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Finding aid created by: [Summit record]
Date: circa 1960
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3 Dec 2009 | converted to EAD (MRC) |
Overview of the Collection |
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Creator: | Whiffen, Edwin Thomas, b. 1874. |
Title: | Edwin Thomas Whiffen Papers |
Dates: | circa 1957 |
Quantity: | 0.8 linear feet |
Abstract: | Papers of the American author. Collection consists of manuscripts of plays, poems, and a translation of a Greek play. |
Language: | English |
Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Edwin T. Whiffen was a teacher in New York, and an author of plays, poems, translations, and non-fiction.
The Edwin T. Whiffen Papers consists of manuscripts, including plays, poems, a translation of a Greek play, and unidentifiable material in manuscript form.
Material is arranged in alphabetical order by type and within that by title.
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Persons
Whiffen, Edwin Thomas, b. 1874.
Subjects
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Dramatists, American.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
Genres and Forms
Manuscripts (document genre)
Occupations
Authors.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Edwin Thomas Whiffen Papers
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Manuscripts
Manuscripts | |||||||||||
Plays | |||||||||||
Box 1 | The Idealist | ||||||||||
Box 1 | The King Who Would Be a Socialist | ||||||||||
Box 1 | The Magnophile | ||||||||||
Box 1 | The New Squeal, or, These Lunatic Years | ||||||||||
Box 1 | The Opportunist | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Prometheus | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Prometheus Bound | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Prometheus Loosed (2 copies) | ||||||||||
Box 1 | The Realist | ||||||||||
Box 1 | The Republican | ||||||||||
Box 1 | The Socialist Who Would Be a King | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Tyrant Fortune | ||||||||||
Poems | |||||||||||
Box 2 | Choice of Roads - illustrated by Mayme Sellers Leonetti | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Flames and Silver Birches | ||||||||||
Box 2 | Mocking Water and Other Poems | ||||||||||
Translations | |||||||||||
Box 2 | The Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus | ||||||||||
Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
Box 2 | Unidentified |