Letters sent to Hyder Edward Rollins , 1927-1946(inclusive), 1944-1946 (bulk).

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Letters sent to Hyder Edward Rollins , 1927-1946(inclusive), 1944-1946 (bulk).

Letters sent to Harvard professor of English, Hyder Edward Rollins, from hisformer students and colleagues. Especially includes letters sent during, and shortlyafter, World War II.

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Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) was born in Abilene, Texas. In 1910 he received a B.A. from Southwestern University, an M.A. from the University of Texas in 1912, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1917. In 1919 he went to Europe on a Harvard Sheldon Traveling Fellowship and in 1920 he was appointed assistant professor at New York University, becoming a full professor four years later. In 1926 he returned to Harvard, later succeeding George Lyman Kittredge as the Gurney Professor of English...

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Bouslog, Charles Scott.

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Baker, Herschel Clay, 1914-

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Simpson, C. M., Mrs.

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Wharey, James Blanton, 1872-1946

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Gordon, Harry W.

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Weld, John, 1914-

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Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961

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Robert Hillyer was born in East Orange and he taught English and rhetoric at Harvard for several decades. In 1934 he won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "The Collected Verse of Robert Hillyer." From the description of Correspondence-Manuscripts, 1937-1943. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 727944299 Hillyer graduated from Harvard in 1917 and taught English at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Robert Silliman Hillyer, 1940-1945 (inclusi...

Dotie?, J. Frank, Mrs.

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Norman, Charles, 1904-....

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Lowes, John Livingston, 1867-1945

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Lowes was an American scholar of English literature, especially the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. At the time of these letters he was professor at Harvard University. Grace Hazard Conkling was a professor of English at Smith College (1914-1947) and the author of many books of poetry. From the description of [Letters to Mrs. Conkling, 1920-1922] / John L. Lowes. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 259487545 Lowes received a doctorate from Harvard in 1903 and taught Engl...

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Smith, Courtney

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Keyes Metcalf

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Jackson, William A. (William Alexander), 1905-1964

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Jackson was a bibliographer and librarian. He was the first librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard University.. From the description of William A. Jackson diplomas and certificates, 1927-1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 663976597 Jackson was a bibliographer and librarian. He was the first librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard. From the description of William A. Jackson letters to Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, 1945. (Harvard University). WorldC...

Boyce, Benjamin, 1903-1997.

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Benjamin Boyce was an English professor at Duke University. From the description of Papers, 1712-1983. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 227815677 ...

Swan, Marshall Wilbur Stephen, ....-....

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Day, Cyrus Lawrence, 1900-1968

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Eaves, T. C. Duncan (Thomas Cary Duncan), 1918-

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Eloise Worcester.

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Bramlette, William Howard.

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Kittredge, Frances

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Schwab, Arnold T.

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Cranfill, Thomas Mabry

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Hill, Jim Dan, 1897-

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Sandison, Helen Estabrook, 1884-....

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White, Newman Ivey, 1892-1948

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The songs in v. 1-2 were collected at Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Those in v. 3 are partly a supplement and partly a further collection made at Trinity College, Durham, NC. From the description of Negro songs and folk-lore : with some songs, etc., of the southern whites / collected by Newman Ivey White : manuscript, 1916, 1920. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612807388 Newman Ivey White was an educator and Percy Bysshe Shelley scholar. He served as Professor of ...

Myrick, Kenneth, b. 1897

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Mabel?, George.

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Lamson, Roy, 1908-

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Templeman, William D.

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L?, Robert A?

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Edel, Marie.

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