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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:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Stanford University. Libraries & Academic Information Resources
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
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. Dept. of
English--Faculty.
Tatlock, John S. P.
English philology --Study and teaching.
World War, 1939-1945--California--Stanford.