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The First Editions Of Stephen Crane's The Black Riders And Other Lines And War Is Kind, Donald Vanouse

The Courier

Vanouse explains how a critical appreciation of two Stephen Crane first editions, which exemplify a synthesis of poetry and book design, can improve our understanding of both the times in which they appeared, and the cultural impact of Crane's verse.

Stephen Crane At Syracuse University: New Findings, Thomas A. Gullason

The Courier

Gullason corrects long-accepted notions about the brief career of Stephen Crane as a Syracuse University student during 1891, and sheds new light on Crane's life during that time.

Stephen Crane At Claverack College: A New Reading, Thomas A. Gullason

The Courier

BEFORE HIS ONE-YEAR STINT as a college student-first at Lafayette College (September to December 1890), then at Syracuse University (January to June 1891) Stephen Crane attended two coeducational preparatory schools with strong Methodist ties: Pennington Seminary (September 1885 to December 1887), and Claverack College and Hudson River Institute (January 1888 to June 1890). Both schools were to play key roles in young Crane's literary, cultural, and intellectual life. The new evidence offered in this essay corrects long-held positions regarding why Stephen left Pennington for Claverack and the "diminished" reputation of Claverack as a preparatory school.

Courier, Volume Xxvii, Number 2, Fall 1992, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

A Dominican Gradual ofSaints, circa 1500 / George Catalano, p. 3 -- Stephen Crane at Claverack College: A New Reading / Thomas A. Gullason, p. 33 -- Fenimore Cooper's Libel Suits / Constantine Evans, p. 47 -- The Kipling Collection at Syracuse / Thomas Pinney, p. 75 -- Fore-edge Paintings at Syracuse University / Jeff Weber, p. 89 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 115.

Courier, Volume Xxv, Number 2, Fall 1990, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Huntington Mansion in New York: Economics of Architecture and Decoration in the 1890s / Isabelle Hyman, p. 3 -- Memories of Maruerite Yourcenar / Mary H. Marshall, p. 31 -- Margurite Yourcenar, Alchemist / Rhoda Lerman, p. 51 -- Legacy for Stephen Crane: the Princeton Writings of the Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane / Thomas A. Gullason, p. 55 -- Punctator's World: a Discursion (Part Five) / Gwen G. Robinson p. 81 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 123.

Courier, Volume Xxv, Number 1, Spring 1990, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Intentional Omissions from the Published Civil War Diaries of Admiral John A. Dalgren / Robert J. Schneller, Jr., p. 3 -- Stephen Crane's Father and the Holiness Movement / Christopher Benfey, p. 27 -- "I Want to Do This Job": More Margaret Bourke-White Letters to Erskine Caldwell / William L. Howard, p. 37 -- The New School of Wood Engraving / Edward A. Gokey, p. 53 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Four) / Gwen G. Robinson, p. 85 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 127.

Stephen Crane's Father And The Holiness Movement, Christopher Benfey

The Courier

Stephen Crane was the son and grandson of prominent Methodist ministers, and it is often assumed that his colorful life of excess and adventure was an understandable rejection of that legacy. But his father's prominence during Crane's childhood was tinged with something close to scandal, and what the son rejected is not entirely clear. Indeed, Crane the novelist seems to have inherited certain traits of character from Crane the minister-tenacity of purpose, intellectual integrity, iconoclastic fearlessness-and adapted them to his own ends.

This article attempts to answer the question: Why did Stephen Crane's father, Jonathan Townley Crane (1819-1880), give up …

Searching For Stephen Crane: The Schoberlin Collection, James B. Colvert

The Courier

This article meticulously recounts the building of the Schoberlin collection, which sought to gather material written by the American novelist Stephen Crane. The task was quite formidable, as competing collectors tried to beat each other to primary sources. The article also points out facts and discrepencies that the sources contain, giving a complex but interesting story about the ill-fated author.

The "Lost" Newspaper Writings Of Stephen Crane, Thomas A. Gullason

The Courier

This article details some of the little-known articles written by Stephen Crane when he was a journalist. He often wrote stories about the local New York society that got him fired from several papers, but served him in creating material for his novels, especially Maggie. The stories are infused with Crane's wit and uncanny sense of irony.

The Stephen Crane Collection At Syracuse University, Edward Lyon

The Courier

This article gives a general overview of the items contained in the Stephen Crane collections at the Syracuse University Libraries. The article divides the collection into letters, manuscripts, presentation inscriptions and annotations, books from Crane's library, and memorabilia. A large portion of the collection is drawn from the Schoberlin collection.

Schoberlin's Annotated Copy Of War Is Kind, Donald P. Vanouse

The Courier

This article explains the controversy that surrounds one of the copies (the Schoberlin copy to be exact) of War Is Kind by Stephen Crane that is contained in Syracuse University's Special Collections. Inaccurate dates, strange annotations, and odd formatting are some of the features that make the copy unique.

New Stephen Crane Letters In The Schoberlin Collection, Paul Sorrentino, Stanley Wertheim

The Courier

This article recreates several letters written by American novelist Stephen Crane, unique to the Schoberlin Collection. By themselves the letters and inscriptions that are reproduced here do not form a coherent narrative; consequently, brief headnotes and footnotes supply the reader with sufficient detail to understand the context of each document.

Newly Discovered Writings Of Mary Helen Peck Crane And Agnes Elizabeth Crane, Paul Sorrentino

The Courier

Although several members of Stephen Crane's immediate family were writers, scholars know little about their work. Thomas A. Gullason

published writings by Crane's parents and brother Jonathan Townley, but other items remain to be studied and possibly printed. Fortunately, Melvin H. Schoberlin preserved holographs and transcripts of documents by Crane's sister, Agnes, and mother, Mary Helen, that further reveal the family's interest in writing. Because the transcripts, which Schoberlin copied from materials once owned by Crane's niece Edith, are unique to the Schoberlin Collection, researchers cannot verify their accuracy. As scholars examine the Collection, though, they will find that he …

A Reminiscence Of Stephen Crane, Paul Sorrentino

The Courier

John S. Mayfield (1904-1983), a curator of rare books and manuscripts at Syracuse University from 1961 to 1971, assembled a small, but noteworthy, collection of material by and about Stephen Crane (1871-1900), one of the University's most famous students. Mayfield himself published several articles on Crane, including three in the Syracuse Library Associates Courier, which he edited from 1962 to 1970. Judging from Mayfield's own notes, one can conclude that he intended to publish, perhaps in the Courier, the following brief reminiscence of Crane.

Hobby-Horses, Horseplay, And Stephen Crane's "Black Riders", Donald Vanouse

The Courier

Not long ago, on a visit to the George Arents Research Library at Syracuse University, I saw a bizarre little illustration on the cover of the Roycroft Quarterly occasioned by the publication of Stephen Crane's first volume of poems, The Black Riders and Other Lines. (Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895). The Roycrofters had substituted polka-dotted rocking horses for the death symbols of Crane's black horsemen. The imagery seemed a surprising anticipation of the Dadaism which occurred about twenty years later in the wake of World War I. The Beardsleyesque, Art Nouveau style of the drawing exemplified the ironies of Crane's …

Lester G. Wells: An Appreciation, Edwin H. Cady

The Courier

This intimate portrait of Syracuse's Lester G. Wells tells the story of a committed scholar, who contributed important scholarship on the famous and enigmatic author Stephen Crane, as well as works on the Oneida Communiry. Mr. Wells also organized the Lena R. Arents Rare Book Room in 1946, and became Syracuse University's first Rare Book Librarian.

Courier, Number 29, 1968, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Front cover(description) -- Swinburne's Autumn in Cornwall -- The Greatest America: A close-up -- S.C. [Stephen Crane] at S.U. -- A Friend gone for a while -- From Mrs. Anna Neagoe -- War declared -- Lafacadio Hearn's The Perfume of Women -- No more Smith -- Hart Crane -- In memory of Rufus Stanley Miller -- More Fred Ellis -- Ekholm of Ithaca -- A few more words abiout Emma G. -- Collectors choice -- A New Voltaire Letter

Courier Volume Iii, Number 4, Whole Number 20, December 1963, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Michel Licht; Adrian Van Sinderen; For Whom the Books are Collected; No.1 and No.2; The Role of the Newspaper Owner; Report; The Old Breed; Stephen Crane's Copy of Maggie; Walter Prescott Webb, 1888-1963; The Cruise of the Dazzler: A Plea; A Clarion Call: Loud and Clear; Scholar in the Wilderness; Wanted; Shakespeare: V. v. V.; John Ruskin Dying; Luck of a Collector; Image of a Poet by Marian Courtney Brown; Free Gratis For Nothing; A Creed to Ponder; Memorials.

Courier Volume Iii, Number 3, Whole Number 19, September 1963, Syracuse University Library Associates

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Ralph Hodgson: 1871-1962 by Ralph L. Schroeder; "In True Friendliness" by Clare Booth Luce; Tryphena and Thomas Hardy; Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath; Did Longfellow Snore?; Librarianship and Publishing; A. C. Swinburne Pardoned from Hanging; Sherlock Holmes and William McKinley; Through A. Conan Doyle's Magic Door; Stephen Crane's Bugs; Abraham Lincoln and Herman Blum; Memorials.

Courier Volume Iii, Number 1, Whole Number 17, March 1963, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The Iron Monster, the Crackling Insects of Onondaga County, and Stephen Crane by Lester G. Wells; Horatio Alger and Ralph D. Gardner; Park Benjamin, Lillian B. Gilkes, and the Lanier Library; I Knew Stephen Crane at Syracuse; Chiromancers off the Scent; How about it, Tar Heels?; The Value of a Box of Old Letters; The Sir John Simeon Collection of Victorian Correspondence; Adult Education Materials; Dawson's of Los Angeles; Page Proofs of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh; Gypsies at Leeds; The Passing of a Great Lady; Leary's Emporium Librorum; Back Numbers of the Courier; James Gibbons Huneker and Dr. Arnold …

Courier Volume Ii, Number 4, Whole Number 16, December 1962, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

On Collecting the Writings of Stephen Crane: A Recollection by Ames W. Williams; The Most Mysterious Manuscript; Missing Numbers; Memorials; Vachel Lindsay: The True Voice of Middle America by H. L. Mencken; Mary Todd Lincoln and Homer Groy; Swinburne and The New Yorker; To Think of Charles Dickens.

Courier Number 2, November 1958, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The Brewster House Typographical Library; A Complete Stephen Crane from Syracuse; A System of Reader Services; Oneida Community in Retrospect; Early English Dictionaries; Paul H. Helms Memorial Library; Trustees Elected; Alonzo Flack; Mari Sandoz; Howells Collection; Galsworthy Desiderata; An Open Letter.