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Eleanor L. Nicholes papers, 1849-1996
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Nicholes, Eleanor L.
- Title
- Eleanor L. Nicholes papers
- Dates
- 1849-1996 (inclusive)18491996
- Quantity
- 12 linear feet, (11 boxes and 1 map case folder)
- Collection Number
- ACCN 1185
- Summary
- The Eleanor L. Nicholes papers (1849-1996) contain correspondence, news clippings, research files, and articles related to the career of librarian and author.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Eleanor Louise Nicholes (1915-1997) was born on 14 January 1915 in American Fork, Utah, the second of nine children born to Joseph K. and Olive Maiben Nicholes. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Brigham Young University in 1936 and taught in the Utah public school system until 1942.
She was commissioned as a second Lieutenant in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1943 and served as a hospital administrative officer until the end of World War II, when she resumed her education. She was awarded the Ph.D. from New York University in 1950. Her dissertation, "The Shadowed Mind: Effects of the Schizophrenic Process on the Poetry of John Clare," reflected her lifelong interest in both literature and psychology.
After obtaining an M.A. in Library Science from the University of Minnesota, Nicholes served as rare books librarian at the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library in New York from 1954 to 1960. She was awarded a Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in 1960, which allowed her to travel to London and supported her research for a never-completed biography of English novelist and East India Company administrator, Thomas Love Peacock. She was Special Collection's Librarian at Wellesley College for many years, retiring from that position in 1982. Nicholes returned to Utah in 1986. She served on the board of the Friends of the University of Utah Library and was active in the American Association of University Women. She died in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 14 November 1997.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Eleanor L. Nicholes papers (1849-1996) contain correspondence, news clippings, research files, and articles.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Organized into eight series: I. Personal; II. Correspondence; III. Career; IV. Politics; V. Subjects; VI. Articles and Reprints; VII. Oversize; VIII. Map Case.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Linda and Max Miller in 2003.
Processing Note
Processed by Karen Carver in 2003.
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Separated Materials
See also the Eleanor L. Nicholes photograph collection (P1117) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Related Materials
Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
I: PersonalReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1 | Personal Data Sheet |
1970s |
| 1 | 2 | Women's Army Corps, Personal (201) File |
1943-1946 |
| 1 | 3 | Family |
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| 1 | 4 | Genealogy |
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| 1 | 5 | Harrison Family |
1849-1988 |
| 1 | 6 | Financial |
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| 1 | 7 | Letters Home
Letters written from Eleanor to her parents.
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1936-1964 |
II: CorrespondenceReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 2 | 1 | Correspondence |
1943-1985 |
| 2 | 2-5 | Bookseller Correspondence |
1951-1994 |
| 2 | 6-7 | Correspondence, England
This correspondence is primarily concerned with research and travel arrangements during Eleanor's visit to England to do research on the life of Thomas Love Peacock. Personal reminiscences of the trip can be found in the letters she wrote to her parents during this time.
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| 2 | 8 | Correspondence, L.S. Boas |
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| 2 | 9 | General correspondence |
III: CareerReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 3 | 1 | Dissertation Preface |
1950 |
| 3 | 2 | John Clare |
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| 3 | 3 | Research Proposal |
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| 3 | 4 | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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| 3 | 5 |
Modern Language Notes
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| 3 | 6 | Eleanor Nicholes, "Mary Wollstonecraft" |
1961 |
| 3 | 7 | ACLS Fellowship, Grant Application |
1959 |
| 3 | 8 | ACLS Fellowship, Correspondence |
1959-1962 |
| 3 | 9 | ACLS Fellowship, News Clippings |
1960 |
| 3 | 10 | ACLS Fellowship, Newsletters |
1959-1962 |
| 3 | 11 | ACLS Fellowship, Miscellaneous |
1959-1960 |
| 3 | 12 | Research Notes, British House of Commons Documents |
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| 3 | 13 | Peacock Material, Nicholas Joukovsky |
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| 3 | 14 | T. L. Peacock, Paper Money Lyrics and Other Poems
Photoprint of Harvard copy, collated with manuscript and auther-emended copy.
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1837 |
| 4 | 1 | Microscopes |
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| 4 | 2-4 | Dials and Verses, Research |
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| 4 | 5 | "A Consort of Dials and Verses," Widener Exhibit |
1964 |
| 4 | 6 | Dictionaries, Research |
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| 4 | 7 | "A Selection of Dictionaries," Widener Exhibit |
1964 |
| 4 | 8 | Modern Humanities Research Association, Annual Bibliography |
1965-1967 |
| 4 | 9 | Speech, Lancaster Massachusetts |
1985 |
IV: PoliticsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 5 | 1 | "The Student Revolt" |
1968 |
| 5 | 2-4 | Harvard Student Strike |
1969 |
| 5 | 5 | Harvard |
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| 5 | 6-7 | Racial Issues |
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| 5 | 8 | Nathan Glazer, "The New Left and Its Limits" |
1968 |
| 5 | 9 | "The War Against the Young" |
1968 |
| 5 | 10 | "The Man Who Ran Against Lyndon Johnson" |
1968 |
| 5 | 11 | Equal Rights Amendment |
1963-1968 |
V: SubjectsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 6 | 1 | Art and Literature |
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| 6 | 2 | Margaret Atwood |
1980s-1990s |
| 6 | 3 | Books |
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| 6 | 4 | Commemorative Stamp Club |
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| 6 | 5 | Christine Durham |
1993-1994 |
| 6 | 6 | Leon Edel |
1951-1953 |
| 6 | 7 | Libraries |
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| 6 | 8 | Miscellaneous |
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| 6 | 9 | News Clippings |
1950s-1980s |
| 6 | 10 | News Clippings, Politics and Economics |
1960s |
| 6 | 11 | Postcards |
VI: Articles and ReprintsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 7 | 1 | Phyllis Bartlett, "Seraph of Heaven: A Shelleyan Dream in Hardy's Fiction" |
1955 |
| 7 | 2 | Phyllis Bartlett, "Hardy's Shelley" |
1955 |
| 7 | 3 | David Beres, "A Dream, A Vision, and a Poem" |
1951 |
| 7 | 4 | James Bossard and Eleanor Boll, "Adjustment of Siblings in Large Families" |
1956 |
| 7 | 5 | James Bossard and Eleanor Boll, "Child Behavior and the Empathic Complex" |
1957 |
| 7 | 6 | Kenneth Cameron, "The Planet-Tempest Passage in Epipsychidion" |
1948 |
| 7 | 7 | Kenneth Cameron, "Shelley Scholarship: 1940-1953" |
1954 |
| 7 | 8 | Leon Edel, "A Further Note on 'An Error in the Ambassadors" |
1951 |
| 7 | 9 | Leon Edel, "The Aspern Papers" |
1952 |
| 7 | 10 | K. R. Eissler, "The Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Sixth Period of the Development of Psychoanalytic Technique" |
1950 |
| 7 | 11 | Joan Greenberg, "Guillaume le Clerc and Alan of Galloway" |
1951 |
| 7 | 12 | T. Y. Greet, "The Theme and Structure of Faulkner's The Hamlet" |
1957 |
| 7 | 13 | Chester Hallenbeck, "Book-Trade Publicity Before 1800" |
1938 |
| 7 | 14 | George Harper, "Thomas Taylor and Blake's Drama of Persephone" |
1955 |
| 7 | 15 | Frederick Hauptmann, "The Life of Ida Orloff and her Relations to Gerhart Hauptmann" |
1957 |
| 7 | 16 | Marcel Kessel, "The Mark of X in Claire Clairmont's Journals" |
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| 7 | 17 | Ernst Kris, "Psychoanalysis and the Study of Creative Imagination" |
1953 |
| 7 | 18 | Lessor, "The Idiot–A psychoanalytic Interpretation" |
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| 7 | 19 | Robert Mayo, "The Contemporaneity of the Lyrical Ballads" |
1954 |
| 7 | 20 | William Mulder, "Denmark and the Mormons: The Jorgen W. Schmidt Collection" |
1991 |
| 7 | 21 | Georgiana Pollak, "The Relationship of Music to Leaves of Grass" |
1954 |
| 7 | 22 | Walter Peck, "Unpublished Passages from the Pforzheimer MS of Shelley's Philosophical View of Reform" |
1924 |
| 7 | 23 | Jon Perry, "Jean de Tournes the Elder, a French Printer of Illustrated Books, 1504-1564" |
1975 |
| 7 | 24 | Sir Osbert Sitwell, "The Novels of George Meredith and Some Notes on the English Novel" |
1947 |
| 7 | 25 | Leslie Wilson, "History of the Printing of Scientific and Mathematical Texts" |
1977 |
| 7 | 26 | F. P. Wilson, "The Proverbial Wisdom of Shakespeare" |
1961 |
| 8 | Catalogue, Harry Elkins Widener Library |
VII: OversizeReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 9 | 1-2 | News Clippings, Student Protest |
1960s |
| 9 | 3 |
London Times Literary Supplement
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1968-1969 |
| 9 | 4 | The Battle of Trafalgar, A Collection of Documents |
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| 9 | 5 | "Atwood Gladly Keeps Murder a Mystery" |
1996 |
| 10 | News Clippings, Kennedy Family |
1960s | |
| Folder | |||
| 11 | 1 | News Clippings, The Harvard Crimson
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1967-1969 |
| 11 | 2 | News Clippings, Miscellaneous |
1967-1968 |
| 11 | 3 | News Clippings, New York Times
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1968 |
| 11 | 4 | News Clippings, Boston Globe
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1968 |
| 11 | 5 | News Clippings, Margaret Atwood |
VIII: Map CaseReturn to Top
This folder contains posters advertising commemorative stamps.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| map-case-folder | ||
| 1 | Great Issues of 1975 |
1975 |
| 1 | International Women's Year |
1975 |
| 1 | Drafting the Articles of Confederation |
1977 |
| 1 | October is National Hobby Month |
1977 |
| 1 | 50th Anniversary Year of Talking Pictures |
1977 |
| 1 | The Bold, The Brave, The Beautiful |
1977 |
| 1 | Surrender at Saratoga |
1977 |
| 1 | Stamps and Stories |
1977 |
| 1 | Colorado: The Centennial State |
1977 |
| 1 | Herkimer at Oriskany |
1977 |
| 1 | The Bridge of Peace |
1977 |
| 1 | Vital Issues |
1977 |
| 1 | Folk Art U.S.A.: Quilts |
1978 |
| 1 | Poetry in Motion: Dance |
1978 |
| 1 | The French Alliance: U. S. Bicentennial |
1978 |
| 1 | George M. Cohan |
1978 |
| 1 | Dr. George Papanicolaou |
1978 |
| 1 | Photography |
1978 |
| 1 | A Mission to Mars |
1978 |
| 1 | Trees |
1978 |
| 1 | Carl Sandburg |
1978 |
| 1 | Forget Them Not: Endangered Flora |
1979 |
| 1 | Robert F. Kennedy |
1979 |
| 1 | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
1979 |
| 1 | The Post Office Goes to the Olympics |
1980 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Commemorative postage stamps--Posters
- Equal rights amendments--United States
- Librarians--Archives
- Student movements--Massachusetts--Boston--Archives
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movement--Massachuseets--Boston--Archives
Personal Names
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Family
- Nicholes, Eleanor L.--Archives
- Nicholes, Eleanor L.--Family--Archives
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
Corporate Names
- Harvard University--Student strike, 1969--Archives
- Widener Library (Cambridge, Mass.)--Records and correspondence
Form or Genre Terms
- Academic theses
- Business correspondence
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Dictionaries
- Genealogical tables
- Grant proposals
- Personal correspondence
- Photocopies
- Postcards
- Posters
- Research (Documents)
Finding aid created by Karen Carver.
2003 (last modified: 2020)
