Guide to the Francis R. Johnson Papers

Daniel Hartwig

Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford, California

October 2010

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Overview

Call Number: SC0286

Creator: Johnson, Francis R. (Francis Rarick), 1901-1960.

Title: Francis R. Johnson papers

Dates: 1932-1959

Physical Description: 6 Linear feet

Summary: Correspondence, research notes, some biographical material, articles with notes and material relating to learned societies of which Johnson was a member. Subjects include English and American literature, Medieval science and Renaissance literature.

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 725-1022

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Provenance

Gift of Mrs. Ruth Johnson, 1965, 1969.

Information about Access

Materials are open to research use.

Ownership & Copyright

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.

Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Cite As

Francis R. Johnson Papers (SC0286). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

Professor of English at Stanford (1935-1960).

Description of the Collection

Papers include correspondence, research notes, some biographical material, articles with notes, and material relating to learned societies of which Johnson was a member. Subjects include English and American literature, Medieval science and Renaissance literature.

Access Terms

Johnson, Francis R. (Francis Rarick), 1901-1960.

Stanford University. Department of English. Faculty.

American literature --Study and teaching.

English literature--Study and teaching.

Collection Contents

Box 1, Folder 1

Correspondence, John Butt 1952-1955

Box 1, Folder 2

Correspondence, B.E. C. Davis 1948-1958

Box 1, Folder 3

Correspondence,George De Santillana 1948-1950

Box 1, Folder 4

Correspondence, H. W. Donner 1954-1957

Box 1, Folder 5

Correspondence, Lowell M. Greenlaw and M. Y. Hughes 1951-1957

Box 1, Folder 6

Correspondence, S. Jayne and F. C. Francis 1950-1959

Box 1, Folder 7

Correspondence, ISIS, Journal of the History of Science Society and Journal of Modern History 1955-1959

Box 1, Folder 8

Correspondence, Journal of the History of Ideas and Stanford Research Institute 1948-1959

Box 1, Folder 9

Correspondence: A-K 1935-1936

Box 1, Folder 10

Correspondence: L-Z 1935-1936

Box 1, Folder 11

Correspondence: A-K 1937-1940

Box 1, Folder 12

Correspondence: L-P 1937-1940

Box 1, Folder 13

Correspondence: R-Z 1937-1940

Box 2, Folder 1

Correspondence: A-K 1940-1942

Box 2, Folder 2

Correspondence: L-Z 1940-1942

Box 2, Folder 3

Correspondence: A-L 1943-1949

Box 2, Folder 4

Correspondence: M-Z 1943-1949

Box 2, Folder 5

Correspondence: A-K 1950-1954

Box 2, Folder 6

Correspondence: L-Z 1950-1954

Box 3, Folder 1

Correspondence: A-GR 1954-1959

Box 3, Folder 2

Correspondence: GU-M 1954-1959

Box 3, Folder 3

Correspondence: Mc-Z 1935-1958

Box 3, Folder 4

Correspondence: Mc-Z 1935-1958

Box 3, Folder 5

Correspondence, Stanford Committee on Supplementary Research Grants 1951-1956

Box 3, Folder 6

Correspondence, Hoyt H. Hudson [English Renaissance Prose Anthology] 1932

Box 3, Folder 7

Manuscripts and research notes: "Astronomy and Astrologie in Shakespeare's England"

Box 3, Folder 8

Manuscripts and research notes: "Did Spenser Revise the 'Shepards Calendar'?"

Box 3, Folder 9

Manuscripts and research notes: "Gabriel Harvey's Three Letters: A First Issue of his Fovre Letters"

Box 3, Folder 10

Manuscripts and research notes: "Marlowe's Imperial Heaven" and "Marlowe's Astronomy and Renaissance Skepticism"

Box 3, Folder 11

Manuscripts and research notes: on Robert Wyer and the printing of cheap handbooks of science in the sixteenth century

Box 4, Folder 1

Manuscripts and research notes: "Printers' Copy Books and the Black Market in the Elizabethan Book Trade"

Box 4, Folder 2

Manuscripts and research notes: "Renaissance Science"

Box 4, Folder 3

Manuscripts and research notes: "Scientific Spirit in Elizabethan England" and "Scientific Backgrounds of the Renaissance"

Box 4, Folder 4

Manuscripts and research notes: "Sir Philip Sidney as Man and Poet"

Box 4, Folder 5

Manuscripts and research notes: "Thomas Hood: England's First Public Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences"

Box 4, Folder 6

Manuscripts and research notes: "The Treatise of Erasmus De Ratione Studii, that is, Upon the Right Method of Instruction"

Box 4, Folder 7-8

Research notes: Astronomy

Box 4, Folder 9

Research notes: The Beginnings of the Teaching of Modern Subjects in England

Box 4, Folder 10

Research notes: Castle of Knowledge

Box 4, Folder 11

Research notes: Cunningham / Cosmographie

Box 4, Folder 12

Research notes: De Ingenuis Moribus Vergerious and Ubertinus

Box 4, Folder 13

Research notes: development of mathematics

Box 4, Folder 14

Research notes: early English poetry

Box 5, Folder 1

Research notes: growth of the English language

Box 5, Folder 2

Research notes: history written by Thucydides

Box 5, Folder 3

Research notes: nature and properties of wines

Box 5, Folder 4

Research notes: resources of Harvard Library and New York City Public Library

Box 5, Folder 5

Research notes: Thomas Blunderville - The Arte of Logicke

Box 5, Folder 6

Research notes: miscellaneous

Box 5, Folder 7

Professional organizations: History of Science Society

Box 5, Folder 8

Professional organizations: Institute of the History of Science

Box 5, Folder 9

Professional organizations: International Association of University Professors of English

Box 5, Folder 10

Professional organizations: International Federation for Modern Languages and Literature

Box 5, Folder 11

Professional organizations: Mediaeval and Renaissance Conferences

Box 5, Folder 12

Professional organizations: Renaissance Society of America

Box 6, Folder 1

Course syllabi: English Literature, History of Science, and Philosophy of Rhetoric

Box 6, Folder 2

Literary Reviews - various

Box 6, Folder 3

Literary Reviews - Hoyt Hudson

Box 6, Folder 4

Biographical Information: Francis Johnson

Box 6, Folder 5

Miscellaneous materials

Box 7, Folder 1

Subject Clippings: A-B

Box 7, Folder 2

Subject Clippings: C

Box 7, Folder 3

Subject Clippings: D

Box 7, Folder 4

Subject Clippings: E

Box 7, Folder 5

Subject Clippings: F

Box 7, Folder 6

Subject Clippings: G-H-I

Box 7, Folder 7

Subject Clippings: J-K-L

Box 7, Folder 8

Subject Clippings: M

Box 7, Folder 9

Subject Clippings: Milton

Box 8, Folder 1

Subject Clippings: N-O

Box 8, Folder 2

Subject Clippings: P-Q

Box 8, Folder 3

Subject Clippings: R

Box 8, Folder 4

Subject Clippings: S

Box 8, Folder 5

Subject Clippings: Shakespeare

Box 8, Folder 6

Subject Clippings: T

Box 8, Folder 7

Subject Clippings: U-Z