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| Creator: | Waite, Harlow O. |
| Title: | Harlow O. Waite Papers |
| Dates: | 1926-1958 |
| Size: | 2 boxes (.75 linear foot) |
| Abstract: | The Harlow O. Waite Papers include correspondence, photographs, writings, and personal materials from his time as a professor at Syracuse University. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center/university-archives |
Biography
Harlow O. Waite (1909-1993) was an English professor at Syracuse University from 1938 to 1972.
Born in Watertown, New York, Waite graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1931 and went on to earn his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1933. Soon after, Waite attended the teachers college at Columbia. Between 1935 and 1937, he held a position at Scarsdale High School and was a registrar and instructor at the Syracuse Collegiate Center in Watertown. In 1937, he moved to Syracuse, New York after being hired as an English professor at Syracuse University. He tried to create an anthology of modern poetry in 1939 with his colleague, A. E. Johnson, but the project ended due to disagreements with the publishing company.
Nearly a decade later, Waite began work on another anthology with Ben Atkinson, a professor at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. This anthology, titled Literature of Our Times, became one of Waite’s major contributions to Syracuse University and was a required text for all freshman students. Published just after the close of World War II, the anthology includes poetry, short stories, excerpts from novels, and essays that explore the “consequences to human society of the release of atomic energy.” Waite spent another ten years revising the anthology. The first edition was published by Henry Holt and Company in 1947, a revised edition was published in 1953, and a second edition several years later in 1958.
Waite taught in the English Department for 34 years. In 1971, he was honored as professor emeritus and then retired one year later.
Scope and Content Note
The Harlow O. Waite Papers consist of materials dating from 1926 to 1958. The collection comprises three series, Anthology and Writing, Correspondence, and Personal Records.
Anthology and Writing includes materials regarding the proposed Johnson-Waite anthology, Harlow Waite’s notes on short stories, and an essay he collected on Wuthering Heights. This series also contains materials about Literature of Our Times, which includes notes, drafts, galleys, and correspondence between his co-editor Ben Atkinson and Henry Holt and Company, as well as black and white photographs of Nagasaki, Japan after World War II.
The bulk of the papers in Correspondence are permission requests for Literature of Our Times and letters back and forth between Waite and Atkinson.
Lastly, Personal Records includes Waite's transcripts and applications for teaching positions, along with printed material related to Waite moving to various apartments in Syracuse, New York.
Restrictions
Access Restrictions
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Use Restrictions
Written permission must be obtained from the Syracuse University Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
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Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Harlow O. Waite Papers,
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Acquisition Information
The Library's Manuscript Department transferred the Harlow O. Waite Papers to the Archives in 1966.
Processing Information
Materials were rehoused in acid-free folders.
Finding Aid Information
Created by: Tim Carter
Date: 2016
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Inventory
| Personal Materials | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | House and Furniture Records 1939-1944 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Transcripts and H. Waite Applications for Jobs 1926-1937 | ||||||||||
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Incoming | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1936-1948 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1953-1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1957-1958 | ||||||||||
| Outgoing | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1939-March 1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | May-December 1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1953-1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1957-1958 | ||||||||||