• Classification Number: 3L
• Title of Record Series: Department of English Composition
• Record Group: Faculty
• Date:
• Accession Number:
• Sub Group: Departments
• Source:
• Restrictions: Some material restricted. Restricted files are not listed in this finding aid. Please contact staff for more information.
• Volume:
• Cross ref: The merger between the Departments of English Literature and English Composition formed the Department of English

Records of the Department of English Composition; dating from 1880 to 1948; consisting of examinations, syllabi, minutes, reading lists; arranged by course number; including material on entrance exams, courses taught by the department, general exams given by the department, standardized tests.

• Department: General (most undated) including 1890 department pamphlet, newspaper clippings, letters (1934, 1943, 1947) [including an Eleanor Roosevelt letter], and report of visiting committee of Alumnae Association (1919)
• Chariman's Notebook (1916-1947): Awards; Committee on Written English; Linking of Composition and Literature Departments; Teaching of English Language; Data re. Requirements
• Chairman Hart's Log Book: Loose items [especially reading lists]
• Minutes (1936-1937, 1941-1943)
• Intercollegiate Conference on English Composition (1919)
• Intercollegiate conferences and studies of English Composition (1925-1928) [includes 1924-1925 survey of Wellesley seniors re. merits of required composition course
• Department statistics (1913-1939)
• Curricular Materials (mostly undated): including reading lists essays, author's biographical information, outlines
• Rhetoric I, II, III: (most undated, 1888)

• English Composition 1: examinations (undated, 1880, 1893-1915)
• English Composition 1: examinations (1916-1921)
• English Composition 2: examinations (undated, 1897-1920)
• English Composition 3: examinations (1914-1920); English Composition 4: examinations (1909-1916); English Composition 5: examinations (1910-1921, 1919, 1920); English Composition 7: examinations (1911); English Composition 8: examinations (1917, 1918); English Composition 10: examinations (1907, 1911-1914, 1917, 1920); English Composition 12: examinations (1907-1909)
• English Composition 101: examinations (1912, 1920-1925)
• English Composition 101: examinations (1926-1935)
• English Composition 101: examinations (1936-1947)

• English Composition 102: examinations (1921-1934)
• English Composition 201: examinations (1921, 1944, 1946-1947)
• English Composition 204: examinations (1936-1945); English Composition 205: examinations (1921-23, 1932, 1936, 1938); English Composition 207: examinations (1947); English Composition 208: examinations (1941-1947)
• English Composition 301: syllabus (undated, examinations (1936-1949); English Composition 302: syllabus (undated), student final
• English Composition 303: examinations (1921-1943)
• English Composition 304: an introductory packet, examinations (1935), syllabus (1944-1945)
• English Composition 305: examinations (1934-1935)
• English Composition: General examinations (1934-1935)
• English Composition: General examinations (undated, 1928-1931)
• English Composition: General examinations (1932-1937)
• English Composition: General examinations (1938-1941)
• English Composition: General examinations (1942-1948)

• Examinations for Joint Majors (undated, 1939-1941, 1946, 1947)
• English Entrance Exams (1898-1918); Barrett Ryan English Tests (1930); English Placement Test; English Comprehensive Exams (1917, 1919); English Composition Freshman Placement Test (1929); English Composition 101 Exemption Exams (1929, 1931, 1932); The Wellesley Vocabulary Test (undated)
• Iowa Placement Exams (July 1925)
• Manual of Instructions and Exercises, Cambridge (1914-1915, 1919-1920)
• English Composition 1: Pamphlet of Instructions and Suggestions (1915-1916, 1916-1917, 1918-1919, 1919-1920, 1921-1922)
• English Composition Pamphlet: Instructions and Suggestions (1932-33, 1933-1934, 1941-1942)
• Wellesley Handbook of English Composition (1945-1946, 194?)

• The Twig (1919-1927)
• Wellesley Essays (1933)
• Wellesley Essays (1934)
• Wellesley Essays (1936)
• Wellesley Essays (1941)
• A Book of Biographies by Wellesley Students (1947)

• The Twig Vol. 1-3 1919-1921
• The Twig Vol. 1-3 1919-1921
• The Twig Vol. 4-6 1921-1924
• The Twig Vol. 4-6 1921-1924
• The Twig Vol. 7-9 1924-1927
• The Twig Vol. 7-9 1924-1927

• Exams: 1894-1916

• RESTRICTED: Chairman Hart's Log Book 1929-1935