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Edward De Forest Metcalf papers (Ms. 78.2)

Brown University Library

Box A, John Hay Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
Fax: 401-863-2093
email: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Edward De Forest Metcalf, 1950-1968

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Correspondence by Edward De Forest Metcalf
2 items

Contents Note: Letter to father (G.T. Metcalf), 1950, discusses political situtaiton in Europe. Letter to Life magazine, 1954, replies to an article on Catholicism versus Protestantism.
 1950,1954
Box 1, Folder 2 Correspondence to Edward De Forest Metcalf
4 items

Contents Note: Criticism of his literary works; also, comments on his plans to publish.
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Box 1, Folder 3 Documents
8 items

Contents Note: Materials giving the date of birth, attendance at schools by E. D. F. Metcalf; high-school equivalency diploma.
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Box 1, Folders 4-7 Poetry
25 items

Contents Note: Verse, chiefly humorous ballads; draft and completed, original and processed copies. Also several draft fragments of prose contained on verso of poems.
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Box 1, Folder 8 Poetry
4 items

Contents Note: Drafts of short stories.
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Box 1, Folder 9 Scrapbook
Contents Note: Compilation of clippings from "sacred writings", journals, and "picture-Magazines".
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Box 1, Folder 10 List of books in E. D. F. Metcalf's personal library
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Box 1, Folders 11-13 Clippings, maps, ephemera
30 items

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Series 2. George Tucker Metcalf et alia, 1968-1976
The Correspondence re: In Memoriam contains comments on personal acquaintance with Edward Metcalf as well as his writing ability and other talents; several references to his homosexuality, chiefly from a negative standpoint. Prominent Providence and Brown University individuals are represented in this correspondence.

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 1 Miscellaneous materials
16 items

Contents Note: Items deal chiefly with George Metcalf's memorial volume of his son's literary work; contains lists of persons to whom this volume (published and/or unpublished edition) was sent; also some copies of the explanatory pages written by the elder Metcalf for the volume.
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Box 2, Folder 2 In Memoriam Edward De Forest Metcalf
Contents Note: One set (of 25) of George Metcalf's original and unbound tribute to his son; consists of general introductory (biographical) comments on his son; most of the literary output of the son is contained in the work with brief comments of the father; includes photograph of the younger Metcalf; his attempts at advertising illustration; poetry; and prose: "The Adventures of Copy Kitten" (for children) and "The Mad One Dances."
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Box 2, Folder 3 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • Elizabeth (Betty) Allen
  • Thomas Appleget (class of 1917)
  • Mrs. Henry L.P. Beckwith
  • Anthony Black
  • Zenas R. Bliss (class of 1918)

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Box 2, Folder 4 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from Florence Oliver Brown and Lorna Bruen.
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Box 2, Folder 5 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • Woody Calder
  • Wally Campbell
  • Mrs. H. M. Carruthers
  • Harriet Champlin
  • Robert L. Childs
  • Edith Childs
  • Camilla Churchill

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Box 2, Folder 6 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • Roger Clapp (b. 1910)
  • Helen E. Donaldson Clapp
  • Thomas and Phyllis Cocroft
  • Albro N. Dana

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Box 2, Folder 7 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • William Eastwood (d. 1976; class of 1913)
  • William H. Edwards (1898-1976; class of 1919)
  • Alice Emmons
  • William and Majorie Feeter
  • Louis C. Fitzgerald
  • William McLeod Fraser (class of 1919)

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Box 2, Folder 8 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • William Gammell
  • Jeffrey S. Granger (b. 1891; class of 1913)
  • Hubert N. Graves
  • Polly Grosvenor

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Box 2, Folder 9 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • Richard Harrington
  • Robert S. Holding (d. 1974; class of 1914)
  • William M. Howe (class of 1913)
  • David D. Huntoon

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Box 2, Folder 10 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from Frank J. Jones (class of 1928).
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Box 2, Folder 11 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • Israel J. Kapstein (b. 1904; class of 1926)
  • Barnaby Keeney (b. 1914)
  • Bertram Lippincott
  • Gorton Thayer Lippitt
  • Bancroft Littlefield (class of 1934)

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Box 2, Folder 12 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • Marian McIntyre
  • Virginia (Ginny) MacLeod
  • Ruth McLeod
  • H. Stanford McLeod(d. 1974; class of 1916)
  • Edna Menke

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Box 2, Folder 13 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • John Tucker Metcalf (class of 1914)
  • Angela L. Minet
  • Louis Israel Newman, rabbi (1893-1972; class of 1913)

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Box 2, Folder 14 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • Jill Pardee
  • Jackson Phillips(class of 1913)
  • Reginald H. Poland (d. 1975; class of 1914)

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Box 2, Folder 15 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from Ruth Frances Rapelye and Herbert M. Ross (class of 1913).
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Box 2, Folder 16 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • Edith Sawin
  • Mrs. Henry D. (Mary Elizabeth) Sharpe
  • June Skinner
  • Dorothy B. Smith

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Box 2, Folder 17 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspondence from:
  • Dorothy Hackny Smith
  • Walter Henry Snell (class of 1913)
  • Leonard Walter Smith (class of 1913)
  • John K. Starkweather (1891-1972; class of 1913)
  • Helen Tegner
  • W. Allen Traver
  • Payson Waite Tucker (class of 1913)

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Box 2, Folder 18 Correspondence re: In Memoriam...
Contents Note: Includes correspodence from John Chester Anderson Watkins (b.1912) and Winter Arnold White (d 1973; class of 1913).
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Box 2, Folders 21-23 In Memoriam Edward De Forest Metcalf
1 item

Contents Note: This second copy of the In Memoriam manuscript is a gift to the Library from Robert S. Hazlett -- October 1983; see Box 2, Folder 2 for description.
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