Herbert Baldwin Foster papers
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of five folders with materials dating from 1897 to 1900. Two of them contain a manuscript of, most likely, Foster's presentation to the Philological Seminar in 1900 on the deus ex machina in Euripides's plays. The other three folders are most likely a draft of his dissertation on the same topic.
Dates
- 1897-1900
Creator
- Foster, Herbert Baldwin, 1874-1906 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is housed off-site and requires 48-hours' notice for retrieval. Please contact Special Collections for more information.
Collection is open for use.
Conditions Governing Use
Single copies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Special Collections department. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Biographical / Historical
Herbert Baldwin Foster was born on November 12, 1874 in Amherst, Massachusetts. He earned his A.B. at Harvard in 1895, and taught for one year at the Brooklyn Latin School in Brooklyn, New York. In 1897 he entered Hopkins to earn his Ph.D. in Greek.
In 1905, he completed the first English translation of Cassius Dio Cocceianus's history of Rome. Foster died in 1906.
Extent
0.24 Cubic Feet (1 legal half-size document box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Herbert Baldwin Foster was born on November 12, 1874 in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1905, he completed the first English translation of Cassius Dio Cocceianus's history of Rome. The collection consists of five folders. Two of them contain a manuscript of, most likely, Foster's presentation to the Philological Seminar in 1900 on the deus ex machina in Euripides's plays.
Custodial History
The papers were left at the Johns Hopkins University by the author, Herbert Baldwin Foster.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Left at the University by the author.
Processing Information
Processed in 2002 by Margaret Burri.
Creator
- Foster, Herbert Baldwin, 1874-1906 (Person)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
The Sheridan Libraries
Special Collections
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