Allison-Shelley manuscript collection.. 1600-1984.

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Allison-Shelley manuscript collection.. 1600-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79412621

Correspondence and other items illustrative of the literary and cultural relations of Germany to England and the United States. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, journals, etc., of interpreters of Anglo-German literature and culture; travel journals from English speakers in the German-speaking countries, and of German speakers in England and America; manuscripts of translations from German; and illustrative matter and realia. Primarily from the 18th through the 20th centuries, although older material is included.

ca. 3500 items.

Pennsylvania State University, Commonwealth

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Pennsylvania State University, Commonwealth

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Shelley, Philip Allison, 1907-....

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Philip Allison Shelley was born in York, Pennsylvania, on 7 August 1907. He earned degrees from Penn State (1929) and Harvard (M.A., comparative literature, 1930; Ph.D., Germanic philology, 1938). With the aid of an Ottendorfer Memorial Fellowship, he studied at the German universities in Berlin and Goettingen in 1933 and 1934. Philip Allison Shelley became a member of the Penn State faculty in 1939 and headed the German Department from 1942 to 1962. He was named professor of comparative literat...