Learning and scholarship -- United States -- History -- 20th Century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
James Marshall Osborn correspondence
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 7
Abstract:
The correspondence concerns the scholarly and collecting interests of James Marshall Osborn. The collection documents his activities as a rare book and manuscript collector, his research in early modern and eighteenth century English literature, and his authorship of several volumes of literary history. Much of the correspondence is with other literary scholars, including F. W. Bateson, James Lowry Clifford, Wilmarth S. Lewis, Maynard Mack. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, and René Wellek.
Dates:
1928-1977
James Marshall Osborn Research Files
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 333
Abstract:
Lecture and class notes, research files and other papers, card indexes, and microfilms compiled by James Marshall Osborn during the course of his studies at Columbia University and Oxford University, as well as his time teaching and curating at Yale University, 1932-1973. Included are Osborn's paleography files, which consist of 296 examples relating to seventeenth-century English government and law. There are also three 16mm silent film reels, two of which are titled "Tour to the...
Dates:
1620s-1973, bulk 1932-1973