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Cage 593
Alfred Borrello
Papers, 1946-1988
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Cage 593
Alfred Borrello
Papers, 1946-1988
Alfred Borrello donated the contents of this collection to the Washington State University Libraries in 1988. It was accessioned (MS88-01) in January of 1988 and later processed by Liza R. Rognas in August 1992.
BIOGRAPHY
Alfred Borrello was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1931. He received his B.A. in English at St. John's University in 1952 and served in the U.S. Army from 1953-1955. After earning his M.A. at New York University in 1956, Borrello returned to St. John's where he graduated with a Ph.D. in English in 1965.
Borello's teaching career began at Mercer County Community College in Trenton, New Jersey. He was chairman of both the English department and the division of Liberal Arts at Mercer from 1967-1969. In 1969 Borrello moved to the Kingsborough College of the City University of New York as an associate professor of English.
Borrello's published works center around a small group of English novelists and poets. In 1969 he published "A Concordance of the Poetry in English of Gerard Manley Hopkins" with Scarecrow Press. They also published his dictionary on E.M. Forster a few years later. He wrote on the lives and literary accomplishments of such authors as H.G. Wells, Gabriel Fielding, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene and for years he was associate editor of the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter. The research for Borrello's book on Gabriel Fielding brought him into close contact with Fielding and his family; the friendship, begun in 1967, grew into a long and affectionate relationship. Much of the correspondence between Borrello and the Fielding family was a lively dialog concerning the theological and moral aspects of Catholicism, a religion they shared. Borrello's passion for opera and the theatre is evidenced in the correspondence as well; there are hundreds of theatre programs and playbills in this collection dating from 1946.
ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
The contents of the collection are arranged into five series: Correspondence; Gabriel Fielding Manuscripts and Typescripts; Alfred Borrello Manuscripts and Typescripts; Theatre and Opera Programs and Playbills; and Ephemera, News Clippings and Oversize items. Following the first two folders labeled "General Correspondence," the Correspondence series is alphabetically arranged by folder title; Thereunder each folder is arranged chronologically. Series two and three contain the writings of Fielding and Borrello arranged alphabetically by folder title. The playbills and programs in the fourth series are arranged chronologically by year. The contents of the fifth series, Ephemera, are arranged according to size of item. Some interesting items include: Thank You letter signed by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Dec. 17, 1970; Note from Lillian Hellman, signed Nov. 22, 1974; Letter from William Carlos Williams, Feb. 20, 1952; 1976 Playbill "A Musical Jubilee" autographed by Lillian Gish; 1976 Playbill "Paul Robeson" autographed by James Earl Jones; Letters from Muriel Spark, e e cummings, Anthony Powell, Horace Gregory (mainly copies dated 1952 and 1969); Fielding's "Maude in the Bodkin's Eye"; "Shine on the Rain" script by Traynor and Borrello, and a portrait of Gabriel Fielding.
SERIES LIST
SERIES: DESCRIPTION CONTAINER Series 1: Correspondence 1-2 Series 2: Gabriel Fielding Manuscripts & Typescripts 2 Series 3: Alfred Borrello Manuscripts & Typescripts 2-4 Series 4: Theatre and Opera Playbills & Programs 5-8 Series 5: Ephemera, News Clippings & Oversize Items 9
CONTAINER LIST