Henry Walcott Boynton Papers 1897-1939

Boynton Papers, 1897-1939

13 archives boxes (6.5 linear ft.)

Abstract:

Correspondence, notes, reviews and clippings documenting the literary career of Henry Walcott Boynton. The collection includes handwritten drafts of plays, prose and poems, and drafts of stories written under the pseudonym John Walcott. Correspondence is chiefly with magazine and book publishers, including the Atlantic Monthly, The Bookman and The Nation.

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Restrictions on access:

There is no restriction on access to the Boynton Papers for research use. Particularly fragile items are restricted for preservation purposes.

Restrictions on use:

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Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Biographical Note

Henry Walcott Boynton was born in 1869 in Guilford, Connecticut. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1891, and his Master of Arts in 1893, both from Amherst College. From 1892 to 1901 Boynton was head of the department of English at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. After 1901 he devoted himself to writing. He was chief reviewer for the Atlantic Monthly from 1901 to 1904. He was on the regular staff of the Nation and the New York Evening Post beginning in 1912. He wrote criticism for the Bookman beginning in 1915. Boynton died in 1947.

Boynton was the author or editor of at least twenty-four books, often using his pseudonym, John Walcott. His works include: Life of Washington Irving (1901); The Golfer's Rubaiyat (1901); Bret Harte (1903); A Reader's History of American Literature (1903, with T.W. Higginson); Journalism and Literature (1904); Guenever, a Romantic Play (1905); The World's Leading Poets (1911); James Fenimore Cooper (1931); and Annals of American Bookselling (1932). Boynton's edited texts with introduction and notes include: Selections from Carlyle (1895); Tennyson's The Princess (1896); Milton's Paradise Lost (1897); Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1899); Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1901); Mrs. Ewing's Jackanapes (1902); Miss Martineau's The Prince and the Peasant (1902); Pope's Complete Poetical Works (Cambridge edition) (1902); Tennyson's Idylls of the King (1903); and Selected Poems for Secondary Schools (1911).

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Correspondence, notes, reviews and clippings documenting the literary career of Henry Walcott Boynton. The collection includes handwritten drafts of plays ("Dr. Lavendar," "Guenever," "Pompilia," "Flood Tide," etc.), prose and poems, and drafts of stories written under the pseudonym John Walcott. Correspondence is chiefly with magazine and book publishers, including the Atlantic Monthly, The Bookman and The Nation.

This collection is organized into nine series:

1. Correspondence
2. Dr. Lavendar, Play
3. Manuscripts of Plays and Books
4. Manuscripts of Poetry
5. Boynton Writing Under Pseudonym John Walcott
6. Scrapbook on Guenever
7. Books of Clippings and Reviews By Boynton
8. Newspaper Clippings
9. Miscellaneous Materials

Correspondence is arranged alphabetically.

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

There is no restriction on access to the Boynton Papers for research use. Particularly fragile items are restricted for preservation purposes.

Restrictions on use:

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Henry Walcott Boynton Papers [Box #, folder #] , Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library

History of the Collection

Processing Information

Finding Aid:	Revised November 1999
Edited by:	Daria D'Arienzo, Archivist of the College
Listed by:	Margaret R. Dakin, Archives and Special Collections Associate

Additional Information

Contact Information

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Robert Frost Library
PO Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002-5000

Phone: (413) 542-2299
Fax: (413) 542-2692

Email Reference Form: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/askus
URL: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives

Language

English.

Section 1: CORRESPONDENCE
Sub-section A: Outgoing Correspondence Sub-section B: Incoming Correspondence The correspondence is mainly from publishers and magazines concerning Boynton's work. Those letters are filed by publisher. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically.
Sub-section A: Outgoing Correspondence

Letters to others from others		Box 1: folder 1

Letters from Boynton, A-Z		Box 1: folder 2

Sub-section B: Incoming Correspondence

Illegible signatures		Box 1: folder 3

A - All		Box 1: folder 4

Allyn and Bacon		Box 1: folder 5

Am - D. Appleton Century Co.		Box 1: folder 6

Atlantic Monthly - Az		Box 1: folder 7

Badger, Richard G., Publisher - Boni and Liveright, Inc.		Box 1: folder 8

The Bookman		Box 1: folder 9

Bos - Bz		Box 2: folder 1

C - The Century Co.		Box 2: folder 2

Ch - Con		Box 2: folder 3

Cooper, James F.		Box 2: folder 4

James Fenimore Cooper Junior High School Memorial Committee - The Critic - Cz		Box 2: folder 5

D - The Delineator - The Dial - George H. Doran Co. - Duffield and Co. - Dz		Box 2: folder 6

E - Ez		Box 2: folder 7

F - Fox, Duffield and Co. - Fz		Box 2: folder 8

G - Ginn and Co. - The Grafton Press - Gz		Box 3: folder 1

H - Harper and Bros, Publishers - Henry Holt and Co. - Houghton, Mifflin and Co. - Hz		Box 3: folder 2

I - The Independent and Weekly Review - Iz		Box 3: folder 3

J		Box 3: folder 4

K - Kauser, Alice, dramatist's agent - Kz		Box 3: folder 5

L - Library of the World's Best Literature - Literary Review - Little, Brown and Co. - Horace Liveright, Publisher - Longmans, Green and Co. - Lz		Box 3: folder 6

M - McClure Co. - MacMillan Co. - A.N. Marquis and Co. - Mz		Box 3: folder 7

N - The Nation		Box 4: folder 1

National - New International Encyclopedia - New York (the journal) - New York Evening Post - New York Times - New York Tribune - Nz		Box 4: folder 2

O - The Outlook Co.		Box 4: folder 3

P - Paget Literary Agency - The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin - Putnam's Monthly		Box 4: folder 4

R - The Reader Magazine - The Review - Rz		Box 4: folder 5

S - The Saturday Evening Post - The Saturday Review of Literature - Charles Scribner's Sons - The Shortstory Publishing Co. - Sibley and Ducker Herbert S. Stone and Co. - The Stratford Co.		Box 5: folder 1

The Sun	1924-26	Box 5: folder 2

The Sun - Sz	1927-37	Box 5: folder 3

T		Box 5: folder 4

U - The Unpopular Review		Box 5: folder 5

V		Box 5: folder 6

W - The Weekly Review - John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The World's Work - Wz		Box 5: folder 7

Y		Box 5: folder 8

Z		Box 5: folder 9

Contracts with publishers		Box 5: folder 10

Section 2: DR. LAVENDAR, PLAY
Sub-section A: Correspondence Sub-section B: Notes
Sub-section A: Correspondence

Letters from Boynton			Box 6: folder 1

Letters to Boynton			Box 6: folder 2

Sub-section B: Notes

Notes			Box 6: folder 3

Notes			Box 6: folder 4

Notes			Box 6: folder 5

Section 3: MANUSCRIPTS OF PLAYS AND BOOKS
Contains handwritten drafts, typed drafts, and photocopies of play and books.
Dr. Lavendar - four acts (complete), typewritten script			Box 7: folder 1

Dr. Lavendar - three acts (short version), typewritten script			Box 7: folder 2

Guenever - A Romance, typewritten manuscript			Box 7: folder 3

Pompilia - A Dramatic Study of the Ring and the Book - in five acts, handwritten manuscript			Box 7: folder 4

Pompilia - A Dramatic Study of the Ring and the Book - in five acts, photocopy			Box 7: folder 5

Flood Tide, A Play in Three Acts, typewritten script			Box 7: folder 6

Flood Tide, A Play in Three Acts, photocopy			Box 7: folder 7

Flood Tide, miscellaneous pages			Box 7: folder 8

One of Our Personages, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, typewritten manuscript			Box 8: folder 1

One of Our Personages, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, photocopy of book			Box 8: folder 2

Section 4: MANUSCRIPTS OF POETRY
Contains handwritten drafts, typed drafts, and photocopies of poetry.
Photocopies of poems, with critical letter from Professor John F. Genung		Box 8: folder 3

Manuscript of class poem	1891 Jun 22	Box 8: folder 4

Book of poetry, handwritten	1898-99	Box 8: folder 5

Book of poetry, handwritten	1898	Box 8: folder 6

Poetry, typewritten manuscripts		Box 8: folder 7

Poetry about Massasoit		Box 8: folder 8

Poetry		Box 8: folder 9

Section 5: BOYNTON WRITING UNDER PSEUDONYM JOHN WALCOTT
Contains stories and miscellaneous material by Boynton, writing under the pseudonym John Walcott.
Short stories for lectures			Box 9: folder 1

Short stories, some printed			Box 9: folder 2

Miscellaneous pages of short stories			Box 9: folder 3

Section 6: SCRAPBOOK ON GUENEVER
Includes correspondence with Julia Marlowe.
Scrapbook-contains correspondence			Box 10

Section 7: BOOKS OF CLIPPINGS AND REVIEWS BY BOYNTON
Includes material from 1897-1937.
[Unnumbered book]	1906-1937	Box 11

Book I	1897-1902	Box 11

Book II	1902-1903	Box 11

Book III	1903-1904	Box 11

Book IV	1904	Box 11

Book V	1905-1907	Box 11

Book VI	1907-1909	Box 11

Book VII	1910-1915	Box 11

Section 9: MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS

Writings on war		Box 13: folder 1

Lecture on "Browning and Landor"		Box 13: folder 2

Miscellaneous papers		Box 13: folder 3

"Literature by Piecemeal" in The English Journal,	1934	Box 13: folder 4

"Along New England's Book Trails" in Yankee Magazine, January 1939, pp. 24 and 27	1939	Box 13: folder 5

Miscellaneous papers and clippings including some reviews of Annals of American Bookselling, by Boynton		Box 13: folder 6