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Courier, Volume Xxx, 1995, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

An Interview with Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie / Paul J. Archambault, p. 5 -- Gustav Stickley and Irene Sargent: United Crafts and The Craftsman / Cleota Reed, p. 35 -- An Interview with Thomas Moore / Alexandra Eyle, p. 51 -- Dr. Freud and Dr. Spock / James Sullivan, p. 75 -- Arna Bontemps's Creole Heritage / Charles L. James, p. 91 -- Peaks of Joy, Valleys of Despair: The History of the Syracuse University Library from 1871 to 1907 / David H. Stam, p. 117 -- The Planning and Funding of the E. S. Bird Library / John Robert …

Foreword And Preface, From Courier, Vol. Xxviii, No. 2, Fall 1993, Robert Fogarty, Mark F. Weimer

The Courier

FOREWARD: When in 1962, I first visited the rare book collection of the Syracuse University Library to begin researching the history of the Oneida Community, I explored the foundation of what is now a distinguished and growing body of material related to America's most complex communal venture. That foundation had been laid when Lester G. Wells, then curator, acquired a full run of the Community periodicals and a substantial body of pamphlets. The "O. C. Collection" as outlined by Wells in his 1961 bibliography* provided me with enough data to grasp the details of Community life reported in their own …

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxviii, No. 1, Spring 1993, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

POST-STANDARD AWARD CITATION, 1993 For Gwen G. Robinson : Gwen Groves Robinson, distinguished scholar-editor of the Syracuse University Library Associates Courier, you have made significant contributions to Syracuse University and to the academic world at large.

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An Interview With Barney Rosset, Mary Beth Hinton

The Courier

The phenomenon known as Grove Press began in 1952 when Barney Rosset bought the small Manhattan publishing venture. It ended in 1985 when Grove was sold to Ann Getty.

On the sixth floor of Bird Library, in the closed stacks, a huge room with row upon row of tall shelves full of boxes, 775 linear feet of Grove Press archives are preserved. They started arriving here in the early 1960s because, as Barney Rosset explained, Syracuse University asked for them. Kathleen Manwaring, who has tended the Grove archives since 1985, gave me a tour.

There was a whole range of …

Omnibus: Precursor Of Modern Television, Mary Beth Hinton

The Courier

"Omnibus" was, to use an expression current during the Golden Age of Television, a "window on the world", through which art, drama, music, dance, history, literature, science and technology, as well as athletics and comedy were brought into American homes by the gentlemanly and articulate host, Alistair Cooke. Between 1952 and 1961, "Omnibus", in seeking new ways to inform and to uplift, expanded the repertoire of television and stimulated the American public's appetite for 'cultural' programming.

In the early 1960s, Syracuse University unexpectedly acquired kinescope recordings of the "Omnibus" television series' first two seasons: 1952-53 and 1953-54. After the Ford …

Artists' Papers In The George Arents Research Library: Sources For The Study Of Twentieth-Century American Art, Mark F. Weimer, Donna Capelle Cook

The Courier

For nearly thirty years the George Arents Research Library for Special Collections at Syracuse University has actively acquired primary materials to support research and study in the field of art history including, as outlined in an internal collection development statement of 1961, "the papers of architects, artists, sculptors, industrial designers, cartoonists, photographers, art critics, educators, and the records of professional associations and galleries". Beginning with the gift of the papers of sculptors James Earle Fraser, Laura Gardin Fraser, and Anna Hyatt Huntington in the 1960s, and continuing to the recent acquisition of collections relating to Diego Rivera and Philip Evergood, …

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxvi, No. 1, Spring 1991, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The following represent selected additions to the Library's special collections made during the academic year 1990-91.

Belluschi, Pietro

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Waugh, Evelyn.

Library Associates: 1968-1978 Transition And Renewal, Elizabeth Mozley

The Courier

This article chronicles the Library Associates of Syracuse University in the late 1960s thtrough the late 1970s. The Library Associates supported Syracuse University, the ongoing publication The Courier, and the construction of the Bird Library during these critical years.

From The Collector's Library: Joel Munsell, Printer And Antiquarian In Albany, New York, Henry S. Bannister

The Courier

Joel Munsell was a true artist and craftsman. His love for fine printing and history became a motivating force in his work. It also kept him from becoming a wealthy man. His real riches are to be found in the fine historical books that came from his press and in the traditions he handed down to his sons.

Joel Munsell's career was long and brought him much recognition, respect and honor and ended only with his death on June 15, 1880.

Lord Byron At The Armenian Monastery On San Lazzaro, Arpena Mesrobian

The Courier

George Gordon, Lord Byron, arrived in Venice on November 11, 1816, a bitter and unhappy man at age 28. He had left England on April 24 in a cloud of controversy and scandal attending the breakup of his short-lived and unsatisfactory marriage.

Immediately after installing himself and his attendants in an apartment in Venice, the young poet sought solace and diversion, finding both in congenial social life and in what became an over-lapping series of ardent love affairs, all well known to the more tolerant Venetians. Eager, too, for mental exercise to distract him from his painful memories, Byron, with …

The Romanian Village In Peter Neagoë'S Short Stories, Ioan A. Popa

The Courier

A Transylvanian immigrant at the beginning of the century, a painter turned writer in Paris in the late twenties, and an active force in the American expatriate movement there, Peter Neagoe (1881-1960) holds a special position in the history of letters. He was best known in the United States between 1930 and 1950 as a painter and writer, and also as the editor of an anthology of the writings of expatriates. However, because of the major theme of his novels and short stories, Neagoe belongs rather to Romanian literature. His main source of inspiration was the Transylvanian village at the …

The A.E. Coppard Papers At Syracuse, Arsiné Schmavonian

The Courier

Some of the most choice collections in the Manuscript Department of Syracuse University Libraries are also among the most modest in extent. The papers of English author and poet A.E. Coppard fit into both categories. Housed comfortably in a single box, fifty-five letters, three short stories in holograph and one speech provide a close look at Coppard's literary theories, criticism, opinions of his own work and that of a few others, reaction to approaches regarding dramatizing, filming or televising his prose works, dealings with publishers, and his activities on behalf of world peace through the Authors' World Peace Appeal in …

The Hughenden Papers: Mother Lode Of Disraeliana, Onesime L. Piette

The Courier

Benjamin Disraeli, who served in Parliament for more than forty years and twice held each of the posts of Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, was indisputably one of the most colorful and influential figures in nineteenth-century British history. Disraeli was also a literary craftsman who wrote several novels reflecting the social and political climate of his times, and he corresponded extensively and engagingly with a wide circle of persons of varying eminence. His speeches in Parliament and on public platforms underscored his political and phrasemaking talents.

Syracuse University Library has an exceptional collection of primary source materials on …

Syracuse University Library, 1871-1972, Daniel Brassell

The Courier

This article chronicles the Syracuse University Library, which existed from 1871-1972. It rose from modest beginnings to a respected position as one of the top academic libraries. In 1972, the Ernest S. Bird Library was opened.

Rudolph Bultmann At Syracuse, Gabriel Vahanian

The Courier

The most distinguished Visiting Professor Syracuse University has had through its Department of Religion (1958-59), Rudolf Bultmann, born in 1884, still dominates the field of New Testament Studies. The University can take exceptional pride in having conferred upon him an honorary doctorate. In addition, the University Library is now the richer for being the recipient of a vast collection of materials originating from Professor Bultmann's eminent public career as well as from his personal life. The correspondence henceforth treasured by the Manuscripts Department of Syracuse University Library contains letters to and from the young promising theologians of the sixties as …

Shaker History In The George Arents Research Library, Sandra G. Brown

The Courier

The Oneida Community and Shaker collections in the George Arents Research Library complement each other as opportunities for research in socio-religious utopianism. The Shakers differ from the Oneida Communists in that the former are a celibate sect. They are similar, however, as examples of 19th century experiments in communal living and industry. A II titles mentioned below are in the Shaker Collection in the Rare Book Department of the Library.

The Perfectionist Standard : Reading And Study In The Oneida Community, Constance Noyes Robertson

The Courier

" ... Here is a man who interrogates the squirrels and trees to some purpose, who does not deal with 'hearsay and old clothes. Undoubtedly, Walden is the most original, sincere and unaffected book recently issued from the press. It is woody, resinous and strong with ground-smell. There are none of the scents of roses, pinks and violets in it." This, after a long deliberation, was the opinion of the Oneida Communists concerning a famous contemporary. They published the review ten years late, in the Community Circular for March 11 th, 1864. Characteristically, they added a retroactive self-criticism. "Ten years …

Courier Volume V, Number 1, Whole Number 24, Winter 1965, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The philosophy of book collecting in a University Library by J. Terry Bender -- Norman H. Strouse and the Passionate Pirate -- Byron the poet -- A Byron letter -- J. Frank Dobie: Way out in the fore -- How much is this worth -- William Morris Demurs -- Sydney Carlyle Cockerell -- A Robert Frost rarity -- Camp Ford, C.S.A. -- Lesser Witnesses by John F. Reed -- A vanished world -- Opening a new book -- Sallie and Charles Kohen: Donors de luxe --

Courier, Number 25, 1965, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The search for Rudyard Kipling by Morton N. Cohen -- M. de Voltaire and Mr. Warren E. Dey -- The Mayfield Library -- Guilty or not guilty -- Authenticating my portrait by Modigliani -- To Stephencraneites - Burrs -- Ravenous curse -- Michel Licht -- Smith -- The Image of Robert Frost -- On a Hasidic Theme -- Adam and Eve wore breeches by T. D. MacGregor -- The authorship of Barrack Room Ballads by Lord Dunsany

Courier Volume Iv, Number 1, Whole Number 21, March 1964, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Article about Konrad Bercovici, author of Roumanian tales and novels. His daughter gave his books, papers, manuscripys, published and unpublished and extensive corrospondence to Syracuse University. Also given to the Library was "one of the most beautiful Book of Hours ever seen in this part of the world".

Other recent additions of Special Collections material are described.