James Brasch was born on 11 October 1929. He was educated at the State University of New York, Colgate University and the University of Wisconsin. He has published a guide to Henry James's novel, *The Portrait of a Lady* in 1966 and edited a volume of Ernest Hemingway's works in 1981. He began teaching in McMaster University's English department in 1966 and became an associate professor before his retirement in 1995.
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The fonds consists of a letter from Brasch to John Masefield and a reply from Masefield, 1953; the draft of a letter from Brasch to John Steinbeck and a reply from Steinbeck, 1954. The fonds is supplemented by a photocopy of an article that Brasch wrote about Steinbeck in San Jose Studiesas well as an offprint of an article in Modern Language Notes by Fraser Bragg Drew which cites the Masefield letter.
Fonds was acquired in 1996 from James Brasch.
Further accruals are not expected.
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