J.F.S. Smeall Papers, 1953-1988

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Writings and Presentations

The first series consists of writings done by and presentations made by J.F.S. Smeall, arranged alphabetically by title.

Box 1

Folder 1: "Addenda to Articles on American Literature Appearing in Current Periodicals 1920-1945," American Literature, by Cope, Davis, Henderson, Larson, and Smeall, March 1950

Folder 2: "An Adequate Text of 'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau", 1973

Folder 3: "American Literature of the Revolutionary War Era," Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, December 1976

Smeall was a panelist at a session entitled "Drama and Theatre during the American Revolution"

Folder 4: "Antiquarianism: 1500-1740"

Folder 5: "Association"

Title taken from the original folder

Folder 6: "Children, Poetry and Memorization," Insights Into Open Education, March 1976

Folder 7: "Edgar Poe: Tradition, Tale, Compendia", 1980

Folder 8: "English: 1883-1983", 1983

Departmental history written on the occasion of UND's Centennial

Folder 9: "The Eternal City-Kitty", 1957

Folder 10: "The Evidence That Hugh Brackenridge Wrote 'The Cornwalliad'", 1964

Folder 11: "Exercises in Imagery to Accompany the Survey of American Literature", 1967

Folder 12: "To Hear Voices in The Tempest", 1964

Folder 13: "The Heritage of American Humor," Written by Smeall and Produced by KFJM for the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1960

Folder 14: "Hugh Henry Brackenridge," Book Review in Western Humanities Review, 1967

Folder 15: "Hugh Brackenridge's Literary Milieu," UND Faculty Lecture by Smeall, July 1967

Folder 16: "The Idea of Our Early National Drama", 1971

Folder 17: "Ideas of the Stage in the Revolutionary Generation of the Middle Colonies: 1774-1789"

Folder 18: "Introduction to Language"

Folder 19: "John Donne's Tenth Elegy", 1949

Folder 20: "John Keats and His Milieu: 30 January-3 February 1818"

Folder 21: "Keats to Reynolds: 3 February 1818", 1977

Folder 22: "McGrath Bucolicus", 1975

Folder 23: "A Note on the Earliest Milieu of American Drama: 1767-1787"

Folder 24: "An Ode for Wives on the Piedmont", 1957

Folder 25: "Ode to Admirers of Spenser", 1957

Folder 26: "The Oral Publication of the Declaration of Independence and the Origin of the Fourth of July Festival", 1976

Folder 27: Passages Toward the Dark by Thomas McGrath. Book Review

Folder 28: "The Pickwick Papers"

Folder 29: "The Readerships of the Polly-Baker Texts," North Dakota Quarterly, 1960

Folder 30: Reference Guide to North Dakota History and North Dakota Literature, 1979

Folder 31: "The Respective Roles of Hugh Brackenridge and Philip Freneau in Composing The Rising Glory of America," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (1973), 1964-65, 1971-73

Folder 32: "Skelton's Dame Margery", 1952

Folder 33: "Sketch of a First Proof That Shakespeare Wrote Bacon", 1957

Folder 34: "The Staging Imagined for Certain Early National Plays", 1967

Folder 35: "Thomas McGrath: A Review Essay," North Dakota Quarterly, 1972

Folder 36: "A Tolerant Linguistics," Spring Conference of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, 1961

Folder 37: "Tom McGrath and the Pastoral Tradition"

Folder 38: "Tradition, Milieu and Talent," North Dakota Quarterly, 1959

Folder 39: "An Uncollected Verse-Petition Attributed to Jonathan Swift", 1974-1975

Folder 40: "The Unity of John Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe", 1971-1973

Folder 41: "The University's Library, 1883-1982"

Departmental history written on the occasion of UND's Centennial

Folder 42: "Verse-Making in American English"

Folder 43: "Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself': a Textual Study", 1949

Folder 44: "Why the Mockingbird Should Be the Patron Bird of American Literature," English Department Lecture Series, 1972

Folder 45: "The Writings in Verse by Hugh Brackenridge", 1967

Folder 46: "1984," Utopia or 1984

Publication sponsored by the North Dakota Library Association and funded by the North Dakota Humanities Council

Series 2: Correspondence

The second series contains Smeall's correspondence, dating from 1953 until 1988. The majority of the correspondence is professional in nature, although some personal, family correspondence can be found.

Box 1

Folder 47: Correspondence, 1953-1959

Folder 48: Correspondence, 1960-1969

Folder 49: Correspondence, 1970-1979

Folder 50: Correspondence, 1980-1988

Folder 51: Correspondence, Undated

Series 3: University of North Dakota

The third series consists of subject files related to UND, especially the Department of English.

Box 1

Folder 52: Conference on Higher Education, Memorial Union, NDSU, 1967

Folder 53: October Supplements

This form outlines faculty research and creative activities. The documents in this folder are incomplete.

Folder 54: Proposed Ph.D. program in English, circa 1966

Folder 55: Quarterly Log, 1965

Notebook listing Smeall's faculty activities

Folder 56: Retirement, 1981

Folder 57: Sabbatical, 1967-1968

Folder 58: Syllabus for English 531: Problems in Literary Criticism, 1970

Folder 59: Syllabus for English 213: Teaching Poetry to Children, 1972-1973

Folder 60: Transcript of an English Faculty Discussion between Eleanor Hale, Richard Hale, Elizabeth Hampsten and Smeall

Series 4: Miscellaneous

Box 1

Folder 61: Estate of Joseph S. and Lula Smeall, 1962-1966

Folder 62: Newspaper Clippings

Item 1: "When Was Our Day of Freedom?" Written by Wayne Nelson. Dakota Student, January 22, 1976

Item 2: "Ann Fabian Married to Christopher Smeall." New York Times, August 3, 1980

Folder 63: "Portrait of a Scholar." Article written by Janet Spaeth. Lux et Lex

Periodical published by the Chester Fritz Library