Alexander McElwain papers on George Sandys, 1925-1956.

Harvard college library

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The Harvard College Library used ledgers to record the loans of books from the library's collection during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The presence of what appear to be call-slips from 1823 to 1826 and the lack of ledgers for this period is unaccounted for in the literature cited in the bibliography. Late in the nineteenth century, librarians recognized that the ledger system could not provide the flexibility needed to control large collections. At the Harvard College L...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...

Houghton Library

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In 1938 Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard College and Director of the Harvard University Library (1937-1955), proposed a separate library building for rare books and manuscripts. Through the generosity of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Harvard Class of 1929, Harvard became the first American university to construct a separate research facility for the housing and study of rare books and manuscripts. The Houghton Library, dedicated and opened in 1942, won major architectural awards and became a mo...

Folger Shakespeare Library

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The Folger Shakespeare Library is a world-renowned center for scholarship, learning, culture, and the arts that houses the world’s largest Shakespeare collection. The Folger collections include rare printed books, manuscripts, works of art, audiovisual materials, and modern scholarship. These materials extend beyond Shakespeare to include a wide range of disciplines – history and politics, theology and exploration, law and the arts – from the early modern period (1500–1750). An internationall...

Leech, D. A.

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McElwain, Alexander, 1898-

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British Museum.

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Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts. The British Library, established in 1973, is now responsible for manuscript collections previously held by the library of the British Museum. From the guide to the Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts, 20th century, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) ...

Chalmers Estate.

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E. Thompson

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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...

McElwain, Alexander, 1897-

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Alexander McElwain (born 1897) received a Harvard AB with the Class of 1921 and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. McElwain as a scholar and was especially interested in George Sandys (1578-1644), who was an English traveller, American colonist, and poet. From the guide to the Alexander McElwain papers on George Sandys, 1925-1956., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Sandys, Edward Seton.

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Edward Seton Sandys

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F. Harrison

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McElwain, Alexander

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Simpson, Gordon L.

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Charlesworth, M. P., (Martin Percival), 1895-1950

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George Sandys.

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G. O. Sandys

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Munn, James Buell.

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James Buell Munn (September 24, 1890 - February 13, 1967) came to Washington Square College in February, 1920, as an English instructor. When he resigned in February, 1932, to accept a position in the Harvard University English Department, he was Dean of the College. During this period Munn served as director of the Washington Square College Section of the Extramural Division (1922-23) and director of the Evening Division (1923-24). He became Assistant Dean of the College in 1925 and Dean in 192...

Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd.

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Davis, Richard Beale

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Wallace, Willard Mosher, 1911-

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Harvard University. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

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The Graduate Department was created in 1872 and became the Graduate School of Harvard University in 1890. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was established in 1905. From the description of Student records : admission books, 1886-1944 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76974844 Office of the dean held by Reginald H. Phelps. From the description of Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1958-1962. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat ...

Gleason, Bennis?

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Schmutzler, Karl.

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Sandys, G. O.

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Argonaut Press

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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Accountant's Office.

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Colonial National Historical Park (Va.).

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Cambridge University., Library

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Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), antiquary and bibliophile, was born at Manchester on 2 July 1792, and attended Rugby and University College, Oxford. Over the course of his life Phillipps developed an extensive collection of books and manuscripts, including old Welsh poetry and oriental manuscripts. Around 1822 he established a private printing press, and thereafter printed cartularies, genealogies, visitations, extracts from registers, and catalogues of manuscripts held in libraries. He was cr...

York Minster. Library

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Sparks, Walter J.

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Dewberry, E. H.

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