Letter from Jacob Kallich; Correspondence on his Death, November 1959; October - November 1960

INTRODUCTION The Martin I. Kallich Papers were donated to the University Archives in several installments by Martin Kallich and his wife Harriet Kallich.  Literary rights in all materials not under copyright are dedicated to the public.  There are no restrictions on access to the collection. SCOPE AND CONTENT The papers in this collection document the life and career of Martin Kallich from 1921 to 1999.  The collection is organized into three series: Personal Correspondence, Research and Publications, and Classroom and Teaching.  The first folder in the collection contains biographical material on Martin Kallich.  The next three folders contain information relating to his wife, mother and father. Series one, Personal Correspondence, contains correspondence with colleagues as well as family and friends. The materials in the second series, Research and Publications, include Kallich’s thesis (completed in 1945), copies of published letters, book reviews, and articles, as well as typescripts of other research projects.  The NEH Grant Proposal and reports relating to his research for “British Poetry and the American Revolution: A Bibliographic Survey...1755-1800,” which he completed in 1983, are also found here.  In addition, there are a number of short stories written by Kallich in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, six personal notebooks dating from 1935 to 1946, and information relating to his interest in graphic art. The final series, Classroom and Teaching, encompasses over half of the material in the collection, and contains material used by Kallich in the teaching of his various English classes.  Included here are samples of midterm and final exams, lecture notes, items of interest for his classes, and many student papers. Researchers may wish to consult the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Collection (UA 25) for additional information relating to Kallich’s activities in the English Department. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Martin I. Kallich was born January 19, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York to Jacob and Luba (Katz) Kallich.  He received a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree from the City College of New York in 1938, and then entered the graduate school of Johns Hopkins University where he studied English.  In June 1942 he was inducted into the Army and served in an anti-aircraft unit of the Coast Artillery until he received an honorable discharge in September 1943.  Kallich returned to Johns Hopkins to complete his graduate degree and to teach English Composition from October 1943 through December 1944.  He then taught English at Brooklyn College during the spring and summer semesters of 1945 while completing work for a Ph.D. in English at Johns Hopkins.  He began teaching at Wayne University in Detroit, Michigan in the fall of 1945 and remained there for four years. In the fall of 1949, Kallich began teaching at South Dakota State College.  He moved to DeKalb, Illinois in 1958 to help develop the graduate program in English at Northern Illinois University.  In 1971 he began the English department’s summer program at Oxford University.  His specialties were Literary Criticism and 18th Century Literature, and he taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in English at NIU until May 1979 when he took early retirement.  In 1979 Kallich received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities which enabled him to study at the British Library, and which resulted in the publication of the  bibliography “British Poetry and the American Revolution.”  During his career Kallich wrote ten books, and had many articles, essays and book reviews published in a variety of scholarly journals including: Criticism, English Language Notes, English Literary History, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Modern Language Notes, Philogical Quarterly, and Studies in Philogy. Martin Kallich married Harriet Sclar, a 1942 graduate of Hunter College, on July 11, 1943 while on active service in the U.S. Army.  They had two sons, John and Joel.  Following his retirement from NIU, the Kallich’s continued to reside in DeKalb, Illinois where Martin could pursue his interest in English literature and rare books.  Martin Kallich died March 30, 2006.