Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- James Turney Allen Correspondence and Papers
- Creators:
- Allen, James Turney, b. 1873
- Abstract:
- Correspondence relating to his book, A Concordance to Euripides, with the holograph Ms. of the work; Mss. of miscellaneous articles; lesson plans; his notes for a class taught by Prof. Isaac Flagg, at Berkeley, 1896.
- Extent:
- Number of containers: 1 box, 1 carton
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], James Turney Allen correspondence and papers, BANC MSS C-B 1011, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This small collection of papers of James Turney Allen, Professor of Greek at the University of California, Berkeley relates for the most part to his life-long work, A Concordance to Euripides, which was published posthumously by the University of California Press in 1954. It includes correspondence as well as the holograph manuscript of the work; and also manuscripts of a few of his articles; notes; lesson plans; and notes on the Agamemnon of Aeschylus from a class taught by Professor Isaac Flagg in Berkeley in 1896.
- Acquisition information:
- The manuscript of the Concordance was transferred from the University Archives to the Manuscripts Division in March 1966; the remainder of the collection was a gift of Dr. Helen Pillans, March 1977.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1996
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect; machine-readable finding aid encoded by Eva Garcelon. Finding aid originally encoded using the Finding Aid DTD (findaid.dtd) developed in the Bancroft Finding Aid Project; encoding converted to EAD using perl supplemented by manual editing and review. Date of source:
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], James Turney Allen correspondence and papers, BANC MSS C-B 1011, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481