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Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0005
Abstract
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (October 23, 1831 – January 9, 1924), was a "classicist and Confederate apologist" (David Lupher and Elizabeth Vandiver, "Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition," 320), and one of the first faculty members hired at the founding of Johns Hopkins University in 1876. This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, biographic data, diaries, notes, notebooks, drafts, published and unpublished...
Dates:
1820-1953; Majority of material found in 1847-1924
Found in:
Special Collections
Department of Classics records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-04-040
Scope and Contents
The records of the Department of Classics span the years 1878 to 1892 and 1930 to 1995. The earliest segment comprises the minutes of the Greek Seminary, bound in two volumes. The later records include correspondence of Dr. John H. Young, a member of the department from 1948 until his death in 1977; and correspondence of the editors of the American Journal of Philology. Also present are newsletters for alumni of the Departments of Greek, Latin and Indology, and two folders which concern...
Dates:
1878-1892; 2015 - Ongoing
Found in:
Special Collections
Hermann Collitz papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0014
Abstract
Hermann Collitz he accepted the newly established chair in Germanic Philology at Johns Hopkins University in 1907. The papers span the period 1846-1935 and consist of correspondence; photographs; newspaper clippings; course outlines and examinations; committee minutes and reports; reprints, dissertations and public lectures of other authors collected by Collitz; drafts, typescripts and reprints of articles by Collitz; notes and notebooks; research notes; lectures and articles. A considerable...
Dates:
1846-1935
Found in:
Special Collections