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Ernest Nevin Dilworth papers

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0146

Overview Ernest Nevin Dilworth was a professor of English at Lehigh from 1949 to 1977. Collection contains manuscript drafts of his published work and reference/citation cards, notes, and correspondence with publishers and colleagues.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Francis Magnin de Collogny Travel Manuscripts about Bolivia and Peru, 1863

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0222

Overview Two volume manuscripts written in 1863 by Francis Magnin of Collogny. Manuscripts document life in Bolivia and Peru with extensive pen-and-ink drawings.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Henry Sylvester Jacoby Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0063

Overview Henry S. Jacoby Papers contains diplomas and certificates he received, drawings and illustrations for some of his books, scrapbooks about Lehigh (1872-1877), typescripts of some of his publications, and correspondence to and from the American Railway Engineering Association. The correspondence is of special to any engineer interested in the work involved in formulating a textbook or the forensics of old bridges.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

James Decker Mack and the Writing of Matthew Flinders, 1774-1814

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0048

Overview The material includes correspondence re the development and publication of Mack's book Matthew Flinders, 1774-1814. Melbourne: Nelson (Australia), 1966. It includes files on the publisher, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd.; the American Philosophical Society, who gave Mack a grant to do research; & Sir Gavin de Beer-who arranged the grant. Also included are Mack's note cards for the book, arranged by date (1801-1814).

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Lehigh University History by W. Ross Yates

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0076

Overview The material here includes two separate typescripts of his history of Lehigh University. The first one, tentatively titled The Story of the Lehigh University: An Intimate History, is very detailed, and includes an index of names mentioned. (Notes and corrections are from James Mack, who read it). The second typescript more closely resembles the published work, with a lot of the original material omitted. (The introduction is different). The book, published in 1992 by Lehigh University Press,...

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Lehigh University Library History, 1878-1974

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0030

Overview Includes original invoices of purchases, 1878-1899; year-end and statistical reports from 1888-1922; financial statements, 1888-1896; miscellaneous correspondence and documents relating to the library and its history; and correspondence and a budget for Prof. Ross Yates projected history of Lehigh University (1974).

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Leslie Hunter Whitten Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0007

Overview Born on February 21, 1928 in Jacksonville Florida, Leslie Hunter Whitten was a Hearst newspaper reporter for the Washington Post, an associate on Jack Anderson's newspaper column, and accomplished novelist. He graduated from Lehigh University in 1950. This collection documents various stages of Whitten's life, especially the years in Washington DC as a journalist. Letters, documents, notes, photographs, etc. relating to Les Whitten's early years, schooling, and work as a Hearst reporter, Jack...

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Papers of Carl F. Strauch Professor of English, Lehigh University

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0052

Overview This collection includes articles, manuscripts, and correspondence relating to his publications as well as syllabi, lecture notes and student papers from his teaching at Lehigh. Extensive material from his work on the following authors: Carlyle, Arnold, Hawthorne, Poe, James, Melville, Whitman, and Emerson. Material on other 19th century authors and on the Romantic period is also included.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

Richard Harding Davis Correspondence and Other Documents

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0001

Overview Richard Harding Davis, 1864-1916, was a student at Lehigh University from 1882-1884. During his stay he wrote many novels and short stories and was a prominent war correspondent during the Spanish-American War (1898). The documents here include letters, telegrams and notes, mostly written by Davis. It is predominantly letters to his publisher, J. Henry Harper, at Harper and Brothers, but also includes other letters to Raymond H. Walters, Lehigh University, a few letters from Rebecca Harding...

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

William McCollum, Don Marquis Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC MS 0061

Overview Collection contains material from the estate of William McCollum, Jr., Lehigh 1937. It includes photocopies of letters written by Don Marquis, which were collected and published by McCollum. Also included are four boxes of personal material from McCollum, typescripts of many unpublished poems, and a memoir.

Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections

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Ernest Nevin Dilworth papers

Francis Magnin de Collogny Travel Manuscripts about Bolivia and Peru, 1863

Henry Sylvester Jacoby Papers

James Decker Mack and the Writing of Matthew Flinders, 1774-1814

Lehigh University History by W. Ross Yates

Lehigh University Library History, 1878-1974

Leslie Hunter Whitten Papers

Papers of Carl F. Strauch Professor of English, Lehigh University

Richard Harding Davis Correspondence and Other Documents

William McCollum, Don Marquis Collection

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