Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Neil York, Lawrence Willson correspondence
- Dates:
- 1978-1995
- Creators:
- Willson, Lawrence and York, Neil L.
- Abstract:
- Correspondence between Lawrence Willson, a well-known English professor at UCSB and Neil York.
- Extent:
- 0.02 linear feet (1 folder)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Neil York, Lawrence Willson correspondence, SC 1149. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Correspondence between Lawrence Willson, a well-known English professor at UCSB and Neil York, his former student.
- Biographical / historical:
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Lawrence Willson was born in Lancaster, New Hampshire, on May 6, 1911. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1934 and earned a doctorate in English from Yale University in 1944. He taught at Delaware, Tennessee, Wesleyan, and Berkeley before coming to the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1947, where he was a professor of English, a Henry D. Thoreau scholar, and a longtime active member in the UCSB Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
He retired in 1978 and died in Santa Barbara on January 28, 1996. A Lawrence Willson Memorial Lectureship was established later in 1996 and has been awarded to some of the most distinguished faculty at UCSB.
- Acquisition information:
- Library purchase, 2014.
- Physical location:
- Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Names:
- York, Neil L.
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2019-03-06 12:58:07 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Neil York, Lawrence Willson correspondence, SC 1149. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062