James Marshall Osborn correspondence 1928-1977

Hemlow, Joyce

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Boys, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1912-1975

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Professor of English at the University of Michigan. From the description of Richard C. Boys papers, 1942-1964. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419372 Professor of English, University of Michigan. From the description of Correspondence, 1949-1954. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34491683 Richard C. Boys was born Nov. 12, 1912, in Kalamazoo, Mich. He attended the University College of Southwest England (Exeter), 1...

Bentley, Harold W.

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Gardner, Helen Louise, Dame

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Parks, Stephen Alan

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Stephen Parks was the Curator of the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library from 1972-2004. Parks wrote John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of his Publications (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1976). John Dunton (1659-1732) was a London bookseller during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Notable writings by Dunton included the Athenian Gazette (16...

McManaway, James Gilmer, 1899-1980

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James G. McManaway was a Shakespeare scholar, acting director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington (1946-8), and editor of the journal Shakespeare Quarterly....

Wellek, René, 1903-1995

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René Wellek was an influential literary critic and theorist known for his pioneering work in the field of comparative literature. He taught at numerous institutions throughout his career, including Yale and the University of Iowa. Best known for his works Theory of Literature and A History of Modern Criticism, he was an advocate of the "intrinsic" literary critical method, which rejects the political and social influences on works of literature and stresses the content of the work itself. Wel...

Balderston, Katharine Canby, 1895-

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Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975

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Epithet: husband of Hilda Doolittle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0000fc ...

Greg, W.W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959

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Walter Wilson Greg, bibliographer and literary scholar, was born in Wimbledon Common, England, on July 9, 1875. He was the only child of the idustrialist and author William Rathbone Greg and Julia Wilson Greg, daughter of James Wilson, the founder of The Economist . Greg's family hoped that he would assume the editorship of the newspaper someday, and he was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he received a "pass" degree in 1897. During...

Clifford, James L. (James Lowry), 1901-1978

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED James Lowry Clifford, 1901-1979, was a professor of English at Columbia University. He wrote two biographies of Samuel Johnson as well as works on the writing of biography. From the guide to the James L. Clifford papers, 1774-1978, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) James Lowry Clifford, 1901-1979, was a professor of English at Columbia University. He wrote two biographies of Samuel Johnson as well as works on the writing of biography. ...

Klima, Slava

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Wimsatt, William K. (William Kurtz), 1907-1975

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William Kurtz Wimsatt: member of the Yale University English department, 1939-1975; Sterling Professor of English, 1974-1975; author of numerous books and articles; active in Catholic affairs and recipient of many awards and honorary degrees. From the description of William Kurtz Wimsatt papers, 1935-1975 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702168270 William K. Wimsatt was born in Washington, D.C., and educated at Georgetown and at Yale, where he receive...

Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963

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Epithet: of Yale University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x00011e A full biographical statement is provided in the register for the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Papers (GEN MSS 354) . From the guide to the Chauncey Brewster Tinker letters and manuscripts, 1900-1963, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Chauncey Brewster Tinker, teacher, scholar and collector. Tinker was a membe...

Croft, P. J. (Peter John)

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Sherburn, George, 1884-1962

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Sherburn (1884-1962) taught English at Harvard and was known primarily for his scholarship on Alexander Pope. From the description of George Wiley Sherburn collection of English ballads, songs and poems, ca. 1700-1850. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390347 From the description of George Wiley Sherburn collection of letters and documents, 1655-1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390026 From the guide to the George Wiley Sherburn collection ...

Metzdorf, Robert F. (Robert Frederic), 1912-

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Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812

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Edmond Malone, Irish literary scholar and biographer. From the description of Edmond Malone manuscript material : 5 items, 1789-1801 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 727069871 From the guide to the Edmond Malone manuscript material : 5 items, 1789-1801, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Irish-born English scholar, editor, and pioneer in efforts to establish an authentic text and chronology of Shake...

Bateson, F. W(Frederick Wilse), 1901-

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Copeland, Thomas Wellsted, 1907-....

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Thomas W. Copeland (l.), 1940 An eminent scholar of the political philosopher Edmund Burke, Thomas W. Copeland was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, on July 10, 1907, the youngest of two sons of the attorney Mark Anson Copeland and Louise Wellsted. Distinguishing himself during his undergraduate years at Yale (AB 1928), Copeland spent a year sidelined in study at Harvard Law School before returning to Yale to pursue a doctorate in English literature. It was during his third...

Gardner, Helen Louise, Dame

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Manwaring, Elizabeth Wheeler, 1879-....

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Manwaring was a professor in the English department at Wellesley. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1944. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863906 ...

De Beer, Esmond Samuel, 1895-1990

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Powell, Lawrence Fitzroy, 1881-1975

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Parks, Stephen

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John Dunton (1659-1732) was a London bookseller during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He was the son of Rev. John Dunton (1628-1676). After an apprenticeship from 1674 to 1681, Dunton went into business, primarily dealing in devotional works, sermons, political works, and chapbooks, as well as periodicals. The Athenian Gazette (1691-1697) was Dunton's most successful publication, and it influenced many eighteenth century periodicals. Another notable work was hi...

Sutherland, James Runcieman, 1900-1996

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Chapman, R.W. (Robert William), 1881-1960

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Robert William Chapman (1881-1960) graduated from the University of Oxford, and was employed by the university's Clarendon Press from 1906 to 1942. He edited numerous scholarly editions of Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. The culmination of his career was The Letters of Samuel Johnson, which he began researching in the mid-1920s, and completed in 1952. This remained the definitive edition of Johnson's correspondence until Bruce Redford's The Letters of Samuel Johnson in 1992. From the...

Dobell, Percy J. (Percy John)

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Percy John Dobell was a member of P. J. & A. E. Dobell, Dealers in Books, Manuscripts & Autograph Letters (London). From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1917. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155883097 ...

Lewis, W.S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895-1979

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Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis was born in Alameda, California, on November 14, 1895. He graduated from Yale College in 1918. While at Yale, Lewis was editor of the Lit, and contributed to the Courant and the Record. He served in the army during World War I and in the OSS during World War II. He was a member of many societies and a contributor to multiple magazines, including Atlantic Monthly. He was also an expert and collector of the writings of Horace Walpole, the 18th century English writer. He was ...

Boys, Richard Charles.

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Greene, Richard Leighton

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Mack, Maynard, 1909-2001

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Maynard Mack received his B.A. and Ph. D. from Yale and joined the English Department there in 1936, rising to become Sterling Professor of English in 1965. A scholar of Shakespeare, Pope, and twentieth-century literary criticism, Mack has authored a number of works, including King Lear in Our Time (1965) and Alexander Pope: A Life (1986). From the description of Maynard Mack papers, 1928-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84294462 Maynard Mack received his B.A. in 1932 an...

Osborn, James Marshall

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James Marshall Osborn (1906-1976), literary historian and author of several works, including Young Philip Sidney (1972), as well as the founder of the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection of rare books and manuscripts. From the description of Whirlwind Hill Farm papers, 1940-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702144748 From the description of James Marshall Osborn correspondence, 1928-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702144904 The Jam...

Chapple, J. A. V.

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Yale university. Library

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Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts in 1765. Even as a child he showed an aptitude for mechanical work, repairing violins and taking on other mechanical work as it presented itself. Whitney set up shop making nails and when the demand for nails declined, he changed his business to manufacture hat pins, a commodity with increasing demand. Whitney eventually enrolled at Yale College in May 1789, and graduated three years later. He intended to further his education and become a lawye...

Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994

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American scholar and writer; professor of English at Louisiana State University and Yale University. From the description of Cleanth Brooks letter, 1984 Dec. 21. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 243464696 Louisiana State University English professor, and co-founder of Southern Review, a literary journal. From the description of Cleanth Brooks oral history interview, 1992. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244443354 Cleant...

Crane, Ronald Salmon, 1896-

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Vieth, David M.

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Davin, Dan, 1913-1990.

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D.M. Davin : The Clarendon Press, Oxford. From the description of [Letters] 1951 June 11 - November 7, Oxford [to] R.M. Dawkins / D.M. Davin. - 1951. (University of Oxford). WorldCat record id: 44831859 ...

Waith, Eugene M.

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Hemlow, Joyce.

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Yale University.

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Bowers, Fredson

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Author, editor, University of Virginia Professor of English. From the description of Papers of Fredson Thayer Bowers, 1595-1992 (bulk 1922-1992). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55225082 ...

Halsband, Robert, 1914-1989

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Robert Halsband (1914-1989), scholar, author, authority on 18th century literary studies. Halsband was adjunct professor of English at Columbia University, 1963-1967 (Columbia University A.M., 1936). Professor Halsband died in 1989. From the description of Robert Halsband papers, 1708-1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 458423819 ...

Bentley, Harold W.

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Eccles, Mary Hyde

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Mary Hyde Eccles was one of the world's leading collectors of books and manuscripts from the 1940s until her death in 2003. She was also a distinguished literary scholar, and an important benefactor to numerous libraries and cultural institutions. This collection relates to her essay "Not in Chapman," a catalog of unpublished Samuel Johnson letters. As this project neared completion in 1964, a new cache of letters from Samuel Johnson to Charlotte Lennox was discovered in the vault of the British...

Hilles, Frederick Whiley 1900-

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