Frye and Kemp family correspondence

Title: Frye and Kemp family correspondence

Dates of Material:

1858–1978, predominant: 1933–1978

Extent:

21.5 cm of textual records
2 photographs: col.
3 photographs: 35 mm b&w negatives

Scope and content

Series consists of family correspondence including letters from Helen Kemp Frye to her parents, 1946–1954; correspondence to Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp Frye, individually and to both, from Northrop’s father, and Helen’s mother and brother.

NOTE(S)

Source of supplied title

Title based on contents of the series.

Finding aids

File list available (see below).

1991, Box 2
BOX	FILE	TITLE	YEAR	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
1991
2	2	[Includes letters between members of the Kemp and Frye families; and clippings.]		Kemp, Roy. 1 received 1933, 1963, 1964, 1969; 2 received 1974; 1 received 1975. McGreevy, Marion. 1 received 1960. Frye, Vera. 1 received n.d., 1961; 2 received 1962; 1 received 1963. Kemp, Mrs. 2 received n.d.; 1 received 1962. [Maidment], Aunt Lily and Mrs. Kemp. 1 received 1962. [Maidment], Aunt Lily. 1 received 1962. Sydenham, Susan Kemp. 1 received 1976, 1983. Kemp, Nina. 1 received 1982. [Kemp], Peter. 1 received 1976. Kemp, S.H.F. 1 received 1931, 1939. [Helen’s grandmother]. 1 received n.d., 1923, 1926, 1936. Kemp, W.W. 1 received n.d., 1933. Kemp, Mr. and Mrs. 1 received n.d.
2	3	[Includes letters between members of the Kemp family; holograph notes by Helen on painting; and clippings.]		Kemp, F. Roy. 2 received 1934, 1935. Kemp, Mrs. 11 received n.d.; 3 received [1935]. Kemp, S.H.F. 16 received n.d.; 11 received 1934; 9 received 1935. [Kemp], Harold Leon. 1 received n.d., 1935. Frye, Northrop. 1 note received n.d. [McGreevy], Marion. 1 received 1935, 1937. Kemp, W.W. 1 received 1934. Kemp, F. Roy. 1 received 1933, 1937 Maidment, Lily C. 1 received 1964. [Helen’s grandmother]. 1 received 1926. Kemp, Mr. and Mrs. W.W. 1 received 1937. Kemp, Mrs. S.H.F. 2 received n.d. [McGreevy], Brian. 2 received, 1 sent 1977.
2	5	[Includes obituary notice, 1965, and summaries of two letters to Marion.]		McGreevy, Marion. 2 received n.d.; 1 received 1969, 1970, 1973; 3 received 1976; 1 received 1977. McGreevy, Gavin. 1 received 1976.
1991, Box 3
3	6	Letters		Kemp, Roy. 1 received 1977, 1978 Kemp, S.H.F. 1 received 1934; 2 received 1935. Kemp, Mrs. 2 received n.d. Includes clipping about the St. Luke’s Women’s Guild. 1 received 1935. [McGreevy], Marion. 1 received n.d.
3	6	Letters		Howard, E.S. [Letter to E.S.H., Northrop Frye’s grandfather, from A. Whiting], 1858. Greta. 1 received n.d. Frye, Vera. 1 received n.d.
3	7	[Includes clipping about F. Roy Kemp.]		Harrison, Marion. 1 received 1937 Kemp, S.H.F. 1 received 1935; 2 received 1937; 1 received 1939 Kemp, W.W. 1 received 1933. McGreevy, Marion. 1 received 1951.
1991, Box 4
4	1	99 letters from Helen to her parents and 3 letters from Northrop Frye to Helen’s parents	1946-1954	Includes announcement of a series of public lectures entitled “Some new uses of criticism” to be given by Frye at Princeton (1954).
4	2	Letters		Kemp, Roy. 2 received 1946. Kemp, Mrs. S.H.F. 1 received n.d.; 3 received 1963. Frye, Vera. 2 received 1963; 1 received 1964. Kemp, S.H.F. 1 received n.d. [Kemp], Mrs. S.H.F. (Gertrude). 1 received from Ethel M. n.d. Kemp, Mrs. S.H.F. (Gertrude). 1 received from Dorothy Drever [1950?]. Kemp, Mrs. S.H.F. 3 n.d.; 1 received 1962. Frye, Vera. 1 received n.d., 1943. [Kemp], Harold. 1 received n.d., 1943. Aunt Hatty. 1 received 1943. Frye, Vera. 1 received [ca. 1949] Kemp, Marion. 1 received 1949. [Maidment], Aunt Lily. 1 received n.d., 1962, 1964.
4	4	Letters		Frye, Vera. 8 received [to parents] [1940s]. Frye, Mrs. 1 received 1938, 1939; 9 received [1940s]. Kemp, S.H.F. 2 received n.d. Kemp, Mrs. 1 received n.d. Includes three b&w negatives.
4	8	Kemp, Mrs. 2 received [1940?] Kemp, S.H.F. 1 received 1940.
1993
1993, Box 2
2	1	Letters from Vera Frye and from her friends, Marvel Hiller and Esta Aldrich, after Vera’s death.	1966	Includes clipping about Vera Frye, 1966.
2	2	Letters	1957, 1958, 1959, 1962	Kemp, S.H.F. 1 received n.d. Kemp, Mrs. S.H.F. 18 received n.d.; 3 received 1957, 1958; 2 received 1959; 1 received 1962.
2	3	McGreevy, Marion.	1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971	1 received n.d., 1959, 1962; 2 received 1963; 9 received 1964; 2 received 1965; 6 received 1966; 5 received 1967; 1 received 1968; 3 received 1969; 1 received 1970, 1971. Includes drafts of replies by Marion by Helen Frye.
2	4	Letters	1953, 1957, 1958, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1971, 1972, 1973	Kemp, Susan. 1 received n.d., 1958; 2 received 1971; 3 received 1972. Includes photograph. Kemp, Peter. 2 received n.d.; 1 received 1973. Kemp, F. Roy. 2 received n.d.; 1 received 1953, 1957, 1958; 6 received 1964; 4 received 1965, 1966. Includes a short sketch.
2	5	Letters from and about Helen Frye’s aunt, Lily Maidment.
1994
1994, Box 1
1	16	1 letter to Northrop/Helen from Northrop's mother, Catherine Maud Frye	[1940?]
1	17	7 letters to Northrop from his father, Herman Edward Frye	[194–?], 1944–1948
1	18	10 letters/cards to Northrop/Helen from Herman Edward Frye	[195–?], 1954, 1955, [1958?]
1	19	1 letter to Northrop from funeral home re funeral of his father	1959
1	20	17 letters/cards to Northrop/Helen from Northrop’s sister, Vera Frye	[193–?], 1937, 1946, 1947, [195–?], 1959–1961
1	21	2 letters to Vera Frye from her brother, Howard , 1917, 1918. Certificate to Vera Frye from Chicago Normal School, 1930	1917, 1918, 1930
1	22	4 letters to Helen from her father, S.H.F. Kemp, [194–?], 1940, 1946. 1 letter to Northrop from S.H.F. Kemp, 1955	[194-?], 1940, 1946, 1955
1	23	letter to Helen/Northrop from Helen’s brother, Harold Kemp	1943
1	24	1 photograph : col.	[195–?]	P1 Helen Frye and another woman
1994, Box 2
2	1	20 letters to Helen and Helen/Northrop from Helen’s mother, Gertrude Kemp, [between 1940 and 1959]	1940-1959	1 letter from Helen to Gertrude Kemp and Helen’s aunt, Lily Maidement, [n.d.]
2	2	4 letters to Helen and Helen/Northrop from Gertrude Kemp	[ca.1954]
2	3	6 letters/cards to Helen and Helen/Northrop from Gertrude Kemp	[ca. 1955], 1955
2	4	6 letters to Helen and Helen/Northrop from Gertrude Kemp	[ca. 1958]
2	5	7 letters/cards to Helen and Helen/Northrop from Gertrude Kemp	[ca. 1959], 1959
2	6	10 letters to Helen from her brother, Roy Kemp	1944-1947
2	7	4 letters to Helen/Northrop from Roy Kemp	1952-1959
2	8	1 letter from Roy Kemp to Gertrude Kemp	1961
2	9	1 St. Patrick’s Day card to Northrop from Helen’s aunt, Lily Maidement	[ca. 1958]
2	10	3 letters to Helen from Lily Maidement	1958
2	11	10 letters/cards to Helen and Helen/Northrop from her sister Marion	1938, 1944, 1945, 1955-1961
2	12	6 various letters/cards	1945-1973
2024.06
2024.06, Box 1
1	1	Letters to Rena Maidment	1966	Three outgoing letters from Helen Frye to Rena Maidment. Rena was married to Hugh James Maidment, Helen's cousin.

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