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J.F.S. Smeall Papers, 1953-1988
Collection Overview
Title: J.F.S. Smeall Papers, 1953-1988
ID: OGLMC1000
Primary Creator: Smeall, J.F.S. (Joseph Francis S.) (1914-1987)
Extent: 1.25 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 12/00/1984. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: University of North Dakota - Faculty
Languages: English
Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The J.F.S. Smeall Papers have been divided into four series:
Series 1: Writings and Presentations
Series 2: Correspondence
Series 3: University of North Dakota
Series 4: Miscellaneous
Collection Historical Note
"Joseph F.S. Smeall, 72, 819 N. 24th St., died Saturday, April 25, 1987, in the United Hospital.
Private family services have been arranged with Amundson Funeral Home.
Joseph F.S. Smeall was born Dec. 20, 1914, in Tacoma, Wash., the son of Joseph S. and Lula Smeall. He graduated from the Bellarmine Academy in Tacoma and received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Washington. He also earned a master of arts degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a Certificat de LaLangue Francais from the Sorbonne University in Paris. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant and commander in the U.S. Navy and was stationed in the Pacific Theater. He married Enid Eckstein in October 1956 in Richmond, Va. They moved in 1957 to Grand Forks where he taught English at UND until retiring in 1981.
Survivors are his wife; sons, Christopher, New Haven, Conn., Benjamin, Columbia S.C., Nicholas, Grand Forks; daughter, Rise Allison Smeall, Oakland, Calif.; two grandchildren; and brother, Thomas, Tacoma."
Source: Grand Forks Herald, 26 April 1987
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections
Additional material was donated by:
Nick Smeall in February 1989; 89-1642
Dr. Robert Lewis, University of North Dakota, in February 1996; 96-2054
Enid Smeall, Grand Forks, North Dakota, in July 1996; 97-2106
Unknown; 98-2229
Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Source: J.F.S. Smeall, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Acquisition Method: Donation; 84-1343
Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). J.F.S. Smeall Papers. OGLMC 1000, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Processing Information: Processed by Curt Hanson in December 2017.
Box and Folder Listing
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[Series 1: Writings and Presentations],
[Series 2: Correspondence],
[Series 3: University of North Dakota],
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- 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.
- 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
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