Box 1
Writings by Purdy
1. “The Rise of the Bluestockings” - term paper
2. Platonic Tradition in Early English Literature - thesis by Rob Roy Purdy under the direction of Walter Clyde Curry
3. Platonic Tradition in Early English Literature
4. Platonic Tradition in Early English Literature
5. Platonic Tradition in Early English Literature
6. “Chaucer and Cleopatra” - paper - 3 typescript copies
7. “Chaucer Scholarship in England and America: A Review of Recent Trends” - typescript
8. “Chaucer Scholarship in England and America: A Review of Recent Trends” - pamphlet reprint
9. “The Friendship Motif in Middle English Literature” reprinted from Vanderbilt Studies in the Humanities,Vol. I, 1951
10. Review of Agnus Castus. Middle English Herbal Reconstructed from various manuscripts. With correspondence
Academic Career – Courses – Old English
11. Tests and quizzes
12. Tests and quizzes
13. Tests and quizzes
Box 2
Academic Career - Courses - Old English
1. Notes for Anglo-Saxon Poetry
2. Anglo-Saxon Reports
Academic Career - Courses - Chaucer
3. English 315 - Notes
4. English 315 - Notes
5. English 315 - Notes
6. English 315 - Notes
7. English 315 - “The Canterbury Pilgrims - Mural Paintings by Ezra Winter
8. Notes, papers, and other materials
9. House of Fame
10. English 220
Academic Career - Chaucer - Collection of Pamphlets and Reprints
11. Baugh, Albert Croll “Thomas Chaucer, One Man or Two?”
Braddy, Haldeen “The Historical Background of the Parlement of Foules”
Brown,Carleton “The Man of Law’s Head-link and the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales”
Cunningham, J. V. “The Literary Form of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Dempster, Germaine “Manly’s Conception of the Early History of the Canterbury Tales”
12. Donaldson, E.Talbot “Chaucer’s Final –e”
Dunn, Thomas F. “The Manuscript Source of Caxton’s Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales”
13. Goddard, H. C. “Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women”
Hamilton, Marie P. “The Credentials of Chaucer’s Pardoner
14. Jones, Richard F. “ A Conjecture on the Wife of Bath’s Prologue”
Kuhl, Ernest P. “Chaucer’s ‘My Maistre Bukton’”
Linn, Irving “The Arming of Sir Thopas”
Manly, John Matthews “Three Recent Chaucer Studies”
Moore, Arthur K. “Chaucer and Matheolus”
15. Parr, Johnstone “The Date and Revision of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale”
Pratt, Robert
“Was Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale Extensively Revised After the Middle of 1390?”;
“Chaucer Borrowing from Himself”;
“Geoffrey Chaucer, Esq. and Sir John Hawkwood”;
“ A Note on Chaucer’s Lollius”;
“The Importance of Manuscripts for the Study of Medieval Education, as Revealed
by the Learning of Chaucer”;
“A Note on Chaucer and the Policraticus of John of Salisbury”;
“The Order of the Canterbury Tales”
16. Rickert, Edith “Was Chaucer a Student at the Inner Temple?”
17. Severs, J. Burke “The Clerk’s Tale”
Slaughter, Eugene E. “Clerk Jankyn’s Motive”; “Chaucer’s Pandarus: Virtuous Uncle
and Friend”
Smith, Roland M. “Two Chaucer Notes Three Notes on the Knight’s Tale”
Tatlock, J.S.P. “The Canterbury Tales in 1400”
18. Starr, Herbert “Oaths in Chaucer’s Poems”
Stearns, Marshall “A Note on Chaucer’s Attitude Toward Love”; A Note on Chaucer’s
Use of Aristotelian Psychology”
19. Young, Karl “ Aspects of the Story of Troilus and Criseyde”; Chaucer’s ‘Troilus and
Criseyde’ as Romance”; “Chaucer and Aulus Gellius”
Other writings about Chaucer and other English literature subjects may be found in the series Writings by Others.
Box 3
Academic Career - Courses - Shakespeare
1. English 210 - History of Drama
2. English 320A
3. English 320A
4. English 320A
5. English 320B - Teaching notes
6. English 320B - Teaching notes
7. English 320 - Teaching notes
8. English 320 - Teaching notes
9. English 320 - Teaching notes
10. English 320 - Exams
Academic Career – other courses
11.English 240 and S 442 - exam questions and notes
12.Southern Literature - teaching notes
13.English 305 - 2
14.Platonism
15.Platonism
16.Platonism
17.Platonism
18.Platonism
19.Platonism
20.Platonism
21.Platonism
Box 4
Academic Career - Collected material by date
1. Final report of the Committee on the Senior College and the Committee on the Junior College, February 23, 1937
2. Report of the Junior College Curriculum Committee, February 6, 1948
3. Student Christian Association of V.U., 1951
4. Statistical Tables of Peabody - Vanderbilt Affiliation, Summer 1947 - Fall 1950
5. Men’s residences - papers
6. Peabody College - Plan of Cooperation with Vanderbilt University, February 1952
7. Curriculum Committee Reports - May 6, 1952, April 7, 1953
8. Report - “ Some Curricular Developments in U.S. Colleges, February 1953
9. Committee on the Un-American Activities, February 25 - 27, 1953
10. WVU “The Voice of Vanderbilt” (1954)
11. Memorandum - “Organization of the Schools and Colleges of Vanderbilt University”
12. Report of the Curriculum Committee, May 10, 1957
13. Teacher Training - Aspen Conference - 1958 - 59
14. “Comments by Randall Jarrell, May 13, 1957; “What the Colleges are Doing” Fall 1959 and other articles
15. Dr. Richmond C. Beatty Project, 1961
Box 5
Academic Career – Collected material by date
1. 1933, 1954 - Isabel Howell
2. 1955 - Newspaper clippings - Walter Clyde Curry and others
3. 1957 - Newspapers clippings - Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate
4. 1958 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium
5. 1959 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium
6. 1960 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium, Brainard Cheney, Sam Davis facsimile letter and other
7. 1961 - Correspondence and newspaper clippings
8. 1962 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium and other programs, newspaper clippings
9. 1963 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium, newspaper clippings and obituary for Richard Weaver
10. 1963 - Newspaper clippings – Vanderbilt faculty and Alexander Heard
11. 1964 - Vanderbilt Literary Symposium, newspaper clippings, and correspondence cards
12. 1965 - Randall Stewart Memorial Collection
13. 1965 - Newspaper clippings
14. 1966 - Donald Davidson – correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings
15. 1966 -Vanderbilt Literary Symposium; newspaper clippings
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