Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Description of the Collection
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0781
Creator:
Martin, Percy Alvin, 1879-1942.
Title: Percy Alvin Martin papers
Dates: 1907-1937
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Summary: Letters to Dorothy Herrington, 1926 and 1937; a travel diary kept by Martin on a trip made to Spain in 1907; and correspondence
with Mr̀io Melo, Alan K. Manchester, Joao Carlos Muniz, and John Tate Lanning, 1932-33, pertaining to Brazilian entries in
Martin's proposed biographical dictionary for Latin America. Collection also includes 2 oversized certificates, 1927, from
groups in Uruquay and Cuba.
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 Dorothy Herrington, 1979 and George H. Knoles, 1980 and 1986.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
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
Percy Alvin Martin Papers (SC0781). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Professor of history at Stanford (1908-1942). Martin received A.B. (1902), A.M. (1903) from Stanford and A.M. (1907), Ph.D.
(1912) from Harvard.
Description of the Collection
Letters to Dorothy Herrington, 1926 and 1937; a travel diary kept by Martin on a trip made to Spain in 1907; and correspondence
with Mr̀io Melo, Alan K. Manchester, Joao Carlos Muniz, and John Tate Lanning, 1932-33, pertaining to Brazilian entries in
Martin's proposed biographical dictionary for Latin America. Collection also includes 2 oversized certificates, 1927, from
groups in Uruquay and Cuba.
Access Terms
Herrington, Dorothy.
Lanning, John Tate, 1902-1976
Manchester, Alan K.
Martin, Percy Alvin, 1879-1942.
Melo, Mr̀io.
Muniz, Joao Carlos.
Stanford University. Department of History. Students.
Diaries.
Spain.