Roy William Cowden papers, 1909-1961
2 linear feet (in three boxes)
Professor of English and first director of the Avery Hopwood Awards for writing at the University of Michigan. Correspondence, largely with students; manuscripts of writings; notes and class materials. Also material related to his unpublished book, The Creative Process in Writing.
The collection consists of correspondence mainly with students and from the period of 1953 to 1955; a series of his various writings, some teaching materials, and a speech. Also, drafts, typescripts, and manuscript material related to Cowden's unfinished book, The Creative Process in Writing. Chapter subjects include Dickens, Keats, Meredith, E.B. Browning, Thoroeau, Whitman, Conrad, Carlyle, and Swinburne.