Series II:

Jay Leyda left a box of papers with a friend during his peripatetic life. The contents of this collection comprise a wide assortment of materials and subjects of interest to Jay Leyda. One folder, labeled “Melville Log,” contained material concerning Leyda’s research and planning of that work, but also contained a variety of unrelated material. The rest of the papers range over a variety of subjects and were apparently packed randomly into this box.

In creating this finding aid, I have kept the papers in the “Melville Log” folder separate simply because Leyda labeled them in that manner. Scholars seeking information on Leyda’s research into Melville’s life and work should therefore seek it in both the “Melville Log” folder and the other Melville categories.

Much of the material contained herein is difficult or impossible to date with any certainty. Many of the individual sheets of paper have notes on several very different subjects related only by Leyda’s interest in them. I have categorized each piece according to its predominant subject, but those seeking minutia are encouraged to explore the entire collection carefully.

Detailed Container List

BOX 9: Offprints (22 folders)

9: Folder 1

[American Historical Association], Publishing the Papers of Great Men (December 1954)

(1 item)

9: Folder 2

[Amherst Chamber of Commerce], Amherst, Massachusetts: A College Town in New England

(1 item)

9: Folder 3

Antiquarian Bookman (July 17, 1952)

(2 items)

9: Folder 4

Bond, “Melville and Two Years Before the Mast,” Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (Autumn 1953)

(1 item)

9: Folder 5

Boyce, “Modern Literary Manuscripts in the Morgan Library,” PMLA, 67 (February 1952)

(1 item)

9: Folder 6

Butterfield, “George Lippard and his Secret Brotherhood,” PMHB, 79 (July 1955)

(1 item)

9: Folder 7

Cahoon, Herman Melville: A Checklist of Books and Manuscripts (New York, 1951)

(1 item)

9: Folder 8

[Corporation of Yaddo], Yaddo (c. 1951)

(1 item)

9: Folder 9

Dickinson Genealogy: on Mother’s Side

(1 item)

9: Folder 10

Hillway, “Billy Budd: Melville’s Human Sacrifice,” The Pacific Spectator, 6 (Summer 1952)

(1 item)

9: Folder 11

Johnson, “Emily Dickinson: Creating the Poems,” Harvard Library Bulletin, 2 (Autumn 1953)

(1 item)

9: Folder 12

Johnson, “Establishing a Text: The Emily Dickinson Papers,” Studies in Bibliography, 5 (July 1952-1953)

(1 item)

9: Folder 13

Leyda, “Another Friendly Critic for Melville,” New England Quarterly, 27 (June 1954)

(9 items)

9: Folder 14

Leyda, “The Engine Melville,” BPL Quarterly, 27 (October 1953)

(1 item)

9: Folder 15

Paltsits, Family Correspondence of Herman Melville, 1830-1904 (New York, 1909)

(1 item)

9: Folder 16

Todd, Witchcraft in New England (Connecticut Valley Historical Society, 1906)

(1 item)

9: Folder 17

Wadsworth, Politics in Religion (Philadelphia, 1854)

(1 item)

9: Folder 18

Wadsworth, Development and Discipline (Philadelphia, 1857)

(1 item)

9: Folder 19

Wadsworth, A Mother’s Sorrow (Philadelphia, 1864)

(1 item)

9: Folder 20

Wadsworth, Self-Knowledge (Philadelphia, 1860)

(1 item)

9: Folder 21

Wadsworth, God’s Culture. A Thanksgiving Sermon (Philadelphia, 1860)

(1 item)

9: Folder 22

Ward, “Emily Dickinson and T. W. Higginson,” BPL Quarterly (January 1953)

(1 item)