Papers of Walter Alexander Montgomery [manuscript] 1940-1950.

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Papers of Walter Alexander Montgomery [manuscript] 1940-1950.

Includes essays and lectures by this U. Va. professor on such topics as Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Dante, Lucretius, as well as on Henry Brooks Adams; memoirs of his youth in Warrenton, N.C.; and his description of the effects of World War II, at the end of 1942.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

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Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, was educated at Harvard and served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, when he was Minister to England. He rejected a political career to teach history at Harvard and edit The North American review, 1870-1877, then returned to Washington. He wrote prolifically on many subjects and is best known for his Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) and The education of Henry Adams (1907). From the description of Henry Adam...

Montgomery, Walter Alexander, d. 1949.

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Lawyer, Confederate soldier, and N.C. Supreme Court justice, of Warrenton and Raleigh, N.C. From the description of Walter A. Montgomery papers, 1861-1921 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24007766 University of Virginia professor. From the description of A southern village of the 70's and 80's [manuscript], 1957. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647987150 From the description of A southern village of the 70's and 80's, 1957. (University of ...

Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924

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Classical scholar, born in Charleston, S.C. Professor at University of Virginia, 1856-76; first professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins (1876-1915). Served in Confederate Army during Civil War; wounded in Shenandoah campaign. Founder and editor (1880-1920) of American Journal of Philology. Author of "The Historical Syntax of Classical Greek" (1900-11); "Hellasand Hesperia" (1908); "The Creed of the Old South" (1915). From the description of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers, 1847-1925. (...