The Archives of Allan Bevan: A Guide
Collection Number: MS-2-472Collection processed and finding aid written by Stephanie Furrow, April 2003
Finding aid edited and electronic version prepared by Kathryn Harvey, June 2003
Collection Level Description
Title: Allan Bevan fonds
Dates: [ca. 1940]-1981; predominant 1960-1980
Extent: 1.1 m of textual records
Dr. Allan Bevan (1913-1981) was an active member of the academic community at Dalhousie University for nearly thirty years. A scholar of English literature, particularly the work of seventeenth-century author John Dryden, Bevan earned an MA from the University of Manitoba in 1947 and a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1953. He then joined the English department of Dalhousie where he taught several classes each year, ranging from introductory English to graduate seminars. Bevan was active in the administration of the English faculty, belonging to numerous committees and serving as head of the department from 1958-1969 and again from 1975-1977. During his career at Dalhousie, he was editor of the Dalhousie Review, a long-running literary journal of scholarly essays and creative writing published by the university. Bevan himself was a creative writer, and produced a number of original stories and essays. At the request of the Dalhousie University Archives, his son David Bevan donated his father's personal papers to the archives some time after Bevan's death in 1981.
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Allan Bevan's papers were donated by his son, David Bevan, in the spring of 1983.
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The fonds contain textual records relating to the history of the activities of the Dalhousie University English Department and to Bevan's academic activities. The fonds consist of research notes generated during Bevan's study of Dryden's literature; academic and departmental correspondence and documentation created while Bevan was head of the English department and afterwards; documents and correspondence relating to operations at the Dalhousie Review from 1972-1980; fiction and other writings; material pertaining to courses he taught from 1949 to 1976; and various undated papers written by his students.
Academic and Departmental Correspondence and Records / 1960-1981
Dalhousie Review Correspondence and Records / 1972-1980
English Course Materials / 1949-1967
Student English Papers / [194-?] - [197-]
Academic Research Notes / [1946]-[1953]
Short Fiction and Essays / n.d.
Published Writings / [195-] - [197-]
Original order has been maintained for most of the collection, except for some personal and departmental correspondence that Bevan had not filed in any discernable subject or date order, so it was arranged by date.
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[Identification of item], Allan Bevan fonds, MS-2-472, Box [box number], Folder [folder number], Dalhousie University Archives and Special Collections, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Combined Series and File Level Descriptions
Date:1960-1981
Extent: Approx. 47 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
The series consists of both incoming and outgoing personal correspondence relating to Bevan's work as an English academic, incoming and outgoing correspondence created during his time as head of the English department, and letters of recommendation written by Bevan for students and colleagues. Other material in this series includes documentation and records produced by Bevan relating to his general work within the English department, such as committee reports, minutes of meetings, department briefs, and university regulations for the period.
Arrangement:
Files are arranged chronologically under thematically organized headings.
File Level Descriptions
Boxes 1 and 7
Personal Correspondence
Folder - 1.1
Miscellaneous
1960-1972
Folder - 7.1
Miscellaneous
1965-1968
Folder - 7.3
A. J. M. Smith
1966-1967
Box 1
General Departmental Correspondence and Documents
Folder - 1.2
1975
Folder - 1.3
1976
Folder - 1.4
1977-1981
Box 1
Letters of Recommendation
Folder - 1.8
1961-1963
Folder - 1.9
1963-1969
Folder - 1.5
1972-1975
Folder - 1.6
1974
Folder - 1.7
1975-1981
Boxes 2-3, 6-7
University-Related Correspondence
Folder - 7.8
University regulations regarding pension scheme, staff housing, medical plan
1960/1969
Folder - 3.4
Library Fund
1962-1965
Folder - 2.8, 6.6
Deans of Arts and Sciences (Hicks and Cooke)
1961-1968
Folder - 2.6
Dalhousie-Neptune Theatre conference
1964-1965
Folder - 2.7
Senate on Cultural Activities
1964-1966
Folder - 2.9-10
PhD. Programme in English at Dalhousie, includes undated documentation regarding programme requirements, reading lists, qualifying exams, etc.
1964-1965
Folder - 6.2
Honours programme in English - Correspondence and documentation
1965-1967
Folder - 3.6
Department of Education - Correspondence and documentation regarding high school English
1965-1968
Folder - 6.3
Physical space concerns in the English department
1965-1967
Folder - 6.4
English department planning documentation
1966-1967
Folder - 6.5
Departmental correspondence regarding Canada Council funding assistance for library build-up for graduate work
1966-1968
Folder - 6.13
Atlantic Universities Planning Committee
1966-1969
Folder - 7.7
Prophecy committee
1966
Folder - 6.1
Graduate Studies in English (notes, memos, reports)
1967-1970
Folder - 6.11
Library committee activities
1967-1968
Folder - 6.9
Recruitment of new English department members
1968-1969
Folder - 6.14
ACUTE (Association of Canadian University Teachers of English) correspondence and briefs
1969
Boxes 3, 6-7
Departmental and University Records
Folder - 3.2
Matriculation examinations, comprehensive examination in English
ca. 1960s or 1970s
Folder - 7.5
Documents regarding tutorials and the tutorial system's applicability at Dalhousie
ca. 1960s or 1970s
Folder - 3.3
Faculty of Arts and Sciences policies and budget
1960-1961
Folder - 3.5
Graduate Studies (memos, briefs, student lists)
1961-1965
Folder - 3.1
Salary information and recommendations, departmental budget and expenditures
1963-1976
Folder - 6.7
English Department Briefs
1964-1968
Folder - 6.8
Regulations regarding academic appointments and tenure
1965
Folder - 6.12
Statistical and scholarship information regarding graduate students
1968-1969
Folder - 6.10
Departmental budget information
1969-1970
Folder - 7.6
Department of English minutes of meetings
1969-1970
Box 7
Notes and Writings
Folder - 7.2
Frank Parker Day and his work "Rockbound"
1972
Folder - 7.4
Thomas Raddall
ca. 1960s or 1970s
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Date:1972-1980
Extent: Approx. 6 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
The series contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, including submissions and letters of acceptance and rejection dating from 1972-1980 written by Bevan as editor of the Dalhousie Review. The series also includes documents relating to Canada Council Grant applications for learned journals funding and records of general operations of the journal.
File Level Descriptions
Folder - 2.1
Canada Council Learned Journals grant applications
1972-1974
Folder - 2.2-5
General Correspondence
Folder - 2.2
1974-1975
Folder - 2.5
1975-1976
Includes copies of submissions and notes
Folder - 2.3
1976
Folder - 2.4
1977-1980
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Date:1949-1967
Extent: Approx. 7 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
The series consists of syllabi, reading lists, Christmas and spring examinations, bibliographies, and assignments from various Dalhousie University English classes (identified by course number as title is not always provided) taught by Bevan from 1949-1967.
Folder - 3.7
English 505 - Bibliography, syllabus
ca. 1950s to 1960s
Folder - 3.16
English 120 - Instructional articles, syllabi, reading list
ca. 1950s to 1960s
Folder - 3.17
English 231 - Reading lists, essay assignment, test on Hamlet and Studhorse Man
ca. 1950s to 1960s
Folder - 3.18
English 100 - Reading list, in-class essay assignment
ca. 1950s to 1960s
Folder - 3.19
English 537 - Reading list
ca. 1950s to 1960s
Folder - 3.20
English 232 - Reading list
ca. 1950s to 1960s
Folder - 3.23
English 209 - Reading list
n.d.
Folder - 3.12
English 20 - Tests, reading lists, Christmas examinations
1949-1959
Folder - 3.10
English 21 - Reading list, Christmas and spring examinations
1949-1961
Folder - 3.9
English 16 - Essay assignments, Christmas and spring examinations
1950-1962
Folder - 3.13
English 4 - Reading list, Christmas, spring, and supplemental examinations
1950-1963
Folder - 3.14
English 5 - Spring examination
1951-1952
Folder - 3.8
English 15 - Christmas and spring examinations and reading list
1952-1960
Folder - 3.11
English 17 - Christmas and spring examinations
1955-1956
Folder - 3.15
English 12 - Christmas and spring examinations
1958-1959
Folder - 3.22
English 2 - Reading lists, information forms, special examinations, spring examination
1962-1963
Folder - 3.21
English 209 - Christmas examination
1967
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Date:[194-?] - [197-]
Extent: 27 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
This series consists of papers written by students of Allan Bevan during his career as an English professor at Dalhousie University. The papers are unmarked and for the most part are undated, but are probably circa 1940s to 1970s. Most were likely written as part of the curriculum of his various classes in English literature.
Arrangement:
Papers are listed in alphabetical order by author.
File Level Descriptions
Folder - 4.1
M. Anderson - English 506 - "The Unity of the Moral Essays"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.2
Daphne Armstrong - English 15 - "Swift's Use of a Persona"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.3
Douglas Barbour - English 120 - "Pope in Three Critics", "Swift's 'A Tale of a Tub'", "Dryden's Religious Conversion: Religio Laici and the Hind and the panther", "Lawrence Sterne"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.4
M. Beatty - "'All for Love' and 'Antony and Cleopatra'"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.5
George Bowering - "The Solitary Everything"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.6
Pat Brinton - English 16 - "The Individual in Society"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.7
Margaret J. Calkin - English 120 - "The Influence of Moliere on Restoration Comedy"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.8
Nancy Carrigan - "Davies' Canada in 'Fifth Business'"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.9
John Chambers - English 15 - "Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.10
Gary W. Crewe - English 209 - "Comparison and Analysis of the Characters of Mr. Verloc and Dunstable Ramsey"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.12
Helen Cannell - "Moliere and Restoration Comedy"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.13
Barbara Daisson - English 20 - "Immorality of a Text of Art"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.11
Betty Daniels - English 506 - "The Literary Criticism of Alexander Pope"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.14
M. J. Davies - English 120 - "Goldsmith's the Vicar of Wakefield ", "The Technique of Sustained Irony in Defoe", "Use of the Mock-Heroic in Dryden's
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.15
William N. Dilny - English 505 - "John Dryden's 'Don Sebastian'"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.16
Theo Dombrowski - "Pope and Swift as Satirists: A Comparison of Motives, Norms, and Techniques"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.17
Elizabeth Dunstan - English 15 - "The Mock-Heroic as a Satiric Tool"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.18
Jane Elliot - "The Structure in Tristram Shandy
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.19
Alexander Farrell - Dryden's Political Views", "The Theological Argument in 'The Hind and the Panther'", "'Paradise Lost' and the State of Innocence", "Notes on Gulliver's Travels"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.20
Peter R. Field - English 231 - "The Mountain and the Valley by Ernest Buckler: David, A Trapped Artist"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.21
F. F. Foy - English 506 - "Social Criticism in 'The Rape of the Lock'"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.30
Louis Greenspan - "Essay on Satire and the Comic"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.22
E. F. Guy - "Swift: Reflections of his Prose in his Poetry"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.23
Noel Hamilton - English 20 - "The Character of Lemuel Gulliver"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.24
Joyce Ione Harrington - English 20 - "The Restoration Theatre: the Playhouse"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.26
Vivian Harris - "Imagery and Society in 'The Rape of the Lock'", "'Antony and Cleopatra, 'All for Love', and Eloisa to Abelard"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.25
W. H. Hirtle - English 20 - "Gulliver's Travels: Book IV"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.26
L. I. - English 117 - "MacFlecknoe and Og", "The Dissenting Sects and James II Plans for Catholic England in 'The Hind and the Panther'", "The Restoration Theatre"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.27
Wendy Katz - English 506 - "Pope's Attitude Toward Women"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.28
David Ketterer - "Some Co-ordinates in 'Billy Budd'"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.29
Michael Larsen - "Dryden's Theories of Drama"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.1
Carla Laufer - English 15 - "The Epistolary Styles in 'Pamela' and 'Humphrey Clinker'"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.2
J. B. Leonard - "The Character of Leonard Gulliver in Relation to his Functions"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.3
John Le Vay - "'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'All for Love': A Comparison"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.4
Janet A. Maybe - English 120 - "Smollet: a Survey", "'Absalom and Achitophel': a Work of Art?", "Swift as Pamphleteer", "Pope's Moral Essays"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.5
Mike Melton - English 209 - "The Necessity of Obsession: the Novels of Thomas Pynchon"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.6
F. D. Millar - "Dryden on Satire", "Prototype: A Study of Thomas Otway's 'Venice Preserved' 1682"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.7
Lois E. Miller - English 21 - "An Interpretation of Graham Greene's 'The Power and the Glory'"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.8
Ruth Newman - English 4 - "Charles Lamb 1775.1834"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.9
Yvonne Ochillo - English 506 - "Pope and Morality"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.10
Malcolm G. Parks - "A Discussion of Book III of Gulliver's Travels"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.11
Lorri Anne Perrott - English 231 - Setting in 'The Mountain and the Valley'"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.12
D. Pigot - English 120 - "The Satirical Spokesman in Wycherley"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.13
Guy Pothier - English 120 - "The State of Innocence and 'Paradise Lost'", "The Rehearsal as Parody"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.14
S. C. Ramjattati - "Dryden as a Comic Dramatist"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.15
Victoria H. Rosenberg - "John Dryden's 'All for Love' and Thomas Otway's 'Venice Preserved' ..."
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.31
Evelyn Rumley - English 15 - "The Vicar of Wakefield as an 18th Century Version of the Book of Job"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.16
Andrew T. Seaman - "Richard Brinsley Sheridan"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.17
Stella Shadu? - "The Non-Conformist in Restoration Literature"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.33
Kaukab Siddique - "Pattern of Heroic Despair in 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.18
Simon -- "The Satire of John Dryden"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.27
Gordon Stanley - English 209 - "An Analysis: Looking Glass Backwards"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.19
Victor Stanton - English 120 - "'All for Love' and 'Venice Preserved'", "Satire in Restoration Prologues and Epilogues", "Swift and the Journal to Stella", "Tom Jones: A Discussion of the Plot as it is Influenced by the Character of the Narrator"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.20
William P. Stickney - English 120 - "Jeremy Collier and Restoration Comedy"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.21
Leon Surette - "The Division of the Cantos"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.32
C. S. Thompson - English 209 - "Behaviour of Women in 'The Great Gatsby'"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.23
Lois Thurgood - "Gulliver's Travels Books I and II"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.22
Hope Tratt - English 117 - "Restoration Comedy"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.25
Unknown Authors - "Thesis Proposal on the Moral Tales of William Godwin", "Essay on Descartes", "Essay on 'Antony and Cleopatra'"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.28
Devendra P. Varma - Various work (untitled)
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 4.34
A. Wainwright - English 537 - "The First Circle"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
Folder - 5.24
Ewen E. Wallace - English 20 - "Three Treatments of the Oedipus Theme", "Narrative Technique in Defoe", "Attitudes of Pope, Swift, Gay, and the Spectator to the Social World of the Early 18th Century"
ca. 1940s to 1970s
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Date:[1946]-[1953]
Extent: Approx. 17 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
The series consists of undated notes, rough drafts, and other documentation produced by Bevan in the process of his MA (1947) and PhD (1953) thesis research on the works of seventeenth-century author John Dryden.
File Level Descriptions
Folder - 7.9
Notes on Dryden's Plays
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 7.10
Notes on aspects of Dryden's plays
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 7.11
Notes on Dryden's heroic plays
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 7.12
Notes on Dryden's dramatic practice
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 7.13
Rough draft/notes on chapter seven of thesis on Dryden
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 7.14
Rough draft/notes on chapters one to eight of thesis on Dryden
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 8.1
Rough draft/notes on chapter one of thesis on Dryden
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 8.2
Notes on Dryden and research proposal for thesis
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 8.3
Thesis notes on Dryden's critical heritage
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 8.4
Rough thesis notes on Dryden's plays
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 8.5
Miscellaneous notes on Dryden's works
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 8.6
Rough draft/notes on chapter two of thesis on Dryden
ca. 1940s to 1950s
Folder - 8.7
Notes for MA thesis - "Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice" - ca. 1947
1947
Folder - 8.8
Notes on "Maiden Queen"
ca. 1940s to 1950s
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Date:n.d.
Extent: Approx. 3 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
This series consists of short works of fiction and essays by Bevan.
File Level Descriptions
Folder - 2.11
Fiction and other works by Bevan, including "The Prince of Wales", "The Return of the Pioneer", "The Real Truth", "Blood and the Northern Lights", "One Day in the Life of Peter Roberts", "Mostly About Me and the Northern Lights", "The Problems of the Graduate Student in English" - n.d.
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Date:[195-] - [197-]
Extent: Approx. 3 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
Series consists of published articles written for academic journals by Bevan, and complimentary copies of journal articles sent to Bevan by former students and colleagues.
File Level Descriptions
Folder - 8.9
Articles written by Bevan, including "James de Mille and Archibald Macmechan", "Poetry and Politics in Restoration England", "Rockbound Revisited"
Folder - 8.10
Academic journal articles presented to Bevan by former students and colleagues
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