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Finding Aid for the John C. Hodges Book Collection, 1891-1955


MS-1885

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, November 14, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: John C. Hodges Book Collection

Date/Date Range :   1891-1959

Extent: 5.0 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection houses five boxes of books from John C. Hodges' personal library.

Call number: MS-1885

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
John C. Hodges bequeathed these books to the University of Tennessee in his will.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], John C. Hodges Book Collection, MS-1885. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of five boxes.


Biography / History

John Cunyus Hodges was born on March 15, 1892 to Floyd Crawford and Addie Reynolds Hodges in Cotton Valley, Louisiana. He was educated first at Meridian College, where he graduated with his A.B. in 1911. He went on to earn an M.A. from Tulane University (1912), a Ph.D from Harvard (1918) and an honorary Litt.D from Tennessee Wesleyan College (1962). Hodges launched his teaching career at Northwestern University, where he taught from 1913 to 1916. He began teaching English at the University of Tennessee in 1918, and remained in this position until he was promoted to department chairman in 1937, where he served until 1962. Beginning in 1959, he was also involved in the Library Development Program. Hodges married twice: once to Lillian Nelson (January 24, 1914) and once to Cornelia Smartt Hendley (August 15, 1952). He died in 1967.

Hodges also wrote a number of books, including William Congreve, the Man (1941), Harbrace Handbook of Reading (1943), English Manual for Teachers (1946), Harbrace College Handbook (1946), Harbrace College Workbook (1952), College English the First Year (1952), The Library of William Congreve (1955), William Congreve: Letters and Documents (1964), and Harbrace Writing Course (1967).


Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection houses five boxes of books from John C. Hodges' personal library.

Subject Terms

  • Hodges, John Cunyus, 1892-1967.
  • University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus).
  • Authors, American -- Tennessee.
Contents List
Box   1     Folder   1    
Bachelor, Joseph M. and Ralph L. Henry. American Thinking and Writing , 1942
Box   1     Folder   2    
Baker, George Pierce. The Principles of Argumentation , 1895
Box   1     Folder   3    
Baker, Ray Palmer and William Haller. Writing: A First Book for College Students , 1929
Box   1     Folder   4    
Baugh, Albert C., Paul C. Kitchen, and Matthew W. Black. Writing By Types , 1924
Box   1     Folder   5    
Bowman, James Cloyd and J. Lawrence Eason. Composition and Selected Essays , 1923
Box   1     Folder   6    
Bruce, Harold and Guy Montgomery. The New World , 1920
Box   1     Folder   7    
Canby, Henry Seidel. English Composition in Theory and Practice , 1920
Box   1     Folder   8    
Chamberlain, Rudolph W. and Joseph S.G. Bolton. Progressive Readings In Prose , 1923
Box   1     Folder   9    
Chase, Mary Allen. Constructive Theme Writing , 1929
Box   1     Folder   10    
Cross, E.A. Fundamentals in English , 1926
Box   1     Folder   11    
Cunliffe, J.W. and Gerhard R. Lomer. Writing of Today , 1922
Box   1     Folder   12    
Curl, Mervin James. Expository Writing , 1919
Box   1     Folder   13    
Dent, J.C. Thought in English Verse , 1930
Box   1     Folder   14    
Dolch, Edward William. Outlining for Effective Writing , 1923
Box   2     Folder   1    
Duncan, Carson S. Prose Specimens (penciled notes), 1913
Box   2     Folder   2    
Duncan, Carson S. Prose Specimens , 1913
Box   2     Folder   3    
Dye, William S. Expository Writing , 1926
Box   2     Folder   4    
Espenshade, A. Howry. The Essentials of Composition and Rhetoric , 1904
Box   2     Folder   5    
Farrington, D. Davis. The Essay , 1924
Box   2     Folder   6    
Fassett, Frederick G. Studies in Reading , 1932
Box   2     Folder   7    
French, John C. Writing (underlining and notes), 1924

Box   2     Folder   8    
Fullington, James F., Robert S. Newdick, and J. Harold Wilson. Purposive Prose (notes in book), 1935
Box   2     Folder   9    
Gresham, Walter. Notes for Young Writers , 1918
Box   2     Folder   10    
Greenough, Chester Noyes and Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey. English Composition , 1917
Box   2     Folder   11    
Grose, Howard B. College Composition , 1926
Box   2     Folder   12    
Grose, Howard B. Specimens of English Composition , 1909
Box   2     Folder   13    
Haley, Charles Brockway and James Edward Tobin. Contrast and Comparison , 1931
Box   3     Folder   1    
Hersey, Frank Wilson Cheney and Chester Noyes Greenough. Specimens of Prose Composition , 1923
Box   3     Folder   2    
Hersey, Frank Wilson Cheney and Chester Noyes Greenough. Specimens of Prose Composition , 1923
Box   3     Folder   3    
Hogrefe, Pearl and W. Paul Jones. Interpreting Experience , 1935
Box   3     Folder   4    
Howarth, Herbert. "Byzantium or the Barbarians?" (Reprinted from The Western Humanities Review vol. XI, no. 2), 1957
Box   3     Folder   5    
Jefferson, Bernard L. and Harry Houston Peckham. Creative Prose Writing , 1926.
Box   3     Folder   6    
Jefferson, Bernard L., Paul N. Landis, Arthur W. Secord, and James E. Ernst. Literary Studies for Rhetoric Classes , 1930
Box   3     Folder   7    
Jefferson, Bernard L., Paul N. Landis, Arthur W. Secord, and James E. Ernst. Literary Studies for Rhetoric Classes , 1930
Box   3     Folder   8    
Lathrop, Henry Burrowes. Freshman Composition , 1929
Box   3     Folder   9    
Lomer, Gerhard R. and Margaret Ashmun. The Study and Practice of Writing English , 1914
Box   3     Folder   10    
Long, Percy Waldron and Frank W.C. Hersey. Military English , 1918
Box   3     Folder   11    
Mahan, Bruce. Dictation Exercises for Senior High Schools (loose sheets of notes inside), 1940 July 15
Box   3     Folder   12    
Manly, John Matthews and Edith Rickert. The Writing of English (notes in book), 1920
Box   3     Folder   13    
Manly, John Matthews and Edith Rickert. The Writing of English , 1920
Box   4     Folder   1    
Marcoux, Harvey Lee. Business Correspondence , 1929
Box   4     Folder   2    
McCallum, James Dow. The College Omnibus (notes in book), 1933
Box   4     Folder   3    
Mersand, Joseph. "English Coast to Coast." (Reprinted from The English Record ), 1959.
Box   4     Folder   4    
Noyes, Edward S. Readings in the Modern Essay , 1933
Box   4     Folder   5    
Pence, Raymond Woodbury. College Composition , 1929
Box   4     Folder   6    
Rankin, Thomas Ernest, Clarence D. Thorpe, and Melvin T. Solve. College Composition (notes in book), 1929
Box   4     Folder   7    
Raymond, Charles Harvey. Essentials of English Composition , 1923
Box   4     Folder   8    
Royster, James Finch and Stith Thompson. Practice Sheets for English Composition (notes in book), 1918
Box   4     Folder   9    
Sanders, Gerald. A Poetry Primer , 1935
Box   4     Folder   10    
Schmitz, R. Morrell. Preparing the Research Paper , 1935
Box   4     Folder   11    
Scott, William Franklin and Jacob Leitlin. College Reading in English Prose (notes in book), 1917
Box   4     Folder   12    
Scott, William Franklin and Jacob Leitlin. College Reading in English Prose , 1917
Box   4     Folder   13    
Shewmake, Edwin Francis and Carl L. Carmer. College English Composition , 1927
Box   4     Folder   14    
Shipherd, H. Robinson. The Fine Art of Writing , 1926
Box   4     Folder   15    
Shipherd, H. Robinson. Manual and Models for College Composition , 1928
Box   5     Folder   1    
Slater, John Rothwell. Freshman Rhetoric (notes in book), 1913
Box   5     Folder   2    
Slater, John Rothwell. Freshman Rhetoric (notes in book), 1922
Box   5     Folder   3    
Speare, Morris Edmund and William B. Norris. Vital Forces in Current Events , 1920
Box   5     Folder   4    
Stephenson, Henry Thew. Narrative Writing , 1929
Box   5     Folder   5    
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Learning to Write , 1920
Box   5     Folder   6    
Strunk, William. The Elements of Style , 1918
Box   5     Folder   7    
Thigpen, Walter. Writing a Research Paper (self published; note from author stapled to front), 1961
Box   5     Folder   8    
Thomas, Joseph M., Frederick A. Manchester, and Franklin W. Scott. Composition for College Students , 1923
Box   5     Folder   9    
Ward, C.H. Better Sentences (notes in book), 1935
Box   5     Folder   10    
Ward, C.H. Pilot Book for Sentence and Theme , 1918
Box   5     Folder   11    
Ward, C.H. Sentence and Theme , 1923
Box   5     Folder   12    
Watt, Homer A. and Oscar Cargill. Highways in College Composition , 1930
Box   5     Folder   13    
Wendell, Barrett. English Composition , 1891
Box   5     Folder   14    
Williams, William and J.C. Tressler. C omposition and Rhetoric by Practice (notes in book), 1923
Box   5     Folder   15    
Wilson, O.J. Current Trends in the Teaching of College Freshman English , 1958
Box   5     Folder   16    
Comparative Literature 1957 Vol. IX no. 4, 1957
Box   5     Folder   17    
Teacher's Edition of Jones' Practice Leaves in the Rudiments of English , undated
Box   5     Folder   18    
The Theme Vault (An Anthology of Freshman Writing University of Tennessee creative writing magazine), 1957-1958
Box   5     Folder   19    
The Ways of Composition , 1925