Description
These papers largely reflect Gordon A. Craig's career as a historian and professor at
Stanford University from 1961 through 1979. In addition, there are some materials pertaining
to his student days at Princeton University and Oxford, to his early teaching career at Yale
and Princeton, and to his teaching and administrative duties as a professor at the Free
University of Berlin. The collection, donated by Gordon A. Craig in six accessions, includes
more than 45 boxes of correspondence, lectures, speeches, articles, publications, class
materials, student papers, research notes, notebooks, and newspaper clippings. The
collection also includes microfilmed copies of his personal diaries, 1935-1992, and
occasional verse, 1934-1986.
Background
Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1913, Gordon Craig immigrated to the United States from Canada
with his parents at the age of 12. He was educated at Princeton University where, as
Valedictorian, he received his A.B. in 1936, followed by an M.A. in 1939 and a Ph.D. in
1941. As a Rhodes Scholar in 1938, he received a B.Litt. from Oxford University. He began
his teaching career at Yale in 1939, but returned to the Department of History at Princeton
in 1941.
Restrictions
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the
documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.