Manuscript Group 18 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on March 31, 2018. Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library TCU Box 298400 2800 S. University Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76129-0001 Fort Worth, Texas 76129 LibSpecialCollections@tcu.edu URL: http://lib.tcu.edu/spcoll/
Table of Contents Summary Information... 3 Biographical / Historical... 3 Collection Scope and Content Summary... 4 Arrangement... 4 Administrative Information... 4 Controlled Access Headings... 5 Collection Inventory... 5 Cecil B. Williams Papers... 5 - Page 2 -
Summary Information Repository: Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library Creator: Williams, Cecil B. Title: ID: MS 18 Date [inclusive]: 1925-1972 Date [bulk]: 1939-1959 Physical Description: Cecil B. Williams Papers 11.25 Linear feet Physical Location: Vault DA 1-3, DA 5 Language of the Material: Preferred Citation English Abstract: The papers document the writing and teaching career of Cecil B. Williams. The papers consist of writings, correspondence, and course material. Cecil B. Williams Papers. Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University. ^ Return to Table of Contents Biographical / Historical Born in Spring Creek, W. Va., Cecil Williams earned degrees at Oklahoma State University and the University of Chicago. He served on faculties at McPherson College, DePaul University, and Oklahoma State before coming to TCU. He was a lecturer at Northwestern University and a Fulbright guest professor at the University of Hamburg. Dr. Williams, listed in Who's Who in America and a member of Phi Kappa Phi scholastic fraternity, won the Friends of Literature Award in 1943. He received widespread recognition for In Time of War, a volume of sonnets published in 1943. Author and co-author of numerous college writing texts, he was a frequent contributor to scholarly and popular magazines. Paradise Prairie, a novel, was published - Page 3-
in 1953, and one of his most recent works was a book on Longfellow. A third edition of his Effective Business Communication was issued in August. A life member of Modern Language Association of America, he was active in the Texas Folklore Society, National Council of Teachers of English, American Studies Association and headed the South Central Modern Language Assn. in 1961-62. The scholar, educator and writer edited the official journal of the College Conference on College Composition in Communications in 1959-61. He died September 6, 1966. ^ Return to Table of Contents Collection Scope and Content Summary The papers document the writing and teaching career of Cecil B. Williams. The papers consist of Williams' writings as well as correspondence and course material. His writings make up the majority of the papers. Most of the papers document his career before arriving at Texas Christian University. ^ Return to Table of Contents Arrangement Arranged in one series: Cecil B. Williams Papers, 1925-1972. ^ Return to Table of Contents Administrative Information Publication Statement Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library TCU Box 298400 2800 S. University Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76129-0001 Fort Worth, Texas 76129 LibSpecialCollections@tcu.edu - Page 4-
URL: http://lib.tcu.edu/spcoll/ Conditions Governing Access Collection is open for research. Immediate Source of Acquisition Unknown ^ Return to Table of Contents Controlled Access Headings Texas Christian University -- Faculty Texas Christian University -- History Dept. Collection Inventory Cecil B. Williams Papers, 1925-1972 Date [inclusive]: 1925-1972 Series Scope and Content Summary The papers include correspondence, course material, photographs, and writings. They are arranged alphabetically by topic and chronologically within each topic. While the majority of the papers document Williams' career, they also include limited biographical information, a few photographs, and some personal correspondence. Title/Description Anderson, H. H., 1952-1961 Date [inclusive]: 1952-1961 Instances box 1 Biographical information box 1 Book reviews, 1935-1966 Date [inclusive]: 1935-1966 College Composition and Communication (CCC), 1952-1962 Date [inclusive]: 1952-1962 box 1 box 1-3 College English Association (CEA) -- General, 1943-1959 box 4 - Page 5-
Date [inclusive]: 1943-1959 College English Association (CEA) -- Newsletters (4 folders), 1940-1954 Date [inclusive]: 1940-1954 Correspondence -- English Department, 1930-1960 Date [inclusive]: 1930-1960 Correspondence -- General, 1933-1966 Date [inclusive]: 1933-1966 Correspondence -- Letters of recommendation, 1949-1959 Date [inclusive]: 1949-1959 Correspondence -- Personal, 1925-1959 Date [inclusive]: 1925-1959 Correspondence -- Student advising [theses], 1939-1945 Date [inclusive]: 1939-1945 Correspondence -- Wartime, 1941-1946 Date [inclusive]: 1941-1946 Correspondence -- Williams, Jim [son], 1944-1958 Date [inclusive]: 1944-1958 Correspondence -- Williams, Phillip [son], 1939-1958 Date [inclusive]: 1939-1958 Course material -- Advertising copy, 1940-1943 Date [inclusive]: 1940-1943 Course material -- American Literature, 1947-1957 Date [inclusive]: 1947-1957 box 4 box 4 box 5-7 box 7 box 7-8 box 8 box 8 Course material -- American Literature in the Age of Realism Course material -- Composition, 1946-1955 Date [inclusive]: 1946-1955 Course material -- Creative Writing, 1950 Date [inclusive]: 1950 Course material -- English 8 E [Tech in Reading], 1941 Date [inclusive]: 1941 Course material -- English I, 1933-1941 Date [inclusive]: 1933-1941 Course material -- English III, 1944 - Page 6-
Date [inclusive]: 1944 Course material -- English 112 & 121 [Literature 1660-1800], 1943 Date [inclusive]: 1943 Course material -- English 117 [Advertising copy], 1936 Date [inclusive]: 1936 Course material -- English 182 [American Ideals & Tradition], 1945-1946 Date [inclusive]: 1945-1946 Course material -- English 185-186 [Literature-Colonial Days to 1860] Course material -- English 301, 1945 Date [inclusive]: 1945 box 10 box 10 box 10 Course material -- English 343 box 10 Course material -- English 345-346, 1927-1928 Date [inclusive]: 1927-1928 box 10 Course material -- English 352 [Shakespeare] box 10 Course material -- English 381 box 10 Course material -- English 382 - Drama 1500-1600 box 10 Course material -- General -- Composition notebooks box 10 Course material -- General -- Critiques of poets, novelists box 10 Course material -- General -- Examinations, 1950-1959 Date [inclusive]: 1950-1959 Course material -- General -- Notes, 1935-1945 Date [inclusive]: 1935-1945 Course material -- General -- History of the English Language, 1935-1943 Date [inclusive]: 1935-1943 Course material -- General -- Intro to Poetry, 1948-1954 Date [inclusive]: 1948-1954 DePaul University -- Catalog material, 1941-1942 Date [inclusive]: 1941-1942 DePaul University -- Course outlines, 1939-1942 Date [inclusive]: 1939-1942 DePaul University -- Prospectus for an Anthology of American Writings, 1941 box 10 box 10 - Page 7-
Date [inclusive]: 1941 DePaul University -- Radio Scripts, 1935-1939 Date [inclusive]: 1935-1939 Ephemera, 1947-1958 Date [inclusive]: 1947-1958 Friends of the Middle Border -- Correspondence, 1944-1945 Date [inclusive]: 1944-1945 Friends of the Middle Border -- Middle Border Bulletin, 1944-1954 Date [inclusive]: 1944-1954 Fulbright lecturer [Hamburg, Germany] (3), 1959-1962 Date [inclusive]: 1959-1962 King, B.J., 1953-1954 Date [inclusive]: 1953-1954 Life in Literature, 1940-1948 Date [inclusive]: 1940-1948 National Council of the Teachers of English -- Annual report, 1972 Date [inclusive]: 1972 National Council of the Teachers of English -- Correspondence, 1947-1958 Date [inclusive]: 1947-1958 NDEA Summer Institute [Professor Karl E. Snyder], 1965-1966 Date [inclusive]: 1965-1966 Newsclippings, 1959-1960 Date [inclusive]: 1959-1960 Oklahoma A&M [ephemera], 1927-1928 Date [inclusive]: 1927-1928 Oklahoma Council of the Teachers of English, 1950-1959 Date [inclusive]: 1950-1959 Oklahoma State University -- Course content, 1950-1959 Date [inclusive]: 1950-1959 Oklahoma State University -- English Department minutes, 1941-1959 Date [inclusive]: 1941-1959 Phi Kappa Phi, 1951-1954 box 13 - Page 8-
Date [inclusive]: 1951-1954 Photographs, 1959-1960 Date [inclusive]: 1959-1960 Poetry Society of Oklahoma, 1947-1962 Date [inclusive]: 1947-1962 Scholarships-Fellowships, 1949-1959 Date [inclusive]: 1949-1959 Sigma Tau Delta, 1947-1958 Date [inclusive]: 1947-1958 South Central Modern Language Association, 1942-1963 Date [inclusive]: 1942-1963 Speaking engagements, 1945-1965 Date [inclusive]: 1945-1965 Stillwater Writer's Club, 1954-1959 Date [inclusive]: 1954-1959 Summer Institute for High School Teachers of English, 1965-1968 Date [inclusive]: 1965-1968 Symposium on Writing, 1949-1950 Date [inclusive]: 1949-1950 Texas Christian University [Annual Report], 1965-1966 Date [inclusive]: 1965-1966 Trinity Methodist Church, 1939-1943 Date [inclusive]: 1939-1943 University Broadcasting Council, 1937-1940 Date [inclusive]: 1937-1940 The Westerners Brand Book, 1945-1952 Date [inclusive]: 1945-1952 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1949-1963 Date [inclusive]: 1949-1963 Whittier notes, 1935-1952 Date [inclusive]: 1935-1952 Writer's Club, 1947-1950 Date [inclusive]: 1947-1950 box 13 box 13 box 13 box 13 box 13 box 13 box 13 Writer's workshops, 1943-1958 - Page 9-
Date [inclusive]: 1943-1958 Writings -- Akademische Festschrift: "Regionalism in American Culture [he contributed a chapter to this book], 1961-1963 Date [inclusive]: 1961-1963 Writings -- "America's Nobel Prize Winners", 1938 Date [inclusive]: 1938 Writings -- American Business Writing, 1943-1946 Date [inclusive]: 1943-1946 Writings -- The Anti-Slavery Movement Among the Northern Quakers, 1827-1861", 1932 Date [inclusive]: 1932 Writings -- "Aristocracy in America with Cabell and Hergesheimer", 1930 Date [inclusive]: 1930 Writings -- "Attic Space into Living Space: How we Remodeled Our Home", 1951-1954 Date [inclusive]: 1951-1954 Writings -- A First Course in College Writing, 1959-1967 Date [inclusive]: 1959-1967 Writings -- Basic College English, 1955-1958 Date [inclusive]: 1955-1958 Writings -- "Bassanio as an Ideal Friend", 1930 Date [inclusive]: 1930 Writings -- "Bibligraphy and Historiography, 1932 Date [inclusive]: 1932 Writings -- "The Book Report", 1945-1954 Date [inclusive]: 1945-1954 Writings -- "The Climb", 1947-1954 Date [inclusive]: 1947-1954 Writings -- College Writing, 1949-1960 Date [inclusive]: 1949-1960 Writings -- "The Coming Hunger", 1948-1949 Date [inclusive]: 1948-1949 Writings -- "The Conscientious Golfer", 1954 Date [inclusive]: 1954 box 16 box 17 box 17 Writings -- "Dictators of the Barnyard", 1948 box 17 - Page 10-
Date [inclusive]: 1948 Writings -- "Dividing the Christmas Candy", 1948-1954 Date [inclusive]: 1948-1954 Writings -- "Doctor's Funeral", 1936-1956 Date [inclusive]: 1936-1956 Writings -- "Does the Two-Party System have a Future?", 1949-1952 Date [inclusive]: 1949-1952 Writings -- Effective Business Writing -- Correspondence (4), 1947-1965 Date [inclusive]: 1947-1965 Writings -- Effective Business Writing -- Manuscript (8), 1946 Date [inclusive]: 1946 Writings --"The Eloquence of the North American Indian" [thesis], 1927 Date [inclusive]: 1927 Writings -- "Emerson's Relations to Coleridge and Wordsworth", 1931 Date [inclusive]: 1931 Writings -- "Fate, Fortune, and Providence in Shakespeare's King Lear", 1931 Date [inclusive]: 1931 Writings --"The First Hunt", 1948-1949 Date [inclusive]: 1948-1949 box 17 box 17 box 17 box 17 box 17-18 box 18 box 18 box 18 box 18 Writings -- "For All Time" box 18 Writings -- A Fulbright Year in Germany -- Correspondence (2), 1957-1962 Date [inclusive]: 1957-1962 Writings -- A Fulbright Year in Germany -- Manuscript (3), 1961 Date [inclusive]: 1961 Writings -- A Fulbright Year in Germany -- Notes, 1940-1949 Date [inclusive]: 1940-1949 Writings -- "The Future of Campus Magazines at Oklahoma State University", 1958 Date [inclusive]: 1958 Writings --"The Historical Writings of James Truslow Adams", 1932 box 19 box 19 box 19 box 19 box 19 - Page 11-
Date [inclusive]: 1932 Writings -- "The Historicity of Whittier's Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal"[dissertation], 1933 Date [inclusive]: 1933 Writings -- "A Home Vacation can make a Better Home", 1947-1950 Date [inclusive]: 1947-1950 Writings -- "How do I Love Thee?", 1948-1949 Date [inclusive]: 1948-1949 Writings -- In Time of War, Sonnets for America, 1942-1961 Date [inclusive]: 1942-1961 Writings -- "In Wandering Mazes lost: Freshman Composition Texts", 1958-1959 Date [inclusive]: 1958-1959 Writings -- "Lakefront Learning", 1937 Date [inclusive]: 1937 Writings -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (5), 1963-1965 Date [inclusive]: 1963-1965 Writings -- "Longfellow's Literary Reputation", 1965-1966 Date [inclusive]: 1965-1966 Writings --"Lost in the Tetons", 1948-1949 Date [inclusive]: 1948-1949 Writings -- "A Man Named Mark", 1953 Date [inclusive]: 1953 Writings -- "Mark Twain: American Paradox", 1948-1949 Date [inclusive]: 1948-1949 Writings -- "Mother", 1957-1958 Date [inclusive]: 1957-1958 Writings -- Nick of the Woods [correspondence, manuscript, notes], 1939-1949, 1963 Date [inclusive]: 1939-1949, 1963 Writings -- Oklahoma: Indian Days to State Semi-Centennial -- Correspondence, 1956-1959 Date [inclusive]: 1956-1959 Writings -- Oklahoma: Indian Days to State Semi-Centennial -- Typescript/Publication, 1957 box 19-20 box 20 box 20 box 20 box 20 box 21 box 21 box 21 - Page 12-
Date [inclusive]: 1957 Writings -- Poems, miscellaneous, 1947-1951 Date [inclusive]: 1947-1951 Writings --Paradise Prairie -- Correspondence, 1952-1965 Date [inclusive]: 1952-1965 Writings -- Paradise Prairie -- Manuscript (4), 1953 Date [inclusive]: 1953 Writings -- "Parrington on Cotton Mather", 1930 Date [inclusive]: 1930 Writings -- "The Picture Show", 1944 Date [inclusive]: 1944 Writings -- "Religious Attitudes in Nineteenth Century English Prose", 1931 Date [inclusive]: 1931 Writings -- Report Writing, 1954 Date [inclusive]: 1954 Writings -- A Research Manual -- Correspondence, 1938-1965 Date [inclusive]: 1938-1965 box 23 box 23 box 24 box 24 box 24 box 24 box 24-25 Writings -- A Research Manual -- Notes box 24-25 Writings -- A Research Manual -- Revisions and first drafts (5), 1951 Date [inclusive]: 1951 Writings -- "The Return of an Oklahoman", 1950-1951 Date [inclusive]: 1950-1951 Writings -- "R.M. Bird's Plans for Novels of the Frontier", 1949 Date [inclusive]: 1949 Writings -- "Rogue Characters in Jonson and Middleton", 1930 Date [inclusive]: 1930 Writings -- Short Stories, 1942-1945 Date [inclusive]: 1942-1945 Writings --"The Single Dram", 1948 Date [inclusive]: 1948 Writings -- "Spelling Prize", 1948 Date [inclusive]: 1948 box 24-25 Writings -- Studies in American Literature Since 1850, 1951-1953 - Page 13-
Date [inclusive]: 1951-1953 Writings -- "By Taking Heed", 1948-1949 Date [inclusive]: 1948-1949 Writings --"On Tennessee Williams" Writings -- "Theory and Practice of Walt Whitman", 1928 Date [inclusive]: 1928 Writings -- "This is It: The War on the Home Front", 1945 Date [inclusive]: 1945 Writings -- Thomas Wolfe Fifteen Years After, 1952-1955 Date [inclusive]: 1952-1955 Writings -- "Through the Night" Writings -- "Tillie's Christmas Present", 1948-1952 Date [inclusive]: 1948-1952 Writings -- "The Train Ride", 1948 Date [inclusive]: 1948 Writings -- "Vassar School District No. 32", 1949-1952 Date [inclusive]: 1949-1952 Writings -- "Veteran's Wife", 1951-1952 Date [inclusive]: 1951-1952 Writings -- "In Wandering Mazes Lost": Freshman Composition Texts, 1958-1959 Date [inclusive]: 1958-1959 Writings -- "The Week Before Easter", 1952-1953 Date [inclusive]: 1952-1953 Writings -- "Western Trail" [autobiography], 1948-1949 Date [inclusive]: 1948-1949 Writings -- "Whittier's Relation to Garrison and the "Liberator" Writings -- Whittier's use of Historical Material in Margaret Smith's Journal [publication and notes], 1932-1957 Date [inclusive]: 1932-1957 Writings -- "William Faulkner and the Nobel Prize Awards", 1952-1953 Date [inclusive]: 1952-1953 Writings -- "Year End Thoughts", 1954 - Page 14-
Date [inclusive]: 1954 ^ Return to Table of Contents - Page 15-