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Vernon P. Squires Papers, 1888-2000
Collection Overview
Title: Vernon P. Squires Papers, 1888-2000
Predominant Dates:1888-1930
ID: OGLMC232
Primary Creator: Squires, Vernon P. (1866-1930)
Extent: 3.0 Linear Feet
Subjects: University of North Dakota - Administration, University of North Dakota - Faculty
Languages: English
Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Vernon P. Squires Papers are divided into two series as follows:
Series 1: Vernon P. Squires
Series 2: Squires Family Members
Collection Historical Note
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections
Accruals: Numerous additions were donated: 74-232, 77-436, 81-881, 83-1181, 85-1389, 87-1507, 84-1315, 89-1657, 90-1694, 96-2092, 92-1811, 93-2307, 2001-2489, 2001-2515, and 2010-3030
Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Method: The original acquisition records are unavailable
Preferred Citation: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Finding Aid Revision History: Re-processed and input to Archon by Curt Hanson in August 2024.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Series 1: Vernon P. Squires
- The first series contains correspondence and texts of lectures of Vernon Squires.
- Sub-Series 1: Correspondence
- Box 1
- Folder 1: University and Personal, A-B: 1888-1907
- Folder 2: University and Personal, C-D: 1888-1907
- Folder 3: University and Personal, E-K: 1888-1907
- Folder 4: University and Personal, L-M: 1888-1907
- Folder 5: University and Personal, N-R : 1888-1907
- Folder 6: University and Personal, S: 1888-1907
- Folder 7: University and Personal, T-Z: 1888-1907
- Folder 8: University, A: 1911-1914
- Folder 9: University, B: 1911-1914
- Folder 10: University, C: 1911-1912
- Folder 11: University, C: 1913-1914
- Folder 12: University, D: 1911-1914
- Folder 13: University, E-F: 1911-1914
- Folder 14: University, G: 1911-1914
- Folder 15: University, H-J: 1911-1914
- Folder 16: University, K-L: 1911-1914
- Folder 17: University, M: 1911-1914
- Folder 18: University, N-O: 1911-1914
- Folder 19: University, P-Q : 1911-1914
- Folder 20: University, R: 1911-1914
- Folder 21: University, S: 1911-1914
- Folder 22: University, T-V: 1911-1914
- Folder 23: University, W: 1911-1914
- Folder 24: University, X-Z: 1911-1914
- Folder 25: University, Miscellaneous: 1911-1914
- Folder 26: Personal, A:1913-1915
- Folder 27: Personal, B:1913-1915
- Folder 28: Personal, C:1913-1915
- Folder 29: Personal, D:1913-1915
- Folder 30: Personal, E-F:1913-1915
- Folder 31: Personal, G-L:1913-1915
- Folder 32: Personal, M:1913-1915
- Folder 33: Personal, N-R:1913-1915
- Folder 34: Personal, S-Z:1913-1915
- Folder 35: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 36: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 37: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 38: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 39: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 40: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 41: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 42: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 43: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 44: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 45: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 46: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 47: Bible Study: 1913-1916
- Folder 48: University and Personal, A:1915-1917
- Folder 49: University and Personal, B:1915-1917
- Folder 50: University and Personal, C:1915-1917
- Folder 51: University and Personal, D:1915-1917
- Folder 52: University and Personal, E-F:1915-1917
- Folder 53: University and Personal, G-L:1915-1917
- Folder 54: University and Personal, M:1915-1917
- Folder 55: University and Personal, N-S:1915-1917
- Folder 56: University and Personal, T-Z:1915-1917
- Folder 57: University and Personal, Miscellaneous:1915-1917
- Box 2
- Folder 1: University, A-B: 1915-1920
- Folder 2: University, C: 1915-1920
- Folder 3: University, D: 1915-1920
- Folder 4: University, D: 1915-1920
- Folder 5: University, E-I: 1915-1920
- Folder 6: University, J-L: 1915-1920
- Folder 7: University, President Frank McVey: 1914
- Folder 8: University, President Frank McVey: 1914-1915
- Folder 9: University, President Frank McVey: 1917
- Folder 10: University, M-Q: 1915-1920
- Folder 11: University, R-S: 1915-1920
- Folder 12: University, T-V: 1915-1920
- Folder 13: University, W-Z: 1915-1920
- Folder 14: Personal, N-O: 1917-1924
- Folder 15: Personal, P-Q: 1917-1924
- Folder 16: Personal, R: 1917-1924
- Folder 17: Personal, S: 1917-1920
- Folder 18: Personal, S: 1921-1924
- Folder 19: Personal, T: 1917-1924
- Folder 20: Personal, U-Z: 1917-1924
- Folder 21: University, A-G: 1918-1924
- Folder 22: University, H-J: 1918-1924
- Folder 23: University, K-L: 1918-1924
- Folder 24: University, M: 1918-1924
- Folder 25: University, N-Z: 1918-1924
- Folder 26: Personal, A: 1924-1929
- Folder 27: Personal, B: 1924-1929
- Folder 28: Personal, C: 1924-1929
- Folder 29: Personal, D: 1924-1929
- Folder 30: Personal, E-F: 1924-1929
- Folder 31: Personal, G-L: 1924-1929
- Folder 32: Personal, M: 1924-1929
- Folder 33: Personal, N-R: 1924-1929
- Folder 34: Personal, S: 1924-1929
- Folder 35: Personal, T-V: 1924-1929
- Folder 36: Personal, W-Z: 1924-1929
- Folder 37: Condolences, A-B: 1930
- Folder 38: Condolences, C-F: 1930
- Folder 39: Condolences, G-K: 1930
- Folder 40: Condolences, L-M: 1930
- Folder 41: Condolences, N-R: 1930
- Folder 42: Condolences, S: 1930
- Folder 43: Condolences, T-V: 1930
- Folder 44: Condolences, W-Z: 1930
- Sub-Series 2: Lectures and Essays
- This series consists of lectures and essays written by Squires during his career as an English professor at UND. The folders are arranged alphabetically by title or topic.
- Box 2
- Folder 48: "The Appreciation of Bible Literature," State Federation of Women's Clubs, Bismarck, North Dakota: 1920
- Folder 49: "Are the Functions of the Liberal Arts College Cosmic or Essential?" 1929 / "The Celtic Element in English Literature," 1898-1903
- Folder 50: "Character and Culture"
- Folder 51: "The Christ Doctrine of Tennyson and Browning"
- Folder 52: "The Dreamers of Concord" / "The Founding of the University," Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota. 1923
- Folder 53: "Gabriel Conroy by Bret Harte"
- Folder 54: "History of the Development of Literary Patronage"
- Folder 55: "An Hour with Our Orators, the Wanderers, and Beowulf"
- Folder 56: "The Influence of Milton on Wordsworth." by Vernon Squires. Poet-Lore: a Quarterly Magazine of Letters. 1897
- Folder 57: "In Memoriam-the Struggle of a Soul Against Grief"
- Folder 58: "John Greenleaf Whitter: 1807-1907"
- Folder 59: "The Literature of Colonial Times"
- Box 3
- Folder 1: "Lowell's Agassiz as an Elegy"
- Folder 2: "Mark Twain's Joan of Arc"
- Folder 3: "The Mission of Literature"
- Folder 4: "The Modern Scholar"
- Folder 5: "Mr. Howells' novel, 'Indian Summer,'..."
- Folder 6: "Mr. Wilbur's Studies in Entomology" by Vernon Squires and George St. John Perrott
- Folder 7: "Notes from the History of the University of North Dakota" / "A Puritan Pagan"
- Folder 8: "The Religious Message of Browning"
- Folder 9: "Review of John Burroughs' Last Book Entitled 'the Last Harvest'," 1925
- Folder 10: "The Rise and Significance of the Drama"
- Folder 11: "The School Days of Eminent Men"
- Folder 12: "Specialization Versus General Culture." by Vernon Squires. Westland Educator.
- Folder 13: "Tennyson's Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington"
- Folder 14: "The Value of Fiction"
- Folder 15: "Washington Irving"
- Folder 16: "What We Have a Right to Expect in a Novel"
- Folder 17: "Whitman and Whitmania"
- Folder 18: "Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?"
- Folder 19: "Wordsworth the Poet Seer"
- Folder 20: Untitled, regarding History of the Red River Valley (probably by Squires)
- Sub-Series 3: Miscellaneous
- Box 2
- Box 3
- Folder 21: Diary from a bicycle tour of Great Britain, 1895
- Folder 22: Notebook, 1901
- Folder 23: Diary, Vernon and Ethel Squires honeymoon trip to Ireland and Great Britain, 1902
- Folder 24: Memorial Convocation, 1930
- Folder 25: Squires Hall Dedication, 1964
- Folder 26: Vernon Squires Lecture Program, 1973
- Series 2: Squires Family Members
- See also Ethel W. Squires Papers (OGLMC 195) and Alden W. and J. Duane Squires Papers (OGLMC 247).
- Box 2
- Box 3
- Folder 27: Correspondence, Emily (Squires) Wabeke and UND English Professor Robert Lewis, 1996-1999
- Folder 28: Correspondence, Hope (Squires) Beam, 1998-2000
- 1915-2001; Daughter of Vernon and Ethel (Wood) Squires
- Folder 29: Vernon C. Squires
- 1910-1985; son of Vernon and Ethel (Wood) Squires. Consists of photocopied correspondence and remembrances from World War II. Squires took part in the landings in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944
- Photographs :
- Photograph 1: Ethel (Wood) Squires at the Dedication of Squires Hall, 1964
- Photograph 2: Navy Lieutenant Alden Squires, circa 1943
- Photograph 3: Ethel, J. Duane, Alden, and Emily Squires, 1908
- Photograph 4: Andrew and Martha White
- Photograph 5: Amy Lowell Whitfield
- Photograph 6: Lucy Churchill Hemmingway
- Photograph 7: Elizabeth Merrifield
- Photograph 8: Vernon C. Squires, 1943
- Photograph 9: Joseph Gansl
- Photograph 10: Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Ethel (Wood) Squires, 1953
- Photograph 11: R. Vowles (?), 1925
- Photograph 12: UND group of women at going away party, 1938
- Photograph 13: Mr. and Mrs. M.J. Weigel
- Photograph 14: Unveiling of bust of Vernon Squires at Squires Hall, 1964
- Photograph 15: Vernon P. Squires, 1920s
- Photograph 16: Ethel (Wood) Squires at the Continental Divide, 1923
- Photograph 17: Gilbert Gosulich, 1912
- Photograph 18: Henry Smith, 1901
- Photograph 19: Ethel Wood, 1882
- Photograph 20: Congo Basin Natives, 1925
- Photograph 21: Sid Clarke, 1925
- Photograph 22: Vernon P. Squires and unknown woman
- Photograph 23: Vernon P. Squires
- Photograph 24: Unidentified house
- Photograph 25: Home of James Russell Lowell
- Photograph 26: Vernon P., Emily, and Ethel (Wood) Squires, 1929
- Photograph 27: J. Duane and Ethel (Wood) Squires with bust of Vernon P. Squires at the dedication of Squires Hall, 1964
- Photograph 28: Ethel (Wood) Squires and UND President George Starcher at dedication of Squires Hall, 1964
- Photograph 29: Squires grandchildren with bust of Vernon Squires at dedication of Squires Hall, 1964
- Photograph 30: Ethel (Wood) Squires and children with bust of Vernon Squires at dedication of Squires Hall, 1964
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