Charles and Dorothy Hartshorne collection of Jeremy Ingalls papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0506

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

The Charles and Dorothy Hartshorne-Ingalls Collection spans the dates 1960-1986, and consists of letters, poetry, offprints from Studia Mystica , an essay, a verse-play and four songs; all together this small collection establishes the long friendship between the Hartshornes and American poet Jeremy Ingalls.

This collection was acquired from Emily Hartshorne Schwartz, daughter of Charles and Dorothy Hartshorne. The collection includes four letters and a postcard from the American poet Jeremy Ingalls addressed to Dorothy Hartshorne, with the exception of one letter which is addressed to Charles and Dorothy Hartshorne. The letters, spanning the dates 1980-1986, not only establish the long-term friendship between the Hartshornes and Jeremy Ingalls, but they also provide context for the other items in the collection. In particular, the 1980 letter provides an extensive discussion of the inspiration and context for the "Four Songs" and the complex process by which they were eventually written down. The letter also provides information about the publication of "Law of the Prime Dynamic," a poem included in the collection as an offprint from Studia Mystica . In addition, the letters refer to mutual friend Roy Teele, who worked on translations of Japanese Noh drama, and to Dorothy’s work on a book about the Japanese Prince Shotoku Taishi.

Dates

Creation: 1960-1986

Creator

Hartshorne, Charles, 1897-2000 (Collector, Person)
Hartshorne, Dorothy C. (Collector, Person)
Ingalls, Jeremy, 1911-2000 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials entirely in English.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, https://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?askspec

Biographical Notes

Jeremy Ingalls

American poet Jeremy Ingalls was born April 2, 1911, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and died March 16, 2000, in Tucson, Arizona.

She received an A.M. from Tufts in 1933 and began writing full-time in 1960 after retiring as the chair of the English Department at Rockford College in Illinois where she had been teaching since 1941. Ingalls published several collections of poetry, including The Metaphysical Sword (1941), Tahl (1945), The Woman from the Island (1958), These Islands Also (1959), and The Stubborn Quantum (1983).

She also published essay collections, composed musical pieces, and translated several Japanese and Chinese literary and historical works, including a modern Japanese novel, Ten no Yugao (A Moonflower in Heaven) by Yoichi Nakagawa. Ingalls was deeply interested in exploring the origins and traditions of various cultures, especially those of Asian countries. In 1956, she visited Japan, China, Thailand, Cambodia, India, and Pakistan. Her lifelong study of human culture fueled her artistic interest in the ways that people establish and develop relationships with each other through sound, rhythm, linguistics, and symbolism.

Charles and Dorothy Hartshorne

Charles and Dorothy Hartshorne were longtime friends and correspondents of American poet Jeremy Ingalls.

Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard and had an extensive academic career of more than 70 years. He taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School and in the philosophy department (1928-1955), at Emory University (1955-1962), and finally at the University of Texas at Austin (1962-2000). In addition, he traveled extensively, and lectured and taught in Germany, France, Australia, Belgium, Canada, India, and Japan. Hartshorne was the twentieth century’s leading proponent of process theism and much of his scholarship defends his belief that God presides over an everlasting universe as its creative power and is completely open to creaturely influence. Hartshorne’s philosophy was categorized as neither traditional theism, nor aesthetic humanism, but rather situated somewhere in between, in what is referred to as neoclassical theism. Hartshorne published hundreds of articles and reviews, as well as twenty books, including Man’s Vision of God and the Logic of Theism (1941), The Divine Relativity: A Social Conception of God (1948), Anselm’s Discovery (1965), Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1983), and Wisdom as Moderation: A Philosophy of the Middle Way (1987). In addition, Hartshorne maintained a lifelong interest in birds and during his travels recorded numerous birdsongs. His extensive data and research was published in 1973 in a book entitled Born to Sing: an Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song . His autobiography, The Darkness and the Light: a Philosopher Reflects Upon His Fortunate Career and Those Who Made It Possible , was published in 1990.

Hartshorne was married to Dorothy Eleanor Cooper (1904-1995), who played an important role in Charles’s career, acting as editor and bibliographer of his works. They had one daughter, Emily, who was born in 1940.

Cobb, John B. Jr. "Charles Hartshorne: A Bibliographical Essay." http://www.ctr4process.org/process/CPSHartshorne.htm (accessed September 15, 2005).Additional biographical information derived from the collection.

Jeremy Ingalls

American poet Jeremy Ingalls was born April 2, 1911, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and died March 16, 2000, in Tucson, Arizona.

Biographical information derived from the collection.