Irving Story Collection of Walt Whitman Research Materials
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of Irving Story's collection of notes, offprints, publication notices and ephemera related to his research on Walt Whitman, including a copy of: Catalogue of the Whitman Collection in the Duke University Library, being a part of the Trent Collection (Durham, NC: Duke University Library, 1945).
Dates
- 1900-1950
Creator
- Story, Irving Chellis (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Pacific University owns the copyright to some, but not all, of the materials housed in its archives. Copyright for materials authored or otherwise produced as official business of Pacific University is retained by Pacific University and requires its permission for publication. Copyright status for other collection materials varies. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical Note
Irving Story was a professor of English at Pacific University in the 1930s-1940s who wrote about the poet Walt Whitman. He was a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Cornell university. He was particularly interested in Whitman's Leaves of Grass. He published The Structural Pattern of Leaves of Grass in 1942. He was born in 1892.
Extent
0.25 Cubic Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Summary
Irving Story was a professor of English at Pacific University in the 1930s-1940s who wrote about the poet Walt Whitman. This collection is comprised of his collection of research notes, offprints of articles, and other materials related to Whitman.
Accruals
No accruals are expected.
Creator
- Story, Irving Chellis (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Irving Story Collection of Walt Whitman Research Materials
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Eva Guggemos and Ashley Stig
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Sponsored by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Repository Details
Part of the Pacific University Archives Repository