Helen Harding Bretnor papers relating to her translation of Vie et aventures d'un enfant de l'Ardenne, by Jean-Nicolas Perlot, 1953-1970.

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Helen Harding Bretnor papers relating to her translation of Vie et aventures d'un enfant de l'Ardenne, by Jean-Nicolas Perlot, 1953-1970.

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English translation of Jean-Nicolas Perlot's autobiography, Vie et aventures d'un enfant de l'Ardenne, prepared by Helen Harding Bretnor, typescript, with holograph corrections, dated Jul 17, 1954; a few fragments of drafts of the translation, holograph and typescript, undated; and a small amount of notes, holograph and typescript, and correspondence with scholars and members of the Perlot family, 1953-1970 and undated. Correspondence and notes concern translation issues and biographical research.

0.42 linear ft. (1 box)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Bretnor, Helen Harding

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Jean-Nicolas Perlot was born in Belgium in 1823. He emigrated to California during the gold rush, worked as a gold miner in California, 1851-1857, and later settled in Oregon, where he worked as a landscape gardener. Perlot returned to Belgium in 1872 and spent the remainder of his life there. His autobiography, Vie et aventures d'un enfant de l'Ardenne, was published in Belgium in 1897. Helen Harding Bretnor worked as a public services librarian at the Bancroft Library, 1943-1967. Her English t...

Perlot family.

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Perlot, Jean-Nicolas, 1823-1900

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Lamar, Howard Roberts.

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Howard Roberts Lamar, historian of the trans-Mississippi West, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1923. He received a B.A. from Emory University in 1944, and a Masters (1945) and Ph.d. (1951) in History from Yale University. He was an instructor at the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University between 1945 and 1949, and taught at Yale from 1949 to 1994. He held a number of administrative positions at Yale including chair of the Department of History 1962-1963 and 1967-1970, Dean of the C...