Correspondence, Alphabetical Series, 1871-1979 and undated (bulk 1919-1970)

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This series contains letters from colleagues, students, publishers, and literary figures. Highlights of the correspondence include letters exchanged with Gay Wilson Allen, George Bond, Herbert Brown, Matthew Bruccoli, Mary Sue Carlock, John Chapman, James Emanuel, Benjamin F. Fisher, Herbert Gambrell, Clarence Gohdes, Theodore Gross, Ima Honaker Herron, Hugh Holman, Howard Mumford Jones, Lewis Leary, Maureen C. Mabbott, Rayburn Moore, Albert Robbins, Henry Nash Smith, Hope Stoddard, and Edward Stone. The series also includes correspondence with major literary figures and critics, such as B. A. Botkin, Donald Davidson, Robert Frost, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, John Lomax, Howard Odum, Carl Sandburg, Allen Tate, and John Hall Wheelock. Many of the letters to literary figures concern permissions and copyrights, as Hubbell edited several anthologies. His letters exchanged with colleagues and students include professional concerns such as recommendations and references, exams, job opportunities, departmental procedures, and the study of American Literature. The largest group of letters is from the poet John Hall Wheelock, dating from 1921 when Hubbell wrote asking permission to use Wheelock's poem, "Earth," in a poetry anthology.

The correspondence files often contain other materials, such as solicited memoirs, photographs of correspondents, or printed materials that correspondents sent to Hubbell. Such materials have been filed under the name of the person who sent or wrote them. For example, letters exchanged between John Wheelock and Aubrey Burns are filed under the latter's name. An audio cassette recording of four of John Wheelock's poems set to music and performed by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra is included in Wheelock's "Clippings" folder. Folders occasionally include Hubbell's retrospective commentary on the correspondence or correspondents, for example, Hubbell's brief notes on his relationships with Van Wyck Brooks and Aldous Huxley. Most of the commentary was written in 1976 when Hubbell prepared his papers for donation to Duke University. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, then chronologically within each folder.

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