Description: Papers of William Harlin McBurney (1919-67), professor of English (1958-67), containing English Prose Fiction 1700-1800 in the University of Illinois Library (1965) and correspondence related to its preparation, correspondence regarding acquisitions to the Library's collection of eighteenth century English fiction his edition of George Lello's Fatal Curiosity and the article "What George Lello Reads." The series includes typescripts of manuscripts and xeroxed copies of early editions of Fatal Curiosity.