Abstract The contents of thirty former scrapbooks containing letters, clippings, photographs, and printed materials relating to Corson's travels, life, and career; correspondence exchanged between Corson and colleagues on Shakespeare, Chaucer, Tennyson, Browning, and other figures of English literature; reviews of books and articles by Corson and other scholars; announcements, programs, letters, notes, and reviews pertaining to Corson's activities as public lecturer and reader; letters from friends...

Scope and content Portraits of significant European and American literary and historical figures, and pictures of various theatres in England, France, Germany, and the United States. Subjects include Otto von Bismarck, William Blake, Anne Boleyn, Daniel Boone, Joseph Brant, Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer, Oliver Cromwell, astronomer Johannes Mayr (or Major; image dated 1610), President James Garfield, General James Oglethorpe (shown at the posthumous sale of Dr. Johnson's books in 1785), and many...