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Cage
593
Borrello, Alfred
Alfred Borrello
Papers
1946-1988
9 containers.
5.5 linear feet of shelf space.
1100 items.
Chiefly notes and drafts used for a
literary biography of British-American novelist Gabriel Fielding (Alan
Barnsley), along with scattered notes on modern literature.
Collection materials are in
English
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.
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.
This collection is open for research use.
[Item Description]. Cage
593, Alfred Borrello
Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Alfred Borrello donated the contents of this collection to the
Washington State University Libraries in January of1988 (MS88-01).
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Borrello, Alfred. --Archives
Fielding, Gabriel
Performing Arts
Literature
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Series 1:
Correspondence
1 / 1
General Correspondence Received,
1958-1980
1 / 2
General Correspondence Sent,
1968-1980
1 / 3
Burgess, Anthony,
1968
1 / 4
Concordance (re:
Hopkins, Gerald Manely), recd.
1968-1970
1 / 5
Concordance, sent,
1968-1970
1 / 6
Gabriel Fielding Corr. with
Publishers,
1956-1963
1 / 7
Corr. From Fielding and Family,
1967-1986
1 / 8
Corr. To Fielding and family,
1967-1980
2 / 9
E.M. Forster Dictionary,
1969-1972
2 / 10
Gardner, Erle Stanley (copies),
1968
2 / 11
Fielding Book, Corr. Received,
1967-1974
2 / 12
Fielding Book, Corr. Sent,
1967-1971
2 / 13
Southern Illinois University
Press, Received
2 / 14
Southern Illinois University
Press, sent
2 / 15
Miriam Kessler Taura,
1977-1978
2 / 16
Evelyn Waugh Family &
Newsletter
2 / 17
Writers (Marianne Moore, ee
cummings, Horace Gregory...),
1952,
1969
Series 2: Gabriel Fielding
Manuscripts and Typescripts
Short Stories
2 / 18
"
After the Parrot"
2 / 19
"
Figs in Spring"
2 / 20
"
Maude in the Bodkin's Eye"
2 / 21
Speech: Delivered Bryan Hall,
WSU,
1966
2 / 22
Speech: Copy of Fielding's talk
on "
Greenbloom"
2 / 23
Transcript: Interview with
Fielding,
1968
Series 3: Alfred Borrello
Manuscripts and Typescripts
2 / 24
Dissertation: "
H.G. Wells' Art of the Novel",
1965
Draft of Fielding
Book
2 / 25
incomplete
3 / 26
Intro. & Ch.2,
1969
3 / 27
Preface & Notes
3 / 28
Longhand Draft, Notes on "
The Birthday King" chapter.
3 / 29
Draft, Chapter Notes,
Chronology, Bibliography.
3 / 30
Incomplete Early
Draft
3 / 31
Drafts, Intro., "
A Type of Mourning" Chapter.
3 / 32
Drafts, Ch. 1 "In the
Beginning"
3 / 33
Drafts, Notes, Intro., Ch.1
(1967)
3 / 34
1st draft, Notes, Ch.4,
"Through Streets Broad and Narrow"
3 / 35
Longhand first draft, Notes,
Ch.6, "Gentlemen in Their Season"
3 / 36
Gabriel Fielding, Copy
#1
3 / 37
H.G. Wells: Author in Agony (incomplete, on copy
paper)
3 / 38
H.G. Wells: Author in Agony
(partial typed draft)
3 / 39
H.G. Wells: Author in Agony
(editor's copy, complete)
4 / 40
H.G. Wells: Author as Teacher
(partial draft)
4 / 41
H.G. Wells (partial
draft)
4 / 42
H.G. Wells (published
bibliography, 1968 photocopy)
Notes:
4 / 43
"
Brotherly Love", Fielding Book
4 / 44
"
Eight Days," Fielding Book
4 / 45
Publicity, Agents, Personal
Notes on Fielding
4 / 46
Background, titles, Fielding
Book
4 / 47
Play: "
Michelangelo's Models," by Robert Patrick,
1980
4 / 48
Screen Play: "
Nieman-Marcus American Express Holiday Gift Giving
Survey" (complete script & drafts),
1988
4 / 49
Script: "
Shine on the Rain," by P. Traynor and A.
Borrello
4 / 50
Short Story: "
Going Downtown on the Number 3 Bus," by Irene K
Danial, early draft. Edited by A. Borrello
4 / 51
Personal Papers
Series 4: Theatre and Opera
Playbills & Programs
5
1946-1970
6
1971-1978
7
1978-1982
8
1982-1988
Series 5: Ephemera, News Clippings
and Oversize Items
9 / 52
Miscellaneous Items (award,
theatre tickets, 1968 color photo of Fieldings, Metropolitan Opera Libretto
Translation ca. 1950)
9 / 53
Letter from William Carlos
Williams to A. Borrello. Laminated original written on menu.
Feb. 20,
1952.
9 / 54
Newspaper Article. New York Times
Review of Books on E.M. Forster.
1970
9 / 55
Articles: Literary Reviews,
Critiques and interviews w/ G. Fielding, includes New York Times Saturday
Review article by Fielding.
9 / 56
Literary Descriptions: Birthday
King, Brotherly Love, In the Time of Green Bloom, Through Streets Broad and
Narrow. Source unknown.
9 / 56
Fielding, Gabriel
Portrait: print of pencil sketch signed by
Fielding to A. Borrello.