Reminiscences of Marjorie Hope Nicolson : oral history, 1975.

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Reminiscences of Marjorie Hope Nicolson : oral history, 1975.

Childhood and education in Nova Scotia; family experiences during World War I; University of Michigan, 1914; teaching in Saginaw, Michigan, 1914; graduate study at Yale, 1918-1920; teaching at University of Michigan, 1920-22; reflections on teaching at Goucher College, the role of women's colleges; research work in England on Henry Moore, 1925-26; Smith College, 1926-41; Columbia University English Department, 1941-62; impressionsof Nicholas Murray Butler, Mary Ellen Chase, William Allen Nielsen, Arthur Lovejoy, Charles and Anne Lindbergh.

Transcript: 487 leaves.Tape: 15 cassettes.

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