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Collection Summary

Collection Title:
Henry F. May Papers, 1940-1999

Collection Number:
BANC MSS 89/61 c

Creator:
May, Henry Farnham, 1915-

Extent:
Number of containers: 4 boxes, 13 cartons, 1 oversize folder
Linear feet: 16.6

Repository:
The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract:
The papers deal principally with May's career as an historian and educator. Correspondence includes chronological files (1946-1983), former students, and other correspondents, colleagues, and friends. Included are working notes and drafts of his books and aricles, and related correspondence and criticism; as well as records of May's teaching, with course outlines and lecture notes. There is material relating to the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Finally, the papers include files kept by May as an active member of the History Department, University of California, Berkeley from 1952 until his retirement in 1980.

Languages Represented:
English

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