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Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Delmer Myers Brown papers
Creator:
Brown, Delmer Myers, 1909-2011
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2012/157
Physical Description:
7.5 linear feet
(6 cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1947-2007
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
.
Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gifed to The Bancroft Library by Ren Brown in 2012.
Delmer Myers Brown (1909-2011) was an historian, writer, translator and Japanologist.
He earned his PhD in Japanese history from Stanford University and was a professor of Japanese history at the University of
California, Berkeley from 1946 until 1977.
In the 1930s, Brown took a position teaching English at a Japanese Imperial Higher School in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. It
was there that he met and married Mary Nelson Logan. During World War II, Brown served as an intelligence officer in the U.S.
Navy.
At UC Berkeley, Brown served as chairman of the history department from 1957 to 1961 and 1971 to 1975. He was awarded a Fulbright
Scholarship in Japan from 1959 to 1960. In 1998, Brown started the process of establishing the Japanese Historical Text Initiative
(JHTI), a searchable online database of Japanese historical documents and English translations.
Delmer Myers Brown papers, BANC MSS 2012/157, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Collection includes correspondence (1930s-2011); reprints of articles, drafts of unpublished and published manuscripts, manuscripts
and typescripts of talks and lectures; research notes; some translation work; materials relating to the UC Berkeley Education
Abroad Program in Japan, some materials relating to the Japanese Historical Text Initiative; and Brown's travel journals,
including one from his 1932 trip to Japan.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
University of California, Berkeley. Department of History -- Faculty
Japan -- History
Historians