Scholarly press. Correspondence (1928–1956) between directors of the press and University of Oklahoma officials and department heads, and with authors and prospective authors, regarding the daily operation of the press, its publishing procedures and standards, and books published. Correspondents include William Bennett Bizzell, Joseph A. Brandt, Bernard Devoto, J. Frank Dobie, and Archibald MacLeish. Also included in this collection are readers’ reports (1930–1956) submitted to the press, critiquing authors’ works; book manuscripts (1934–1956) rejected by the press, and book manuscripts (n.d.) accepted, filed by author; and minutes and proceedings (1944–1961) of various working committees of the American Association of University Presses, and of the University of Oklahoma, including the Semi-Centennial Committee (1956–1957); the DeGolyer Committee (1949–1955), charged with forming what is now the University of Oklahoma’s History of Science Collection; the Distinguished Service Citation Committee (1947–1955); the Committee on University and Town (1944–1945); and the Division of Manuscripts, Archives, and Rockefeller Foundation Committee (1946–1948), charged with establishing what is now the manuscript division of the Western History Collections.