Papers of Julius P. Barclay [manuscript], 1957-1976.

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Papers of Julius P. Barclay [manuscript], 1957-1976.

The "Personal File" of Julius P. Barclay as a rare book librarian and chief of the Department of Special Collections at Stanford University comprises the bulk of the collection. There are also a few letters concerning his hiring as curator of the Rare Books Department at the University of Virginia Library. Most of the correspondence is with fellow librarians and curators, book dealers or collectors, including Franklin Gilliam, Kenneth A. Lohf, Bill Matheson, Ward Ritchie, Ellen Shaffer, Madeleine Stern, and Marjorie Wynne. A few letters are concerned with his membership in various organizations. Several of the letters have annotations by Barclay identifiying the correspondents. The collection also contains one folder of research on David Laing.

150 (ca.) items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7926506

University of Virginia. Library

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Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections.

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University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.

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Wynne, Marjorie G.

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Barclay, Julius Preston, 1924-

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Mr. Barclay was a member of the University faculty from1973 to 1989. From the description of Papers of Julius P. Barclay [manuscript], 1957-1976. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647925142 ...

Shaffer, Ellen, 1904-1994

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Ellen Kate Shaffer was born on April 24, 1904 in the small mining town of Leadville, Colorado. Upon completing high school, she moved with her family to California. After attending library school and graduating from the University of California at Los Angeles, she worked as an antiquarian bookseller and buyer at Dawson's Book Shop for a period of twenty-five years, with two breaks. In 1944 to 1945, she joined the Women's Air Corps and served in Dutch New Guinea and the Philippines. Then in 1951,...

Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996

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Biography Ward Ritchie was born in 1905 in Los Angeles, and grew up in a series of residences in the Los Angeles and Pasadena areas. His father was in the pharmaceutical trade. He attended Marengo Avenue School and Occidental College, transferring to Stanford, University of the South, and back to Occidental again. After a brief try at law school at USC he decided to make a career the book arts, influenced by a reading of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

Gilliam, Franklin D.

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Bookseller; interviewee b. 1925. From the description of Reminiscences of Franklin D. Gilliam : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527727 ...

Matheson, William, 1927-....

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Lohf, Kenneth A

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Librarian. From the description of Reminiscences of Kenneth A. Lohf : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86100392 ...

University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Stern, Madeleine B., 1912-2007

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American children's author, born in New York City in 1912. Having written articles, stories, poems, and biographies, she loves literary and biographical detective work and exploring untraveled fields of the American past. From the description of Papers, 1932-1972, (bulk: 1942-1968). (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 26838133 Madeleine Bettina Stern was born July 1, 1912, in New York, NY. She became a high school English teacher, an au...