Andrew Wright Papers, 1948-2009 (MSS 826)

Extent: 4 Linear feet (10 archives boxes)

Papers of Andrew Wright, Professor Emeritus of English Literature at UC San Diego (1963-1991). Wright was a co-founder of UC San Diego's Department of Literature; he compiled the well-known Selective Bibliography for the Study of English and American Literature (with Richard D. Altick; 1979) and A Reader's Guide to English and American Literature (1972).

Andrew Wright attended Harvard College before being recruited to serve in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He was stationed in England, where he met his wife, Gina, but returned to Harvard after the war to earn a bachelor's degree in English. He went on to earn his master's and doctorate degrees from Ohio State University in 1948 and 1951, respectively. He taught at Ohio State University for 11 years before joining UC San Diego in 1963 where he (along with Roy Harvey Pearce) co-founded the Department of Literature and served as an early chairman of the Library Committee. Wright was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship and Fulbright Fellowship twice each, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom. He served on editorial boards, and was a reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement and other journals. He taught at UC San Diego for nearly 30 years before retiring in 1991. Notable works by Wright include Jane Austen's Novels: A Study in Structure (1953), Joyce Cary: A Preface to His Novels (1958), Henry Fielding: Mask and Feast (1965), Blake's Job: A Commentary (1972), Anthony Trollope: Dream and Art (1983), and Fictional Discourse and Historical Space; Defoe and Theroux, Austen and Forster, Conrad and Greene (1987). Wright passed away August 3, 2009.

The Andrew Wright Papers include a small selection of biographical materials, Wright's personal journals, as well as typescript drafts of Wright's short stories, notes, and correspondence. The papers range in date from 1948 through 2009.

Arranged in three series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) JOURNALS, 3) WRITINGS.

Container List

BIOGRAPHICAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL: Arranged alphabetically by item. Materials range in date from 1948 through 2009.

Oversize FB-493 Folder 5
Album - Only Tourists Wear Seersucker, 1978

Includes clippings, ephemera and photographs from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer seminar in Narrative Studies held at UC San Diego.

Box 1 Folder 1
Diplomas and photograph, 1948-1951

Includes doctorate and master degree diplomas from Ohio State University, and a photograph of Wright at his graduation ceremony.

Box 1 Folder 2
M.A. Thesis, Ohio State University - The Structure of E.M. Foster's Novels, 1948

Bound copy of M.A. thesis.

Box 1 Folder 3
Obituary and in memoriam, 2009 August
Box 1 Folder 4
Photographs, 1978-2002

Photographs of Wright and others in and around UC San Diego campus.

JOURNALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) JOURNALS: Arranged chronologically. Wright's handwritten notebooks include diary entries, travel ephemera, and drafts of short stories and poetry. Entries are written in both Spanish and English. Journals range in date from 1970 through 2005.

Box 1 Folder 5
Notebooks, 1970

Includes diary entries and poetry notebook.

Box 1 Folder 6
Notebook - Bits and Pieces, 1975

Bound collection of reprints of some of Wright's published articles.

Box 1 Folder 7
Notebook - Libro de Efemérides, 1985-1989

Diary entries written in Spanish.

Box 1 Folder 8-9
Notebooks, 1988-1991

Diary entries written in Spanish and English.

Box 2 Folder 1-5
Notebooks, 1990-1994

Includes sketches, travel ephemera, and diary entries written in Spanish and English.

Box 3 Folder 1-4
Notebooks, 1995-1998

Includes travel ephemera and diary entries written in Spanish.

Box 4 Folder 1-2
Notebooks, 2000-2005

Includes travel ephemera, diary entries, and drafts. Written in Spanish and English.

Box 4 Folder 3
Notebook, Undated

Includes drafts of short stories.

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) WRITINGS: Arranged alphabetically by title, the majority of the material includes typescript drafts (some with edits), notes, and correspondence with publishers. Also included is a copy of a lecture given by Wright, scrapbook materials pertaining to Wright's book, Jane Austen's Novels: A Study in Structure, and two drafts of Gina Wright's (wife) memoir, "Growing Up in America." Writings range in date from 1953 through 2007.

Box 4 Folder 4
After All, 1992 July 17
Box 4 Folder 5-6
The American Spaniard - Bound draft, 1997 March 5 - 2005 April 13
Box 4 Folder 7-8
Brad, 1992 December 1 - 2007 March 5
Box 4 Folder 9
A College Education, 2000 February 28 - 2007 July 24
Box 5 Folder 1
Constance, 1995 July 19 - 2007 March 8
Box 5 Folder 2
The Couple, 1998 April 14 - October 14
Box 5 Folder 3
The Complete Liar (previously titled: David Stanton), 1998 October 29 - 2005 April 15
Box 5 Folder 4
Did You Call?, 1995 February 16 - 1999 December 12
Box 5 Folder 5
Drist, 1998 February 2 - 1999 April 23
Box 5 Folder 6
The Empty Vessel, 2003 May 19
Box 5 Folder 7
The Entirely Contented Professor, 1991 October 18 - 2006 March 20
Box 5 Folder 8
The Farewell, 1992 July 14
Box 5 Folder 9-10
Gone Tomorrow, 1995 February 3 - 2009 July 1
Box 5 Folder 11
The Good Physician, 2006 March 17 - 2007 April 26
Box 5 Folder 12-14
Half-Way Houses: Chapter 2-4, 1997
Box 6 Folder 1-3
Half-Way Houses: Chapter 5-7, 1997 April 8 - April 10
Box 6 Folder 4
The Handsome Man, 1995 February 4 - 1998 June 23
Box 6 Folder 5
Homeless, Undated
Box 6 Folder 6
Hugh Leaf, 1996 May 17 - 2007 February 28
Box 6 Folder 7-8
Husbands, Wives, and Others - Bound draft, 2008 April 16 - June 12
Box 6 Folder 9
I am I and Nobody Else, 1991 October 9 - 1994 December 1
Box 6 Folder 10
In Kentucky, 2001 July 6 - 2002 January 7
Box 6 Folder 11
In the Cage (previously titled: But Not for Me and Big Frog), 1992 March 31 - 2002 October 20
Box 6 Folder 12
It's No Use Ringing, Undated
Box 7 Folder 1-2
James Tansey Fleet, 1993 February 18 - 2006 March 20
Box 7 Folder 3
Jane Austen's Novels: A Study in Structure scrapbook materials - Includes clippings, ephemera, and correspondence, 1953
Box 7 Folder 4
Killer Pianist, 1994 May 9
Box 7 Folder 5-6
The Last Child, 1998 October 12 - 2006 September 11
Box 7 Folder 7
The Last Child and Other Stories - Bound draft, Undated
Box 7 Folder 8
Lila Brownlow, 1992 October 17 - 2007 March 9
Box 7 Folder 9-10
The Latter Days of Stanley Barnard, 1992 December 18 - 2007 May 5
Box 8 Folder 1
Lucy, 2004 July 13 - 2005 February 3
Box 8 Folder 2
The Man who Loves Brahms, Undated
Box 8 Folder 3
The Man Without Dimension, 1996 December 10 - 1999 December 1
Box 8 Folder 4
The Mitigations of Lucy Fraser, 1992 March 16 - 1995 January 21
Box 8 Folder 5
The Mixed Heritage, 1996 March 24, 1997 March 15
Box 8 Folder 6
The Moon and I, 1992 October 22 - 2006 April 8
Box 8 Folder 7
Myself When Young, 1989 July 15
Box 8 Folder 8
Not My Last Words, 2000 October 24 - 2007 August 6
Box 8 Folder 9
The Novelist, 1992 July 13
Box 8 Folder 10
The Ordeal of Michael Archer, 1993 April 29 - 2007 March 7
Box 8 Folder 11
The Party, 1999 August 5 - 2006 March 13
Box 8 Folder 12
Peace in My Time, Undated
Box 8 Folder 13
Peter Ridgeway, 1992 October 30 - 2005 October 3
Box 8 Folder 14
The Pour, 2005 January 21 - April 19
Box 8 Folder 15
The Pretty Duckling, 1994 January 14 - 2001 April 28
Box 9 Folder 1
Reflections Near the End, 2000 December 10 - 2007 January 17
Box 9 Folder 2
Reports of a CEO, 1997 December 30 - 2007 March 13
Box 9 Folder 3
The Rest is Not Silence, Undated
Box 9 Folder 4
A Soft Pencil, 1993 April 22 - 1996 June 4
Box 9 Folder 5
The Spaniard from Philadelphia, 2004 March 4 - 2005 June 10
Box 9 Folder 6
Snapshots of Home, 1994 May 9
Box 9 Folder 7
Stanley Holley, 1995 July 31 - 2007 March 15
Box 9 Folder 8
Still to Come, 1992 March 21 - 1998 July 23
Box 9 Folder 9
The Summer of Aunt Sarah, 1993 April 3 - 2007 February 28
Box 9 Folder 10
Toward the End, 1982 May 18 - 1983 May 31
Box 9 Folder 11
Trio, 1998 July 28 - 2003 June 21
Box 9 Folder 12
Trollope Lecture, 1981 March 5 - December 11
Box 9 Folder 13
The Twosome, Undated
Box 9 Folder 14
The Waterbedders, 1983 June 21 - 1997 January 9
Box 10 Folder 1
Will You Hold Please?, 2001 August 23
Box 10 Folder 2
A Woman of Letters, 1993 October 22
Box 10 Folder 3-6
Gina Wright memoir - Growing up in America, drafts 1 and 2, 2005