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William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterFinding Aid Authors: Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist.
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Carl R. Dolmetsch Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acc. 2012.347 was received by the SCRC from Carl Dometsch on 9/25/2012. Acquisition information for material received after 7/13/2009 is available by consulting a Special Collections Research Center staff member.
Acc. 2012.347 and Acc. 2012.348 accessioned and minimaly described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in October 2012. Acc. 2013.235 accessioned and minimaly described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in October 2013. Acc. 2013.291 accessioned and minimaly described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in December 2013.
Box and folder list compiled by Andrew Cavell, Special Collections staff, in April and October 2012.
Carl R. Dolmetsch was a professor of English at the College of William and Mary starting in 1959, and chair of the Department of English from 1970-1976. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .
This collection contains correspondence, publications, and other material kept by Carl R. Dolmetsch, a professor in the Department of English at the College of William and Mary. Included in the collection are publications, a drawing, and a poster related to author H.L. Mencken; correspondence concerning potential visiting lecturers to events in the Department of Engllish; and letters written to Carl R. Dolmetsch by persons who had contributed material to Smart Set magazine as well as letters received by Dolmetsch as chairmanship of the Committee on Arts and Lectures at the College of William and Mary. Prominent correspondents include Faith Baldwin, Jacques Barzun, S. N. Behrman, Rudolf Bing, Kenneth Burke, James Branch Cabell, Padraic Colum, Babette Deutsch, William Golding, H. L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, C. P. Snow, Louis Untermeyer, Mark Van Doren, Colin Wilson and Edmund Wilson.
This collection is not yet fully arranged and described. Researchers may wish to consult with a staff member for further information in advance of using the collection.
The material related to the Smart Set magazine and the Committee on Arts and Lectures at the College of William and Mary were previously part of the Smart Set Papers, Mss. 65 Lit Sm2, and were added to this collection on 11/5/2012.
The material related to Dinwiddianae Select Poems Pro Patria were previously part of the Dinwiddianae Select Poems Pro Patria collection, Mss. 65 Lit D61, and were added to this collection on 11/5/2012.
This series includes publications, a drawing, and a poster related to author H. L. Mencken, as well as correspondence concerning potential visiting lecturers to events in the Department of Engllish.
This series contains photocopies (with original and carbon typescript) of satirical works, usually known as "Dinwiddianae Select Poems Pro Patria" by an unknown author or authors, and studied by Carl R. Dolmetsch. The works are against the policies of Robert Dinwiddie who was governor of Virginia from 1751-1758 and are written in dialect. The collection includes essay, 1964, by Tobias Mark Sindt, "Some Insights of the Dialect of Colonial Virginia Utilizing the 'Dinwiddianae' and Related Manuscripts."
(64 sheets) with these items included: [1756] "The Eight Month." "Buttonlegs Browncoat" to JOHN MERCER. January. THOMAS BROWNCOAT at "Virginia Purtomok river" to [JONAS] GREEN, Annapolis 1757, April 15 TITUS O'GREWELL to HUGH WEST. [ ] "DINWIDDIANAE, or Select Poems Pro Patria, Vol. I... Virginia. The third edition Published at the Request of the People." 1754, Nov. 4. Thirty seven verse poem with notes. 1755, Nov. Vol. II, "Dialogue betweeen the Deuputy Viceroy of x x x x & his first Minister, upon the day of Nov'r., 1775, it being the memorable day of the dissolution of the General Assembly, to which are added the notes & Observations of Benjamin Browncoat, A.M." 1756, "The Little Booke addressed to the Colony by the Author of Dinwiddianae with notes by the publisher Pro Patria." 1757, April 30. "As Virginiam Dolentum" 1757, April 30. Timothy MacOates to "Dear [Honney] May 3. Timothy MacOates to [ ] 1754, December 3. "Friend" to "Curnell Chizzell." [ ] "Suffering Commun" to John Chiswell, Williamsburg (All the above is on one continuous manuscript of 64 sheets reproduced from the Brock Collection in the Henry E. Huntington Library, marker "for reference only, NOT for reproduction.")
This series contains letters written to Carl R. Dolmetsch by persons who had contributed material to Smart Set magazine as well as letters received by Dolmetsch as chairman of the Committee on Arts and Lectures at the College of William and Mary. Prominent correspondents include Faith Baldwin, Jacques Barzun, S. N. Behrman, Rudolf Bing, Kenneth Burke, James Branch Cabell, Padraic Colum, Babette Deutsch, William Golding, H. L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, C. P. Snow, Louis Untermeyer, Mark Van Doren, Colin Wilson and Edmund Wilson.
April 26 1955. March 5 1955
May 22 1962. June 18 1962.
November 11 [1954].May 20 1955.
April 8 1955 and undated
April 5 1955. June 16 1955.
September 18 1954; November 15 1954. March 25 1955. April 25 1955. May 4 1955. May 25 1955.
May 11 1955. May 11 1955 May 16 1955. May 21 1955.
Thursday, 2; May 23 1955. May 28 1955. November 30 1955.
February 5 1955.February 15 1955.
April 18 1960. July 23 1960.
May 10 1955. September 24 1962.
March 30 1955. April 5 1955. May 12 1955. November 10 1957. January 10 1959 [1960]. June 7 1960. March 1960. June 18 1961. December 15 1961.
February 9 [?]. ALS; February 15 [?]. 4 pieces. TLS; March 5 [?]. ALS; April 12 1955. APcS.
May 27 1955. July 22 1955. August 11 1955. July 14 1960.
signed by his secretary, Rosalind Lohrfinck, July 26 1954. September 20 1954. May 3 1955. 2 pieces. July 5 1955.
December 5 1956. March 13 1957.
October 10 1962, April 28 1964..
September 14 1962. September 25 1962. October 4 1962. October 26 1962.
October 15 1962. November 9 1962. November 27 1962. Pst to William W. Kitchin, University Center in Virginia, Richmond
October 18 1961. November 4 1961. January 15 1962. January 22 1962.
September 24 1963. February 28 1964. February 28 1964. April 17 1964.
August 8 1964. August 14 1964.
Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed.
Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed.
August 31 1964. Autograph Letter Signed; September 4 1964. Autograph Letter Signed.
Scope and Contents Typewritten Letter Signed.
August 5 1964. Typewritten Letter Signed; August 12 1964. Typewritten Letter Signed.
Typewritten Letter Signed.
Typewritten Letter Signed.
Typewritten Letter Signed.
Typewritten Letter Signed.
Typewritten Letter Signed.
Typewritten Letter Signed.
2 pieces. Autograph Letter Signed.
Typewritten Letter Signed.
Autograph Letter Signed.
July 31 1964. TALS; September 2 1964. Autograph Letter Signed.
Autograph Letter Signed.
Mixed materials
Typewritten Letter Signed.
Includes typescript of his reminiscences for the Smart Set.
Newspapers and magazine reviews
The Smart Set by Carl R. Dolmetsch a history and anthology with a reminiscence by S. N. Behrman. Including stories, plays, and verse by James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Robinson Jeffers, Damon Runyon, Anatole France, O. Henry and others- all first published in "The Magazine of Cleverness" under the editorship of Charles Hanson Towne, Willard Huntington Wright, George Jean Nathan, and H.L. Mencken.
Contains copies of poems and essays, including The Patriot Rous'd, by St. George Tucker as well as copies of articles about the writings of St. George Tucker collected by Carl R. Dolmetsch, a former professor in the Department of English at the College of William and Mary.
Paper written by William and Mary professor Carl Dolmetsch on the essays of St. George Tucker, including A Dream, The Dreamer, and The Hermit of the Mountain. The paper also contains the essays The Old Bachelor and The Rainbow that have been attributed to St. George Tucker.