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Finding Aid for Alan Ansen collection of papers, 1942-1953

Guide to the Alan Ansen collection of papers,1942-1953

Berg Coll MSS Ansen
The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. New York Public Library. Room 320.
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Date Completed:
2006
Encoded By:
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Table of Contents

Descriptive Summary Table of Contents

Title
Alan Ansen collection of papers, 1942-1953
Creator
Ansen, Alan.
Call Number
Berg Coll MSS Ansen
Size
72 items
Repository
The New York Public Library. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American LiteratureNew York, New York
Abstract
This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, a journal for 1945 through 1951, and notebooks kept from 1946 to 1947.

Administration Information Table of Contents

Source

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The bulk of the papers came with those relating to W. H. Auden.

Access

Collection is restricted to qualified scholars and researchers through the Office of Special Collections, Room 316

Restrictions on Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Biography Table of Contents

Alan Ansen was an American poet.

Scope and Content Note Table of Contents

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence from the author, a journal for 1945 through 1951, and notebooks kept from 1946 to 1947. The manuscripts and typescripts include essays, poems, notes for work, portions of novels and stories, translations, and transcripts by the author of works by Chester Kallman and Diana Dodge Lewars. The correspondence, dating from 1946 to 1953, includes letters from the author to W. H. Auden, Douglas Bush, Howard Griffin, Theodore Spencer, and others, as well as letters from W. H. Auden and Thomas Mann to the author.

Series Descriptions Table of Contents

   
Manuscripts & Typescripts Table of Contents
   
Journals & Notebooks Table of Contents
Manuscript box (Auden)     
Journal. Typescript with the author's ms. additions. Relates to W. H. Auden 1945 Nov. 5 - 1951 Apr. 22
journals
( 89 p. )
(Auden)     
Notebooks (4) containing transcriptions of his conversations with W. H. Auden and Auden's lectures on Shakespeare. Holograph 1946 Oct. 23 - 1947 Nov. 5
notebooks
( 4 v. )

In v. 4: Auden, W. H. [Chart for a Swarthmore College seminar on romanticism] Variants noted by Alan Ansen. Holograph, undated 2 p.

   
Manuscripts Table of Contents
Manuscript box (Auden)     
Fragment. Holograph poem n.d.
ms.
( 1 item )

With 7 p. of miscellaneous holograph notes. Came with material relating to Auden

Manuscript box (Auden)     
[List of scenes in The dog beneath the skin and The ascent of F6 written by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood]. Holograph n.d.
ms.
( 1 p. )
Manuscript box (Auden)     
Notes [on W. H. Auden's The age of anxiety] Holograph n.d.
ms.
( 1 item )
Manuscript box (Auden)     
[Notes on W. H. Auden's metrics] Holograph n.d.
ms.
( 29 p. )
Manuscript box (Auden)     
[Notes on W. H. Auden on opera] Holograph n.d.
ms.
( 1 p. )

With a copy of Tempo, no. 20 (summer 1951)

Manuscript box (Auden)     
[Story fragment] Holograph n.d.
ms.
( 1 p. )

Came with material relating to W. H. Auden

In: Auden, W. H. Poems May 1927-March 1929, p. 80     
Wystan Hugh Auden's scale of sins. Holograph n.d.
ms.
( 1 p. )
   
Typescripts Table of Contents
Manuscript box (Auden)     
Blurb for The age of anxiety [by W. H. Auden] Typescript draft with the author's ms. corrections n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 1 item )
Manuscript box (Auden)     
Chronological table of contents to The collected poetry of W. H. Auden. Typescript and typescript (carbon) n.d.
typescripts
( 2 items )
(Auden)     
Crisis and festival: a study of W. H. Auden's The sea and the mirror. Typescript ca. 1948
typescripts
( 86 p. )
Manuscript box (Auden)     
[Essays (4)] Typescript drafts with the author's ms. corrections n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 4 items )

Came with material relating to Auden

Manuscript box (Auden)     
[Essay] Withdrawal and return in modern French poetry. Typescript draft (incomplete) with the author's ms. corrections n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 49 p. )

Came with material relating to Auden

Manuscript box (Auden)     
[Essay on W. H. Auden's The age of anxiety] Typescript draft (incomplete) with the author's ms. corrections n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 12 p. )
Manuscript box (Auden)     
[Essay] Protagonist and ladscape in Goethe's Werter. Typescript draft with the author's ms. corrections, typescript and 2 typescript (carbons). One dated 1942 July 29
typescripts (emended)
( 4 items in 2 folders )

Came with material relating to W. H. Auden

Manuscript box (Auden)     
Notes on the syllabification of A Christmas oratorio and The sea and the mirror [by W. H. Auden] Typescript (carbon) with the author's ms. corrections n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 4 p. )
Manuscript box (Auden)     
[Outline and statement of thesis for his study of W. H. Auden's The sea and the mirror]. Typescript n.d.
typescripts
( 11 p. )
Manuscript box (Auden)     
Selections from book list to studies of Auden's poetry. Typescript (carbon) with the author's ms. addition n.d.
typescripts (emended)
( 1 p. )
Manuscript box (Auden)     
The Vigilantes. Typescript (incomplete) of novel n.d.
typescripts
( 26 p. )

With his 5 p. statement on the novel Came with material relating to W. H. Auden

(Auden)     
Waltharii poesis: some interpretative notes. Typescript of essay n.d.
typescripts
( 50 p. )
(Auden)     
Waltharii poesis: some interpretative notes. Typescript (3 carbons) n.d.
typescripts
( 3 items )

With TLS, TL (fragment) from Alan Ansen to F. P. Magoun. [n.d.] 16 p.; 3 p.

Manuscript box     
Cottam, Samuel Elsworth. [Poems] Typescript transcription by Alan Ansen of 2 poems n.d.
typescripts
( 3 p. )

With: Auden, W. H. [Reviews and introductions (5)] Typescript transcriptions by Alan Ansen

Manuscript box     
Kallman, Chester. [Poems] Typescript and typescript (carbon) transcripts by Alan Ansen of 9 poems n.d.
typescripts
( 10 p. )
Manuscript box     
Lewars, Diana Dodge. Notes on W. H. A[uden's] course on romanticism. Typescript transcription by Alan Ansen 1943 Jan. 6
typescripts
( 62 p. )

With: Auden, W. H. [Reviews and introductions (5)] Typescript transcriptions by Alan Ansen

Manuscript box (Auden)     
New School for Social Research, New York. Modern literary criticism. Typescript of topical outline and bibliography of course with Alan Ansen's ms. annotations 1948
typescripts (annotated)
( 8 p. )

Came with material relating to W. H. Auden

   
Correspondence Table of Contents
   
Incoming Table of Contents
Manuscript box     
Auden, Wystan Hugh. 8 ALS, 1 ANS, 6 TLS, 1 TNS, and 4 postcards to Ansen [1947] Aug. 27 - [1953] Oct. 26
corr. In
( 20 items )

Accompanied by his: Miss God to Mr. Stevens. Holograph transcript by Ansen of poem, undated. Folder 4.

Manuscript box. On recto of: Kallman, Chester. 1 postcard to Ansen     
Auden, Wystan Hugh. 1 ANS to Ansen 1948 May 13
corr. In
( 1 item )
Manuscript box. On recto of: Auden, W. H. 1 ANS to Ansen     
Kallman, Chester. 1 postcard to Ansen 1948 May 13
corr. In
( 1 item )
Manuscript box     
Mann, Thomas. 5 TLS to Ansen 1942 Oct. 20 - 1946 Oct. 12
corr. In
( 5 items )

With 1 TL (carbon) from Ansen to Mann, Oct. 6, 1946. 2 p.

Manuscript box     
Ranson, John Crow. 1 ALS to Ansen [n.y.] Feb. 20
corr. In
( 1 p. )
   
Outgoing Table of Contents
    
Auden, Wystan Hugh. TL 1947 July 10
corr. Out
( 1 item )

With: Auden, W. H. The age of anxiety. Typescript draft of poem

Manuscript box (Auden)     
Bush, Douglas. TL (carbon, incomplete) 1947 Oct. 1
corr. Out
( 1 item )

Came with material relating to W. H. Auden

Manuscript box (Auden)     
Curtis [--?], TL (carbon, incomplete) 1947 Apr. 24
corr. Out
( 1 item )

Came with material relating to W. H. Auden

Manuscript box     
Griffin, Howard. ANS. On card 1953 May 28
corr. Out
( 1 item )

With: Auden, Wystan Hugh. 21 ALS, 1 AL (incomplete), etc. to Howard Griffin

Manuscript box (Auden)     
Spencer, Theodore. 1 TL (carbon, incomplete) 1947 May 22
corr. Out
( 1 item )

Came with material relating to W. H. Auden

Manuscript box (Auden)     
Susan [--?], TLS 1946 Aug. 2
corr. Out
( 1 item )

Came with material relating to W. H. Auden

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