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 Machine readable finding aid created 2006. Description is in English Berg Coll MSS AnsenGuide to the Alan Ansen collection of papers,1942-1953 The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature The New York Public LibraryNew York, New York The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. New York Public Library. Room 320. Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018-2788 (212) 930-0802 brgref@nypl.org http://nypl.org/research/chss/spe/brg/berg.html Staff 2006 Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider Processed and encoded through a gift from Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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 Descriptive Summary Alan Ansen collection of papers, 1942-1953 Ansen, Alan. Berg Coll MSS Ansen72 items The New York Public Library. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
New York, New York
 This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, a journal for 1945 through 1951, and notebooks kept from 1946 to 1947. Subjects Personal Names Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Bush, Douglas, 1896- Griffin, Howard, 1915-1975. Kallman, Chester, 1921- Lewars, Diana Dodge. Spencer, Theodore, 1902-1949. Subjects Ansen, Alan. Document Types Correspondence JournalsNotebooks Administration Information 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

Alan Ansen was an American poet.

 Scope and Content Note

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 Manuscripts & Typescripts Journals & Notebooks 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 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 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 Incoming 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 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