Delmer Myers Brown papers, 1947-2007

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Summary

Creators:
Brown, Delmer Myers, 1909-2011
Extent:
7.5 linear feet (6 cartons)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Delmer Myers Brown papers, BANC MSS 2012/157, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes correspondence (1930s-2011); reprints of articles, drafts of unpublished and published manuscripts, manuscripts and typescripts of talks and lectures; research notes; some translation work; materials relating to the UC Berkeley Education Abroad Program in Japan, some materials relating to the Japanese Historical Text Initiative; and Brown's travel journals, including one from his 1932 trip to Japan.

Biographical / historical:

Delmer Myers Brown (1909-2011) was an historian, writer, translator and Japanologist.

He earned his PhD in Japanese history from Stanford University and was a professor of Japanese history at the University of California, Berkeley from 1946 until 1977.

In the 1930s, Brown took a position teaching English at a Japanese Imperial Higher School in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. It was there that he met and married Mary Nelson Logan. During World War II, Brown served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy.

At UC Berkeley, Brown served as chairman of the history department from 1957 to 1961 and 1971 to 1975. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in Japan from 1959 to 1960. In 1998, Brown started the process of establishing the Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI), a searchable online database of Japanese historical documents and English translations.

Acquisition information:
Gifed to The Bancroft Library by Ren Brown in 2012.
Physical location:
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Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

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Preferred citation:

Delmer Myers Brown papers, BANC MSS 2012/157, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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