Smith College 1944-1955

Title

Smith College 1944-1955

Shelfmark

MS. Wind 9

Summary

Papers relating to Edgar Wind's time at Smith College, Northampton/ Massachusetts, 1944-1955, and his visiting lectureship at Yale University, 1953-1954, including:

Folder 1: 'Smith College, 1944-1955': Correspondence relating to Edgar Wind's appointment as William Allan Neilson Research Professor, 1943-1948, and to his appointment as Professor of Art and of Philosophy, 1948-1954, including administrative matters; correspondence and papers, 1948-1955, relating to courses, lectures and timetables, including comments on Edgar Wind's public lectures and a testimonial letter for Edgar Wind by Mary Ellen Chase to the American consul-general in London, 1959. Correspondents include Herbert Davis, Robert Hutchins, William Allan Neilson, William A. Bodden, Florence Mcdonald, Mary Evelyn Clarke, Benjamin F. Wright, Helen Randall, Katherine E. McBride. Also includes summaries and notes by Margaret Wind, and list of courses taught at Smith College. [I, 9, i; WIND 12]

Folder 2: 'Smith College, 1944-1955 Publications': Printed material, comprising brochures 'Courses of Study', 1948-1949 and 1949-1950, listing Wind's seminars and lectures, Directory of Smith College, 1954-55; extracts from the Bulletin of Smith College, 1944-1945, 1947-1949, with extracts from The President's Report, 1951-1954; and Smith Alumnae Quarterly, May 1953 (including an article by Wind relating to an interdepartmental course, entitled 'Humanities 292a - Experimental'), with a typescript relating to that article. [I, 9, ii; WIND 12]

Folder 3: 'Smith College, 1944-1955': List of books consulted by Edgar Wind at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, and a letter from Yale University Library, 1955; copies of letters from Edgar Wind and Margaret Wind to the Department of State relating to their passports, 1955; personal letters to Edgar Wind and Margaret Wind from various colleagues at Smith College, and others, with related list of names, 1954-1960; letter to Margaret Wind from Dolly Frisch, 1984, with reply, 1985; obituary for Herbert Davis by Helen Gardner, published in Proceedings of the British Academy, 54; photocopied extract from Colin Eisler, 'Kunstgeschichte American Style' (in Fleming and Bailyn (eds.), 'The Intellectual Migration', 1964) relating to Edgar Wind, the Warburg Library and Smith College; press cuttings from the New York Times and the Independent Magazine relating to Smith College, 1975, 1989 and n.d. Also includes photographs of the Winds' residences in Northampton (35 Woodlawn Avenue and The Manse, 54 Prospect Street). [I, 9, iii; WIND 12]

Folder 4: 'Smith College Conferences': Correspondence, programme, articles and other papers relating to the Annual New England Conference of Renaissance Studies, 1946; Eighteenth Century conference and exhibition held in honour of David Nichol Smith, January 1947; symposium and exhibition entitled Pompeiana, November 1948. Also includes a programme for a concert 'An Evening of Renaissance Music in its Setting' at Smith College, 1953, and a group photograph of the participants of the 18th Century Conference, 1949 [? possibly 1947]. [I, 9, iv; WIND 12]

Folder 5: 'Smith College - outside fellowships': Correspondence between Edgar Wind, Henry Allen Moe and James F. Matthias (Guggenheim Foundation), and Herbert Weissberger, 1949-1953 and 1963, relating to Edgar Wind's application for, and election to, a Guggenheim Fellowship from September 1950 to September 1951, with a related letter to Laurance P. Roberts (American Academy in Rome) from Moe, press cuttings, and other papers, 1950 and 1953; and letter to Wind from Edwin H. Land (American Academy of Arts and Sciences), completed questionnaire, and certificates, 1951-1952, relating to Edgar Wind's election to a fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1951. [I, 9, v; WIND 11]

Folder 6: 'Smith College - Yale lectures': Letters and a telegram to Edgar Wind from Irwin C. Lieb and John Silber, 1952, relating to a lecture given to the Graduate Philosophy Club, Yale University; letters to Edgar Wind from Charles W. Hendel, Frederick B. Fitch and Irwin C. Lieb, 1953-1954, relating to Edgar Wind's appointment as lecturer in the philosophy of art, with a copy letter from Wind to Hendel refusing the appointment, 1954; and letters to Wind from Maynard Mack relating to proposed special lectures at Yale, 1954 and 1955. [I, 9, vi; WIND 12]

Date

1943-1989

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (6 folders)