Papers, 1930-1948.

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Papers, 1930-1948.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615211

Contains four series, each gathering together materials related to book manuscripts written by McHenry. The first series (3 boxes) concerns McHenry's Ph.D. dissertation, The Ulster Theatre in Ireland, including correspondence with Irish playwrights Dorothea Donn-Byrne, Lynn Doyle, Charles E. Kerr, Rutherford Mayne, and George Shiels, and with Cornelius Weygandt, McHenry's dissertation adviser; galley proofs; partial earlier drafts; and source materials, including scripts and typed transcriptions of newspaper reviews, articles, and advertisments.

7 boxes.

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Silas Weir Mitchell was a Philadelphia physician and author. After graduating from medical school, he studied in Europe, joined his father's practice, and ran Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia during the Civil War, becoming the preeminent American neurologist of his generation. In addition to numerous medical papers and texts, he published popular novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Born on 15 Feb. 1829, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a son of physician John Kear...

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Kaufmann, James A.,

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Smith, Robert Green,

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Weygandt, Cornelius, 1871-1957

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Cornelius Weygandt, born December 13, 1871 in Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.), graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1891. He worked as a reporter for the Philadelphia Record, 1892-1893, and for the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, 1893-1897. In 1897 he joined the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania as Instructor. In 1901 Weygandt received his Ph.D. writing his dissertation on the "Tendencies of Contemporary Poetry," and in 1931 Weygandt recieved an Litt.D. His caree...

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Donn-Byrne, Dorothea

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Laithwaite, Sylvia,

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Bradley, William N. (William Nathaniel), 1871-1962

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Pediatrician; writer; Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of William N. Bradley papers, [ca. 1936-1945]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552467 ...

Kerr, Charles, Esq.

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Mayne, Rutherford, 1878-1967

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Samuel John Waddell (1878-1967), playwright, was born in Tokyo, Japan and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institute in Ireland. He studied engineering at the Royal University and worked for the Irish Land Commission. In 1904, Waddell began acting and contributing plays to the Ulster Literary Theatre. Using the pseudonym, Rutherford Mayne, he wrote plays in English and Gaelic that were published mainly in Ireland. From the guide to the The Great Invasion of Britain., 1894, (U...

Doyle, Lynn, 1873-1961

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McHenry, Margaret.

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After receiving her doctorate in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1931, Margaret McHenry taught English at Roxborough High School in Philadelphia. From the description of Papers, 1930-1948. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63615211 Margaret McHenry received her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1931 and went to teach at Roxborough High School, Philadelphia. From the description of Notebooks, 1929-...