Correspondence with publishers

Title: Correspondence with publishers

Dates of Material:

1945 – 1991

Extent:

1.25 m of textual records

Scope and content

Series consists of correspondence with publishers (companies, universities, journals) relating to publications, permissions to publish and offprints.

NOTE(S)

Source of supplied title

Title based on contents of the series.

Arrangement

Files arranged according to publisher.

Extent

The series is stored in 12 boxes.

Finding aids

File list available (see below).

1988, Box 56
BOX	FILE	TITLE	YEAR	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
1988
56	1	Correspondence and publication agreements with House of Anansi Press	1970-1971, 1973-1974, 1976-1977, 1980-1985	Includes certificate of preferred shares, printed brochures and letters to shareholders.
56	2	Correspondence and publication agreements with Harper & Row	1980, 1982-1986	Includes promotion brochure for The Harper Handbook to Literature, draft of an entry on Canadian Literature prepared by Geo. B. Perkins and typescript drafts of entries for The Handbook.
56	3	Correspondence and publication agreement with Harper & Row	1974, 1978, 1981-1982	Includes lists of terms and drafts of entries for the proposed "Practical Guide to Literature", later The Harper Handbook to Literature, and promotion brochure for The Practical Imagination: An Introduction to Poetry.
56	4	Correspondence with the Macmillan Company of Canada about contributors to the College Classics in English Series, of which Frye was Editor-in-Chief	1965-1971, 1978, 1980, 1983	Includes reprint of Frye's entry on Wm. Blake for The Encyclopedia of Philosophy; drafts of an introduction, chronologies and texts for the Shakespeare volumes in the College Classics Series.
56	5	Correspondence with the Macmillan Company of Canada about contributors to and texts in the College Classics in English series	1962-1964	Includes agreement with Macmillan covering Frye's association as editor-in-chief for the series.
56	6	Correspondence with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich about contributors to and texts in the series Literature: Uses of the Imagination	1967-1968, 1970-1974, 1983	Includes copies of the original agreement of 1967 and a 1974 addendum.
1988, Box 57
57	1	Letter from Harcourt Brace and World serving as a memorandum of agreement between Frye and the Company for the development of a series of literature anthologies for secondary schools	1966	Includes draft of an introductory section entitled "A systematic approach to the study of literature" and drafts of material for the series.
57	2	Correspondence with W.T. Jewkes concerning sections of the literature anthologies to be published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	1968	Includes xerox copies of texts for inclusion.
57	3	Drafts of the general editor's introduction to the HBJ series and miscellaneous parts.
57	4	Drafts of the general editor's introduction and Part Four of the HBJ series.
57	5	Correspondence with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich concerning the contributing editors to The Survey of British Literature and texts	1972-1974	Includes memoranda to the editors, instructions for the preparation of copy and lists of British literature used in the Norton and Oxford UP anthologies.
57	6	Correspondence with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1965, 1967-1969, 1971-1972) regarding The Survey of British Literature and contributors	1964-1965, 1965, 1967-1969, 1971-1972	Includes copies of agreements (1964-1965) between Frye and the Company.
57	7	Correspondence with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1967-1975, 1977-1978) regarding publications and proof copies sent for comment	1967-1975, 1977-1978	Includes agreements for Selected Essays of Northrop Frye (1963); Major British Writers, a 1-volume school edition, (1966); Major Writers of America, a 1-volume edition, (1965); Major Writers of America, volumes 1 and 2 (1960); an introduction and selection of works for "Lord Byron: Introduction and selections" for an enlarged edition of Major British Writers (1958).
57	8	Correspondence with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich regarding preparation of the manuscript and publication of The Great Code	1971, 1979-1984	Includes list of requests for review copies, proof copy of the dust jacket, xerox copies of pages with errors and the publication agreement.
1988, Box 58
58	1–6	Requests for literary contributions declined
1988, Box 59
Correspondence with universities and university presses, publishers and journals.]
59	1-4	Requests for literary contributions declined
59	5	Athabasca University	1985	Correspondence (1985) regarding the inclusion in a monograph of Frye's paper "Language as the home of human life" delivered at the "Salute to Scholarship" Colloquium.
59	5	Cornell University Press	1985	Correspondence (1985) regarding Frye's essay "Romance as the survival of Eros"; "Questions and Answers" published in Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism. Includes copy of the publication agreement and typescript draft of the essay.
59	5	Institute for Vico Studies, New York	1984-1985	Correspondence (1984-1985) regarding the Vico and Joyce Conference (1985), to which Frye contributed a paper "Cycle and apocalypse in Finnegans Wake".
59	5	McMaster University	1985	Correspondence (1985) regarding Frye's paper "Culture and society in Ontario 1784-1984" given at the Ontario Bicentennial History Conference.
59	5	Scholars Press	1985	Correspondence (1985) regarding Frye's essay "The expanding world of metaphor" published in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Includes typescript draft of the essay and proof copy.
59	5	Simon Fraser University	1981-1985	Correspondence (1981-1985) regarding the Art and Reality Conference (1982) and Frye's introduction to the published proceedings of the conference.
59	5	University of Kentucky	1983-1984	Correspondence (1983-1984) about a proposed "Annual of Lacanian Studies", for which Frye prepared an essay. [The annual was never published and Frye's essay "Lacan et la parole dans sa plénitude" was published without permission in Ornicar.]
59	5	University of Toronto	1985	Correspondence (1985) regarding Frye's essay on the Book of Ruth for the Festschrift in honour of William Blissett.
59	5	Western Illinois University	1985	Correspondence (1985) regarding the reprinting of Frye's essay "Towards defining an age of sensibility" in a volume for Jean Hagstrum.
59	6	Blake, an Illustrated Quarterly	1983-1984	Correspondence (1983-1984) regarding the volume Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism, to which Frye contributed the essay, "The survival of Eros in poetry".
59	6	Brown University/Bar Ilan University	1982-1984	Correspondence (1982-1984) regarding publication of the proceedings of the conference on "Biblical Patterns in Modern Literature", in which Frye participated.
59	6	Carleton University	1984	Correspondence (1984) regarding Frye's essay "The world as music and idea in Wagner's Parsifal" for a Festschrift in honour of Ernst Oppenheimer.
59	6	Michigan Quarterly Review	1985	Correspondence (1985) regarding publication of a lecture given by Frye in Michigan.
59	6	Modern Language Association of America	1983-1984	Correspondence (1983-1984) regarding publication of Frye's address "Literary and linguistic scholarship in a postliterate world" in PMLA.
59	6	Modern Language Association of America	1984	Correspondence (1984) regarding Frye's reply to a response by Lawrence W. Hyman to an article published by Frye in PMLA. Includes copies of Hyman's letter to the editor, Frye's reply and publication agreement with the MLA.
59	6	The Georgia Review	1982, 1984	Correspondence (1982, 1984) regarding Frye's essay "Myth as the matrix of literature" for the Review.
59	6	The Southern Review	1983-1984	Correspondence (1983-1984) regarding a special issue on T.S. Eliot.
59	6	Université d'Ottawa	1985	Correspondence (1985) regarding a contribution by Frye to the second of a two-volume collection of documents and essays on Marshall McLuhan's writings.
59	6	University of Toronto	1983-1984	Correspondence (1983-1984) regarding publication of Lyric Poetry: Beyond the New Criticism, to which Frye contributed the essay "Approaching the lyric". Includes copy of publication agreement with Cornell University Press.
59	6	University of Toronto	1985	Correspondence (1985) regarding two scripts by Frye for Columns.
59	6	University of Toronto Press	1984-1985	Correspondence (1984-1985) regarding publication of papers from the symposium on Blake at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
59	7	David Milne Catalogue: paintings and writings	1981-1982	Correspondence (1981-1982) regarding Frye's foreword to the Milne Catalogue.
59	7	St. Michael's College	1983	Correspondence (1983) regarding inclusion of Frye's essay "The world as music and idea in Wagner's Parsifal" in a volume of the series Studies in Art and Religious Interpretation.
59	7	Studies in Romanticism	1981-1983	Correspondence (1981-1983) regarding an article by Frye for Studies.
1988, Box 60
60	1	Aya Press	1980-1982	Correspondence (1980-1982) about Frye's introduction to a book of poems by Giorgio Bassani in English translation. [Original poems from Epitaffio and In gran segreto; translation entitled Rolls Royce and Other Poems.] Includes critique of the ms by M. Dolzani, xerox copies of poems and translations and xerox copies of introductions to Epitaffio and In gran segreto.
60	1	Reading for Writing	1982	Correspondence (1982) with Elizabeth Cowan regarding an essay for her book.
60	1	Studies in Romanticism	1980-1981, 1980-1982	Correspondence (1980-1981) requesting a critical reminiscence to celebrate the 20th year of the journal's appearance. Correspondence (1980-1982) regarding the essay, "The meeting of the past and future in William Morris", for the Erdman Festschrift.
60	1	The Ethos Cultural Development Foundation	1982	Correspondence (1982) about a revision of the article, "The ouroboros", to accompany an edition of poems by Janis Rapoport and evocations by Timothy Findley. Includes information about Ethos: A New Canadian Literary Review.
60	1	Valparaiso University, Indiana	1981-1982	Correspondence (1981-1982) regarding the publication of a revised version of an address Frye had given 20 years earlier.
60	2	Aurora: New Canadian Writing 1980	1980	Correspondence (1980) regarding publication of a taped discussion between Robert Fulford and Frye.
60	2	CBC Radio - IDEAS	1981	Correspondence (1981) with G. Sherman.
60	2	Descant	1981	Correspondence (1981) regarding publication of an interview with Frye in April 1980. Includes text of the interview, "Canadian energy, dialogues on creativity: Northrop Frye".
60	2	Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.	1980	Correspondence (1980) regarding promotion of The Practical Imagination.
60	2	Indirections	1981	Correspondence (1981) regarding the publication of Frye's address to the 1980 Fall Conference of OCTE.
60	2	New Literary History	1980-1981	Correspondence (1980-1981) regarding publication of Frye's article "Literary history".
60	2	New Literary History	1981	Correspondence (1981) regarding Frye's contribution to the issue on "Interpretation and literary history".
60	2	Quaderni d'italianistica	1980	Correspondence (1980) regarding Frye's article for an upcoming issue.
60	2	Science	1981	Correspondence (1981) regarding Frye's article "The bridge of language". Includes copyright assignment forms.
60	2	The Iowa Review	1979-1980	Correspondence (1979-1980) regarding possible publication of a Frye essay, "The meaning of recreation: humanism in society".
60	2	University of Toronto Press	1979-1980	Correspondence (1979-1980) about the publication of Creation and Recreation. Includes description of the volume and typescript of the notes.
60	2	University of Toronto Quarterly	1980	Correspondence (1980) regarding publication of "Across the river and out of the trees".
60	2	VUSAC	1980	Correspondence (1980) regarding Frye's introduction to The Handbook. Includes copy.
60	2	VUSAC	1981	Correspondence (1981) regarding Frye's introduction to The Handbook. Includes xerox copy.
60	3	Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.	1978-1980	Correspondence (1978-1980) regarding preparation and publication of The Practical Imagination. Includes outline of the poetry section and promotional brochure for the volume.
60	3	Language Arts	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding an interview with Frye. Includes typescript of the interview.
60	3	Politika		Copy of an interview with Frye for a Belgrade review.
60	4	Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding Frye's essay "Literature, history, and language" for the Bulletin.
60	4	CEA Critic	1978-1979	Correspondence (1978-1979) regarding a special issue on Frye. Includes list of possible contributors.
60	4	Curriculum Inquiry	1978	Correspondence (1978) regarding publication of an address by Frye, "The teacher's source of authority", to the American Educational Research Association.
60	4	Vic Report	1978	Correspondence (1978) regarding publication of an interview with Frye. Includes two draft typescripts of the interview.
60	4	VUSAC	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding Frye's message to the class of 8T3 for The Handbook.
60	5	Columbia University Press	1976	Correspondence (1976) regarding Frye's essay, "History and myth in the Bible", for The Literature of Fact: Selected Papers from the English Institute.
60	5	Critical Inquiry	1974-1976	Correspondence (1974-1976) regarding publication of Frye's essay "Expanding eyes". Includes a subscription brochure.
60	5	Harvard University Press	1977	Correspondence (1977) regarding Frye's essay, "Haunted by lack of ghosts: some patterns in the imagery of Canadian poetry", for The Canadian Imagination.
60	5	Literary History of Canada	1971-1977	Correspondence (1971-1977) regarding selection of contributors for the updated edition, bulletins and a promotional brochure for Vols. 1-3.
60	5	Modern Language Association of America	1976	Correspondence (1976) regarding the ADE/ADFL Bulletin manuscripts, for which Frye provided the introduction.
60	5	Semeia	1975	Correspondence (1975) regarding the possibility of developing an issue devoted to Frye's book on the Bible.
60	5	University of Alabama	1976-1977	Correspondence (1976-1977) regarding publication of Frye's essay "Romance as masque" in Shakespeare's Romances Reconsidered by the University of Nebraska Press.
60	5	University of Toronto, Information Services	1976-1977	Correspondence (1976-1977) regarding publication of Frye's reminiscences about his university days in The Graduate.
60	6	Alternatives in Education	1972	Correspondence (1972) regarding publication of the volume in Britain.
60	6	Arion	1972	Correspondence (1972) regarding correction of galley proofs.
60	6	Canadian Review of Comparative Literature	1974	Correspondence (1974) regarding publication of a lecture by Frye on "Literature and language" given at the Learned Societies' Meetings.
60	6	Commission to Study the Rationalisation of University Research	1971-1972	Correspondence (1971-1972) regarding publication of an essay on the nature or the concept of research in universities. Includes information about the Commission.
60	6	Cornell University Press	1971	Correspondence (1971) about reprinting an essay by Frye, "The critical path", originally published in a 1970 issue of Daedulus.
60	6	Douglas Duncan	1970	Frye's reminiscences about Duncan sent to Alan Jarvis, 1970.
60	6	Essays and Studies	1971	Correspondence (1971) regarding Frye's acceptance to contribute to the publication.
60	6	Giulio Einaudi Editore, Turin	1972	Correspondence (1972) regarding Frye's introduction to the Italian translation of I. Layton's poems, Il freddo verde elemento.
60	6	Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg	1974	Correspondence (1974) regarding publication of Frye's essay "The Renaissance of books" in Visible Language. Includes abstract and biographical sketch of Frye.
60	6	Musson Book Company	1972	Correspondence (1972) requesting Frye to provide a foreword to a proposed volume of photography by Ameleto Lorenzini.
60	6	Tavistock Publications, London, England	1968-1970	Correspondence (1968-1970) regarding Higher Education: Demand and Response, a volume derived from the Quail Roost conference of December 1968, to which Frye contributed the paper, "The university and personal life: student anarchism and the educational contract".
60	6	Teachers College Press, New York	1974-1975	Correspondence (1974-1975) regarding The Child as critic and Frye's introduction to it.
60	6	The Canadian Forum	1970	Correspondence (1970) with Milton Wilson about The Canadian Forum. Includes a short history of The Forum by Frye.
60	6	The Globe Magazine	1971	Correspondence (1971) regarding the publication of sections of the preface to The Bush Garden.
60	6	The National Gallery of Canada/Elvehjem Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin	1971-1973	Correspondence (1971-1973) regarding an introduction by Frye, "Canadian scene: explorers and observers", to the catalogue for the exhibition, "The Artist and the Land/Canadian Landscapes, 1670-1930", and permission to reproduce parts for Art News.
60	6	The Royal Society of Canada	1974	Correspondence (1974) regarding publication of the Acts of the Copernicus Symposium, to which Frye contributed the essay, "The times of the signs". Includes an abstract of the article for translation into French.
60	6	The University News Bureau, University of Toronto	1971	Correspondence (1971) regarding reprinting of an address by Frye, "Quality of life in the seventies", from The Graduate.
60	6	University of Waterloo	1972	Text of an address presenting Frye for an honorary Doctor of Letters degree, 1972.
60	6	University of Western Ontario	1972	Correspondence (1972) regarding Frye's contribution to the P.R. Samson volume.
60	6	Yale University Press	1971	Correspondence (1971) regarding Frye's essay, "Wallace Stevens and the variation form".
60	6	Yale University Press	1972-1973	Correspondence (1972-1973) regarding Frye's contribution, "Wallace Stevens and the variation form", to the Festschrift for W.K. Wimsatt.
60	7	Artscanada	1968	Correspondence (1968) regarding Frye's article, "The myth of light". Includes contract.
60	7	Association of Master Teachers, York Central District High Schools	1967	Correspondence (1967) regarding a talk by Frye in the Association's Centennial Series.
60	7	Book World	1968	Correspondence (1968) regarding a statement on student unrest by Frye. Includes statement.
60	7	Brown University	1966-1968	Correspondence (1966-1968) regarding Frye's essay, "Blake's reading of the Book of Job", for William Blake: Essays for S. Foster Damon.
60	7	Canadian Mental Health Association	1968	Correspondence (1968) regarding Frye's essay for a publication celebrating the Association's Golden Jubilee.
60	7	Claremont Reading Conference	1969	Correspondence (1969) regarding publication of Frye's contribution, "Sign and significance", to the Yearbook.
60	7	Contemporary Literature	1968	Correspondence (1968) regarding publication of Frye's paper on value judgments prepared for the MLA meeting.
60	7	Kent State University	1964	Correspondence (1964) regarding the revision of Frye's history of Blake scholarship to be undertaken by Martin Nurmi.
60	7	McMaster University	1967	Correspondence (1967) regarding publication of Frye's Whidden Lectures (The Modern Century) by Oxford University Press.
60	7	Memorial University of Newfoundland	1968	Correspondence (1968) about an essay on E.J. Pratt, "Silence in the sea".
60	7	Midcentury Authors	1966	Correspondence (1966) regarding Frye's sketch for the publication.
60	7	Midwest Monographs	1968	Correspondence (1968) regarding a contribution by Frye to a special issue on T.S. Eliot's Fragment of an Agon.
60	7	Modern Language Association of America	1968-1969	Correspondence (1968-1969) regarding a revised edition of Aims and Methods of Literary Research.
60	7	Odyssey Press	1966	Correspondence (1966) regarding Frye's essay, "Design as a creative principle in the arts", for The Hidden Harmony honoring Philip Wheelwright.
60	7	Princeton University	1965	Correspondence (1965) regarding Frye's essay, "Literature and myth", for the MLA volume.
60	7	Shakespeare Survey	1968	Correspondence (1968) regarding a paper by Frye.
60	7	Strumenti critici	1968-1969	Correspondence (1968-1969) about reprinting Frye's essay, "Mythos and logos", in Strumenti.
60	7	The Shakespeare Institute	1968	Correspondence (1968) regarding Frye's paper read at the International Shakespeare Conference.
60	7	The Southern Review	1968-1969	Correspondence (1968-1969) regarding publication of Frye's essay, "The top of the tower: a study of the imagery of Yeats".
60	7	The University of Western Ontario	1968-1969	Correspondence (1968-1969) regarding Frye's article, "The revelation to Eve", for the volume Paradise Lost: A Tercentenary Tribute.
60	7	University of British Columbia	1961	Correspondence (1961) with George Woodcock regarding a note on Malcolm Lowry for a special issue.
60	7	University of California, Riverside	1964	Correspondence (1964) concerning Frye's contribution to the Festschrift for Philip Wheelwright. Includes a copy of Varsity Graduate, Spring 1961.
60	7	University of Kentucky Centennial Humanities Conference	1965	Correspondence (1965) regarding the progress of Frye's paper, "Speculation and concern".
60	7	Varsity, University of Toronto	1969	Correspondence (1969) regarding the definition of "university". Includes Frye's reply to be published in the Varsity.
60	7	Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature	1968-1969	Correspondence (1968-1969) regarding publication of Frye's article, "Mythos and logos", for the Yearbook. Includes copy of the abstract.
1988, Box 61
61	1	Princeton University Press	1951-1952, 1953, 1955-1959, 1964	Correspondence (1951-1952, 1955-1959, 1964) regarding publication of Fearful Symmetry, Anatomy of Criticism. Includes royalty statements for Anatomy and Fearful Symmetry; requests to read manuscripts submitted to the Press; and some correspondence (1953) with Princeton University regarding visiting lectureships.
61	2	Associated Book Publishers Ltd.	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding The Stubborn Structure.
61	2	Beacon Press	1960-1965, 1968	Correspondence (1960-1965, 1968) regarding Frye's participation as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee, re-issue in paperback of Fearful Symmetry and retirement from the Committee in 1965.
61	2	Bellhaven House Ltd.	1967-1968	Correspondence (1967-1968) regarding publication of Frye's CBC talk on George Orwell (Trans-Canada Matinée, January 1965) as a foreword to a Canadian Educational Edition of Orwell's 1984.
61	2	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	1962, 1980, 1982-1983	Correspondence (1962, 1980, 1982-1983) regarding an agreement to broadcast the Massey Lectures and the printing of The Educated Imagination. Includes summary of book for promotional copy.
61	2	Columbia University Press	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding A Natural Perspective.
61	2	Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd.	1962, 1965	Correspondence (1962, 1965) regarding an honorarium for Frye's chapter, "The rising of the moon", in An honoured guest and a request for comments on D. Hine's The Wooden Horse. Includes memorandum of agreement between Frye and Arnold Publishers, 1962.
61	2	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding Fables of Identity.
61	2	Harvard University Press	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding The Secular Scripture.
61	2	Holt, Rinehart and Winston	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding "Paradise Lost" and Selected Poetry and Prose. Includes IRS form.
61	2	Indiana University Press	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding The Educated Imagination, Spiritus Mundi, The Well-tempered Critic and The Critical Path.
61	2	Oliver & Boyd	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding book on T.S. Eliot in the Writers and Critics Series. Anansi. Correspondence (1979) regarding The Bush Garden.
61	2	Oxford University Press	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding The Modern Century.
61	2	Princeton University Press	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding Anatomy of Criticism and Fearful Symmetry.
61	2	Random House Inc.	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding A Study of English Romanticism and William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose.
61	2	University of Toronto Press	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding Fools of Time and The Return of Eden.
61	2	Viking Penguin Inc.	1979	Correspondence (1979) regarding Frye's edition of The Tempest.
61	3	Clarke, Irwin & Co. Ltd.	1959	Memorandum of agreement (1959) regarding the publication of an installation address.
61	3	Corpus instrumentorum	1969	Correspondence (1969) regarding the possibility of publishing Frye's work. Includes printed house list.
61	3	Garland Publishing Inc.	1986	Correspondence (1986) regarding a complimentary copy of the Arthurian Encyclopedia. Includes printed publisher's list.
61	3	Harvester Press	1982-1983	Correspondence (1982-1983) regarding a proposal to publish a volume of Frye's collected papers.
61	3	Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.	1960, 1969-1971, 1977, 1982	Correspondence (1960, 1969-1971, 1977, 1982) regarding complimentary copies of books and IRS forms.
61	3	Hudson Review	1967-1968	Correspondence (1967-1968) regarding permission to reprint articles by Frye published in the journal and a book review commitment.
61	3	Macmillan & Co.-U.K.	1963-1964	Correspondence (1963-1964) regarding a proposed 1-volume combined edition of The Educated Imagination and The Well-tempered Critic.
61	3	Macmillan Co. of India Ltd.	1971	Correspondence (1971) regarding a complimentary book.
61	3	McClelland and Stewart Ltd.	1971	Correspondence (1971) regarding a photograph of Frye.
61	3	McGraw Hill Book Co.	1970, 1977	Correspondence (1970, 1977) regarding a reprint of a passage from a Frye essay for the 6th edition of Dudley and Faricy's The Humanities.
61	3	Rinehart & Co., Inc.	1949	Memorandum of agreement (1949) for "Paradise Lost" and Selected Poetry and Prose.
61	3	W.J. Gage Ltd.	1961	Correspondence (1961) regarding a publishing venture aimed at High School students.
61	4	Methuen & Co. Ltd.	1969-1971, 1973-1974, 1980	Correspondence (1969-1971, 1973-1974, 1980) regarding the publication of a collection of essays, The Stubborn Structure. Includes proof of jacket cover.
61	5	Odyssey Press	1970	Correspondence (1970) and memorandum of agreement regarding Frye's position as editor-in-chief of a college classics in English series.
61	5	Oliver and Boyd, Ltd.	1963, 1967-1969, 1972, 1979	Correspondence (1963, 1967-1969, 1972, 1979) regarding the publication and reprinting of T.S. Eliot.
61	5	Penguin Books Inc.	1969	Correspondence (1969) concerning Canadian Writing Today. Includes agreement for an edition of The Tempest.
61	5	Prentice-Hall Inc.	1962, 1965-1966	Correspondence (1962, 1965-1966) regarding Blake: A Collection of Critical Essays.
61	6	Random House, Inc.	1962-1969, 1974	Correspondence (1962-1969, 1974) regarding publication and reprinting of A Study of English Romanticism. Includes author's questionnaire, guidelines for proof readers, a bibliography on romanticism, IRS form and agreement to publish (1963).
61	6	Routledge & Kegan Paul	1981, 1983-1984	Correspondence (1981, 1983-1984) regarding the publication and sales of The Great Code.
61	6	Wadsworth Publishing Co. Ltd.	1965-1966	Correspondence (1965-1966) regarding Frye's participation in the preparation of a Dictionary of Literary Terms. Includes a printed annual report for 1964.
61	6	Xerox Corporation	1966	Correspondence (1966), agreement to produce an enlarged copy of Paradise Lost, and copyright release.
1988, Box 62
62	1	Kentucky University Press	1966	Correspondence (1966) concerning the publication of Frye's paper at the Centennial Conference on "The Humanities and the Understanding of Reality".
62	1	McGill-Queen's University Press	1971	Correspondence (1971) concerning manuscripts including Looking for Philosophy by Francis Sparshott.
62	1	Ohio State University Press	1964, 1967	Correspondence (1964, 1967) regarding plans to publish a collection of essays, to which Frye will contribute one on Blake.
62	1	Oxford University Press	1967-1969	Correspondence (1967-1969) regarding publication of the Whidden Lectures (The Modern Century), sale of translation rights, corrections of the French translation, the Italian translation, the Galaxy Book edition and complimentary copies of new titles.
62	1	University of Michigan Press	1964-1965, 1967, 1969	Correspondence (1964-1965, 1967, 1969) regarding comments on manuscripts and advice on titles for publication in paperback.
62	1	University of Pennsylvania Press	1972	Correspondence (1972) regarding a complimentary copy of Louis Mackey's Kierkegaard: A Kind of Poet.
62	2	Princeton University Press	1959-1977, 1979, 1983-1985	Correspondence (1959-1977, 1979, 1983-1985) concerning Fearful Symmetry and The Anatomy of Criticism and paperback editions of both; copyright renewal; and manuscripts by other authors. Includes copy of a new preface for the paperback edition of Fearful Symmetry, IRS forms, and memoranda of agreement.
62	3	Rutgers University Press	1971	Correspondence (1971) about a Festschrift for Francis Fergusson.
62	3	Southern Illinois University Press	1971	Correspondence (1971) about a complimentary copy of the revised edition of Comparative Literature: Method and Perspective.
62	4	University of Toronto Press	1962, 1964-1967, 1969-1977, 1979, 1981-1983, 1986	Correspondence (1962, 1964-1967, 1969-1977, 1979, 1981-1983, 1986) regarding The Fools of Time, Design for Learning, "Agon and logos: revolution and revelation", Creation and Recreation, Myth of Deliverance and a proposed project on contemporary Canadian art. Included are memoranda of agreement, copy of the abstract of Jay Macpherson's thesis, invoice.
62	5	Yale University Press	1967, 1972, 1976, 1984	Correspondence (1967, 1972, 1976, 1984) requesting Frye's opinion about manuscripts and about Frye's essay for the Wimsatt Festschrift.
62	6	Brown University Press	1968-1969, 1971-1972	Correspondence (1968-1969, 1971-1972) requesting Frye's opinion about manuscripts and regarding his essay in the Blake Festschrift for S. Foster Damon.
62	6	California University Press	1966-1967, 1971	Correspondence (1966-1967, 1971) regarding Frye's essay in The Hidden Harmony and his opinion on manuscripts.
62	6	Cambridge University Press	1972, 1986	Correspondence (1972, 1986) regarding the inclusion of Frye's essay, "Old and new comedy", in Sylvan Barnet's anthology and a meeting with press representatives.
62	6	Chicago University Press	1964, 1966, 1973, 1980-1983, 1985	Correspondence (1964, 1966, 1973, 1980-1983, 1985) regarding permission to use an excerpt from a Frye essay; contribution to The Knowledge Most Worth Having; publication of T.S. Eliot in the Press's Phoenix paperback line; and co-publication with Harvester Press of A Study of English Romanticism. Includes memoranda of agreement and a bibliography of T.S. Eliot.
62	7	Columbia University Press	1965-1966, 1968, 1979-1980	Correspondence (1965-1966, 1968, 1979-1980) regarding A Natural Perspective and an essay for the English Institute volume (1968).
62	7	Cornell University Press	1967-1972, 1975	Correspondence (1967-1972, 1975) regarding publication of The Stubborn Structure in the Studies in Humanities series and publication of Frye's essays in collections; and requests for advice about titles for publication in paperback.
62	7	Harvard University Press	1973-1982	Correspondence (1973-1982) regarding publication of The Secular Scripture. Includes contract and index.
62	8	Indiana University Press	1962-1977, 1984	Correspondence (1962-1977, 1984) regarding publication of The Educated Imagination, The Critical Path, The Well-Tempered Critic, Spiritus Mundi. Includes lists of book review journals and publishing contracts.
1988, Box 63
Requests for copies and for permission to reprint (1962-1985)
63	1	Correspondence (1969-1971, 1976) with university presses, publishers and journals requesting permission to reprint essays.	1969-1971, 1976
63	2	Correspondence (1981) requesting copies of a baccalaureate address and "A literate person".	1981
63	2	Correspondence (1981-1982) requesting copies of Frye's address "The bridge of language".	1981-1982
63	2	Correspondence (1982) requesting copies of "Literature as a critique of pure reason" and "Parsifal".	1982
63	2	Correspondence (1983) requesting copies of "Literary and linguistic scholarship in a postliterate world", "Where metaphors and equations meet: a convergence of the arts and sciences", and "The bridge of language".	1983
63	2	Correspondence (1984) requesting copies of "Expanding the boundaries of literature".	1984
63	2	Correspondence (1985) requesting copies of "Language as the home of human life", "The mythical approach to creation", and "Myth as the matrix of literature".	1985
63	3	Correspondence (1978) requesting copies of Frye's Installation address, his address upon receiving the Royal Bank Award, "The teacher's source of authority", and a bibliography of Frye's work.	1978
63	3	Correspondence (1979) requesting copies of "The responsibility of the critic".	1979
63	3	Correspondence (1980) requesting copies of "The teacher's source of authority", "Wallace Stevens and the variation form", and issues of the CEA Critic devoted to Frye.	1980
63	4	Correspondence (1973) requesting a copy of a Frye bibliography and an article "The search for acceptable words".	1973
63	4	Correspondence (1974) requesting the film "Fearful Symmetry: Northrop Frye looks at the world"; ...	1974	...copies of "Old and new comedy"; introduction to the Italian translation of a volume of poetry by Irving Layton; "The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler"; an address at the Copernicus Symposium, and an article on Wallace Stevens.
63	4	Correspondence (1975) requesting copies of an address at the Symposium on Television Violence, "Expanding eyes", "The renaissance of books" and bibliographies of Frye's work.	1975
63	4	Correspondence (1976) requesting copies of "The renaissance of books", "Expanding eyes", and "The search for acceptable words".	1976
63	4	Correspondence (1977) requesting copies of the summary given by Frye at the Options Conference, and addresses at the 20th Century Canadian Culture Symposium in Washington and at the MLA Conference (1976).	1977
63	5	Correspondence (1961) requesting a copy of Frye's contribution to The Aims of Education, a speech at the Canadian Conference of the Arts, and an address to the Vancouver Institute.	1961
63	5	Correspondence (1962) requesting a copy of a convocation address at Queen's University.	1962
63	5	Correspondence (1962-1964) requesting copies of Frye's Massey lectures, "The educated imagination".	1962-1964
63	5	Correspondence (1963) requesting copies of the article "The imaginative and the imaginary"	1963
63	5	Correspondence (1964) requesting a copy of an address, "Elementary teaching and elemental scholarship".	1964
63	5	Correspondence (1965) requesting a copy of "Varieties of literary utopias".	1965
63	5	Correspondence (1966) requesting copies of "Shakespeare and the modern world" and "Myth, fiction and displacement".	1966
63	5	Correspondence (1967) requesting a copy of a talk at a E.C.P.D. Dinner.	1967
63	5	Correspondence (1968) requesting permission to reprint excerpts from Frye's book on Milton.	1968
63	5	Correspondence (1969) requesting a copy of the address given by Frye at the Quail Roost Seminar in December 1968, "The university and personal life: student anarchism and the educational contract".	1969
63	5	Correspondence (1970) requesting copies of "Mythology and revelation", "The university and personal life", and "The critical path".	1970
63	5	Correspondence (1971) requesting permission to reprint "Sign and significance";...	1971	...and copies of an address, "Education and the rejection of reality", at York University;, an address, "The quality of life in the Seventies", to the University of Toronto Alumni; and an address given at OISE in November 1970.
63	5	Correspondence (1972-1973) requesting copies of a convocation address, "Universities and the deluge of cant", given by Frye at the University of Waterloo;...	1972-1973	...the summary of an argument relating to Frye's address at the CSSR Conference at McGill University, and an article "The critical path".
63	6	Miscellaneous correspondence (1966, 1968-1985) requesting permission to print, reprint, excerpt and quote from Frye's work.	1966, 1968-1985
63	7	Correspondence (1966-1967, 1984) requesting permission to reprint "Ned Pratt - the personal legend".	1966-1967, 1984
63	7	Correspondence (1969, 1971) requesting permission to reprint "Old and new comedy".	1969, 1971
63	7	Correspondence (1971) requesting permission to reprint "The quality of life in the seventies". Includes copy of the essay.	1971
63	7	Correspondence (1971-1972, 1974, 1976, 1979) requesting permission to reprint "Communications" from The Listener.	1971-1972, 1974, 1976, 1979
63	7	Correspondence (1975, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985) requesting permission to reprint "Lexis and Melos".	1975, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985
63	7	Correspondence (1978-1979) requesting permission to reprint "Haliburton: mask and ego".	1978-1979
63	7	Correspondence (1979) requesting permission to reprint "Literary criticism".	1979
63	7	Correspondence (1981) requesting copies of "The bridge of language" and permission to print excerpts from the lecture.	1981
63	7	Correspondence (1981) requesting permission to reprint Frye's introduction to Design for Learning.	1981	Includes copy of the introduction.
63	7	Correspondence (1983) requesting permission to reprint "Literature as a critique of pure reason".	1983
63	8	Correspondence (1965) requesting permission to reprint "The typology of Paradise Regained".	1965
63	8	Correspondence (1965, 1980, 1981, 1983) requesting permission to duplicate "The argument of comedy".	1965, 1980, 1981, 1983
63	8	Correspondence (1974-1975, 1978) requesting permission to reprint "Blake's treatment of the archetype".	1974-1975, 1978
63	8	Correspondence (1976) requesting permission to reprint "The nature of satire".	1976
63	8	Correspondence (1980) requesting permission to reprint "The great Charlie".	1980	Includes proposal by F. Galan for an anthology, Poetics of Cinema.
63	8	Correspondence (1983) requesting permission to reprint "Content with the form".	1983
63	8	Correspondence (1984-1985) requesting permission to excerpt a passage from "Canadian and colonial painting".	1984-1985
1988, Box 64
Correspondence concerning copyright and requests to reprint (1961-1986)
64	1	Correspondence (1965, 1969, 1973, 1976-1977, 1980-1982, 1984) requesting permission to reprint the conclusion to Literary History of Canada.	1965, 1969, 1973, 1976-1977, 1980-1982, 1984	Includes copy of the conclusion.
64	1	Correspondence (1976, 1978, 1981-1985) requesting permission to reprint from Divisions on a Ground.	1976, 1978, 1981-1985
64	1	Correspondence (1980-1984) requesting permission to reprint "Literature, history and language" in Horizon of Literature.	1980-1984
64	1	Correspondence (1985) requesting permission to reprint from The Myth of Deliverance.	1985	Includes excerpt to be reprinted.
64	2	Correspondence (1966, 1970-1972, 1978, 1986) requesting permission to reprint essays collected in The Stubborn Structure.	1966, 1970-1972, 1978, 1986
64	2	Correspondence (1970-1971, 1974, 1984) regarding reprinting of essays collected in Spiritus Mundi.	1970-1971, 1974, 1984
64	2	Correspondence (1972, 1980-1982, 1984) requesting permission to reprint essays from The Bush Garden.	1972, 1980-1982, 1984
64	2	Correspondence (1976-1977, 1984-1985) requesting permission to reprint from Fools of Time.	1976-1977, 1984-1985
64	2	Correspondence (1980, 1983-1985) requesting permission to reprint from The Modern Century.	1980, 1983-1985
64	2	Correspondence (1985) requesting permission to reprint from A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance.	1985
64	3	Correspondence (1970-1971, 1973-1977, 1979-1983, 1985) requesting permission to reprint from The Educated Imagination.	1970-1971, 1973-1977, 1979-1983, 1985
64	3	Correspondence (1985) requesting permission to reprint from The Return of Eden.	1985
64	4	Correspondence (1969, 1979, 1985) requesting permission to translate and reprint "Myth, fiction and displacement" from Fables of Identity.	1969, 1979, 1985
64	4	Correspondence (1969-1970) requesting permission to reprint "Criticism, visible and invisible".	1969-1970
64	4	Correspondence (1971, 1985-1986) requesting permission to reprint "The structure of imagery in The Fairie Queene".	1971, 1985-1986
64	4	Correspondence (1974) requesting permission to reprint an excerpt from "The imaginative and the imaginary". Includes a copy of the excerpt.	1974
64	4	Correspondence (1978, 1980-1985) requesting permission to reprint "The archetypes of literature".	1978, 1980-1985	Includes printed copies of the article and agreements.
64	4	Correspondence (1981-1983, 1986) requesting permission to reprint "Literature as context: Milton's Lycidas" and "The archetypes of literature" and to translate and reprint "Literature as context: Milton's Lycidas".	1981-1983, 1986
64	4	Correspondence (1984-1986) concerning copyright renewal and permission to reprint "Towards defining an age of sensibility".	1984-1986
64	4	Correspondence (1985) requesting permission to reprint excerpts from Fables of Identity.	1985	Includes a copy of excerpts.
64	4	Correspondence (1986) concerning copyright renewal of "Nature and Homer".	1986
64	5	Correspondence (1971, 1973-1978, 1981-1982) requesting permission to reprint excerpts from Anatomy of Criticism and Fearful Symmetry.	1971, 1973-1978, 1981-1982	Includes copies of excerpts.
64	6	Correspondence (1961, 1967, 1970-1973) requesting permission to reprint excerpts from Anatomy of Criticism.	1961, 1967, 1970-1973
64	6	Correspondence (1970, 1972, 1978-1979) requesting permission to reprint excerpts from Fearful Symmetry.	1970, 1972, 1978-1979
1988, Box 70
Requests for Reviews
70	1	Review comments submitted for: E.J. Pratt by D.G. Pitt (1984); Reader's Digest Condensed version of the Bible, edited by Bruce Metzger (1982); The Metaphorical Plot [proposed title] by Pat Parker (1982).	1976-1985
70	2	Review comments submitted for: The Medium is the Rear View Mirror by D. Theall (1970); The Strafed Artery by Abbott J. Anderson (1970).	1960-1975
1988, Box 82
82	1	Correspondence with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.	1962-1969
1991
1991, Box 20
20	9	Letter from McGraw-Hill re forward to The Prospect of Change	1965
20	4	Requests for offprints of addresses, commissionings, benedictions and sermons.	1986-1990
20	5	Anansi-Stoddart.	1987-1989	Includes share repurchase agreement.
20	5	Athenaeum	1987	Includes Dolzani's assessment of Robert Maclean's Foreign Matter.
20	5	CBC	1990
20	5	Doubleday	1987
20	5	Fitzhenry & Whiteside	1983-1990	Includes a copy of a contractual agreement between Frye and Robert Sandler for Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1983) and between Frye and F & W for Northrop Frye on Education (1987).
20	5	University of Calgary Press	1990
20	5	University of Chicago Press	1989
20	5	Wm. B. Eerdmans, Jr.	1990
20	6	Alfred A. Knopf	1987
20	6	Gage	1990
20	6	Harper & Row	1987-1989
20	6	Harvard University Press	1990
20	6	Holt Rinehart & Winston	1987-1989	Includes copy of an agreement between Frye and HRW for the publication of John Milton (1948).
20	6	Lester & Orpen Denys	1989
20	6	McClelland & Stewart	1988-1990
20	6	Methuen	1986-1987
20	6	Oxford University Press	1990
20	6	Penguin Books	1989	Includes memorandum of agreement between Frye and Penguin books to release a paperback edition of Anatomy of Criticism.
20	6	Princeton University Press	1987-1990	Contains two copyright royalty statements 1988-1989, 1991-1992.
20	6	Routledge	1988-1990
20	6	United Church Publishing House	1990
20	6	University of Georgia Press	1990
20	6	University of Toronto Press	1988-1990
20	6	Yale University Press	1986-1988	Includes reviewing and promotional materials for Northrop Frye on Shakespeare.
20	7	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	1986-1990	Includes an agreement between Frye and HBJ for two works: one on the Bible and literature and an untitled collateral study; and a catalogue of HBJ paperbacks, Fall 1990.
20	8	Princeton University Press	1945-1949	Correspondence concerns the publishing of Fearful Symmetry and includes clippings of reviews.
Permissions and Contracts
20	1	Permissions to publish from: Fearful Symmetry, Anatomy of Criticism, Fables of Identity, The Educated Imagination.	1947-1963
20	2	Permissions to publish from: The Return of Eden, The Modern Century, Fools of Time, A Study of English Romanticism, The Bush Garden, conclusion to Literary History of Canada, Divisions on a Ground, The Great Code, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare.	1965-1986
20	3	Miscellaneous requests for permission to publish excerpts from essays and articles.	1986-1990
1991, Box 21
21	1–3	Correspondence concerning requests and negotiations for articles by various commercial and university publishing houses in Canada, the U.S. and the United Kingdom	1986-1991	Also includes the texts of some contributions; a solicited review of Paul de Man's The Rhetoric of Romanticism by the Times Literary Supplement; and proposal by Harvester Press Ltd. for an anthology of Frye's essays and list of possible essays to be included.
21	4–5	Correspondence concerning requests for essays and articles from journals and publishing houses declined by Frye.	1986-1990

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