Scope and Contents
Correspondence, writings, research notes, teaching materials, printed matter, a diary, a scrapbook, and photographs (1922-1952) comprise the papers. The teaching materials and the research notes reflect French's interest in Chaucer. A portion of the correspondence concerns Memorial Quadrangle at Yale, about which he published a book in 1929. There is also a substantial number of letters from students at Jonathan Edwards College, of which he was master from 1930 to 1953. Other correspondents are Robert Bates, John Philip Marchant and Emerson Tuttle.
Dates
- 1857-1983
- Majority of material found within 1921 - 1954
Creator
Conditions Governing Use
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dwight Blakeslee, 1981; gift of Bernard Lytton, 2001.
Extent
2.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Correspondence, writings, research notes, teaching materials, printed matter, a diary, a scrapbook, and photographs (1922-1952) comprise the papers. The teaching materials and the research notes reflect French's interest in Chaucer. A portion of the correspondence concerns Memorial Quadrangle at Yale, about which he published a book in 1929. There is also a substantial number of letters from students at Jonathan Edwards College, of which he was master from 1930 to 1953. Other correspondents are Robert Bates, John Philip Marchant and Emerson Tuttle.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Dudley French (1888-1954): professor of English; A.B., Yale, 1910, A.M., 1914, Ph.D., 1920; instructor in English, Yale, 1914-1919, assistant professor, 1919-1926, associate professor, 1926-1930, professor and master of Jonathan Edwards College, 1930-1953.
- Bates, Robert Chapman, 1901-1942
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Diaries
- Educators
- French, Robert Dudley, 1888-1954
- Jonathan Edwards College (Yale University)
- Marchant, John Philip
- Memorial Quadrangle (Yale University)
- Scrapbooks
- Tuttle, H. E. (Henry Emerson), 1890-1946
- Yale University -- Faculty
- Yale University -- Students
- Yale University. Department of English
- Title
- Guide to the Robert Dudley French Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- compiled by Staff of Manuscripts and Archives
- Date
- January 2002
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
Yale University Library
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven CT 06520-8240 US
(203) 432-1735
(203) 432-7441 (Fax)
beinecke.library@yale.edu
Location
Sterling Memorial Library
Room 147
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511