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Jacqueline Ellen Violette de La Harpe papers, 1907-1979.
BANC MSS 67/136 clocal
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Jacqueline Ellen Violette de La Harpe papers, 1907-1979Creator/Contributor:
La Harpe, Jacqueline de, 1894-1980, creatorAbstract:
Consists of correspondence; manuscripts; professional papers, lectures, conference papers, and notes; newspaper articles by
La Harpe; datebooks; and personalia. Much of the material is from La Harpe's tenure at University of California, Berkeley.
Subjects include French literature, religion, philosophy, and world travel including South America. Manuscripts include "Adventures
in Thinking" (1943) and "Goethe in the Life of Andre Gide and Paul Valery" (1950). There are also illustrated stories, such
as "A Little Deer Went to School" (1927). Also includes notebooks with lists of books La Harpe read, diplomas, and her Swiss
passport.
Date:
1907 (issued)Subject:
s------ -- n-us---French literature
Littérature française
French literature
Travel
South America -- Description and travel
Amérique du Sud -- Descriptions et voyages
South America
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of French.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of French.
La Harpe, Jacqueline de -- 1894-1980 -- Archives
Note:
Gift of Professor de La Harpe; 1967.
Additions: Gift of Cecile T. Weaver; 2018.
Related collection: Jacqueline Ellen Violette de La Harpe travel journals, [ca. 1912-1963]. (BANC MSS 81/7 c).
Related collection: [Photographs from the Jacqueline Ellen Violette de La Harpe papers] (BANC PIC 2019.105).
Jacqueline Ellen Violette de La Harpe (1888-1980) was born in Switzerland. She received the Docteur es Lettres in 1923 from
the University of Lausanne. La Harpe joined the University of California, Berkeley, French department in 1926 and taught there
until she retired in 1960.
Jacqueline Ellen Violette de La Harpe papers, BANC MSS 67/136 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English and French.
Type:
faculty papers.manuscripts for publication.
Archives.
Lectures.
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Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 67/136 clocal