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Collected Northrop Frye records
Title: Collected Northrop Frye records
Dates of Material:
1933 – 2001
Extent:
19 cm of textual records
1 drawing: pencil and black ink
1 drawing: pencil and black ink
Series consists of records collected from various sources that were created/accumulated by Northrop Frye or are related to him: includes general correspondence, 1946–1990, University of Toronto correspondence, 1933–1937, photographs, 1986–[1988?], correspondence relating to honary degrees and awards, 1961–1963, reviews, bibliographies, articles and collected essays, [195–?]–2001 and a cartoon drawing by Philip Street for the University of Toronto's The Newspaper in 1982 showing Frye as Yoda.
| BOX | FILE | TITLE | YEAR | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| 2007.07 | ||||
| 2007.07, Box 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General correspondence | ||||
| 1 | 1 | Hoeniger, David | 1946-1972 | 18 sent 1946-1972 |
| 1 | 2 | Fennell, William | 1962, 1984 | 2 sent 1962, 1984 |
| 1 | 3 | Cook, Eleanor | 1977-1990 | 22 sent 1977-1990 |
| 1 | 4 | Elder, Jean | 1986, 1988 | 2 sent 1986, 1988 (file includes addresses and other material relating to Northrop and Helen Frye) |
| Photographs | ||||
| 1 | 5 | Photograph | [1988?] | b&w, [1988?] |
| 1 | 6 | Northrop Frye stamp, design based on photo by Lutz Dille, issued by Canada Post (2001?) | 2001 | |
| 1 | 6 | Photocopy of photograph of Frye at desk with four students standing behind | 1986 | |
| Honorary degrees and awards | ||||
| 1 | 7 | Correspondence relating to Frye serving on Governor General's Literary Awards committee | 1961-1963 | |
| Reviews, bibliographies, articles and collected essays | ||||
| 1 | 8 | Correspondence re nomination of Frye for Nobel Prize in literature, 1986 | 1986 | |
| 1 | 9 | "Living with a legend" by Roseann Runte | [ca. 1997] | |
| 1 | 10 | "Usiad" epic poem satire featuring a character based on Frye | [195-?] | |
| Centre and Labyrinth : Essays in Honour of Northrop Frye ("Fryefest") | ||||
| 1 | 11 | Contributors | 1981-1982 | |
| 1 | 12 | Editors | 1981-1985 | |
| 1 | 13 | University of Toronto Press | 1981-1983 | |
| 1 | 14 | Reviews | 1983 | |
| 1 | 15 | Costs/paperback edition | 1982-1990 | |
| 1 | 16 | Various printed material and correspondence about Frye, including the memorial service | 1991-2001 | |
| 2008.14 | ||||
| 2008.14, Box 1 | ||||
| University of Toronto correspondence | ||||
| 1 | 1 | Certificate of graduation from University of Toronto and statement of academic record | 1933 | |
| 1 | 2 | Teaching appointment | 1937 | |
| 1 | 3 | Royal Society of Canada award payment | 1937 | |
| Reviews, bibliographies,articles and collected essays | ||||
| 1 | 4 | Anecdotes and stories about Frye compiled for a proposed published collection by Jane Widdicombe, 1993 (includes Roseanne Runte material added in 1999) | 1993, 1999 | |
| 1 | 5 | Reviews | 1989-1997 | |
| 2008.14, Box 2 | ||||
| Drawings | ||||
| 2 | "Northrop Frye as Yoda taken from a cartoon in University of Toronto's The Newspaper" by Philip Street. | 1982 | ||
| 2 | Drawings of Northrop Frye | 1982, 1985, [1980-1989?] | Drawings were donated by Professor Ted Rathé. | |
| 2024.01 | ||||
| 2024.01, Box 1 | ||||
| 1 | 2 | John Ayre to Hugh Moorhouse | 1979 | Letter from John Ayre to Hugh Moorhouse regarding Ayre’s book Northrop Frye: A Biography. |
| 1 | 3 | Robert Denham to Hugh Moorhouse | 1994 | Letters from Robert Denham to Hugh Moorhouse regarding Denham’s work editing Frye’s notebooks. Includes a two-page essay of Moorhouse’s reminiscences titled “Re Northrop Frye: Memories of Hugh Moorhouse”. |
