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Alfred Borrello Papers, 1946-1988

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Borrello, Alfred
Title
Alfred Borrello Papers
Dates
1946-1988 (inclusive)
Quantity
9 containers., (5.5 linear feet of shelf space.), (1100 items.)
Collection Number
Cage 593
Summary
Chiefly notes and drafts used for a literary biography of British-American novelist Gabriel Fielding (Alan Barnsley), along with scattered notes on modern literature.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

Alfred Borrello was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1931. He received his B.A. in English at St. John's University in 1952 and served in the U.S. Army from 1953-1955. After earning his M.A. at New York University in 1956, Borrello returned to St. John's where he graduated with a Ph.D. in English in 1965.

Borello's teaching career began at Mercer County Community College in Trenton, New Jersey. He was chairman of both the English department and the division of Liberal Arts at Mercer from 1967-1969. In 1969 Borrello moved to the Kingsborough College of the City University of New York as an associate professor of English.

Borrello's published works center around a small group of English novelists and poets. In 1969 he published " A Concordance of the Poetry in English of Gerard Manley Hopkins" with Scarecrow Press. They also published his dictionary on E.M. Forster a few years later. He wrote on the lives and literary accomplishments of such authors as H.G. Wells, Gabriel Fielding, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene and for years he was associate editor of the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter. The research for Borrello's book on Gabriel Fielding brought him into close contact with Fielding and his family; the friendship, begun in 1967, grew into a long and affectionate relationship. Much of the correspondence between Borrello and the Fielding family was a lively dialog concerning the theological and moral aspects of Catholicism, a religion they shared. Borrello's passion for opera and the theatre is evidenced in the correspondence as well; there are hundreds of theatre programs and playbills in this collection dating from 1946.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 593, Alfred Borrello Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The contents of the collection are arranged into five series: Correspondence; Gabriel Fielding Manuscripts and Typescripts; Alfred Borrello Manuscripts and Typescripts; Theatre and Opera Programs and Playbills; and Ephemera, News Clippings and Oversize items. Following the first two folders labeled "General Correspondence," the Correspondence series is alphabetically arranged by folder title; Thereunder each folder is arranged chronologically. Series two and three contain the writings of Fielding and Borrello arranged alphabetically by folder title. The playbills and programs in the fourth series are arranged chronologically by year. The contents of the fifth series, Ephemera, are arranged according to size of item. Some interesting items include: Thank You letter signed by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Dec. 17, 1970; Note from Lillian Hellman, signed Nov. 22, 1974; Letter from William Carlos Williams, Feb. 20, 1952; 1976 Playbill " A Musical Jubilee" autographed by Lillian Gish; 1976 Playbill "Paul Robeson" autographed by James Earl Jones; Letters from Muriel Spark, e e cummings, Anthony Powell, Horace Gregory (mainly copies dated 1952 and 1969); Fielding's " Maude in the Bodkin's Eye"; " Shine on the Rain" script by Traynor and Borrello, and a portrait of Gabriel Fielding.

Acquisition Information

Alfred Borrello donated the contents of this collection to the Washington State University Libraries in January of1988 (MS88-01).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

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Personal Names

  • Borrello, Alfred. --Archives (creator)
  • Fielding, Gabriel

Finding aid prepared by Liza R. Rognas
2012

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