Collection Overview
McCarthy, Harold T.
Harold T. McCarthy Papers
1958-1989
FS 28
4 boxes
(2 linear ft.)
Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Author, English professor at the University of Massachusetts, and alumnus of the same school. Includes correspondence, typescript manuscripts, poems, travel journals, and class materials including syllabi and lecture notes.
English.
Biographical Note
Author, English professor, and University of Massachusetts alumnus (class of 1941) Harold T. McCarthy taught at the University of Massachusetts from 1959 and into his retirement in the late 1980s. In addition to his books on Henry James (1968) and the expatriate perspective on the idea of America (1972), he wrote fiction and poetry as well as critical articles on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Richard Wright.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Correspondence, typescript manuscripts, poems, travel journals, and class materials including syllabi and lecture notes documenting Harold T. McCarthy's long and active career as an educator and writer, and travel experiences.
The collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
Cite as: Harold T. McCarthy Papers (RG 40/11 McCarthy). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Acquired from Alice McCarthy, 1990.
Processed by Linda Seidman.
Search Terms
McCarthy, Harold T.--Archives.
McCarthy, Harold T.--Travel.
McCarthy, Harold T. Expatriate perspective.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Alumni and alumnae --History--Sources.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Faculty--History--Sources.
College teachers--Massachusetts--Amherst--History--Sources.
American literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History--Sources.
Voyages and travels.
Amherst (Mass.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Correspondence.
Typescripts.
Diaries.
Syllabi.
Lecture notes.
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1
Vita
1
2
Correspondence
1967-1969, 1982
1
3
Correspondence re: publication of books
1971-1974
1
4
The Expatriate Perspective: The Self-Discovery of American Novelists in Europe (typescript)
1
5
The Expatriate Perspective: American Novelists and the Idea of America (typescript, photocopied)
1
6
Henry James: The Creative Process (published version)
1958
1
7
Poems by HTM
2
8-17
Travel journals
1972-1989
3
18
Syllabus: English 133
Fall 1983
3
19
Syllabus: English 480C
Fall 1986
3
20
Syllabus: English 272
Fall 1986
3
21-34
Lecture Notes, A-K
4
35-46
Lecture Notes, L-Z