Box 31
Container
Contains 82 Results:
A correspondence to and from the University of Delaware concerning an open position in the faculty, 1970
Item — Box: 31, Folder: 4
Identifier: Item 3
Scope and Contents
Irving asks for a brief rest period during part of the day because he was weakened from viral hepititis that he caught four years earlier, 9 pages
Dates:
created: 1970
A carbon of a thank you letter to Professor Dobbie, 1968-04-11
Item — Box: 31, Folder: 4
Identifier: Item 4
Scope and Contents
regarding kind words written to Irving about the Beowulf book, 1 page
Dates:
created: 1968-04-11
A letter to and one from Talbot Donaldson, a colleague in the field, 1967-09-22
Item — Box: 31, Folder: 4
Identifier: Item 5
Scope and Contents
Typed on Columbia University letterhead, includes a handwritten rough draft from Ted, 2 pages
Dates:
created: 1967-09-22
A letter from Irving to Nancy Dorian, 1974-12-19
Item — Box: 31, Folder: 4
Identifier: Item 6
Scope and Contents
regarding a piece she had published, 3 pages
Dates:
created: 1974-12-19
A request for a letter of recommendation by Ruth Delfiner, 1979-11-30
Item — Box: 31, Folder: 4
Identifier: Item 7
Scope and Contents
a former student of Irving's, 1 page
Dates:
created: 1979-11-30
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File — Box: 31, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Edward B. Irving (1923-1998), was a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania from 1960 to 1993. He also taught at Yale University. He specialized in medieval literature, but could lecture on a variety of topics from Shakespeare to James Joyce. He was a member of both the Medieval Academy of America and the Modern Language Association of America. He published several books, among them An Introduction to Beowulf which was included in Prentice-Halls’...
Dates:
1930-2001; bulk 1940-1998; Other: Date acquired: 1998
Letters to and from James W. Earl of Cornell University, 1971-03
Item — Box: 31, Folder: 5
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
regarding criticism of a published work, 3 pages
Dates:
created: 1971-03
A letter from Jim Early at Southern Methodist University, 1968-10-31
Item — Box: 31, Folder: 5
Identifier: Item 2
Scope and Contents
regarding the state of the department, 3 pages
Dates:
created: 1968-10-31
A letter to and one from George Fayen, 1967-11-28
Item — Box: 31, Folder: 5
Identifier: Item 3
Scope and Contents
a colleague in the field, 5 pages
Dates:
created: 1967-11-28
A postcard from Robert Farnham, in the former Soviet Union, no date
Item — Box: 31, Folder: 5
Identifier: Item 4
Scope and Contents
Includes another letter during Farnham's travels, personal nature, 3 pages
Dates:
created: no date