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Call Number: SC0395
Creator:
Van Patten, Nathan, 1887-1956.
Title: Nathan Van Patten papers
Dates: 1920-1980
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence, personal accounts, memorial essays, newsclippings. Includes articles written by van Patten about Emil Meyer,
book collecting, music manuscripts, the lost bookplate of Arthur Machen and other subjects.
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
Transfer, 1956, and additional publications, gift of William Wreden, 1986.
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.
Nathan Van Patten Papers (SC0395). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Director of Stanford University Libraries, 1927-1947, professor of bibliography, 1948-1952, professor emeritus, 1952-1956,
and Curator, Memorial Library of Music (Stanford), 1952-1955.
Correspondence, personal accounts, memorial essays, newsclippings. Includes articles written by van Patten about Emil Meyer,
book collecting, music manuscripts, the lost bookplate of Arthur Machen and other subjects.
Machen, Arthur.
Meyer, Emil.
Van Patten, Nathan, 1887-1956.
Book collecting.
Libraries.