Guide to the Stanford University, President's Office, Raymond F. West Memorial Lectures Correspondence
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Stanford, California
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Call Number: SC0812
Creator:
Stanford University. President's
Office.
Title: Stanford University, President's Office, Raymond F. West Memorial Lectures correspondence
Dates: 1909-1922
Physical Description:
0.25 linear foot
Summary: Collection includes correspondence with Frederic West
establishing the series; correspondence with lecturers and suggested lecturers;
correspondence with Stanford offices in regard to arrangements; and invitations to the
lectures. Lecturers for this time period were Charles Edward Jefferson, Samuel McChord
Crothers, Hastings Rashdall, John Dewey, Charles Lewis Slattery, Henry Osborn Taylor,
and Irving Babbitt.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
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Biographical/Historical Sketch
The Raymond Fred West Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1910 by Mr. and Mrs.
Frederic West of Seattle in memory of their son, a student at Stanford University. The
lectures are to promote the subject of "immortality, human conduct, and human
destiny."
Collection includes correspondence with Frederic West establishing the series;
correspondence with lecturers and suggested lecturers; correspondence with Stanford
offices in regard to arrangements; and invitations to the lectures. Lecturers for this
time period were Charles Edward Jefferson, Samuel McChord Crothers, Hastings Rashdall,
John Dewey, Charles Lewis Slattery, Henry Osborn Taylor, and Irving Babbitt.
Babbitt, Irving, 1865-1933.
Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Jefferson, Charles Edward, 1860-1937.
Rashdall, Hastings, 1858-1924.
Slattery, Charles Lewis, 1867-1930.
Stanford University. President's Office.
Taylor, Henry Osborn, 1856-1941.
West, Frederic.
Lectures and lecturing.
Collection Contents
Box 1
Correspondence 1909-1922