Hayashi Steinbeck collection
Scope and Contents
Dates
- circa 1940-2009
Language of Materials
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Biographical Note
After completing his library science degree at Kent State, Hayashi married Akiko Sakuratani in April 1960, and their son Richard was born in 1962. The following year, Hayashi pursued his academic interests in Steinbeck, Shakespeare, and Elizabethan Drama through the doctoral program at Kent State. While at Kent State, he founded the Steinbeck Bibliographical Society with friend and fellow Steinbeck scholar Preston Beyer in 1966. A year later, the organization was renamed the Steinbeck Society of America. Along with Beyer and other Steinbeck scholars, Hayashi founded the Steinbeck Newsletter (renamed Steinbeck Quarterly in 1969) in 1968 and personally financed its production during the first year. In addition to these endeavors, he completed a dissertation on English novelist/playwright Robert Greene that later provided the foundation for three books and numerous academic articles. By the time Hayashi accepted a teaching position at Ball State University in 1968, the basis for his professional caeer had been built. In 2002, Hayashi received the Distinguished English Alumnus Award from Kent State University's graduate program in English.
During his career at Ball State (which lasted until his retirement in 1993) Hayashi became recognized as one of the world’s leading educators on the work of Steinbeck. As the founder, director and eventual president of the Steinbeck Society of America, he developed the Steinbeck Quarterly into a commercial publication that eventually reached 44 countries. Hayashi developed several other projects under the Steinbeck Society umbrella as well, including the Steinbeck Monograph Series (lasting from 1971 to 1991) and the Steinbeck Essay Series (1986-1991). Hayashi’s leadership in Steinbeck studies also contributed to the 1970 establishment of the Steinbeck Collection in Archives and Special Collections at the Ball State University Libraries. In addition to these activities, Hayashi produced books, articles and monographs at a highly prolific rate, and maintained a strong reputation as a lecturer and an advisor to students. Although Steinbeck was the central subject of his research and teaching, he also taught and wrote about Shakespeare, Robert Greene, Hemingway, and other figures of British and American literature.
Hayashi followed his retirement from Ball State by accepting a teaching position at Kwassui Women’s College in Nagasaki, Japan in the fall of 1993. His “self-willed, happy, temporary ‘exodus’” continued in April 1996 as a Graduate Professor and Vice President at Yasuda Women’s University in Hiroshima City until 2001.
Extent
34 Cubic Feet (76 boxes)
Arrangement
Series 1: Correspondence, 1968-2009
Subseries 1.1: General correspondence, 1968-2009
Subseries 1.2: Special correspondence with Elaine Steinbeck, Elizabeth Otis, and others, 1968-2004
Series 2: Manuscripts, 1968-1999
Subseries 2.1: Hayashi personal manuscripts, 1973-1999
Subseries 2.2: Steinbeck Monograph Series manuscripts, 1971-1981
Subseries 2.3: Steinbeck Quarterly manuscript submissions, 1970-1994
Subseries 2.4: Steinbeck Quarterly issue manuscripts, 1968-1991
Series 3: Publications, 1957-2006
Subseries 3.1: Hayashi personal publications, 1957-circa 2000
Subseries 3.2: Ball State University affiliated publications, 1976-2006
Series 4: Senryu poetry, 1974-1990
Series 5: Research files, 1919-2012
Subseries 5.1: English language articles, 1919-2012
Subseries 5.2: Japanese language articles, 1957-2006
Subseries 5.3: Index cards, circa 1993
Series 6: Professional and administrative files, 1954-2014
Series 7: Steinbeck Quarterly subscriber files, undated
Series 8: Steinbeck Society of America records, 1967-1988
Series 9: Professional organizations and service, 1976-2007
Series 10: Teaching Files, 1940-2000
Subseries 10.1: Lecture notes and teaching materials, 1970-2000
Subseries 10.2: Annotated books, 1940-1986
Series 11: Scrapbooks, 1957-1993
Series 12: Photographs, 1983-1992
Series 13: Oversize materials, 1964-1997
Series 14: Artifacts, undated
Series 15: Audio recordings, 1953-1998
Subseries 15.1: Audio books, 1973-1996
Subseries 15.2: Lectures and discussions on tape, 1962-1998
Subseries 15.3: Oversize recordings, 1953-1975
Subseries 15.4: Film strips and audio cassettes, 1971-1976
Series 16: Video recordings, 1954-1998
Series 17: Digital records, circa 1989-1997
Custodial History
Accruals
Separated Materials
Processing Information
- Ball State University -- Faculty Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Digital file formats Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Manuscripts Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Periodicals Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Photographs Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Poetry Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Scrapbooks Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sound recordings Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Steinbeck Collection Subject Source: Local sources
- Video recordings Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Hayashi Steinbeck collection
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
Alexander M. Bracken Library
2000 W. University Avenue
Muncie Indiana 47306 USA
765-285-5078
libarchives@bsu.edu