Register of the Evangeline Harris Olmsted Papers, 1928-75
Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by
Brooke Dykman Dockter
UCSF Library & CKM
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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Biological and Medical Sciences
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Register of the Evangeline Harris Olmsted Papers, 1928-75
Collection number: MSS 78-8
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
Contact Information:
- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- July 1989
- Encoded by:
- Brooke Dykman Dockter
© 1997. The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Evangeline Harris Olmsted Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1928-75
Collection number: MSS 78-8
Creator: Olmsted, Evangeline Harris, 1895-1983
Extent: 2 boxes
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Received 9/78.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Evangeline Harris Olmsted papers, MSS 78-8, Archives &
Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Biography
Evangeline Harris Olmsted was a graduate of Oxford University, in classics. She married
James Montrose Duncan Olmsted, PhD on June 30, 1927. Dr. Olmsted was professor of
physiology at the University of California Berkeley/San Francisco.
She translated classical works, wrote short stories and collaborated with her husband in
numerous historical works, one of which was a major work on Claude Bernard.
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence, manuscripts, memorabilia reprints, typescripts, diaries and
notebooks.
Box Box 1, Folder 1
Correspondence, 1949-1975
Folder 2
Condolence letters on the death of J. M. D. Olmsted, May 1956
Folder 3
Correspondence, P. F. Colliers & Sons (Collier's encyclopedia), 1951-60
Folder 5
Claude Bernard and Experimental Medicine. (Minneapolis, 1965).
Folder 6
Influences historique at actuelle des idées de Claude Bernard en Angleterre et aux États Unis, Paris 1965
Folder 8
Short stories: "Political metamorphosis;" "The four georges;" "Frieze with small figures" or "Secret diplomacy' [second title]
Folder 9
Notes: manuscript and typescript on various subjects
Folder 10
Photographic copy of ms. leaf with notes for translation
Box Box 2
Diaries for 1928, 1945, 1947-49, 1953, 1965
BA hood [stored separately]
