Clarence Willis Eastman Papers, ca. 1925-1955
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Eastman Papers
Eastman, Clarence Willis, 1873-
Biographical History for: Eastman Papers
Biographical Note Clarence Willis Eastman was born in Concord, New Hampshire on January 3, 1873. He received a Bachelor's degree from Worchester Polytechnic Institute in 1894. He studied German Literature at the Universities of Gottingen and Leipzig from 1895 to 1898, and received the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University if Leipzig in 1898. From 1898 until 1907, he taught German at the University of Iowa, and, during the summers, taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Missouri. Eastman's publications include Die Syntax des Dativs bei Notker (dissertation, 1898); Wilhelm Hauff's "Lichtenstein"(1901); An Account of Some of the Ancestors of Harry Thompson and Myra Hull (1916); Goethe's Poems (editor, 1941). Eastman became Associate Professor of German Language and Literature at Amherst College in 1907, and full Professor in 1909. He remained at Amherst until his retirement in 1943. He died March 12, 1952.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The bulk of the collection consists of notes, assignments and other materials related to Eastman's teaching of German language and literature at Amherst College. In addition, there is correspondence, personal diaries and unpublished manuscripts on topics in medieval German literature and German linguistics; one folder related to army training at Amherst College during World War I; and copious notes and manuscripts for his 1916 genealogy of the Thompson, Hull, Clark, Curtiss, Gunn, Peck, Stiles, Wells (Welles) and Judson families.
German literature--Study and teaching--Massachusetts--Amherst.
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Thompson, Anthony, 1612-1648--Family.
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Hull, Richard, 1599-1662--Family.
Eastman, Clarence Willis,|d1873-1952
Thompson family.
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Heine Assignments n.d.
German n.d.
First year German written by C.W.E. 1939
First Year German written by C.W.E. (personal copy) 1939
German III Dictation n.d.
Notes on stories and the German language n.d.
Keller, Gotthelf, C.F. Meyer, Deutsche Literatur im 20 Jahrh 1922
Goethe n.d.
Goethe's Poems - notes by C.W.E. n.d.
Goethe's Poems - notes by C.W.E.(private copy) n.d.
Goethe's Poems - notes by C.W.E. to Stanley King 1938 n.d.
Introduction to Translations of the Minnesang Copy 1 n.d.
Introduction to Translations of the Minnesang Copy 2 n.d.
Introduction to Translations of the Translations of Minnesang, copy 3 n.d.
Translations of Minnesang by C.W.E n.d.
History and Interpretation of Minnesang by C.W.E. n.d.
Minnesang 1929
Der Minnesang I and Letter to Professor Weigand of Yale 1947
Der Minnesang I n.d.
Der Minnesang II n.d.
Der Minnesang III n.d.
Letters to Ann, July 9-August 15, 1934 1934
Notebook on German Linguistics N.D.
Three Copies of "Relation of the Biblical Idom to the Idom of Revolution" from the Amherst Graduate's Quarterly , April 1912. 1912
Alexis Cabanis 1917 1917
Two Schedules in German (1885-86 and 1896-97) 1885-1897
Two Diaries in German 1896
Poems and unidentified picture n.d.
Lyrics and Poems n.d.
Book: As You Were, 4th Company C.O.T.S, Camp Lee, Virginia. 1918
Middle High German n.d.
Introductions to Translations of Medieval German Lyrics n.d.
Roman und Novelle-Des Realismus and Deutsche Literatur 1933
Beowulf 5-1925 n.d.
West-Ostlicher Divan, Final Draft April 13, 1940 1933
Notes on Books, Sept. 30, 1922 1922
Vocabulary or Glossar of Sachsenspeigel n.d.
Notes on Thidreks-Saga and other books n.d.
Walther von der Vogelweide I n.d.
Walther von der Vogelweide II n.d.
The German Novel I n.d.
The German Novel II n.d.
German Train Pass 1934
Correspondence concerning Roger Brackett 1917
Correspondence: Meiklejohn and Secretary of State 1917
The Amherst Student , May 10, 1917; April 6th & 9th, 1917; March 26, 1917; May 16, 1918. 1917-18
Student Army Training and Pictures of Students 1918
Middle High German Lyrics (Walter von der Vogelweide) n.d.
German Nouns and Grammar 1938
Humorous Quifrs in German (newspaper clippings) 1934
Verbs, Idioms, Prefixes and Subjunctives n.d.
Pronunciation with Introduction n.d.
The Badger Family n.d.
The Bean Family 1916
The Boltwood Family n.d.
The Cheney Family 1914
The Clark Family n.d.
The Currier Family n.d.
The Curtiss Family 1917
The Dey Family 1906
The French Family 1915
Obituaries: Griswold, Goodrich, Greenleaf, Graves n.d.
The Hart Family n.d.
The Hull Family 1915
The Judson Family n.d.
The Kingstons and Woosters n.d.
Professor Sinclair's Obituary n.d.
An Account of Some of the Ancestors of Harry Thompson and Myra Hull , Complied and Printed by C.W.E. in 1915. 1916
The Philbrick Family n.d.
The Porter Family n.d.
Unidentified 1916
The White Family n.d.
Sons of the American Revolution National Society 1915
Der Deutsche Roman n.d.
Die Romantische Schule 1914
Romantic School (Die Romantische Schule) n.d.
Jung Deutschland, German 4, 1830 1936
Dorfgeschichte n.d.
Gellert n.d.
The Historical Novel n.d.
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre n.d.
Munchener Schule n.d.
Proben Von Deutschen Mundarten n.d.
Realism-Poetischer Realismus n.d.
Robinsonaden n.d.
Schelmanroman n.d.
Volksbuscher n.d.
Cristoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) n.d.
Wieland (1733-1813) n.d.
German Novels Bibliography n.d.
Correspondence: F.S. Crofts for Goethe's Poems 1941
Acknowledgements for Goethe's Poems 1941-1947
F.S. Crofts; Review of Goethe's Poems 1942, 1949
Goethe's Poems , Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. Royalty Statements and Review 1941-1950
Notes from Goethe's Poems n.d.
D.C. Heath & Company 1940
Manthorne & Burack, Inc. Publishers 1940
Library of Congress for First Year German 1939
Professor Faust, Acknowledgement Copyright for First Year German , and Goethe's Poems. 1938-1940
Professor Faust 1939
Professor Faust 1940-1941
American Relief Administration 1921
Camp Dudley 1921
The State University of Iowa May 16, 1921 1921
Edward E. Bancroft, M.D. 1921
Correspondence
To C.W.E. in German 1922
Automatic Heating Corporation 1923
Atkinson (Paris) 1926
Deerfield Academy 1927
Spaulding Moss Corporation 1939
Stanley King 1939
Yale 1947-1950