251. Guide to the Logan Pearsall Smith Collection.
- Author
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Trinity Univ., San Antonio, TX. and Pettit, Katherine Denshaw
- Abstract
A guide to the Logan Pearsall Smith Collection at Trinity University Elizabeth Coates Maddux Library in San Antonio, Texas provides a descriptive overview of the collected works of this renowned epigrammatist, critic, essayist, biographer, and authority on the English language. The guide includes a brief biography of Smith (1865-1946), detailed descriptions of his publications and papers at Trinity, two appendices (a list of his principal works, and Smith material in the United States), and an index. The 48 items in the publications section are arranged under the following headings: (1) Essays and Aphorisms; (2) Poems; (3) Autobiography; (4) Writings on the English Language; (5) Literary Studies; (6) Short Stories; (7) Biography; (8) Editor (works edited by Smith); and (9) Books about Logan Pearsall Smith and His Family. The papers, numbering 108 items and containing more than 2,000 pages, consist mainly of letters, manuscripts, miscellanea, and typescripts. Notable among these are letters from Sir Kenneth Clark, art critic; Sir Humphrey Milford, publisher, Oxford University Press; Hugh Trevor-Roper, historian and critic; and several unpublished manuscripts. (Twenty-one references are appended.) (MM)
- Published
- 1987