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Recollections and reminiscences of life in the Bay Area from 1920 onward : oral history transcript / and related material,
1964-1969.
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Recollections and reminiscences of life in the Bay Area from 1920 onward : oral history transcript: and related material, 1964-1969Creator/Contributor:
Lehman, B. H. (Benjamin Harrison), 1889-1977, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Riess, Suzanne B., interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Parkinson, Thomas Francis, 1920-1992Creator/Contributor:
Miles, Josephine, 1911-1985Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Education at Harvard and recollections of George Santayana, Josiah Royce and Charles T. Copeland; teaching career at University
of California, Berkeley, from 1920, and administrative duties on library and budget committees, on President's advisory committee
and as chairman of the English Department; the beginnings of the Department of Dramatic Art; the loyalty oath controversy;
Judith Anderson and interest in theater; Berkeley social life, with comments on Marion R. Parsons, Bertha Pope Damon, Elizabeth
W. Ellis and others; friendships with James D. Phelan, Noël Sullivan, Charles E.S. Wood, Sara Bard Field, Robinson Jeffers
and others. Photographs inserted.
Appended: essay portrait of Noël Sullivan by William Justema; and poems by Thomas Parkinson and Josephine Miles.
Date:
1964 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caLoyalty oaths -- California -- Berkeley
Serments politiques -- Californie -- Berkeley
Loyalty oaths
Manners and customs
Berkeley (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
California -- Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of English.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of English
Santayana, George -- 1863-1952
Royce, Josiah -- 1855-1916
Copeland, Charles Townsend -- 1860-1952
Anderson, Judith -- 1897-1992
Parsons, Marion Randall -- 1878-1953
Damon, Bertha Clark
Ellis, Elizabeth Warder
Phelan, James D. (James Duval) -- 1861-1930
Sullivan, Noël -- 1890-1956
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott -- 1852-1944
Field, Sara Bard -- 1882-1974
Jeffers, Robinson -- 1887-1962
Damon, Bertha Clark
Anderson, Judith -- 1897-1992
Copeland, Charles Townsend -- 1860-1952
Field, Sara Bard -- 1882-1974
Jeffers, Robinson -- 1887-1962
Phelan, James D. (James Duval) -- 1861-1930
Royce, Josiah -- 1855-1916
Santayana, George -- 1863-1952
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott -- 1852-1944
United States -- California -- Berkeley
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B.H. Lehman ; tape recorded interview conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1964-1968. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1969 :
Phonotapes also available.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available online.
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Type:
oral histories (literary works)Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Histoires orales.
Physical Description:
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[22], 348 leaves ; 28 cm + related material
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z1k7t
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.