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Call Number: SC0293
Creator:
Cogswell, Elinor.
Title: Elinor Cogswell papers
Dates: circa 1896-1976
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet and 1 microfilm reel
Summary: Correspondence, manuscripts, articles, photograph album and photographs, diploma, memorabilia, and diaries (1912-1916, 1931)
largely pertaining to her association with Stanford University. Correspondence includes letters from David Lamson, 1933-1937,
partially concerning his prison experiences; letters from Prof. David Harris, 1968-73, concerning his research and experiences
in England, death of his wife Christina, and his return to Palo Alto; and one letter from Kay I. Kitagawa, 1943, concerning
experiences of a Nisei in the Armed Services. Other correspondents include Albert Guérard, Herbert Hoover, E.B. "Sam" MacDonald,
and Edith R. Mirrielees.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Gift of Estate of Elinor Cogswell, 1983.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Elinor Cogswell Papers (SC0293). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Elinor Cogswell received her A.B. in English at Stanford in 1916, her M.A. in 1917; she was a journalist with the PALO ALTO
TIMES and served as editor from 1938 to 1954. She was one of the first women to become a Stanford Associate; she died in 1983
at the age of 90.
Correspondence, manuscripts, articles, photograph album and photographs, diploma, memorabilia, and diaries (1912-1916, 1931)
largely pertaining to her association with Stanford University. Correspondence includes letters from David Lamson, 1933-1937,
partially concerning his prison experiences; letters from Prof. David Harris, 1968-73, concerning his research and experiences
in England, death of his wife Christina, and his return to Palo Alto; and one letter from Kay I. Kitagawa, 1943, concerning
experiences of a Nisei in the Armed Services. Other correspondents include Albert Guérard, Herbert Hoover, E.B. "Sam" MacDonald,
and Edith R. Mirrielees.
Cogswell, Elinor.
Guérard, Albert Léon, 1880-1959.
Harris, David, (David W. Clancy), 1900-1975.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Kitagawa, Kay I.
Lamson, David.
MacDonald, Emanuel B.
Mirrielees, Edith R., (Edith Ronald), 1878-1962.
Stanford University
Albums.
Photoprints.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.
Diaries (1912-1916, 1931) are on microfilm.