Contents


Collection Overview

Administrative Information

Biographical Note

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Search Terms

Vita

Correspondence 1967-1969, 1982

Correspondence re: publication of books 1971-1974

The Expatriate Perspective: The Self-Discovery of American Novelists in Europe (typescript)

The Expatriate Perspective: American Novelists and the Idea of America (typescript, photocopied)

Henry James: The Creative Process (published version) 1958

Poems by HTM

Travel journals 1972-1989

Syllabus: English 133 Fall 1983

Syllabus: English 480C Fall 1986

Syllabus: English 272 Fall 1986

Lecture Notes, A-K

Lecture Notes, L-Z

Harold T. McCarthy Papers, 1958-1989

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Linda Seidman.

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2003

Collection Overview

Creator: McCarthy, Harold T.
Title: Harold T. McCarthy Papers
Dates: 1958-1989
Abstract: Author, English professor at the University of Massachusetts, and alumnus of the same school. Includes correspondence, typescript manuscripts, poems, travel journals, and class materials including syllabi and lecture notes.
Extent: 4 boxes(2 linear ft.)
Language: English.
Identification: FS 28

Administrative Information

Acquired from Alice McCarthy, 1990.

Processed by Linda Seidman.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: Harold T. McCarthy Papers (RG 40/11 McCarthy). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The collection is open for research.

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Biographical Note

Author, English professor, and University of Massachusetts alumnus (class of 1941) Harold T. McCarthy taught at the University of Massachusetts from 1959 and into his retirement in the late 1980s. In addition to his books on Henry James (1968) and the expatriate perspective on the idea of America (1972), he wrote fiction and poetry as well as critical articles on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Richard Wright.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

Correspondence, typescript manuscripts, poems, travel journals, and class materials including syllabi and lecture notes documenting Harold T. McCarthy's long and active career as an educator and writer, and travel experiences.

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Search Terms

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Vita

Correspondence 1967-1969, 1982

Correspondence re: publication of books 1971-1974

The Expatriate Perspective: The Self-Discovery of American Novelists in Europe (typescript)

The Expatriate Perspective: American Novelists and the Idea of America (typescript, photocopied)

Henry James: The Creative Process (published version) 1958

Poems by HTM

Travel journals 1972-1989

Syllabus: English 133 Fall 1983

Syllabus: English 480C Fall 1986

Syllabus: English 272 Fall 1986

Lecture Notes, A-K

Lecture Notes, L-Z