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Collection Overview Churchill, George Bosworth, 1866-1925 Churchill Papers 1883-1925 10 archives boxes (5 linear ft.) Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Correspondence, Lectures, Class Materials, Manuscripts, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photographs authored by or featuring Churchill. The bulk of the collection is made up of professional documents: lectures, undergraduate papers, class materials and manuscripts written by Churchill. A number of speeches and articles relating to his substantial political career are also included. The collection contains some correspondence between Churchill and his wife and between Churchill and acquaintances, mostly between 1891 and 1894. English. Biographical Note

George Bosworth Churchill was born on October 24, 1866, in Worcester, Mass., the son of Ezra and Myra J. Bosworth Churchill. He prepared for college at Worcester High School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst in 1889. After college he spent three years teaching at Worcester High School. He then went to the William Penn Charter School for two years as master of oral and written expression. During 1893 and 1894, he attended graduate school at University of Pennsylvania, before studying for three years in Germany. There he received his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Berlin. Returning to America, he was the assistant editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine until 1898, when he was appointed associate professor of English and public speaking at Amherst College. In 1903, he became associate professor of English literature. In 1905, he was promoted to professor of English literature, a position he held until the time of his death. He died on July 1, 1925, of heart failure, in Amherst, Mass.

Besides his professional duties, he was a noted author. He wrote the Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin University Plays of England in the Time of Elizabeth in collaboration with Prof. Wolfgang Keller in 1898, and Richard III Up to Shakespeare in 1900. He edited two of William Wycherley's plays, "The Country Wife," and "The Plain Dealer," in 1923, and Shakespeare's "Richard III" in 1912.

He had a political career as well. In 1917, he was elected State Senator of his district, and was re-elected in 1918 and 1919. He was a delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention those same years. For eight years, he chaired the Amherst Republican Town Committee. For more than twenty years, he moderated Amherst town meetings.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Correspondence, Lectures, Class Materials, Manuscripts, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photographs authored by or featuring Churchill. The bulk of the collection is made up of professional documents: lectures, undergraduate papers, class materials and manuscripts written by Churchill. A number of speeches and articles relating to his substantial political career are also included. The collection contains some correspondence between Churchill and his wife and between Churchill and acquaintances, mostly between 1891 and 1894.

Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into ten series:

1. Correspondence 2. Miscellaneous 3. Lectures 4. Class Material 5. Manuscripts 6. Undergraduate papers (and other miscellaneous papers) 7. Miscellaneous short papers 8. Pamphlets 9. Notebooks and diaries 10. Political career Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

There is no restriction on access to the Walter Boughton Papers for research use. Particularly fragile items are restricted for preservation purposes.

Requests for permission to publish material from the Papers should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in George Bosworth Churchill (AC 1889) Papers [Box #, folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library

Search Terms Churchill, George Bosworth, 1866-1925. Amherst College--Faculty. Amherst College. Dept. of English. Lecture notes--Amherst College. Amherst College. Class of 1889. Churchill. Series 1: Correspondence 1 1 Letters to Churchill, A-L 1891-1894 1 2 Letters to Churchill, M-Z 1891-1894 1 3 Letters from Churchill 1 4 Letters to Mrs. Churchill 1 5 Letters from Mrs. Churchill (2) Series 2: Miscellaneous 1 6 Miscellaneous programs, pamphlets 1 7 Newspaper clippings about Churchill 1 8 Photographs (mostly of Churchill) Series 3: Lectures 1 9 "Public Speaking Work in Secondary Schools," Connecticut State Teachers Association 1902 1 10 Speech before New England Jewelers Assoc. 1916 1 11 "Americanism and the Public School," Massachusetts State Normal School 1920 1 12 "The Greek Drama. Tragedy." Springfield Teachers Club 1904 2 1 Lecture on "Richard III" 1901 2 2 "The Plays of Maurice Maeterlinck," Thursday Club of Holyoke 1902 2 3 "Ways and Means of Securing Correct Pronunciation, Enunciation, and Effectiveness in Utternace," Massachusetts Superintendent's Association 1902 2 4 "Are American Colleges Radical or Merely Progressive?" 2 5 "Public Speaking in the High School," Amherst Institute 1901 2 6 "Athletics in Amherst," Speech after dinner 2 7 Armistice Day 1919 2 8 South Hadley Thanksgiving Day Community Service 1918 2 9 Democratic Scholarship 2 10 "Shakespeare as a Critic of Politics" 1919 2 11 What is Americanism," "The Revolution and Today 2 12 "What Do We Mean When We Call Macbeth a Tragedy?" Williston Seminary 1914 2 13 "The Tragedies of Shakespeare," Springfield Teachers Club 1903 2 14 The Teaching of Twentieth Century Literature 2 15 "A Nation of Shopkeepers," Boston Jewelers' Club 1916 2 16 "The Land of the Ouaniche" 2 17 "Education and Patriotism" 2 18 "The Plays of Henrik Ibsen," Springfield Teachers Club 1904 2 19 "Stephen Phillips," Springfield Teachers Club 1904 2 20 Beowulf," Lecture in series, "Familiar Talks in Friendly Parlors 1900 2 21 "Address on Japanese Question," Northampton YMCA 1925 2 22 "Imagination and Religion," Winter Park 1924 3 1 "Scholarship and the Common Mind," 1st and 2nd drafts 3 2 "Alfred the Great," Amherst Institute at Holyoke High School 1901 3 3 "On the Meaning of Honor" 3 4 "Edgar Allan Poe," Massachusetts Agricultural College 1909 3 5 "After the War: Problems in Education from the Viewpoint of the Commonwealth" 3 6 Armistice Day, 1919 1919 3 7 "Is the College Making Good?" 3 8 Untitled Speeches 3 9 Miscellaneous notes and fragments of speeches Series 4: Class Materials 3 10 Duplicate study sheets on Virgil's Aeneid 3 11 Duplicate study sheets on Organization of Roman Senate 3 12 Duplicate study sheets on Richard III 3 13 Notes on Public Speaking course 3 14 Notes and paper (clippings) on the Drama 3 15 Readings on English poets - notes for course 3 16 Notes for English I and Shakespeare course 4 1 Examination papers in Old English class 4 2 Lesson papers on King Lear 4 3 Examination papers and exercises in Logic and Richard III 4 4 Notes on the work of Maurice Maeterlinck 4 5 Imagination as Expression," "Rise of Romanticism 4 6 Lectures on oratory; notes of lectures on the preparation of debates, on brief-drawing, and on evidence 4 7 Notes on "The Growth of the Sacred Drama" 4 8 Notes for lectures on drama 4 9 Notes for lectures on the serious drama; notes on French tragedy 4 10 Notes on prose fiction, course given to juniors and seniors 1905-6 4 11 The Drama. Introductory lectures. Course for Juniors 1903-4 4 12 Notes on prose authors 4 13 Notes on drama: "Medieval Romance," "What is a Play?" Series 5: Manuscripts 5 1 "The Relation of Dryden's State of Innocence to Milton's Paradise Lost and Wycherley's Plain Dealer : An Inquiry into Dates." 3 copies 5 2 "The Rise of the English Comedy" 5 3 Introduction and notes on Richard III 5 4 "Shakespeare in America." In German, 2 copies 5 5 "The Rise of the English Drama" 5 6 "The Life of William Shakespeare" 5 7 Notes, manuscript, and proof sheets of Richard III up to Shakespeare 5 8 "Miramichi Days: Dry-fly vs. Wet-fly." 2 copies 5 9 6 short papers on Wycherley 6 1 "New England Sectionalism" 6 2 "Origen: A Synopsis of his Life and Views" Series 6: Undergraduate papers (and other miscellaneous papers) 6 3 "Roman Satire" 6 4 "Plato's Symposium" 6 5 "Our Beautiful Shelley" 6 6 "Catullus and Burns" 6 7 "Faust: Its Character and Lessons" 6 8 "Chapman's The Widow's Tears " 6 9 "A Brief Comparison of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra with Dryden's All for Love " 6 10 "Etymological work for the Sophomore Latin Prize - by 'Marlborough,'" 1887 6 11 "Work submitted for the Bertram Latin Scholarship," 1889 6 12 Miscellaneous papers written as a student at Worcester High School 6 13 Is the Iliad a Sun-, Cloud-, Storm-myth? A Review of the 'Solar Theory' and its Application to The Iliad 6 14 Notes on Shakespeare in America 16 15 Master's Thesis: "The Beginnings of English Literary Criticism" 7 1 Miscellaneous short papers Series 7: Miscellaneous short papers 7 2 "Modern German Dramatists" by Max Meyerfield 7 3 Comparison of Webster and Tourneur 7 4 Notes on John Donne - from the thesis of Dr. Brumbaugh 7 5 Notes on English Literature, Winter Term, 1888 7 6 The development of the Roman Constitution 7 7 Political and Constitutional Theory 7 8 Notes on Virgil 7 9 The Metres of Barnabe Googe 7 10 An Examination of the Versification in Julius Caesar, III, 1:225-275, and in the Tempest I, 2: 1-50 7 11 Notes on English Poetry 7 12 The Lyric in Shakespeare's plays 7 13 Notes on some English poets 7 14 Miscellaneous notes 7 15 Miscellaneous fragments of notes 7 16 Class grade book - 1923-1924 7 17 Two notebooks, 1895-96 - Beowulf and Chaucer notes; English Literature notes Series 8: Pamphlets (unbound) 8 1 " Richard III up to Shakespeare" in Palaestra , vol. X, Untersuchungen und Texte aus der Deutschen und Englischen Philogie, Alois Brandl und Erich Schmidt, Berlin, 1900 8 2 Mention of G. B. Churchill p. 785 The Phi Beta Kappa Key , Vol. 5, No. 12, May 1925 8 3 Verzeichniss der Vorlesungen, welche auf der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin im Winter-Semester vom 16 October 1896 bis 15 Marz 1897 gehalten werden 8 4 The Penn Charter Review, 1910. Page 17 8 5 Booch review by Churchll of Shakespeare's Holinshed: The Chronicle of and Historical Plays Compared , by H. G. Boswell-Stone. In Archiv für das Studium der Neuren Sprachen und Litteraturen 8 6 Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gessellschaft . Reprints from; containing book reviews by Churchill. 1909 (3 copies), 1911 (3 copies) 8 7 Poem, "Serenade," by Churchill in Amherst Literary Monthly, No. 9, 1889 8 8 "The Attitude of the Massachusetts Legislature Towards Standards for Degree Giving Institutions." in Education , Vol. 40, no. 7, March 1920 8 9 "The State's Responsibility for Reconstruction in Education," in Education , vol. 39, No. 10, June 1919 8 10 Address of the Hon. George B. Churchill of Amherst opposing the initiative and referendum 8 11 "Shakespeare in America," an address delivered at the annual meeting of the German Shakespeare Society, in Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesselschaft , 1906 8 12 "Public Speaking Work in the Secondary School" in The School Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, April, 1903, University of Chicago Press 8 13 "The Relation of Dryden's 'State of Innocence' to Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and Wycherley's 'Plain Dealer,' An Inquiry into Dates," Reprinted from Modern Philology , Vol. 4, No. 2, October 1906, 2 copies 8 14 "A Nation of Shopkeepers," in The Keystone Weekly , Vol. 41, No. 22, January 18, 1916 8 15 Address before the New England Manufacturing Jewelers and Silversmiths Association in The Manufacturing Jewelers , Vol. 58, No. 12 8 16 "The True Tragedy of Richard III " (in German) Inaugural Dissertation, Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitat zu Berlin Series 9: Notebooks and Diaries 9 1 Undergraduate notes - Amherst College - Three books [ca. 1885-1889] 9 2 European trip diary 1888 9 2 Lake Edward trip diary 1911 9 2 Garden journal 1900 9 3 Ornithological notebook 1882-1885 9 3 Account book 1883-1886 Series 10: Political Career 9 4 Political publicity on Churchill - editorial and testimonials 9 5 Notes for speeches 9 6 Fragments of speeches 9 7 Initiative and referendum amendment - printed matter and speeches on 10 1 Four typed articles on Churchill's political views from the Springfield Republican 1924 10 2 Memorial Day Address, Amherst 1925 10 3 Three campaign speeches 1916 10 4 Campaign speech 1919 10 5 Speech: "Duty of a Representative" 10 6 Speech on Judicial System 10 7 Speech on Child Labor Amendment 10 8 Speech: "The Attitude of the Massachusetts Legislature Towards Standards for Degree-Giving Institutions" (two copies) 1919 10 9 Speech on voting for the 18th Amendment 10 10 Two speeches in praise of the Republican Party 10 11 Speech introducing speakers at an Amherst Republican rally, Springfield, Mass. 10 12 Churchill-Graves Campaign Speech, Northamtpton, Mass. 1924 10 13 Speech on Churchill's view on the problems of Springfield, Mass.