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Call Number: SC0255
Creator:
McClelland, John, 1889-1961.
Title: John McClelland papers
Dates: 1860-1961
Physical Description:
1.25 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence between John McClelland and his former student, Philip Sheridan, spanning the years from Sheridan's graduation
from Stanford (M.A. English) to McClelland's death in 1961; an extensive memorial volume regarding McClelland's life work,
assembled by Sheridan; letters from McClelland to his former student Phyllis Kerr Yowell and her husband Robert Yowell, 1950-60;
a scrapbook of clippings and illustrations on art and literature kept by McClelland; letters to his mother while serving in
the armed forces during World War I, 1918-1919; and photographs, ca. 1860-1960. Letters to the Yowells discuss his teaching
duties, literature, his reading, his life in retirement, and his cat. Also included in the papers are several letters to the
Yowells from other academic friends, including one written from the Hemingway estate in Cuba; and letters to McClelland from
J.P. Strachey and Dorothy Bussy, 1951, concerning Bussy's book OLIVIA.
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
Gift of Philip Sheridan, 1981, and Phyllis Yowell, 1993.
This collection is open for research.
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.
John McClelland Papers (SC0255). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Professor of English at Stanford (1925-1954; emeritus, 1955-1961).
Correspondence between John McClelland and his former student, Philip Sheridan, spanning the years from Sheridan's graduation
from Stanford (M.A. English) to McClelland's death in 1961; an extensive memorial volume regarding McClelland's life work,
assembled by Sheridan; letters from McClelland to his former student Phyllis Kerr Yowell and her husband Robert Yowell, 1950-60;
a scrapbook of clippings and illustrations on art and literature kept by McClelland; letters to his mother while serving in
the armed forces during World War I, 1918-1919; and photographs, ca. 1860-1960. Letters to the Yowells discuss his teaching
duties, literature, his reading, his life in retirement, and his cat. Also included in the papers are several letters to the
Yowells from other academic friends, including one written from the Hemingway estate in Cuba; and letters to McClelland from
J.P. Strachey and Dorothy Bussy, 1951, concerning Bussy's book OLIVIA.
Bussy, Dorothy.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
McClelland, John, 1889-1961.
Sheridan, Philip.
Stanford University. Department of English. Faculty.
Photoprints.
World War, 1914-1918.