W.B. Carnochan papers, 1928-2009 (inclusive), 1960-2009 (bulk).

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W.B. Carnochan papers, 1928-2009 (inclusive), 1960-2009 (bulk).

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These papers primarily document Carnochan's professional career as researcher and writer. Included are source materials, drafts, and published versions of his scholarly articles and books, with related correspondence; published book reviews, 1960s-90s; texts of papers and talks with related correspondence and ephemera, 1977-97; and materials pertaining to his support of the Stanford University Libraries and his directorship of the Stanford Humanities Center, including a VHS tape of his retirement roast. Correspondents include Richard Ohmann, Catharine Stimpson, Linda Hutcheon, Charles Pierce, Peter Brooks, David M. Vieth, Emerson Brown, Jr., W. J. Bate, Patricia Spacks, Newell Ford, and William Frost. Other papers include his grade reports and papers from Buckley School, St. Paul's School, and Harvard University; listing and appraisal of the Carnochan family papers; and the "American Vernacular" exhibit brochure for the Carnochan Collections at UC Berkeley's University Art Museum. The addition to his papers received in 2006 includes correspondence with Douglas Dennis, an inmate at Angola Prison, 1996-2006; copies of The Angolite, The Prison News Magazine, 1994-2005; and Brigitte Carnochan's portfolio of photographs taken at the Angola Prison Rodeo in 2001. The addition to his papers received in 2009 includes correspondence with Douglas Dennis, 2006-2009, and issues of The Angolite, 2006-09.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Brown, Emerson, 1934-2002

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Bate, Walter Jackson, 1918-1999

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Pierce, Charles E., superintendent

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Ohmann, Richard M. (Richard Malin), 1931-

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Dennis, Douglas.

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

Vieth, David M.

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Stimpson, Catharine R., 1936-

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Spacks, Patricia Meyer

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Carnochan, Brigitte Hoy

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Hutcheon, Linda, 1947-....

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Carnochan, W. B.

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Educated at Harvard University (A.B. 1953, A.M. 1957, and Ph.D. 1960), W. B. Carnochan joined the English faculty at Stanford University in 1960. He chaired the English department from 1971-73 and has served the University as dean of graduate studies and vice-provost, 1975-80, and director of the Stanford Humanities Center, 1985-1991. A scholar of the eighteenth century, his published books include GIBBON'S SOLITUDE: THE INWARD WORLD OF THE HISTORIAN (1987), CONFINEMENT AND FLIGHT: AN ESSAY ON E...

Frost, William, 1917-....

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Brooks, Peter, 1938-....

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Stanford Humanities Center

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A gift to endowment from Marta Sutton Weeks in 1987 provides funds to bring visiting distinguished lecturers to Stanford University for stays varying in duration from one week up to one quarter. From the description of Stanford Humanities Center, Marta Sutton Weeks Distinguished Visitor, videorecordings, 2003-2005. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864161 The Stanford Humanities Center, founded in 1980 by then-President Donald Kennedy, is dedicated to the advanced study of h...