J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
Eleanor L. Nicholes papers
Nicholes, Eleanor L.
ACCN 1185
12 linear feet
11 boxes and 1 map case folder
1849-1996
The Eleanor L. Nicholes papers (1849-1996) contain correspondence, news clippings, research files, and articles related to the career of librarian and author.
Collection materials are in English.
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.
The Eleanor L. Nicholes papers (1849-1996) contain correspondence, news clippings, research files, and articles.
Organized into eight series: I. Personal; II. Correspondence; III. Career; IV. Politics; V. Subjects; VI. Articles and Reprints; VII. Oversize; VIII. Map Case.
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Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Donated by Linda and Max Miller in 2003.
Processed by Karen Carver in 2003.
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See also the Eleanor L. Nicholes photograph collection (P1117) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.
Nicholes, Eleanor L.--Archives
Nicholes, Eleanor L.--Family--Archives
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Family
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
Widener Library (Cambridge, Mass.)--Records and correspondence
Harvard University--Student strike, 1969--Archives
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movement--Massachuseets--Boston--Archives
Student movements--Massachusetts--Boston--Archives
Equal rights amendments--United States
Librarians--Archives
Commemorative postage stamps--Posters
Women
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Research (Documents)
Grant proposals
Photocopies
Personal correspondence
Genealogical tables
Business correspondence
Academic theses
Dictionaries
Postcards
Posters
Personal
I
Personal Data Sheet
1970s
1
1
Women's Army Corps, Personal (201) File
1943-1946
1
2
Family
1
3
Genealogy
1
4
Harrison Family
1849-1988
1
5
Financial
1
6
Letters Home
1936-1964
1
7
Letters written from Eleanor to her parents.
Correspondence
II
Correspondence
1943-1985
2
1
Bookseller Correspondence
1951-1994
2
2-5
Correspondence, England
2
6-7
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.
Correspondence, L.S. Boas
2
8
General correspondence
2
9
Career
III
Dissertation Preface
1950
3
1
John Clare
3
2
Research Proposal
3
3
Percy Bysshe Shelley
3
4
Modern Language Notes
3
5
Eleanor Nicholes, "Mary Wollstonecraft"
1961
3
6
ACLS Fellowship, Grant Application
1959
3
7
ACLS Fellowship, Correspondence
1959-1962
3
8
ACLS Fellowship, News Clippings
1960
3
9
ACLS Fellowship, Newsletters
1959-1962
3
10
ACLS Fellowship, Miscellaneous
1959-1960
3
11
Research Notes, British House of Commons Documents
3
12
Peacock Material, Nicholas Joukovsky
3
13
T. L. Peacock, Paper Money Lyrics and Other Poems
1837
3
14
Photoprint of Harvard copy, collated with manuscript and auther-emended copy.
Microscopes
4
1
Dials and Verses, Research
4
2-4
"A Consort of Dials and Verses," Widener Exhibit
1964
4
5
Dictionaries, Research
4
6
"A Selection of Dictionaries," Widener Exhibit
1964
4
7
Modern Humanities Research Association, Annual Bibliography
1965-1967
4
8
Speech, Lancaster Massachusetts
1985
4
9
Politics
IV
"The Student Revolt"
1968
5
1
Harvard Student Strike
1969
5
2-4
Harvard
5
5
Racial Issues
5
6-7
Nathan Glazer, "The New Left and Its Limits"
1968
5
8
"The War Against the Young"
1968
5
9
"The Man Who Ran Against Lyndon Johnson"
1968
5
10
Equal Rights Amendment
1963-1968
5
11
Subjects
V
Art and Literature
6
1
Margaret Atwood
1980s-1990s
6
2
Books
6
3
Commemorative Stamp Club
6
4
Christine Durham
1993-1994
6
5
Leon Edel
1951-1953
6
6
Libraries
6
7
Miscellaneous
6
8
News Clippings
1950s-1980s
6
9
News Clippings, Politics and Economics
1960s
6
10
Postcards
6
11
Articles and Reprints
VI
Phyllis Bartlett, "Seraph of Heaven: A Shelleyan Dream in Hardy's Fiction"
1955
7
1
Phyllis Bartlett, "Hardy's Shelley"
1955
7
2
David Beres, "A Dream, A Vision, and a Poem"
1951
7
3
James Bossard and Eleanor Boll, "Adjustment of Siblings in Large Families"
1956
7
4
James Bossard and Eleanor Boll, "Child Behavior and the Empathic Complex"
1957
7
5
Kenneth Cameron, "The Planet-Tempest Passage in Epipsychidion"
1948
7
6
Kenneth Cameron, "Shelley Scholarship: 1940-1953"
1954
7
7
Leon Edel, "A Further Note on 'An Error in the Ambassadors"
1951
7
8
Leon Edel, "The Aspern Papers"
1952
7
9
K. R. Eissler, "The Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Sixth Period of the Development of Psychoanalytic Technique"
1950
7
10
Joan Greenberg, "Guillaume le Clerc and Alan of Galloway"
1951
7
11
T. Y. Greet, "The Theme and Structure of Faulkner's The Hamlet"
1957
7
12
Chester Hallenbeck, "Book-Trade Publicity Before 1800"
1938
7
13
George Harper, "Thomas Taylor and Blake's Drama of Persephone"
1955
7
14
Frederick Hauptmann, "The Life of Ida Orloff and her Relations to Gerhart Hauptmann"
1957
7
15
Marcel Kessel, "The Mark of X in Claire Clairmont's Journals"
7
16
Ernst Kris, "Psychoanalysis and the Study of Creative Imagination"
1953
7
17
Lessor, "The Idiot–A psychoanalytic Interpretation"
7
18
Robert Mayo, "The Contemporaneity of the Lyrical Ballads"
1954
7
19
William Mulder, "Denmark and the Mormons: The Jorgen W. Schmidt Collection"
1991
7
20
Georgiana Pollak, "The Relationship of Music to Leaves of Grass"
1954
7
21
Walter Peck, "Unpublished Passages from the Pforzheimer MS of Shelley's Philosophical View of Reform"
1924
7
22
Jon Perry, "Jean de Tournes the Elder, a French Printer of Illustrated Books, 1504-1564"
1975
7
23
Sir Osbert Sitwell, "The Novels of George Meredith and Some Notes on the English Novel"
1947
7
24
Leslie Wilson, "History of the Printing of Scientific and Mathematical Texts"
1977
7
25
F. P. Wilson, "The Proverbial Wisdom of Shakespeare"
1961
7
26
Catalogue, Harry Elkins Widener Library
8
Oversize
VII
News Clippings, Student Protest
1960s
9
1-2
London Times Literary Supplement
1968-1969
9
3
The Battle of Trafalgar, A Collection of Documents
9
4
"Atwood Gladly Keeps Murder a Mystery"
1996
9
5
News Clippings, Kennedy Family
1960s
10
News Clippings, The Harvard Crimson
1967-1969
11
1
News Clippings, Miscellaneous
1967-1968
11
2
News Clippings, New York Times
1968
11
3
News Clippings, Boston Globe
1968
11
4
News Clippings, Margaret Atwood
11
5
Map Case
VIII
This folder contains posters advertising commemorative stamps.
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
1