Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Guérard, Albert Léon
- Abstract:
- Albert Léon Guérard (1880-1959) was an author and professor interested in creating an international language. He taught at Stanford for many years.
- Extent:
- 2.5 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item] Albert Léon Guérard Papers, M0016, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Albert Léon Guérard (1880-1959) was an author and professor interested in creating an international language. The collection, a gift of his wife in 1960, contains:
Letters mainly to Guérard from authors, educators, and statesmen with a few carbon copies of his replies. Includes correspondence with his publishers Scribner and T. Fisher Irwin in England, as well as Gertrude Atherton, Bernard Berenson, Van Wyck Brooks, D. W. Brogan, James Branch Cabell, Albert Camus, Ernest Dimnet, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Herbert Hoover, Julian S. Huxley, David Starr Jordan (63 letters), Thomas Mann, André Maurois, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Bertrand Russell, André Siegfried, Mark Van Doren, and H.G. Wells.
Correspondence on "auxiliary languages" including the International Auxiliary Language Association concerning their attempts to decide on and promote an International Language and other history of Esperanto.
Files of selected letters on Public Issues, particularly World War II and world government. Pamphlets concerning international languages (many in French, his native language) including dictionaries, course outlines, and articles on International Languages.
Manuscripts and notes, including literature readings in preparation for the Agregation, French equivalent of the Doctorate degree.
A later accession has a photograph, correspondance, notebooks, unpublished books, and two published books.
- Biographical / historical:
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Albert Léon Guérard (1880-1959) was born in Paris and was educated at the University of Paris, the University of London and the Sorbonne. He came to the United States in 1906 to teach at Williams College. After one year he moved to Stanford as assistant professor of French. In 1913 he left for the Rice Institute at Houston, Texas, where he taught until 1924. In 1925 he went to UCLA and then returned to Stanford as professor of General Literature until his retirement in 1946. Professor Guérard died at his home on the Stanford campus November 13, 1959. Stanford News and Publications issued a release after Guerard's death quoting Guerard as having described himself: "A Frenchman by birth, an American by choice; a teacher of literature by profession, a philosopher and historian by inclination; and a staunch advocate of world government by conviction."
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Mrs. Guérard and Albert Guérard, Jr., 1960.
- Physical location:
- Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged three business days in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: https://library.stanford.edu/libraries/special-collections.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- American literature.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
- Terms of access:
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While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item] Albert Léon Guérard Papers, M0016, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022