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Raymond Dexter Havens papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0024
Abstract
Raymond Dexter Havens, educator and author, was born in Rochester, New York in 1880. In 1925, he joined The Johns Hopkins University faculty as Caroline Donovan Professor of English, a post he held until his retirement in 1949. In 1931, Havens was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.The collections consists of correspondence; reprints, articles, and clippings; outlines, course note, study guides, and bibliographies; an autograph album contains holographic messages...
Dates:
1769-1954
Found in:
Special Collections
Richard Threlkeld Cox papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0132
Abstract
The collection consists of a few items of correspondence, clippings, pamphlest, and a partially typed manuscript of "The Algebra of Probably Inference."
Dates:
1958-1972
Found in:
Special Collections
Robert H. Roy papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0354
Scope and Contents
The collection of Johns Hopkins University professor and engineer, Robert H. Roy, is formed largely by his published articles on engineering science and technology. The written work, 1938-1981, reflects Professor Roy's career and demonstrates the way in which he applied his engineering background to both industry and to teaching and administration. The papers do not include lecture notes, research notes, personal items, or administrative items from his sevice as Dean, School of...
Dates:
1938-1991
Found in:
Special Collections
Sesquicentennial of Baltimore collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0139
Abstract
The collection consists of letters from out-of-town guests as well as Baltimoreans regarding attendance at the sesquicentennial celebration.
Dates:
1880
Found in:
Special Collections
Sidney Lanier papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0007
Abstract
Sidney Clopton Lanier (1842-1881) was a Confederate soldier, musician, poet and author who lectured in English Literature at Johns Hopkins University and played flute in the Peabody Orchestra. The collection consists of correspondence, prose, poetry, lecture and music manuscripts, photographs, memorial information, newspaper clippings, and other materials.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1857-1950; 1850s-2009
Found in:
Special Collections
Sir William Brown correspondence to Abbott Lawrence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0717
Abstract
Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet DL (1784–1864) was a British merchant and banker, founder of the banking-house of Brown, Shipley & Co. and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons. He sailed with his father and mother for the United States of America, and at Baltimore, Maryland, where his father continued the linen trade in which he had been engaged in Ireland, received in the counting-house his commercial education. He was known for his philalanthropy, particularly in...
Dates:
1845-1846
Found in:
Special Collections
The John Barth collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0499
Abstract
The collection includes the papers of John Barth (born 1930), American novelist and short-story writer, who is best-known for his contributions to postmodern literature. The collection spans the years 1930 to 2014 and consists of manuscripts, typescripts, and galley proofs of Barth’s writings; correspondence; reviews; and other professional papers.
Dates:
1930 - 2014
Found in:
Special Collections
Thomas family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0763
Abstract
Included is a large group of letters and ephemera from the Thomas family, a family with deep Maryland roots known for its ancestors, politicians John Hanson and John Hanson Thomas. John Hanson (1715-1783) was the first elected President of the United States in Congress Assembled, the first to serve a one-year term under the provisions of the Articles of Confederation. Dr. John Hanson Thomas (1813-1881) was a renowned Maryland legislator arrested during the Civil War for voting for Secession,...
Dates:
1835 - 1976
Found in:
Special Collections
William H. McClain papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0619
Abstract
William H. McClain was born in Cleveland, OH in 1917 and died in 1994. McClain joined the Department of German at Johns Hopkins University in 1953 and retired in 1982, serving as Professor Emeritus until the end of his life. He served as chairman of the Department of German from 1972 to 1979, president of the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and also chaired during its final years the Humanities Group (1968-70), the last instrument of interdepartmental self-government among the Hopkins...
Dates:
1950s-1994; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1994
Found in:
Special Collections
William S. Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0668
Abstract
William S. Wilson (1932-), born in Baltimore, 1932, was graduated with Honors in Philosophy of Science from the University of Virginia, then went on to Yale University where he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts art-writer’s grant and Warhol Foundation Grant, 2012, for a book about the life and art of Ray Johnson. Wilson's mother was May Wilson (1905-1986), pioneer of the feminist and mail art movement, best known for her...
Dates:
1963 - 2009
Found in:
Special Collections