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(includes Harnack’s first published story) </span> “Mask of Snow,” The Antioch Review, Fall, 1957. In envelope sent by Curt Harnack from Iowa City. Foster has written on envelope “Curt Harnack’s first published story”

Consists of material written by, about, and for Charles H. Foster.  Included are copies of lectures given by Foster, book reviews written by and about him, and correspondence with colleagues and friends.  This collection contains copies of correspondence written by Foster to Robert Frost and also letters received by Foster from MacKinlay Kantor, Paul Engle, Perry Miller, Curt Harnack, and Joseph F. Wall.  Additionally, this collection includes unpublished manuscripts (one incomplete) by Foster.  Also included are two signed Perry Miller books that were given to Foster from Miller.

(Note: Novelist Harnack was also a former student of Foster at Grinnell College.) Letter dated February 13, (1956? Year is based on reference to Foster going to Minnesota to teach summer school) Letter dated July 26, 1957 Letter dated October 7, 1957 Letter dated November 24, 1957 Letter dated January 6, 1958 Letter dated January 12, 1958

August 28, 1957 September 15, 1957 September 26, 1957 October 5, 1957 November 17, 1957 January 28, 1958 June 7, 1962 July 25, 1963 August 6, 1963

(At one point in 1957, Wall and Foster had planned to collaborate on abook on the Abolitionist movement. The 1957 letters were written while Wall was on leave researching Andrew Carnegie and NY Senator Lehman, two projects that ultimately precluded the Abolitionist project.) Letter dated March 21, 1957 Letter dated February 19, 1957 Letter dated May 1, 1957 Letter dated June 12, 1957 Letter dated July 15, 1957 with attached transcript of an item Wall found in the Carnegie papers in the Library of Congress Letter dated August 15, 1957 Letter dated September 3, 1957? Letter dated October 27, 1957 Letter dated December 8, 1957 Letter dated March 4, 1961 with a March 9 response from Foster Wall’s Andrew Carnegie’s Hogmanay, 1970 with Christmas greeting from Joe and Bea Letter dated July 10, 1980

Letter dated July 5, 1957 Letter dated July 16, 1957 Letter dated August 29, 1957 Letter dated December 30, 1957 “Something More Powerful,” The Alumni-Senior Chapel Address, June 8, 1957

Handwritten early version of poem “Moving In” written to “Charlie and Doris” dated April 1, 1939. This poem was later published in Poetry, LV, December, 1939. (Note: wording is slightly different than published version.) Letter dated February 3, 1946 Undated typed note over reprint of “Three Poems” in envelope post-marked January 7,1951 Letter dated January 12,1951 Letter dated June 15, 1955 and enclosed privately printed poem on Averell Harriman Letter dated May 16, 1955 Letter dated December 22, 1955 Letter dated June 24, 1985 and copy of response from Foster dated July 1, 1985 1945 Engle Christmas card “For the Midwestern Dead” 1946 Engle Christmas card “Book and Child,” three sonnets by Paul Engle printed for his and his family’s friends, Christmas, 1956 Undated Christmas card designed by Sara Engle Undated Christmas card Photograph of Engle child April 29, 1962 Christian Science Monitor book review of Edmund Wilson’s Patriotic Gore by Perry Miller. Engle has written at the top of the page “Dear Charlie, You’ve been vindicated, Paul” and marked Miller’s criticism that Wilson had not given proper acknowledgement of his use of Foster’s writings in his new book. Although Wilson had reviewed The Rungless Ladder in the “New Yorker,” he seemed vague on his use of material from it in The Patriotic Gore to the dismay of Miller, Engle, and other scholars, as well as Foster. Undated reprint of “A Name”

November 4, 1955 September 6, 1957 (Note: Letters from 1957 are all in regard to Fall Convocation “American Culture at Mid-Century” where Miller was a lecturer and received an honorary degree. He and his wife stayed with the Fosters.) September 21, 1957 September 29, 1957 October 9, 1957 November 5, 1957 January 25, 1958 July 1, 1962 and attached July 15 response July 30, 1963 September 9, 1963 and September 23 response

Photocopies of corresponcence. (Note: originals are in the Frost Collection at Dartmouth. Usage requires acknowledgement.) Letter dated April 29, 1949 Letter dated January 15, 1951 Letter dated January 5, 1952 Letter dated July 15, 1953 Letter dated December 19, 1953 Letter dated February 12, 1954 Letter dated September 7, 1954 Letter dated January 1, 1957 Letter dated 1957

Friar’s Coffee Hour, October 11, 1957 “Elements of American Culture that make it truly distinctive from other contemporary cultures” Notes for International Relations Club, October 17, 1957. “What are the implications in the field of foreign policy of David Riesman’s concept of ‘the other-directed man?’” Statement for “An Hour with Perry Miller” Flyer announcing 1956 Spring Chapel Series Papers and correspondence related to application and award of American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, 1951-52 Invitation to Foster to become a member of the Society of American Historians, April 6, 1950 Announcement to Des Moines Register about Foster’s membership to the Society of American Historians (Note: newspaper clipping was copied onto Archival Bond paper and original clipping was discarded) Invitation to first annual John Scholte Nollen Memorial Lecture given by Neal Klausner, February 11, 1954 Letter from Stuart Gerry Brown to Foster (in Boulder, CO) June 8, 1943 Official College Photograph of Foster, 1947

Letter, statement of intent for research, and list of publications regarding “Grace on the Crab-Stocks,” a manuscript written by Foster