments of
speeches
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Series 4: Class Materials
Box
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Folder
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Duplicate study sheets on Virgil's
Aeneid
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Duplicate study sheets on Organization of
Roman Senate
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Duplicate study sheets on
Richard III
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Notes on Public Speaking course
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Notes and paper (clippings) on the
Drama
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Readings on English poets - notes for
course
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Notes for English I and Shakespeare
course
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Box
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Folder
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Examination papers in Old English
class
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Lesson papers on
King Lear
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Examination papers and exercises in
Logic
and
Richard III
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Notes on the work of Maurice
Maeterlinck
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Imagination as Expression," "Rise of
Romanticism
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Lectures on oratory; notes of lectures on
the preparation of debates, on brief-drawing, and on
evidence
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Notes on "The Growth of the Sacred
Drama"
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Notes for lectures on drama
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Notes for lectures on the serious drama;
notes on French tragedy
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Notes on prose fiction, course given to
juniors and seniors 1905-6
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The Drama. Introductory lectures. Course for
Juniors 1903-4
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Notes on prose authors
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Notes on drama: "Medieval Romance," "What is
a Play?"
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Series 5: Manuscripts
Box
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Folder
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"The Relation of Dryden's
State of Innocence
to Milton's
Paradise Lost
and Wycherley's
Plain Dealer
: An Inquiry into Dates." 3 copies
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"The Rise of the English Comedy"
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Introduction and notes on
Richard III
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"Shakespeare in America." In German, 2
copies
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"The Rise of the English Drama"
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"The Life of William
Shakespeare"
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Notes, manuscript, and proof sheets of
Richard III up to Shakespeare
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"Miramichi Days: Dry-fly vs. Wet-fly." 2
copies
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6 short papers on Wycherley
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Box
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Folder
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"New England Sectionalism"
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"Origen: A Synopsis of his Life and
Views"
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Series 6: Undergraduate papers (and other
miscellaneous papers)
Box
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Folder
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"Roman Satire"
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"Our Beautiful Shelley"
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"Faust: Its Character and
Lessons"
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"Chapman's
The Widow's Tears
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"A Brief Comparison of Shakespeare's
Antony and Cleopatra
with Dryden's
All for Love
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"Etymological work for the Sophomore Latin
Prize - by 'Marlborough,'" 1887
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"Work submitted for the Bertram Latin
Scholarship," 1889
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Miscellaneous papers written as a student at
Worcester High School
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Is the Iliad a Sun-, Cloud-, Storm-myth? A
Review of the 'Solar Theory' and its Application to
The Iliad
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Notes on Shakespeare in America
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Box
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Folder
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Master's Thesis: "The Beginnings of English
Literary Criticism"
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Box
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Folder
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Miscellaneous short papers
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Series 7: Miscellaneous short
papers
Box
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Folder
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"Modern German Dramatists" by Max
Meyerfield
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Comparison of Webster and
Tourneur
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Notes on John Donne - from the thesis of Dr.
Brumbaugh
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Notes on English Literature, Winter Term,
1888
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The development of the Roman
Constitution
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Political and Constitutional
Theory
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The Metres of Barnabe Googe
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10 |
An Examination of the Versification in
Julius Caesar, III, 1:225-275, and in the Tempest I, 2:
1-50
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Notes on English Poetry
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The Lyric in Shakespeare's plays
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Notes on some English poets
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Miscellaneous fragments of notes
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Class grade book - 1923-1924
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Two notebooks, 1895-96 - Beowulf and Chaucer
notes; English Literature notes
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Series 8: Pamphlets (unbound)
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Folder
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"
Richard III
up to Shakespeare" in
Palaestra
, vol. X, Untersuchungen und Texte aus der Deutschen
und Englischen Philogie, Alois Brandl und Erich
Schmidt, Berlin, 1900
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Mention of G. B. Churchill p. 785
The Phi Beta Kappa Key
, Vol. 5, No. 12, May 1925
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Verzeichniss der Vorlesungen, welche auf der
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin im
Winter-Semester vom 16 October 1896 bis 15 Marz 1897
gehalten werden
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The Penn Charter Review, 1910. Page
17
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Booch review by Churchll of
Shakespeare's Holinshed: The Chronicle of and
Historical Plays Compared
, by H. G. Boswell-Stone. In
Archiv für das Studium der Neuren Sprachen und
Litteraturen
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Jahrbuch der Deutschen
Shakespeare-Gessellschaft
. Reprints from; containing book reviews by Churchill.
1909 (3 copies), 1911 (3 copies)
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Poem, "Serenade," by Churchill in Amherst
Literary Monthly, No. 9, 1889
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"The Attitude of the Massachusetts
Legislature Towards Standards for Degree Giving
Institutions." in
Education
, Vol. 40, no. 7, March 1920
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"The State's Responsibility for
Reconstruction in Education," in
Education
, vol. 39, No. 10, June 1919
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Address of the Hon. George B. Churchill of
Amherst opposing the initiative and
referendum
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"Shakespeare in America," an address
delivered at the annual meeting of the German
Shakespeare Society, in
Jahrbuch der Deutschen
Shakespeare-Gesselschaft
, 1906
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"Public Speaking Work in the Secondary
School" in
The School Review,
Vol. 2, No. 4, April, 1903, University of Chicago
Press
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"The Relation of Dryden's 'State of
Innocence' to Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and Wycherley's
'Plain Dealer,' An Inquiry into Dates," Reprinted from
Modern Philology
, Vol. 4, No. 2, October 1906, 2 copies
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"A Nation of Shopkeepers," in
The Keystone Weekly
, Vol. 41, No. 22, January 18, 1916
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Address before the New England Manufacturing
Jewelers and Silversmiths Association in
The Manufacturing Jewelers
, Vol. 58, No. 12
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"The True Tragedy of
Richard III
" (in German) Inaugural Dissertation,
Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitat zu Berlin
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Series 9: Notebooks and Diaries
Box
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Folder
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Undergraduate notes - Amherst College -
Three books
[ca. 1885-1889]
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European trip diary
1888
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Lake Edward trip diary
1911
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Ornithological notebook
1882-1885
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Series 10: Political Career
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Folder
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Political publicity on Churchill - editorial
and testimonials
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Initiative and referendum amendment -
printed matter and speeches on
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Box
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Folder
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Four typed articles on Churchill's political
views from the Springfield Republican
1924
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Memorial Day Address, Amherst
1925
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Three campaign speeches
1916
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Speech: "Duty of a
Representative"
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Speech on Judicial System
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Speech on Child Labor Amendment
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Speech: "The Attitude of the Massachusetts
Legislature Towards Standards for Degree-Giving
Institutions" (two copies)
1919
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Speech on voting for the 18th
Amendment
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Two speeches in praise of the Republican
Party
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Speech introducing speakers at an Amherst
Republican rally, Springfield, Mass.
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Churchill-Graves Campaign Speech,
Northamtpton, Mass.
1924
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Speech on Churchill's view on the problems
of Springfield, Mass.
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