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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 375 items) |
Abstract | Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States in 1886. In 1898, he began practicing psychotherapy in New York City. He was widely recognized as a scholar of Shakespeare and his times. Chiefly correspondence, 1905-1943, between Tannenbaum and other specialists in 16th- and 17th-century English literature, including Joseph Quincy Adams (1881-1946), Horace Howard Furness (1865-1930), W. W. Greg (1875-1959), William Bailey Kempling, W. J. Lawrence (1862-1940), Arthur Huntington Nason (1877-1944), Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant (1862-1936), Charlotte Endymion Porter (1859-1942), Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958), M. H. Spielmann (1858-1948), Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958), and Charles William Wallace (1865-1932). Letters discuss Tannenbaum's interest in Shakespeare and his works, with particular emphasis on questions of disputed authorship, on Elizabethan theater productions, and on Shakespeare's handwriting and his sexual habits. Also included are letters relating to the Shakespeare Association, the Modern Language Association of America, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Among the small number of letters not relating to English literature are those from individuals in the field of psychology, including a 1908 letter from Sigmund Freud to E. A. Brill about arrangements for Freud's trip to Clark University; two 1913 letters from Sandor Ferenczi (1873-1933); one 1912 letter from James Jackson Putnam (1846-1918); and seven letters, 1918-1919, from Ernest Jones (1879-1958) about the establishment of an English language journal on psychoanalysis. There are also a few writings by Tannenbaum on literary and medical topics and a small number of photographs. |
Creator | Tannenbaum, Samuel Aaron, 1874?-1948. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, July 1992
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This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.
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Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum was born in Hungary around 1874. After immigrating to the United States in 1886, he studied at the College of the City of New York. In 1895, he became a citizen of the United States. In 1898, he received his M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and began practicing psychotherapy in New York City. Tannenbaum was twice married--in 1901, to Jeannette S. Rosett and, in 1942, to Dorothy Rosenzweig with whom he collaborated on several publications.
Tannenbaum's publications reflect his career in psychotherapy and his intense interest in Shakespeare and his times. Major works range from The Psychology of Accidents (1924) and The Patient's Dilemma (1935) to Problems in Shakespeare's Penmanship (1927) and Shakespearean Scraps and Other Elizabethan Fragments (1933). He contributed a great many articles to journals in the field of psychotherapy and the field of Shakespearean scholarship, serving for many years as the editor of the Shakespeare Association Bulletin.
Back to TopChiefly correspondence, 1905-1943, between Tannenbaum and other specialists in the field of 16th- and 17th- century English literature, including Joseph Quincy Adams, Horace Howard Furness, W. W. Greg, William Bailey Kempling, W. J. Lawrence, Arthur Huntington Nason, Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant, Charlotte Endymion Porter, Hyder Edward Rollins, M. H. Spielmann, Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, and Charles William Wallace. Letters discuss Tannenbaum's interest in Shakespeare and his works, with particular emphasis on questions of disputed authorship. Also included are letters about Tannenbaum's efforts to collect publications relating to Shakespeare and his times, and to the workings of such organizations as the Shakespeare Association, the Modern Language Association of America, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Among the small number of letters not relating to English literature are those from individuals in the field of psychology, including a 1908 letter from Sigmund Freud; two 1913 letters from Sandor Ferenczi; one 1912 letter from James Jackson Putnam; and seven letters, 1918-1919, from Ernest Jones about the establishment of an English language journal on psychoanalysis. There are also a few writings by Tannenbaum on literary and medical topics and a small number of photographs.
Back to TopChiefly correspondence, 1905-1943, between Tannenbaum and other specialists in the field of 16th- and 17th- century English literature. Some letters offer congratulations on the publication of pamphlets, books, and articles, but most deal with substantive issues. There are also four letters, 1857-1898, relating to the work of others on Shakespearean themes that appear to have been collected by Tannenbaum. Tannenbaum's correspondence starts in 1905 with letters between Tannenbaum and scholars in England and the United States about his investigation of Shakespeare's coat of arms. Among the early correspondents are Henry Sweet (1845-1912), Arthur Huntington Nason (1877-1944), John Louis Haney (1877- ), Sir Sidney Lee (1859-1926), Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958), Homer Baxter Sprague (1829-1918), A. C. Bradley (1851-1935), and Charles William Wallace (1865-1932). Letters to and from many of these scholars continue throughout the collection.
By 1910, Tannenbaum had become a prolific writer of books, articles, and pamphlets on Shakespeare and his times. Among these works were contributions to such journals as The Dial, for which he produced several reviews of books on Shakespeare. In the 1920s, Tannenbaum investigated the question of Shakespeare's sexual preference. He also was interested in authenticity issues surrounding Shakespeare's signature and handwriting, especially as these issues relate proving authorship.
In the 1930s, there are letters relating to the Shakespeare Society, the Modern Language Association of America, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, the dedication of which Tannenbaum attended in 1932. Among the correspondents from this later period are Horace Howard Furness (1865-1930), M. H. Spielmann (1858-1948), W. J. Lawrence, Thornton Shirley Graves (1883- ), Charlotte Endymion Porter (1859-1942), Arthur Acheson (1864- ), Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant (1962- ), Joseph Quincy Adams (1881-1946), W. W. Greg (1875-1959), Vincent Starrett (1886-1974), Charles Jaspar Sisson (1885-1966), William Bailey Kempling, Macleod Yearsley (1857-1951), and Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958).
Folder 1 |
1857-1898; 1905-1909 |
Folder 2 |
1910-1916 |
Folder 3 |
1917-1923 |
Folder 4 |
1924 |
Folder 5 |
1925 |
Folder 6 |
1926 |
Folder 7 |
1927 January-August |
Folder 8 |
1927 September-December |
Folder 9 |
1928 January-July |
Folder 10 |
1928 August- December |
Folder 11 |
1929 January-April |
Folder 12 |
1929 May-August |
Folder 13 |
1929 September-December |
Folder 14 |
1930 |
Folder 15 |
1931 January-May |
Folder 16 |
1931 June-September |
Folder 17 |
1931 October-December |
Folder 18 |
1932 |
Folder 19 |
1933-1935 |
Folder 20 |
1936-1937 |
Folder 21 |
1938-1943 |
Folder 22 |
Undated and fragments |
Correspondence chiefly relating to psychology and psychoanalysis. Included are a 1908 letter in German from Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) to E. A. Brill about arrangments for Freud's visit to Clark University; a 1912 letter from James Jackson Putnam (1846-1918); two 1913 letters in German from Sandor Ferenczi (1873-1933); and seven letters, 1918-1919, from Ernest Jones, chiefly about establishing an English-language journal of psychoanalysis.
Folder 23 |
Other Correspondence, 1908-1929 |
Miscellaneous short works on Shakespeare and related topics, including authentication of Shakespeare's signature, sexuality, and family. Most of the writings are typed and corrected drafts, but there are also a few reprints.
Folder 23-27
Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27 |
Writings on English Literature |
Three reprints of articles by Tannenbaum: "Pollutions, A Psychoanalytic Study" (1916) from the American Journal of Urology and Sexology (see also Clyde Edgerton Papers) and "State Medicine" (1936) and "Medical Racketeering and Other Matters" (1936), both from the Medical Review of Reviews.
Folder 28 |
Other Writings |
Image P-1920/1-2
P-1920/1P-1920/2 |
Photographs, 1935 and 1940, of M. H. Spielmann |
Image P-1920/3-8
P-1920/3P-1920/4P-1920/5P-1920/6P-1920/7P-1920/8 |
Views of the Shakespeare Garden at Rockefeller Park, 1940-1941. |
Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-1920/1 |
Oversize images |