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Preliminary Guide to the Augusta G. Stanley Collection
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Title: Augusta G. Stanley Collection
Dates: ca. latter 1940s-1960s
Collection number: Mss 120
Creator:
Stanley, Augusta G.
Collection Size:
1 box.
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Correspondence and manuscripts of writings (with illustrations) by Augusta Stanley, about what she termed 'The Greatest Mystery'
surrounding the
Imitation of Christ, the medieval Lubeck manuscripts, and Father J. van Ginneken of Nijmegen University [Netherlands].
Physical location: Annex 2.
Languages:
English
Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Augusta G. Stanley Collection. Mss 120. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Gift of Jo Beth van Gelderen, apparently daughter of Stanley and wife of Wilbur Jacobs, ca. 1970.
Scope and Content of Collection
Augusta E.G.K. Stanley was a journalist who lived and worked in Europe during World War II. She became intrigued with the
question of the authorship of the
Imitation of Christ, and apparently planned to write about the controversy. The collection contains correspondence and manuscripts of writings
(with illustrations) by Augusta Stanley, about what she termed 'The Greatest Mystery' surrounding the
Imitation of Christ, the medieval Lubeck manuscripts, and Father J. van Ginneken of Nijmegen University [Netherlands]. Three books are mentioned
in her papers,
The Greatest Mystery in Literature,
Censored for Six Centuries, and
The Nijmegen Story, but searches for these titles were unproductive.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Imitatio Christi.
Stanley, Augusta G.
Ginneken, J. van