Modern Language Association correspondence, December 17, 1958 - March 29, 1980

Contains correspondence between H. Bruce Franklin, Arthur O. Lewis, Tom [Clareson], George Stone Jr., Jack A. Dabbs, C. Carroll Hollis, Jan Bakker, Mark Hillegas, Scott C. Osborn, Allen B. Brown, Patrick G. Hogan, Jr., Leland Sapiro, Rudolf B. Schmerl, Lionel Stevenson, Robert DeMaria, Theodore R. Cogswell, George Winchester Stone, Sam Sackett, and J.O. Bailey; a conference announcement and invitation, mimeograph; "MLA Conf[erence] Sci-Fict [Science Fiction] 1962"; envelope from Modern Language Association to "Signers of 1962 Scifict [Science Fiction] conf[erence] petition;” "1961 meeting of the MLA conference of science fiction;" "Tentative Draft of the Science-Fiction Canon" by Mark Hillegas; “List of Utopias, Anti-Utopias, and Science” and "Science Fiction as Social Criticism" by Arthur Lewis; “Science Fiction, Literature, and the Human Condition" by Mark Hillegas; "Criteria for Judging Science Fiction" by Margaret Boddy; a "Report on the results of questionnaires on the 1960 MLA Science-Fiction Conference;” "Some Scattered Additions to 'Check-List of Articles Dealing with Science Fiction,' Extrapolation, I, 29-34;" "MLA General Topics VII: Relations of Literature and Science. Report of the Bibliography Committee for 1960;" "Conference 20: 'The Significance of Science Fiction;” and “Wells Source” by David Y. Hughes.