Papers / Francis Barton Gummere. 1874-1918.

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Papers / Francis Barton Gummere. 1874-1918.

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Papers consist of letters to Gummere concerning his career, including invitations to teach at Harvard, University of Chicago, Vassar, University of California and others, as well as invitations to lecture ; publications ; Gummere's degrees and memberships and speech written for the inauguration of A. Lawerence Lowell as president of Harvard in 1909 ; photograph. Correspondents include : Katherine Lee Bates, Christian Brinton, Hamlin Garland, J. Rendell Harris, Walter Hinchman, Richard M. Jones, A. Lawrence Lowell, S. Weir Mitchell, Maxfield Parrish and Isaac Sharpless.

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