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Call Number: SC0044
Creator:
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1954.
Title: Arthur Garfield Kennedy papers
Dates: 1903-1954
Physical Description:
13.5 Linear feet
Summary: Personal and professional correspondence, notes, reviews, notebooks, bibliography of writings on the English language, and
other papers. Material relates to specific works of Dr. Kennedy on English philology and current use of English, Stanford
University during World War II, scholarly groups to which Kennedy belonged, Stanford groups, and official Stanford agencies.
Correspondents include Hardin Craig,, Helge Kökeritz, Lucia B. Mirrieless, Clark S. Northrup, Louise Pound, John S. P. Tatlock
and Philip Sheridan.
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 Kennedy family, 1968.
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.
Arthur Garfield Kennedy Papers (SC0044). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Professor of English Philology at Stanford (1914-1945; emeritus 1945-1954) and Chairman of the English Department (1941-1945).
Arthur Garfield Kennedy was born on June 29, 1880, in Weeping Water, Nebraska. He received his A.B. from Doane College in
1902, and his A.M. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1905. He taught high school English and German until 1912 at
which time he came to Stanford where he received his Ph.D. in English Philology in 1914. He began his career of teaching at
Stanford in 1914 as an instructor, and advanced steadily in the department to the rank of Professor of English Philology in
1929. From 1941 until his retirement in 1945 he was executive head of the department. He died on April 21, 1954.
Dr. Kennedy's several books include a
Bibliography of Writings on the English Language(1927);
A Concordance to the Complete Works of Chaucer, with J.S.P. Tatlock (1927);
Current English (1935);
English Usage (1940); and
A Concise Bibliography for Students of English (1940)
The contents of this collection consists primarily of Dr. Kennedy's correspondence with academic colleagues, though some personal
letters are included. Of special interest is his wartime correspondence with Philip Sheridan, one of his graduate students,
which contains accounts of Stanford and the English department during the war years. Also included in the collection are materials
dealing with Dr. Kennedy's various published works, copie sof his earliest publications on grammar, some grade books from
his years as a teacher, and copies of
A concise Bibliography for Students of English and
Bibliography of Writings on the English Language.
Personal and professional correspondence, notes, reviews, notebooks, bibliography of writings on the English language, and
other papers. Material relates to specific works of Dr. Kennedy on English philology and current use of English, Stanford
University during World War II, scholarly groups to which Kennedy belonged, Stanford groups, and official Stanford agencies.
Correspondents include Hardin Craig,, Helge Kökeritz, Lucia B. Mirrieless, Clark S. Northrup, Louise Pound, John S. P. Tatlock
and Philip Sheridan.
Craig, Hardin, 1875-1968.
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1954.
Kökeritz, Helge.
Mirrielees, Lucia B.
Northrup, Clark S.
Pound, Louise, 1872-1958.
Sheridan, Philip.
Stanford University. Department of English. Faculty.
Tatlock, John S. P.
English literature--Study and teaching.
World War, 1939-1945--California--Stanford.