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  • Overview
  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical/Historical Sketch
  • Description of the Collection
  • Access Terms

  • Overview

    Call Number: SC0884
    Creator: Hardy, Irene, 1841-1911.
    Title: Irene Hardy papers
    Dates: 1888-1924
    Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet
    Summary: These papers include two letters to David Starr Jordan, 1920-21; manuscript, typescript and published versions of Hardy?s poems, 1901-24; her unpublished autobiography ?A Pioneer Childhood and Afterwards? (531 p.); and one notebook containing ?papers from the classes of Miss Irene Hardy, Oakland, California, 1888.?
    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

    Administrative Information

    Provenance

    Gift of Irene Hardy to the Stanford Library; transferred to University Archives, 1967.

    Information about Access

    This collection is open for research.

    Ownership & Copyright

    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.

    Cite As

    Irene Hardy Papers (SC0884). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Biographical/Historical Sketch

    Irene Hardy earned her AB in 1885 at Antioch College (California) and taught English in Oakland High School. She was on the faculty of the English department at Stanford, 1894-1901. Her published work included ELEMENTARY COMPOSITION EXERCISES (1890) and POEMS (1901). She died in 1922.

    Description of the Collection

    These papers include two letters to David Starr Jordan, 1920-21; manuscript, typescript and published versions of Hardy's poems, 1901-24; her unpublished autobiography "A Pioneer Childhood and Afterwards" (531 p.); and one notebook containing "papers from the classes of Miss Irene Hardy, Oakland, California, 1888."

    Access Terms

    Hardy, Irene, 1841-1911.
    Stanford University. Department of English. Faculty.
    Manuscripts (for publication).
    Poems.