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The Archives of Allan Bevan: A Guide
Collection Number: MS-2-472
Collection Level Description | ||
| Title: | Allan Bevan fonds | |
| Dates: | [ca. 1940]-1981; predominant 1960-1980 | |
| Extent: | 1.1 m of textual records | |
Biographical Sketch
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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Custodial History
Allan Bevan's papers were donated by his son, David Bevan, in the spring of 1983.
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Scope and Content
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-]
Arrangement
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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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 - n.d. | |
| Folder - 7.5 | Documents regarding tutorials and the tutorial system's applicability at Dalhousie - n.d. | |
| 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 - n.d. | |
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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 | |
| 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 - n.d. | |
| Folder - 3.16 | English 120 - Instructional articles, syllabi, reading list - n.d. | |
| Folder - 3.17 | English 231 - Reading lists, essay assignment, test on Hamlet and Studhorse Man - n.d. | |
| Folder - 3.18 | English 100 - Reading list, in-class essay assignment - n.d. | |
| Folder - 3.19 | English 537 - Reading list - n.d. | |
| Folder - 3.20 | English 232 - Reading list - n.d. | |
| 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 - 1952-1960; Reading list - 1957-1958 | |
| 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. | ||
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| Folder - 4.1 | M. Anderson - English 506 - "The Unity of the Moral Essays" | |
| Folder - 4.2 | Daphne Armstrong - English 15 - "Swift's Use of a Persona" | |
| 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" | |
| Folder - 4.4 | M. Beatty - "'All for Love' and 'Antony and Cleopatra'" | |
| Folder - 4.5 | George Bowering - "The Solitary Everything" | |
| Folder - 4.6 | Pat Brinton - English 16 - "The Individual in Society" | |
| Folder - 4.7 | Margaret J. Calkin - English 120 - "The Influence of Moliere on Restoration Comedy" | |
| Folder - 4.8 | Nancy Carrigan - "Davies' Canada in 'Fifth Business'" | |
| Folder - 4.9 | John Chambers - English 15 - "Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels" | |
| Folder - 4.10 | Gary W. Crewe - English 209 - "Comparison and Analysis of the Characters of Mr. Verloc and Dunstable Ramsey" | |
| Folder - 4.12 | Helen Cannell - "Moliere and Restoration Comedy" | |
| Folder - 4.13 | Barbara Daisson - English 20 - "Immorality of a Text of Art" | |
| Folder - 4.11 | Betty Daniels - English 506 - "The Literary Criticism of Alexander Pope" | |
| 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 | |
| Folder - 4.15 | William N. Dilny - English 505 - "John Dryden's 'Don Sebastian'" | |
| Folder - 4.16 | Theo Dombrowski - "Pope and Swift as Satirists: A Comparison of Motives, Norms, and Techniques" | |
| Folder - 4.17 | Elizabeth Dunstan - English 15 - "The Mock-Heroic as a Satiric Tool" | |
| Folder - 4.18 | Jane Elliot - "The Structure in Tristram Shandy | |
| 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" | |
| Folder - 4.20 | Peter R. Field - English 231 - "The Mountain and the Valley by Ernest Buckler: David, A Trapped Artist" | |
| Folder - 4.21 | F. F. Foy - English 506 - "Social Criticism in 'The Rape of the Lock'" | |
| Folder - 4.30 | Louis Greenspan - "Essay on Satire and the Comic" | |
| Folder - 4.22 | E. F. Guy - "Swift: Reflections of his Prose in his Poetry" | |
| Folder - 4.23 | Noel Hamilton - English 20 - "The Character of Lemuel Gulliver" | |
| Folder - 4.24 | Joyce Ione Harrington - English 20 - "The Restoration Theatre: the Playhouse" | |
| Folder - 5.26 | Vivian Harris - "Imagery and Society in 'The Rape of the Lock'", "'Antony and Cleopatra, 'All for Love', and Eloisa to Abelard" | |
| Folder - 4.25 | W. H. Hirtle - English 20 - "Gulliver's Travels: Book IV" | |
| 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" | |
| Folder - 4.27 | Wendy Katz - English 506 - "Pope's Attitude Toward Women" | |
| Folder - 4.28 | David Ketterer - "Some Co-ordinates in 'Billy Budd'" | |
| Folder - 4.29 | Michael Larsen - "Dryden's Theories of Drama" | |
| Folder - 5.1 | Carla Laufer - English 15 - "The Epistolary Styles in 'Pamela' and 'Humphrey Clinker'" | |
| Folder - 5.2 | J. B. Leonard - "The Character of Leonard Gulliver in Relation to his Functions" | |
| Folder - 5.3 | John Le Vay - "'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'All for Love': A Comparison" | |
| 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" | |
| Folder - 5.5 | Mike Melton - English 209 - "The Necessity of Obsession: the Novels of Thomas Pynchon" | |
| Folder - 5.6 | F. D. Millar - "Dryden on Satire", "Prototype: A Study of Thomas Otway's 'Venice Preserved' 1682" | |
| Folder - 5.7 | Lois E. Miller - English 21 - "An Interpretation of Graham Greene's 'The Power and the Glory'" | |
| Folder - 5.8 | Ruth Newman - English 4 - "Charles Lamb 1775.1834" | |
| Folder - 5.9 | Yvonne Ochillo - English 506 - "Pope and Morality" | |
| Folder - 5.10 | Malcolm G. Parks - "A Discussion of Book III of Gulliver's Travels" | |
| Folder - 5.11 | Lorri Anne Perrott - English 231 - Setting in 'The Mountain and the Valley'" | |
| Folder - 5.12 | D. Pigot - English 120 - "The Satirical Spokesman in Wycherley" | |
| Folder - 5.13 | Guy Pothier - English 120 - "The State of Innocence and 'Paradise Lost'", "The Rehearsal as Parody" | |
| Folder - 5.14 | S. C. Ramjattati - "Dryden as a Comic Dramatist" | |
| Folder - 5.15 | Victoria H. Rosenberg - "John Dryden's 'All for Love' and Thomas Otway's 'Venice Preserved' ..." | |
| Folder - 4.31 | Evelyn Rumley - English 15 - "The Vicar of Wakefield as an 18th Century Version of the Book of Job" | |
| Folder - 5.16 | Andrew T. Seaman - "Richard Brinsley Sheridan" | |
| Folder - 5.17 | Stella Shadu? - "The Non-Conformist in Restoration Literature" | |
| Folder - 4.33 | Kaukab Siddique - "Pattern of Heroic Despair in 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'" | |
| Folder - 5.18 | Simon -- "The Satire of John Dryden" | |
| Folder - 5.27 | Gordon Stanley - English 209 - "An Analysis: Looking Glass Backwards" | |
| 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" | |
| Folder - 5.20 | William P. Stickney - English 120 - "Jeremy Collier and Restoration Comedy" | |
| Folder - 5.21 | Leon Surette - "The Division of the Cantos" | |
| Folder - 4.32 | C. S. Thompson - English 209 - "Behaviour of Women in 'The Great Gatsby'" | |
| Folder - 5.23 | Lois Thurgood - "Gulliver's Travels Books I and II" | |
| Folder - 5.22 | Hope Tratt - English 117 - "Restoration Comedy" | |
| Folder - 5.25 | Unknown Authors - "Thesis Proposal on the Moral Tales of William Godwin", "Essay on Descartes", "Essay on 'Antony and Cleopatra'" | |
| Folder - 5.28 | Devendra P. Varma - Various work (untitled) | |
| Folder - 4.34 | A. Wainwright - English 537 - "The First Circle" | |
| 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" | |
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| Date: | [1946]-[1953] | |
| Extent: | Approx. 17 cm of textual records | |
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| 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. | ||
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| Folder - 7.9 | Notes on Dryden's Plays - n.d. | |
| Folder - 7.10 | Notes on aspects of Dryden's plays - n.d. | |
| Folder - 7.11 | Notes on Dryden's heroic plays - n.d. | |
| Folder - 7.12 | Notes on Dryden's dramatic practice - n.d | |
| Folder - 7.13 | Rough draft/notes on chapter seven of thesis on Dryden - n.d. | |
| Folder - 7.14 | Rough draft/notes on chapters one to eight of thesis on Dryden - n.d. | |
| Folder - 8.1 | Rough draft/notes on chapter one of thesis on Dryden - n.d. | |
| Folder - 8.2 | Notes on Dryden and research proposal for thesis - n.d. | |
| Folder - 8.3 | Thesis notes on Dryden's critical heritage - n.d. | |
| Folder - 8.4 | Rough thesis notes on Dryden's plays - n.d. | |
| Folder - 8.5 | Miscellaneous notes on Dryden's works - n.d. | |
| Folder - 8.6 | Rough draft/notes on chapter two of thesis on Dryden - n.d. | |
| Folder - 8.7 | Notes for MA thesis - "Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice" - ca. 1947 | |
| Folder - 8.8 | Notes on "Maiden Queen" - n.d. | |
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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. | ||
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| 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 | |
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| 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. | ||
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| 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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