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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consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, biographic data, diaries, notes, notebooks, drafts, published and unpublished...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
Francis A. Litz papers
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: MS-0366
Abstract
Francis A. Litz (1892-1989) was an author and professor of English. The collection consists of mostly personal items dating from 1916 to 1966.
Dates:
1916-1966
Found in:
Special Collections
William Hand Browne papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0011
Abstract
Correspondence, publications, writings, photographs, and other personal papers of William Hand Browne, an early Johns Hopkins University librarian and English Professor, a life-long resident of the Baltimore area, and a Confederate sympathizer who helped promote the racism of the "Lost Cause" mythology in the years following the American Civil War.
Dates:
1825-1999; Majority of material found in 1850s-1912
Found in:
Special Collections