Papers of John Livingston Lowes, 1882-1945 (inclusive)

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Papers of John Livingston Lowes, 1882-1945 (inclusive)

Contains correspondence from the Harvard Service Bureau and others; unpublished manuscripts; manuscript translation of Beowulf; annotated copies of Macbeth and Virgil's Anaeid; comparative literature lecture notes; notebooks containing annotations of Paradise Lost; notes on Tennyson and other literary subjects; and scrapbook of clippings.

4 cubic feet (9 document boxes, 6 volumes, 1 accordion folder, 6 pamphlet binders)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8182174

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University. Department of English (1876-)

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The Harvard English Department was created on June 20, 1876. On this day Francis James Child was officially appointed "Professor of English" – a title that had previously not existed in the University......

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Lowes, John Livingston, 1867-1945

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Lowes was an American scholar of English literature, especially the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. At the time of these letters he was professor at Harvard University. Grace Hazard Conkling was a professor of English at Smith College (1914-1947) and the author of many books of poetry. From the description of [Letters to Mrs. Conkling, 1920-1922] / John L. Lowes. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 259487545 Lowes received a doctorate from Harvard in 1903 and taught Engl...

Harvard Service Bureau.

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