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Box 3

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

Correspondence, 1976-1978, 1984

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9-12
Scope and Contents

Correspondence for this period consists primarily of Fong's enquiries regarding the availabilty of Oscar Wilde materials/manuscripts and relevant catalogs from numerous libraries, museums, and Wilde affiliates such as Merlin Vyvyan Holland (Wilde's grandson).

Dates: 1976-1978, 1984

Correspondence, 1992 - 1995

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 13-20
Scope and Contents

Materials in the 1992 folder concern the origin of Fong and Beckson's work on a critical edition of Oscar Wilde's poetry to be published by the Oxford University Press. Work for the edition was officially approved in 1993. Prominent figures in these files include book collector Viscountess Mary Hyde Eccles, the editors of the Oxford English Texts Ian Small and Russell Jackson, and the editor of Oxford University Press Frances Whistler.

Dates: 1992 - 1995

Readings on Oliver Cromwell, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

Readings on Oliver Cromwell sent from Karl Beckson to Bobby Fong.

Dates: undated

Poems from Priscilla Atkins, 1995

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

Materials unrelated to Oscar Wilde sent by Priscilla Atkins, then a teacher and librarian at Hope College.

Dates: 1995

Drafts of annotations with comments, c. 1996

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Files contain a draft of a section of the poem annotations for the OET edition with Karl Beckson responding to comments made by scholar Ian Small (?????)

Dates: c. 1996

Final version of commentary, c. 1997

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5-6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes drafts, proofs, correspondence, manuscript scans, and other supplementary materials pertaining to Fong and Beckson's 2000 publication of Wilde's poems as part of the Oxford English Texts series.

Dates: c. 1997

Proofs of Poems & Poems in Prose, 1999

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7-8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes drafts, proofs, correspondence, manuscript scans, and other supplementary materials pertaining to Fong and Beckson's 2000 publication of Wilde's poems as part of the Oxford English Texts series.

Dates: 1999

Karl Beckson's Introduction & Edits to the Editorial Introduction, 1996

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3-4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes drafts, proofs, correspondence, manuscript scans, and other supplementary materials pertaining to Fong and Beckson's 2000 publication of Wilde's poems as part of the Oxford English Texts series.

Dates: 1996

Correspondence, 1996 - 2000

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 21-26
Scope and Contents

Includes correpondence and attending enclosures - such as drafts and reference materials - regarding the critical edition of Wilde's poetry. The recipients of the letters narrow down to individuals directly involved with the project.

Dates: 1996 - 2000

Liberal Education Vol. 100, No. 3, 2014

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

Issue features an op-ed by Bobby Fong regarding the state of liberal arts education in America.

Dates: 2014