General correspondence

Title: General correspondence

Dates of Material:

1923 – 1991

Extent:

2.23 m of textual records

Scope and content

Series consists of general correspondence arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent relating to research projects, exchanges with professional colleagues on a variety of subjects.

NOTE(S)

Arrangement

Coburn’s secretary, Freda Gough, regularly removed files that were no longer active, which accounts for successive alphabetical sub-series within this series

Finding aids

Box list available (see below)

Source of supplied title

Title based on contents of the series.

Box 1
BOX	FILE	TITLE	YEAR	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
1	1	Adair, Patricia	1955-1956
1	2	Alston, R.C.	1963-1967
1	3	Arthur, Eric	1971-1982
1	4	Bald, R.C.	1939-1965
1	5	Beyer, Werner W.	1951-1955
1	6	Bloom, Harold	1963-1964
1	7	Blunden, Edmund	1946-1968
1	8	Boulger, James D.	1956-1969
1	9	Brinkley, R. Florence	1943-1955
1	10	Buchanan, Edith	1958-1971
1	11	Carpenter, James	1966-1967
1	12	Cleverdon, Douglas	1963
1	13	Cottle, A. Basil	1954-1955
1	14	Crow, John	1959-1968
1	15	Crump, John	1975
1	16	Darbishire, Helen	1949-1960
1	17	Davis, Bartram R.	1958
1	18	Davis, Herbert and Gladys	1963-1968
1	19	Fairley, Barker	1947-1962
1	20	Garnett, Richard	1963-1970
1	21	Gascoyne, David	1951
1	22	Gordon, D.J.	1952-1953
1	23	Grant, Douglas	1955-1966
1	24	Grigson, Geoffrey	1949-1961
1	25	Haeger, Jack		[typescript only]
1	26	Hayward, John	1952-1955
Box 2
2	1	Hodgson, Alison	1965-1967
2	2	Hogan, Beatrice and J.P. Hogan	1958-1962
2	3	Jamaica	1956-1957
2	4	Jeffares, A. Norman	1962-1965
2	5	de Kresz, Norah and Geza	1955-1959
2	6	Logan, James V.	1964-1968
2	7	Lewis, Naomi	1963
2	8	Mallowan, M.E.L	1963
2	9	Metzger, Lore	1957-1974
2	10	Mill, Anna	1957-1958
2	11	McPherson, Hugo and Louise	1962-1966
2	12	Nicholson, Mary	1962
2	13	Norman, Sylva	1959-1969
2	14	Parker-Rees, Anna	1964-1965
2	15	Pearson, Lester B.	1966
2	16	Penn, Margaret	1960-1966
2	17	Pope, Willard B.	1965-1967
2	18	Raysor, Thomas M.	1939-1958
2	19	Richards, I.A. and Dorothea	1970-1984
2	20	Richards, I.A. and Dorothea cont’d	[1934?]1951–1969
2	21	Royal Society of Canada	1958-1960
2	22	Royal Society of Literature and British Academy	1952-1959
2	23	von Ruperti, W. and I.	1931-1983
2	24	St. Hugh’s College, Oxford	1957-1963
Box 3
3	1	Schneider, Elisabeth	1940-1962
3	2	Scholars, letters from	1951-1963
3	3	Schulz, Max	1959-1963
3	4	Scicluna, Hannibal P.	1955
3	5	Seaton, Mary Ethel	1959-1974
3	6	Springer, Hugh	1959-1980
3	7	Sultana, Donald E.	1958-1975
3	8	Sutherland, James	1963-1964
3	9	Thorneycroft, Gertrude	1953?
3	10	Twentieth Century Views (Prentice Hall, Inc.)—Correspondence	1962-1967
3	11	Twentieth Century Views, Maynard Mack	1962-1968
3	12	Twentieth Century Views, Pending	1964-1967
3	13	University of Toronto—Exchange Lectures	1950-1966
3	14	University of Wisconsin	1958-1959
3	15	Vancouver Art Gallery, Emily Carr paintings	1965
3	16	Watson, George	1956-1976
3	17	Wells, Gabriel	1942-1943
3	18	White, R.J.	1956-1974
Box 4
4	1	Wiley, Margaret L.	1951-1956
4	2	Wilkinson, E. Mary	1947-1970
4	3	Wilkinson, C.S.	1953
4	4	Willey, Basil	1950-1963
4	5	Willoughby, Leonard	1951-1962
4	6	Yarlott, Geoffrey	1967-1968
4	7	Arnold, Lorna	1966-1979
4	8	Arnold, Lorna	1966?-1968
4	9	Beer, Charles	1969-1972
4	10	Beres, David	1951-1980
4	11	Bonnycastle, Stephen & Ann	1971-1980
4	12	British Museum and Pilgrim Trust	1937-1970
4	13	Cacciatore, Vera	1961-1977
4	14	Cairns, Huntington	1973-1974
4	15	Calleo, D.P.	1961-1966
4	16	Curry, Kenneth	1939-1977
4	17	Deschamps, Paul	1957-1964
Box 5
5	1	Eichner, Hans	1965-1966
5	2	Eliot, Maurice Slater	1965-1974
5	3	Forster, Leonard	1972-1984
5	4	Foxon, David	1964-1970
5	5	Fry, Christopher	1978-1980
5	6	Gardner, Helen	1962?-1978
5	7	Grossman, Walter	1962-1977
5	8	Haverford College	1972
5	9	Indians (Canadian & Eskimo)	1962
5	10	Japanese Trip	1977
5	11	Katsurada, Rikichi	1963-1964
5	12	Maxwell, J.C.	1957-1974
5	13	Moorman, Mary	1951-1970
5	14	Iwaoka, Meiko & Nakamasa	1976-1978
5	15	Nether Stowey College (Nat’l Trust)	1963-1973
5	16	Okamoto, Masao	1963-1978
5	17	Orsini Margaret, Sale of Books	1978-1979
5	18	Owen, Margaret	1950-1975
5	19	Poynter, F.N.L.	1963-1964
5	20	Raphael, Chaim	1977-1978
5	21	Renier, Anne & Fernando	1950-1976
5	22	Schneider, Elisabeth	1964-1980
Box 6
6	1	Schrickx, William	1957-1966
6	2	Schulz, Max F.	1964-1981
6	3	Tamura, Kenji	1971-1984
6	4	Tanabe, Takao	1964-1965
6	5	Times Literary Supplement, The Times	1955-1978
6	6	Tsurumi, Kazuko	1976-1977
6	7	U.S.A., Jews	1974-1975
6	8	Warner, Francis	1970
6	10	Watson, Vera	1963-1976
6	11	Werkmeister, Lucyle	1954-1968
6	12	Willey, Basil	1964-1976
6	13	Wolff, Michael	1966
6	14	Wordsworth, Jonathan	1965-1983
6	15	Personal Correspondence, flyers	1934-1944
6	16	Commonwealth Visiting Fellowship	1961-1965
6	17	Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth	1961-1963
6	18	University of London	1963-1964
6	19	Wordsworthians	1951-1963
6	20	Tillotson, Kathleen, Bedford College	1962-1964
6	21	Thorpe, C.D., University of Michigan	1951-1957
Box 7
7	1	Thornton, James C.	1958-1967
7	2	Tabobandung	1946-1956
7	3	Monture, Ethel Brant	1953-1959
7	4	Letters from K. to “Al”	1923-1931
7	5	Fruman, Norman [reviews + letter]	1972-1974
7	6	Gillam, Stanley	1965-1980
7	7	Hall, John	1964-1987
7	8	Bookbinders	1965-1984
7	9	MacKenzie, Norman	1963-1984
7	10	Lovat–Dickson, Rache	1976-1984
7	11	Lea, Kate	1966-1986
7	12	Knights, L.C.	1966-1985
7	13	Jovanovich, W.	1984-1985
7	14	Housser, Yvonne [Typescript, correspondence]	1976-1982
7	15	Hart–Davis, Rupert	1963-1985
7	16	Guest–Gornall, R.	1971-1973
Box 8
8	1	Garnett, Richard	1970-1986
8	2	Levere, Trevor	1970-1984
8	3	Carr, Emily	1946-1968?
8	4	Harding, Anthony J. (Ed. CN V–)	1984-1988
8	5	Hemlow, Joyce	1965-1980
8	6	Israel	1971-1984
8	7	Japan, General	1959-1987
8	8	Japan, K.C. Trip	1977
8	9	Kato, Ryotaro	1963-1983
8	10	Holler, E.M.	1986-1988
Box 9
9	1	British Academy, K.C. Election—Corresponding Fellow	1973
9	2	Eliot, Mrs. T.S. (Valerie)	1976-1990
9	3	Crick, Joyce	1982-1986
9	4	Edel, Leon	1959-1982
9	5	Buchanan, Edith	1953-1987
9	6	Monture, Ethel, Indians	1965-1972
9	7	Dimitroff, Phillip	1982-1988
9	8	Reiman, Donald H.	1981-1986
9	9	Hotels, addresses, etc.	1960-1983
9	10	Microfilm reproduction	1962-1984
9	11	Fairley, Barker	1964-1986
9	12	Adam [Carleton?] Smith, Janet	1961-1985
9	13	Emmet, Dorothy	1964-1981
9	14	The Grandmothers	1965-1974
9	15	Oxford University Press	1978
9	16	Prang, Margaret	1963-1985
9	17	Miller, Craig W. (Requests for Xeroxes etc.)	1957-1986
Box 10
10	1	McLennan, Gordon	1977-1983
10	2	von Ruperti, Max	1939
10	3	Tabobandung Family	1960-1983
10	4	Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections	1969-1979
10	5	Jarvis, Mary Hoskin, Historical Street Names of Toronto		copy of manuscript
10	6	Fidelity Trust	1976-1983
10	7	Seaton, M. Ethel (KC’s mentor at Oxford)	1930-1966
10	8	Hutchinson, Joanna	1949-1966
10	9	Philosophical Lectures of S.T.C., Correspondence	1933-1969
Box 11
11	1	Christensen, Merton A.	1966-1977
11	2	Christensen, Merton A.	1967-1977
11	3	Orr, Carol, Princeton University Press	1970-1978
11	4	Orr, Carol, Princeton University Press	1974-1978
11	5	Winer, Bart (Copy Ed. CC)	1972-1977
11	6	Winer, Bart	1969-1971
11	7	Winer, Bart	1967-1968
Box 12
12	1	Winer, Bart	1959-1966
12	2	Mays, J.C.C. (Ed.CC)	1978-1982
12	3	Mays, J.C.C.	1963-1977
12	4	Read, Herbert and family	1952-1979
12	5	Bennett, Harold	1962-1968
12	6	Thorneycroft, Gertrude	1946-1981
12	7	Barrett, John D. (Bollingen Foundation)	1973-1981
12	8	Davis, Bertram	1958-1973
12	9	Wheeler, Kathleen	1975
Box 13
13	1	Gough, Freda to K. Coburn	1986
13	2	Royal Institution	1972-1973
13	3	Royal Literary Fund	1968-1983
13	4	Royal Ontario Museum	1982
13	5	Royal Society of Canada	1983-1987
13	6	St. Hugh’s College	1964-1987
13	7	Savage, Basil	1969-1985
13	8	Schwarz, Erwin—Poetical Works
13	9	Silcox, David	1964-1981
13	10	Sze, Mai Mai	1976-1982
13	11	Sotheby & Co.—S.T.C. manuscript	1968-1982
13	12	Takahashi, Yasunari	1964-1985
13	13	Routledge & Kegan Paul	1969-1990
13	14	Robinson Family	1970-1987
13	15	Tracy, Ann	1970-1987
Box 14
14	1	Turner, Eunice	1962-1983
14	2	University of Toronto Press	1986-1987
14	3	Whalley, E. and family	1964-1987
14	4	Whitaker, Hilda	1969-1984
14	5	Woof, Robert	1957-1985
14	6	Whiting, F.A.	1960-1979
14	7	Wilkinson, Mary	1969-1978
14	8	Wordsworth Circle	1973-1984
14	9	Wordsworth, Dove Cottage, etc.	1966-1987
14	10	Yamanouchi, Hisaaki	1962-1987
14	11	Yura, Kimiyoshi	1958-1987
14	12	Zacks Abramov, Ayala	1962-1989
14	13	Roberts Gallery	1983-1985
Box 15
15	1	Macpherson, Jessie	1964-1968
15	2	Macpherson, Jessie	1969	death (1969)
15	3	Jessie Macpherson Memorial Fund and Etrog Sculpture	1971
15	4	Tracy, Ann	1987-1990
15	5	Zacks, Ayala	1969-1974
15	6	Correspondence re. Zacks	1971-1974
15	7	Beres, David	1956-1974
15	8	Meighen, Arthur	1952-1960
15	9	Arthur, Eric	1970-1973??
Box 16
16	1	General Correspondence A–Z
Box 17
17	1	Correspondence, miscellaneous	1988-1991
17	2	Correspondence, miscellaneous	1962-1988
17	3	Correspondence, personal	1966-1970
17	4	Personal letters, G. Whalley, Herbert Read, etc.	1963-1973
17	5	Personal Correspondence Assorted	1965-1975
17	6	Hart–Davis, Rupert	1969-1970
17	7	Whalley, George, (CC ed) Correspondence	1970-1972
17	8	Whalley, George, Correspondence	1973-1977
17	9	Whalley, George, Correspondence	1978-1984
Box 80
80	2	Rossiter, [A.P.]	1954-1983	Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence with A.P. Rossiter, as well as letters to Barbara Grant. See also File 80-6 for A.P. Rossiter's notebook on Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Series 2 - Subject Correspondence).
80	3-4	Griggs, Earl Leslie	1939-1976
80	5	Lowes, J.L.	1933-1939
80	7	House, Humphrey	1952-1958
80	8	Vittorio [Forgini?]	1954	Unable to decipher name on folder.
80	9	Hanson, Lawrence	1936-1955
80	10	Nicholson, Norman	1951-1953	Many letters are from E.R. Denwood.
80	11-14	Whalley, George C.W.	1951-1969
2007.02
2007.02, Box 2
2	1	Correspondence, miscellaneous	1953-1986
2016.02
2016.02, Box 1
1	18	Zachs, Ayala	1969
2018.04
2018.04, Box 1
1	1	Pottle, Frederick A.	1965	Letter from Pottle thanking Coburn for her contribution to the book From Sensibility to Romanticism: essays presented to Frederick A. Pottle. See Box 1, File 6 for related correspondence with Harold Bloom.

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