Description
Correspondence, personal accounts, memorial essays, newsclippings. Includes articles written by van Patten about Emil Meyer,
book collecting, music manuscripts, the lost bookplate of Arthur Machen and other subjects.
Background
Director of Stanford University Libraries, 1927-1947, professor of bibliography, 1948-1952, professor emeritus, 1952-1956,
and Curator, Memorial Library of Music (Stanford), 1952-1955.
Restrictions
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.
Availability
This collection is open for research.