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The Mary Lago Collection: Inventory

Series V - VIII

Daybooks, Diaries and Notebooks, Grants, and Papers and Articles by Mary Lago

Daybooks (Mary Lago)

Box 7

94 Address book

95 Expense account book, 1997

96 1942

97 1964-65, 1965-66, 1966-67

98 1967-68, 1968-69, 1970

99 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73

100 1973,1974,1975

101 1976,1977, 1978

102 1979,1979-80, 1980

103 1981, 1982

104 1983, 1984

105 1984, 1985 (England), 1985 (U.S.A.)

106 1986, 1987-88

Box 8

1 1988, 1989

2 1990, 1991

3 1992 (loose)

4 1993 (loose)

5 1994, 1995, 1996

6 1997 (2), 1998

7 1998

8 1999, 2000

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Diaries and Notebooks (Mary Lago)

Diaries

9 Account Book. Income from publishing, 1942-2000

10 Aug. 2, 1964 - Feb. 12, 1969

11 Sept. 15, 1969 - Jan. 13, 1970

12 Aug. 19, 1970 - Dec. 11, 1971

13 Dec. 31, 1971 - Feb. 16, 1973

14 Feb. 26, 1973 - May, 28, 1974

15 June 14, 1974 - June 9, 1975

16 June 17, 1975 - May, 1976

17 June 8, 1976 - Sept. 12, 1978

18 Feb. 15, 1979 - Sept. 8, 1985

19 June 29, 1982 - Oct. 8, 1982

[Note: Journal for Dec. 26, 1986 – May 1, 1990 in restricted file: Ellie Ragland-Sullivan; see b. 7]

20 July 25, 1995 - Aug. 24, 1995/July 18, 1996 - Aug. 23, 1996

21 June 22, 1999 – Nov. 1, 1999

22 Notebook w/lists of presentation copies

Research Notebooks

23 East and West in Tagore (MIT Library) (I), Summer 1962

24 East and West in Tagore (MIT Library) (II), Summer 1962

25 East and West in Tagore (MIT Library) (III), Summer 1962

26 Widener Library, Summer 1963 (IV)

27 Widener Library, Summer 1963 (V)

28 “Rothenstein,” Summer 1967, Summer 1968

29 “Rothenstein II,” Nov. 15, 1968 - Sept. 13, 1969

30 “Rothenstein,” Jan., 15, 1970 - Sept. 17, 1970

31 British Museum, Fall 1997

Box 9

1 Santha Rama Rau's Passage to India; Diary to England, 1985

Course Notebooks

[see also: Course Materials]

2 English 317 (Pre-Platonic Criticism), Fall, 1962 (Clarke)

3 English 491, Winter 1963; English 355, Fall, 1963-64

4 English 455 (Swift), Fall 1963 (Weatherly)

5 English 361 & 362 (English Novel), Fall 1964 - Winter, 1965 (Peden)

6 Early Seventeenth Century, Spring 1964; English 466 (Browning) Summer 1964 (Hudson)

7 English 368 (19th Century Prose), Fall 1965 (Fulweiler)

8 English 393 (Modern Short Story), Winter 1966 (Peden); English 493 (Modern Fiction), Summer 1966 (Peden); English 474 (Poe and Hawthorne), Fall 1966 (Peden)

9 English 466 (Later Romantics), Winter, 1966 (Hudson)

10 Sociology (Asian Civilization), Fall 1962

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Grants

[see also: Correspondence: Grants. Arranged as found. Arrange chronologically?]

11 Reports to NEH, 1979, 1981

12 NEH Forster, 1979

13 NEH Forster Calendar

14 ACLS, 1971

15 Weldon Spring Summer Fellowship, 1984

16 American Philosophical Society, 1966-1983

17 Contract and Salary Notices, UM-C, 1966-1994

18 Middlebush Research money, 1990

19 Weldon Springs, 1987 Passages conference

20 NEH, 1979

21 MU Research Council

22 Research Council, 1985

23 ACLS, 1988 (Thompson)

24 Rylands Research Institute

25 ACLS, 1989

26 NEH: Travel to Collections, 1988, 1991

27 Research Council, 1995

28 Edward J. Thompson, Detailed Plan of Project

29 Research Council, 1996

30 Research Council, 1997

31 Research Council, 1998

32 Research Board, 1999

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Writings by Mary Lago

Published Essays

33 Articles, 1943-1955. (“Missions Make the Headlines,” Christian World Facts, 1943-1944; “Christian Social Worker is Need of a Better World,” Forth, 1946; “Missionaries and Medicine,” Forth, 1946; “I Can't Go Back Again,” The Christian Century, 1952; “Missionary Teachers,” Forth, 1946; “Ambassadors to your Campus,” Motive, 1944; “They Make their Summers Count,” Highroad, 1949; “We Study Latin America,” Lutheran Women's Work, 1942; “Making America's Future,” Highroad, 1943; “Introducing Your Mission Study Book,” Evangelical Missionary World, 1946; “Our Good Neighbor Policy;” “Latin American Study,” Youth Action, n.d.; “Beginning at the Borderline,” The Church Woman, 1942; They Found the Church There,” Lutheran Woman's Work, 1945, Presbyterian Survey, 1945, Evangelical Missionary World, 1945; “Parents, Children Go to Church Together in Columbia,” Forum, 1955; “Books with a Purpose,” The Church Woman, 1945

34 “The New Missionary,” Mademoiselle, 1945; The Woman, 1946. Offprints, correspondence, 1944-1946

35 “The Parting of the Ways: A Comparative Study of Yeats and Tagore,” Indian Literature, 1963. TMs, correspondence [Rpt. in Mahfil, 1966]

36 “Pattern in the Imagery of Jivananda Das,” Journal of Asian Studies, 1965

37 “New Choral Programs at the University of Missouri,” American Choral Review, 1966

38 “Tagore’s Temporal Encounters,” Literature East and West, 1966

Box 10

1 “Modern Bengali Poetry” (special issue; ML guest editor) MAHFIL, 1967

2 “Modes of Questioning in Tagore’s Short Stories,” Studies in Short Fiction, 1967

3 “’Re-Vision’ and William Rothenstein,” Bucknell Alumnus, 1968

4 “English Literature and Modern Bengali Short Fiction: A Study in Influences,” DAI, 1970

5 “Rothenstein, Tagore and Bangla Desh,” Cornhill, 1972. TMs, correspondence

6 “The Essential Tagore: Missing Man in South Asian Studies,” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 1973. TMs, correspondence [incl. corresp. with Arthur Ravenscroft]

7 “Tagore in Translation,” Books Abroad, 1972. TMs, correspondence

8 “Campus Problems,” The Author, 1974

9 “Ernest S. Thomas and the Burne-Jones Centenary: A Golden Age Revisited,” Apollo, 1974. TMs, correspondence

10 “Restoring Rabindranath Tagore,” Encounter, 1974. TMs, correspondence

11 “Irish Poetic Drama in St. Louis,” Twentieth Century Literature, 1977. TMs, correspondence, notes

12 “Tagore’s Liberated Women,” Journal of South Asian Literature, 1977

13 “The Fictional Character as Stereotype,” Rabindranath Tagore: American Interpretations, 1982. TMs, correspondence.

14 “The Importance of Notes,” The Author, 1983 [alternate titles: “Taking Note,” “The Value of Notes”]. TMs, galley proofs, correspondence

15 “Max Beerbohm,” “Rabindranath Tagore,” Oxford Companion to English Literature, 1983

16 “Remembering Arthur Mendel,” American Choral Review, 1983. TMs, correspondence [inc. 2 TLS from Isaac Stern, 1981]

17 “ A Passage to India on Stage,” TLS, 1985. TMs, correspondence/

18 “E. M. Forster,” Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (Beacham, ed.), 1985. TMs., correspondence

19 “Forster on E. M. Forster,” Twentieth Century Literature, 1985. TMs, galley

20 “Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941” Barbican Gallery program

21 “E. M. Forster: Novelist as Letter Writer” in Essays on Poetry and Fiction: V.A. Shahane Commemorative Volume, 1988

22 “Edward Burne-Jones: King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid,” International Dictionary of Art & Artists,1990. TMs, correspondence

23 “E. M. Forster and the BBC,” Yearbook of English Studies, 1990

24 “E. M. Forster: Clapham's Child,” Biography, 1991. Correspondence, TMs, proof pages

25 “Christiana Herringham and the National Art Collection Fun,” Burlington Magazine, 1993

26 “Rabindranath Tagore,” “'The Road from Colonus,' by Forster,” Reference Guide to Short Fiction, 1994. TMs., correspondence

27 “Friends of Eric Crozier: A Memorial,” The Opera Quarterly, 1995

28 “Christiana Herringham: A Hand to Help,” Art Quarterly of the NACF, 1996. Correspondence, corrected copy

29 “Visiting Rapallo,” Journal of The Eighteen Nineties Society, 1997. incl. correspondence, 1996-1997

30 “Isabel Allende,” “Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,” Reference Guide to Short Fiction (2 nd ed.), 1998. TMs., correspondence

31 “No Passage from India: William Rothenstein, Tagore and the lost treasures of Temple Avenue,” TLS [Commentary], Apr. 16, 1999. [title in toc: “A lost treasure -- William Rothenstein, Tagore and the India Society]. [original title: “[On] Losing History”]. TMs., clipping, correspondence

32 “E.J. Thompson. India’s Prisoner.” TLS, 2000. TMs, corr

33 “Edward John Thompson,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. TMs., correspondence

34 “Charles Conder,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. Correspondence, notes

35 “William Rothenstein.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. TMs, correspondence

36 “Christiana Herringham.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. TMs, correspondence

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Book Reviews

37 Rev. of Kabir, Green and Gold: Stories and Poems from Bengal. Studies in Short Fiction, 1966. TMs, correspondence

38 Rev. of Dabbs, Short Bengali-English Dictionary. Literature East and West, 1967.

39 Rev. of The Maharashta Purana. Literature East and West, 1967.

40 “‘The Bengali Mind’ at Work” (Rev. of Dimock, ed., The Thief of Love and The Place of the Hidden Moon). Literature East and West, 1967.

41 Rev. of Parry, Delusions and Discoveries. Victorian Studies, 1973.

42 Rev. of Chakravorty, Tagore: His Mind and Art. Pacific Affairs, 1973-74.

43 Rev. of Chattopâdhyâya (Chatterji), Le testament de Krishnokanto. Books Abroad, 1974.

44 Rev. of Thatcher, Cambridge South Asian Archive. Journal of Asian History, 1974.

45 Rev. of Basu, The Tamarind Tree. Books Abroad, 1976.

46 Rev. of Tagore, Later Poems. Books Abroad, 1976

47 Rev. of Surtees, Charlotte Canning. Journal of Asian History, 1976

48 Rev. of Mukherji, Life of Tagore. Journal of Asian Studies, 1977. TMs.

49 Rev. of Roy, Bengali Women. Journal of Asian History, 1977.

50 Rev. of Roy, Subramanya Bharati. Literature East and West, 1977.

51 Rev. of Dayananda, Manohar Malgonkar. WIWE, 1977.

52 Rev. of Chatterjee, Anthology of Modern Bengali Short Stories. WLT, 1979.

53 Rev. of Das, E.M. Forster’s India. WLT, 1979.

54 Rev. of Qureshi, tr. Poèmes mystiques bengalis: Chants bāuls. WLT, 1979.

55 Rev. of Lipsey, Coomaraswamy, vol. III. Journal of South Asian Studies, 1979.

56 Rev. of Lewis, E.M. Forster’s Passage to India. Journal of Asian Studies, 1979-80.

57 Rev. of Bharucha, Rehearsals of Revolution. WLT, 1984.

58 Rev. of Tagore, Selected Poems. TLS, 1985.

59 “Saved by Literature” (Rev. of Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, by Ann Thwaite's .) The American Scholar, 1985. TMs., correspondence

Box 11

1 “The Ex-Arcadians” (Rev. of The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm). American Scholar, 1986.

2 “Rabindranath Tagore:1861-1941” Barbican Gallery Exhibition, 1986

3 “Edwardian American” Rev. of Olson’s John Singer Sargent: His Portrait). American Scholar, 1987. TMs, correspondence

4 Rev. of Tagore: A Bibliography. Journal of Asian Thought and Society, 1987.

5 Rev. of Bannerjee, Poetry from Bengal: The Delta Rising. N.p., 1990.

6 Rev. of Seely, A Poet Apart. WLT, 1991.

7 Rev. of Nahal, Salt of Life, WLT, 1992.

8 Rev. of Gupta, Memories of Rain, WLT, 1993.

9 Rev. of Osman, Janani, WLT, 1994.

10 Rev. of Mallabarman, A River Called Titash, WLT, 1995.

11 Rev. of Borland, D. S. MacColl, Painter, Poet, Art Critic. Burlington Magazine, 1995. TMs, correspondence

12 Rev. of Mukhopadhyay, Woodworm, WLT, 1997.

13 “Cinderalla Story,” Rev. of Das, Early Bengali Prose, n.p., n.d.

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Unpublished Writings

14 “The White Collar Gets It in the Back,” by Mary Lago and Allean Hale. Script for Fortnightly Club, 1949. TMs, programs

15 “A Study of Rabindranath Tagore as a Bond between East and West.” M.A. Thesis, 1962. Prefaced by note by Mary Lago, 1971.

16 “Praising the Day.” TMs [on Arthur Mendel and Cantata Singers], n.d.

17 “An Englishman, and ardently so: Arthur Henry Fox-Strangways: 1859-1948.” TMs, n.d.

18 “Outside Looking In: A Study in Point of View,” 1966. TMs, notes

19 “The Hidden Half of Indian Fiction,” TMs, n.d.

20 “Rabindranath Tagore: A Mislaid Key to Bangla Desh,” 1971. TMs, correspondence

21 “Maude Allen.” Untitled draft. TMs (app. 30 pp)

22 “Maude Allen and the Raj.” Untitled draft. TMs (40 pp)

23 “Maude Allen and the Raj.” TMs (45 pp), ca. 1990. Rejected by TLS, with corrections

24 “Salome and the Indian Empire” [Maude Allen]. TMs (18pp), ca. 1995

Conference Papers and Lectures

25 “’Purposive’ Literature and Literary Craftsmanship.” Association for Asian Studies, 1972.

26 “Decadence Redeemed: Max Beerbohm Looks at the 1890s,” University of Missouri-Columbia, 29 January 1973. TMs, correspondence

27 “Getting It All Together in Literary Research,” Lincoln University, 1976. TMs, [poster needs to be removed to oversize]

28 “End of an Era: Edmund Burne-Jones in the 1890's,” William Morris Society, Toronto, 1976. TMs, flyer

29 “Writing at Rapallo,” Mary LagoA, 1976. TMs, correspondence [“The Writings of Max Beerbohm,” given in absentia]

30 “Forster's Fictional Stereotypes,” University of Wisconsin-Madison South Asia Conference, 1979. TMs [“Fictional Stereotypes in Novels about India”]

31 “Letter-Perfect Clues to Missing Persons,” Bucknell University, 1980. TMs, correspondence, clippings [“Missing Persons: In Their Letters”]

32 “E.M. Forster and the Art of Travel” [panel chair] Mary Lago, 1981. Correspondence.

33 “The Tourist as Historian: E. M. Forster in India,” Mary LagoA, 1982. TMs.

34 “Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941”; “Tagore's Short Fiction,” TMs. Rabindranath Tagore Festival, 1986

35 “On Santha Rama Rau,” Mary LagoA 1989

36 “Passage to India: The Road Not Taken” “E. M. Forster's A Passage to India: Perspectives and Adaptation,” TCU Symposium, March 27-29, 1990. Correspondence, 1987-1990 [posters removed to oversize box]

37 “The Man in the Middle: Edward J. Thompson,” Commonwealth Institute Lecture Series, London, 1990. TMs., correspondence

38 “Tagore for the Twenty-First Century;” “Teaching Bengal a Lesson” The Rabindranath Tagore Festival, Urbana, IL, 1990. TMs, flyer [oversize], correspondence.

39 “Ironies In and Of Tagore's Short Stories,” South Asian Centre [Cambridge], 1992. TMs.

40 “E. M. Forster and the 'Song Not without Words,” Benjamin Britten Festival, University of Maryland, 1993. TMs

41 “E. M. Forster's India on Record,” Indian High Commission Lecture Series, Nehru Centre, London, 1994. TMs., flyer [see also correspondence: Gopal Gandhi]

42 “A Hop Ahead of History: Hazards of Literary Research,” University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. TMs., correspondence [Curator's Award for Scholarly Excellence]

43 “Editing as Biography,” n.d, Wichita State Univ. Library

44 “E. M. Forster's India on Record,” University of Missouri-Columbia. TMs

45 “Gilberto/Tom Dimitroff: Please tell us something about Forster,” St. Edward's College, n.d. TMs

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Translations by Mary Lago

46 Trans. of Das, “Five Poems.” Literature East and West, 1964

47 Trans. of Das, “Nine Poems.” Beloit Poetry Journal, 1965

48 Trans. of Tagore, “Two Poems from Kshanika.” Hindusthan Standard, 1965

49 Trans. of Tagore, “Rashmoni’s Son.” Chicago Review, 1966

50 Trans. of B. Bose, “The Family.” Mahfil, 1966

51 Trans. of Bhattacharyya, “Chilimpur Landing” Poetry Bag, 1966

52 Trans. of J. Das, “Like a Match”; “In this World” East-West Review, 1966

53 Trans. of B. Bose, “A Life.” Hindusthan Standard, 1967

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